Of the natural processes that concentrate dispersed environmental contaminants, landscape fire stands out as having potential to rapidly concentrate contaminants and accelerate their redistribution. This study used rainfall simulation methods to quantify changes in concentration of a widely dispersed environmental contaminant (global fallout 137Cs) in soils and surface water runoff following a ...

Details of the research undertaken in our laboratory can be found at http://www.dstuns.iitm.ac.in/pradeep-research-group.php. A green route to synthesise glutathione protected atomically precise silver clusters by sunlight irradiation of silver thiolates confi ned in gel cavities, and the antibacterial properties of the as-synthesized clusters against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. A...

Long, balanced electron and hole diffusion lengths greater than 100 nanometers in the polycrystalline organolead trihalide compound CH3NH3PbI3 are critical for highly efficient perovskite solar cells. We found that the diffusion lengths in CH3NH3PbI3 single crystals grown by a solution-growth method can exceed 175 micrometers under 1 sun (100 mW cm(-2)) illumination and exceed 3 millimeters und...

A 45-year-old woman presented with generalised body itch, dark-coloured urine and pale stools for six day. Ultrasonography, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and computed tomography revealed dilated intrahepatic ducts with stricture at the proximal common bile duct. The gallbladder was replaced by a large heterogeneous mass invading the liver and common bile duct. She underwent gal...

Up to date, miR-137 has been demonstrated as a tumor suppressor in many kinds of human malignancies. In the present study, we conducted transfection, western blot and RT-PCR to explore the role of miR-137 in the development of human glioblastoma (GBM). Here, we found that miR-137 expression was obviously down-regulated in GBM tissues and cells rather than matched non-tumor tissues and NHA cells...

We sought to analyze the current situation of personnel training and scientific research regarding pharmacy intravenous admixture services (PIVAS), provide evidence-based medical knowledge inform for PIVAS in mainland China. A cross-sectional survey was used examine status training, capabilities, needs, output based from perspective leaders The period March April 2019. total 137 hospitals China...

The rapid growth in the number of users of mobile communications means that many operators must find new ways of increasing the capacity of their networks. Their options include allocating more frequency, introducing frequency-hopping techniques, and adding microcells and adaptive antenna systems. The introduction of new frequency bands at 1800 and 1900 MHz is an example of allocating frequency...

Th is research note describes an interconnection between touristic potential of localities impacted by the First and the Second World War, by focusing on a case study of cemeteries in the North-East of Slovakia. Th e case study proposes to create a Slovak part of the ‘dark tourism thematic trail’ through cemeteries from the First World War that could join the existing Polish part of the trail a...