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|Title:||Hypoglycemic activity of Berg-e-Arusa and Shoneez|
|Keywords:||Unani Medicine;Diabetes;Hypoglycemic activity|
|IPC Code:||Int. Cl.8: A61K36/00, A61P5/00, A61P5/10, A61P5/50|
|Abstract:||Diabetic problem has become more common in last few decades due to pressure of growing population, ecological disturbances and fast changing life styles. Presently, two main groups of substances are recognized as oral hypoglycemic agents but they are not risk free. In Tibb-e-Unani, many medicinal plants and mineral origin drugs have been mentioned to control diabetes but scientific validation of their antidiabetic properties is the need of the day. Therefore, in the study, the combination of two Unani drugs, i.e. Arusa (leaves of Adhatoda vasica Nees.) and Shoneez (seeds of Nigella sativa Linn.) was selected for the assessment of hypoglycemic activity. The hypoglycemic effect of the individual drug was studied and found to be effective (p<0.05) in the same model. Therefore, the study was designed to find out any synergistic effect of the combination of two drugs. The test combination was studied both in acute and one week models in healthy adult albino rabbits of either sex. Diabetes was observed in the rabbits (fasting blood glucose level ranged from 200-250 mg/100 ml) within 24 hrs after injection of alloxan and divided into 4 groups i.e. diabetic control (distilled water), diabetic standard (glibenclamide), diabetic test A (Arusa & Shoneez) and diabetic test B (Arusa & Shoneez) . Each group consisted of 5 rabbits. Blood samples were obtained from the marginal ear veins at 0 hr (initial) and 2 hrs, 3 hrs and 6 hrs after drug administration. Blood glucose was estimated by the end point O- toluidine. The study revealed that the aqueous extract of test combination given orally reduced the blood glucose level in alloxan induced diabetic rabbits. The significant reduction (p<0.05) in blood glucose level started after 3 hrs which continued for 6 hrs in both the groups.|
|ISSN:||0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)|
|Appears in Collections:||IJTK Vol.08(3) [July 2009]|
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Facebook received what may be its first “sell" rating on Friday, from Pivotal Research Group, which also set a target price of $US30 for the stock.
Shares in the No. 1 social network fizzled in their debut on Friday, managing an 18 per cent gain before backtracking to trade close to their $US38 initial public offering price.
“We are wary of the disconnect between revenue growth and operating/capital expense growth expectations," Pivotal analyst Brian Wieser said in a research note. “The market is pricing Facebook as a less risky asset than Google, which we believe is simply not the case."
I’M NO FACEBOOK BILLIONAIRE: BONO
U2 frontman Bono has laughed off claims he will become a billionaire on the back of the Facebook flotation.
The rock star’s investment group Elevation put money into the social networking site, taking 2.3 per cent of the company in late 2009.
But while the flotation means Elevation is worth way in excess of £1 billion ($1.6 billion), Bono is joined by nine other directors who stand to profit.
And reacting to the launch of Facebook on the stock market, he said: “Contrary to reports, I’m not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke."
There had been suggestions that the canny investment could make his wealth outstrip that of Sir Paul McCartney, said to be valued at £665 million.
Bono told MSNBC’s Andrew Mitchell in the US: “In Elevation, we invest other people’s money - endowments, pension funds. We do get paid, of course. But you know, I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills.
“Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed. I got interested in technology because I’m an artist; I’m interested in the forces that shape the world, politics, religion, the stuff we’ve been talking about today."
He added: “Technology is huge, I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
“Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team, it’s a technology that brings people together."
WINDFALL TO BE SHARED WITH MENLO PARK CITY
Some of Facebook’s wealth is also slated to help fill the cash-strapped coffers of California and the smaller but still needy ones of Menlo Park, the Silicon Valley city where the company is located, although not in the form of taxes.
In a voluntary agreement with the city’s government, Facebook will soon pay a lump sum of $US1.1 million, a move Mayor Kirsten Keith hopes will be followed by another $US500,000.
The initial outlay to help fund capital projects for the city will be followed by additional annual payments of $US800,000 for five years, $US900,000 for the following four years and $US1 million in subsequent years.
The payments will help Menlo Park respond to Facebook’s expansion and its traffic. The company currently has 3500-plus employees and plans to develop a new campus - and there is an expectation the growth will lure more business to Menlo Park.
“Whenever you hear Facebook, you’ll hear Menlo Park. That’s just priceless," Keith told Reuters in an interview. “Other companies will want to be around that."
Keith says a future “ecosystem" of high-tech firms could establish itself in Menlo Park to develop products and services complementing the social network, providing more revenue to the city.
Menlo Park faces a budget gap of about $US1 million for the 2013 fiscal year beginning on July 1 and money slated to arrive from Facebook next January will help close the shortfall, said City Manager Alex McIntyre.
Facebook’s payments to Menlo Park will help replace revenue that was generated on the company’s campus when it housed a Sun Microsystems facility that generated about $US800,000 a year in sales tax revenue for the city.
Earlier this week, California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office estimated that California will see $US2.1 billion in revenue linked to Facebook’s IPO through its next fiscal year. The estimate was based on the expectation the company’s shares will rise to $US45 a share in six months from the initial public offering price of $US38.
SHORTING ONLY FOR THE BRAVE
Shorting the Facebook IPO on its first day of trading is not for the faint of heart, but some traders are trying.
As the hottest initial public offering in recent memory, Facebook has drawn 1990s-style tech-mania interest from mom and pop investors and big institutions alike.
That intense appeal means short-sellers are both attracted by the stock’s high valuation and wary, at least for now.
“I have no interest in shorting a cultural phenomenon," hedge fund manager Jeffrey Matthews of Ram Partners in Greenwich, Connecticut, told Reuters in an email interview.
Asked if this was because such stocks trade without regard to normal market valuation, he wrote back, “Bingo."
