The concentrations of metal contaminants often fluctuate in estuarine waters; yet we have limited knowledge about the effects of intermittent exposures on estuarine organisms. Using 10-d lethality bioassays with the epibenthic amphipod Melita plumulosa, different combinations of intermittent (pulsed) dissolved Cu exposure were investigated, varying Cu concentration, pulse duration, and time bet...

86 NATURE | VOL 402 | 4 NOVEMBER 1999 | www.nature.com Calculation of correlated mRNA expression Results of 97 individual publicly available DNA chip yeast mRNA expression data sets were encoded as a string of 97 numbers associated with each yeast open reading frame (ORF) describing how the mRNA of that ORF changed levels during normal growth, glucose starvation, sporulation and expression of m...

Urban and ex-urban residents have been increasingly utilizing community gardens to supplement their diets, foster relationships with neighbors learn new skills. Soils in urban-region gardens, however, can be detrimental human health if contaminated metals. In this study, the soils of 20 Philadelphia-region (and produce from 6 gardens) were analyzed for heavy metal content (As, Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, N...

Assembly of copper(I) halide with a new tripodal ligand, benzene-1,3,5-triyl triisonicotinate (BTTP4), afforded two porous metal-organic frameworks, [Cu(2)I(2)(BTTP4)]⊃2CH(3)CN (1·2CH(3)CN) and [CuBr(BTTP4)]⊃(CH(3)CN·CHCl(3)·H(2)O) (2·solvents), which have been characterized by IR spectroscopy, thermogravimetry (TG), single-crystal, and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) methods. Compound 1 is a p...

Protonation and complexation equilibria of embelin were investigated in 86% v/v dimethyl sulphoxide - water mixture electrometrically at an ionic strength of 0.17 mol dm-3 and at a temperature of 303K. The best fit chemical models were arrived at based on statistical grounds employing crystallographic R factor, χ2, skewness and kurtosis. The existence of binary complex species with Co(II), Ni(I...

Military small arms shooting range (SASR) soils are heavily polluted by metals like copper, lead, antimony, and zinc. This study was carried out to define efficient operating conditions to solubilize these metals by a chemical leaching technique. The comparison of different leaching reagents (HCl, H2SO4, CH3COOH, and EDTA) has revealed that sulfuric acid leaching coupled with the addition of so...

The metastable tetragonal Cu2Se phase as nanoflakes has been synthesized for the first time by treating CuCl2 taken in a mixture (1:1) of 1-octadecene and oleylamine with H2N-(CH2)3-SePh dissolved in 1-octadecene. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), HRTEM, SEM-EDX and XPS have been used to authenticate the nanoflakes. The XPS of Cu2Se nanoflakes indicates oxidation states of Cu and Se as +1 and -2...