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Modification of the 137Cs, 90Sr, and 60Co transfer to wheat plantlets by NH4 + fertilizers
Inorganic fertilizers are used as agricultural countermeasures intended to inhibit the soil to plant transfer of radionuclides after a radioactive fallout. Two NH4 + fertilizers, diammoniu...
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Attempt to reduce 239Pu and 241Am uptake by wheat plantlets by application of inorganic fertilizers
Inorganic fertilizers are applied to reduce plant uptake of anthropogenic radionuclides, but scarce data are available for 239Pu and 241Am. Wheat plantlets were grown in laboratory on limited amount of soil with
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Sand Ridges on the Mid-Outer Valencia Continental Shelf
A sand ridge field with crests oriented NE–SW (52°) located between 55 and 85 m water depth on the Valencia continental shelf (Spain) was mapped with multibeam swath bathymetry and characterized with high-reso...
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Benthic Communities on Shallow Sedimentary Bottoms in the Western Mediterranean
Benthic communities on shallow sedimentary bottoms in the western Mediterranean can play a crucial role in the development, maintenance and evolution of bedforms. This chapter presents an overview of the most ...
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Subaqueous Dunes Over Sand Ridges on the Murcia Outer Shelf
Multibeam swath bathymetry, high-resolution seismic data and sediment samples were used to characterize a field of sand ridges and subaqueous dunes on the outer Murcia continental shelf (western Mediterranean ...
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Bio and Anthropogenic Disturbance of Maërl Communities Settled on Subaqueous Dunes on the Mar Menor Continental Shelf (Western Mediterranean)
Maërl habitats are of great biological value due to their high biodiversity and productivity, but they are also very fragile. The subaqueous dune field on the continental shelf off the Mar Menor exhibits sedim...
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Characterization of Benthic Communities in a Subaqueous Dune Field on the Continental Shelf (Mar Menor, Western Mediterranean)
Multibeam swath bathymetry, sediment and benthos samples (including both epifauna and infauna) and submarine images were explored to characterize benthic communities in a subaqueous dune field on the Mar Menor...
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Contemporary Subaqueous Dune Field Development Over an Abandoned River Mouth (Ebro Delta)
High-resolution multibeam bathymetry, bottom sediment samples and time series of current intensities and directions were collected over a dune field in the Ebro Delta coastal area. Aerial photographs were used...
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Factors Influencing the Soil to Plant Transfer of Radiocaesium
Radiocaesium isotopes are among the long-lived radionuclides which were released in largest quantities into the environment as a consequence of the atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and accidents involving nucl...
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Transfer of Radionuclides to Plants: Influence on the Speciation of Radionuclides in Soil
The quantification of the soil-to-plant transfer by means of transfer factor or concentration ratios values presents high range of variation, about 4–5 orders of magnitude for radiocesium. This range can be pa...
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Adaptation of Working Conditions of an Operating Drinking Water Treatment Plant to Remove Naturally Occurring Radionuclides
Naturally occurring radionuclides such as uranium and radium are present in water used for human consumption. There are several procedures to remove the uranium and/or radium content in drinking water, althoug...
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Secondary structure determination by FTIR of an archaeal ubiquitin-like polypeptide from Natrialba magadii
The ubiquitin protein belongs to the β-grasp fold family, characterized by four or five β-sheets with a single α-helical middle region. Ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubls) are structural homologues with low sequenc...
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Effect of recombinant growth hormone on leptin, adiponectin, resistin, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-α and ghrelin levels in growth hormone-deficient children
Background: Treatment with GH promotes linear growth and decreases body fat in patients with isolated GH deficiency (GHD). However, few studies have analyzed how GH replacement modifies g...
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Detection of new mutations conferring resistance to linezolid in glycopeptide-intermediate susceptibility Staphylococcus hominis subspecies hominis circulating in an intensive care unit
Glycopeptides and linezolid are the most widely used antibiotics to treat infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus spp. We report the presence of various isolates of methicillin-resistant S. hominis sub...
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Uptake of alpha and beta emitters by mushrooms collected and cultured in Spain
Almost all studies on the radioactive content of mushrooms have been centered on 137Cs and, to a lesser extent, on 40K. Other alpha and beta emitters have not been fully investigated and, therefore, their contrib...
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Anthropometric measurements in both sides of the body in the assessment of nutritional status in prepubertal children
Objective: To analyze the impact of choosing the left or the right side of the body on the anthropometric measurements and derived nutritional indices, in prepubertal children.
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Fluxes and composition of settling particles during summer in an Antarctic shallow bay of Livingston Island, South Shetlands
A moored experiment using a sediment trap was conducted at Johnson’s Dock, Livingston Island from 11 December 1997 to 24 February 1998, as part of the EASIZ Programme activities carried out at the Juan Carlos ...
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Both morphological and molecular characters support speciation of South American siskins by sexual selection
South American siskin radiation was studied by both mitochondrial cytochrome b (mt cyt b) DNA sequencing and homologous phenotypic characters; the latter were coded separately according to sex. Mixed phenetic...
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Fluxes and composition of settling particles during summer in an Antarctic shallow bay of Livingston Island, South Shetlands
A moored experiment using a sediment trap was conducted at Johnson's Dock, Livingston Island from 11 December 1997 to 24 February 1998, as part of the EASIZ Programme activities carried out at the Juan Carlos...
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Phylogeography of crossbills, bullfinches, grosbeaks, and rosefinches
Mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b) from 24 Carduelini species including crossbills, bullfinches, grosbeaks, rosefinches, and other related, but not conclusively classified species, was sequenced. These sequen...
