A method for the simultaneous determination of the colorants Sunset Yellow FCF and Quinoline Yellow using solid-phase spectrophotometry is proposed. The colorants were isolated in Sephadex DEAE A-25 gel at pH 5.0, the gel-colorants system was packed in a 1 mm silica cell and spectra were recorded between 400 and 600 nm against a blank. Statistical results were obtained by partial least squares ...

OBJECTIVES This study tested the efficacy of an 8-week, culturally targeted community-based nutrition and physical activity promotion intervention, Fight Cancer with Fitness! (FCF). METHODS A randomized, controlled trial was conducted in a black-owned commercial gym in a sample of 366 predominantly overweight or obese, healthy African-American women. RESULTS Dietary quality as indexed by fr...

Introduction The PCM/FM detection system is shown in Fig. 1. The PCM signal is shaped using a premodulation filter, then frequency modulated and transmitted through a channel with additive gaussian noise. The received signal and noise are shaped by a predetection filter. The PCM waveform is recovered using an FM demodulator such as the discriminator, PLL or FCF, and then passed through a PCM De...

One of the funding sources was omitted from the Acknowledgments list. The corrected list is as follows. This work was supported by the Brazilian organizations Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) 2011/18038-9, Rede Nacional de Métodos Alternativos—Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (RENAMA-CNPq) 403586/2012-7 and Programa de Apoio ao Desenvolvi...

A visit to Bristol is for me always a delightful experience, even when the pleasure is somewhat tempered by the responsibility of having to talk for a short time to such a distinguished audience as that I see before me today. When I come to Bristol I feel I am entering a city with all the qualities of an old capital of the west country. Its history goes back into the distant past, and the story...

For a reliable fully-relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green function method, an accurate solution of the underlying single-site scattering problem is necessary. We present an extensive discussion on numerical solutions of the related differential equations by means of standard methods for a direct solution and by means of integral equations. Our implementation is tested and exemplarily demon...

Green’s Theorem is another higher dimensional analogue of the fundamental theorem of calculus: it relates the line integral of a vector field around a plane curve to a double integral of “the derivative” of the vector field in the interior of the curve. It admits two different but completely equivalent formulations, a “flux” version for normal line integrals and a “circulation” version for tang...

Low impact development (LID) is generally regarded as a more sustainable solution for urban stormwater management than conventional urban drainage systems. However, its effects on urban flooding at a scale of urban drainage systems have not been fully understood particularly when different rainfall characteristics are considered. In this paper, using an urbanizing catchment in China as a case s...

Blu Homes, an innovative housing company based in the Boston, is looking forward to having the opportunities to expand its customer base on the West Coast. The company sells durable, energy-efficient prefabrication homes and has several million dollars of revenue annually. Blu Homes has a concrete mission to build super-efficient prefabrication green homes by leveraging their leading-edge techn...