The Rehabilitation Program Improves Balance Control in Children with Excessive Body Weight and Flat Feet by Activating the Intrinsic Muscles of the Foot: A Preliminary Study.

Background: determining the appropriate rehabilitation protocol is essential to influence the correction of flat feet, e.g., by activating the intrinsic muscles of the foot.

Organic polar pollutants in surface waters of inland seas.

Available data about contamination by polar substances are mostly reported for rivers and near-shore waters and only limited studies exists about their occurrence in marine waters. We present concentrations and distribution of several polar pesticides and UV-filters in surface waters of three inland seas, the Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Sea. Many of the investigated compounds were below detection limits, however, those found in off-shore waters raise a concern about their persistence and possible adverse effect on the ecosystem.

Levels and sources of planar and non-planar PCBs in pine needles across Poland.

Under a small project, one-year-old Scots Pine needles collected from 25 spatially distant sites were examined in monitoring the extent of environmental diffusion and possible sources of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in ambient air, their depositions and uptake by plants in Poland. The congener-specific determination of planar and non-planar chlorobiphenyls was achieved by isotope dilution HRGC-HRMS method after a highly refined extraction on multi-layer column of silica gel and alumina layer and clean-up, and fractionations, followed by Hypercarb-HPLC and PYE-HPLC sub-fractionation steps. Contents of 117 chlorobiphenyls determined in pine needles varied for the 25 sites studied and is between 2.

By-side PCDD/Fs in technical PCB formulations of Kanechlor series.

The Japanese Kanechlor technical PCB formulations such as KC-300, KC-400, KC-500, KC-600 and KC-1000 have been examined for possible contamination with by-side PCDD/Fs. 75 PCDDs and 135 PCDF have been determined using isotope dilution, separation and enrichment on silica gel impregnated with activated carbon, and final HRGC/HRMS measurement. MonoCDDs to OCDD were absent in KC-300, KC-600 and KC-1000.