Improving the Performance of Phase-Change Perfluorocarbon Droplets for Medical Ultrasonography: Current Progress, Challenges, and Prospects by Paul S. Sheeran, Paul A. Dayton

“…Despite the progress, phase-change PFC droplets remain far from clinical implementation due to a number of challenges. In this review, we survey our recent work to enhance the performance of phase-change agents for ultrasound through a variety of techniques in order to provide increased efficacy in therapeutic applications of ultrasound and enable previously unexplored applications in diagnostic and molecular imaging.…”
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Corpo feminino e envelhecimento na obra de Lygia Fagundes Telles by Maria do Rosário A. Pereira

“…El objetivo de este artículo es dar visibilidad a los diversos modos de representación del cuerpo envejecido en la obra de la escritora Lygia Fagundes Telles, comparando tales imágenes con otras presentadas por Clarice Lispector y Maria Valéria Rezende. …”
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Der Vorteil des Experimentierens in der Pandemie by Kai A. Konrad, Marcel Thum

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IFAS Community Development: Empowering Your Community, Stage 1, Initiation by Jade Marcus, Mark A. Brennan

“… This paper is part of a series of discussions on community development. …”
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Florida Crop/Pest Management Profile: Papaya by Mark A. Mossler, Jonathan Crane

“… Revised! Circular 1402, a 7-page fact sheet by Mark A. Mossler and Jonathan Crane, provides an overview of production and pest management practices for papaya in Florida. …”
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On improving training mechanisms teaching staff and prospects for targeted learning in the interests of universities by S. A. Kudzh, N. B. Golovanova

“…The targeted training attributes as a framework for vocational training management are also specified in the paper.Shortage of academic staff capable to use the efficient advanced technologies for rebuilding the training process quickly under changing both labor market environment and students’ interests is one of the main factors that today compromises the quality of highly qualified personnel training for the national economy causing serious concern of higher education authorities and educational institutions administration. …”
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Variability in Urine Culture Reporting by Canadian Microbiology Laboratories by Michael A Noble, Shirley Nikiforuk

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Bromide-Assisted Anisotropic Growth of Gold Nanoparticles as Substrates for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering by Melissa A. Kerr, Fei Yan

“…We report herein a one-step synthesis of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) of various shapes such as triangles, hexagons, and semispheres, using 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) as the reducing agent in the presence of potassium bromide (KBr). …”
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Temozolomide-Induced Myelodysplasia by Ethan A. Natelson, David Pyatt

“…A patient who had received temozolomide (TMZ) as a single agent in treatment of malignant glioma developed therapy-induced myelodysplasia (T-MDS). …”
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Sugarcane Variety Census: Florida 2000 by B. Glaz, Robert A. Gilbert

“… This annual variety census of the Florida sugarcane industry for the 2000-2001 harvest season is the latest in a long series. Mill managers and independent growers supplied data for 97.2 percent of Florida's sugarcane acreage. …”
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Novel First-Order Current-Mode All-Pass Sections Using CCIII by Sudhanshu Maheshwari, Iqbal A. Khan

“…Two new configurations realizing canonical first-order current-mode all-pass sections (APSs) using a single third generation current conveyor (CCIII) are given. …”
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USING THE ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF BREEDING PROCESS TO DEVELOP SPRING TRITICALE CULTIVARS by A. M. Tyslenko, S. E. Skatova

“…Since 2003, a large-scale study of spring triticale source material of different ecogeographic origin was carried out to launch the breeding work with this crop in the non-black-soil zone of Russia. …”
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TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR by A. E. Gukasova, S. P. Kiseleva

“…It has been proposed to expand the practice of using life-cycle contracts as the main way of state support for environmental-oriented procurement, which will subsequently allow you to use effectively available resources, taking into account the environmental factor. There is a large number of different methods for determining the stages of the product life cycle. …”
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TÜRKİYE’DE EĞİTİM HARCAMALARININ FARKLI İLLERİN ÜRETİM DÜZEYLERİ ÜZERİNE ETKİLERİ: PANEL VERİ ANALİZİ by A. Naci DOĞRUL, Mustafa ÖZER

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Peer-review of monograph of V. V. Makarov, N. Ya. Makhamat, A. M. Gulyukin, M. I. Gulyukin “Anthrax: Modern Knowledge and Global Occurrence”.... by S. V. Shabunin, A. G. Shakhov

“…Makarov, N. Ya. Makhamat, A. M. Gulyukin, M. I. Gulyukin “Anthrax: Modern Knowledge and Global Occurrence”. …”
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The Effect of Vacuum Annealing of Magnetite and Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles on the Removal of Aqueous Uranium by R. A. Crane, T. B. Scott

“…Nanoparticles were introduced to batch systems containing the mine water under oxygen conditions representative of near-surface waters, with a uranyl solution studied as a simple comparator system. …”
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Estimación de parámetros genéticos para características productivas y reproductivas en los sistemas doble propósito del trópico bajo colombiano by A. P. Galeano, C. Manrique

“…La repetibilidad estimada para IEP fue baja (0,08), y para PL (0,41) e IV (0,31) moderada; en el caso de PD este valor fue igual a la heredabilidad (0,11). Las correlaciones genéticas y fenotípicas obtenidas entre PL y PD con respecto a IEP fueron positivas, y se determinó una asociación genética negativa entre PL y PD. …”
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Quasinormal modes of three $$(2+1)$$ ( 2 + 1 ) -dimensional black holes in string theory, conformal gravity, and Hu–Sawicki F(R) theory via the Heun function by F. Naderi, A. Rezaei-Aghdam

“…Abstract We study the propagation of massless fermionic fields, implementing a family of special functions: Heun functions, in solving the wave equation in three three-dimensional backgrounds, including the BTZ black hole in string theory and Lifshitz black hole solutions in conformal gravity and Hu–Sawicki F(R) theory. …”
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On the Fekete-Szegö problem by B. A. Frasin, Maslina Darus

“…Let f(z)=z+a2z2+a3z3+⋯ be an analytic function in the open unit disk. …”
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Twolined Spittlebugs in Turfgrass by Eileen A. Buss, Larry Williams

“… Revised! ENY-334, a 3-page illustrated fact sheet by E.A. Buss and L. …”
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