Short sellers bet against shares by borrowing the security, then selling it. If the stock drops, they buy it back at the lower price, return it to the lender and pocket the difference as profit.
Shorts looking to bet against Facebook early face an uphill battle. Traders interviewed said the stock was going to be hard to borrow, at least for a few days, and only the best-sourced hedge fund managers will able to find lenders.
A prime broker at one of the top underwriters of the IPO said the firm would not be lending shares, at least until the initial settlement in three business days.
“I don’t know how many shares will be available for shorting," said the broker, who requested anonymity. “We would only provide them once the deal has stabilised."
The bigger-than-usual percentage of retail-investor ownership of the shares may make shorting more difficult, as those investors don’t tend to lend their shares for those who want to take a short bet.
“It will likely be difficult to get shares to borrow," said Adam Reed, professor of finance at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
“In our research, we found that around 70 per cent of IPOs are borrowable on the first day, but many of those names were only borrowable by well-placed investors."
Those who are able to short need nerves of steel. The borrowing cost will be high, and short-sellers may find the trade hard to unwind by buying back the stock in the open market, and could face a lender calling in their shorts if the stock rallies sharply.
Still, some are trying to short Facebook on Day One.
“I’m doing the legwork now and calling all the brokers," said a hedge fund manager late on Thursday, after Facebook priced its IPO at $US38 per share. “Goldman and Credit Suisse are our prime brokers, so I am in contact with them about this."
“This is about as bubbly as you can get," he said. “My mother asked me if she could get Facebook shares and she has never been interested in IPOs before. A cab driver asked me about the IPO too. That’s when you want to short it."
The hedge fund manager asked not to be named as he expected to be involved in shorting the stock on Friday.
“Facebook is the kind of stock that, if you don’t like it, you simply avoid it," said Mohannad Aama, managing director at Beam Capital Management LLC in New York.
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Member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are under an obligation to ensure that their domestic intellectual property rights (IPR) laws conform to the requirements of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. When the pandemic hit the globe, India and South Africa piloted the proposal to waive key provisions of the TRIPS agreement on COVID-19 vaccines, drugs, therapeutics, and related technologies. The core idea is that IPRs such as patents should not become barriers in scaling up production of medical products essential to combat COVID-19. The TRIPS waiver proposal, now backed by the U.S., is essential because it would give immunity to member countries from a legal challenge at the WTO if their domestic IPR laws suspend or do not enforce IP protection on COVID-19 medical products.
Foot-dragging on compulsory licences
It is uncertain when the TRIPS waiver would be adopted, or what conditions it would be subjected to. Meanwhile, nothing stops India from using the existing flexibilities under the Patents Act of 1970, such as compulsory licences, which are consistent with the TRIPS agreement , to increase the supply of COVID-19 medical products. While issuing compulsory licences for COVID-19 vaccines in the absence of technology transfer is easier said than done, they can be used to augment the supply of drugs and other therapeutics. For instance, Natco, an Indian pharmaceutical company, has requested a compulsory licence under Section 92 of the Patents Act for Baricitinib, a COVID-19 drug. Incyte Holdings Corporation owns the patent for Baricitinib with a licence to Eli Lilly, an American drug company. Likewise, there are demands that compulsory licences be issued for drugs such as Remdesivir to augment supply. Natco’s application demonstrates that the option of issuing compulsory licences is available to the government. However, despite the nudging by the judiciary and others, the government inexplicably hasn’t made use of compulsory licences in the pandemic. This is ironic because India has historically played a leading role in mainstreaming TRIPS flexibilities like the compulsory licence at the WTO.
To make matters worse, the Central government, in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court a few days ago, suggests that issuance of compulsory licences will not be effective. Specifically, the affidavit states that the main constraint in boosting the production of drugs like Remdesivir is the unavailability of raw materials and essential inputs. If that is the real bottleneck, and not IPR-related legal hurdles, why is India pushing for a TRIPS waiver at the WTO? After all, the TRIPS waiver is about overcoming legal impediments, not about addressing supply-side bottlenecks. The affidavit further states, “it is presumptuous to assume that the patent holder will not agree to more voluntary licences”. Thus, the government believes that voluntary licences, not compulsory licences, are the way forward to address shortage of COVID-19 medical products. Interestingly, those who oppose the TRIPS waiver at the WTO advance the same argument.
The first step in advocating for the removal of IPR-related impediments at the WTO is to make use of the existing lawful means, even if insufficient, to lift the obstacles that come in the way of manufacturing patented products domestically. Therefore, the government’s stand before the Supreme Court is not only contradictory with India’s position at the WTO but also severely undermines it. This would make the TRIPS waiver negotiations arduous. To make its TRIPS waiver stand convincing, the government needs to make aggressive use of Sections 92 and 100 of the Patents Act to license all patents necessary to make COVID-19 medical products, without waiting for a private party to apply for a licence. An assertive posture on compulsory licences would also have the advantage of forcing several pharmaceutical companies to offer licences voluntarily.
India’s development of Covaxin is a spectacular scientific achievement. Given the involvement of taxpayers’ money in the development of Covaxin, the government has a stake in its IPR. Thus, the government should not only transfer Covaxin’s technology to domestic pharmaceutical companies, to boost national supplies, but also offer it to foreign corporations. By unlocking its vaccine technical know-how to the world, India would demonstrate its resolve to walk the talk on the TRIPS waiver. Licensing Covaxin widely would enable India to live up to its reputation of being the ‘pharmacy of the world’ and also put pressure on developed countries to transfer their vaccine technology to developing countries. India must take a consistent stand on IPRs on COVID-19 medical products internationally and domestically.
Prabhash Ranjan is a Senior Assistant Professor at South Asian University’s Faculty of Legal Studies. Views are personal

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Pros and cons of different microfluidic chip materials for different applications .
