A simple method has been developed for the preconcentration of mercury based on the adsorption of its Schiff’s base diphenylthiocarbazone (DPC)complex on a silica gel-immobilized Schiff’s base diphenylthiocarbazone (DPC)column. The influence of acidity, eluting agents, stability of the column, sample volume and interfering ions has been investigated in detail. The adsorbed complex could be elut...

BACKGROUND Recent reports have drawn attention to increases in congenital birth anomalies and cancer in Fallujah Iraq blamed on teratogenic, genetic and genomic stress thought to result from depleted Uranium contamination following the battles in the town in 2004. Contamination of the parents of the children and of the environment by Uranium and other elements was investigated using Inductively...

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Purpose Climate change and its imminent threat to human survival adversely impact the agriculture sector. In an impoverished country like The Gambia, economic costs of climate are colossal. This study aims establish a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model for Gambia’s sector examine effects on crops, livestock sea-level rise. Design/methodology/approach used CGE with other models compute i...

Daisuke Tanaka*, Gyobu Yotaku, Junko Isobe, Shiho Hosorogi, Miwako Shimizu, Koji Katori, Yoshiyuki Nagai, Yuichi Fuchi, Jun Yatsuyanagi, Shioko Saito, Jun Kudaka and Shinichi Nakamura Department of Bacteriology, Toyama Institute of Health, Nakataikoyama 17-1, Kosugi, Toyama 939-0363, Department of Bacteriology, Oita Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment, Hogawaradai 2-51, Oita 870-094...

The purpose of this project is to identify human activities while using cell phones via mobile sensor data. We collect 2085 data samples, which includes 3-axis acceleration, angular velocity and orientation sensor data, from 4 volunteers using the MATLAB Mobile package. After cleaning, interpolating, and FFT, we get 135 raw features, and we further reduce the feature number to 21 via feature se...

A simple and sensitive solid phase spectrophotometric method for the determination of cobalt is proposed based on the reaction between cobalt and xylenol orange (XO). The reaction product is fixed on the anionic exchanger resin sephadex QAE A-25 at pH= 5. The optical absorbance of the anionic gel like resin, packed in a 1.00 mm cell is directly measured at 588.0 nm. The linear range of calibrat...

Microcosms, each consisting of 2L natural surface seawater maintained in 2.3-L glass bottles, were immersed at a depth of 6m. The renewal of 10% of microcosm volumes was carried out every other day. Phytoplankton-containing seawater was used for renewal (previously filtered through 25-, 50- or 200-μm cut-off). Phytoplankton community pigment analysis (by HPLC) and flow cytometry analysis were p...