cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analysis of PCDD/Fs in environmental samples by using gas chromatography in combination with high resolution mass spectrometry: optimization of sample preparation
Creators: name: Thi, Xuyen Nguyen
name: Xuan, Hung Nguyen
name: Chu, Dinh Binh
name: Bui, Quang Minh
name: Nguyen, Tien Dat
name: Le Hoang, Tuan Anh
name: Le, Thuy Minh
name: Tu, Binh Minh
name: Tran, Tri Manh
name: Vu, Duc Nam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cardiology

description: This study developed a simple, economical and time-saving clean-up procedure based on an in-house packed column system for the determination of the most toxic-relevant 17 PCDD (polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin) and PCDF (polychlorinated dibenzofuran) congeners in environmental samples following accelerated solvent extraction. The extract solution was cleaned up using a manually packed column system consisting of a multi-layer silica gel column and an activated carbon column. After clean-up, dioxins and furans were analysed by using gas chromatography in combination with high-resolution mass spectrometry. Isotopic labelled spiking experiments investigated the recovery of all dioxin and furan congeners. Then, the clean-up procedure for environmental samples was validated by applying the analysis of both clean soil reference material (CRM EDF-5183) and heavily contaminated sediment reference material (CRM EDF-5184) samples, as well as participating in the proficiency test (PT) for sediment samples. The recovery efficiency of isotope-labelled standard compounds in certified reference material (CRM) samples and PT samples ranged from 35% to 101% and between 46.1% and 105%, respectively. The mass concentrations of 17 PCDD/Fs in CRM samples were in the acceptable range. The absolute z-score value for each PCDD/F congener in the PT samples was below 1, confirming the analytical procedure’s high accuracy. The applied clean-up procedure in this study has demonstrated accuracy, repeatability and a significant increase in sample extraction/preparation productivity by reducing the time for sample preparation.
Dysoxylum reticulatum King
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum reticulatum

description: 22. Dysoxylum reticulatum King in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 65: 114. 1896
– Syntype: India, Sikkim, King s.n. (K barcode K000657035!).
Distribution. – Eastern Himalayas.
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
Liriomyza orilliensis Spencer
Creators: name: Eiseman, Charles S.
name: Lonsdale, Owen
name: Linden, John Van Der
name: Feldman, Tracy S.
name: Palmer, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Liriomyza
Liriomyza orilliensis

description: Liriomyza orilliensis Spencer
(Fig. 78)
Material examined. IOWA: Winneshiek Co., Decorah, Twin Springs Park, 24.viii.2017, em.?, J. van der Linden, ex Prenanthes alba, # CSE4644, CNC1144028 (1♀).
Photographed mines. MASSACHUSETTS: Franklin Co., Northfield, 276 Old Wendell Rd., 7.x.2015, C.S. Eiseman, Nabalus altissimus [aborted/predated mines]; Nantucket Co., Squam Swamp, 8.ix.2019, C.S. Eiseman, Nabalus trifoliolatus; MICHIGAN: Ingham Co., Okemos, Ted Black Woods, 19.vi.2019, C.S. Eiseman, Nabalus; NORTH CAROLINA: Guilford Co., Browns Summit, Haw River State Park, 29.v.2015, T.S. Feldman, Prenanthes alba [vacated mine], BG 1075103; VERMONT: Chittenden Co., Williston, Mud Pond, 28.viii.2016, C.S. Eiseman, Nabalus [vacated mines].
Hosts. Asteraceae: Nabalus * albus (L.) Hook., [N. altissimus (L.) Hook., N. trifoliolatus Cass.], Taraxacum F.H.Wigg. (Eiseman & Lonsdale 2018).
Leaf mine. (Fig. 78) Pale greenish to whitish, turning brownish; in some cases beginning as an irregular track, gradually expanding to an elongate blotch, with frass mostly in squiggly strips; in others, forming a more or less compact blotch with distinct secondary feeding lines, and with frass mostly in fine grains. Two or three larvae may feed together.
Puparium. Yellow to brown; formed outside the mine.
Phenology and voltinism. Data from the few known specimens of this species indicate it is at least bivoltine. Larvae collected in Massachusetts in mid-June emerged as adults in early July (Eiseman & Lonsdale 2018); a larva collected in Alberta in early August emerged as an adult the following spring (Lonsdale 2017a); and the Iowa specimen emerged on an unknown date from a larva collected in late August.
Distribution. USA: *IA, MA, [MI, NC, VT]; Canada: AB, ON (Eiseman & Lonsdale 2018).
description: Published as part of Eiseman, Charles S., Lonsdale, Owen, Linden, John Van Der, Feldman, Tracy S. & Palmer, Michael W., 2021, Thirteen new species of Agromyzidae (Diptera) from the United States, with new host and distribution records for 32 additional species, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4931 (1) on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4931.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4545337
Dysoxylum enantiophyllum Harms
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum enantiophyllum

