Books about Long abandoned from Amazon.com

Healing for the Abandonded Wife is a book that shares the undeniable truth and power of God's love for the woman experiencing abandonment. Hidden in the passages of Isaiah 54, Susie discovered the steps for receiving God's healing in her own life and in the lives of her children..
Price: $12.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3113 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Tactical Shift: Washington bureau chiefs have redeployed their forces to long-abandoned and newly created beats in the wake of the terrorist attacks.
Author: Stephen Seplow
Publication:American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: 23 Issue: 10 Page: 38(6)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
Price: $5.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This digital document is a journal article from Science of the Total Environment, The, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
Heavy metals accumulation in parallel with the evaluation of physiological and biochemical effects resulting from continued metal exposure were considered here using for the first time the great white-toothed shrew Crocidura russula as an in vivo model. Shrews were originated from an abandoned lead/zinc mining area and from a reference area, both in Alentejo, southern Portugal. Hepatic contents of nickel, copper, zinc, cadmium, mercury and lead were quantified by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS). Haematological parameters (white blood cells, red blood cells, haemoglobin and haematocrit) were obtained in a Coulter Counter Analyser and biochemical markers of the redox balance (glutathione S-transferase, glutathione peroxidase, and glutathione reductase) activities were measured spectrophotometrically using a Duo-50 spectrophotometer. Compared with control animals, significantly higher concentration of hepatic cadmium (9.29 vs. 1.18 @mg/g dry weight) and nickel (1.56 vs. 0.343 @mg/g dry weight) were detected in the shrews collected in the mining area. However, no significant changes were observed on haematological or enzymatic parameters in animals exposed to metal pollution. The obtained results show that shrews are good bioaccumulators of toxic heavy metals, but very tolerant to their effects, revealing an interesting long-term adaptation to polluted environments. In addition, this study provides reference values for haematological parameters and antioxidant enzymes levels in C. russula, which may be relevant for comparative purposes in further studies. .
Price: $10.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Pollution, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
A Pb-Zn tailings pond, abandoned for approximately 90 years, has been naturally colonized by Glyceria fluitans and is an excellent example of long-term metal retention in tailings ponds under various water cover and vegetation conditions. Shallow/intermittently flooded areas (dry zone) were unvegetated and low in organic matter (OM) content. Permanently flooded areas were either unvegetated with low OM, contained dead vegetation and high OM, or living plants and high OM. It was expected that either water cover or high OM would result in enhanced reducing conditions and lower metal mobility, but live plants would increase metal mobility due to root radial oxygen loss. The flooded low OM tailings showed higher As and Fe mobility compared with dry low OM tailings. In the permanently flooded areas without live vegetation, the high OM content decreased Zn mobility and caused extremely high concentrations of acid-volatile sulfides (AVS). In areas with high OM, living plants significantly increased Zn mobility and decreased concentrations of AVS, indicating root induced sediment oxidation or decreased sulfate-reduction. This is the first study reporting the ability of wetland plants to affect the metal mobility and AVS in long-term (decades), unmanaged tailings ponds. .
Price: $8.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
Quercus ilex is a slow-growing, sclerophyllous evergreen oak that is a major structural component of the natural forests and woodlands in western European and northern African Mediterranean regions, and thus a valuable species for revegetation of abandoned cropland. In a field experiment consisting in four combinations of summer irrigation (presence-absence) and artificial shading (presence-absence), we managed 12 plots planted with 50 seedlings each for 3 years, and four plots remained as unmanaged, control plots. Then these treatments were interrupted for 6 years. We measured survival, above-ground growth, and reproductive capability to test the hypothesis that the manipulation of the environment during Q. ilex establishment improves its performance and to suggest adequate forestation practices. Sapling mortality did not differ among treatment plots during the post-treatment period. Previous artificial shading decreased sapling annual growth rate in height, crown projected area, and volume, but not in stem diameter, after it was interrupted. Some evidence points to both abiotic and competition effects as responsible for the growth pattern. Plot cover by the saplings was only marginally affected by the treatments after the treatment plus post-treatment period. Previous summer irrigation and artificial shading increased the percentage of reproductive saplings among treatment plots, and this effect was independent of sapling size. There was a trade-off between growth and reproductive capability. Management of plantations during the first year only would likely provide a better investment/benefit ratio. Artificial shading provided more benefits than summer irrigation during the treatment period but, in the long run, these benefits were approximately equal. We do not advise applying both treatments simultaneously and the technique to be chosen would depend on the relative costs of irrigation and artificial shading. Long experiments under field conditions like the one presented here are scarce in the scientific literature but very valuable to optimize active restoration of Mediterranean abandoned cropland and other ecosystems of the world. .
Price: $8.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]