Rice straw, an agricultural waste product generated in huge quantities worldwide, is utilized to remediate diesel pollution as it possesses excellent characteristics a natural sorbent. This study aimed optimize factors that significantly influence the sorption capacity and efficiency of oil absorption from diesel-polluted seawater by rice straw (RS). Spectroscopic analysis attenuated total refl...

UNLABELLED Pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD) is a severely debilitating illness, which is characterized by episodes of mania and depression separated by periods of remission. Previous fMRI studies investigating PBD were mainly task-related. However, little is known about the abnormalities in PBD, especially during resting state. Resting state brain activity measured by fMRI might help to explore...

The polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) is a critical regulator of cell division that is overexpressed in many types of tumors. Thus, a strategy in the treatment of cancer has been to target the kinase activity (ATPase domain) or substrate-binding domain (Polo-box Domain, PBD) of Plk1. However, only few synthetic small molecules have been identified that target the Plk1-PBD. Here, we have applied an inte...

Development and differentiation of lateral thyroid were investigated histologically upon the serial sections of the rat embryos. On the 11th day of gestation, the "third pharyngobranchial duct" (3. PBD) develops from the third pouch and elongates rapidly downward. The "fourth pharyngobranchial duct" (4. PBD) develops transversally from the 4th pouch on the same day. Median thyroid forms the div...

11 This study examined whether processing of emotional words impairs cognitive performance in acutely ill patients with 12 pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD), with or without comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), relative to 13 healthy controls (HC). Forty youths with PBD without ADHD, 20 youths with PBD and ADHD, and 29 HC (mean 14 age5 12.976 3.13) performed a Synonym Matchi...

BACKGROUND Lead-contaminated house dust is a major source of lead exposure for children in the United States. In 1999-2004, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) collected dust lead (PbD) loading samples from the homes of children 12-60 months of age. OBJECTIVES In this study we aimed to compare national PbD levels with existing health-based standards and to identify h...

Does privacy protection matter in the internet of things (IoT) including consumer electronics (CE)? So what is privacy, how is it valued and where does it sit in your organization today? Chances are if you don’t have a chief privacy officer or data protection officer, your company is lacking in protecting critical data, let alone all the laws and statutory regulations dealing with privacy (e.g....

Fermented products are permanently under the attention of scientists and consumers, both due to nutritional importance health promoting effects. The fermented functional foods contribute a more balanced diet increase immune responses (among many other effects) with positive implications for quality life. In this sense, improving sourdough’s fermentation boost biotic (postbiotic paraprobiotic) p...

BACKGROUND A recent Cochrane Review found that preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) in patients with resectable pancreatic and periampullary cancer undergoing surgery for obstructive jaundice is associated with similar mortality but increased serious morbidity compared with no PBD. Despite this clinical evidence of its lack of effectiveness, PBD is still in use. We considered the economic implic...

Membrane Assisted Solvent Extraction (MASE) was applied as an extraction and enrichment technique of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from tea infusions fruit/herbal-tea beverages. PAHs have been separated detected by high performance liquid chromatography coupled to a fluorescence detector (HPLC-FLD). Variables affecting MASE comprising temperature time, stirring rate, acceptor solvent ...