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Cardiovascular Variability, Sociodemographics, And Biomarkers Of Disease: The Midus Study, Tara Gruenewald, Teresa E. Seeman, Tse-Hwei Choo, Jennifer Scodes, Clayton Snider, Martina Pavlicova, Maxine Weinstein, Joseph E. Schwartz, Ramakrishna Mukkamala, Richard P. Sloan Aug 2023

Cardiovascular Variability, Sociodemographics, And Biomarkers Of Disease: The Midus Study, Tara Gruenewald, Teresa E. Seeman, Tse-Hwei Choo, Jennifer Scodes, Clayton Snider, Martina Pavlicova, Maxine Weinstein, Joseph E. Schwartz, Ramakrishna Mukkamala, Richard P. Sloan

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

Introduction: Like heart rate, blood pressure (BP) is not steady but varies over intervals as long as months to as short as consecutive cardiac cycles. This blood pressure variability (BPV) consists of regularly occurring oscillations as well as less well-organized changes and typically is computed as the standard deviation of multiple clinic visit-to-visit (VVV-BP) measures or from 24-h ambulatory BP recordings (ABPV). BP also varies on a beat-to-beat basis, quantified by methods that parse variation into discrete bins, e.g., low frequency (0.04–0.15 Hz, LF). However, beat-to-beat BPV requires continuous recordings that are not easily acquired. As a result, we …

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Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Lavish Photo Book Documents Lds Life Aug 2023

Lavish Photo Book Documents Lds Life

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Time Warner has just published a beautiful book of photographs that gives the world a glimpse into the lives and beliefs of Latter-day Saints. The Mission contains the work of fifty world-class photographers who traveled extensively around the world in the course of a year, documenting the people, history, culture, rituals, and beliefs of the global Church. It was produced with considerable cooperation from the Church and includes a preface written by President Gordon B. Hinckley. It is remarkably accurate for a work by outsiders and its tone is sympathetic to the beliefs and life-styles of members, reflecting no doubt …

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Brown Bags Continue Aug 2023

Brown Bags Continue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Rocks, radar, and writers--these have been the topics of the most recent presentations at the FARMS brown bag seminar at BYU. John L. Sorenson, professor emeritus of Anthropology at BYU, spoke about writers, or more accurately, about the authorship of the Book of Mormon. He pointed out that Joseph Smith apparently thought that the Book of Mormon applied to all of North and South America, yet the book fits only a limited Mesoamerican setting. If Joseph had made up the setting or used what he knew about the world, it would not have matched so well a part of the …

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Review Continues Picks And Pans, Larry K. Smith Aug 2023

Review Continues Picks And Pans, Larry K. Smith

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The most highly recommended item in the latest Review of Books on the Book of Mormon (volume 7, number 2) is not a single book but a resource library of books on CD-ROM, the LDS Collectors Edition from Infobases. Editor Daniel Peterson gives it three stars (out of a possible four stars) for its usefulness to the student of the scriptures, and reviewer Larry K. Smith calls it a "quantum leap forward" for study and research on the scriptures and related topics because it brings together such a large quantity of good books at such a low price (less than …

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Elder L. Tom Perry Examines The Personalities Involved In The Translation Of The Book Of Mormon And In The Restoration Of The Church Aug 2023

Elder L. Tom Perry Examines The Personalities Involved In The Translation Of The Book Of Mormon And In The Restoration Of The Church

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

In his address to the friends and supporters of FARMS at the Foundation's 1995 annual banquet, Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve expressed his interest in the human chemistry found in organizations and examined the early history of the Church from this perspective. He spoke of the challenges that Joseph Smith faced as a young husband with a skeptical father-in-law who thought Joseph should be doing something more productive than sitting around the house translating golden plates. He reflected on the challenges that Martin Harris faced in helping to finance the work on the Book of …

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“A Dance-Like Glory That Those Walls Begot”: Yeats, Coole Park And The “Spacious Forms” Of Inspiration, James Pethica Aug 2023

“A Dance-Like Glory That Those Walls Begot”: Yeats, Coole Park And The “Spacious Forms” Of Inspiration, James Pethica

International Yeats Studies

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Retracted: Fabrication And Characterization Of Wood Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, Firoz Ahmed, Omar Faroque, Saif Hasan, Khan Rajib Hossain, Rezaul Karim Sheikh Aug 2023

