Ultrafine particles (UFPs; diameter less than 100 nm) are ubiquitous in urban air, and an acknowledged risk to human health. Globally, the major source for urban outdoor UFP concentrations is motor traffic. Ongoing trends towards urbanisation and expansion of road traffic are anticipated to further increase population exposure to UFPs. Numerous experimental studies have characterised UFPs in in...

Composed of various native and non-native plants, the Brazilian flora in its biodiversity remains a potential food source. In this context, plant species known Brazil as unconventional plants (UFP) deserve to be highlighted. Moreover, information concerning safety consuming UFP their natural toxins is still scarce. Thus, we explore current literature (2010–2020) obtain on toxicity, toxins, unde...

As most of practical systems have high complexity, complex systems have become a rapidly growing area of mathematics and attracted many researchers. The study of complex systems not only has an important theoretical interest but also is motivated by problems from applied mathematics including physics, chemistry, astronomy, technology, and natural and social sciences. It should be noted that som...

Microvascular inflammation occurs during sepsis and the endogenous opioid-like peptide nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) is known to regulate inflammation. This study aimed to determine the inflammatory role of N/OFQ and its receptor NOP (ORL1) within the microcirculation, along with anti-inflammatory effects of the NOP antagonist UFP-101 (University of Ferrara Peptide-101) in an animal model of s...

BACKGROUND The relationship between traffic emissions and mobile-source air pollutant concentrations is highly variable over space and time and therefore difficult to model accurately, especially in urban settings with complex terrain. Regression-based approaches using continuous real-time mobile measurements may be able to characterize spatiotemporal variability in traffic-related pollutant co...

In this work we derive a variant of the classic Glivenko-Cantelli Theorem, which asserts uniform convergence of the empirical Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) to the CDF of the underlying distribution. Our variant allows for tighter convergence bounds for extreme values of the CDF. We apply our bound in the context of revenue learning, which is a well-studied problem in economics and algo...

Abstract We present the taxonomic treatment of Evolvulus in state Ceará, as part project “Flora do Ceará: Knowing to conserve”. The study was based on floristic-morphological analysis specimens deposited ASE, CEN, EAC, ESA, HCDAL, HST, HUEFS, HUVA, HVASF, IPA, PEUFR, and UFP herbaria, specialized bibliography, typus collections available on-line platforms, field observations. In we registered 1...

Precise positioning utilizing GPS signals relies on a precise tracking of the carrier phase of these signals. The phase generally consists of two parts: an integer part and a fractional part. With the current receiver technology, it is possible to track the fractional part of the phase of the carrier wave at accuracy of 0.001 m using phase locked loops (PLLs). The tracking of the integer part i...

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) show a high pollutant emission variability that strongly depends on the operating conditions of internal combustion engine. Additionally, studies indicate driving situations outside real emissions boundary can lead to substantial increases. The objective this study is measure and analyze particulate number (PN) nitrogen oxides (NOx) Euro 6 PHEV for selec...

in this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness results to the random fractional functional differential equations under assumptions more general than the lipschitz type condition. moreover, the distance between exact solution and appropriate solution, and the existence extremal solution of the problem is also considered.