Dyes Degradation with Fe-Doped Titanium Nanotube Photocatalysts Prepared from Spend Steel Slag by Chih Ming Ma, Yu Jung Lin, Ren Wei Shiue, Chang Tang Chang

“…The degradation efficiency of 10 ppm Direct Black 22 was below 40% with 0.04 gL−1 TNT under 365 nm UV irradiation.…”
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Recognition the Synoptic Conditions of Extreme and Widespread Precipitations in Caspian Western Coasts by Emphasis on Atmosphere Thickness Patterns by AmirHossein Halabian, Freshta Hosseinali Pourjazi

“…The results show that the relatively deep trough on the north and northwest sections of Caspian Sea between Caspian Sea and Black sea can make background for occurring the extreme and widespread precipitations in studied region. …”
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Food insecurity among African Americans in the United States: A scoping review. by Elizabeth Dennard, Elizabeth Kristjansson, Nedelina Tchangalova, Sarah Totton, Donna Winham, Annette O'Connor

“…In 2019, the estimated prevalence of food insecurity for Black non-Hispanic households was higher than the national average due to health disparities exacerbated by forms of racial discrimination. …”
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Molecular-genetic marking of Brassica L. species for resistance against various pathogens: achievements and prospects by F. A. Berensen, O. Yu. Antonova, А. M. Artemyeva

“…The review contains  information on the currently  known  genes  and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with resistance to black rot, downy mildew, and TuMV. Molecular mapping data for resistance genes  of Brassica species are shown. …”
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Phylogeny of Geoglossomycetes with species diversity in China by Hongli Su, Kevin D. Hyde, Qing Cai, Wenyan Chen, Fatimah Al-Otibi, K.W. Thilini Chethana, Zhu L. Yang, Qi Zhao

“…The class is characterised by tongue-shaped to clavate, stipitate, black ascomata covered with or without black setae, a swollen ascigerous portion, a cylindric stipe, filiform, septate paraphyses, cylindrical-clavate, 4–8-spored asci, and filiform or falciform, multi-septate, dark brown to hyaline ascospores. …”
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Submarine Disposal Method of Mine Tailings (Slurry Sludge) by Naim Sezgin

“…Submarine disposal plant of mine tailings (for the Black Sea) in Turkey and studies to determine the effects of this discharge were evaluated. …”
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Health-Related Quality of Life in the Gender, Race, And Clinical Experience Trial by Judith Feinberg, Michael Saag, Kathleen Squires, Judith Currier, Robert Ryan, Bruce Coate, Joseph Mrus

“…Results. 67% women and 77% men, including 67.4% black, 76.0% Hispanic, and 73.8% white patients, completed the trial. …”
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Depressive Symptoms and 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans: The SABPA Study by Mark Hamer, Nancy Frasure-Smith, François Lespérance, Brian H. Harvey, Nico T. Malan, Leoné Malan

“…In summary, depressive symptoms were associated with the circadian BP profile in black and Caucasian Africans.…”
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Comparison of mortality in people with type 2 diabetes between different ethnic groups: Systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. by Umar Ahmed Riaz Chaudhry, Rebecca Fortescue, Liza Bowen, Stephen J Woolford, Felicity Knights, Derek G Cook, Tess Harris, Julia Critchley

“…Mortality risk was lower amongst people with T2D from South Asian [HR 0.68 (0.65-0.72)], Black [HR 0.82 (0.77-0.87)] and Chinese [HR 0.57 (0.46-0.70)] ethnicity compared to people of White ethnicity. …”
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Traum-A-Rhythmia On Debbie Tucker Green’s In-Yer-Ear Stage by Lea Sawyers

“…Her texts, which draw simultaneously from poetry, song lyric writing and musical score, question the nature of theatre. As a black woman, writing black characters for a mainly white audience, the strategies of dramatic composition which she resorts to rely on a poetics of absence and create a theatre immune to accusations of didacticism of which her forbearers were often taxed. …”
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Dark matter annihilation via Breit-Wigner enhancement with heavier mediator by Yu Cheng, Shao-Feng Ge, Jie Sheng, Tsutomu T. Yanagida

“…We propose a new scenario that both the dark matter freeze-out in the early Universe and its possible annihilation for indirect detection around a supermassive black hole are enhanced by a Breit-Wigner resonance. …”
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Evaluating the representativeness of the bentgrass (Agrostis L.) gene pool collected across the Russian Federation and neighboring countries in the VIR collection by L. L. Malyshev

