Medical and Biomedical Researches

DM/wellness companies looking at health coaching programs’ effectiveness.

June 27th, 2008
DM/wellness companies looking at health coaching programs\' effectiveness. A growing number of health management companies are going beyond simply measuring outcomes and are looking under the hood of their health coaching programs to make sure their offerings are actually causing the intended results. ...

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Silverlink HealthComm Behavior Index shows disconnect.

June 27th, 2008
Silverlink HealthComm Behavior Index shows disconnect. Research from Silverlink\'s HealthComm Behavior Index shows a link between healthcare communications and satisfaction, personalization, and behavior change.

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CMS demonstration targets younger seniors.

June 27th, 2008
CMS demonstration targets younger seniors. Five demonstration projects are accepting participants in a three-year program to gauge whether preventive services reduce costs and chronic disease among younger Medicare beneficiaries.

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Mixed uncertainty analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon inhalation and risk assessment in ambi

June 27th, 2008
Mixed uncertainty analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon inhalation and risk assessment in ambient air of Beijing. This article presents the application of an integrated method that estimates the dispersion of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in air, and assesses the human health risk associated with PAHs inhalation. ...

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Evolution on qualities of leachate and landfill gas in the semi-aerobic landfill.

June 27th, 2008
Evolution on qualities of leachate and landfill gas in the semi-aerobic landfill. To study the characteristics of stabilization in semi-aerobic landfill, large-scale simulated landfill was constructed based on the semi-aerobic landfill theory. Consequently, the concentrations of chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammonia nitrogen, and nitrite nitrogen, and ...

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Characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in leachate with different landfill ages.

June 27th, 2008
Characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in leachate with different landfill ages. The main objective of the study was to investigate the characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in leachate with different landfill ages through the chemical, spectroscopic, and elemental analysis. Humic acid (HA), fulvic acid ...

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Genotoxicity evaluation of drinking water sources in human peripheral blood lymphocytes using the co

June 27th, 2008
Genotoxicity evaluation of drinking water sources in human peripheral blood lymphocytes using the comet assay. The potential harm of organic pollutants in drinking water to human health is widely focused on in the world; more and more pollutants with genotoxic substances are released into the aquatic ...

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Characteristics of microfauna and their relationships with the performance of an activated sludge pl

June 27th, 2008
Characteristics of microfauna and their relationships with the performance of an activated sludge plant in China. The occurrence and abundance of the microfauna groups were compared with the physico-chemical and operational parameters of the Baoding Lugang Sewage Treatment Plant in China. Attached and crawling ciliates were ...

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Natural recovery of different areas of a deserted quarry in South China.

June 27th, 2008
Natural recovery of different areas of a deserted quarry in South China. A quarry is a surface mining operated place, which produces enormous quantities of gravel, limestone, and other materials for industrial and construction applications. Restoration and revegetation of deserted quarries are becoming increasingly important. Three ...

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Sulfur cycle in the typical meadow Calamagrostis angustifolia wetland ecosystem in the Sanjiang plai

June 27th, 2008
Sulfur cycle in the typical meadow Calamagrostis angustifolia wetland ecosystem in the Sanjiang plain, Northeast China. The sulfur cycle and its compartmental distribution within an atmosphere-plant-soil system was studied using a compartment model in the typical meadow Calamagrostis angustifolia wetland in the Sanjiang Plain Northeast China. ...

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Degradation of chlorpyrifos alone and in combination with chlorothalonil and their effects on soil m

June 27th, 2008
Degradation of chlorpyrifos alone and in combination with chlorothalonil and their effects on soil microbial populations. In practice, pesticides are usually applied simultaneously or one after another for crop protection, and this type of pesticide application often leads to a combined contamination of pesticide residues in ...

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Organic carbon stratification and size distribution of three typical paddy soils from Taihu Lake Reg

June 27th, 2008
Organic carbon stratification and size distribution of three typical paddy soils from Taihu Lake Region, China. Developing realistic soil carbon (C) sequestration strategies for China\'s sustainable agriculture relies on accurate estimates of the amount, retention and turnover rates of C stored in paddy soils. Available C ...

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Effects of several amendments on rice growth and uptake of copper and cadmium from a contaminated so

June 27th, 2008
Effects of several amendments on rice growth and uptake of copper and cadmium from a contaminated soil. Heavy metals in variable charge soil are highly bioavailable and easy to transfer into plants. Since it is impossible to completely eliminate rice planting on contaminated soils, some remediation ...

