The EF values ranged from 1.2 to 1.9, indicating no anthropogenic contamination in this region. Despite some samples presenting high values of the elemental contents, the vertical distribution pattern for the other trace elements in Admiralty Bay (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni and Pb) was considered similar for all sediment profiles since EF values were in the range of 0.3–2. Therefore, results suggest only a slight association of human activities with the increase

of the elemental concentrations. The authors would like to thank the Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Antártico de Pesquisas Ambientais (INCT APA, Process 574018/2008-5) and the Programa Antártico Brasileiro (PROANTAR) for the financial support through the bursary provided by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and the logistical support from the Secretaria da Comissão Anti-diabetic Compound Library molecular weight Interministerial para Recursos do Mar (SECIRM), respectively. “
“IN ACCORDANCE WITH the figures presented HSP inhibitor in the recently published FDA report “Fatalities Reported to FDA Following Blood Collection and Transfusion: Annual Summary for Fiscal

Year 2009” (http://www.fda.gov/download/BiologicsBlood-Vaccines/SafetyAvailability/ReportaProblem/TransfusionDonationFatalities/UCM205620.pdf), Figure 13 (on page 113) from the review by EC Vamvakas and MA Blajchman (Transfus Med Rev 2010;24:77-124) has been corrected and updated else as shown below. “
“I was in a room of scientists and I posed the question, “Has the Clean Water Act been effective”? Granted, it was an open-ended question about legislation over 40 years ago whose aim was to ensure that surface waters of the United States are “swimmable and fishable”. In retrospect, I should not have been surprised by the answers I heard. The older scientists unanimously agreed, “of course”! Younger scientists were generally more skeptical and the bravest were insistent about the Clean Water Act’s ineffectiveness. So, who was right? Older scientists were quickly able to outline

the atrocious environmental insults circa 1970. Permanently emblazoned in their memory were visions of the Cuyahoga River, Platform A, or precipitous declines in marine bird and mammal populations. The Cuyahoga River, near Cleveland, Ohio was so polluted that surface oil slicks would catch on fire. Actually, these slicks burned several times during the early and mid-20th century. However, the fire in June 1969 caught the attention of Time Magazine and, once published, helped galvanize the environmental movement towards state, inter-state, and federal regulations such as the Clean Water Act. The Cuyahoga is now an American Heritage River described by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency as “fishable”. Platform A was an oil drilling rig in the Pacific Ocean along the southern California coastline near the City of Santa Barbara.