description: 2 3. Dysoxylum enantiophyllum Harms in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 72: 192. 1942
– Type: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik, Malu, Ledermann 12463 (B barcode B 10 1154283!).
Distribution. – New Guinea.
Note. – See also Mabberley (1995b: 126).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
THE IMPERATIVE OF TEACHERS' CORE DUTIES IN SHAPING SUSTAINABLE HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM PRACTICES.
Creators: name: Patricia Nkemdilim, Okafor
Publisher: name: continental
Year: 2025
Subjects: Department of Hospitality Management Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia.

description: The paper examines the role of teacher in the Nigeria context is circumscribed by the objective of social transformation as articulated in the Nigeria constitution in the Fundamental Rights and in the Directive Principles of State Policy Extension which is the additional dimension of Professional practice among teachers at higher education can be used as a revolutionary tool to modify the existing slogan of ‘education for all’, thereby making the ‘life-long education’, a reality. This conceptual paper addresses the needs of preparing the students for individual growth as also to facilitate them to contribute to social development. The paper also focuses on the inclusion of the measures required to be taken for providing social consciousness and sensitivity, as happens to be a neglected part of the curriculum. The extra effort so needed to build community-based activities presupposes the requirement for professional training to be given to the hospitality and tourism educators or teachers as a continuing education initiative.
Narrative play
Creators: name: Blake, Nicola
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation focuses on the performative actions of the narrators in four Middle English dream visions: The Assembly of Ladies, Chaucer’s House of Fame, Clanvowe’s Boke of Cupide, and William Langland’s The Vision of Piers Plowman. Performance theorists such as Herbert Blau, Sarah Beckwith and Kier Elam anchor the discussion of how tactical and systematic performances enable narrators to seize on binary rifts tocreate narrative opportunities. I draw on the scholarship of both allegory and theater in order to show how analogous work, whether signifying actors’ bodies or performed narrative gestures, engage social work. I extend the foundational work of other scholarson dream vision to show how the fluidity of the dreamscape authorizes the perspectivesof the dream narrator-bricoleur -- the chief semiotician whose performed gestures drive meaning, while abrogating the responsibility of how acts of bricolage are presented in the narrative. This project explores the varying ways the narrator-bricoleur pieces togetherallegorical representations in the dreamscape to constitute individual and collective meaning. The larger significance of these actions is in how the narrator impacts his/her community while figuring himself/herself as a reformed signifier. I argue that thissignification is occurring both within and outside of the frame of the poem. By including the narrators’ gestures that point beyond the physical poem, these dream visions with their incomplete or irresolvable endings, garner a stronger creative thrust, which takesinto account narrative as process rather than end product.
AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE OF ELEME PEOPLE ON RADIO PROGRAMMING ADDRESSING RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN OGONI LAND
Creators: name: Adebayo, Chikezie, Emmanuel
name: Okafor, Nkechi, Uzoamaka
Publisher: name: ZAP Journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Awareness, Knowledge, Eleme Residents, Radio Programming, Rural Environmental Issue

description: The study focused on the imminent undermining of the remediation work on oil-impacted sites in Ogoni land in the event of message misinterpretation in the communication process between HYPREP and Ogonis occasioned by negative perception of the radio programme in focus. Hence, this study examined the awareness and knowledge of Eleme people on radio programming about rural environment issues in Ogoniland. The study anchored on the individual difference theory, which added validation to the findings. The study adopted the survey research design and a mixed method to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. The population for the study is that part of the active audience of the Ogoni clean-up show on 93.7 FM from which the researcher got data for the research. The population was gotten from the active audience of the Ogoni clean-up show on Rhythm 93.7 FM in Eleme Local Government Areas of Rivers State. The 2006 census figures for Port Harcourt 338,552 (FGN Official Gazette, 2009) and a 2.7% growth rate put the figure at 914,090 as at 2022. A total number of 385 respondents were selected as the sample size for this study using Meyer determinant table. The multi-stage cluster sampling technique was adopted to select the participants for sampling. The quantitative data collated from the questionnaire were presented in a frequency tabular form, whereas, the explanation building technique was used to analyze the qualitative data from the focus group discussion. Findings revealed that Eleme residents were not aware of the “Ogoni clean-up show on Rhythm 93.7 FM”. This means that the programme’s popularity was not overwhelming among Elelme residents. The study recommended that an aggressive promotion should be done to popularize the programme for audience members to be aware and regularly follow-up the programme; sensitize the audience on the main focus and motif of the programme in order to mobilize audience participation that will make the programme effective and useful for rural development.
New Jersey GIS Resource Guide 1996
Creators: name: Garie, Henry L.
name: Cummens, Patricia E.
name: Cubbereley, Bob
name: Jacoby, Lou
name: Price, Curtis
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1996

