This qualitative study used critical ethnography as a theoretical framework to investigate the social coping strategies of gifted and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students in middle and high school. Twelve LGBTQ college students from a selective Southeastern university were interviewed and asked to retrospectively describe their experiences, feelings, and behaviors fro…
Large-scale tree plantations in high rainfall upstream areas can reduce fresh water inflows to river systems, thereby imposing external costs on downstream irrigation, stock and domestic water users and wetland interests. We take the novel approach of expressing all benefits and costs of establishing plantations in terms of $ per gigalitre (GL) of water removed annually from river flows, se…
In the past 30 years, several professional reference books on fruits and fruit processing have been published. The senior editor of this volume was part of an editorial team that published a two-volume text on the subject in the mid-nineties. It may not be appropriate for us to state the advantages of our book over the others available in the market, especially in contents; however, each profe…
In the past 30 years, several professional reference books on fruits and fruit processing have been published. The senior editor of this volume was part of an editorial team that published a two-volume text on the subject in the mid-nineties. It may not be appropriate for us to state the advantages of our book over the others available in the market, especially in contents; however, each profe…
In the past 30 years, several professional reference books on fruits and fruit processing have been published. The senior editor of this volume was part of an editorial team that published a two-volume text on the subject in the mid-nineties. It may not be appropriate for us to state the advantages of our book over the others available in the market, especially in contents; however, each profe…
In the past 30 years, several professional reference books on fruits and fruit processing have been published. The senior editor of this volume was part of an editorial team that published a two-volume text on the subject in the mid-nineties. It may not be appropriate for us to state the advantages of our book over the others available in the market, especially in contents; however, each profe…
Abstract. There is substantial evidence for toxicity and/or carcinogenicity upon inhalation of pure transition metals in fine particulate form. Carbon nanotube catalyst residues may trigger similar metal-mediated toxicity, but only if the metal is bioavailable and not fully encapsulated within fluid-protective carbon shells. Recent studies have documented the presence of bioavailable iron …
Abstract. The dispersion of fire-induced buoyancy driven plume in and above an idealized street canyon of 18m (width)×18m (height)×40m (length) with a wind flow perpendicular to its axis was investigated by Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Former studies, such as that by Oka [T.R. Oke, Street design and urban canopy layer climate, Energy Build. 11 (1988) 103–1…
A combined method of the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and sum-overstate (SOS) formula was implemented to model multiphoton absorption spectra, including two-photon absorption (2PA) and three-photon absorption (3PA), of Sc2C2@C68 and Sc3N@C68 endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs). This method has been proved to be effective by comparisons between the calculated and experimen…
We report the first synthesis of elongated penta-branched gold nanocrystals with a shape resembling that of a star fruit but with sharp ends by a seeding growth approach. Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) capping surfactant was used, and AgNO3 was added to the last growth solution to promote the formation of the five side branches. Through an investigation of the products collected by ad…
Biodiesel is a renewable, biodegradable, and nontoxic fuel that can be derived from vegetable oils by transesterification. In this study, Sclerocarya birrea oil (SCO), melon bug oil (MBO), and sorghum bug oil (SBO), three long-term stable oils from Sudan, were transesterified using methanol or ethanol in the presence of sulfuric acid; the obtained biodiesel characteristics were studied in ac…