Retracted: Fabrication And Characterization Of Wood Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, Firoz Ahmed, Omar Faroque, Saif Hasan, Khan Rajib Hossain, Rezaul Karim Sheikh

Al-Bahir

Wood-polymer composites (WPCs) combine the properties of wood and polymers. Creating composites involves adding plant or wood fibers as fillers to a polymer matrix. This study used mahogany and mango wood sawdust as reinforcement materials, while high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) were used as matrices. The investigated data in this study comprises four different (10, 20, 30, and 40) weight percentages (wt%) of mahogany and mango sawdust paired with corresponding wt% (90, 80, 70, and60) of HDPE and PVC matrices. The extrusion method produced composites with different amounts of sawdust and polymer matrices. Wood polymer composites were characterized …

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Hypertrophy As Nato’S Masculinity: Out-Of-Area Operations And Enlargements In The Post-Cold War Context, Carlos González-Villa, Branislav Radeljić Aug 2023

Hypertrophy As Nato’S Masculinity: Out-Of-Area Operations And Enlargements In The Post-Cold War Context, Carlos González-Villa, Branislav Radeljić

Journal of International Women's Studies

The Russian intervention in Ukraine in February 2022 has served as a catalyst or actualizer of a long-standing trend in NATO: that of justifying its existence by its geographical expansion. This is both in organic terms, through the incorporation of new states into its structure, and in operational terms, through the execution of so-called out-of-area operations, and the intensification of its rivalry with Russia. This dynamic, which has been firmly established since the mid-1990s, has been overridden by the growing contradictions between the interests of its members, the successive changes in US administrations, and the transformation of the international system, …

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Peripheral And Gender Perspectives: The Russia-Ukraine War And Africa’S Response And Impact, Osman Antwi-Boateng, Mohammed Huwaishel Al Nuaimi Aug 2023

Peripheral And Gender Perspectives: The Russia-Ukraine War And Africa’S Response And Impact, Osman Antwi-Boateng, Mohammed Huwaishel Al Nuaimi

Journal of International Women's Studies

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most African countries avoided open alignment with either Russia or Ukraine, favoring a wait-and-see approach until the situation’s consequences for African households, energy security, and the agricultural sector became more evident. Using the nexus between world systems and dependency theories as an analytical tool, this study examines how African governments have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how the continent has been affected by the war. This examination is accomplished via a qualitative analysis of primary data such as reports issued by independent international organizations, think tanks, and media houses. Furthermore, the analysis …

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Women In The War: A Gendered Analysis Of Media Coverage Of The Russian-Ukraine War, Ayo Oyeleye, Shujun Jiang Aug 2023

Women In The War: A Gendered Analysis Of Media Coverage Of The Russian-Ukraine War, Ayo Oyeleye, Shujun Jiang

Journal of International Women's Studies

In recent years several commentators have observed the trend of mainstream media ignoring and distorting women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflicts. Both in the reporting and the wider discourse about conflicts, women tend to be cast less as political actors and more as helpless victims, often paired with children in accounts of war incidents. Carolina Marques de Mesquita (2016), in her study of media coverage of recent wars and conflicts, observed that while major media outlets tend to represent the scale of violence in a conflict through the harm and death inflicted on women, they are otherwise often neglected. …

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The Russia-Ukraine War: Geopolitical And Gendered Impact On The Greater Middle East, Muhamad S. Olimat Aug 2023

The Russia-Ukraine War: Geopolitical And Gendered Impact On The Greater Middle East, Muhamad S. Olimat

Journal of International Women's Studies

The Greater Middle Eastern Region is composed of the Levant, the Arab Gulf Region, North Africa, and Central Asia. It represents a geopolitical region and cultural civilization that is at the heart of global affairs. Its geostrategic location made it vulnerable throughout history to political, security, economic, and cultural developments. The region is heavily influenced by the current war in Ukraine, and the aim of this article is to explore its consequences in terms of political implications, security, economic and energy considerations, and socio-cultural impact, with a special attention to the gendered impacts of the war on the region.

