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| '''Bioconcentration''' is the accumulation of a chemical in or on an organism when the source of chemical is solely water.<ref name="Tox. II Book">{{cite book|title=Introduction to Environmental Toxicology: Molecular Structures to Ecological Landscapes|year=2011|publisher=CRC Press|location=Boca Raton, FL|isbn=978-1-4398-0410-0|pages=117–162|author=Landis WG, Sofield RM, Yu MH|edition=Fourth}}</ref> Bioconcentration is a term that was created for use in the field of [[aquatic toxicology]].<ref name="Tox. II Book" /> Bioconcentration can also be defined as the process by which a chemical concentration in an aquatic organism exceeds that in water as a result of exposure to a waterborne chemical.<ref name="Gobas and Morrison Book">{{cite book|title=Handbook of Property Estimation Methods for Chemicals: Environmental and Health Sciences|year=2000|publisher=Lewis|location=Boca Raton, FL, USA|author=Gobas FAPC|authorlink=Bioconcentration and bioaccumulation in the aquatic environment|coauthors=Morrison HA|editor=Boethling RS, Mackay D, eds|pages=189–231|chapter=Biococentration and biomagnification in the aquatic environment}}</ref>
| | Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated last queen of France, once declared that she wanted to be the most fashionable woman in the world.<br><br>The world is a much wider place in 2014 than it was in 1789, when cherie Marie was carted off to the Conciergerie and uncertain doom. But, with the latest round of spring/summer 2015 shows, Paris is asserting its reign across the world of la mode.<br><br>Nobody - and nowhere, it seems - does it better.<br>Why? Because Paris is bubbling with ideas. Some we�ll want to wear - like much of Phoebe Philo�s spring C�line collection, with its ruffled and printed pastoralism and fringy-frayed craftiness. Others, we won�t, at least not so readily.<br>Rei Kawakubo�s formidable Comme des Garcons show, inspired by �blood and roses� and transforming her models into [http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/perambulating+contemporary perambulating contemporary] art installations drenched in single shades of riding-hood red, was aggressively, anarchically unwearable<br><br> |
| | Front row at Paris Fashion Week spring/summer 201<br> |
| | And who knows what will end up in shops from Jean Paul Gaultier�s show on Saturday night, his last ever ready-to-wear collection after 39 years in the game? It was a great show - staged as a beauty pageant, of mostly greatest hits. Both were bold statements<br><br> |
| | The clothes didn�t really matter<br> |
| | The clothes matter, enormously, at C�line. Last year the brand made record sales and while its owner Bernard Arnault�s LVMH conglomerate does not release information on their labels� individual returns, the performance was described by the group as �remarkabl<br><br> |
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| There are several ways in which to measure and assess [[bioaccumulation]] and bioconcentration. These include: octanol-water [[partition coefficient]]s (K<sub>OW</sub>), bioconcentration factors (BCF), bioaccumulation factors (BAF) and biota-sediment accumulation factor (BSAF). Each of these can be calculated using either [[empirical data]] or measurements as well as from [[mathematical models]].<ref name="Arnot and Gobas (2004)">{{cite journal|last=Arnot|first=Jon A.|coauthors=Frank A.P.C. Gobas|title=A Food Web Bioaccumulation Model for Organic Chemicals in Aquatic Ecosystems|journal=Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry|year=2004|volume=23|issue=10|pages=2343–2355}}</ref> One of these mathematical models is a [[fugacity]]-based BCF model developed by Don Mackay.<ref name="Mackay (1982)-Fugacity">{{cite journal|last=Mackay|first=Don|title=Correlation of bioconcentration factors|journal=Environmental Science and Technology|year=1982|volume=16|pages=274–278}}</ref>
| | That�s based on Phoebe Philo�s knack of nailing what women want to we<br><br> |
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| Bioconcentration factor can also be expressed as the ratio of the concentration of a [[chemical]] in an [[organism]] to the [[concentration]] of the chemical in the surrounding [[environment (biophysical)|environment]]. The BCF is a measure of the extent of chemical sharing between an organism and the surrounding environment.<ref name="Ecology PBT Definitions">{{cite web|title=Chapter 173-333 WAC Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxins|url=http://www.ecy.wa.gov/laws-rules/wac173333/p0407_cont_a.pdf|work=Department of Ecology|accessdate=6/2/2012}}</ref>
