TAML activators promise a novel water treatment approach
by efficiently catalysing peroxide-based degradation of
chemicals of high concern at environmental concentrations.
Green design ethics demands an exploration of TAML
toxicity. Exposure to high concentrations of certain activators
caused adverse effects in zebrafish. At typical TAML
operational concentrations, development was not...
The physiological response of juvenile steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) to prolonged heat stress was examined by exposing replicated groups of fish to 25 consecutive days at 15°C, 23°C, and 25°C followed by a 55 day recovery period at 15°C. We found that at temperatures ≥25°C, steelhead consumed significantly less food per...
We prove stability of the spectral gap for gapped, frustration-free Hamiltonians under general, quasi-local perturbations. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for stability, which we call Local Topological Quantum Order and show that this condition implies an area law for the entanglement entropy of the groundstate subspace. This result...
The number of Internet news media outlets has skyrocketed in recent years. We analyze
the effects of media proliferation on electoral outcomes assuming voters may choose news
that is too partisan, from an informational perspective, i.e. engage in partisan selective
exposure. We find that if voters who prefer highly partisan...
Previous research has found that distracted driving measurably increases driver response
times to unanticipated roadway hazards. These instances are of particular consequence as they
tend to be highly correlated with vehicle crashes resulting in property damage and/or injury.
However, comparatively little attention has been allocated to quantifying the negative impacts...
We achieve a series of distinct broadband third-harmonic generation (THG) signals at the amorphous glass–air interface attributed to third-order and cascaded third-order nonlinear processes. A novel THG laser sideband arises
from cascaded interaction between fundamental pulses and the cascaded four-wave mixing signals. The spatially
separated THG sidebands with distinct spectral...
Polycrystalline ferroelectric lead-free 85 mol% (Bi₀.₅Na₀.₅)TiO₃–10 mol% (Bi₀.₅K₀.₅)TiO₃–5 mol% BaTiO₃ (85BNT–10BKT–5BT) thin films were fabricated via chemical solution deposition on platinized silicon substrates. The permittivity and dielectric loss at 1 kHz were 610 and ∼3.5%, respectively. The ferroelectric properties at room temperature and as a function of the temperature up...
Juvenile Oncorhynchus mykiss migrate extensively in freshwater during fall. We used individual tagging to study the spatial origin, influences, and outcomes of fall migration on fish that emigrated from summer rearing tributaries during fall (early-emigrants) and those that did not (late-emigrants) in the South Fork John Day River, Oregon. Fall...
Alarista succina gen. et sp. nov. (Poaceae) is described from a single floret preserved in amber of Tertiary age originating from the Dominican Republic. The new genus is characterized by 1) a narrow winged lemma awn, 2) numerous (as many as 17) lemma nerves, 3) a lengthy rachilla internode (implying...