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The Fargo‐Moorhead Diversion: Flood Protection or Sprawl Promotion?

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban growth and development opportunities are needed worldwide, but growth and development must be hazard‐aware and should follow smart‐growth principles. The $2.89 billion Fargo‐Moorhead Area Diversion Project was designed to provide flood protection following damaging floods on the Red River of the North.
Nicholas Pinter, Ryan G. Miller, Joel Paulsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Health Impacts of Contaminants on Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) Along the Southern Coast of Brazil

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chemical pollutants pose a significant threat to marine ecosystems. Among these contaminants are trace elements and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Green turtles can be employed to evaluate the oceans' health due to their coastal habitats and exposure to multiple threats.
Camila Roberta da Silva Ribeiro, Andressa Maria Rorato Nascimento de Matos, Eloiza Teles Caldart, Liana Rosa, Camila Domit, Guilherme dos Santos Lima, Ana Paula Frederico Rodrigues Loureiro Bracarense   +6 more
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An Endophytic Diaporthe apiculatum Produces Monoterpenes with Inhibitory Activity against Phytopathogenic Fungi

Antibiotics, 2019
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from endophytic fungi are becoming a potential antibiotic resource. The inhibitive effects of VOCs produced by an endophytic fungus in Leucaena leucocephala were investigated on plant pathogens in this study.
Xiao-Yu Song, Huihua Wang, Fei Ren, Kaiying Wang, Guiming Dou, Xing Lv, Dong-Hui Yan, Gary Strobel   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing Value and Uptake for Whole-Population Cohorts of Children and Parents: Methods to Integrate Registries into the Generation Victoria Cohort

Children, 2021
Health registries are critical to understanding, benchmarking and improving quality of care for specific diseases and conditions, but face hurdles including funding, bias towards clinical rather than population samples, lack of pre-morbid and outcomes ...
Valerie Sung, Katrina Williams, Ella Perlow, Yanhong J. Hu, Susannah Ahern, Joanne M. Said, Bill Karanatsios, John L. Hopper, John J. McNeil, Leo Donnan, Sharon Goldfeld, Melissa Wake   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multielemental Analysis in Rice Grains by Total Reflection X‐Ray Fluorescence

X-Ray Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice (Oryza sativa) is a staple food cultivated worldwide and represents a significant source of essential nutrients for humans. However, this cereal may also contain potentially toxic elements including chromium, arsenic, and lead typically present at trace concentrations (ng.g−1).
F. T. S. Tsuyama, R. G. Leitão, C. G. L. Canellas, G. C. Ferreira, J. L. Pereira, R. S. Santos, J. T. Assis, D. F. Oliveira, M. J. Anjos   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Synthesis and Application of New Antioxidant 3052

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020
Abstract A new synthetic antioxidant, 4-methyl-2-tert-butyl-6-(4-methyl-3-tert-butyl-2-hydroxybenzyl)phenyl acrylate (3052) was developed. Using solid phosgene as green acyl chloride reagent, DMF as initiator, acrylic acid and 2246 bisphenol as raw materials, two-component synthesis of antioxidant 4-methyl-2-tert-butyl-6-(4-methyl-3-tert-
Jun-Lin Guo, Xi-Wang Tong, Ming Xin, Li-Ying Yu, Bo Ning   +4 more
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Long-Term Follow Up of Patients Treated for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Cytomegalovirus Colitis

Diagnostics
Background: Pathological reactivation of latent Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is triggered by inflammation and immunosuppression; both present in the pathogenesis and treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
Gurtej Singh, Clarissa Rentsch, William Beattie, Britt Christensen, Finlay Macrae, Jonathan P. Segal   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hormonal replacement therapy in postmenopausal women ≥50 years is associated with the incidence of glaucoma: Evidence from 6576 females in Finland

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women appears to affect glaucoma risk, but findings are inconsistent. We aimed to explore whether the use of postmenopausal HRT plays a role in glaucoma development in Finland. Methods The main outcome variable was glaucoma incidence measured by initiation of special reimbursement ...
Sirpa Loukovaara, Jari Haukka
wiley   +1 more source

Impaired IgM Memory B Cell Function Is Common in Coeliac Disease but Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccination Induces Robust Protective Immunity

Vaccines
Coeliac disease (CD) is associated with hyposplenism, an acquired impairment of spleen function associated with reduced IgM memory B cells and increased susceptibility to serious pneumococcal infection.
Olivia G. Moscatelli, Amy K. Russell, Lee M. Henneken, Melinda Y. Hardy, Nadia Mazarakis, Rachel Higgins, Jesse Ekin, Harry McLeod, Paul Simkin, Paul V. Licciardi, Vanessa L. Bryant, Jason A. Tye-Din   +11 more
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Biogeochemical, sedimentological and dinoflagellate‐based reconstruction of the Holocene palaeoenvironment of the east Limfjord, Denmark

Boreas, EarlyView.
To assess how the eastern part of the Limfjord system has changed over the Holocene, relative to the wider Limfjord and western Baltic region, a sedimentary succession spanning c. 9600–150 cal. a BP was collected from Nibe Bredning, near Sebbersund, from a shallow coastal inlet along the eastern connection between the Limfjord and the Kattegat (north ...
Gabriella M. Weiss, Jonathan P. Lewis, Paula J. Reimer, David B. Ryves, Peter Rasmussen, Jesper Olsen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source