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Special Issue Introduction: The Impact Of The Russia-Ukraine War On Global And Gender Affairs, Muhamad S. Olimat, Osman Antwi-Boateng, Narayanappa Janardhan Aug 2023

Special Issue Introduction: The Impact Of The Russia-Ukraine War On Global And Gender Affairs, Muhamad S. Olimat, Osman Antwi-Boateng, Narayanappa Janardhan

Journal of International Women's Studies

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Evaluation Of Reliability Indices For Gas Turbines Based On The Johnson Sb Distribution: Towards Practical Development, Elbar Mohamed, Djeddi Ahmed Zohair, Ahmed Hafaifa, Charrak Naas, Abdelhamid Iratni, Ilhami Colak Aug 2023

Evaluation Of Reliability Indices For Gas Turbines Based On The Johnson Sb Distribution: Towards Practical Development, Elbar Mohamed, Djeddi Ahmed Zohair, Ahmed Hafaifa, Charrak Naas, Abdelhamid Iratni, Ilhami Colak

Emirates Journal for Engineering Research

Recent advancements in computer engineering have provided effective solutions for processing and analyzing complex systems and big data. Consequently, the adjustment and standardization of this data play a crucial role in addressing issues related to the monitoring of industrial systems. In this study, we propose a reliability approach for gas turbines to identify and characterize their degradation using operational data. We introduce a method for adjusting turbine reliability data, which resolves the challenges associated with the nature of these operating data. This enables us to determine a mathematical function that models the relationships between turbine reliability parameters and evaluate the …

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Machine Learning For Low Signal-To-Noise Ratio Detection, Fred Lacy, Angel Ruiz-Reyes, Anthony Brescia Aug 2023

Machine Learning For Low Signal-To-Noise Ratio Detection, Fred Lacy, Angel Ruiz-Reyes, Anthony Brescia

Faculty Publications

Sensor networks collect data that is often contaminated by noise. Therefore, it is often necessary to analyze sensor data to determine if a signal is present. This research project utilizes a machine learning algorithm that is able to detect a signal in the presence of noise. The algorithm incorporates the long short-term memory (LSTM) method to determine the presence or absence of a signal in the midst of white Gaussian noise. This machine learning approach was tested with computer generated data and has an accuracy of at least 98% for signal-to-noise levels greater than -12 dB. Furthermore, this algorithm can …

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Spartan Daily, August 23, 2023, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Aug 2023

Spartan Daily, August 23, 2023, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2023

Volume 161, Issue 02

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Researchers Identify Unusually Large Bloom Of Brown Algae In Gulf Of Maine, Robbin Ray Aug 2023

Researchers Identify Unusually Large Bloom Of Brown Algae In Gulf Of Maine, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Driven By Passion For Technology, Computer Science Student Lands Internship At Amazon, Tehreem Khan Aug 2023

Driven By Passion For Technology, Computer Science Student Lands Internship At Amazon, Tehreem Khan

Browse All News

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2023 Cash Lease Adjustments For Irrigation Equipment On Cropland Rental Arrangements In Nebraska, Jim Jansen, Jeffrey Stokes Aug 2023

2023 Cash Lease Adjustments For Irrigation Equipment On Cropland Rental Arrangements In Nebraska, Jim Jansen, Jeffrey Stokes

Cornhusker Economics

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey and Report 2022-2023 provides insight into recent trends in the market value of agricultural land and cash rental rates across the state. Each year, the special feature section covers topics on new or emerging issues related to the agricultural land industry in Nebraska. These topics reflect the interest expressed by panel members and readership of the Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Highlights Reports. The 2023 special feature section focuses on cash lease adjustments on irrigation equipment for cropland rental arrangements across Nebraska when the tenant provides a component of the …

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Intelligent Driver Sleep Detection And Alerting System, Athukoralage Awarjana Madubhani Perera, Nimesh N. Pollwaththage, Dhishan Dhammearatchi Aug 2023

Intelligent Driver Sleep Detection And Alerting System, Athukoralage Awarjana Madubhani Perera, Nimesh N. Pollwaththage, Dhishan Dhammearatchi

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Transportation has already become a vital part of the daily routine of people all around the world. With the increasing demand for transportation, road traffic accidents have also been increasing exponentially. Further, road traffic accidents are found to be one of the critical causes of annual deaths, injuries, and damages worldwide. Among the minor and fatal crashes, distracted driving has been identified as one of the leading causes. Sleepiness/drowsiness or fatigue in drivers can be stated as the most common reasons, and as an unavoidable and unintentional cause for distraction, because most of the time the driver would not be …

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Monodisperse Sub-100 Nm Au Nanoshells For Low-Fluence Deep-Tissue Photoacoustic Imaging, Luis D.B. Manuel, Vinoin Devpaul Vincely, Carolyn L. Bayer, Kevin M. Mcpeak Aug 2023

