Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Dioxins by Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal S. Toor

“…They are by-products of a number of human activities such as combustion of fuels and wastes containing polyvinyl chloride (PVC), chlorine bleaching of paper products, and selected industrial processes. …”
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Evaluation of Carboxymethyl-Hexanoyl Chitosan as a Protein Nanocarrier by Mikael Larsson, Annika Borde, Emma Mattisson, Dean-Mo Liu, Anette Larsson

“…In summary, our results highlight the potential of CHC as a protein nanocarrier, but also indicate that protein‐CHC interactions need to be considered in protein containing CHC formulations where protein release is not the main function.…”
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The effect of edta on the development of mouse eggs fertilized in vitro by Tevfik Tekeli

“…Fifty seven per cent of embryos cultured for 96 hours in the medium containing EDTA developed morulae stage. Only 13% of embryos cultured for 96 hours in the medium without EDTA developed into morulae stage. …”
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Asymptotically Sufficient Statistics in Nonparametric Regression Experiments with Correlated Noise by Andrew V. Carter

“…The lower-resolution components contain nearly all the available information about the mean function, and the higher-resolution components can be used to estimate the error covariances. …”
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Geohistorical Structural Design Tables for the Building Stones of the Maltese Archipelago by Lino Bianco

“…A retrospective analysis of the contents of this publication reveals that the results contained some mathematical errors. …”
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Themes of U.S. Wine Advertising and the Use of Geography and Place to Market Wine by John P. Tiefenbacher

“…Systematic assessment of the visual and textual contents of 764 advertisements that appeared in 30 issues (2 years of the publication) reveals that approximately 66% of advertisements contained geographical components that clearly suggest that place is important in the production and quality of wine. …”
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New Method for Isomorphism Identification of Planetary Gear Trains based on Traversing Loop by Jiawen Ding, Wei Sun

“…Firstly，a new method for describing the topological diagram basic characteristics of planetary gear trains by the new loop matrix is proposed. This matrix contains all the information of the topological structure of planetary gear trains. …”
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Study on the Kinematics Analysis and Simulation of Space Octahedron Rolling Robot by Han Shukui, Liu Hongwei, Zhao Zikai, Su Zesheng

“…According to the analysis,by using the ADAMS software,the dynamic simulation of the movement of the robot,which contain the simulation for gait planning and climbing obstacle capability is finished. …”
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La nécropole gauloise de “ Vaugrignon ” à Esvres-sur-Indre (Indre-et-Loire) by Sandrine Riquier

“…This burial ground, which was used from the middle of the 2nd century B.C. until reign og Augustus, contained twenty-nine tombs, including one cremation. …”
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The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) by Martin Dribe, Luciana Quaranta

“…At the family level, the data contain a combination of demographic records and information on occupation, landholding and income. …”
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Westerdykella reniformis sp. nov., producing the antibiotic metabolites melinacidin Iv and chetracin B by Ghada A Ebead, David P. Overy, Fabrice Berrué, Russell G. Kerr

“…Westerdykella reniformis is characterized by the production of cleistothecioid ascomata, containing small globose to subglobose asci with 32, aseptate, dark colored, pronouncedly reniform ascospores having a concave central groove. …”
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The Use of Lime in Fish Ponds by Andy M. Lazur, Charles E. Cichra, Craig Watson

“…It should be used carefully, avoiding contact to the applicator, and never used in ponds containing desirable fish. This document was published first time in June, 1997 …”
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The Network behind the Chronicle by Leah Shopkow

“…Two chronicles, the Chronicle of Andres and the Chronicle of Evesham, although different from each other in many ways, both contain remarkable first-person singular legal narratives about cases shepherded by their authors through the curia of Innocent III. …”
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Some Remarks on The Crafts in The Manuscript ‘Bayanu’s-Sına‘a’ by Ahmet Caycı, İbrahim Kunt

“…Chemistry, physics, together with issues such as to contain, has been devoted to issues of art and craft. …”
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Hybrid Josephson Rhombus: A Superconducting Element with Tailored Current-Phase Relation by L. Banszerus, C. W. Andersson, W. Marshall, T. Lindemann, M. J. Manfra, C. M. Marcus, S. Vaitiekėnas

“…Here, we introduce the hybrid Josephson rhombus, a highly tunable superconducting circuit containing four semiconductor-superconductor hybrid Josephson junctions embedded in a loop. …”
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Nutrition and Crohn's Disease: An Overview by C Ó'Moráin

“…How an elemental diet achieves this result is conjectural, but it is unlikely that its action is solely nutritional, as the patient improves before nutritional parameters improve. Elemental diets contain glutamine and arginine, which have a direct effect on intestinal mucosa and improve immune function. …”
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An Evaluation and Critique of Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements by Hadi Vakili

“…This encyclopedia, containing 428 articles from leading academics, studies the remarkable examples of religious movements emerging in each continent. …”
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Fortunella spp., Kumquat by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Robert J. Northrop

“…If space is an issue, kumquats also do well in containers as long as they receive proper sunlight and watering. …”
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Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Animal Longevity: Insights from Comparative Studies by Reinald Pamplona

“…Mitochondria are a main source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and chemical sidereactions in healthy aerobic tissues and are the only known extranuclear cellular organelles in animal cells that contain their own DNA (mtDNA). ROS can modify mtDNA directly at the sugar-phosphate backbone or at the bases, producing many different oxidatively modified purines and pyrimidines, as well as single and double strand breaks and DNA mutations. …”
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On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects by Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro

“…I will also argue, after analyzing the syntactic variation exhibited by subjects in non-finite clauses (containing regular and inflected infinitives) in Spanish, Galician, and European Portuguese, that (i) postverbal overt subject DPs are licensed by a full set of φ-features in Agr (overt or covert), (ii) pro is licensed by an Agr head that is overtly realized by either overt φ-features or verb movement, and (iii) preverbal overt subject DPs are licensed by verb movement to Agr. …”
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