A comprehensive study of the flow water plays an important role in design area lower reaches drainage and structures hydraulic structures. In particular, complex processes associated with movement low medium pressure reservoirs play selection appearance structure, structural elements their shapes, sizes location conditions. One issues is to assess strength basins intake facilities hydropower pl...

several investigations have been devoted towards understanding the coating process in fluidized beds. most of these studies focused on spraying liquid droplets over the bed. however, due to the complexity of these systems, more investigations are still required to quantify the effect of operating conditions on the coating criteria. the present work aims at fundamentally understanding and precis...

A 1 yr field study of a long-llved protobranch bivalve, Yoldia notahiljs Yokoyama, in Otsuchi Bay, northeastern Japan, revealed that there was a large seasonal and spatial variation in growth rate and secondary production, and that primary production in the water column and following organlc supply to the bottom were responsible for the vanation. Both shell and soft tissue growth of each of 9 y...

BACKGROUND Population pharmacokinetic models combined with multiple sets of age-concentration biomonitoring data facilitate back-calculation of chemical uptake rates from biomonitoring data. OBJECTIVES We back-calculated uptake rates of PBDEs for the Australian population from multiple biomonitoring surveys (top-down) and compared them with uptake rates calculated from dietary intake estimate...

Background—Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is associated with weight gain and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Few studies have tested for a relationship with coronary heart disease (CHD) or intermediate biomarkers. The role of artificially sweetened beverages is also unclear. Methods and Results—We performed an analysis of the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, a prospective cohort st...

BACKGROUND Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is associated with weight gain and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Few studies have tested for a relationship with coronary heart disease (CHD) or intermediate biomarkers. The role of artificially sweetened beverages is also unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed an analysis of the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, a prospective cohort ...