description: The document explains Geographic Information Systems.  They are state-of-tthe-art technology for data management and decision support that consists of computer hardware and software that simultaneously manipulates both geographic and associated tabular databases.
Free our sisters, free ourselves
Creators: name: Beins, Agatha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In 1968 the first feminist periodicals associated with the second wave of U.S. feminism appeared in the United States, and by 1973 over five hundred different feminist newsletters, newspapers, and literary journals had been published. Although these periodicals often had erratic publication schedules and rarely ran more than a few years, their proliferation during this time period shows that publishing was vital to the women’s liberation movement. Not only did periodicals create a space for women to describe experiences, develop theories, debate politics, and exchange ideas, they also connected women through their circulation, producing an imagined community of feminists at local and global scales. Free Our Sisters, Free Ourselves: Locating U.S. Feminism through Feminist Periodicals, 1970-1983 examines the U.S. feminist movement through the production and consumption of feminist newsletters and newspapers. Focusing on periodicals published in five cities (New Orleans, Louisiana; Northampton, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Iowa City, Iowa; and Los Angeles, California), this dissertation tracks the circulation of ideas to explore how feminism as a collective identity was produced and reproduced. Based on archival research throughout the country and an analysis of the circulation and repetition of language and images as well as on the effects of modes of periodical production, this dissertation draws from a wide range of literatures, including history, sociology, geography, cultural studies, visual studies, and history of the book, as well as from feminist theories about power and identity. I argue that during the 1970s feminist periodicals were vital to the production not just of feminism’s present and presence but also of feminism’s past and future. Periodicals additionally contributed to the discursive and material existence of the women’s liberation movement, allowing feminism’s past, present, and future to be imaginable as well as physically locatable.
Tobacco oxidants and the ceramide path in lung cell death
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: It is well known that cigarette smoking exerts a host of adverse effects on bronchial epithelial cells, leading to pulmonary disease. Cigarette smoke is known to contain abundant free radical species and reactive oxidants. There is ample evidence that these reactive oxidants play a role in cigarette smoke-induced adverse health consequences. The mechanism for the increased lung disease from cigarette smoke is poorly understood, but the dire consequences are presumed to manifest due to the absorption of tobacco smoke reactive oxidants, which affect lung epithelial cell function. Although a link between reactive oxidants and epithelial injury has been established, the cellular mechanisms leading to epithelial dysfunction are poorly defined.

 The goal of the proposed project is to determine how exposure of lung epithelial cells to reactive oxidants may change their molecular mechanism of growth and death. We propose to investigate the cellular pathway of ceramide, a cell sphingolipid which regulates the process of programmed cell death (apoptosis), and to characterize the effects of reactive oxidants of tobacco smoke, such as H2O2 and ONOO-, on ceramide signaling and the consequential apoptosis in the lung epithelium.

 The results of theses studies will be informative for how lung epithelial cells perceive, discriminate, and respond to oxidative stress, and will determine the contribution of specific molecular changes induced by reactive oxidants to lung epithelium injury.

 Understanding the mechanism(s) of tobacco oxidants- induced changes in lung epithelial cells is crucial to the development of therapeutic and pharmacological strategies to block the destructive properties of tobacco reactive oxidants, thereby reducing damage to the airway epithelium system of cigarette smokers. These therapies could benefit both men and women, and specifically young women, who continue to initiate smoking at dispropotionally higher rates than males and fail to accurately perceive lung disease as a leading health threat to California and US women.
Smoking Control Policies in California Health Plans
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Objective: This study will provide important information about the adoption of tobacco control policies in health plans operating in California in 1999. By surveying both commercial and Medi-Cal HMOs, as well as Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs), we will draw comparisons, assess conformance with federal guidelines for smoking cessation, and determine the characteristics of health plans that have adopted specific smoking control policies. The policies include coverage for smoking cessation treatments (nicotine replacement therapy, Zyban, behavioral programs), physician training in smoking cessation counseling, incentives to health care providers to increase smoking cessation counseling rates, and charting of smoking status in the patient's medical record.