Monodisperse Sub-100 Nm Au Nanoshells For Low-Fluence Deep-Tissue Photoacoustic Imaging, Luis D.B. Manuel, Vinoin Devpaul Vincely, Carolyn L. Bayer, Kevin M. Mcpeak

Faculty Publications

Nanoparticles with high absorption cross sections will advance therapeutic and bioimaging nanomedicine technologies. While Au nanoshells have shown great promise in nanomedicine, state-of-the-art synthesis methods result in scattering-dominant particles, mitigating their efficacy in absorption-based techniques that leverage the photothermal effect, such as photoacoustic (PA) imaging. We introduce a highly reproducible synthesis route to monodisperse sub-100 nm Au nanoshells with an absorption-dominant optical response. Au nanoshells with 48 nm SiO2 cores and 7 nm Au shells show a 14-fold increase in their volumetric absorption coefficient compared to commercial Au nanoshells with dimensions commonly used in nanomedicine. PA imaging with Au nanoshell …

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Comparing Polytechnic And Liberal Arts Institutions: Leaks In The System, Ryan Drew Baldwin Aug 2023

Comparing Polytechnic And Liberal Arts Institutions: Leaks In The System, Ryan Drew Baldwin

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The United States has long been a pioneer in higher education, yet the last few decades have proven challenging in maintaining its lead in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (STEM). Students entering postsecondary education and participating in a STEM degree face increased academic rigor and this study’s goal is to better understand factors that influence their retention. There are many psychosocial, environmental, and academic variables that may impact a student’s retention and this study aims to investigate how those variables inform a students likelihood of being retained and if there are meaningful differences between polytechnic and non-polytechnic institutions.

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Design And Implementation Of Environmental Management System (Ems) Using Iso 14001:2015 Standard In A Medical/Healthcare Organization, Mohammed Rizwan Mirajkar Aug 2023

Design And Implementation Of Environmental Management System (Ems) Using Iso 14001:2015 Standard In A Medical/Healthcare Organization, Mohammed Rizwan Mirajkar

Theses

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) have been widely implemented by organizations across various industries since late 1980s. The system comprises of policies, procedures, processes, and various documents and formats that are essential not only to attain governance within organizations but also establish a robust management system. In the last decade, the need to enhance environmental performance and achieve sustainability objectives has become a business imperative for organizations across the world. Organizations are mandated to comply with environmental requirements and regulations through contractual agreements between customers and their business partners. Globally, the ISO 14001:2015 standard in its current version is the most …

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Sediment Sorting Within A Relatively Wave-Exposed And Sandy Subtidal Seagrass (Zostera Marina) Meadow, Gerd Masselink Aug 2023

Sediment Sorting Within A Relatively Wave-Exposed And Sandy Subtidal Seagrass (Zostera Marina) Meadow, Gerd Masselink

Faculty of Science and Engineering Datasets

The sediment data set consists of a single spreadsheet with self-explanatory sheets. Sediments were collected from 64 sample locations. The samples were analysed in the laboratory by MSc student Tom Brown and his PhD thesis is included as it contains an extensive description of the analysis methods. Dataset Description: This is the full sediment data set collected in august 2020 from the Great Ganinick seagrass meadow in the isles of Scilly

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Ph Gradients In Spatially Non-Uniform Ac Electric Fields Around The Charging Frequency; A Study Of Two Different Geometries And Electrode Passivation, Azade Tahmasebi, Sanaz Habibi, Jeana Collins, Ran An, Esmaeil Dehdashti, Adrienne Minerick Aug 2023

Ph Gradients In Spatially Non-Uniform Ac Electric Fields Around The Charging Frequency; A Study Of Two Different Geometries And Electrode Passivation, Azade Tahmasebi, Sanaz Habibi, Jeana Collins, Ran An, Esmaeil Dehdashti, Adrienne Minerick

Michigan Tech Publications

Dielectrophoresis (DEP), a precision nonlinear electrokinetic tool utilized within microfluidic devices, can induce bioparticle polarization that manifests as motion in the electric field; this phenomenon has been leveraged for phenotypic cellular and biomolecular detection, making DEP invaluable for diagnostic applications. As device operation times lengthen, reproducibility and precision decrease, which has been postulated to be caused by ion gradients within the supporting electrolyte medium. This research focuses on characterizing pH gradients above, at, and below the electrode charging frequency (0.2–1.4 times charging frequency) in an aqueous electrolyte solution in order to extend the parameter space for which microdevice-imposed artifacts on …