| | It�s legendary: her latest successor at Chloe, Clare Waight Keller, is still somewhat in the shadows of Philo�s phenomenal success sto<br>. |
| | The floaty georgette dresses, blouses and denim shorts were neat, but felt a little like left-overs from Philo�s glory years. Shoes oscillated between middling height and dead flat, which matched the mood of the show overa<br><br> |
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| In surface water, the BCF is the ratio of a chemical's concentration in an organism to the chemical's aqueous concentration. BCF is often expressed in units of liter per kilogram (ratio of mg of chemical per kg of organism to mg of chemical per liter of water).<ref name="Fate and Transport Book">{{cite book|last=Hemond|first=Harold|title=Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment|year=2000|publisher=Elsevier|location=San Diego, CA|isbn=978-0-12-340275-2|pages=156–157}}</ref> BCF can simply be an observed ratio, or it can be the prediction of a partitioning model.<ref name="Fate and Transport Book" /> A partitioning model is based on assumptions that chemicals partition between water and aquatic organisms as well as the idea that chemical equilibrium exists between the organisms and the aquatic environment in which it is found<ref name="Fate and Transport Book" />
| | Philo is a tough act to follow - even when she�s following herself. That�s because she�s lead the march into uncharted territories - her spring/summer 2010 C�line debut, for instance, which ignited a Minimalist revival in fashi<br>. |
| | Her spring offering was somewhat quieter, less bold and a little less fulfilli<br><br> |
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| | Oddly, Marie Antoinette was who I thought about when the C�line models trod out in dropped flounces splurged with florals, [http://Www.flutteringlappets.net/ fluttering lappets] of fabric and tattered he<br>. |
| | Those have been seen just about everywhere: Celine took it a bit further, looping thread into a mammoth woolly fringe along the hems of skirts and slender to<br><br> |
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| Bioconcentration can be described by a bioconcentration factor (BCF), which is the ratio of the chemical concentration in an organism or biota to the concentration in water:<ref name="Gobas and Morrison Book" />
| | They reminded me of la reine and her cohorts playing at milkmaids in her ferme orn�e. There were even a few cowbells clanging from bags, and string bel<br>. |
| | It chimed with the folksy, Seventies feel that has been emerging across the season as a whole - swaying fraying and billowy florals underlined by flared trousers and tugged-waist jackets stiffly outlined with topstitchi<br><br> |
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| <math>BCF=\frac{Concentration_{Biota}}{Concentration_{Water}}</math><ref name="Gobas and Morrison Book" />
| | Philo placed her own slant on it, sure. But rather than defining, this was a [http://www.pcs-systems.co.uk/Images/celinebag.aspx http://www.pcs-systems.co.uk/Images/celinebag.aspx] refining collection, underlining stories other designers had already begun to te<br>. |
| | | From a queen of fashion, you hoped for more leadership. |
| Bioconcentration factors can also be related to the octanol-water partition coefficient, K<sub>ow</sub>. The octanol-water [[partition coefficient]] (K<sub>ow</sub>) is correlated with the potential for a chemical to [[bioaccumulate]] in organisms; the BCF can be predicted from log K<sub>ow</sub>, via computer programs based on [[structure activity relationship]] (SAR)<ref name="USEPA PBT Info.">{{cite web|title=Category for Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic New Chemical Substances|url=http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-TOX/1999/November/Day-04/t28888.htm|work=Federal Register Environmental Documents|publisher=USEPA|accessdate=3 June 2012|author=EPA}}</ref> or through the [[linear equation]]:
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| <math>log BCF=m log K_{OW}+b</math> <ref name="Mussel Study">{{cite journal|last=Bergen|first=Barbara J.|coauthors=William G. Nelson, Richard J. Pruell|title=Bioaccumulation of PCB Congeners by Blue Mussels (''Mytilus edulis'') deployed in New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts|journal=Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry|year=1993|volume=12|pages=1671–1681}}</ref>