 Methods: A questionnaire will be mailed to all of the HMOs and PPOs and all of the Medi-Cal managed care plans operating in California in 1999 (N=50). Every effort will be made through mail and telephone follow-up to obtain a 100% response rate. For those health plans that indicate in the mail survey that they have adopted any smoking control policies, in-depth telephone interviews will be conducted to obtain additional details on policy adoption, design and implementation.

 Data Analysis: Statistical analysis will be conducted to estimate the prevalence of smoking control policy adoption in health plans, to assess conformance with federal guidelines, and to examine the relationships between policy adoption and plan characteristics. We will examine differences in rates of smoking control policy adoption by different health plan characteristics.

 Policy Relevance: The findings from this research will provide health plans, their enrollees, employers and other purchasers, and state policy makers with current information on health plan practices related to smoking control, identifying gaps for new public health policies, as well as best practices to share with other plans.
Dysoxylum rubrocostatum Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochinch.
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum rubrocostatum

description: 27. Dysoxylum rubrocostatum Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochinch. 22: t. 348A.1897
– Syntypes: Pierre 4271 (P barcodes P02284985 [image!], P02284986 [image!], P06743674 [image!], P06743675 [image!], P06743676 [image!], P06743677 [image!], P06743678 [image!], P06743679 [image!], P06743680 [image!], P06743681 [image!], P06743682 [image!], P06743683 [image!], P06743684 [image!], P06743685 [image!], P06743686 [image!] & P06743687 [image!]).
Distribution. – Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
CONCEPT-HF analysis pipeline
Creators: name: Quirós López, Raúl
name: Millán-Ortuondo, Eduardo
name: Jiménez-García, Nicolás
name: Bernal-Delgado, Enrique
name: Estupiñán Romero, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Heart Failure
subject: Heart Failure/mortality
subject: care pathways
subject: Data Mining

description: The CONCEPT-HF project investigates the effectiveness of care pathways for heart failure (HF) patients across three Spanish healthcare systems (Andalusia, Aragon, Basque Country). The study examines patient trajectories in diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up, benchmarking them against clinical guidelines. Key outcomes include adherence to guidelines, quality improvement strategies based on HF programs, and differences in HF care across regions. The study is observational, retrospective, and cohort-based, covering HF patients treated between 2015 and 2022.

Objectives:

Describe healthcare pathways for HF patients.

Compare observed pathways with guideline-derived theoretical standards.

Assess the impact of adherence to guidelines on outcomes.

Evaluate HF program strategies based on process and outcome indicators.

Analyze regional differences in HF care and outcomes.

Analysis Pipeline:

Cohort Definition: Includes HF patients aged ≥18 years with hospital admission between 2015–2022. Excludes secondary or primary care-only diagnoses without hospital admissions.

Key Variables: HF types, comorbidities, health service utilization, treatments, outcomes (e.g., mortality, hospitalizations).

Reference Care Pathways: Based on ESC/AHA guidelines for 2012, 2016, and 2021, covering initial assessment, in-hospital management, treatments, comorbidity management, and multidisciplinary care.

Adherence Evaluation: Percentage of clinical criteria met across five categories, weighted equally to calculate a global compliance score.

Process Mining: Uses tools like bupaR and ProM to analyze care sequences, conformance to guidelines, and decision factors influencing clinical management.

