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Sustainable Polyaddition Path To Polyesters Via Catalytic Homocoupling Of Renewable Dicrotonate Monomers, Shabbir Asif, Mahsa Saeidi, Braden D. Pickle, Nicholas J. Tabbah, Michael L. Mcgraw

Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Publications and Presentations

The development of biorenewable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) chemistry has generated interest in crotonate-based monomers as versatile building blocks. Crotonates can be obtained through the pyrolysis of PHAs, offering both a sustainable end-of-life pathway for PHAs and a renewable route to crotonate monomers. This study presents a new polyaddition-type step-growth polymerization of dicrotonates in which alkene-functionalized polyesters are synthesized using potassium tert-butoxide as a simple base catalyst. The reaction proceeds rapidly at room temperature, achieving >99% conversion within seconds and requiring no byproduct removal. The properties of the resulting polyesters can be tuned via the choice of bridging diol, and the materials …

Kuntze Metabolite Profile And Antioxidant Activity Of Vincetoxicum Villosum (Blume) Kuntze, Anjeli Rama Sari, Aceng Ruyani, Lily Ismaini, Endah Dwi Hartuti

Chimica et Natura Acta

Vincetoxicum villosum belongs to the Apocynaceae family. V. villosum is often used as a traditional medicine for treating jaundice, gallstones, kidney stones, hepatitis B, and liver diseases. This study aims to determine the metabolite profile and antioxidant activity of V. villosum to provide new information and serve as a reference for its safe use as a medicinal plant. The methods used to determine the metabolite profile involved GC-MS, and antioxidant activity was assessed using the DPPH method. GC-MS analysis showed that V. villosum leaf extract contains n-hexadecanoic acid, phytol, 9,12,15-octadecatrienoic acid (Z,Z,Z)-, and 2,4-di-tert-butylphenol which have potential antioxidant activity. The …

The Activity Of Unripe Wood Apple (Limonia Acidissima Groff) Peel And Flesh Extracts In Inhibiting Diarrhe-Causing Bacteria, Idar Idar, Ika Kurnia Sukmawati, Dewi Kurnia, Tina Siti Nurjanah, Lestari Hutasoit

Chimica et Natura Acta

Diarrhea is characterized by having liquid stool more often than usual, typically occurring three or more times within a 24-hour period. While rarely fatal, it can disrupt daily life and is often treated with antibiotics due to pathogens like Bacillus cereus, Shigella flexneri, and Salmonella typhimurium. An overgrowth of Escherichia coli can also be a contributing factor. Recent studies suggest that unripe wood apples may have antibacterial properties. This study evaluates the antibacterial activity of extracts from the peel and flesh of the fruit against the bacteria, as mentioned earlier. Using disk diffusion, microdilution, and bioautography methods, it was found …

Potential Of Chitosan-Encapsulated Mango Leaf Extract Oemulsion As Fruit Packaging, Panji Setya Utama Putra, Damar Rastri Adhika, Lia Amelia Tresna Wulan Asri

Chimica et Natura Acta

Fruits have a relatively short shelf life. One of the extensively researched preservation methods for fruits is edible coating. Edible coating is a method of coating food products with a polymer layer. Considering the environmental and sustainability aspects, edible coatings were synthesized from biodegradable polymers derived from polysaccharides. Chitosan is a widely developed and researched type of biopolymer due to its antimicrobial activity. In addition to antimicrobial activity, antioxidant properties are important in food packaging applications. Mango leaves (Mangifera indica L.) contain various secondary metabolites that play a role in antioxidant activity, such as mangiferin, gallic acid, flavonoids, and gallotanin. …

Exploring The Synergistic Effect Of Curcumin On Gelatin Films For Real-Time Pork Freshness Assessment, Risna Erni Yati Adu, Gebhardus Djugian Gelyaman, Kristoforus Wilson Kia, Emirensiana Oki, Maria Desi Silab, Angelina Knaofmone

Chimica et Natura Acta

A smart film based on hydromethanol-curcumin has been developed as a freshness detector for local packaged pork. It was fabricated using solution casting method by varying the curcumin content to determine its effect on the chemical, physical, mechanical and functional characteristics of the film. Film characteristics were determined using colorimeter, TGA, FTIR, SEM and bioactivity assay. Film response was analyzed in different pH buffer solutions, different acid base media and pork samples during the storage period. Film characteristics such as antioxidant, antibacterial activity and surface color was improved by increasing curcumin concentration. On the other hand, mechanical dan physicochemical characteristics …

Network Pharmacology Of Ki Encok (Plumbago Zeylanica Linn) Plant As A Treatment For Osteoarthritis, Mitayani Purwoko, Trisnawati Mundijo, Yoshiko Widyadi

