Contamination History of Lead and Other Trace Metals Reconstructed from an Urban Winter Pond in the Eastern Mediterranean Coast (Israel)

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (23) ◽  
pp. 13592-13600 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Zohar ◽  
R. Bookman ◽  
N. Levin ◽  
H. de Stigter ◽  
N. Teutsch
Keyword(s):  
Trace Metals ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contamination History

scholarly journals Aquifer Response to Estuarine Stream Dynamics

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yehuda Shalem ◽  
Yoseph Yechieli ◽  
Barak Herut ◽  
Yishai Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Low Permeability ◽  
High Permeability ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Groundwater Levels ◽  
Groundwater Dynamics ◽  
Large Fluctuations ◽  
History Of

While seawater intrusions are widely discussed, the salinization of coastal aquifers via narrow rivers is hardly documented. This study investigates groundwater dynamics in an aquifer next to an estuarine stream on the eastern Mediterranean coast. Groundwater levels and salinization patterns were examined as a response to dynamic changes in estuary water, both in low-and high-permeability aquifer units. In the high-permeability unit, the extent of salinization was relatively constant, reaching a distance of at least 80 m from the river, with no long-term changes in fresh-saline interface depth, indicating that the system is in a quasi-steady state. Groundwater salinity in the low-permeability unit showed frequent and large fluctuations (up to 36 and 22 at 5 and 20 m from the river, respectively). We suggest that the river may have a more immediate impact on a low-permeability than on a high-permeability aquifer. This is dependent on the history of seawater encroachments to the river, which are better preserved in the low-permeability unit, and on the hydrogeology of this unit, where sand lenses can serve as high-permeability conduits. However, this unit can efficiently prevent a large extent of salinization of the regional coastal aquifer by the estuary water.

The loading history of trace metals and nutrients in Altata-Ensenada del Pabellón, lagoon complex, northwestern Mexico

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 129-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.C. Ruiz-Fernández ◽  
F. Páez-Osuna ◽  
M. Soto-Jiménez ◽  
C. Hillaire-Marcel ◽  
B. Ghaleb
Keyword(s):  
Trace Metals ◽  
Loading History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northwestern Mexico

Fairuz

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth S. Habib
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Good Friday ◽  
First Child ◽  
Latin Script ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

The Lebanese singer Fairuz is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed performers in the history of Arab musical arts. Born Nuhad Haddad in 1935, Fairuz attained extraordinary success, in great part, through her cultivation of an exceptional command of the voice, her development of a deep individual artistry, and her solid rooting in the performance practices of Lebanese and Arab art and popular song. From early in her career, this achievement was in collaboration with the Rahbani family of composer-poets. Assi Rahbani (b. 1923–d. 1986) and Mansour Rahbani (b. 1925–d. 2009) were siblings who worked together as the duo known as the Rahbani Brothers. Fairuz and the Rahbani Brothers met at the Lebanese Radio Station, where she took her professional name, and they began a collaboration there that gave rise to their first international hit in 1952. Occasionally, younger brother Elias Rahbani (b. 1938–d. 2021) joined in the composing as well. Following the marriage of Fairuz and Assi in 1954, Fairuz gave birth to their first child, Ziad Rahbani (b. 1956), who was raised in the presence of some of the most accomplished artists from across Arab society and who similarly showed a remarkable aptitude for musical arts early in life. Following the death of Assi in 1986, Ziad became the primary composer for Fairuz, after which her lyrical and musical style to some extent began increasingly to reflect more of the sensibilities of a younger generation. Since their beginnings, the Fairuz-Rahbani team has changed with the times and given rise to a prodigious artistic output that has included the production of operettas, musical theater sketches, musical films, and over a hundred record albums. Thematically, the wide-ranging repertoire has sometimes addressed universalistic spiritual matters with references to God, eternity, prayer, and other mystical subjects. The artists also have presented material of more expressly religious character that mentions churches, mosques, and houses of worship; that covers esteemed geographical locales, such as Jerusalem and Mecca; and that presents traditional repertoire like Good Friday chanting and Christmas carols. While Fairuz and the Rahbani composers are Christians, their repertoire has appealed across society irrespective of religious and sectarian affiliation. In the process, Fairuz has become a multifaceted icon to listeners from diverse backgrounds in Lebanon, throughout the eastern Mediterranean, across Arab society, and in the diaspora. As for transliteration of the names from Arabic into Latin script, “Rahbani” is fairly consistent, but “Rahbany” also occurs. The plural (i.e., three or more) is “Rahabina” and also is found in the forms “Rahbaniyun” and “Rahbaniyin” while in English it appears as “Rahbanis” as well. While the duo of the Rahbani Brothers has been consistently translated into English in this way, the Arabic form is either “al-Akhawan Rahbani” or “al-Akhawayn Rahbani” (i.e., the two Rahbani Brothers). “Fairuz,” which means “turquoise” in Arabic, has numerous variants in transliteration stemming, in part, from the various possibilities for each syllable of the name (e.g., Fairouz, Fayruz, etc.), but some degree of standardization has come, in part, from the use of this spelling by Voix de l’Orient, the record label that has produced the bulk of her recordings.

