Applying liquisolid technique to enhance curcumin solubility: a central composite design study by Aghajanpour, Sareh, Yousefi Jordehi, Shabnam, Farmoudeh, Ali, Negarandeh, Reza, Lam, Matthew, Ebrahimnejad, Pedram, Nokhodchi, Ali

“…To address curcumin’s limited water solubility (3.12 mg/l at 25 °C) and high oil–water partition coefficient (logKow=3.29), we employed a central composite design (CCD) to optimize liquisolid compact dispersion formulations. …”
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Satellite radiation products for ocean biology and biogeochemistry: needs, state-of-the-art, gaps, development priorities, and opportunities by Frouin, R, Ramon, D, Boss, E, Jolivet, D, Compiègne, M, Tan, J, Bouman, H, Jackson, T, Franz, B, Platt, T, Sathyendranath, S

“…Knowing the spatial and temporal distribution of the underwater light field, i.e., the spectral and angular structure of the radiant intensity at any point in the water column, is essential to understanding the biogeochemical processes that control the composition and evolution of aquatic ecosystems and their impact on climate and reaction to climate change. …”

Silver phosphanes partnered with carborane monoanions: synthesis, structures and use as highly active Lewis acid catalysts in a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction. by Patmore, N, Hague, C, Cotgreave, J, Mahon, M, Frost, C, Weller, A

“…Moreover, the reaction does not occur in rigorously dry solvent as addition of a substoichiometric amount of water (50 mol %) is necessary for turnover of the catalyst. …”

Relative efficacies of interventions to improve the quality of screening-related colonoscopy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Khan, R, Ruan, Y, Yuan, Y, Khalaf, K, Sabrie, NS, Gimpaya, N, Scaffidi, MA, Bansal, R, Vaska, M, Brenner, DR, Hilsden, RJ, Heitman, SJ, Leontiadis, GI, Grover, SC, Forbes, N

“…Nine interventions resulted in statistically significant improvements in ADR compared to standard colonoscopy (9-minute withdrawal time, dual observation, water exchange, iScan, linked color imaging, computer-aided detection, Endocuff, Endocuff Vision, and oral methylene blue). …”

The structure and dynamics of compounds related to fast ionic conductors by Fitch, A

“…Further diffraction studies on cation substituted LiUO<sub.2< sub="">AsO₄.4D₂O show a change to a structure which is completely ordered with adjacent water squares linked together via tetrahedral co-ordination about the lithium ion. …”

Cloud structure and atmospheric composition of Jupiter retrieved from Galileo near-infrared mapping spectrometer real-time spectra by Irwin, P, Weir, A, Smith, SE, Taylor, F, Lambert, A, Calcutt, S, Cameron-Smith, P, Carlson, R, Baines, K, Orton, G, Drossart, P, Encrenaz, T, Roos-Serote, M

“…The relative humidity of water vapor is found to be approximately 7%, but while this and all the previous observations are consistent with the assumption that "hot spots" are regions of downwelling, desiccated air, we find that the water vapor relative humidity increases as the 5-μm brightness increases. …”

Pliocene-Pleistocene climate of the northern margin of Saharan-Arabian Desert recorded in speleothems from the Negev Desert, Israel by Vaks, A, Woodhead, J, Bar-Matthews, M, Ayalon, A, Cliff, R, Zilberman, T, Matthews, A, Frumkin, A

“…Low 87Sr/86Sr ratios of ~0.7078 in the Pliocene speleothems are indicative of low dust supply, low water residence time in the vadose zone and relatively high weathering rates of the cave host rock. …”

Aerosol nucleation and its role for clouds and Earth's radiative forcing in the aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM by Kazil, J, Stier, P, Zhang, K, Quaas, J, Kinne, S, O'Donnell, D, Rast, S, Esch, M, Ferrachat, S, Lohmann, U, Feichter, J

“…We have implemented in the aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM a new scheme for neutral and charged nucleation of sulfuric acid and water based on laboratory data, and nucleation of an organic compound and sulfuric acid using a parametrization of cluster activation based on field measurements. …”

Coral reefs and climate change in the Indian ocean: a case study of Watamu Marine National Park, Kenya and other Indian Ocean locations by Cowburn, B

