Recently, harmful algal bloom (HAB), also termed "red tide", has been recognized as a serious problem in marine environments according to climate changes worldwide. Many novel materials or methods to prevent HAB have not yet been employed except for clay dispersion, in which can the resulting sedimentation on the seafloor can also cause alteration in marine ecology or secondary environmental po...

0079-6611/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2010.02.008 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 831 459 3290; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (R.M. Kudela). The Core Research Project on HABs in upwelling systems, as a component project of the international scientific programme on the Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB), promotes a comparative...

CONTEXT Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. In regards to the world's aging population, control and treatment of AD will be one of the major concerns of global public health in the next century. Alzheimer disease was not mentioned with the same phrase or its equivalent in traditional medical texts. The main of present paper was to investigate symptoms and causes of alzh...

BACKGROUND Nurses are at risk for symptoms of compassion fatigue (CF) and burnout (BO). Social support plays an important role in predicting CF and BO. This study was performed to determine the prevalence of the symptoms of CF and BO and the role of perceived social support in predicting these symptoms in Iranian nurses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a correlational descriptive survey research ...

the obsessive beliefs questionnaire-44 (obq-44), a self-report measure, was developed by the obsessive compulsive cognitions working group (occwg) to assess beliefs considered relevant in the etiology and maintenance of obsessions and compulsions. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the persian language version of the obsessive beliefs questionnaire (pobq-44...

Heavy alkylated benzene (HAB), which is a by-product in linear alkylbenzene (LAB) production by UOP process, is separated by distillation from LAB and consists of a range of components such as polyalkylbenzenes, diphenylalkanes, alkyl tetralins, and alkylindans. The products of sulfonation of HAB or its distillation cuts are of wide industrial applications such as emulsifiers, dispersants in lu...

BACKGROUND Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are one focus of the national research initiatives on Oceans and Human Health (OHH) at NIEHS, NOAA and NSF. All of the OHH Centers, from the east coast to Hawaii, include one or more research projects devoted to studying HAB problems and their relationship to human health. The research shares common goals for understanding, monitoring and predicting HAB ev...

We study the boundary between the vortex-solid and the vortex-liquid phases in the Hc–Hab plane, for irradiated Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals, by measuring the ac-local magnetic permeability in tilted magnetic fields. For high temperatures and at the phase boundary, we find that the c-axis magnetic field component H trans c decreases linearly when increasing the in-plane magnetic field Hab, s...

The main goal of this study is to prove that two modal mechanisms Greenberg (2003) postulated for English indefinite singular (IS) and bare plural (BP) generics in the nominal domain are mirrored in Polish perfective and imperfective generics in the event domain. On the basis of Oosterhof’s (2006) argumentation, I justify the distinction between the GEN and the HAB intensional operators. With t...

Josephson plasma waves are scattered by the Josephson vortex lattice. This scattering results in a strong dependence, on the in-plane magnetic-field Hab, of the reflection and transmission of THz radiation propagating in layered superconductors. In particular, a tunable band-gap structure (THz photonic crystal) occurs in such a medium. These effects can be used, by varying Hab, for the selectiv...