Knowledge and attitude towards the gradual reduction of salt in bread – an online survey

Aim: Assess knowledge and attitude towards the gradual reduction of salt in bread and the potential impact on eating habits of children (6-18 years) and their families, as part as a Health Impact Assessment pilot study.N/

Gender and politics: the relevance of gender on judgements about the merit of candidates and the fairness of quotas

Drawing on the conceptualization of meritocracy as an illusion, we argue that perceptions of merit and fairness of sex quotas in politics are influenced by gender ideology, specifically gender symbolical asymmetry, which equates men with individuals and the universal reference of 'person', and women with a sexed category. A total of 311 Portuguese participants read one of eight scenarios manipulating the sex and political competence of two candidates for an electoral list where only one would be selected. According to the experimental condition, either the female or the male candidate was presented as more competent or both candidates were presented as equally competent. In the control condition no such information was provided. Participants rated the merit of the selected candidate and the fairness of quotas. Results show that men take mostly only the candidates’ competence information into consideration. Reflecting gender symbolic asymmetry women were also influenced by the fact that the selected candidate was male or female. Results are discussed in the light of the gender symbolic asymmetry model

Thermal Control of the Intrinsic Magnetic Damping in a Ferromagnetic Metal

We report experiments on the control of intrinsic magnetic damping by thermal torque effects produced by the spin Seebeck effect and the anomalous Nernst effect in a thin layer of a ferromagnetic metal (Permalloy (Py), ). Damping is measured in ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) experiments on a sample excited by microwave radiation and detected by the dc-voltage-generated spin rectification and magnonic charge pumping in the Py film. Application of a temperature gradient in the longitudinal configuration increases or decreases the dc-voltage line width, depending on the sign of the thermal gradient, demonstrating that the magnetic damping in Py is controlled by currents generated by thermal effects. The absolute values of the line-width changes in Py may reach 1 order of magnitude larger than in the ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet. The large change in magnetic damping is interpreted as a superposition of different phenomena in the same metallic ferromagnet

Traceability statement for the determination of total chromium fraction in serpentine soils by atomic absorption spectrometry

The purpose of this work is to contribute for the metrological traceability statement of chemical measurements. Traceability statement for total chromium mass fraction in serpentine soils was developed. Accordingly, the quantity values requiring a high degree of control are calibration and quality control standard solutions, matrix certified reference material and the calibration curve model fit