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August 23, 2023, Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University Aug 2023

August 23, 2023, Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University

2023-2024

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Characteristics And Source-Specific Health Risks Of Ambient Pm2.5-Bound Pahs In An Urban City Of Northern Taiwan, Yu-Chieh Ting, Chun-Hung Ku, Yu-Xuan Zou, Kai-Hsien Chi, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chin-Yu Hsu, Yu-Cheng Chen Aug 2023

Characteristics And Source-Specific Health Risks Of Ambient Pm2.5-Bound Pahs In An Urban City Of Northern Taiwan, Yu-Chieh Ting, Chun-Hung Ku, Yu-Xuan Zou, Kai-Hsien Chi, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chin-Yu Hsu, Yu-Cheng Chen

Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Environmental Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with highly toxic compounds mainly exist in small-sized particles and can induce considerable human health risks. Studies on PM2.5-bound PAHs and their source-specific human health risks still remain scarce. Daily PM2.5 samples (n = 119) were collected every three days from 2016 to 2017 in Taipei city, Taiwan. Fifteen PAHs in PM2.5 were analyzed via gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (GC/MS-MS). We utilized a positive matrix factorization (PMF) model, diagnostic ratios, and potential source contribution function (PSCF) to identify the origins of PM2.5-bound PAHs. The annual concentration of total PAHs (TPAH) was 0.79 ± 0.67 ng …

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Hierarchical Based Classifcation Method Based On Fusion Ofgaussian Map Descriptors Foralzheimer Diagnosis Using T1‑Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nourhan Zayed, Shereen E. Morsy, Inas A. Yassine Aug 2023

Hierarchical Based Classifcation Method Based On Fusion Ofgaussian Map Descriptors Foralzheimer Diagnosis Using T1‑Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nourhan Zayed, Shereen E. Morsy, Inas A. Yassine

Mechanical Engineering

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is considered one of the most spouting elderly diseases. In 2015, AD is reported the US’s sixth cause of death. Substantially, non-invasive imaging is widely employed to provide biomarkers supporting AD screening, diagnosis, and progression. In this study, Gaussian descriptors-based features are proposed to be efcient new biomarkers using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) T1-weighted images to diferentiate between Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and Normal controls (NC). Several Gaussian map-based features are extracted such as Gaussian shape operator, Gaussian curvature, and mean curvature. The aforementioned features are then introduced to the Support Vector Machine (SVM). …

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Toward Understanding The Environmental Risks Of Combined Microplastics/Nanomaterials Exposures: Unveiling Zno Transformations After Adsorption Onto Polystyrene Microplastics In Environmental Solutions, Ma Gomez‐Gonzalez, Silva‐Ferreira T Da, Nathaniel Clark, Robert Clough, Paul D. Quinn, Julia E. Parker Aug 2023

Toward Understanding The Environmental Risks Of Combined Microplastics/Nanomaterials Exposures: Unveiling Zno Transformations After Adsorption Onto Polystyrene Microplastics In Environmental Solutions, Ma Gomez‐Gonzalez, Silva‐Ferreira T Da, Nathaniel Clark, Robert Clough, Paul D. Quinn, Julia E. Parker

School of Health Professions

AbstractOver recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the manufacture of engineered nanomaterials, which has inevitably led to their environmental release. Zinc oxide (ZnO) is among the more abundant nanomaterial manufactured due to its advantageous properties, used for piezoelectric, semiconducting, and antibacterial purposes. Plastic waste is ubiquitous and may break down or delaminate into smaller microplastics, leaving open the question of whether these small polymers may alter the fate of ZnO through adsorption within aquatic media (tap‐water and seawater). Here, scanning electron microscopy analysis confirms the effective Zn nano/microstructures adsorption onto polystyrene surfaces after only 24‐h incubation in …

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Euler Archive Spotlight: Translations Of Euler's Works To Languages Other Than English, Michael P. Saclolo Aug 2023

Euler Archive Spotlight: Translations Of Euler's Works To Languages Other Than English, Michael P. Saclolo

Euleriana

The Euler Archive is home to almost all of Euler’s original publications and roughly a quarter of them have accompanying translations to English. A small number of Euler’s works also have translations to a handful of other languages, namely, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish that are available in the archive. We put a spotlight on these non-English translations in this issue.

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