A Novel Smartphone-Based Color Test for Detection of Color Vision Defects in Age Related Macular Degeneration by Vassilios Karampatakis, Diamantis Almaliotis, Leonidas Karamitopoulos, George Kalliris, Stavroula Almpanidou

“…The areas under the curve (AUC) were estimated to be 0.897 [95% CI: 0.841–0.952], 0.943 [95% CI: 0.901–0.984], and 0.931 [95% CI: 0.886–0.977] for the red, green, and blue color, respectively. Based on the H-R-R, the sensitivity of the test was 0.79, 0.90, and 0.95 for the red, green, and blue colors, respectively, and specificity was 0.88 for all colors. …”
Get full text

Potential impact of different LED light spectra on callus induction, regeneration and plantlet growth of two cultivars of Caladium bicolor by Maryam Dehestani-Ardakani, Mohsen Karimi Dorche, Maryam Rahmati

“…Research Method: Leaf explants were cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 1.5 mg L-1 IBA and 1 mg L-1 BA and moved to racks equipped with various LED lighting (100% red lights (R), 100% blue lights (B), 50% blue + 50% red lights (B+R), and 100% white fluorescent lamps (W)). …”
Get full text

Optimization of dye adsorption using FeO nanoparticles encapsulated with alginate beads by Taguchi method by Heydar Rezaei, Masoud Haghshenasfard, Ahmad Moheb

“…Adsorption of methylene blue from synthetic wastewater using Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles encapsulated with alginate beads is carried out. …”
Get full text

O espaço é a flor azul do imaginário: Gaston Bachelard e Walter Benjamin em Paris – a descoberta de uma paisagem literária by Valéria Cristina Pereira da Silva, Carlos Fonseca Clamote Carreto

“…In an allegorical and phenomenological way, we took the image of the blue flower, as a symbol of the space in the philosophy of the imagination and the imaginary, as well as the survival of the romanticism that belongs to both philosophers. …”
Get full text

Synthesis of activated carbon from peanut shell as dye adsorbents for wastewater treatment by Huifang Wu, Ruoya Chen, Haixia Du, Jia Zhang, Lumeng Shi, Yu Qin, Lingzhi Yue, Junping Wang

“…Intraparticle diffusion was not the only factor affecting the adsorption rate of the activated carbon on reactive brilliant blue X-BR.…”
Get full text

Effect of Bentonite on the Pelleting Properties of Iron Concentrate by Hao Liu, Bing Xie, Yue-lin Qin

“…The physical and chemical properties such as particle size, montmorillonite content, swelling degree, water absorption, and blue absorption of A, B, and C bentonites were studied under laboratory conditions. …”
Get full text

Adverse Environmental Impact: A Consultant’s Perspective by Alan W. Wells, Thomas L. Englert

Get full text

UV-Excited Fluorescence on Riparian Insects except Hymenoptera Is Associated with Nitrogen Content by William D. Wiesenborn

“…Different widespread, but blotchy, light-blue fluorescence was observed on cuticles of immature Orthoptera and adult Hemiptera. …”
Get full text

Feasibility, Usability, and Pilot Efficacy Study of a Software-Enabled, Virtual Pulmonary Rehabilitation with Remote Therapeutic Monitoring by Flynn S, Mosher CL, Cornelison S, Rao E, Metzler KA, Pu W, Davies J, Paladenech C, Doyle D, MacIntyre N, Ohar J

“…The virtual PR intervention was supported by remote therapeutic monitoring (V-PR+RTM; Blue Marble Platform, Blue Marble Health, Altadena, CA). …”
Get full text

The expression of CCL17 and potential prognostic value on tumor immunity in thyroid carcinoma based on bioinformatics analysis by Xue Gu, Bingfeng Chen, Shengcan Zhang, Xinyu Zhai, Ying Hu, Hui Ye

“…Then, GO and KEGG database were used to analyze blue module genes enrichment situations. The result showed that genes in blue module were associated with cytokine–cytokine receptor interaction, chemokine, and PI3K − Akt pathways. …”
Get full text

