This article provides a review and synthesis of scholarly knowledge of Depression-era droughts on the North American Great Plains, a time and place known colloquially as the Dust Bowl era or the Dirty Thirties. Recent events, including the 2008 financial crisis, severe droughts in the US corn belt, and the release of a popular documentary film, have spawned a resurgence in public interest in th...

The Hypertension Singing Bowl is an Acoustic Sonification shaped by a year of blood pressure data that has been 3D printed in stainless steel so that it rings. The design of the bowl was a response to a medical diagnosis of hypertension that required regular self-tracking of blood pressure. The culture of selftracking, known as the Quantified Self movement, has the motto “self knowledge through...

The present study compared the memory of young and older adults for details pertaining to two public events of close temporal proximity but varying emotional import-the Columbia shuttle explosion and the 2003 Super Bowl. Participants responded to surveys sent within 2 weeks of these events and then again 7 months later, providing information about event-related details (i.e., of the events them...

We aimed to investigate the role of serum levels of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) in the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). Serum levels of n-3 and n-6 PUFA in 69 healthy control (Ctrl), 62 benign colorectal polys (CRP) and 100 CRC patients were detected by gas chromatograph. The adjusted odds ratio (OR) by quartiles of n-3 and n-6 PUFA were analyzed. During the process of Ctrl to CRP,...

in this study,oil was extracted from the liver and visceral fat of patin (pangasianodon hypophthalmus) and refined. the yield of oil after refining was 49.98%. the major yield loss (34.20%) happened during the degumming procedure. fatty acids found in the crude and refined oil were c12:0, c14:0, c14:1, c16:0, c16:1, c18:0, c18:1, c18:2, c18:3, c18:4, c20:0, c20:1, c20:4, c20:5, and c22:6. the d...

The amount of pollutant gases in the atmosphere has reached a critical state due to an increase in industrial development and the rapid growth of automobile industries that use fossil fuels. The combustion of fossil fuels produces harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen monoxide (NO), soot, particulate matter (PM), etc. The use of Dimethyl Ether (DME) biofuel in diesel engines or other c...

The catalytic effect of graphene on the corannulene bowl-to-bowl inversion is confirmed in this paper using a pair-wise dispersion interaction model. In particular, continuum approach together with Lennard-Jones...

This paper uses a natural experiment—the Super Bowl—to study the 2 causal effect of advertising on demand for movies. Identification of 3 the causal effect rests on two points: 1) Super Bowl ads are purchased 4 before advertisers know which teams will play; 2) home cities of the 5 teams that are playing will have proportionally more viewers that 6 other cities. We find that the movies in our sa...

The title compound, C(24)BBrF(12)N(6) or Br-F(12)BsubPc (BsubPc is boronsubphtalocyanine), has a bowl-shaped structure with an approximate mol-ecular C(3v) symmetry characteristic of boronsubphthalocyanine compounds. In the crystal, mol-ecules are arranged in one-dimensional columns and the boron-subphthalocyanine units within each column are offset and angled in a bowl-to-ligand packing arrang...