Chimica et Natura Acta

One of the plants in Indonesia used by the community to treat gout or Osteoarthritis (OA) is the Ki Encok plant (Plumbago zeylanica Linn). However, it is currently unknown what active substances play a role in the therapy process for gout or OA and what the pathway is. This study aimed to predict the pharmacological mechanism of the active content of Encok leaves against OA disease. This study used an in silico experimental test. The content of active plant substances was extracted from IMPPAT and KNAPSACK. Then, the target proteins of all these active substances were searched for, including target …

Taking From The Most Vulnerable: Legal Implications Of Seizing Federal Benefits From Foster Kids, Lucy Johnston-Walsh

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Assimmigration Matrix: Dismantling Families And Assimilating The Children Left Behind, Jamie C. Cooper

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

High And Dry: Evaluating Solutions To Cannabis Affiliated Business' Inability To Obtain Bankruptcy Protections, Grace E. Paul

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Glycoside Hydrolase-Mediated Glucomannan Catabolism In Segatella Copri, A Target Of Microbiota-Directed Foods For Malnourished Children, Cyrus Zhou, Matthew C Hibberd, Evan M Lee, Suzanne Henrissat, Marie A Crane, Jiye Cheng, Michael J Barratt, Jeffrey I Gordon, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Evidence is emerging that perturbed postnatal gut microbiota development is causally related to childhood undernutrition. Clinical trials in undernourished Bangladeshi children found that a polysaccharide-rich, microbiota-directed complementary food (MDCF-2) designed to repair this perturbation produced superior ponderal and linear growth compared to a standard ready-to-use supplementary food. Subsequent analyses disclosed several candidate bioactive polysaccharides in the MDCF and their bacterial targets, notably strains of

In Silico Approach Of Flavonol In Hibiscus Sabdariffa As Proteasome Inhibitors Targeting The Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway, Nur Amalia Choironi, Syakhsiyatunnisa Galuh Prameswari, Hanif Nasiatul Baroroh

Chimica et Natura Acta

Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer characterized by the abnormal proliferation of B cells that accumulate in the bone marrow. The proliferation of these cells depends on the role of the proteasome through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway to degrade proteins that regulate the cell cycle, apoptosis, and stress response. The proteasome is the main target of proteasome inhibitors for the treatment of multiple myeloma. Flavonoid compounds in Hibiscus sabdariffa flowers, such as isoquercitrin, quercitrin, quercetagetin, isorhamnetin, and astragalin, have the potential to act as proteasome inhibitors. The insilico study aims to determine the potential of these compounds as proteasome inhibitors based …

Translational Ultrasound-Photoacoustic Imaging For Quantitative And Functional Cancer Diagnosis, Yixiao Lin

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide, underscoring the need for imaging technologies that provide both structural and functional insights into cancer biology. Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), which detects ultrasonic signals generated by optical absorption, combines the strengths of both modalities, achieving optical contrast with ultrasonic resolution and depth. When co-registered with ultrasound (US), the hybrid US-PAI platform offers a unique combination of high-resolution anatomical and functional imaging that can improve cancer diagnosis, characterization, and treatment monitoring. This dissertation explores the clinical translation of US-PAI through innovations in imaging system design, computational analysis, and clinical validation across three major cancer …

Integrating Molecular Electrochemical Insights And Device Engineering: Innovations In Organic Redox Flow Batteries, Methanol-Hydrogen Peroxide Fuel Cells, And Electrochemical Hydrogen Pumps, Kritika Sharma

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation presents an integrative study of molecular and device-level engineering strategies in advanced electrochemical energy technologies, addressing key challenges across organic redox flow batteries (ORFBs), direct methanol hydrogen peroxide fuel cells (DMHPFCs), and electrochemical hydrogen pumps (EHPs). First, the influence of electrolyte pH and salt anion chemistry on redox-active organic cations (BTMAP-Fc and BTMAP-Vi) is elucidated, identifying solvent reorganizational energy (λ) as a universal descriptor for optimal electrolyte selection in ORFBs. Detailed characterization reveals that low pH methanesulfonate or chloride counterions offer superior balance of kinetic and transport properties, facilitating efficient energy storage using earth-abundant elements. Second, a modified …

Geoscience Letters: From Founding Vision To Shaping The Future Of Geoscience, James Terry, Cheng‐Ku Yu

All Works

No abstract provided.