The advance of droplet-based microfluidics has enabled compartmentalization and controlled manipulation of monodispersed emulsions with high yield and incorporation efficiency. It has become a highly exotic platform in synthesizing functional material due to the presence of two immiscible liquids and the interface between them. With its intrinsic feature in high degree of product control, advanced emulsion-based synthesis of functional material is constituted as a template for effective water remediation and resource recovery. This chapter aims to provide an overview of recent advances in microfluidic technology for environmental remediation. More specifically, the facility of microemulsion-based functional materials for water remediation is reviewed. Moreover, the removal and recovery of pollutants, such as heavy metal, dye, pharmaceuticals, etc., from aquatic environment by the applications of adsorption on functional micro/nanomaterials are unfolded with respect to its potential for wastewater purification.
- functional sorbents
Over the past few years, tremendous growth in the manufacturing and widespread application of synthetic chemical compounds in industrial sectors has led to growing number of emerging contaminants in environmental matrices (air, wastewater, water, sediment, and soil), which poses a challenge for regulatory agencies. Apart from that, the environment has gradually suffered as a result of exposure to the emerging pollutants especially in water and wastewater. Various types of physical, chemical, and biochemical methodologies have been reported on effectively removing pollutants. These methods include membrane separation, biological degradation, advanced oxidation process, and adsorption as well . Recent developments have indicated that the adsorption method is favorable due to its wide availability, lower cost, as well as its recyclability. As in terms of cost effectiveness, simplicity of construction, and easy adaptation of operating conditions, particle adsorption materials become the key for realizing various adsorption applications in environment remediation using fixed bed reactors, absorption columns, fluidized beds, and cyclone separators . However, controlled shapes, size, and compartments are some of limitations for most conventional methods. Unlike conventional approaches, microfluidics is comparably conducive as it has improved and extended the possibilities to synthesize highly controlled size of microparticles with excellent adsorption capability and reusability .
Microfluidics is a multidisciplinary field stretch across engineering, physics, chemistry, microtechnology, and biotechnology. Microfluidic devices generally have two of the three geometric length scales in the order of microns. The micrometer length scale defines the most obvious but extremely important character of microfluidic devices especially their small size, which allows small sample volumes, low cost, and fast analysis, but with high resolution and sensitivity . With the length scale associated with microfluidic devices, the flow within them tends to be laminar. Moreover, one characteristic of microscale miniaturization is the large surface area to volume ratio. Thus, this favorable aspect plays a major role in control and manipulation of fluid flow in microfluidics. Recent advances and innovations could make microfluidics technology ubiquitous and create microfluidic devices that are more functional, efficient, and cost effective than conventional techniques.
The development of microfluidic systems that allow for the formation of microdroplets inside microfluidic devices has gained greatly attention over the past 20 years. The rise in interest is due to the utilization of microfluidic devices in a broad range of biological and biomedical application areas including disease diagnosis, cell treatment, drug screening, single-cell analysis, and drug delivery. Liquid droplets dispersed in a second immiscible fluid are useful, particularly when the sizes and the size distribution of droplet can be prescribed on a few hundred nanometers to a few millimeters . Microfluidic emulsification approach offers an alternate and versatile route to produce emulsions that are highly monodispersed and have high formation frequencies in multiphase fluid systems . Additionally, the geometrical attributes and flow characteristics within these microfluidics system constitutes flexibility in producing complex structured emulsions, such as double-emulsions and multi-emulsions [6, 7]. Highly monodispersed single, double, or multi-emulsions can be used as a template to prepare micro- and nanoparticles with various structures and morphologies , as shown in Figure 1. As seen in Figure 1, the presence of different particle shapes, compartments, and microstructures is formed based on the flow and geometrical attributes in microfluidics. Consequently, the superior properties of droplet-based microfluidic device have become extremely promising and attractive platform that enables the production of functionalized monodisperse microparticles.
In order to fabricate micro- or nanoparticles, the analysis of droplet formation is imperative to understand the device operation and its process control to meet different application purposes. Additionally, other’s droplet manipulation, such as fusion, fission, mixing, and sorting with high precision and flexibility constitutes essential issue, at which extensive investigations have been directed. Based on the sources of the driving force involved, there are five approaches to droplet manipulation: hydrodynamic stress, electro-hydrodynamics, thermos-capillary, magnetism, and acoustics . Hydrodynamic stress is a simple and effective approach to accomplish droplet manipulation relating to the geometrical characteristics of microchannel . In this mode of manipulation, various methods have been employed in the formation of droplets in microfluidics device, including co-flowing mechanisms, flow-focusing mechanisms as well as cross-flowing mechanisms . These mechanisms enabled the formation of dispersions with highly attractive features, particularly the control over droplet and particle size distribution.
Over the years, microfluidic devices have been developed to synthesize particles for water remediation. For instance, Zhao et al.  synthesize graphene oxide microspheres using microfluidics technology for the removal of perfluorooctane sulfonate. Dong et al. studied the anionic dye adsorption using chitosan microparticles . In addition, the performance of microcapsules for the CO2 adsorption and permeability was investigated by Stolaroff et al. . Hitherto, there are still little attempts that have been considered to use microfluidic platform as a selection scheme for large-scale industrial wastewater treatment. Toward practical and high capacity, microfluidic platforms generally suffer from the high cost and limited capacity for high throughput production of microfluidic synthesized particles. Nevertheless, it is possible to operate the production in parallel in order to realize continuous processes . Moreover, the fundamental microfluidic research is still highly demanded to bridge the gap between the functional material synthesis and industrial perspective on exploring the possibilities and potential benefits of microfluidic processes [2, 13].
In this chapter, we will discuss the current trend of employing microfluidic technologies for environmental remediation, specifically for wastewater treatment and water remediation. Apart from that, we will also provide a general overview of the facility of microfluidics emulsification for the fabrication of various microparticles and nanoparticles as functional adsorbents. The sorption capacity and performance of the functional materials will be also evaluated in this review. Eventually, this chapter provides an impression of what are the consolidated fields of microfluidic formulation in functional material synthesis that will look like in about a decade from now.