Significance:This study identifies adherence gaps in HF care, informs improvements in patient management, and benchmarks performance across regional healthcare systems, contributing to optimized strategies for chronic disease management.
Molecular analysis and infectivity of Puccinia species pathogenic to turfgrass
Creators: name: Beirn, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Rust (Puccinia spp.) has become an increasingly prevalent disease of cool-season turfgrasses over the past two decades. Unlike the cereal rust pathosystem, pathogen biology, populations, races, and species of rust fungi associated with turfgrasses have not been well studied. In this thesis, isolates of turfgrass rust fungi from the United States and four other countries were evaluated for genetic variation within the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and were identified using phylogenetic analysis. Three rust species were revealed in the sample collection: Puccinia coronata, P. graminis, and P. striiformis. P. coronata was frequently found in association with Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), a host/pathogen relationship that has not been previously reported. Since the ITS region exhibited sufficient nucleotide variation for the identification of turfgrass rust species within the sample collection, this region was used to design species-specific primers and probes for the development of an accurate, reliable, real-time PCR assay to rapidly diagnose rust fungi from diseased turfgrass tissue. Accurate, reproducible species identifications were made using as few as 50-150 urediniospores, even in mixed infections. This protocol was designed so that diagnosticians, pathologists, and turfgrass breeders who may have limited molecular training can identify rust species on turfgrass with relative ease. This study represents the first DNA-based evaluation of turfgrass rust fungi and provides a quick and reliable sequence-based protocol as an alternative to error-prone field-based identification techniques. However, research and breeding efforts are still impeded by the inability to rapidly screen new turfgrass germplasm for resistance to rust and difficulty in obtaining pure isolates of rust fungi for genotyping analysis. By adapting and modifying a protocol designed for cereal rust fungi, an inoculation procedure was developed for two turfgrass rust species prevalent in temperate regions: P. coronata and P. graminis. Uredinia of both species were induced on Kentucky bluegrass cultivars Bewitched, Diva, and Ulysses 14 days after inoculation. The molecular, diagnostic, and infectivity studies described in this thesis will serve as a foundation for future research on the rust fungi that attack turfgrass.
Metal organic framework-based photocatalyst-assisted peroxone process for formaldehyde and acetaldehyde removal from waste air stream: intermediates and mineralization
Creators: name: Darvishali, Siamak
name: Jafari, Ahmad Jonidi
name: Farzadkia, Mahdi
name: Kermani, Majid
name: Asl, Yousef Abdossalami
name: Mehralipour, Jamal
name: Shahsavani, Abbas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Formaldehyde (FA) and acetaldehyde (AA) are known as the two major pollutants used at industrial processes. The BiOI@NH2-MIL-125 (Ti)@Zeolite heterostructures combined with UV-assisted peroxone process were investigated for oxidative degradation of the aldehydes in a continuous waste air stream. Different characterisation methods including XRD, FTIR, FESEM, EDS, EDS elemental mapping, BET, TEM and XPS were used to characterise the photocatalyst. This study focuses on optimising the parameters selected for removal of FA and AA using the one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) technique. Therefore, the effects of operational parameters: air flow rate, ozone feeding rate, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) concentration, relative humidity (RH), and initial concentrations on FA and AA removal efficiency were investigated and optimised using the OFAT procedure. The results showed the complete degradation of FA and AA were achieved at optimal conditions (air flow rate: 0.2 L/min, O3 dosage: 0.3 and 0.4 mg/min for FA and AA, respectively, H2O2 concentration: 150 and 200 ppm for FA and AA, respectively, RH of 35%, and an initial pollutant concentration of 5 ppm). In addition, kinetic models revealed that the FA and AA degradation process are fitted with first-order kinetic (R2 = 0.85). Mineralisation analysis revealed that the complete degradation of FA and AA were obtained at CO2 levels of 4.3 and 3.9 ppm, respectively. Overall, it could be concluded that the suggested treatment method has the capability to efficiently eliminate the aldehydes of interest from waste gases.
Dysoxylum juglans Pellegr.
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum juglans

