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Heavy Metals (Cd, Cu and As) Accumulation by Aquatic Plant along with Gomti River, Lucknow (U. P.)
The aquatic plants have a great importance to the removal of heavy metals from the contaminated river water. In this study the heavy metals (Cd, Cu and As) were evaluated in aquatic plants like Ranunculus sceleratus, Hydrilla virticillata, Botumusumbelatus and Sagittaria japonica collected from the 15 sites along with Gomti river, Lucknow (U. P.), Heavy metals enters into the river through the discharge of domestic sewage, industrial effluents, municipal waste water etc., The concentration of Cu was found maximum followed by Cd and least was As for all selected plants at all sites. The highest accumulation of Arsenic, Cadmium and Copper was found in Hydrilla virticillata (0.172±0.005 ÎŒg gâ1 DW), Sagittaria japonica(1.62±0.02 ÎŒg gâ1 DW) and Botumus umbelatus (2.08±0.07 ÎŒg gâ1 DW) respectively. However, the lowest concentration of all these heavy metals was observed in Ranunculus scleratus sp. The results of this study to give the information in relation to aquatic plants growing in polluted water, which accumulates heavy metals. These findings provide are an opportunity for the removal of toxic heavy metals from the use of aquatic plants in phytoremediation and treating water bodies
Heavy Metals (Cd, Cu and As) Accumulation by Aquatic Plant along with Gomti River, Lucknow (U. P.)
The aquatic plants have a great importance to the removal of heavy metals from the contaminated river water. In this study the heavy metals (Cd, Cu and As) were evaluated in aquatic plants like Ranunculus sceleratus, Hydrilla virticillata, Botumusumbelatus and Sagittaria japonica collected from the 15 sites along with Gomti river, Lucknow (U. P.), Heavy metals enters into the river through the discharge of domestic sewage, industrial effluents, municipal waste water etc., The concentration of Cu was found maximum followed by Cd and least was As for all selected plants at all sites. The highest accumulation of Arsenic, Cadmium and Copper was found in Hydrilla virticillata (0.172±0.005 ÎŒg gâ1 DW), Sagittaria japonica (1.62±0.02 ÎŒg gâ1 DW) and Botumus umbelatus (2.08±0.07 ÎŒg gâ1 DW) respectively. However, the lowest concentration of all these heavy metals was observed in Ranunculus scleratus sp. The results of this study to give the information in relation to aquatic plants growing in polluted water, which accumulates heavy metals. These findings provide are an opportunity for the removal of toxic heavy metals from the use of aquatic plants in phytoremediation and treating water bodies
First impressions and perceived roles: Palestinian perceptions on foreign aid
This paper summarizes some results of a wider research on foreign aid that was conducted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2010. It seeks to describe the impressions and feelings of Palestinian aid beneficiaries as well as the roles and functions they attached to foreign aid. To capture and measure local perceptions on Western assistance a series of individual in depth interviews and few focus group interviews were conducted in the Palestinian territories. The interview transcripts were processed by content analysis. As research results show â from the perspective of aid beneficiaries â foreign aid is more related to human dignity than to any economic development. All this implies that frustration with the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict inevitably embraces the donor policies and practices too
Instabilities in the Nuclear Energy Density Functional
In the field of Energy Density Functionals (EDF) used in nuclear structure
and dynamics, one of the unsolved issues is the stability of the functional.
Numerical issues aside, some EDFs are unstable with respect to particular
perturbations of the nuclear ground-state density. The aim of this contribution
is to raise questions about the origin and nature of these instabilities, the
techniques used to diagnose and prevent them, and the domain of density
functions in which one should expect a nuclear EDF to be stable.Comment: Special issue "Open Problems in Nuclear Structure Theory" of
Jour.Phys.G - accepted. 7 pages, 2 figure
FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF HERBAL GEL CONTAINING Allium cepa EXTRACT
Herbal medicines widely improved for primary health care because of better cultural acceptability and better compatibility with human body and lesser side effects. The aim of present study was to formulate and evaluate of herbal gel containing Allium cepa extract. Topical gel formulation was designed by using Allium cepa extract and carbopol 934 as a gelling agent and different excipients. The herbaceous plant Allium cepa (onion). It has great health significance and is consumed for nutritional and health benefits for last centuries. It contains flavonoids compound. Plant extract used for prevention of hair loss. Raw onion eaten in salad form this is play very important role in health beneïŹts. Gel was prepared by incorporating extract of Allium cepa in gel at a particular step in order to prepare non greasy formulation. Gel Formulation F3 Batch was optimized in the concentration 1.5% of Carbopol 934. Different gel formulations were evaluated for their physical appearance; pH, Spreadability, Homogeneity in-vitro diffusion ,Viscosity and Drug Excipients comparability study are carried out
Canonical Gravity, Diffeomorphisms and Objective Histories
This paper discusses the implementation of diffeomorphism invariance in
purely Hamiltonian formulations of General Relativity. We observe that, if a
constrained Hamiltonian formulation derives from a manifestly covariant
Lagrangian, the diffeomorphism invariance of the Lagrangian results in the
following properties of the constrained Hamiltonian theory: the diffeomorphisms
are generated by constraints on the phase space so that a) The algebra of the
generators reflects the algebra of the diffeomorphism group. b) The Poisson
brackets of the basic fields with the generators reflects the space-time
transformation properties of these basic fields. This suggests that in a purely
Hamiltonian approach the requirement of diffeomorphism invariance should be
interpreted to include b) and not just a) as one might naively suppose. Giving
up b) amounts to giving up objective histories, even at the classical level.