2. Microfluidic technology for water remediation and resource recovery
Due to excessive discharges of harmful wastes and by-products to the environment, water contamination is the most prominent in which numerous organic and inorganic pollutants are found in the fresh water resources such as ponds, rivers, and underground water. Traditionally, there are various methods of water analysis including atomic adsorption, chemical analysis, chromatography, colorimetry, and spectrometry. Although these techniques have high sensitivity and accuracy, limitations such as expensive instrumentation, time consuming and requires manual operation in sampling process, causing the researchers to shift their interest toward microfluidics technology, which has a great potential to replace the traditional water analysis techniques .
2.1 Droplet microfluidic system
Droplet-based microfluidic technology involves the formation and manipulation of discrete droplets inside microdevices . Droplet microfluidics is being widely used in different applications, such as chemical reactions, therapeutic agent delivery, imaging, biomolecule synthesis, diagnostic chips, and drug delivery . The major concerns when creating droplet microfluidic device are the type of microfluidic chip fabrication materials used and the fluids used for droplet generation. Poly(dimethyl)siloxane (PDMS) is commonly used as fabrication material of microfluidic devices because PDMS is a relatively low cost and easily moldable elastomer. Nevertheless, PDMS has low solvent resistance, causing it to deform in the presence of strong organic solvents. Therefore, materials with higher solvent resistance, such as glass  and silicon,  are used. The pros and cons of the application of different microfluidic chip materials in droplet microfluidic system are shown in Table 1. The application of droplet microfluidics in the formation of functional materials for removal of pollutants will be discussed in Section 3 subsequently.
|Production cost||High||Medium||High||Low||Medium to high||Low|
2.2 Microfluidic reactors
Microfluidic reactors, also known as microreactors, have been widely used in wastewater treatment because the development of microfluidics technology in this area helps to overcome some existing problems in bulk reactors. The two essential issues of bulk reactor are photon transfer limitations and mass transfer limitations . Thus, great attention and interest have been shown in microfluidic system as microreactor inherits the merit of microfluidics. Recently, the technologies of microfluidics in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for wastewater treatment were studied and focused. AOPs involve the utilization of hydroxyl radicals (OH˙) or sulfate radicals (SO4˙−) as a major oxidizing agent to effect water purification . This is because these powerful radicals are extremely effective to destruct the organic and inorganic contaminants in wastewater and transform them to less or even non-toxic products . The most popular AOPs that employ the technologies of microfluidics are photocatalysis and Fenton processes. The development and application of several AOP mechanisms will be discussed in the next sub-section. Then, a brief example of the application of different types of microreactors in water treatment and resource recovery is listed in Table 2.
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|Optofluidic planar reactor||Degradation of methylene blue||30% of dye degraded within 5 min with a reaction rate constant two orders higher than bulk reactor|||
|Microcapillary reactor||Reduction of methylene blue||Reduction rate of dye increased by >150 times compared to batch system|||
|Tree-branched centimeter-scale reactor||Degradation of volatile organic compounds||95% of pollutants (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, m-p xylenes and o-xylene) degraded in <5 s of residence time|||
|Jet-aerated microfluidic flow-through reactor||Degradation of clopyralid as model organic pollutant||Clopyralid is eliminated effectively after 1 hour under several conditions|||
|Microfluidic atmospheric-pressure plasma reactor||Degradation of methylene blue||>97% of dye degraded|||
|Droplet microfluidic reactor||Extraction of lead (II)||Pb (II) ion was selectively and completely removed from the simulated wastewater effluent within 2.00 s|||
|Microfluidic chip with polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plates||Adsorption of copper (II)||Adsorption capacity of 42.08 mg/g is achieved|||
|Simple cross microchannel microfluidic device||Quantification of bacterial cells in potable water||Bacteria were accurately enumerated within 15 min after fluorescent staining|||
Heterogenous photoassisted catalysis, known as photocatalysis is one of the examples of hydroxyl radical-based AOPs which is of particular concern in wastewater treatment. It involves the utilization of light for decomposition or mineralization of organic pollutants into innocuous product, such as carbon dioxide and water, in the presence of catalysts . The application of microfluidic technology offers a great number of advantages in photocatalytic water treatment. Microfluidic structures have larger surface-area-to-volume ratio, typically in the range of 10,000–50,000 m2/m3 , compared to bulk reactor in which the surface-area-to-volume ratio is typically below 600 m2/m3 . The surface-area-to-volume ratio can be much larger if nanoporous photocatalyst film is used. Thus, higher heat transfer performance can be achieved by using microreactors. Furthermore, the rate of reaction is significantly increased and consequently favors having higher throughputs . With the enhancement of reaction rate, the reaction time is reduced. The time taken for degradation process in a microreactor takes only several to tens of seconds , whereas bulk reactor requires several hours . Besides, microfluidic layer has short diffusion length, typically 10–100 μm to ease the diffusion of organic pollutants to the reaction surface . In addition, microreactors usually contain an immobilized photocatalyst film under the thin layer of fluid. This can ensure a uniform irradiation on the reaction surface, resulting in higher photon efficiency . Microreactor has self-refreshing effect as the running fluid can refresh the reaction surface naturally. This helps to move away the reaction products and stabilize the photocatalysts. According to journal by Wang et al. , the photocatalysts in microreactor can hold several hundred runs of photocatalytic reactions, whereas the activity of photocatalysts in bulk reactors starts to degrade after 10 runs of reactions .