description: 25. Dysoxylum juglans (Hance) Pellegr. in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 1: 745. 1911
≡ Epicharis juglans Hance in J. Bot. 15: 330. 1877 – Syntypes: Vietnam, Phu Quoc, “ad Giang Dong”, Pierre 4275 (P barcodes P06672094 [image!], P06672095 [image!], P06672099 [image!] & P06672103 [image!]).
Distribution. – China (?) to S Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
One-pot/one-step synthesis of Bi2O3/ZnO/Pd nanocomposite for preconcentration and determination of some heavy metal ions in different samples
Creators: name: Qezelje, Hamidreza Haghgoo
name: Rajabi, Maryam
name: Shirmahi, Alireza
name: Ghanbari-Adivi, Sayeh
name: Hosseini-Bandegharaei, Ahmad
name: Asghari, Alireza
name: Sedaghat, Yasaman
name: Bazregar, Mohammad
name: Memarian, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In this contribution, a new green eco-friendly synthesised nanocomposite (Bi2O3/ZnO/Pd) was fabricated by one-pot/one-step method, using ultrasonic waves. The nanocomposite was used for pre-concentration of some heavy metals, i.e. cadmium (II), lead (II), and copper (II), exploiting ultrasound-assisted dispersive micro solid phase extraction (UA-D-μ-SPE) method, before their determination by flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FAAS). The adsorbent synthesis was confirmed by XRD, SEM, BET, TEM, EDS, and TGA analyses. The central composite design (CCD) method was employed to optimise various parameters affecting the extraction of heavy metals. The effective parameters in the adsorption process, viz. the amount of adsorbent (16 mg), pH of the sample solution (6.2), and adsorption time (4 min), were optimised. The type and the concentration of eluting agent (HCl solution) was investigated as one parameter at a time. Impressive parameters in the desorption stage such as the volume and concentration of eluting solution (400 μL of 0.8 mol L−1 HCl) and desorption time (2.5 min) were optimised. In the best extraction conditions for cadmium (II), lead (II), and copper (II), the limits of detection (LODs) were 0.75, 2.1, and 0.90 ng mL−1; the limits of quantification (LOQs) were 2.5, 7.0, and 3.0 ng mL−1; the linear dynamic ranges (LDRs) were 2.5–100, 7.0–600, and 3.0–250 ng mL−1; preconcentration factors (PF) were 24.10, 25.20, and 25.39; and the relative standard deviations (RSDs%) were 3.7, 4.1, and 3.8 (n = 5), respectively. Additionally, the adsorbent had the ability to extract metals up to 8 times without a significant decrease in the extraction percentages. The adsorbent was successfully used in the determination of cadmium (II), lead (II), and copper (II) ions in different food, biological, cosmetic, and water samples.
Myripristis Cuvier 1829
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Beryciformes
Holocentridae
Myripristis

description: Genus Myripristis Cuvier, 1829
Type species
Myripristis jacobus Cuvier, 1829, Recent.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 194, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Dysoxylum kaniense Harms
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum kaniense

description: 26. Dysoxylum kaniense Harms in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 72: 194. 1942
– Holotype: Papua New Guinea, Madang, Kani Mts, Schlechter 17641 (B†; isotype: B barcode B 10 0272223!).
Distribution. – New Guinea and Solomon Is.
Note. – See also Mabberley (1995b: 125).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
Effect of tobacco related policy change on smoking behavior
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Changes in public policy with regard to smoking, and changes in the environment within which the smoker lives and smokes, are felt to be powerful influences driving cessation. Policy-based interventions, by their very nature, are implemented in large populations, and are therefore very difficult to evaluate using a traditional controlled trial experimental design. Evidence from naturally occurring experiments on policy changes suggest that changes in smoking behaviors result from changes in workplace restrictions on smoking, increases in the cost of cigarettes, and physician advice to quit smoking. However, the self-selected nature of these natural experiments make it difficult to answer the question of whether the: change in policy facilitates the change in smoking behavior at the general population level, or whether the change in attitudes about smoking and smoking behaviors enable changes in policies. For example, the lower prevalence of smoking in workplaces that restrict smoking may be due to restrictions on smoking increasing the number of smokers who successfully quit, or it may be due to those workplaces with fewer smokers being more likely to implement a smoke-free workplace.

 We propose to use survey data collected in California and nationally to expand our understanding of the relationships between smoking policy changes and smoking behavioral changes, and to define the time course of these changes. Specifically, we will:

 1. Examine the effect of workplace restrictions on cessation attempts and successful smoking

 cessation. Evaluate the persistence of the effect of workplace restrictions on cessation rates

 to see whether the change in smoking behavior is facilitated by the process of initiating work

 place restrictions or by the actual limitation of smoking behavior over time.

 2. Define the demographic distribution of smokers seeing a physician in the last 12 months and

 of receiving physician advice to quit smoking. Evaluate the effectiveness of this advice in

 California, as well as examine its relative effectiveness by demographic characteristics and

 number of cigarettes per day.

