Measuring the impact of revised mental health legislation on human rights in Queensland, Australia.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) (CRPD) has been instrumental for initiating and shaping the reform of mental health legislation in many countries, including the eight Australian jurisdictions. Multiple approaches have been proposed to assess and monitor the compliance of States Parties' mental health legislation with the CRPD, and to evaluate its success in protecting and promoting the human rights of people with disabilities. This article reports an effort to index the impact of legislation on human rights by measuring changes in the prevalence of compulsory treatment orders applied to people with mental illness after the introduction of CRPD influenced mental health legislation in the Australian state of Queensland.

Atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometry as a tool for structural characterization of lignin.

Rationale: Lignin occurs in a broad range of forms, e.g., native as the main support for plant walls, and processed, for which its structure depends on the nature of the industrial isolation method, such as in paper production or in biorefineries.

The extent of tebuconazole leaching from unpainted and painted softwood.

Exposure to water and high air humidity may affect the preservation of wood products as many preservatives are water-soluble and thus likely to leach. In this study, depletion of a common fungicide, tebuconazole (TAZ), from treated wood was investigated using a C-labeled tracer. The wood species and treatment technique were chosen to be representative of products such as windows and doors; specifically, ponderosa pine was dip treated with a solvent-based, metal-free formulation.