瑞士Greifen湖新近沉积物中的137Cs分布及其计年

于瑞士Greifen湖不同复水深度的位置,采集了直径为12cm的四个沉积物孔心样品,测得~(137)Cs的垂直剖面具相似的分布类型.由垂直剖面中~(137)Cs的峰值作沉积物计年标志得知:沉积物积累速度变化范围为0.22—0.085g/cm~2·a,随采样点与入湖的M(?)nch河口距离增加而递减.界面层沉积作用速率变化范围为1.4—0.55cm/a.显示出入湖泥沙输入和复水深度的双重影响.实际资料和理论概算表明.湖中的大部分~(137)Cs来自M(?)nch河积水盆地并在湖中得到净化.     

Die Organisation der Früherkennung von Umweltproblemen im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Beratung der Umweltpolitik

This study is based on the theses that

1. early diagnosis is indispensable in the context of precautionary policy for the management of environmental problems which have the character of a “creeping disaster” and that
2. the public must play the active role that is adequate within a democratic society. In the context of the study, three existing advisory committees for environmental policy as well as two concepts which have not been put into effect are investigated.

In the fourth part the work of the oldest of the committees, the SRU, is examined with respect to the three most important environmental problems of the last 15 years. In part I, the concept of the Picht commission from 1972, which has never been realized in this form, was introduced. In part II, the concepts and the working method of the three existing advisory committees (SRU, WBGU, TAB) were presented. Part III deals with the critique of these committees and an alternative concept of early diagnosis which has not yet been put into effect.     

Hepatitis E Virus in Farmed Rabbits,Wild Rabbits and Petting Farm Rabbits in the Netherlands

Rabbits have been suggested as a zoonotic source of Hepatitis E virus. Phylogenetic analysis of HEV isolates from farmed, wild and pet rabbits in the Netherlands (23, 0, and 60 % respectively) showed them to be grouped amongst published rabbit HEV sequences and distinct from most human isolates. Dutch rabbits are unlikely to be a zoonotic source.