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Nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications for the sotol plant (Asparagaceae, Convallarioideae): A review

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios, Antonio Martínez Ruiz, Marisela Calderón Jurado, Ramón Saúl Luján Aguirre, Juan Luis Jacobo Cuellar, Oscar Sariñana‐Aldaco, María Teresa Martínez Damián, Oscar Cruz Alvarez   +7 more
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Valorization of nopal wastes to produce quantum dots: optimizing synthesis and exploring in smart textile applications

Frontiers in Materials
Quantum carbon dots (QCDs) were efficiently synthesized from post-extraction residues generated during nopal fabric production using a hydrothermal treatment. These QCDs were applied to nopal fabrics, enhancing their UV solar radiation absorption.
Jesús Baltazar Mosqueda-Prado, Esteban Pinillos-Bernal, Valentina Ospina-Montoya, Mauricio Vásquez-Rendón, Angélica Forgionny, Nancy Acelas   +5 more
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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
wiley   +1 more source

Biofunctional activity of tortillas and bars enhanced with nopal. Preliminary assessment of functional effect after intake on the oxidative status in healthy volunteers

Chemistry Central Journal, 2011
Background Prickly pear cactus stem (nopal) has been used in folk medicine and a raw material since ancient times. Stems have been proved to possess components with valuable biological activities: anti inflamatory, antioxidant, antiulcerogenic ...
Paz Maldonado Luz, Guerra Ruth, Mendoza Sergio, Órnelas Paz José, Guevara-Arauza Juan, González Diana   +5 more
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Evaluación agronómica con enfoque agroecológico en un sistema diversificado de guayaba (Psidium guajava L.), nopal (Opuntia ficus L.), piña (Ananas comosus L.) y papaya (carica papaya L.) utilizando vermicompost, Managua, Nicaragua, 2009-2011 [PDF]

, 2014
Con el propósito de responder a preguntas de orden nutricional y biológico del suelo con un enfoque agroecológico se desarrolló el presente trabajo, en un terreno calcáreo, no salino, que permaneció en barbecho cinco años antes de iniciado el ...
Rodríguez González, Hugo René
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“Shifting the Culture and the Way That We Practice”: Perinatal Clinicians' Cognitive, Behavioral, and Team‐Level Changes Following Equity‐Focused Interventions

Birth, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction In recent years, US hospitals have implemented novel interventions to reduce racism, bias, and their effects in perinatal healthcare (e.g., implicit bias training, anti‐racism seminars). Healthcare workers may also encounter informal interventions in support of these goals (e.g., peer feedback on microaggressions). There is little
Sarah B. Garrett, Anjali Walia, Fiona Miller, Linda Jones, Breezy Powell, Brittany D. Chambers Butcher, Daniel Dohan, Melissa A. Simon   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Cladode Drying Techniques on the Prebiotic Potential and Molecular Characteristics of the Mucilage Extracted from Opuntia ficus-indica and Opuntia joconostle

Scientia Pharmaceutica, 2020
The dry, powdered cladodes of Opuntia ficus-indica are often-used in over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceutical formulations. Gentle drying techniques, such as lyophilization and vacuum drying are compared with convection drying for the cladodes and also ...
José Manuel Cruz-Rubio, Monika Mueller, Renate Loeppert, Helmut Viernstein, Werner Praznik   +4 more
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Contribución del aplanado de morteros de cal para restauración sobre muretes de mampostería [PDF]

, 2011
Los morteros con base cal, han sido materiales descritos en los tratados antiguos de arquitectura, permitidos en muchos documentos que rigen los trabajos de restauración de bienes inmuebles patrimoniales y actualmente son los materiales más empleados en ...
Alonso Guzmán, Elia Mercedes, Arreola Sánchez, Mauricio, Bedolla Arroyo, Juan Alberto, Chávez García, Hugo Luis, del Valle Moreno, Angélica, Lara Gómez, Cindy, Martínez Molina, Wilfrido, Torres Acosta, Andrés A., Velasco Ávalos, Fernando   +8 more
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The Devil Wears Nada: Female Employees' Hidden Transcripts and Public Responses to Inessential Esthetic Demands

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how reluctant female employees discuss and respond to the inessential esthetic demands that they receive from their bosses through an anonymous online forum as well as in real‐life work settings. Substudy 1 analyzes the corpus “r/antiwork” to identify the hidden transcripts of employees after inessential esthetic demands ...
Lakshmi Balachandran Nair
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Evaluation of eleven Mexican cultivars of prickly pear cactus trees for possibly utilization as animal fed: in vitro gas production [PDF]

, 2016
In production systems of prickly pear fruit and prickly pear cactus, significant amounts of pruned material, which could be used as an ingredient in animal feeding, is generated.
ARANDA OSORIO, GILBERTO, ARANDA OSORIO, GILBERTO, BURGUEÑO FERREIRA, JUAN ANDRES, BURGUEÑO FERREIRA, JUAN ANDRES, MIRANDA ROMERO, LUIS ALBERTO, MIRANDA ROMERO, LUIS ALBERTO, VAZQUEZ MENDOZA, PAULINA, VAZQUEZ MENDOZA, PAULINA, Zeidan Mohamed Salem, Abdelfattah, Zeidan Mohamed Salem, Abdelfattah   +9 more
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