Geospatial modeling of near subsurface temperatures of the contiguous United States for assessment of materials degradation.

Understanding subsurface temperature variations is crucial for assessing material degradation in underground structures. This study maps subsurface temperatures across the contiguous United States for depths from 50 to 3500 m, comparing linear interpolation, gradient boosting (LightGBM), neural networks, and a novel hybrid approach combining linear interpolation with LightGBM. Results reveal heterogeneous temperature patterns both horizontally and vertically.

effect of alpha-bisabolol and its synthetic derivatives on macrophages, promastigotes, and amastigotes of and .

Cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis are public health problems in Africa, Asia, Europe, and America. The treatment has a high cost and toxicity. Thus, this work aims to evaluate the leishmanicidal activity of alpha-bisabolol and its three synthetic derivatives, P1, P2, and P3, on the promastigotes and amastigotes and forms.

Intranasal vaccination with adjuvant-free S. aureus antigens effectively protects mice against experimental sepsis.

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a Gram-positive coccal bacterium comprising part of the human skin, nares and gastrointestinal tract normal microbiota. It is also an important cause of nosocomial/community-acquired infections in humans and animals, which can cause a diverse array of infections, including sepsis, which is a progressive systemic inflammation response syndrome that is frequently fatal.

Oil palm natural diversity and the potential for yield improvement.

African oil palm has the highest productivity amongst cultivated oleaginous crops. Species can constitute a single crop capable to fulfill the growing global demand for vegetable oils, which is estimated to reach 240 million tons by 2050. Two types of vegetable oil are extracted from the palm fruit on commercial scale.

A combined method for segmentation and registration for an advanced and progressive evaluation of thermal images.

In this paper, a method that combines image analysis techniques, such as segmentation and registration, is proposed for an advanced and progressive evaluation of thermograms. The method is applied for the prevention of muscle injury in high-performance athletes, in collaboration with a Brazilian professional soccer club. The goal is to produce information on spatio-temporal variations of thermograms favoring the investigation of the athletes' conditions along the competition.

Nanoencapsulation of quercetin via miniemulsion polymerization.

The nanoencapsulation of quercetin, a strong antioxidant and radical scavenger, via methyl methacrylate miniemulsion polymerization, using miglyol 812 as costabilizer and lecithin as surfactant was studied and the effect of the monomer/co-stabilizer ratio and different types of initiator, 2,2'azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) and redox pair composed of hydrogen peroxide and ascorbic acid, was investigated. Reactions conducted in the presence of quercetin showed lower polymerization rates, indicating that the presence of quercetin inhibits (redox pair) and/or retards (AIBN) the polymerization reaction. The increment of the concentration of ascorbic acid in the reactions initiated by a redox pair resulted in a considerable increase of the reaction rate without influencing other properties as average particle diameter, due to the fact that ascorbic acid acts as a reducing agent minimizing the oxidation of quercetin.

Development, characterisation, and across-taxa utility of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) microsatellite markers.

The results of the development of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) microsatellite markers are given step by step, from the screening of libraries enriched in (GA)n, (GT)n, and (CCG)n simple-sequence repeats (SSRs) to the final characterisation of 21 SSR loci. Also published are primer sequences, estimates of allele size range, and expected heterozygosity in E.