Avant-Garde Architectural Influences In Japanese Cinema: The Influences Of Kenzo Tange And Archigram, Aissatou L. Balde, Ehsan Sheikholharam Ma

Symposium of Student Scholars

Kenzo Tange and Metabolists created a blueprint for utopian and organic urban futures in postwar Japan, inspiring the fictional worlds of Japanese cinema and animation, from Akira’s cyber-punk cityscapes to Howl’s Moving Castle’s urban mobility. These futuristic cities have a lot in common with Archigram in their “Walking City” concept. While Metabolists focused on cities that could grow and change like living organisms, Archigram took it further by designing robot-like megastructures that could walk across the planet. Neither group built most of their ideas, but both used imaginative designs to rethink how cities could work in a fast-changing world. These …

The Evolution And Impact Of The Token Black Friend Trope In American Media, Sophie E. Rice, Kurt Milberger

Symposium of Student Scholars

Abstract

This research explores the history of the token Black friend trope in American media and how these misrepresentations continue to influence popular culture and negatively impact Black Americans. Historically, the token Black friend stereotype singles out Black characters to fill gaps in the plot through comedy, intelligence, or self-sacrifice, all while being excluded from the white protagonist’s larger narrative. The prevalence of this trope is apparent through several contemporary and classic examples, which are used to evaluate the effects of the token Black friend trope on American culture. To deconstruct these misrepresentations, this essay supplements these examples with scholarship …

Sacred Sounds And Profane Places, Denaesia Robinson, Ehsan Sheikholharam Ma

Symposium of Student Scholars

Life is comprised of many moments big and small and each of these moments help to shape people into who they are and who they will become. These moments constitute self or Home for individuals. The idea of homelessness is the plight many humans face during their lifetime. This feeling of being lost leads many on a journey of discovery where people seek themselves or a feeling of belonging (Home). Those who suffer from the metaphysical sense of homelessness go on journeys looking for the sacred and sometimes they find it in the profane.

In history we learn about how …

Nursing At Summer Camp: Piloting A Novel Clinical Rotation Experience For Undergraduates In Pediatrics, Vanessa Lugo

CompassPoint

Nursing schools have traditionally relied on inpatient settings as the primary venue for clinical placement for undergraduate courses. However, the availability of clinical placement sites has diminished in recent years for reasons that include faculty retirements, problems with administrative support and coordination in large hospital systems, and intensified competition among health-profession schools for a limited pool of rotation sites (Chesney et al., 2021; American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2022). Clinical placement sites became especially sparse during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many facilities prohibited on-site student instruction (Kaveh et al., 2022; Ridgway et al., 2022). Nursing schools in rural areas …

Talkin' 'Bout My Genderation: The Effect Of Gender Bias On Arbitral Representation, Amy E. Allen

Washington Journal of Social & Environmental Justice

Gender bias is rampant in all industries, and the world of arbitration is no exception. For decades, members of the field of arbitration have debated the suitability of women as arbitrators. This led to a broader discussion regarding different styles of arbitration, how or if these styles are related to the gender of the arbitrator, and whether one arbitration style is more effective than others. This paper begins with a brief assessment of the history of arbitration, as well as a more focused overview of the history of women in arbitration. Next, the paper questions the reasons for gender disparity …

De Facto Death Sentences For Misdemeanor Offenses: A Right To Medication For Opioid Use Disorder Induction Under The Washington Law Against Discrimination, Alena R. Sharp

Washington Journal of Social & Environmental Justice

The opioid crisis remains one of the deadliest public health emergencies in the United States, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities, including people in the criminal legal system. Medication for opioid use disorder is the recognized standard of care for treating opioid use disorder. Despite the fact that medications have also been shown to reduce overdose deaths and relapse rates, many prisons and jails continue to impose blanket prohibitions on medications for opioid use disorder for nonpregnant individuals, placing them at an elevated risk for acute withdrawal, suicide, and fatal overdose.

This comment examines the systemic barriers to access medication for opioid …

The Validity Of The Hots-Oriented Question Instrument On The Application Of Pancasila In Daily Life In Class Iv Elementary School, Aprilia Dista Lutvitasari, Sri Untari, Didik Sukriono, Mardhatillah Mardhatillah

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Pancasila education is one of the subjects that teaches the importance of understanding values in the surrounding environment. Understanding this value requires a higher order thinking process (HOTS), especially in grade IV elementary school as the beginning of the higher grades. The purpose of the research is to develop five items of HOTS-oriented question instruments in the material of daily application of Pancasila in grade IV that are valid according to elementary school teachers. The research method used is RnD with the ADDIE model (analyze, design, develop, implement, evaluate). The validation results show the first item question is 0.90 very …

Wmdds Bulletin Holiday 2025

West Michigan District Dental Society Bulletin

In the Holiday 2025 issue, the reader will find articles detailing the recipients of West Michigan Dental Foundation's 2025 grants and scholarships. Also included are your monthly tripartite update, news from West Michigan counties, "Pearls from Local Dentists", the President's Message, and the Editor's Letter, which includes a number of local charities to donate to in the season of giving.

