Comparison of liposomal encapsulated and non-formulated fulvic acid on proliferation, oxidative stress and cell death in cancer cell lines

National Research Foundationhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1e2m2Y5LoP9EYUziKsd0w8qCJW8nQdvOr/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CEIJlI-XNUtxMQ6_4CAtIqNxoBb90IH3?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ge_ZUDz07kS3X6dw4FLdlPkQ_YMd7xyl?usp=sharin

The true cost of food: a preliminary assessment

Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing their environmental and health costs while making healthy and sustainable food affordable to all. One of the central problems of current food systems is that many of the costs of harmful foods are externalized, i.e., are not reflected in market prices. At the same time, the benefits of healthful foods are not appreciated. Due to externalities, sustainable and healthy food is often less affordable to consumers and less profitable for businesses than unsustainable and unhealthy food. Externalities and other market failures lead to unintended consequences for present and future generations, destroying nature and perpetuating social injustices such as underpay for workers, food insecurity, illness, premature death and other harms. We urgently need to address the fundamental causes of these problems. This chapter sets out the results of an analysis to determine the current cost of externalities in food systems and the potential impact of a shift in diets to more healthy and sustainable production and consumption patterns. The current externalities were estimated to be almost double (19.8 trillion USD) the current total global food consumption (9 trillion USD). These externalities accrue from 7 trillion USD (range 4–11) in environmental costs, 11 trillion USD (range 3–39) in costs to human life and 1 trillion USD (range 0.2–1.7) in economic costs. This means that food is roughly a third cheaper than it would be if these externalities were included. More studies are needed to quantify the costs and benefits of food systems that would support a global shift to more sustainable and healthy diets. However, the evidence presented in this chapter points to the urgent need for a system reset to account for these ‘hidden costs’ in food systems and calls for bold actions to redefine the incentives for producing and consuming healthier and more sustainable diets. The first step to correct for these ‘hidden costs’ is to redefine the value of food through true-cost accounting (TCA) so as to address externalities and other market failures. TCA reveals the true value of food by making the benefits of affordable and healthy food visible and revealing the costs of damage to the environment and human health 3

Network FOuNTAIN a CDBB network: For ONTologies and information maNagement in digital built Britain. Final report.

Network FOuNTAIN is the Network For ONTologies And Information maNagement in Digital Built Britain. The Network is supported by the Centre for Digital Built Britain. The vision of the Network is for all stakeholders in Digital Built Britain (DBB) to be able to meet their information needs. With the establishment of concepts such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Common Data Environments (CDE), built environment design, construction and operation are becoming increasingly information-intensive. The Network undertook five workshop activities between July and December 2018. This report summarises the proceedings of these workshops, and in particular establishes future capabilities needed to realise the vision of DBB

Comparison of the effectiveness of liposomally formulated vs unformulated fulvic acid on cancer cell lines

These datasets contain the diagrammatic representations of liposomes used in the study, as well as the results from: the cell viability analysis using crystal violet staining and spectrophotometry; morphology observations using light microscopy; external cell structure observations using scanning electron microscopy; internal cell structure observations using transmission electron microscopy; cellular acidity and viability analysis by means of triple staining with Hoechst 33342, acridine orange and propidium iodide; hydrogen peroxide detection using DCFDA staining; and cell cycle analysis using propidium iodide staining and flow cytometry. Furthermore, a diagrammatic representation of the p28 pathway is also included, within context of the discussion and conclusion of this study</p

Biomass Inferential Sensor Based on Ensemble of Models Generated by Genetic Programming, accepted for GECCO

Abstract. A successful industrial application of a novel type biomass estimator based on Genetic Programming (GP) is described in the paper. The biomass is inferred from other available measurements via an ensemble of nonlinear functions, generated by GP. The models are selected on the Pareto front of performance-complexity plane. The advantages of the proposed inferential sensor are: direct implementation into almost any process control system, rudimentary self-assessment capabilities, better robustness toward batch variations, and more effective maintenance. The biomass inferential sensor has been applied in high cell density microbial fermentations at The Dow Chemical Company