Published in Journal of animal science
Adequate drinking water is essential to maintain acceptable production levels in beef cattle operations. In the context of global climate change, the water scarcity forecasted for the future is a growing concern and it would determine an increase in the use of poorer quality water by the agricultural sector in many parts of the world. However, cons...
Published in ACS Earth & Space Chemistry
Sulfur and molybdenum trace impurities in speleothems (stalagmites and stalactites) can provide long and continuous records of volcanic activity, which are important for past climatic and environmental reconstructions. However, the chemistry governing the incorporation of the trace element-bearing species into the calcium carbonate phases forming s...
Published in FEMS yeast research
Sulfur is an essential component of various biologically important molecules, including methionine, cysteine and glutathione, and it is also involved in coping with oxidative and heavy metal stress. Studies using model organisms, including budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), have contributed not o...
The evolution of volcanic sulfur, stratospheric composition and radiative forcing following explosive volcanic eruptions injecting sulfur directly into the stratosphere is well understood. However, how the co-emission of volcanic halogens, climate change, and concurrent sulfate aerosol geo-engineering would alter the atmospheric effects of sulfur-o...
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
The “larger” analog of protonated sulfuric acid, [H3SO4]+, the silylated oxosulfonium ion, [(Me3Si)3SO4]+, was obtained in the reaction of silylated sulfuric acid with a [Me3Si]+ transfer reagent such as [Me3Si−H−SiMe3]+[wca]−, when a weakly coordinating anion ([wca]−) is used as counterion.
Published in Frontiers in Medicine
We aimed to determine the characteristics that distinguish glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) from osteoarthritis (OA) and normal cartilage and from men and women. Cartilage samples from 30 patients subjected to total joint arthroplasty secondary to OA or fracture (control) were evaluated, and the GAG content (μg/mg dry cartilage) after proteolysis was dete...
Sewage sludge ash (SSA) is the combustion residue of the sewage sludge obtained from wastewater treatment plants. In China, SSA normally contains high content of SO3, which may cause detrimental effect on the volume stability of cement-based materials. This study investigated the effect of sulfate-rich SSA (SR-SSA) on the volume deformation and the...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
The vast majority of carbonate minerals in modern marine sediments are biogenic, derived from the skeletal remains of organisms living in the ocean. However, carbonate minerals can also precipitate abiotically within marine sediments, and this carbonate mineral precipitation within sediments has been suggested as a third major, and isotopically dis...
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the nutritional quality, yield, and storage protein modulation in soybean grains in response to levels and sources of sulfur (S) in a dystrophic Ultisol. We used five levels of S (0, 50, 100, 150 and 200 mg kg –1 ) and four sources of S (elemental S pastille - ESPA, gypsum - GY, gypsite - GI and elemental S powder - ES...
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) of Cu:Al in the molar ratio of 2:1, intercalated with sulfate, sulfate/(Li+, Na+, K+ or NH4+), NO3- and CO32-, were synthesized by co-precipitation with increasing pH. The materials were submitted to exchange reactions using B2SO4 (B = Li+, Na+, K+, NH4+) solutions in an attempt to replace previously intercalated ca...
