Anthropogenic environmental changes are hypothesized as main reasons for animal species population declines. Heavy metals contamination is one of the worst threats to animals among human-caused threats. As most of the heavy metals bioaccumulate in organisms, analyzing concentrations of heavy metals in long living animals, such as turtles, would be very useful for biomonitoring of environmental ...

The demand for fossil fuel in the transport sector is constantly increasing and transportation is ranked amongst the highest greenhouse emitting sectors globally. Today, tackling CO2 emissions from road transport a widely discussed topic and constitutes a milestone towards reaching a sustainable, carbon neutral economy. This challenge is being described in various initiatives adopted in the ...

Drawing on a systematic content analysis, this article examines how far television news bulletins with different levels of public service obligations reported the EU and local elections in 2009 and the local elections in 2013. The aim is to compare coverage on the main evening terrestrial bulletins in the United Kingdom (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) during different types of second or...

All rights reserved. No part of this paper may be reproduced in any form without permission of the author. 'Whereas previous environmental measures tended to be prescriptive in character with an emphasis on the 'thou shalt not' approach, the new strategy leans more towards a 'let's work together' approach.'

The NHS would not cope without its growing cohort of nurses from the European Union (EU), says the RCN.

To evaluate the road safety development of a country over time, the percentage change in the number of road fatalities is traditionally the main indicator. However, simply considering the reduction in the road fatalities may not correctly reflect the real improvement in road safety because the transport circumstances of a country underlying the road fatalities also change every year. In this st...

We consider the following hyperbolic system of PDEs which generalize the classical phase field equations with a non-conserved order parameter / and temperature u: u tt #e2/ tt #c 1 u t #e2c 1 / t "a*u, e2/ tt #c 2 e2/ t "e2*/#f (/)# eu for e@1. We present the model, derive a law for the evolution of the interface which generalizes the classical flow by mean curvature equation, and analyze the e...