城市空气中多环芳烃定量测定方法

本文发展了一种对城市空气中多环芳烃(PAH)定量测定的方法。该方法可以用极少量溶剂,相当快地完成测定工作。     

Design and validation of a practical index for trauma assessment

In the past 20 years a variety of indices have been suggested for measuring the severity of trauma, however none of them meets the requirement of being a simple and objective instrument that can be utilized efficiently by lay persons and providers of health services without previous experience in triaging. A new system has been proposed which meets this requirement and which has been validated with 197 injured persons at the emergency ward of the Valle University Hospital in Call, Colombia. The instrument showed a high level of concordance with the conventional triaging method and classifies victims into four categories: critical with recovery unlikely, critical but recoverable, moderately serious, and ambulatory. There is discussion on the reliability of this instrument and it is recommended that it be validated with victims from larger disasters. Regardless, it has the advantage of being specific and free of the subjectivity that characterizes other indices.     

Agriculture and food security in ethiopia

Food security in Ethiopia is discussed in the context of the repeated famines and the international responses both to them and to the socialist agricultural policies being pursued by Ethiopia. Increasing concern has been expressed by the international donor community regarding the ability of Ethiopia to absorb development funds without a major shift in emphasis in agricultural policy-making. The background to Ethiopia's present vulnerability is shown both in terms of the size of the vulnerable population and in terms of the poor performance of the agricultural sector in the last decade. The author looks at the present agricultural and marketing policy reforms and questions whether they are sufficient to generate the sort of international response needed to create the level of food security that would be required to avert future famines.     

用广义λ—分布拟合空气污染数据

广义λ-分布是一个四参数可变通的概率模型,包括多种单变量分布,这一模型可用于表示空气污染浓度的频率分布。本文采用土耳其安卡拉每日的烟和SO_2监测数据,来证明广义λ-分布具有良好的拟合性质。这里还讨论了与分位数估计和拟合优度有关的一些结果,并与经典对数正态分布进行了比较。     

Naphthalene and its biomarkers as measures of occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) include compounds with two or more fused benzene rings, many of which are carcinogens. Industrial sources produce hundreds of PAH, notably in the coke- and aluminium-producing industries. Because PAH are distributed at varying levels between gaseous and particulate phases, exposure assessment has been problematic. Here, we recommend that occupational exposures to naphthalene be considered as a potential surrogate for occupational PAH exposure for three reasons. Naphthalene is usually the most abundant PAH in a given workplace; naphthalene is present almost entirely in the gaseous phase and is, therefore, easily measured; and naphthalene offers several useful biomarkers, including the urinary metabolites 1- and 2-hydroxynaphthalene. These biomarkers can be used to evaluate total-body exposure to PAH, in much the same way that 1-hydroxypyrene has been applied. Using data from published sources, we show that log-transformed airborne levels of naphthalene are highly correlated with those of total PAH (minus naphthalene) in several industries (creosote impregnation: Pearson r= 0.815, coke production: r= 0.917, iron foundry: r= 0.854, aluminium production: r= 0.933). Furthermore, the slopes of the log-log regressions are close to one indicating that naphthalene levels are proportional to those of total PAH in those industries. We also demonstrate that log-transformed urinary levels of the hydroxynaphthalenes are highly correlated with those of 1-hydroxypyrene among coke oven workers and controls (r= 0.857 and 0.876), again with slopes of log-log regressions close to one. These results support the conjecture that naphthalene is a useful metric for occupational PAH exposure. Since naphthalene has also been shown to be a respiratory carcinogen in several animal studies, it is also argued that naphthalene exposures should be monitored per se in industries with high levels of PAH.     

原子吸收法测定矿化水中的银

<正> 由于检出限低,准确度高和分析速度快,在测定银的分析方法中原子吸收光谱法得到广泛应用。例如,在低矿化天然水中银的相对检出限为0.03μg/L。用无火焰原子吸收法直接测定高矿化水中的银有困难,因为基体效应大。消除此效应的最有效的方法是利用炉温稳定的平台技术。实现     

菲律宾制糖工业废水的厌氧处理

1.前言菲律宾制糖工业在国民经济中占有重要地位,甘蔗种植面积达50万公顷,在1983～84年度的制糖季节里,全国41个糖厂的蔗糖产量为230万吨。在粗糖生产中的主要副产物有:(1)糖蜜,通常用来生产酒精;(2)蔗渣,通常用来作燃料或者造纸;(3)滤泥,通常用来加工成有机肥料。在粗糖、精制糖与酒精的生产过程中要产生大量废水,通常都将这类废水排入工厂附近的河流或港湾中,常常给这些水域造成难以承受的环境污染。菲律宾国家污染控制委员会最近发布命令指出,不久的将来将颁布控制地表水污染的法规。为此,菲律宾工业产生的废水必须进行处理才能向外排放,有些糖厂已经设置了废水处理设施。传统的废水处理装置通常包括曝气池或贮水塘,然而,因为能源耗用量大,曝气系统的费用很高。     

Distribution of actinomycetes in oil contaminated ultisols of the Niger Delta (Nigeria)

The distribution of actinomycetes in oil contaminated sandy loam ultisols of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria was studied to aid in understanding the effect of hydrocarbons on indigenous microbial population in tropical soils. The average total counts of actinomycetes in all the oil samples analysed was 103 cfu/g. Higher counts of actinomycetes were observed during the dry season than during the wet season. The counts of hydrocarbonoclastic actinomycetes correlated positively with the total count of actinomycetes.The actinomycetes were generally restricted to the top soil(0-10 cm soil depth) although a seemingly deeper(down to 40 cm soil depth) distribution was noticed in the dry season. The isolates included oil degrading species of Actinoplanes, Norcadia,Streptomyces and Streptosporangium. Their high oil utilization ability indicates their positive potential and role in the bioremediation of oil-spilled soils.     

远东的水质污染(下)

在远东国家的水生生态系中,保守型污染物方面的可用资料少于有机物方面的资料。由于痕量金属和有机氯或碳水化合物的测定技术要求很高,远东的许多设施还不能提供所需的仪器。除此而外,该地区所面临的明显问题是加强仪器的维护。尽管如此,     

关于褶皱区铀矿床的近矿水云母交代岩

<正> 目前已知伴生铀矿化的交代变质岩有五种独立的建造类型:中温钠质交代岩和四种低温建造变质岩——钠质交代岩、钾质交代岩、黄铁细晶岩和热液泥质板岩。 作者在研究一个古生代褶皱区的热液铀矿床时,查明了近矿交代岩。按其矿物-地球化学特征,它们不同于上述的交代岩建造。仔细研究这些生成物可以判断;其中广泛发育有水云母化现象。此种情况,以