Treatment of soils contaminated with heavy metals using plant species is a method which has been widely used in thepast. This method, which is known as phytoremediation, has been applied for pollution treatment using different plantspecies worldwide. The method has been used for remediation of various types of pollutants in laboratory, pilot andindustrial scales. The aim of this study was to co...

The prokaryotic transposable element Tn5 has been found to promote the formation of adjacent deletions. The frequency of adjacent deletion formation is much lower than that of normal transposition events. Like normal transposition, however, adjacent deletion formation requires the activity of the transposase protein. The deletions can be divided into two classes, as distinguished by their endpo...

BACKGROUND If the proportional assist ventilation (PAV) level is known, muscular effort can be estimated from the difference between peak airway pressure and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) (ΔP) during PAV. We conjectured that deducing muscle pressure from ΔP may be an interesting method to set PAV, and tested this hypothesis using the oesophageal pressure time product calculation. ME...

Trace rare gases–optical emission spectroscopy (TRG–OES) and Langmuir probe analysis have been used to measure the electron temperature, Te, in a high-density inductively (transformer) coupled (TCP) 10 mTorr oxygen plasma as a function of the 13.56 MHz radio frequency (rf) power. The oxygen atomic densities were estimated by O-atom optical emission (8446 Å), and rare gas actinometry (Ar, 7504 Å...

In this paper we describe spectral transformation algorithms for the computation of eigenvalues with positive real part of sparse nonsymmetric matrix pencils (J; L), where L is of the form M 0 0 0. For this we deene a diierent extension of MM obius transforms to pencils that inhibits the eeect on iterations of the spurious eigenvalue at innnity. These algorithms use a technique of precondi-tion...

Bioaccumulation of arsenic (As) in rice (Oryza sativa) increases human exposure to this toxic, carcinogenic element. Recent studies identified several As transporters, but the regulation of these transporters remains unclear. Here, we show that the rice R2R3 MYB transcription factor OsARM1 (ARSENITE-RESPONSIVE MYB1) regulates As-associated transporters genes. Treatment with As(III) induced OsAR...

A study was conducted to investigate factors underlying operational errors (OEs) in en route air traffic control. Twenty active duty controllers watched recreations of OEs and were asked to report on their situation awareness and workload on two occasions during the recreations. A total of 14 OEs were examined. Responses were analyzed to determine how subjects allocated their attention while vi...

OBJECTIVES To examine and contrast the ability of patient-reported and clinician-rated measures, reflecting different levels of specificity, to detect differences in outcomes between patients with and without rheumatoid arthritis (RA), at 6 months following elbow surgery. METHODS One hundred and four consecutive patients/elbows self-completed the Oxford Elbow Score (OES), Disabilities of the ...

The advent of rare earth elements (REEs) with optoelectronic properties has shifted the technology paradigm from digital to a smart and hybrid world. Their substantial uses also resulted in large piling up e-waste. Therefore, e-waste is now lucrative recycling target for recovery such critical raw materials. often challenged by dilute metal concentration, complex composition, difficult chemical...