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Furthermore, prawns fed a diet containing antibiotics displayed a decrease in the number of intestinal goblet cells and lower digestive enzyme activity, as well as impaired intestine antioxidant ability and immune responses. Additionally, redundancy analysis revealed that different dominant bacterial phyla were responsible for increased ARG abundance in the prawn intestinal tract between control and antibiotic diet groups. The health risks posed by antibiotic residues in prawn muscle were also evaluated. Our findings demonstrate the risk posed by long-term use of dietary antibiotics in prawns, and suggest that antibiotics should be administered more carefully during aquaculture. Aircraft engine emissions during landing and take-off cycle are commonly estimated on the basis of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) promulgated calculation model and emission parameters; however, the ICAO certified parameters are generally not applicable for an individual airport. In this study, the operation times, fuel and emission parameters of 8 aircraft models during taxi phase at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) are analyzed with the Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) data, and compared with corresponding values referenced by the ICAO. The results show perceptible discrepancies between the SHA-specific and ICAO certified values. The taxi-out times at SHA are considerably overestimated (up to 35.3%) by ICAO for all the analyzed aircraft models, whereas the taxi-in durations are highly close to the ICAO referenced value with a variation within -6.3% to 9.7%. In the majority of cases, the localized fuel flows and emission indices (EIs) are overvalued by ICAO, and the extent of overestimation can be as large as 21.6% and 28.3%, respectively. Variabilities in operation times, fuel and emission parameters are also characterized depending on aircraft types. Additionally, as a novel attempt, the effect of engine aging on EIs is explored and no significant correlation has been detected, indicating that other factors may affect the EIs dominantly over engine age. The resulting SHA-specific emission parameters are significant towards a precise emission quantification and modeling of impacts on air quality and health. Trivalent chromium has historically been considered as an environmentally benign micronutrient due to its low mobility; however, its kinetic process in soil remains poorly understood. Here, the labile fraction and kinetics of Cr(III) in contaminated soils were explored using diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) and the DGT-induced fluxes model. In contrast to the low mobility of Cr(III) in soils reported by the classic equilibrium partitioning method, we observed steady resupply from the solid phase through a dynamic process, wherein Cr(III) in the soils were maintained by an intermediate resupply rate with the R values at their maximum (Rmax). The resupply of Cr(III) was influenced by the kinetic parameters and soil properties (i) the resupply ability (R-Rdiff) was influenced by pH and response time (Tc); (ii) Rmax, was controlled by pH, Tc, and the desorption rate (k-1); (iii) k-1 was influenced by pH and soil texture. This study presents the new information regarding the kinetics of Cr(III) in soils and demonstrates that Cr(III) is steadily resupplied by soil, which is not captured by equilibrium-based methods, furthering our insight of the geochemical behavior of Cr(III). This information was essential for understanding the toxicity of Cr and improving remediation. The Neogene-Paleogene glauconite sands of Belgium cover the Boom Clay deposits that are candidate host for radioactive waste disposal. It is unclear if the highly permeable sand formations may act as an additional barrier for radiocesium (137Cs) or could be added as a complementary sorption sink in a surface disposal concept. Glauconite is an Fe-rich phyllosilicate that is mainly present as 250-125 μm sized pellets in sand, it is unknown to what extent and how fast these pellets may bind 137Cs. Pelletized clays embedded in sand may have poorly accessible high affinity sites for 137Cs. The 137Cs sorption on 11 different glauconite sands was measured in batch in a background solution of 0.1 M CaCl2 and 0.5 mM KCl. The log transformed 137Cs distribution coefficient Kd (L kg-1) after 30 days reaction ranged 3.4-4.3, surprisingly close to the Kd of the Boom Clay (3.5). Isolated glauconite fractions exhibited similar 137Cs sorption potentials (log Kd 4.1-4.3) as the reference Illite du Puy (4.4). The small Kd variation among the Neogene-Paleogene sands was explained by its glauconite content (r = 0.82). The 137Cs sorption kinetics (1-57 days) of milled pellets ( less then 2 μm) confirmed slower reaction with intact pellets than with milled samples. Additionally, the Kd values of milled samples (57 days) sorption are 1.1-1.5 fold larger than the corresponding intact pellets, suggesting that not all Cs binding sites are accessible in intact pellets. Strongly weathered pellets exhibited cracks (visible with SEM). In these pellets the Kd was similar for milled and intact pellets suggesting that cracks increase the accessibility of the inner sorption sites. After 8.5 months the Kd values were 1.6-1.8-fold above corresponding 1 month data and these long-term reactions were more pronounced as total sand K content was larger. An adsorption-desorption experiment illustrated that 137Cs sorption is not fully reversible. NSC 683864 Reducing terrestrial carbon emissions to the atmosphere requires accurate measuring, reporting and verification of land surface activities that emit or sequester carbon. Many carbon accounting practices in use today provide only regionally aggregated estimates and neglect the spatial variation of pre-disturbance forest conditions and post-disturbance land cover dynamics. Here, we present a spatially explicit carbon bookkeeping model that utilizes a high-resolution map of aboveground biomass and land cover dynamics derived from time series analysis of Landsat data. The model produces estimates of carbon emissions/uptake with model uncertainty at Landsat resolution. In a case study of the Colombian Amazon, an area of 47 million ha, the model estimated total emissions of 3.97 ± 0.71 Tg C yr-1 and uptake by regenerating forests of 1.11 ± 0.23 Tg C yr-1 2001-2015, with an additional 45.1 ± 7.99 Tg of carbon remaining in the form of woody products, decomposing slash and charcoal at the end of 2015 (estimates provided with ±95% confidence intervals).
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