“…In the past 20 years there have been increasing observations of mass coral bleaching and mortality associated with increasing water temperatures in the tropics. Reefs provide ecosystem services worth billions of dollars to people living in tropical coastal areas and are the architects of one of the most beautiful structures found on earth. …”

The amino acid homoarginine inhibits atherogenesis by modulating T-cell function by Nitz, K, Lacy, M, Bianchini, M, Wichapong, K, Kücükgöze, IA, Bonfiglio, CA, Migheli, R, Wu, Y, Burger, C, Li, Y, Forné, I, Ammar, C, Janjic, A, Mohanta, S, Duchene, J, Heemskerk, JWM, Megens, RTA, Schwedhelm, E, Huveneers, S, Lygate, CA, Santovito, D, Zimmer, R, Imhof, A, Weber, C, Lutgens, E, Atzler, D

“…Control mice received normal drinking water. Immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry were used for plaque- and immunological phenotyping. …”

Satellite observations of smoke–cloud–radiation interactions over the Amazon rainforest by Herbert, R, Stier, P

“…Rapid adjustments work alongside instantaneous radiative effects to drive a stronger cooling effect from smoke than previously thought, whilst contrasting morning and afternoon responses of liquid and ice water paths highlight a potential method for constraining aerosol impacts on climate. …”

Current blockage in sheared flow: Experiments and numerical modelling of regular waves and strongly sheared current through a space-frame structure by Santo, H, Stagonas, D, Buldakov, E, Taylor, P

“…This is attributed to the non-uniform loading with water depth and was not observed previously for uniform current flow. …”

From thermal dissociation to condensation in the atmospheres of ultra hot Jupiters: WASP-121b in context by Parmentier, V, Line, MR, Bean, JL, Mansfield, M, Kreidberg, L, Lupu, R, Visscher, C, Désert, J-M, Fortney, JJ, Deleuil, M, Arcangeli, J, Showman, AP, Marley, MS

“…</p><br/> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong><br/> Molecular dissociation provides a qualitative understanding of the lack of strong spectral features of water in the 1−2 μm bandpass observed in most ultra hot Jupiters. …”

How do changes in warm-phase microphysics affect deep convective clouds? by Chen, Q, Koren, I, Altaratz, O, Heiblum, R, Dagan, G, Pinto, L

“…The overall effect showed an increased upward transport (across the ZTL) of liquid water driven by both larger updrafts and larger droplet mobility.…”

A framework of usable and secure system design by Faily, S

“…In the final case study, IRIS is used to analyse a proposed security policy at a UK water company, and identify missing policy requirements. …”

The noble gas isotope record of hydrocarbon field formation time scales by Tolstikhin, IN, Ballentine, CJ, Polyak, BG, Prasolov, EM, Kikvadze, OE

“…The atmosphere is the only source of 20Ne, 36Ar, 84Kr, 130Xe in subsurface environments, and their concentrations in pore waters after recharge are known from the solubility data. …”

On the origin of the marine zinc–silicon correlation by de Souza, G, Khatiwala, S, Hain, M, Little, S, Vance, D

“…Specifically, model variants with elevated Southern Ocean Zn:PO4 uptake ratios produce near-complete Zn depletion in the Si-poor surface Subantarctic Zone, where upper-ocean water masses with key roles in the global oceanic circulation are formed. …”

Geochemistry of oceanic anoxic events by Jenkyns, H

“…Increased flux of organic matter favored intense oxygen demand in the water column, as well as increased rates of marine and lacustrine carbon burial. …”

Predicting global habitat suitability for stony corals on seamounts by Tittensor, D, Baco, A, Brewin, P, Clark, MR, Consalvey, M, Hall-Spencer, J, Rowden, A, Schlacher, T, Stocks, K, Rogers, A

“…Increasing human impacts on deep-sea ecosystems mean that reaching a better understanding of such patterns is becoming more urgent. Cold-water stony corals (Order Scleractinia) form structurally complex habitats (dense thickets or reefs) that can support a diversity of other associated fauna. …”

Molecular scale patterning of photonic structures via conformational control by Smith, AM

“…The fluorenone was then successfully reaggregated to varying degrees as the water fraction was increased, due to non-solvent effects. …”