 3. Evaluate the impact of increases in cigarette costs on short and long term smoking cessation

 success and the duration of the effect of increases in cost on cessation.
Evaluation of Cd, Hg, Pb, Zn and Ni in selected cosmetic products: risk assessment for human health
Creators: name: Mostafa, G. A. E.
name: Alasiri, A.
name: AlRabiah, H.
name: El-Tohamy, M. F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: The ICP-MS method was used to determine the concentrations of five heavy metals: Cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), mercury (Hg), and nickel (Ni). A total of 36 samples of cosmetic products (makeup, eye shadow, and mascara) of various brands were chosen from those available in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Several analytical parameters, such as accuracy, precision, linearity, the lower limit of quantification (LOQ), and the lower limit of detection (LOD), were assessed to determine the validity of the proposed method. The determination of Cd, Pb, Zn, Hg, and Ni was verified for accuracy and precision. The results of the determination of studied heavy metals concentration in cosmetic samples reveal that, the concentrations of Cd, Pb, Zn, Hg and Ni ranged from 0.03–0.53, 10.28–107.01, 14.49–867.12, 1.75–6.45 and 4.22–31.36 µg/g, respectively. In all samples of cosmetic products, the concentrations of Cd and Hg were deemed to be within the normal range. However, the concentration of Pb was higher than the recommended value by the World Health Organization (WHO). Nickel concentration was measured with a detection limit lower than the WHO recommended level, but no suggested value for Zn, which is critical for mitochondria, was found. Health risks related to these metal intakes through dermal exposure pathways are assessed using the total hazard quotient (THQs), total hazard index (HI), chronic daily intake (CDI), and hazard quotient (HQ). Despite the low risks of cancer and non-cancer caused by using these cosmetic products, testing results for cancer and non-cancer risks for these products must be regularly examined. Therefore, constant monitoring of cosmetic products, particularly with regard to heavy metal contamination, should be implemented to maintain human safety and security.
Archaeologies of the avant-garde
Creators: name: Barr, Adrian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation engages historical accounts of the art of the Moscow conceptualist circle and proposes a different understanding of its purpose and significance for Russian and international art history. It challenges the current critical narratives of Moscow Conceptualism as a Soviet variant of a globalizing conceptual art and argues that the movement cannot be assimilated by the taxonomical categories of Western art history. Rather, I contend that Moscow Conceptualism must be historically and locally situated within the discursive framework of the late Soviet era. Through extended analyses of major Moscow conceptualist works, I demonstrate that the movement is distinguished byits purposive investigation of the organizational structures of Soviet history. These investigations occur at a juncture in which the teleological frameworks of official Soviet discourse had become self-evidently obsolete and incapable of orientating the presentwithin a broader historical manifold. It is the uncanny space that exists between the modernist and Utopian foundations of Soviet socialism and the stagnation and alienation of contemporary Soviet life which this dissertation frames as a primary subject ofMoscow conceptualist enquiry.
ПОНЯТИЕ И ПРАВОВАЯ ПРИРОДА ФАКТОРИНГА
Creators: name: Шадиева, Саёра
name: Бахтиёрова, Махлиё
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: В данной статье анализируется соотношение понятий  финансирования под уступку права требования, закрепленного в национальном законодательстве Республики Узбекистан, и факторинга, предусмотренного Конвенцией УНИДРУА. Также проведен сравнительный анализ факторинга с другими видами сделок, с цессией, лизингом и договором купли-продажи, выявлены отличительные черты и сходства. Обсуждена правовая и экономическая сущность факторинга, его роль в развитии малого и среднего бизнеса.
Thunderclap: Exploring Vulnerabilities in Operating System IOMMU Protection via DMA from Untrustworthy Peripherals
Creators: name: Markettos, A Theodore
name: Rothwell, Colin
name: Gutstein, Brett F
name: Pearce, Allison
name: Neumann, Peter G
name: Moore, Simon W
name: Watson, Robert NM
Publisher: name: Internet Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: 46 Information and Computing Sciences
48 Law and Legal Studies
4604 Cybersecurity and Privacy

description: Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks have been known for many years: DMA-enabled I/O peripherals have complete access to the state of a computer and can fully compromise it including reading and writing all of system memory. With the popularity of Thunderbolt 3 over USB Type-C and smart internal devices, opportunities for these attacks to be performed casually with only seconds of physical access to a computer have greatly broadened. In response, commodity hardware and operating-system (OS) vendors have incorporated support for Input-Output Memory Management Units (IOMMUs), which impose memory protection on DMA, and are widely believed to protect against DMA attacks. We investigate the state-of-the-art in IOMMU protection across OSes using a novel I/O security research platform, and find that current protections fall short when faced with a functional network peripheral that uses its complex interactions with the OS for ill intent, and demonstrate compromises against macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux, which notionally utilize IOMMUs to protect against DMA attackers. Windows only uses the IOMMU in limited cases and remains vulnerable. Using Thunderclap, an open-source FPGA research platform we built, we explore a number of novel exploit techniques to expose new classes of OS vulnerability. The complex vulnerability space for IOMMU-exposed shared memory available to DMA-enabled peripherals allows attackers to extract private data (sniffing cleartext VPN traffic) and hijack kernel control flow (launching a root shell) in seconds using devices such as USB-C projectors or power adapters. We have worked closely with OS vendors to remedy these vulnerability classes, and they have now shipped substantial feature improvements and mitigations as a result of our work.
Diretmus Johnson 1864
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Beryciformes
Diretmidae
Diretmus