scholarly journals Elevated Serum Thyroglobulin and Low Iodine Intake Are Associated with Nontoxic Nodular Goiter among Adults Living near the Eastern Mediterranean Coast

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaniv S. Ovadia ◽  
Dov Gefel ◽  
Svetlana Turkot ◽  
Dorit Aharoni ◽  
Shlomo Fytlovich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Elevated Serum ◽  
Nodular Goiter ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Iodine Intake ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Thyroid Diseases ◽  
Serum Thyroglobulin ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background.Information about iodine intake is crucial for preventing thyroid diseases. Inadequate iodine intake can lead to thyroid diseases, including nontoxic nodular goiter (NNG).Objective.To estimate iodine intake and explore its correlation with thyroid diseases among Israeli adults living near the Mediterranean coast, where iodine-depleted desalinated water has become a major source of drinking water.Methods.Cross-sectional study of patients attending Barzilai Medical Center Ashkelon. Participants, who were classified as either NNG (n=17), hypothyroidism (n=14), or control (n=31), provided serum thyroglobulin (Tg) and completed a semiquantitative iodine food frequency questionnaire.Results.Elevated serum Tg values (Tg > 60 ng/mL) were significantly more prevalent in the NNG group than in the other groups (29% versus 7% and 0% for hypothyroidism and controls, resp.,P<0.05). Mean estimated iodine intake was significantly lower in the NNG group (65±30 μg/d) than in controls (115±60 μg/d) (P<0.05) with intermediate intake in the hypothyroid group (73±38 μg/d).Conclusions.Elevated serum Tg values and low dietary iodine intake are associated with NNG among adult patients in Ashkelon District, Israel. Larger studies are needed in order to expand on these important initial findings.

scholarly journals Forecasting circulation in the Cilician Basin of the Levantine Sea

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 1481-1514 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Özsoy ◽  
A. Sözer
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Model Performance ◽  
Surface Flux ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Open Boundary ◽  
Surface Boundary ◽  
Open Boundary Conditions ◽  
Levantine Sea

Abstract. The Cilician Basin/Shelf Model is adapted for studying the shelf circulation in the Cilician Basin – Gulf of İskenderun region of the Levantine Basin of the Eastern Mediterranean between the Turkish Mediterranean coast, Syria and the island of Cyprus. The model initial conditions and open boundary conditions are supplied by the ALERMO regional model of the Levantine Sea, while interactive surface flux boundary conditions are specified by an atmospheric boundary layer sub-model using calculated water properties and surface atmospheric variables supplied by the Skiron atmospheric model, within the nested modelling approach of the MFSTEP (Mediterranean Forecasting System: Towards Environmental Predictions) project. Sensitivity tests are performed for alternative surface boundary conditions. Model performance for shelf/meso-scale forecasts is demonstrated.

Saladin’s Egypt and Maimonides

1991 ◽  
pp. 303-308
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Social Activist ◽  
History Of ◽  
Egyptian Soil ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
Egyptian History

This chapter discusses the transition in power from the Shīʻī Fāṭimids to the Sunnī Ayyūbids, and the coincidence of Maimonides’ rise to prominence at this juncture. When Maimonides settled in Alexandria in 1165, he could hardly have expected to witness so many dramatic events that would in subsequent decades decisively affect the course of Egyptian history. Interestingly enough, the rise of the great Jewish philosopher, physician, and social activist to public prominence in Egypt coincided chronologically and geographically with that of his famous Muslim contemporary, Saladin, whose career in Egypt opened a new chapter in the history of the Eastern Mediterranean. Of these two celebrities, Saladin was the first to set foot on Egyptian soil. The chapter then assesses the effect of the abrupt termination of the Fāṭimid caliphate — under whose relatively tolerant and commercially oriented regime the non-Muslim minorities had experienced a period of prosperity — on the Jewish community of Fusṭāṭ.

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