“…However, the taxonomic and population diversity of bentgrass has not practically been mobilized so far in the southern parts of the Non-Black-Soil and Black-Soil zones, Middle and Lower Volga regions, North Caucasus, Eastern Siberia, and the Far East of Russia. …”
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High-pressure hydrothermal synthesis of shape-controlled AuPt nanoflowers with enhanced electro-catalytic properties for methanol oxidation reaction by Yan Liu, Ziyi Li, Zhao Zhang, Haitao Zhang

“…Furthermore, the AuPt NFs prepared using 640 mg CTAC also exhibited the larger ECSAs and the better MOR catalytic performance than those of Pt nanoparticles (NPs) alone and commercial Pt black. The mass-normalized current densities for MOR in the presence of AuPt NFs was approximately 3.1 and 5.9 times higher than those of Pt NPs and commercial Pt black, respectively. …”
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Limited preventive care among Medicaid enrollees with HIV in the US South by Jessica S. Kiernan, Rose S. Bono, Deo Mujwara, Zhongzhe Pan, Bassam Dahman, April D. Kimmel

“…We also examined service receipt among subgroups including enrollees requiring more general or HIV-specific care, in managed care, < 45 years and, separately, Non-Hispanic Black and Non-Hispanic White enrollees. The sample included 57,695 adult Medicaid enrollees with HIV (187,275 enrollee-years) that were majority 45–54 years (38.0%), female (53.6%), Non-Hispanic Black (54.3%), and urban (90.2%). …”
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Description of a new leaf litter toad of Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae) from Hunan, China by Jie Huang, Fang-Peng Zhang, Wan-Sheng Jiang, Yong-Xiang Tian, Xing-Long Huang, Ya-Lan Xu, Jing Liu, Xin-Yu Li, You-Xiang Zhang, Tao Wu

“…The new species can be distinguished from its congers by the following morphological characters: snout-vent length (SVL) 27.2–28.9 in males, SVL 26.2–31.6 in females; black spots on flanks; toes webbing rudimentarily; narrow fringes on toes; creamy white ventral body with indistinct black speckling at margins; dorsal body with sparse large warts, dense little wart grains, and longitudinal ridges; head width greater than head length; tibiotarsal articulation reaching to anterior edge of the eye; brick-red color in the dorsal surface; upper parts of iris bright coppery in life. …”
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Early-stage recovery of lithium from spent batteries via CO2-assisted leaching optimized by response surface methodology by Ksenija Milicevic Neumann, Muhammad Ans, Bernd Friedrich

“…This study addresses a cost-effective and environmentally friendly early-stage lithium recovery from the thermally conditioned black mass. In this sense, a thermally conditioned black mass is subjected to the carbonization process in a water solution to transform the water-insoluble Li phase into soluble lithium bicarbonate (LiHCO3) and carbonate (Li2CO3) facilitating its selective separation from other elements. …”
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Gingival Depigmentation Using Diode 980 nm and Erbium-YAG 2940 nm Lasers: A Split-Mouth Clinical Comparative Study by Zaid Kamel Jnaid Harb, Walid El-Sayed, Jumma Alkhabuli

“…Gingival hyperpigmentation, “black gum,” refers to black discrete single or multiple pigments on the gingiva. …”
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Regional differences in intercohort and intracohort trends in obesity in the USA: evidence from the National Health Interview Survey, 1982–2018 by Emma Zang, Liying Luo, Jiahui Xu

“…We address the knowledge gap by investigating net of age and period trends, how intercohort and intracohort patterns in obesity may depend on Census regions for black and white men and women.Design, setting and participants A total of 1 020 412 non-Hispanic black and white respondents aged 20–69 were included from the 1982–2018 National Health Interview Survey.Outcome measures Obesity is defined as body mass index ≥30 kg/m2 based on participant self-reported weight and height. …”
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NEW CONTRIBUTIONS TO VEGETATION KNOWLEDGE OF THE DANUBE DELTA, ROMANIA (I) by Adrian OPREA, Culiţă SÎRBU, Mihai DOROFTEI, Silviu COVALIOV

“…Thus, it was found that black alder forests were omitted, which was one the purposes of this work, namely to fill this gap. …”
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Dermoscopic And Clinical Features Of Alopecia Areata In Pakistani Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mahwish Ahmed, Neelam Ayub, Muhammad Hamza, Asma Nafisa, Dua Zhaira Zaidi, Ismat Zhaira Zaidi

“…The Pearson chi-square test showed a significant correlation between age and the presence of black dots, yellow dots, broken hairs, exclamation mark hairs, pigtail hairs, short villus hairs, and Pohl-Pinkus constriction (p < 0.001). …”
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