Various agricultural wastes such as peels of pea (Pisum sativum) pod, tea (Camellia sinensis), and ginger (Zingiber officinale) and banana (Musa lacatan) waste were used to adsorb Cr(VI) from the UMBRELLAS aqueous solutions.A comparative adsorption efficiency study for all these adsorbents was done in laboratory for various pH, adsorbent doses, ini
Characterization and the comprehensive expression analysis of tobacco valine-glutamine genes in response to trichomes development and stress tolerance
Abstract Valine-glutamine genes (VQ) acted as transcription regulators and Pedals played the important roles in plant growth and development, and stress tolerance through interacting with transcription factors and other co-regulators.In this study, sixty-one VQ genes containing the FxxxVQxxTG motif were identified and updated in the Nicotiana tobac
Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) avoid wellsite activity during winter
Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) are threatened in Alberta in part due to the development of oil and gas resources.To inform best management practices for caribou, we assessed how proximity to wellsites influenced caribou habitat selection, and whether habitat selection varied across wellsite activity phases (i.e., drilling, producing, and inac
The Impact of Changes to the Unemployment Rate on Australian Disability Income Insurance Claim Incidence
We explore the extent to which claim incidence in Disability Income Insurance (DII) is affected by changes in the unemployment rate in Australia.Using data from 1986 to 2001, we fit a hurdle model to explore the presence and magnitude of the effect of changes in unemployment rate on the incidence of DII claims, controlling for policy holder charact