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Tetsuya Endo, Osamu Kimura, Masaru Terasaki, Yoshihisa Kato, Yukiko Fujii and Koichi Haraguchi
The changes in the stable isotope ratios of carbon (d13C), nitrogen (d15N), oxygen (d18O), and mercury (Hg) concentrations in muscle and liver tissues during and after lactation were studied in killer whales stranded along the coast of Hokkaido, in the n...
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Jae-Joong Kang, Jun-Oh Min, Huitae Joo, Seok-Hyun Youn and Sang-Heon Lee
Each phytoplankton species has intrinsic pigments, which result in different photophysiological characteristics in response to natural light conditions. Therefore, phytoplankton pigments provide important information on the photosynthetic activity that p...
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Tingting Cui, Jianbing Zhang and Weiqun Luo
There were some ecological and environmental problems in limestone soil in the karst peak-cluster depression in Pingguo City of Guangxi, such as the destruction of soil structure, soil acidification and soil fertility decline, and these problems were clo...
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Farah Nefzaoui, Mohamed Fethi Ben Hamouda, Paula Maria Carreira, José Manuel Marques and Hans G. M. Eggenkamp
The key processes responsible for the rise in groundwater salinization in the Mio?Pliocene aquifer system of Sousse (Tunisia, eastern coastline) were identified through a multidisciplinary approach based on the use of geochemical, stable (2H, 13C, 18O an...
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Rayanne H. N. Silva, Emanuel P. Magalhães, Rebeca C. Gomes, Yunierkis Perez-Castillo, Alice M. C. Martins and Damião P. de Sousa
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) cause thousands of deaths each year. Among these diseases, we find Chagas disease, whose etiologic agent is Trypanosoma cruzi. Piplartine is an alkamide present in various species of the genus Piper that possess trypano...
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Michele Pierigé, Francesca Nerli, Francesca Nardelli, Lucia Calucci, Mattia Cettolin, Luca Giannini, Marco Geppi and Francesca Martini
The tackifying effect of resins used in the tire industry highly depends on the compatibility and interaction strength with the rubber matrix. Here, uncured and cured styrene/butadiene rubber compounds, either in the presence or absence of a hydrocarbon ...
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Elissavet Dotsika, Maria Tassi, Petros Karalis, Anastasia Chrysostomou, Dimitra Ermioni Michael, Anastasia Elektra Poutouki, Katerina Theodorakopoulou and Georgios Diamantopoulos
In this article we present an isotopic analysis of human bone collagen (d13Ccol, and d15Ncol) and bone apatite (d13C) for diet reconstruction, as well as d18Oap of human bone apatite for climate reconstruction, using samples from Northern Greece. Radioca...
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Etelvino Henrique Novotny, Fabiano de Carvalho Balieiro, Ruben Auccaise, Vinícius de Melo Benites and Heitor Luiz da Costa Coutinho
Seeking to evaluate the hypothesis that biochar optimises the composting and vermicomposting processes as well as their product quality, we carried out field and greenhouse experiments. Four grass clipping composting treatments (only grass, grass + singl...
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Patrycja Koza, Tomasz Koczorowski, Dariusz T. Mlynarczyk and Tomasz Goslinski
The study?s aim was to synthesize new unsymmetrical sulfanyl zinc(II) porphyrazines and subject them to physicochemical and electrochemical characterization and also an initial acute toxicity assessment. The procedure was initiated from a commercially av...
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Filipe Arruda, José S. Rosa, Ana Rodrigues, Luísa Oliveira, Ana Lima, José G. Barroso and Elisabete Lima
This study mainly deals with the effect of hydrodistillation (HD) and water-steam distillation (WSD) methods on the color, yield, and chemical profile of the essential oil (EO) from Cryptomeria japonica fresh leaves from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipe...
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