This observation has implications for Loop Quantum Gravity which are spelled
out in a companion paper. We also describe an analogy between canonical gravity
and Relativistic particle dynamics to illustrate our main point.Comment: Latex 16 Pages, no figures, revised in the light of referees'
comments, accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravit
Logarithmic corrections to black hole and black ring entropy in tunneling approach
The tunneling approach beyond semiclassical approximation has been used to
calculate the corrected Hawking temperature and entropy for various black holes
and FRW universe model. We examine their derivations, and prove that the
quantity in the corrected temperature is the explicit function of the only
free parameter (which is an auxiliary parameter defined by
). Our analysis improves previous calculations, and
indicates that the leading order logarithmic correction to entropy is a natural
result of the corrected temperature and the first law of thermodynamics.
Additionally, we apply the tunneling approach beyond semiclassical
approximation to neutral black rings. Based on the analysis, we show that the
entropy of neutral black rings also has a logarithmic leading order correction.Comment: 13 pages, rewritte
Working Group Report: Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics
This is the report of neutrino and astroparticle physics working group at
WHEPP-8. We present the discussions carried out during the workshop on selected
topics in the above fields and also indicate progress made subsequently. The
neutrino physics subgroup studied the possibilites of constraining neutrino
masses, mixing and CPT violation in lepton sector from future experiments.
Neutrino mass models in the context of abelian horizontal symmetries, warped
extra dimensions and in presence of triplet Higgs were studied. Effect of
threshold corrections on radiative magnification of mixing angles was
investigated. The astroparticle physics subgroup focused on how various
particle physics inputs affect the CMBR fluctuation spectrum, and on brane
cosmology. This report also contains an introduction on how to use the publicly
available code CMBFAST to calculate the CMBR fluctuations.Comment: Prepared for the 8th Workshop on High-Energy Physics Phenomenology
(WHEPP-8), IIT Mumbai, India, 5-16 Jan 200
HST and UKIRT imaging observations of z~1 6C radio galaxies - II. Galaxy morphologies and the alignment effect
(abridged) Powerful radio galaxies often display enhanced optical/UV emission
regions, elongated and aligned with the radio jet axis. The aim of this series
of papers is to separately investigate the effects of radio power and redshift
on the alignment effect, together with other radio galaxy properties. In this
second paper, we present a deeper analysis of the morphological properties of
these systems, including both the host galaxies and their surrounding aligned
emission. The host galaxies of our 6C subsample are well described as de
Vaucouleurs ellipticals, with typical scale sizes of ~10kpc. This is comparable
to the host galaxies of low-z radio sources of similar powers, and also the
more powerful 3CR sources at the same redshift. The contribution of nuclear
point source emission is also comparable, regardless of radio power. The 6C
alignment effect is remarkably similar to that seen around more powerful 3CR
sources at the same redshift in terms of extent and degree of alignment with
the radio source axis, although it is generally less luminous. The bright,
knotty features observed in the case of the z~1 3CR sources are far less
frequent in our 6C subsample; neither do we observe such strong evidence for
evolution in the strength of the alignment effect with radio source size/age.
However, we do find a very strong link between the most extreme alignment
effects and emission line region properties indicative of shocks, regardless of
source size/age or power. In general, the 6C alignment effect is still
considerably stronger than that seen around lower redshift galaxies of similar
radio powers. (abridged)Comment: 23 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. See
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~kji/MorphPaper/ for version of paper with full
resolution images of Figs 1-1
The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design
Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of
the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii. A team of
scientists from Japan, Taiwan and Princeton University is using HSC to carry
out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey
includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg in five broad
bands (), with a point-source depth of . The
Deep layer covers a total of 26~deg in four fields, going roughly a
magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter
still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg). Here we describe the
instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data
processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large
number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early
phases of this survey.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Corrected for a typo in the
coordinates of HSC-Wide spring equatorial field in Table
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