BIODEGRADABLE MICROPLASTICS: UPTAKE BY AND EFFECTS ON THE ROCKPOOL SHRIMP PALAEMON ELEGANS (CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA)

Biodegradable microplastics: Uptake by and effects on the rockpool shrimp Palaemon elegans (Crustacea: Decapoda)

Ingestion of microplastics can lead to deleterious consequences for organisms, as documented by numerous laboratory studies.The current knowledge is based on a AEG DCE5960HM 90 cm Ceiling Cooker Hood - Stainless Steel multitude of effect studies, conducted with conventional fossil-based and non-degradable plastics.However, there is a lack of inform

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A non-operative management of chronic anal fissure.

OBJECTIVES Assessment of efficacy of topical 0.2% glyceryl trinitrate ointment in the treatment of chronic anal fissure.PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective study was carried out at surgical outpatient department Town Teaching Hospital from January 2017 to July 2017.Fifty consecutive patients were treated with 0.2% glyceryl trinitrate ointment and re

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Old Catalan Morphosyntax: Developing an Annotated Corpus

This paper presents a full procedure for the development of a Part-of-Speech (POS) tagged corpus of Old Catalan.As 830 an extremely low-resource language with rich inflection and frequent homographs, Old Catalan poses non-trivial problems in the development of a searchable constituency-based treebank.We demonstrate, however, that a semi- supervised

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