La trame arborée : un élément pertinent pour articuler paysage et biodiversité dans la politique de la trame verte et bleue aux échelles infrarégionales ? by Éric Maire, Philippe Béringuier, Gérard Briane, Bertrand Desailly, Sylvie Guillerme

“…The Green and Blue Infrastructure is one of the flagship initiatives which resulted from the second French environmental round table. …”
Get full text

Equilibrium and Kinetic Adsorption of Organic Compounds onto Organobentonite: Application of a Surface Diffusion Model by Raúl Ocampo-Pérez, Roberto Leyva-Ramos, Erika Padilla-Ortega

“…The equilibrium and kinetic adsorption of Methylene Blue (MB), Methyl Blue (MTB) and 1-naphthalene sulphonic acid (NSA) onto organobentonite was investigated. …”
Get full text

Investigation and Discrimination of Ballpoint Pen Inks by Analytical Techniques and Chemometrics by Mehwish Sharif, Sohail Chand, Syed Azhar Ali Shah Tirmazi, Umar Farooq, Muhammad Makshoof Athar, Madeeha Batool

“…A population study has been performed for Pakistani ballpoint pen inks of blue, black, red, and green colors (a total of four colors) commercially used in Pakistan. …”
Get full text

Photosensitized Oxidation of 9,10-Dimethylanthracene on Dye-Doped Silica Composites by Elim Albiter, Salvador Alfaro, Miguel A. Valenzuela

“…A series of cationic dyes, methylene blue (MB), safranin O (SF), toluidine blue (TB), and neutral red (NR), were successfully incorporated into a silica matrix by using ultrasound irradiation during the Stöber process. …”
Get full text

Sensing Characteristics of Side-Hole Fiber-Based Long-Period Grating by Yi Xin, Xinyong Dong, Junwei Yuan, Yi Li, Shangzhong Jin, Sulei Zhang

“…Experimental results show that resonant wavelength of the SHF-LPG has a blue shift with temperature with sensitivity of −0.11 nm/°C, a blue shift with increasing sensitivity with surrounding refractive index ranging from 1.335 to 1.44 (the maximum sensitivity is achieved when the surrounding refractive index reaches the effective index of the fiber cladding), and a red shift with bend-direction-dependent sensitivity up to 9.36 nm/m−1.…”
Get full text

Nesting Island Creation for Wading Birds by C. Leann White, Peter C. Frederick, Martin B. Main, James A. Rodgers, Jr.

“… Many long-legged wading birds such as little blue herons (Egretta caerulea), great blue herons (Ardea herodius), and great egrets (Ardea albus) nest together in large aggregations called breeding colonies. …”
Get full text

Nesting Island Creation for Wading Birds by C. Leann White, Peter C. Frederick, Martin B. Main, James A. Rodgers, Jr.

“… Many long-legged wading birds such as little blue herons (Egretta caerulea), great blue herons (Ardea herodius), and great egrets (Ardea albus) nest together in large aggregations called breeding colonies. …”
Get full text

Determination of Structural and Optical Properties of Zn1-xCuxO Nanoparticles by Chemical Bath Deposition Waste Recovery Technique by Emin Yakar

“…The optical absorption edge shifted slightly to the higher wavelength from 350 nm to 375 nm with decreasing copper concentration, as mentioned the blue shift. Blue shift might be caused an increase in the optical band gap from 3.14 eV to 3.28 eV due to the decrease in Cu concentration.…”
Get full text

Occupational disparities in survival in Korean women with cancer: a nationwide registry linkage study by Ichiro Kawachi, Hye-Eun Lee, Eun-A KIM, Masayoshi Zaitsu

“…The occupation was categorised into four groups: (1) managers, professionals and technical workers, (2) clerks, (3) service/sales workers and (4) blue-collar workers.Primary and secondary outcome measure Study population were linked to the national death registry until 2009. …”
Get full text