Noda News December 2025

New Orleans Dental Association News

New Orleans Dental Association (NODA) News includes regular columns with regional news impacting the New Orleans membership including: columns from the President and Executive Director, feature articles relating to the field of dentistry, association events and upcoming activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

Bcai – Project-First Ai Business Creation Platform: Defensive Publication (3 December 2025), Clinton Orah

Defensive Publications Series

This document publicly discloses a novel artificial intelligence-powered business

development platform that implements a Project-First Architecture for guiding

entrepreneurs through the complete startup lifecycle — from ideation to market

launch. The system integrates sequential phase-locked workflows, AI

orchestration agents, gamified progress tracking, and hybrid monetization

models to create a comprehensive digital co-founder experience. This publication

establishes prior art for the described innovations.

System And Method For Dynamic Memory Optimization And Secure Auxiliary Partitioning On Emv Chip Cards”, Ananya Verma, Raouf Khan

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method and a system for dynamic memory optimization and secure auxiliary partitioning on the EMV chip cards. The method includes detecting EMV card memory conditions and identifying low-entropy EMV data regions eligible for compression. The method includes performing memory compression and defragmentation to free space for auxiliary data storage while preserving EMV application integrity. The method includes allocating a Secure Auxiliary Partition (SAP) using recovered memory and enforcing access-restricted memory mapping. The method includes generating a context-bound cryptographic key for encrypting auxiliary records based on transaction metadata or service identifiers. The method includes writing encrypted …

Interactive Photo Exploration Agent With Chained Language Model Calls, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

Some photo library applications provide a conversational interface that enables users to retrieve photos that match their query. However, current interfaces are not multi-turn and are limited to retrieval and cannot automatically perform generation tasks. This disclosure describes an interactive, conversational interface for a digital photo library that allows users to explore their photos using natural language and receive generative, insightful answers. The exploration is multi-turn and multimodal, and is powered by a multimodal large language model (LLM). With user permission, the LLM is employed to interpret both the user's query (e.g., entered as free-form text) and the content of …

Generating Interactive, Llm-Driven Annotations For Inclusion In Digital Image Files, Ilia Labzovsky, Danny Karmon

Defensive Publications Series

While photographs capture visual information, they lack depth and interactivity. Contextual information, memories, stories, and related data associated with a photograph are external to the image file itself, and are scattered across applications, cloud services, or within the user’s mind. This disclosure describes techniques to enhance a digital image by automatically generating interactive annotations using a large language model (LLM) and incorporating the annotations into the image. Entities within a photo are identified and an LLM is instructed to generate an annotation object for the recognized entities. The annotation object is a self-contained package of data and instructions that specifies …

Integrating Generative Animations Of Photographs Into A Coherent Video Journey, Ilia Labzovsky, Danny Karmon

Defensive Publications Series

Users enjoy creating slideshows, animated videos, etc. that capture their trips. Current techniques to prepare such creations are limited by the content of the captured photographs and user knowledge of such features. This disclosure describes the use of artificial intelligence to automatically generate a dynamic video journey from a collection of user photographs. With user permission, an artificial intelligence model performs semantic analysis of user photos to infer the user’s geographic path during the photo capture journey. A generative video model accesses street-level images along the path and synthesizes a base video that simulates first-person movement along the path. The …

Ink And Ignorance: How Limitations In Research, Captivity And Recognition Obscure Cephalopod Science, Jacob Weniger

Saint John’s Preparatory School Student Work

This paper analyzes what the limitations are in modern ocean research and how they relate to the study of cephalopods. To understand this, the paper reviews many known cephalopod species to understand what is unknown about their biology. Research was then conducted to assess why certain aspects of species are unknown. Then each gap the specifications of the limitation and the solutions or strategies to overcome them was examined. This led to examinations of research tools, analysis bias, and public views. Understanding these issues is of great importance because it gives a comprehensive lay out of what needs to be …

How Did Creative Expression Impact Advocacy And Accessibility For Female Reproductive Freedom During Second Wave Feminism In America?, Vivian Fitch

Saint John’s Preparatory School Student Work

This paper analyzes how poetry, visual art, and rhetoric have impacted accessibility for female reproductive freedom. The time period is 1960s through the 1990s; referred to as second wave feminism. The feminist art pieces examined are mediums such as poetry, visual art, and rhetoric. To find the implication of these art forms, I inspected each form of art and focused on literary devices, artistic technique, and Aristotle’s method for persuasive language. I conclude that art has a deep emotional, social, and legal effect on society. This art is accessible, conveys a clear point, and is rhetorically complex, which inspired change …