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| <math>K_{OW}=\frac{Concentration_{octanol}}{Concentration_{water}}=\frac{C_O}{C_W}</math> at equilibrium
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| === Fugacity capacity ===
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| Fugacity and BCF relate to each other in the following equation:
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| <math>Z_{Fish}=\frac{P_{Fish}\times{BCF}}{H}</math> <ref name="Fate and Transport Book" />
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| where Z<sub>Fish</sub> is equal to the [[Fugacity capacity]] of a chemical in the fish, P<sub>Fish</sub> is equal to the density of the fish (mass/length<sup>3</sup>), BCF is the partition coefficient between the fish and the water (length<sup>3</sup>/mass) and H is equal to the Henry's law constant (Length<sup>2</sup>/Time<sup>2</sup>)<ref name="Fate and Transport Book" />
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| === Regression equations for estimations in fish ===
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| | <math>log BCF=0.76log Kow-0.23</math> || 84 || [[Fathead Minnow]], Bluegill Sunfish, [[Rainbow Trout]], [[Mosquitofish]]
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| | <math>log BCF=2.791-0.564 logS(S=water solubility)</math> || 36 || [[Brook trout]], [[Rainbow trout]], Bluegill Sunfish, [[Fathead minnow]], [[Carp]]
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| | <math>log BCF=3.41-0.508 logS</math><ref name="Chiou et. al">{{cite journal|last=Chiou|first=CT|coauthors=Freed, VH, Schmedding, DW and Kohnert, RL|title=Partition Coefficient and Bioaccumulation of Selected Organic Chemicals|journal=Environmental Science and Technology|year=1977|volume=29|pages=475–478}}</ref> || 7 || Various
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| == Uses ==
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| Through the use of the [[Persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemical|PBT]] Profiler and using criteria set forth by the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] under the [[Toxic Substances Control Act]] (TSCA), a substance is considered to be not bioaccumulative if it has a BCF less than 1000, bioaccumulative if it has a BCF from 1000-5000<ref name="BCF Range">{{cite web|title=Bioaccumulation Criteria|url=http://www.pbtprofiler.net/criteria.asp|accessdate=3 June 2012}}</ref> and very bioaccumulative if it has a BCF greater than 5,000.<ref name="BCF Range" />
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| == Applications ==
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| A bioconcentration factor greater than 1 is indicative of a [[hydrophobic]] or [[lipophilic]] chemical. It is an indicator of how probable a chemical is to [[bioaccumulate]].<ref name="Tox. II Book" /> These chemicals have high lipid affinities and will concentrate in tissues with high lipid content instead of in an aqueous environment like the [[cytosol]]. Models are used to predict chemical partitioning in the environment which in turn allows the prediction of the biological fate of lipophilic chemicals.<ref name="Tox. II Book" />
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| === Equilibrium partitioning models ===
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| Based on an assumed steady state scenario, the fate of a chemical in a system is modeled giving predicted endpoint phases and concentrations.<ref name=Rand>{{cite book|last=Rand|first=Gary|title=Fundamentals of Aquatic Toxicology|year=1995|publisher=CRC Press|location=Boca Raton|isbn=1-56032-091-5|pages=494–495}}</ref>
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| === Fugacity models ===
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| Fugacity is another predictive criterion for equilibrium among phases that has units of pressure. It is equivalent to partial pressure for most environmental purposes. It is the absconding propensity of a material.<ref name="Tox. II Book" /> BCF can be determined from output parameters of a fugacity model and thus used to predict the fraction of chemical immediately interacting with and possibly having an effect on an organism.
