....................................................................................................................... 96 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 96 Methods and Materials ............................................................................................... 101 Constructed Wetland M...

A microcosm study was used to assess the potential for in situ natural or enhanced bioremediation at a chloroethane- (i.e., tetrachloroethane, TeCA) and chloroethene-contaminated (i.e., tetrachloroethene, PCE; trichloroethene, TCE) groundwater in Northern Italy. All the live microcosms were positive for dechlorination, indicating the presence of an active native dechlorinating population in the...

The success of the WWW has served as an illustration of how hypermedia functionality can enhance access to large amounts of distributed information. However, the WWW and many other distributed hypermedia systems offer very simple forms of hypermedia functionality which are not easily applied to existing applications and data formats, and cannot easily incorporate alternative functions which wou...

Harsh environments are typically characterized by some dominant variable limiting diversity, making them interesting systems for studying how species diversity patterns change with abiotic conditions. Several environmental factors with the potential to influence phytoplankton diversity in hypersaline lakes were examined with microcosm experiments using inoculum from the Great Salt Lake, Utah. E...

Microcosms capable of reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) were constructed in glass bottles by seeding them with a polluted river sediment and incubating them anaerobically with an organic medium. All of the PCDD/F congeners detected were equally reduced without the accumulation of significant amounts of less-chlorinated congeners as the interme...

Title of Document: CHAOS AND THE MICROCOSM: LITERARY ECOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY Heidi C. M. Scott, Ph.D., 2009 Directed By: Professor Neil Fraistat, Department of English This dissertation investigates literary responses to environmental change in nineteenth-century England. Two tropes, chaos in narrative and the microcosm in lyric poetry, suggest how literary works may have been precurs...

capita gross national product of less than one dollar per day. Provision of medical care for the indigent in America is a microcosm of this problem, and thus the article should be of interest to American physicians. Historically, England has been involved in Asia, Africa, India, and elsewhere, and the text often is concerned with medical subjects peculiar to foreign geographic areas or to undev...