2.2.2 Other mechanisms in AOPs
Electro-Fenton process is an efficient AOP that involves activation of hydrogen peroxide by metal salts, typically iron, to produce hydroxyl radicals . Electro-Fenton process is extremely effective in water remediation of the effluents, which cannot be efficiently treated using biological technologies [39, 40, 41]. Besides, AOPs with plasma-based water treatment (PWT) have been widely studied as PWT have the potential to reduce organic contaminants in wastewater. The application of microfluidic technology in PWT gives the benefits of large surface-area-to-volume ratio and flow control, in low-cost and portable devices . However, more researches and development are needed to validate PWT performance at macro-scale .
3. Droplet microfluidics for the production of micro- or nanofunctional sorbents
Droplet-based microfluidics is formed through fabricating emulsions of uniform size. There are two approaches to produce emulsions, which are active and passive. Unlike actively controlled microfluidic devices, the breakup of discrete phase in continuous phase driven is controlled in a fully passive manner, which is caused by flow instabilities and hydrodynamic pressure without external actuations, such as mechanical, electrical, thermal, and magnetic method . In this section, passive formation of emulsion-based microparticles is mainly discussed. Emulsions can be produced and manipulated with micro device of different geometries forming different sizes and morphologies . Monodisperse emulsions are produced in laminar flow region and generated drop-by-drop where the over size, shape, and morphologies of micro droplets can be control precisely .
The superior properties of droplet microfluidics are advantageous for precise microparticle manufacturing for wastewater treatment. Micro and nanofunctional particles with various morphologies are prepared using templates. In general, microfluidic device forms highly monodisperse emulsified droplets and forms microparticles via solidification, while nanoparticles are formed using photochemical, chemicals or physical methods . The space structure of the emulsions is controlled while preparing the adsorbent with microfluidic devices. By changing the device structure of microfluidic device, complex structure of droplets can be produced such as single, double, and multiple emulsion [17, 47]. These emulsion droplets are classified according to the structures and the evolvement of the emulsion into different structures and morphologies. Single emulsion can be a template to solid particles including spheres and non-spheres, while double and multiple emulsions can be templates for Janus particles, microcapsules, vesicles, hollow spheres or core-shell spheres .
3.1 Emulsion template: single, double or multiple
Single emulsions are droplets of one phase fluid dispersed in another immiscible phase fluid. Flow focusing, cross-flow, co-flow are systems that are frequently used to form monodisperse droplets, and the coefficient of variation of droplets is usually less than 5% . There are five breaking modes in passive generation, which are squeezing, dripping, jetting, tip-streaming, and tip-multi-breaking. These five modes have its own characteristics, for example, the structure and component of the droplets can be changed to produce inorganic nanoparticles, metal particles, and polymer particles . Double or multi-emulsions are droplets with smaller droplets encapsulated in larger drops . These emulsions are produced with capillary micro devices that involve three fluid streams in different capillaries. Initially, single droplets are formed when inner fluid is sheared by the middle fluid, then double or multiple droplets are formed when the outer fluid pinched off the single droplets containing in the middle fluid. There are difficulties of precisely controlling the shell thickness, aggregation, and secondary nucleation.
3.1.1 Special-shaped particles
Non-spherical particles have unique properties, and they are usually fabricated with many strategies such as seeded emulsion polymerization , template molding , and self-assembly . However, a high quality, monodisperse, non-spherical particles with tailored geometries and shapes yet still difficult to produce using these methods. Droplets with different sizes and shapes in microfluidic channels are confined with microfluidic technologies for fabrication of non-spherical particles. The droplet will be deformed into ellipsoid, a disk, or a rod if the largest sphere can accommodate in the channel of a larger volume of droplet. Non-spherical droplet will be formed after they are solidified in the confined channel .
3.1.2 Spherical particles
There are different types of spherical particles, such as polymer microspheres, inorganic microspheres, noble metal nanospheres, and semiconductor nanospheres . Polymer microspheres are usually prepared through spray-drying, coacervation, and emulsification . Inorganic microsphere, which is the composed of titanium, silica, and carbon, have potential application in biomolecules, sensor, catalyst, and drug deliver. Noble metal nanosphere, such as gold, silver, and platinum, has shape and size dependent properties. It is hard to obtain desired size and size distribution as this individual nanoparticle tends to precipitate and coagulate to lower the surface energy. For the synthesis of semiconductor nanospheres, the microfluidic reactor should be chemically and thermally stable; thus, the droplets and carrier fluid could be stable, non-volatile, non-interacting, and immiscible from ambient to reaction temperatures. Hitherto, these microparticles are widely applicable in biological, pharmaceutical, medical (such as tumor treatment, drug controlled-release, and multi drug loading), optical, electrical applications, and researches. Moreover, polymer microspheres and inorganic microspheres are of great interest due to their potentials in adsorption separation as adsorbent in wastewater treatment, as shown in Figure 2 and Table 3 .