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| If organism-specific [[fugacity]] values are available, it is possible to create a food web model which takes [[Food web|trophic webs]] into consideration.<ref name="Tox. II Book" /> This is especially pertinent for [[conservative chemicals]] that are not easily metabolized into degradation products. [[Biomagnification]] of conservative chemicals such as toxic metals can be harmful to [[apex predators]] like [[killer whales|orca whales]], [[osprey]], and [[bald eagles]].
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| == Applications to toxicology ==
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| === Predictions ===
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| Bioconcentration factors facilitate predicting contamination levels in an organism based on chemical concentration in surrounding water.<ref name=Rand /> BCF in this setting only applies to aquatic organisms. Air breathing organisms do not take up chemicals in the same manner as other aquatic organisms. Fish, for example uptake chemicals via [[ingestion]] and osmotic gradients in [[gill lamellae]].<ref name="Fate and Transport Book" />
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| When working with [[benthic macroinvertebrates]], both water and [[benthic]] sediments may contain chemical that affects the organism. Biota-sediment accumulation factor (BSAF) and [[biomagnification factor]] (BMF) also influence toxicity in aquatic environments.
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| BCF does not explicitly take metabolism into consideration so it needs to be added to models at other points through uptake, elimination or degradation equations for a selected organism.
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| Chemicals with high BCF values are more lipophilic, and at equilibrium organisms will have greater concentrations of chemical than other phases in the system. Body burden is the total amount of chemical in the body of an organism,<ref name=Rand /> and body burdens will be greater when dealing with a lipophilic chemical.
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| In determining the degree at which bioconcentration occurs biological factors have to be kept in mind.The rate at which an organism is exposed through respiratory surfaces and contact with dermal surfaces of the organism, competes against the rate of excretion from an organism. The rate of excretion is a loss of chemical from the respiratory surface, growth dilution, fecal excretion, and [[metabolic biotransformation]].<ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF" /> Growth dilution is not an actual process of excretion but due to the mass of the organism increasing while the contaminant concentration remains constant dilution occurs.
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| <math>\frac{dC_{B}}{dt}=(k_{1}C_{WD})-(k_{2}+k_{E}+k_{M}+k_{G})C_{B}</math><ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF" /><br />
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| C<sub>B</sub>is the concentration in the organism (g*kg<sup>−1</sup>).<ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF" />
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| t represents a unit of time (d<sup>−1</sup>).<ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF" />
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| k<sub>1</sub> is the rate constant for chemical uptake from water at the respiratory surface (L*kg<sup>−1</sup>*d<sup>−1</sup>).<ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF" />
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| C<sub>WD</sub> is the chemical concentration dissolved in water (g*L<sup>−1</sup>).<ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF" />
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| k<sub>2</sub>,k<sub>E</sub>,k<sub>G</sub>,k<sub>B</sub> are rate constants that represent excretion from the organism from the respiratory surface, fecal excretion, metabolic transformation, and growth dilution (d<sup>−1</sup>).<ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF" />
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| Static variables influence BCF as well. Because organisms are modeled as bags of fat, lipid to water ratio is a factor that needs to be considered.<ref name="Fate and Transport Book" /> Size also plays a role as the surface to volume ratio influence the rate of uptake from the surrounding water.<ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF" /> The species of concern is a primary factor in influencing BCF values due to it determining all of the biological factors that alter a BCF.<ref name="Fate and Transport Book" />
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| Temperature may affect metabolic transformation, and bioenergetics. An example of this is the movement of the organism may change as well as rates of excretion.<ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF" /> If a contaminant is ionic, the change in pH that is influenced by a change in temperature may also influence the bioavailability<ref name="Tox. II Book" />
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| The natural particle content as well as organic carbon content in water can affect the bioavailability. The contaminant can bind to the particles in the water, making uptake more difficult, as well as become ingested by the organism. This ingestion could consist of contaminated particles which would cause the source of contamination to be from more than just water.<ref name="Review article of BCF and BAF">{{cite journal|last=Arnot|first=Jon|coauthors=Frank A.P.C. Gobas|title=A review of bioconcentration factor (BCF) and bioaccumulation factor (BAF) assessments for organic chemicals in aquatic organisms|journal=NRC Canada|date=13 December 2006|volume=12|pages=257–297|doi=10.1139/A06-005|url=http://research.rem.sfu.ca/papers/gobas/A%20Review%20of%20Bioconcentration%20factor%20(BCF)%20and.pdf|accessdate=7 June 2012}}</ref>
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| * [http://www.pbtprofiler.net PBT Profiler]
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| * [http://faculty.wwu.edu/harperr3/ Ruth "The Hammer" Sofield]
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| * [http://chm.pops.int/Convention/ThePOPs/tabid/673/Default.aspx Persistent Organic Pollutants]
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| * [http://www.epa.gov/ United States Environmental Protection Agency]
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Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated last queen of France, once declared that she wanted to be the most fashionable woman in the world.
