health risk to consumers could be determined from consumption of the investigated plants at reasonable intake rates. Mathematical risk modelling (EDI, CDI, HQ, HI) estimated levels above safe oral thresholds only for Cd (16%) and Pb (8%) from higher intakes of the respective plant-derived mat...
Way back in 1990, a university book salesman came by my faculty office at the University of Portland. He was trying to sell me some textbooks. When I balked at what he was offering, he asked, “Do you have any textbook ideas of your own?” I said something like, “Sure” or “As ...
All the while, I watched in dismay as U.S. suicide ratesrelentlessly increased for 20 consecutive years, from 1999 to 2018, followed by a slight dip during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then a rise in 2021 and 2022 – this despite more local, state and nationalsuicide prevention programming ...
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Cognitive and emotional processing related to estimating one's own state of health is not likely to be influenced by when this information is received. The strengths of our study are the comparison of GCPS values in the two survey modes, and the new control variable "Point in time when ...
For example, if an employee is a "1-2 Gap Successor" because they have never been involved in the budgeting process, then we can state on the employee's individual development plan that within the next year, the employee will be responsible for creating a budget for a specific cost center...
On 11 July 2008 Stora Enso announced that a federal judge in Brazil had issued a decision claiming that the permits issued by the State of Bahia for the operations of Stora Enso's joint-operations company Veracel were not valid. The judge also ordered Veracel to take certain actions, ...
compounds that can be detected by a nitrate CI-APi-TOF; related molecules with a lower oxidation state or different functional groups could be present in the chamber, but undetected by our nitrate chemical ionization set-up. Before starting measurements, we carefully cleaned the CLOUD chamber (...
State any specific limitations on the scope or boundary of the report (see completeness Principle for explanation of scope). Basis for reporting on joint ventures, subsidiaries, leased facilities, outsourced operations, and other entities that can significantly affect comparability from period to period...
Counseling and psychotherapy theories are well-developed systems for understanding, explaining, predicting, and controlling human behavior. When someone on Twitter writes, “I have a theory, that cats are actually in a liquid state some of the time,” it’s not a theory (Zimmer, 2016). More...