Bench-scale laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of air stripping for in situ remediation of benzene-contaminated soils. Several parametric studies were performed to evaluate the effect of soil grain size, air injection flow rate, and air inlet temperature on the benzene recovery efficiency. An increase in soil grain size produced a significant increase in benzene...

A methodology for monitoring the behaviour and size of sand after a beach nourishment process is presented herein. Four sampling campaigns (before just nourishment, six months one year later) were performed on four beaches Gulf Cadiz (Spain). D50 sorting parameters analysed. Among results, it should be noted that differences up to 20% between native nourished values disappear only nourishment.

Smooth muscle cells were isolated from the stomach of the guinea pig, and the kinetics, stoichiometry, and specificity of contraction in response to the C-terminal octapeptides of cholecystokinin (CCK-OP), gastrin-17, and acetylcholine were examined. All three agonists elicited dose-dependent peak contraction that did not depend on the presence of extra-cellular calcium. The potencies of CCK-OP...

Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is the most widely used plastizer in the world and can suppress testosterone production via activation of oxidative stress. Genistein (GEN) is one of the isoflavones ingredients exhibiting weak estrogenic and potentially antioxidative effects. However, study on reproductive effects following prepubertal multiple endocrine disrupters exposure has been lacking. ...

Accidental spillages or leakages of organic compound within the environment, released as non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL), result a widespread contamination of subsurface soils and groundwater. In such multi-phase flow system in porous media, interphase mass transfer mainly governs the overall transport processes that occur in the interface between the two fluid phases. Air-liquid interfacial ar...

BACKGROUND Planning for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) may be time consuming and its use is limited by available staff resources. Automated multicriterial treatment planning can eliminate this bottleneck. We compared automatically created (auto) VMAT plans generated by Erasmus-iCycle to manually created VMAT plans for treatment of spinal metastases. METHODS Forty-two targets in 32 pa...