background; various industries produce and discharge wastes containing different heavy metals into the environment. apart from using living biomass, dead and dried biomasses have been introduced as a new field of biotreatment technology. method; the cadmium (cd) (ii) removal characteristics of live (growing), dead (autoclaved), and oven-dried biomasses of aspergillus versicolor were examined as...

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background: the aim of the study was to provide a point of reference to study the neospora caninum infections in china. methods: genome dna was extracted from the brains of aborted fetuses and specific pcr was performed with n. caninum nc5-targeted specific primers. fetal bovine brain tissues were homogenized and continuously cultured in vero cells with double antibodies. the medium was replace...

Introduction: In the present study, potential differences between the effects of L-carnitine (LC) and acetyl-Lcarnitine (ALC) on ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced myocardial infarction size were investigated. Methods: Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups and then anesthetized by sodium pentobarbital. Hearts of the animals were removed and quickly mounted on a Langendorff ...

chemical flooding, especially alkaline/surfactant/polymer flooding, is of increasing interest due to the world increasing oil demand. this work shows the aspects of using alkaline/surfactant/polymer as an enhanced oil recovery method in the porous media having a high dead-end pore frequency with various dead-end pore parameters (such as opening, depth, aspect ratio, and orientation). using glas...

The etiology of congenital heart lesions is varied and multifactorial hypothesis has gained wide acceptance. Regardless of the etiologic agent, the offending factor must act through a common pathway by either changing the growth rate, the resorptive process or the molding mechanical effect of the circulating blood. In search of a model for producing congenital heart disease in a reproducible fa...

This study aims at investigating the parent-adolescent communication of Finnish families from a multiinformant perspective. Thirteenand fourteen-year-old adolescents (n = 171) and their parents were asked to complete a questionnaire examining positive and problematic communication between the two parties. Information about their family structure was collected. The results indicated an interrela...

Continuing our earlier work on write{eecient memories (WEM) we introduce now models, where several persons use the same storage device. At any time instant exactly one of a prescribed set of users has access to the memory, but there is no protocol, which determines the moving order. Among the constraints we analyse the most interesting one is a complete privacy protection. While a user stores n...

More than 3,000 individuals from seven US cities reported on their memories of learning of the terrorist attacks of September 11, as well as details about the attack, one week, 11 months, and/or 35 months after the assault. Some studies of flashbulb memories examining long-term retention show slowing in the rate of forgetting after a year, whereas others demonstrate accelerated forgetting. The ...

Pathologic investigation of 50 children, adolescents, and young adults who died suddenly and unexpectedly revealed that the most frequently encountered cardiovascular diseases were mitral valve prolapse (12 cases), myocarditis (12 cases), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (six cases), and anomalous origin of a coronary artery from the aorta (two cases). Five subjects had no evidence of cardiac abnorm...