The world is a much wider place in 2014 than it was in 1789, when cherie Marie was carted off to the Conciergerie and uncertain doom. But, with the latest round of spring/summer 2015 shows, Paris is asserting its reign across the world of la mode.
Nobody - and nowhere, it seems - does it better.
Why? Because Paris is bubbling with ideas. Some we�ll want to wear - like much of Phoebe Philo�s spring C�line collection, with its ruffled and printed pastoralism and fringy-frayed craftiness. Others, we won�t, at least not so readily.
Rei Kawakubo�s formidable Comme des Garcons show, inspired by �blood and roses� and transforming her models into perambulating contemporary art installations drenched in single shades of riding-hood red, was aggressively, anarchically unwearable
Front row at Paris Fashion Week spring/summer 201
And who knows what will end up in shops from Jean Paul Gaultier�s show on Saturday night, his last ever ready-to-wear collection after 39 years in the game? It was a great show - staged as a beauty pageant, of mostly greatest hits. Both were bold statements
The clothes didn�t really matter
The clothes matter, enormously, at C�line. Last year the brand made record sales and while its owner Bernard Arnault�s LVMH conglomerate does not release information on their labels� individual returns, the performance was described by the group as �remarkabl
That�s based on Phoebe Philo�s knack of nailing what women want to we
It�s legendary: her latest successor at Chloe, Clare Waight Keller, is still somewhat in the shadows of Philo�s phenomenal success sto
.
The floaty georgette dresses, blouses and denim shorts were neat, but felt a little like left-overs from Philo�s glory years. Shoes oscillated between middling height and dead flat, which matched the mood of the show overa
Philo is a tough act to follow - even when she�s following herself. That�s because she�s lead the march into uncharted territories - her spring/summer 2010 C�line debut, for instance, which ignited a Minimalist revival in fashi
.
Her spring offering was somewhat quieter, less bold and a little less fulfilli
Oddly, Marie Antoinette was who I thought about when the C�line models trod out in dropped flounces splurged with florals, fluttering lappets of fabric and tattered he
.
Those have been seen just about everywhere: Celine took it a bit further, looping thread into a mammoth woolly fringe along the hems of skirts and slender to
They reminded me of la reine and her cohorts playing at milkmaids in her ferme orn�e. There were even a few cowbells clanging from bags, and string bel
.
It chimed with the folksy, Seventies feel that has been emerging across the season as a whole - swaying fraying and billowy florals underlined by flared trousers and tugged-waist jackets stiffly outlined with topstitchi
Philo placed her own slant on it, sure. But rather than defining, this was a http://www.pcs-systems.co.uk/Images/celinebag.aspx refining collection, underlining stories other designers had already begun to te
.
From a queen of fashion, you hoped for more leadership.