The death in London of the former secret service agent Alexander Livtinenko on 23 November 2006 generally attracted the attention of the public to the rather unknown radionuclide (210)Po. This paper presents the results of a monitoring programme of (210)Po background levels in the urines of noncontaminated people living in Central Italy (near the Republic of S. Marino). The relationship between...

The responses to supramaximal exercise testing have been traditionally analyzed by means of standard parametric and nonparametric statistics. Unfortunately, these statistical approaches do not allow insight into the pattern of variation of a given parameter over time. The purpose of this study was to determine if the application of dynamic factor analysis (DFA) allowed discriminating different ...

To evaluate the characteristics of atmospheric particle retention by plant leaves during the tourism season in Buddhism-based scenic areas, plants distributed in the core area of the Mount Wutai scenic area were selected for study: Populus davidiana (Po. davidiana), Rosa hugonis Hemsl. (R. hugonis), Betula platyphylla Suk. (B. platyphylla), Rosa xanthina Lindl. (R. xanthina), Periploca sepium B...

Maria Närhinen Department of Public Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio, Finland. Current address: Mikkeli Joint Municipal Board for Public Health, PO Box 167, FIN-50101 Mikkeli, Finland, e-mail: NARHIMA%[email protected] Aulikki Nissinen Department of Public Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio, PO Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland Pirjo-Liisa Penttilä Nation...

the low pO 2 treatment in both species. Immunogold labelling showed that the MAC265 antigen was localThe pasture legumes Lotus uliginosus (Schk.) and ized primarily within intercellular spaces within nodule Lotus corniculatus (L.), known to differ in their tolercortices from both Lotus species. A marked decrease ance to flooding, were inoculated with Rhizobium loti in deposition of the MAC265 a...

W zapisach dawnych s?owia?skich nazw miejscowych i terenowych Pomorza Zachodniego afrykatyzacj? *r' > ?, rz itp. obserwujemy na terenach s?siaduj?cych z gwarami kaszubsko-s?owi?skimi wschód od rzeki S?upia oraz, rzadko, wzd?u? po?udniowo-wschodniej granicy Pomorza. Na terenie niemieckiego Przedniego, Meklemburgii w gwarach Po?abia afrykatyzacja nie nast?pi?a. ?wiadczy to o dawnym zró?nicowan...

in the present study, the effects of the acute and chronic oral administrations (po) of curcumin in the absence and presence of morphine and naloxone was investigated on the sensation of acute corneal pain in rats. acute corneal pain was induced by the local application of hypertonic saline (5 m nacl) on the corneal surface, and the number of eye wipes was then counted for 30 s. subcutaneous (s...

Rand S-propylene oxide (PO) have been shown to interact enantiospecifically with the chiral surfaces of Au nanopar‐ ticles (NPs) modified with Dor L-cysteine (cys). This enantiospecific interaction has been detected using optical polarimetry measurements made on solutions of the Dor L-cys modified Au (cys/Au) NPs during addition of racemic PO. The selective adsorption of one enantiomer of the P...

Locally partial-ordered spaces (local po-spaces) have been used to model concurrent systems. We provide equivalences for these spaces by constructing a model category containing the category of local po-spaces. We show the category of simplicial presheaves on local po-spaces can be given Jardine's model structure, in which we identify the weak equivalences between local po-spaces. In the proces...

Mathematical models have predicted the existence of Po(2) gradients between erythrocytes in capillaries in the usual case where plasma contributes substantial resistance to oxygen diffusion. According to theoretical predictions, these gradients could be detected as rapid Po(2) fluctuations (erythrocyte-associated transients, EATs) along the capillary. However, verification of a model and correc...