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|Chitosan/polyethylenimine-chitosan microspheres||Commercial membrane||Membrane emulsification||Dispersed: 20 μm pores||Chemical cross-linking, solvent extraction|||
|Chitosan/chitosan-poly(acrylic acid) composite microspheres||PMMA plates (laser fabrication)||Flow-focusing||Dispersed: 160 μm wide|
Continuous: 500 μm width
|Chemical cross-linking, solvent extraction|||
|Chitosan microspheres||PMMA plates (laser fabrication)||Cross-flowing||Dispersed: 1000 μm wide|
Continuous: 1000 μm width
|Chemical cross-linking, solvent extraction|||
|Chitosan microsphere||PMMA plates (laser fabrication)||Cross-flowing||Dispersed: 1000 μm width|
Continuous: 1000 μm width
|Chitosan microparticles||PMMA plates (laser fabrication)||Flow-focusing||Dispersed: 500 μm width|
Continuous: 500 μm width
|Thiourea-modified chitosan||PMMA plates (laser fabrication)||Flow-focusing||Dispersed: 160 μm width|
Continuous: 500 μm width
|Chemical cross-linking, solvent extraction|||
|Ion-imprinted chitosan microspheres||PMMA plates (laser fabrication)||Cross-flowing||Dispersed: 1000 μm width|
Continuous: 1000 μm width
|Chitosan/silica hybrid microspheres||PMMA plates (laser fabrication)||Cross-flowing||Dispersed: 1000 μm width|
Continuous: 1000 μm width
|Graphene oxide/MgCl2-graphene oxide microspheres||PDMS chip (soft-lithography)||Cross-flowing||Not available||Photo-polymerization|||
|Carbon nanotube microspheres||PDMS chip (3D printing/soft-lithography)||Flow-focusing||Dispersed/Continuous: 900 μm width with a downstream constriction: 200 μm width||Decanting, solvent, cleaning, drying, pyrolysis|||
|Hollow silica microspheres with ethyl butyrate||Glass microfluidic chip||Flow-focusing||Dispersed/continuous: 250 μm width||Hydrolyzation and condensation|||
|PDMS microspheres||Off-the-shelf (needle-based) microfluidics||Flow-focusing||Dispersed: 510 μm width with downstream channel: 600 μm width||Photo-polymerization|||
4. Sorption performance of different functional micro-sorbents for pollutants removal
Pollution management is now one of the most challenging issue facing modern societies. Due to the increasing population as well as industrialization of most countries, some pollutants are being discharged into aquatic environment without further treatment. This has a negative impact on the environment. The advancement of microfluidic technologies has allowed the synthesis of functional sorbents with greater sorption capacity. This is because the structure of the sorbent can be easily modified during emulsion. Thus, microsorbents with different functional groups can be synthesized to remove certain pollutants. Chitosan is a material that is widely used to make adsorbent for pollutant removal due to its affinity in removing heavy metals. In this subsection, the sorption performance of different functional microsorbents will be discussed as well as the kinetic model and adsorption isotherm.
4.1 Application and sorption performance of chitosan-based microsorbents
Chitosan is a natural polymer material that is found in abundance. It is made from the chitin of crustaceans and shrimps. Due to its affinity with heavy metals, it is a material with great potential for biosorbent synthesis. For instance, polyethylenimine-chitosan microspheres are used to remove methyl orange and Congo red dyes. Based on empirical observations, the uptake of methyl orange dye ranges around 88–97%, whereas the uptake of Congo red dye ranges around 86–96% . Zhai et al.  and Dong et al.  both have reported that the sorption performance of chitosan microspheres in the uptake of the common textile azo dyes. Apart from synthetic dyes, chitosan microspheres were also synthesized to remove copper (II) ions, the sorption performance was observed to be roughly 38.52 mg/g . With the addition of polyacrylic acid, the sorption performance increased significantly . Besides, Lv et al.  studied the sorption uptake of copper (II) ion with using polyethylenimine-poly(glycidylmethacrylate)-chitosan microsphere. Microfluidic synthesized ion-imprinted chitosan microspheres and thiourea-modified chitosan were also used to remove copper (II) ions. These studies have proved that microfluidic synthesized chitosan is a promising biosorbent for water remediation. Moreover, its mechanical intensity, sorption performance, and equilibrium adsorption amount of emerging contaminants are highly enhanced as compared to those conventional methods.
4.2 Application and sorption performance of non-chitosan-based microsorbents
Aside from chitosan, other microfluidic synthesized materials such as graphene oxide, silicon-based organic polymer, carbon, and silica were also used to be studied for wastewater treatment [11, 61, 62, 63, 65]. Copic et al.  reported that sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and Congo red dye can be removed using carbon nanotubes microspheres. Li et al.  investigated that the synthesized hollow silica microspheres offer a much higher storage capacity as compared to conventional hollow nanospheres. Moreover, the drug detoxification capability of the hollow silica microspheres containing ethyl butyrate was tested on iodine removal . The sorption capacity of iodine by silica microspheres goes up to 95% removal uptake. Lian et al.  studied the removal of toluene using polydimethylsiloxane microspheres synthesized via needle-based microfluidic devices. Ren et al.  synthesized anisotropic Janus microparticles loaded with Fe3O4 and MnO2 nanoparticles for the adsorption of basic dyes in wastewater. The sorption performance of the dye uptake using Janus micromotors can be varied from 47 to 94%. Thus, the current adsorption isotherm, kinetic modeling studies, and sorption performance of each microfluidics generated micro-sorbents for different water applications have been listed in Table 4.
