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Sustainability assessment: the state of the art

Bond, Alan; Pope, Jenny; Morrison-Saunders, Angus Neil (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

Sustainability assessment is a recent framing of impact assessment that places emphasis on delivering positive net sustainability gains now and into the future. It can be directed to any type of decision-making, can take ...
Toward a mtDNA locus-specific mutation database using the LOVD platform

Elson, Joanna; Kong, Qing-peng; Lott, Marie T.; Sweeney, Mary; Van der Westhuizen, Francois Hendrikus (Wiley, 2012)

The Human Variome Project (HVP) is a global effort to collect and curate all human genetic variation affecting health. Mutations of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are an important cause of neurogenetic disease in humans; however, ...
The dynamics of toxic microcystis strains and microcystin production in two hypertrofic South African reservoirs

Barnard, Sandra; Conradie, Karin Ronel (Elsevier, 2012)

The South African impoundments of Hartbeespoort and Roodeplaat experience excessive blooms of Microcystis species each year. Microcystins, produced primarily by strains of cyanobacteria belonging to the genera Microcystis, ...
Granulites, CO2 and graphite

Huizenga, Jan Marten; Touret, Jacques (Elsevier, 2012)

Externally derived, pure CO2 that mixes with a carbon-(under)saturated C-O-H-fluid in lower crustal granulites may result in graphite precipitation if the host-rock oxygen fugacity (fO2rock) is below the upper fO2 limit ...
Fluid-assisted granulite metamorphism: a continental journey

Huizenga, Jan Marten; Touret, Jacques L.R. (Elsevier, 2012)

Lower crustal granulites, which constitute the base of all continents, belong to two series: high-pressure granulites generated by crustal thickening (subduction) and (ultra)high-temperature granulites associated with ...
Impaired DNA repair and genomic stability in hereditary tyrosinemia type 1

Pretorius, Petrus Jacobus; Van Dyk, Etresia (Elsevier, 2012)

The autosomal recessive disorder, hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT1), is caused by a defective fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase enzyme. Consequently intermediate metabolites such as fumarylacetoacetate, succinylacetone and ...