Cd and Pb in the “soil-plant” system of Holosiyiv green park area in Kyiv

In this paper, the content of metals (Cd and Pb) was investigated in soil-plant system of Holosiyiv green park area in Kyiv. Kyiv is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, and has an anthropogenic load. Metals pollution in various degrees in green park areas may affect people’s health through different paths. We propose to control the lead contamination in soil because Pb concentration levels were above when compared with background values in almost all samples of soil and exceeded the maximum permissible concentration in sites of top of hills in park. Moreover, the obtained results indicated high concentrations of lead in studied plants; most of them are medicinal and traditionally used by people. The highest phytomass concentration of Pb was observed in Asarum europaeum L., whereas Impatiens parviflora DC and Urtica dioica L. had the highest plant up-taking indexes for both studied metals

MANAGEMENT OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS PERFORMANCE

This article deals with the problems of the investment projects management effi ciency. We have analyzed specifi c risks that should be considered in the course of development of performance indicators of the investment project. Approaches to solving this problem have been identified and substantiated. On the basis of the research the author offers a number of methods for evaluating the stability and effi ciency of the project, as well as the procedure of calculating the expected project outcome; the author has also formed the stages of simulation modeling, which allows estimating the possible range of effi ciency variation for different project environments

Mercury Contamination in Soil, Water, Plants, and Hydrobionts in Kyiv and the Kyiv Region

In this paper, there was investigated the content of mercury in soil, plant, water, and hydrobionts in Kyiv and in the Obukhiv district of the Kyiv region. Studied territory is characterized by high anthropogenic load. The solid waste landfill in the Obukhiv district of the Kyiv region was characterized by the highest content of Hg in soil. Hg concentration in Taraxacum officinale L. was the highest among all studied plants, hence the possibility of recommending this species for phytoremediation of mercury-polluted soils. Mercury bioaccumulation of aquatic organisms (Blicca bjoerkna L., Esox lucius L., Ceratophyllum demersum L.) was much higher than in terrestrial organisms, which indicates the significantly prevailing level of availability and accumulation of mercury for aquatic species in the water environment

Metals phytotoxicity assessment and phyto maximum allowable concentration

In this paper, the influence of metals (Cd, Pb, Cu, Co, Ni, Zn) on plants of spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) was investigated in polluted sod podzolic sandy loam on layered glacial sands and calcareous deep chernozem on loamy loess soils. We propose to highlight the metals’ phytotoxicity with help of the phyto maximum allowable concentration. The Phyto Maximum Allowable Concentration is a permissible level of metals for plants in polluted soil and represents the safe degree for plants in contaminated ecosystem. The phyto maximum allowable concentration gives the possibility to estimate and to forecast the danger of metals for plants as a biological object that plays a very important role in the life of ecosystem. This approach may be applied for another metals phytotoxicity assessment for other plants

Beckmann Rearrangement of 3-carboxybicyclo[3.3.1]nonane and [3.2.1]octane Oximes

Regiospecific Beckmann rearrangement of substituted 2-hydroximinonorbornanone carboxylic acids has been investigated. Selective formation of new functionalized 10-oxo-9-azabicyclo[3.3.2]decanes and 7-oxo-6-azabicyclo[3.2.2]nonanes in good yield has been demonstrated. Presence of neighboring carboxylic group allows conducting of Beckmann rearrangement of strained bicyclic compound