|Microsorbents||Application||Sorption performance||Adsorption isotherm||Kinetic modeling||Ref.|
|Chitosan/polyethylenimine-chitosan microspheres||Adsorption of methyl orange (MO) and Congo red (CR)||MO uptake: 88–97%|
CR uptake: 86–96%
|Polyethylenimine-poly(glycidyl methacrylate)-chitosan microspheres||Adsorption of copper (II) ions||qmax: 229 mg/g||Langmuir||Pseudo-second-order|||
|Chitosan/chitosan-poly(acrylic acid) composite microspheres||Adsorption of copper (II) ions||Chitosan:|
qmax: 50 mg/g
qmax: 66–72 mg/g
|Chitosan microspheres||Adsorption of copper (II) ions||qmax: 38.52 mg/g||Langmuir||Pseudo-second-order|||
|Chitosan microsphere||Adsorption of methyl orange||qmax: 207 mg/g||Langmuir||Pseudo-second-order|||
|Chitosan microparticles||Adsorption of methyl orange||MO uptake: 15% to >95% (dosage from 1 to 7 mg).|
qmax: 182 mg/g
|Thiourea-modified chitosan||Adsorption of heavy metal copper (II) ions||qmax: 60.6 mg/g|
|Ion-imprinted chitosan microspheres||Adsorption of heavy metal copper (II) ions||qmax: 81.97 mg/g|
(Ce < 400 ppm)
|Chitosan/silica hybrid microspheres||Adsorption of heavy metal copper (II) ions||qmax: 53 mg/g (100 ppm)||Not available||Not available|||
|Graphene oxide/MgCl2-graphene oxide microspheres||Adsorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)||PFOS uptake:|
>95–98% (in 2 min)
qmax: 5300 mg/g
|Not available||Not available|||
|Carbon nanotube microspheres||Adsorption of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and congo red (CR)||Filtration efficiency:|
CR (84.7%), SDS (61.6%)
|Not available||Not available|||
|Hollow silica microspheres with ethyl butyrate||Waste removal and drug detoxification/iodine removal||Iodine uptake: 95% (in 30 seconds)||Not available||Not available|||
|Poly(dimethylsiloxane) microspheres||Adsorption of toluene||Toluene uptake: 30–45% (350 ppm)||Not available||Not available|||
|Poly-(ETPTA) /Fe3O4/MnO2 bubble-propelled micromotors||Adsorption of methylene blue (MB)||MB uptake:|
47–94% (6.67 ppm in 6.7% w/w H2O2)
|Not available||Not available|||
Certainly, microfluidic technologies are a relatively new research with great potential for development to enable more cost-effective synthesis of functional sorbents. Currently, the state-of-the-art microfluidic reactors for water remediation and resource recovery are being implemented in small-scale applications. Example of microfluidic reactors includes microfluidic atmospheric pressure plasma reactor, which is used to degrade methylene blue dyes. Furthermore, the advances in microfluidic technologies have improved the production of micro sorbents using microfluidic technology. Many efforts are also pouring into researching different functional sorbents for removal of different pollutants in wastewater. The results of such research have culminated in the discovery the adsorption capacity and isotherm model of different micro sorbents, which gives insight on the suitable sorbents required for different pollutants.
At present, the need of highly effective water remediation and resource recovery has brought about mounting interest in the research of microfluidic technologies. Many breakthroughs had been achieved in such research which enabled highly specific and controlled synthesis of functional sorbents using microfluidic systems. However, there are still many barriers that prevent the implementation of microfluidic technologies on an industrial scale. The greatest challenge against microfluidic technologies is the economical aspect. Due to the highly specific characteristics of sorbents used in wastewater treatment, most microfluidic systems are highly specific as well. Sorbents used in different applications would require different microfluidic systems to synthesize. Thus, more research will need to be done in order for such problems to be overcome. Of course, environmental problem such as water remediation and resource recovery cannot be solved by microfluidic technology alone and will need other technologies to complement it.
We gratefully acknowledge the funding support from Heriot-Watt Malaysia Campus.
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National Weather Service Offering Free SKYWARN Spotter Classes - Weather Spotters Needed Across the NorthlandApr 01, 2024 11:38AM ● By Editor
From the NWS in Duluth - April 1, 2024
The National Weather Service (NWS) in Duluth, Minnesota, will offer free Skywarn Spotter Training Classes across the Northland this spring. Skywarn is a cooperative effort between the NWS, local emergency management, and private citizens who volunteer their time to attend free classes and send their weather reports to the NWS. Volunteers who commit to attending these classes serve a vital need for the NWS by monitoring and reporting severe weather conditions. These reports, in turn, help the NWS deliver accurate and timely severe weather warnings. The class is great for anyone who wants to learn more about weather, and no weather background is necessary to attend the class!
Spotter classes will answer questions about thunderstorm safety (where to go if a storm strikes and you’re in the wilderness?), the science of thunderstorms (why do some storms form tornadoes?), spotting different types of cloud formations (what’s the difference between a shelf cloud and a wall cloud?) and how spotters can get their reports to the National Weather Service (how to let NWS know when you spot a tornado?). Attendees are encouraged to bring their weather questions to the National Weather Service meteorologists teaching the class!
This spring, there will be a mix of over 20 classes delivered in-person in communities across northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin as well as online virtual classes, with a variety of days and times available to accommodate different schedules. Classes are completely free, last about an hour and a half, and are taught by the meteorologists who issue the Severe Thunderstorm, Tornado, Flash Flood, and other Warnings for communities across the Northland.
The full class schedule is available online at weather.gov/dlh/skywarn. For more information, contact Meteorologist Bryan Howell at [email protected] or 218-729-0651.
About the National Weather Service Duluth, MN office
The mission of the National Weather Service is to provide weather, water, and climate data, forecasts, and warnings for the protection of life and property and enhancement of the national economy. The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Duluth, MN is one of 122 field offices that provide forecasts and warnings across the United States and its territories. NWS Duluth serves 18 counties and 9 tribal nations across northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin, as well as the nearshore waters of western Lake Superior. The office is open 24/7/365 with a dedicated team of meteorologists and support staff providing a continuous weather watch across the Northland.

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My husband, Alfred Batzdorff, and I were eyewitnesses to Kristallnacht, “the night of shattered glass,” which occurred 75 years ago this weekend.
He was 16 at the time and lived with his family in the apartment above ours in Breslau, Germany. I was 17 years old. I had dropped out of school to prepare for emigration. I worked as a mother's helper for a Jewish family with three young children. A few years later, this entire family was gunned to death in Riga, Latvia. I commemorated their lives in a poem. I shall never forget them.
My father had gone to America to pave the way for our family to find refuge there. My younger brother was training for emigration at an agricultural camp not far from where we lived. My mother was alone in the apartment, and I was at work when we found out about the pogrom that had begun during the night. The night of Nov. 9, 1938 represents a watershed of sorts, an end to the gradual erosion of our rights as Jews in Nazi Germany. This sudden eruption of violence and lawlessness would change our lives forever.
Our synagogue was set on fire and allowed to burn to the ground, its remnants dynamited until not a stone remained. Jewish men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps, homes and businesses were vandalized. A lawless mob was in control, and the police offered no protection.
