Water distribution systems are one of the critical infrastructures and major assets of the water utility in a nation.The infrastructure of the distribution systems consists of resources, treatment plants, reservoirs, distribution lines, and consumers.A sustainable water distribution network management has to take care of accessibility, quality, qua
This paper presents the results of spectral optical measurements of hydrochemical characteristics in the Angara/Yenisei river system Bakeware (AYRS) extending from Lake Baikal to the estuary of the Yenisei River.For the first time, such large-scale observations were made as part of a joint American-Russian expedition in July and August of 1995, whe
Reactive airway dysfunction syndrome (RADS) is a type of non-immunologically mediated asthma-like disease.It usually occurs after a massive exposure to an irritating substance in the atmosphere in the form of smoke, fumes, gases, and vapor.Unlike bronchial asthma, there is D3 no latency to the symptoms seen in RADS.A number of agents are known to c
ABSTRACT Degradation of intracellular proteins in Gram-negative bacteria regulates various cellular processes and serves as a quality control mechanism by eliminating damaged proteins.To understand what causes the proteolytic machinery of the cell to degrade some proteins while sparing others, we employed a quantitative pulsed-SILAC (stable isotope