To start this discussion meeting on the new chemistry of the elements held on 12 May 2014, Martyn Poliakoff, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, was invited to give the opening remarks. As a chemist and a presenter of the popular online video channel 'The periodic table of videos', Martyn communicates his personal and professional interest in the elements to the public, who in turn use thes...

In this study, an extraction method and environmental scanning electron microscopy (SEM) are employed to reveal the changes in the occurrence mode of fluorine in a coal-fired power plant in Inner Mongolia, China. The different occurrence states of fluorine during coal combustion and emission show that fluorine in coal mainly assumes insoluble inorganic mineral forms. The results illustrate that...

Cigar smoking is increasingly common among adolescents who perceive cigars as less harmful than cigarettes. This perception of reduced harm is especially true for cigars that are user-modified by removing the tobacco binder through a process called 'freaking'. Little is known about 'freaking' and this multi-study, mixed-methods analysis sought to understand better the rationale and prevailing b...

In the city of Vienna approximately 1 Million ton of waste is incinerated annually. Therefore 13 lines of waste incineration including fluidized bed incinerators, rotary kilns and grate furnaces are in operation. Beside municipal solid waste, hazardous waste as well as communal sewage sludge is utilized. All incinerator lines use a wet flue gas cleaning system. Based on the determination of the...

This research examined bias and accuracy in judging hostile and benevolent sexism during mixedgender interactions. Bias is defined as underestimation or overestimation of a partner’s sexism. Accuracy is defined as covariation in two different ways, as (a) the strength of the association between a dyad member’s judgment and their partner’s sexism, across dyads, and (b) the ability to differentia...

Students from three disciplines designed, developed, and implemented exercise and nutrition interventions, online modules and videos, to benefit low-income middle school students. The process used to incorporate the scholarship of teaching ito a collaborative college-level application of learning is described.

As the world largest video content sharing website, YouTube constantly attracts more and more attention from networking research community. Different aspects of YouTube, such as video characteristics, user behaviors, and its back-end infrastructure have been well studied. Most of these studies consider YouTube as a whole without taking the YouTube category into the consideration. However, it is...

We ran a problem-based seminar with screen capture videos. The students worked in small groups of two or three students or they completed the coursework individually. In this seminar the students had a workspace in the Optima environment for publishing their coursework videos. At the final phase of the course the students were expected to familiarize themselves with the presentations of other g...

INTRODUCTION A major outbreak of West Nile Virus was seen last year in different parts of the United States. Adequate dissemination of correct information about the disease would have helped decrease its spread and the associated panic in the general population. In this study, we looked into the use of YouTube as a resource for providing information about West Nile Virus infection. OBJECTIVE ...