In conventional chemical toxicology, observed and perceived exposures often diverge.In ENM ecotoxicology, water is emphasized, while soil and sediment impacts have received less attention.Where do exposures occur? What ENM forms and quantities are involved? Which ecological receptors are affected?Which local exposure conditions prevail? As with conventional chemical risk assessment, such questions unite hazard and exposure assessments.Standardized test…

The assertion, then, that diaspora is the same as transnationalism, and Jews specifically are always transnational by virtue of being diasporic , is clearly incorrect. At the same time, strict, homeland-based, insularity-dependent definitions like Safran’s and Cohen’s do not include contemporary transnational social fields, or even all Jewish communities in all places and times. People,…

The commitment builds as a response to the increasing food demand from cities, which by now host over half the global population, and is shaped in recognition of global challenges including climate change, human health problems, disconnections in the food value chains and lack of access to healthy food: “… to… work to develop sustainable food…

These removal value trends for fipronil and cyfluthrin correspond to their seasonal concentration values in water and sediment. This suggests that the highest removal of these two analytes took place when their mass inputs were at their peak. Removal of the remaining compounds was likely less influenced by this phenomenon since they were present at much…

Indoor use of pest control products containing fipronil has resulted in detection of fiproles in wastewater. In a recent study of a municipal wastewater treatment plant , fipronil was detected at an average daily concentration of 17-31 ng L-1 and 13- 21 ng L-1 in raw sewage and treated effluent, respectively. A regional study of WWTPs…

Foley & Larner found that this was a large decline from the previous year when more than 30 percent of patents were granted to individual inventors. The authors speculated this was due to the 2008 economic crash negatively affecting individual’s research resources beyond corporations . Corporate entities also hold the highest shares of patents in…

Regional scientists, engineers, and inventors continue the search for technological solutions, and entrepreneurs have developed numerous new products to help solve our water needs. These legal and cultural institutions, and actors—and, of course, the firms that build the infrastructure and supply technologies—make up the functional components of regional water industries. Although this thesis is primarily…

The European Union’s goal is to become the “most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world” . This phenomenon is not unique to the developed world: Brazil recently announced plans to send 100,000 students to study abroad every year explicitly to accelerate the development of an innovation economy . Recent scholarship has found that…

Gouia et al. reported that high salt stress results in slower growth and even death of seeding cotton, lower dry matter accumulation, less roots, softer and darker leaves, shorter period of blooming, and even death of seedling cotton. Ashraf showed that under high salt stress, the growth rate of cotton was significantly reduced with less fruiting branches. The…

After inoculating the bacteria by toothpick onto large filter paper strips on an agar plate, we could observe the distance the bacteria were able to travel by removing the paper at chosen times and allowing the growth of the bacteria that had penetrated through the paper. While a ∆syfA mutant strain progressed at a rate of…