Who You Gonna Call - Virginia\u27s Multi-Year Effort to Create a Children\u27s Ombudsman Office

If your home was overrun with spirits in the movie Ghostbusters, it was easy to know who to call-Ghostbusters! But for a child or parent to navigate through the maze of Virginia bureaucracies to figure out whom to call when questions or concerns arise about a child in state care can be difficult, if not impossible. A desire to simplify that process formed the impetus for recent Virginia legislation to establish a children\u27s ombudsman office. Indeed, the ombudsman legislation would elevate the ombudsman beyond the role of simply ghostbusting, or handling each complaint in a vacuum. It would also require the ombudsman to analyze these complaints along with other data, and to make recommendations to the agencies for systemic improvements. Finally, the ombudsman would shed light on the workings of the child-serving agencies by submitting annual reports to the General Assembly detailing the complaints handled each year and making recommendations for improvements

Optimization of Mangosteen Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Garcinia mangostana, commonly known as mangosteen, is often referred to as the “queen of fruits” for its delicious flavor and numerous health benefits. Mangosteen has also attracted attention in recent dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) studies as the dye extracted from the fruit’s purple-red pericarp has exceeded many natural dyes in DSSC efficiency. In short, this dye is promising for the development of a natural products-based, sustainable DSSC, as it is a highly effective transporter of photoexcited electrons into the solar cell to be converted into electricity. The purpose of this study was to optimize the dye extraction from the mangosteen pericarp for use in DSSC applications. Previous studies have indicated that rutin, a prominent dye molecule in the mangosteen pericarp, is the main contributing factor to DSSC efficiency. However, the results from this study suggest that extracting cyanidins, another group of dye molecules present in the pericarp, in acidic conditions increases DSSC current substantially when compared to extractions of rutin in neutral conditions.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/urs_2016/1005/thumbnail.jp

Who You Gonna Call - Virginia\u27s Multi-Year Effort to Create a Children\u27s Ombudsman Office

If your home was overrun with spirits in the movie Ghostbusters, it was easy to know who to call-Ghostbusters! But for a child or parent to navigate through the maze of Virginia bureaucracies to figure out whom to call when questions or concerns arise about a child in state care can be difficult, if not impossible. A desire to simplify that process formed the impetus for recent Virginia legislation to establish a children\u27s ombudsman office. Indeed, the ombudsman legislation would elevate the ombudsman beyond the role of simply ghostbusting, or handling each complaint in a vacuum. It would also require the ombudsman to analyze these complaints along with other data, and to make recommendations to the agencies for systemic improvements. Finally, the ombudsman would shed light on the workings of the child-serving agencies by submitting annual reports to the General Assembly detailing the complaints handled each year and making recommendations for improvements

Clima Organizacional: Um Estudo em uma Instituição de Ensino Superior

Este estudo teve por objetivo identificar o clima organizacional do Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas – CCSA, da Universidade Regional de Blumenau - FURB, através da percepção dos professores. O estudo iniciou com a revisão da literatura, conceituando clima organizacional, na visão de diversos autores. Em seguida foi aplicado um questionário, contendo perguntas abertas e fechadas, aos professores do CCSA , num total de 86 pesquisados, dos quais 34 responderam as questões propostas. A análise dos dados revelou que o CCSA apresenta um bom clima organizacional, embora haja falhas na comunicação interna. A pesquisa não teve a pretensão de esgotar o assunto, que pode ser ampliado e aprofundado em outros trabalhos

MÖGLICHKEITEN UND GRENZEN DER POLITIKANALYSE ZUR UMSETZUNG DER WASSERRAHMENRICHTLINIE -- ANWENDUNG EINES HYDRO-ÖKONOMISCHEN MODELLVERBUNDES FÜR DAS WESER EINZUGSGEBIET

EU-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie, landwirtschaftliche Einträge in die Gewässer, hydroökonomische Modellierung, RAUMIS, kosteneffiziente Maßnahmen, Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use,

Método e kit para predição prognóstico de câncer e uso do método em oncologia clínica

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulMedicinaDepositad

Carbon compounds in the West Kimberley lamproites (Australia) : Insights from melt and fluid inclusions

Petrological and geochemical studies of lamproites can provide useful insights into the nature of their lithospheric mantle sources, but their geochemical and mineralogical diversity has complicated our understanding of their primary/parental melt composition, volatile (CO2, H2O) inventory and magmatic evolution. To help address this issue, we present a detailed study of different generations (primary, pseudo-secondary, secondary) of crystal, and melt and fluid inclusions in olivine, Cr-spinel and perovskite from three olivine lamproites in the Ellendale Field of the West Kimberley Province (Australia) in order to understand the composition and evolution of their parental magmas. Melt inclusions in the different host minerals and from each of these localities are broadly similar to each other and consist of glass, alkali/alkali-earth (Mg-Ca-K-Na-Ba) carbonates, phosphates and chlorides, in addition to minerals typical of lamproite groundmass (fluorapatite, perovskite, phlogopite, diopside, wadeite, Mg-ilmenite, Fe-Mg-Ti-Cr spinel). The dominant volatile species in the melt and fluid inclusions is CO2 based on Raman data. Heating experiments of melt/fluid inclusions in olivine show significant phase transformations in which the carbonate may separate into an immiscible carbonate-rich sulphatebearing fraction or exsolve a CO2 fluid. Our results indicate that carbonates, along with alkali/alkali-earths, halogens and sulphur, became progressively concentrated in the West Kimberley lamproitic magmas during crystallisation, leading to the entrapment of a complex array of daughter minerals, some not previously reported from lamproites and, in some inclusions, immiscible carbonate melt. The widespread occurrence of daughter carbonates in melt/fluid inclusions in lamproite minerals is at odds with their apparent paucity in the lamproite groundmass. The presence of carbonate and the abundance of CO2-rich and H2O-poor melt and fluid inclusions are attributed to the preferential partitioning of CO2 into the vapour and retention of H2O in the magma during degassing, coupled with H2O loss by post-entrapment modification of the inclusions through H+ diffusion. (C) 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Association for Gondwana Research.Peer reviewe

Topological peculiarities of mammalian networks with different functionalities: transcription, signal transduction and metabolic networks

We have comparatively investigated three different mammalian networks - on transcription, signal transduction and metabolic processes - with respect to their common and individual topological traits. The networks have been constructed based on genome- wide data collected from human, mouse and rat. None of these three networks exhibits a pure power-law degree distribution and, therefore, could be considered scalefree. Rather, the degree distributions of all three networks were best fitted by mixed models of a power law with an exponential tail. The networks differ from one another in the quantitative parameters of the models. Moreover, the transcription network can also be very well approximated by an exponential law. The connectivity within each network is rather robust, as is seen when removing individual nodes and computing the values of their pairwise disconnectivity index (PDI), which characterizes the topological significance of each node v by the number of direct or indirect connections in the network that critically depend on the presence of v. The results evidence that the networks are not centralized: none of nodes globally controls the integrity of each network. Just a few vertices appeared to strongly affect the coherence of the networks. These nodes are characterized by a broad range of degrees, thereby indicating that the degree alone is not the decisive criteria of a node's importance. The networks reveal distinct architectures: The transcriptional network exhibits a hierarchical modularity, whereas the signaling network is mainly comprised of semi-autonomous modules. The metabolic network seems to be made by a more complex mixture of substructures. Thus, despite being encoded by the same genomes, the networks significantly differ from one another in their general architectural design. Altogether, our results indicate that the subsets of genes and relationships that constitute these networks have co-evolved very differently and through multiple mechanisms