Small, 1st and 2nd-order, headwater streams and ponds play essential roles in providing
natural flood control, trapping sediments and contaminants, retaining nutrients, and …

The European Union has embarked on a policy which aims to achieve good ecological status
in all surface waters (ie rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters). In theory, ecological …

A index for monitoring the trophic status of rivers based on diatom composition (‚trophic diatom
index’, TDI) has been developed, in response to the National Rivers Authority (England & …

Many methods for using diatoms for routine monitoring of water quality have been
developed in Europe and, in some countries, these are being used to enforce environmental …

Evidence suggests that an inflammatory profile of cytokines and chemokines persisting at a
particular site would lead to the development of a chronic disease. Recent studies implicate …

The performance of the trophic diatom index (TDI), a new index of trophic status in rivers, was
evaluated at sites above and below major sewage works where nutrient removal is being …

Freshwaters face multiple environmental problems including eutrophication, acidification,
salinization, and climate-change, all of which can lead to impairment of ecosystem structure …

Cancer progression is an abnormal form of tissue repair characterized by chronic inflammation.
IκB kinase-β (IKKβ) required for nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activation plays a critical role …

An assumption fundamental to almost all work on supervised classification is that the
probabilities of class membership, conditional on the feature vectors, are stationary. However, in …

BACKGROUND: Neuroendocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal tract (carcinoids, pancreatic
endocrine tumors) have low malignant potential but can decrease survival rates if they …