ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL INDICES FOR PLANTS OF THE SPECIES POTENTILLA TANACETIFOLIA GROWING IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE CITY OF CHITA AND THE CHITA REGION

The use of biogeochemical research methods is necessary when studying the technogenic migration of toxic elements in urban ecosystems. Using the values of the ecological and geochemical indices, we assessed the degree of accumulation and movement of zinc, lead, cadmium, and copper from the soil to the organs of plants of the species Potentilla tanacetifolia. The content of elements was determined by the method of inverse voltammetry on a «TA-Universal» analyzer. According to the results of the studies and the values of environmental and geochemical coefficients, it was found that, according to the level of soil pollution, the studied areas of the city of Chita and the Chita region were classified as territories with a low level of pollution. According to the values of ecological and geochemical indices for plants of the P. tanacetifolia species, intense absorption of cadmium by the root system and active movement of zinc and copper from the root layer of soils were noted. The translocation coefficient (TF) values indicated the intake of copper, lead, and cadmium into the aboveground organs in almost all the studied sites. According to the value of the discrimination coefficient, it was found that this species intensively accumulates cadmium. The results presented by us indicate that plants of the P. tanacetifolia species can be attributed to accumulator species with a rather high degree of accumulation of heavy metals at a low concentration in the medium.

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PENGARUH MOTIVASI, KREATIFITAS, DAN MENTALITAS TERHADAP PENDIDIKAN AKUNTANSI PADA PERGURUAN TINGGI SWASTA DI KOTA PADANG

Jurnal Kajian Akuntansi dan Auditing ◽

10.37301/jkaa.v0i0.5377 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Lisa Fitriani Rahman

Keyword(s):

Hypothesis Testing ◽

Private Universities ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Accounting Education ◽

Accounting Students ◽

Primary Data ◽

Accounting Curriculum ◽

Accounting Courses ◽

Almost All ◽

The City

Accounting education is taught in some private universities has impressed as stagnant knowledge, mechanical, and oriented material that causes a lot of students in general become saturated in the learning process. In Indonesia at several universities, almost all accounting courses little or no charge to enter the motivation, creativity, and mentality in the accounting curriculum-based motivation, creativity, and mentality can only he done well when formulated in a more complete firm of the curriculum. Therefore, this study examines the effect of motivation, creativity and mentality in accounting education to obtain empirical evidence. In this study using primary data obtained through questionnaires from a list of questions posed to accounting students in private universities in the city of Padang. The sample in this study was conducted with a purposive sampling technique where the sampling method was based on certain criteria, namely : involving student participants who majored in accounting class of 2010, 2011, and 2012 who had studied the sciences and overall accounting associated with accounting. Testing the hypothesis of this research is conducted with multiple regression analysis. The first hypothesis testing results found that motivation does not significantly influence accounting education in private universities Padang. The second hypothesis testing results found that creativity significantly influence accounting education in private universities Padang. The third hypothesis testing results found that significantly influence the mentality of accounting education in private universities Padang.

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ACCUMULATION OF COPPER, LEAD AND CADMIUM IN SOME TISSUES OF THE CRAYFISH PROCAMBARUS CLARKII(CAMBARIDAE, CRUSTACEA)

Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries ◽

10.21608/ejabf.2001.1677 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 47-56

Author(s):

Khadiga Shafshar ◽

Fadia Heiba ◽

Naglaa Gcasa

Keyword(s):

Procambarus Clarkii ◽

Lead And Cadmium ◽

Copper Lead

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Sicily

The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190499341.013.35 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 536-552

Author(s):

Salvatore de Vincenzo

Keyword(s):