description: Genus Diretmus Johnson, 1864
Type species
Diretmus argenteus Johnson, 1864, Recent.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 195, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Evaluation of Cd, Hg, pb, Zn and Ni in selected cosmetic products: risk assessment for human health
Creators: name: Mostafa, G. A. E.
name: Alasiri, A.
name: AlRabiah, H.
name: El-Tohamy, M. F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: The ICP-MS method was used to determine the concentrations of five heavy metals: Cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), mercury (Hg), and nickel (Ni). A total of 36 samples of cosmetic products (makeup, eye shadow, and mascara) of various brands were chosen from those available in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Several analytical parameters, such as accuracy, precision, linearity, the lower limit of quantification (LOQ), and the lower limit of detection (LOD), were assessed to determine the validity of the proposed method. The determination of Cd, Pb, Zn, Hg, and Ni was verified for accuracy and precision. The results of the determination of studied heavy metals concentration in cosmetic samples reveal that, the concentrations of Cd, Pb, Zn, Hg and Ni ranged from 0.03–0.53, 10.28–107.01, 14.49–867.12, 1.75–6.45 and 4.22–31.36 µg/g, respectively. In all samples of cosmetic products, the concentrations of Cd and Hg were deemed to be within the normal range. However, the concentration of Pb was higher than the recommended value by the World Health Organization (WHO). Nickel concentration was measured with a detection limit lower than the WHO recommended level, but no suggested value for Zn, which is critical for mitochondria, was found. Health risks related to these metal intakes through dermal exposure pathways are assessed using the total hazard quotient (THQs), total hazard index (HI), chronic daily intake (CDI), and hazard quotient (HQ). Despite the low risks of cancer and non-cancer caused by using these cosmetic products, testing results for cancer and non-cancer risks for these products must be regularly examined. Therefore, constant monitoring of cosmetic products, particularly with regard to heavy metal contamination, should be implemented to maintain human safety and security.
African Americans and Mentholated Cigarettes
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: African American smokers have the highest rates of tobacco-related diseases and deaths. Heart disease, a tobacco-related condition and the leading cause of death in the United States, was 38% higher in African American men than in white men and 83% greater than for all men during 1990-92.

 We think that African Americans have this higher rate of tobacco-related diseases and deaths for several reasons. The percentage of smoking is high, especially among men, and they prefer menthol cigarettes that are high in nicotine and tar. And although they smoke fewer cigarettes per day, on average, studies have found that African Americans take in more nicotine from each cigarette that they smoke than do whites. Thus, each cigarette is potentially more poisonous. Additionally, African Americans have more cases of high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes and lung cancer, all of which may be aggravated by, or caused by, cigarette smoking.

 Prior studies on African Americans and how the body gets rid of nicotine were done retrospectively; were limited to very small numbers of people in clinical settings; and they did not test for differences between menthol and non-menthol cigarette smokers in African Americans. Consequently, we will study a large, personally recruited, convenience sample of young adult African Americans. This will help us to gain a better understanding of the effects of smoking menthol cigarettes as measured by the amount of cotinine (a byproduct of nicotine) and carbon monoxide in the saliva and breath of smokers. Because the size of a smoker’s body effects the rate of nicotine metabolism, we will take height and weight measurements. This study is relevant and responsive to the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program’s research priorities described as epidemiological research and nicotine addiction and its treatment.

 This study is designed to recruit a total of 400 cigarette smokers. Approximately 200 African American males and females between 18 and 40 years old who smoke menthol cigarettes will be compared with a similar group of non-menthol cigarette smokers. The two groups will be recruited from several sites throughout the South Central Los Angeles community. Each person will complete a questionnaire about their age, education, employment, income, smoking habit, and provide saliva and breath samples for testing. Additionally, we will measure the height and weight of all study participants.

 This proposed research project is designed to study smokers under normal conditions (as they usually smoke) and tests will be done to determine the levels of cotinine and carbon monoxide in their bodies. We believe that this study will provide powerful new information about the potentially greater harmful effects of smoking menthol cigarettes among African Americans.