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A four-year investigation on wet deposition in western Thailand.

June 27th, 2008
A four-year investigation on wet deposition in western Thailand. The investigation of pH variation and the chemical composition of rainwater have been studied from April 2003 to October 2006 at a rural area of Nakorn Pathom Province, western Thailand. The pH value ranged from 4.0 to ...

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Coupling catalytic hydrolysis and oxidation for CS2 removal.

June 27th, 2008
Coupling catalytic hydrolysis and oxidation for CS2 removal. CS2 removal was obtained by coupling catalytic hyidation on bi-functional catalyst. On the hydrolysis active sites, CS2 is hydrolyzed to H2S, while on the oxidation active sites, H2S is oxidized to elemental S or sulfuric acid deposited on ...

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Morphology of single inhalable particle in the air polluted city of Shijiazhuang, China.

June 27th, 2008
Morphology of single inhalable particle in the air polluted city of Shijiazhuang, China. In the typical air polluted city of Shijiazhuang, single inhalable particle samples in non-heating period, heating period, dust storm days, and snowy days were collected and detected by SEM/EDS (scanning electron microscopy and ...

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Long range trans-Pacific transport and deposition of Asian dust aerosols.

June 27th, 2008
Long range trans-Pacific transport and deposition of Asian dust aerosols. The deposition of Asian dust aerosols during their trans-Pacific transport might cause significant marine phytoplankton biomass increases. However, the knowledge of the trans-Pacific dust transport, deposition, and spatial distribution is still poor due to a lack ...

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Short-term effects of drawing water for connectivity of rivers and lakes on zooplankton community st

June 27th, 2008
Short-term effects of drawing water for connectivity of rivers and lakes on zooplankton community structure. During 28-29, September 2005, water was drawn from Hanjiang River and Houguan Lake to the Yangzi River via Sanjiao Lake and Nantaizi Lake in Wuhan in order to provide favorable conditions ...

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Heavy metals partitioning in the sediments of Izmir Inner Bay.

June 27th, 2008
Heavy metals partitioning in the sediments of Izmir Inner Bay. Izmir Bay is known to be polluted by high concentrations of heavy metals and organic pollutants. Sediment samples taken from 7 different stations in Izmir Inner Bay were analyzed for their total organic matter content and, ...

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Effects of bacteria on nitrogen and phosphorus release from river sediment.

June 27th, 2008
Effects of bacteria on nitrogen and phosphorus release from river sediment. To better understand the mechanisms of eutrophication, we addressed the microbial processes that influence many key aspects of water-sediment systems. In this study, a large column experiment was conducted for 30 d. Along the column, ...

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Nitrogen and phosphorus removal in pilot-scale anaerobic-anoxic oxidation ditch system.

June 27th, 2008
Nitrogen and phosphorus removal in pilot-scale anaerobic-anoxic oxidation ditch system. To achieve high efficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus removal and to investigate the rule of simultaneous nitrification and denitrification phosphorus removal (SNDPR), a whole course of SNDPR damage and recovery was studied in a pilot-scale, anaerobic-anoxic ...

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Fraction distribution and risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments of Moshui Lake.

June 27th, 2008
Fraction distribution and risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments of Moshui Lake. To examine the status and risk of heavy metal pollution in urban lakes, in China, the distribution of several heavy metals (e.g., Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) in the sediment of Moshui Lake, ...

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Performance of wastewater sludge ecological stabilization.

June 27th, 2008
Performance of wastewater sludge ecological stabilization. In this article, wastewater sludge ecological stabilization (WWSES) was presented for sludge dewatering, mineralization, and stabilization, as well as for percolate treatment. Two years of pilot scale experimental results indicated that sludge volatile solid, triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC)-dehydrogenase activity (DHA), and ...

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Effect of spectral resolution on the measurement of monoaromatic hydrocarbons by DOAS.

June 27th, 2008
Effect of spectral resolution on the measurement of monoaromatic hydrocarbons by DOAS. The excellent response characteristics and detection sensitivity with much lower operational cost and the capability to discriminate between the isomer of some monoaromatic hydrocarbons (MAHCs) make differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) a powerful tool ...

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Eubacteria and Archaea community of simultaneous methanogenesis and denitrification granular sludge.

June 27th, 2008
Eubacteria and Archaea community of simultaneous methanogenesis and denitrification granular sludge. Based on the successful performance of a lab-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor with the capacity of simultaneous methanogenesis and denitrification (SMD), the specific phylogenetic groups and community structure of microbes in the SMD ...

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