Fourth Century ◽

Eighth Century ◽

Advanced Degree ◽

Characteristic Type ◽

Almost All ◽

The City

Thucydides reports that the Phoenicians were present throughout Sicily and traded with the Sicels. A tangible Phoenician presence in Sicily, as expressed by pottery, is attested only at the end of the eighth century bce. The earliest hypothetical Phoenician settlements of Solunt and Panormus are still almost unknown. This earliest phase is associated in particular with the city of Motya, where pottery and a few other finds testify to it. The Punic phase of the island is much clearer, with almost all indications coming from Motya and Selinus, which were not built over in Roman times. The Pfeilertempel, as emerged from Motya, could be regarded as the prototype for the Phoenician temple in Sicily. In turn, it is possible to recognize a characteristic type of temple of Punic Sicily, as particularly shown at Selinus, These shrines, as well as other elements of the Punic settlements like the houses, the fortifications, or the necropoleis, in particular from the fourth century bce onwards, are evidence of an advanced degree of Hellenization, framed within a Mediterranean koine.

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Stoichiometry and compositional plasticity of the yeast nuclear pore complex revealed by quantitative fluorescence microscopy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.1719398115 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 115 (17) ◽

pp. E3969-E3977 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Sasikumar Rajoo ◽

Pascal Vallotton ◽

Evgeny Onischenko ◽

Karsten Weis

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Pore Complex ◽

Yeast Cells ◽

Nuclear Pore ◽

Altered Expression ◽

Copy Numbers ◽

Quantitative Image ◽

Multiple Copies ◽

Almost All ◽

High Degree

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is an eightfold symmetrical channel providing selective transport of biomolecules across the nuclear envelope. Each NPC consists of ∼30 different nuclear pore proteins (Nups) all present in multiple copies per NPC. Significant progress has recently been made in the characterization of the vertebrate NPC structure. However, because of the estimated size differences between the vertebrate and yeast NPC, it has been unclear whether the NPC architecture is conserved between species. Here, we have developed a quantitative image analysis pipeline, termed nuclear rim intensity measurement (NuRIM), to precisely determine copy numbers for almost all Nups within native NPCs of budding yeast cells. Our analysis demonstrates that the majority of yeast Nups are present at most in 16 copies per NPC. This reveals a dramatic difference to the stoichiometry determined for the human NPC, suggesting that despite a high degree of individual Nup conservation, the yeast and human NPC architecture is significantly different. Furthermore, using NuRIM, we examined the effects of mutations on NPC stoichiometry. We demonstrate for two paralog pairs of key scaffold Nups, Nup170/Nup157 and Nup192/Nup188, that their altered expression leads to significant changes in the NPC stoichiometry inducing either voids in the NPC structure or substitution of one paralog by the other. Thus, our results not only provide accurate stoichiometry information for the intact yeast NPC but also reveal an intriguing compositional plasticity of the NPC architecture, which may explain how differences in NPC composition could arise in the course of evolution.

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Study of Painting Materials and Techniques in the 18th Century St.Athanasius Church in Moschopolis, Albania

MRS Proceedings ◽

10.1557/proc-1047-y03-05 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 1047 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eleni Pavlidou ◽

N. Civici ◽

E. Caushi ◽

L. Anastasiou ◽

T. Zorba ◽

...

Keyword(s):

18Th Century ◽

Orthodox Church ◽

Wall Paintings ◽

Cultural Center ◽

Green Earth ◽

Almost All ◽

The City ◽

The Church ◽

Compositional Characterization

AbstractIn this paper are presented the studies of the paint materials and the technique used in 18th century wall paintings, originated from the orthodox church of St Athanasius, in the city of Maschopolis, a flourishing economical and cultural center, in Albania. The church was painted in 1745 by Konstantinos and Athanasios Zografi, and during the last years, restoration activities are being performed at the church. Samples that included plasters and pigments of different colors were collected from important points of the wall paintings. Additionally, as some parts of the wall-paintings were over-painted, the analysis was extended to the compositional characterization of these areas. The identification of the used materials was done by using complementary analytical methods such as Optical Microscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM-EDS) and X-ray fluorescence (TXRF).The presence of calcite in almost all the pigments is indicative for the use of the fresco technique at the studied areas, while the detection of gypsum and calcium oxalate, indicates an environmental degradation along with a biodegradation. Common pigments used in this area at 15-16th centuries, such as cinnabar, green earth, manganese oxide, carbon black and calcite were identified.

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