We investigated accumulation of elements (Ca, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, P, Pb, and Zn) in leaves of different ages for 11 evergreen woody plant species from serpentine soils of New Caledonia. Species were classifi ed into four categories of Ni accumulation ability: one species was a non-accumulator (<100 mg Ni/ kg), three were accumulators (100–1000 mg Ni/kg), two were hyperaccumulators (1000–...

This study enhances the fact that Cloud Kitchens are more efficient than traditional dine-in restaurants by implementing a questionnaire through an inter- view with participation of cloud kitchen owners, managers. It was estimated in India will be worth $2 billion 2024 (Biswas, India’s appetite for takeaway food projected to cook up bil- lion industry ).This research followed set 18 descriptive...

BACKGROUND It has been demonstrated that human milk osmolality (Mosm) is regulated within an established range, typically 290 to 300 mOsm/kg, and appears to be resistant to effects of maternal dehydration, as refl ected by high urinary osmolality (Uosm). OBJECTIVE To determine the degree of association between Mosm and Uosm at a common point in time, as well as the reproducibility of both mea...

Two approaches have dominated formulations designed to capture small departures from unit root autoregressions. The first involves deterministic departures that include local-to-unity (LUR) and mildly (or moderately) integrated (MI) specifications where departures shrink to zero as the sample size n → ∞. The second approach allows for stochastic departures from unity, leading to stochastic unit...

The most common pharmacokinetic responses of the rate and the extent of absorption are: Area under the plasma concentration-time curve (AUC), maximum plasma concentration (Cmax), and time to reach maximum plasma concentration (tmax). The distributions of responses such as AUC and Cmax are often positively skewed and exhibit a lack of homogeneity of variances. Therefore, normality assumption on ...

D lco and the D lco VA ratio change with lung volume as would be expected with changes in surface area for diffusion. Percent predicted for D lco adjusted for lung volume (D aco ) and D lco VA ratio adjusted for lung volume (K aco ) also should be reported, using the following equations: D aco predicted 5 D lco predicted 3 (0.58 1 0.42 3 VA VAtlc) and K aco predicted 5 K co predicted 3 (0.42 1 ...

A detailed investigation of the effect of hole transport material (HTM) pore fi lling on the photovoltaic performance of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (ss-DSCs) and the specifi c mechanisms involved is reported. It is demonstrated that the effi ciency and photovoltaic characteristics of ss-DSCs improve with the pore fi lling fraction (PFF) of the HTM, 2,2’,7,7’-tetrakis-( N , N -dip -m...

comment on our study [1]. We regret that we did not provide the number of patients with normal lung (NL) and the equation for EVLW and lung weight. We are glad to provide these details now. Nine patients had NL and 21 had lungs heavier than NL (HL). We observed a close correlation between EVLW and postmortem lung weight in both groups (NL, r = 0.78, P < 0.05; HL, r = 0.83, P < 0.01). Th e linea...