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Cultivation, adding up to an important aspect in GDP (Gross Domestic Produce), has been affected tremendously over the past few decades due to the use of chemicals. Due to rapid urbanization and industrialization, arable land under cultivation is decreasing enormously. Organic farming, being the need of the hour, is opted as one of the widely chosen methodology to overcome the prevailing problem in...
This study was performed to extract rules for reducing body fat mass so as to prevent lifestyle-related diseases. Lifestyle-related diseases have been increasing in Japan, even among younger people. Body fat mass is related to lifestyle-related diseases. Hence, finding rules for reducing body fat mass is very meaningful. We obtained lifestyle time-series data on five male subjects who are in their...
Food quality is the quality properties of food that is acceptable by consumers. This includes important factors as appearance texture, and flavor. food consumers are affected to any form of contamination that may occur during the manufacturing process. Many consumer give importance to standards of processing and manufacturing, mainly to know what ingredients it contains, because of dietary, nutritional...
In recent years, due to the development and advance in information science and technology, people care more about the healthy diet, so diet types gradually change and take more focus on health management. Nowadays, it is becoming an aging society in Taiwan people have irregular life, long-term unhealthy diet, work pressure and other factors to be chronic disease, such as diabetes, hypertension and...
Coastal areas are vulnerable ecosystems comprising unique biological niches that require protection. Identification of relevant types of hazards at the appropriate temporal and spatial scale is crucial to detect their sources and origin, to understand the processes governing their magnitude and distribution, and to ultimately evaluate and manage their risks and consequences preventing economic losses...
Suspended matters have a significant role on the overlying water. Nutrients and heavy metal released from sediments were an important source for lake eutrophication and pollution, especially for the shallow lakes. In this paper, HJ-1A/1B charge Coupled Device (CCD) data was collected to generate the Total suspended matter (TSM) concentration map of Poyang lake. Gaseous absorption and Rayleigh scattering...
Upwelling filaments are mesoscale structures of cold water that stretch seaward in a tongue-like shape with origin in the coastal upwelling zone. Filaments represent preferred pathways for the exchange of water, dissolved and particulate matter from the productive shelf region towards the oligotrophic offshore regions. Upwelling filaments are a common feature of the western margin of the Iberian Peninsula...
Due to the unpredictable nature of intense storm events, little is known about event-driven impacts on water quality, nutrient dynamics, nutrient demand, and phytoplankton community composition in estuarine and riverine environments such as the James River estuary. In summer 2011 we monitored nutrient concentrations, physical conditions, and conducted nutrient uptake and primary productivity experiments...
A first attempt is made towards the coupling of a three-dimensional circulation model with a four compartment bio-physical model to simulate the regional distribution of plankton biomass and productivity in the Hooghly Estuary (approximately 21°36′–22°16′N and 87°42′–88°15′E) and to gain insights into the key physical and biological processes that control the plankton dynamics in the Estuary. In-situ...
Lake eutrophication, a serious environmental issue in the world, especially in recent years. In Lake Yangzonghai, a plateau deepwater lake in China, the anthropogenic disturbances have increased the eutropication, while people has not as yet known the effects and the main contributors of this increase. Data about the eutrophication development of the lake in the past 6 years were presented in this...
The main pollutions of Xiangshan Harbor were inorganic nitrogen and inorganic phosphorus. The annual average value of inorganic nitrogen was 0.594 mg.dm-3, the lowest value was in spring (0.194 mg.dm-3), and the highest was in winter (2.212 mg.dm-3). The annual changing trend of inorganic nitrogen was winter>autumn>summer>spring. The overall level of chemical oxygen demand was not high, the...
This paper describes progress in the realization of reliable, relatively low-cost autonomous microfluidic analysers that are capable of monitoring the chemistry of water bodies for significant periods of time (weeks, months) without human intervention. The data generated is transmitted wireless to a remote web server and transferred to a web-database that renders data access location independent....
Pilot-scale experiment was conducted on composting of sewage sludge from urban wastewater by recycling matured compost as a bulking agent. At the given ratio of sludge to matured compost = 1∶2(v/v), and aeration rate 0.05m3/(m3·min), final product was gained and analyzed by measurement of nutrient (nitrogen, phosphorus, and Potassium), heavy metals, and polyacrylamide (PAM). As the experiment shown,...
Bio-retention was regarded as one of the effective control measure of the urban non-point pollution. And the build and study of the bio-retention was very seldom presented in China. Based on the characteristic of the rainwater runoff in Beijing, we constructed the bio-retention system in this study. The nutrients were selected to analyze the retention conditions and the effect of pollutants removing...
There exist the interaction between lake and ambient rivers. This study focuses on the total and bioavailable concentrations of trace elements in river sediments around the northern Taihu Lake. We can recognize the characteristics of trace elements in different sites by comparing the west, north and the east rivers and evaluate the contamination level of sediment. The concentrations of TP and TN in...
Based on the status quo of gangue waste lands spread over Xinmi and Yanzhou mining area, this paper researched the characteristics of the absorption of different plants to toxic elements. The results are as follows: the absorption ability is not only related to quantity of the elements where the plants grow, but also related with the form of occurrence of the poisonous elements in the gangue, still...
This paper investigated the spatial-temporal variations and pollution source of surface water quality by analyzing the data from 8 water quality monitoring stations along the middle and lower reaches of the Min River between 2003 and 2008. The results showed that surface water quality was worse in the middle reaches of the Min River than that in the lower reaches and its tributary. Seasonal and spatial...
Identification of water quality conditions in a river system based on limited observations is an essential task for meeting the goals of environmental management. Various classification methods have been used for water quality estimation. However, a discrepancy frequently arises from the lack of a clear distinction between each water utilization mode, the uncertainty in the quality criteria employed...
Mangroves are a diverse group of unrelated trees, palms, shrubs, vines and ferns that share a common ability to live in waterlogged saline soils subjected to regular flooding Mangroves are functioning as buffer between sea water and ground water. They are highly specialized plants that have developed unusual adaptations to the unique environmental conditions in which they are found. The wastewater...
DEIMOS (Deepwater Echo Integrating Marine Observatory System) is an active acoustic package deployed at the MARS cabled observatory in Monterey Bay, CA. Located on the continental slope at a depth of 875 m, DEIMOS transmits an acoustic pulse upwards every five seconds, recording the intensity of reflected sound (i.e. backscatter) from organisms in the water column. Designed as a robust, ROV-deployable...
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