A Jewish club house next door to our apartment house was vandalized. Alfred was arrested out of our apartment and taken away. Another friend who had sought shelter with us later that day was apprehended there, and my mother and I were threatened with imprisonment if we refused to turn him over to the Gestapo. Our non-Jewish neighbors watched, mostly non-committal, as police vans passed by with sirens screeching. We felt totally isolated, abandoned, alone. The feeling among the Jewish population was, “From now on, anything is possible.” And so it was.
Step by ruthless step, Jews were branded with yellow stars, deprived of jobs, homes, deported to camps and finally murdered. One of the largest genocides in history began with the pogrom of Nov. 9, 1938.

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Women have made strides in recent society today, such as raising awareness for equality. But, there are certain groups that remain poorly represented and misunderstood in the media. Actress, model and spokeswoman Laverne Cox sheds light on transgender individuals in society—and she’s making it look good, too.
Cox is a transgender woman who has been in the Hollywood scene since the early 2000s. She is a groundbreaking woman that is changing Hollywood. According to her website, she was the first transgender woman of color to appear on a reality TV show, the first transgender woman of color to have a leading role on a television show, first transgender woman of color to produce and star in her own television show, and is the first transgender woman to appear on Time magazine’s cover. In 2013, Time Magazine named her character on Orange is the New Black, Sophia Burset, as the fourth most influential fictional character of 2013.
Cox has recently been known for her advocating for the transgender community in society. She is currently traveling across the country to speak on campuses. According to her website, Cox’s message is to “move beyond gender expectations to live more authentically all over the country.”
But why should you care about Laverne Cox? Because she’s redefining Hollywood. She’s bringing minorities into television shows and newscasts. She’s featured in articles that shed light on the transgender community and how they live in the United States.
In history, there have been standout leaders that broke the stereotypes of minorities. Laverne Cox is leading the transgender community through her fame and advocacy, and from the looks of what she’s already achieved, she will successfully shed light on this minority throughout the world.
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North Forsyth High School has several pathways, many of which focus on the agricultural industry. The agricultural program at North continues to grow and change as the years progress. For example, North’s farming program has a new animal breeding program. Other changes, such as greenhouse improvements and floriculture competitions, have been started in order to greatly benefit students in the program as well as North’s local community.
Senior Avery Blakeslee, a greenhouse manager, describes some of the changes that have been made during her time in the agriculture program.
As of this year, the agriculture program has been able to care for several animals, including a snake and coy fish. The program has also been breeding smaller animals, such as bunnies and mice, and caring for them as well.
The program maintains two greenhouses, where plants are grown to be sold to the local community. Blakeslee says, “I am student manager of one of our greenhouses… I work to keep our plants healthy.” Students work to plant, cultivate, and then distribute these plants to the community.
Students in the agricultural program also have the chance to showcase their knowledge by joining the school’s floriculture team. Blakeslee, who is on the team, says that “[it] is a little like an academic team that focuses on flowering plants. Our team competed very well [recently], and I was able to connect with people on the program I would have never met otherwise.”
Blakeslee continues to explain how all of the changes that the program has undergone greatly benefit the community and students: “These changes have a huge impact on our school and our community. I wasn’t aware… [of] how many people participate in our agricultural program, or how many opportunities it offers. Kids really form [a] community in the program and make it their own, and they also find a viable path to success and inspiration to believe in their ability to achieve it. The program’s growing diversity makes it a welcoming home to all kinds of students with all kinds of interests as well as connects them to all kinds of employment and volunteer opportunities and secondary education opportunities.”
Despite all of the progress this program has already made and the impact it has had on the local community, there are still more projects underway. North’s agricultural program is excited about their plan to implement a hydroponics system (a system of growing plants in sand, gravel or liquid with added nutrients, but without soil). Blakeslee says, “As a plant lover, I am … extremely excited about our new hydroponics lab – the greenhouse in which we are developing a hydroponics system. Agriculturalists speculate that this efficient water-based horticultural system could be the key to overcoming the modern world’s dwindling resources available to horticultural development. It’s amazing to see this technology firsthand; it feels like we’re playing a part in global innovation.”
North’s farming department does not seem to be slowing down anytime soon. The new improvements continue to inspire all students in the program and recruit others to join.

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AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is a life-threatening disease, sure enough. But the fear-mongerers do like building a good mountain out of a molehill until the truth is buried under hearsay and theories. The fear of AIDS is even more dangerous than the actual disease. Blinding lack of awareness and the volley of unauthorized and misleading information among communities have a lot to do with it. Moreover, people are uncomfortable talking about AIDS, which, on its own, makes living with the disease quite challenging.
1. AIDS, HIV – Same or Different?
Mention AIDS, and the mind automatically fills in the gap with ‘HIV.’ The reason you always hear the two used in conjunction – the causative organism of AIDS is HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). AIDS is considered a syndrome rather than a disease because it is a group of diseases. In simple terms, HIV is a virus that causes HIV infection, and if this infection is not treated, it can result in AIDS. When you let the HIV situation get far enough out of hand, it rewards you with AIDS, which means you get multiple diseases involving several organs in your body. Let this be a lesson to everyone that: HIV does not ensure that a person will get AIDS, and keep HIV under control if you want to avoid progressing to AIDS.
2. AIDS Vs Body – All-out War
The harm that HIV does to your immune system results in AIDS. HIV kills CD4 cells, also known as T cells, which are a crucial type of immune system cell that aids in infection protection. No CD4 cells, no infection protection; low CD4 count, less infection protection. It is as simple as that. When you are this low on immunity, you contract risky infections and become susceptible to AIDS. Furthermore, after the progression from an HIV infection to AIDS, the risk of death increases fourfold.
3. How Does One Contract HIV?
Body fluids like blood, breast milk, anal mucus, vaginal fluids, and semen are all carriers of HIV. The virus enters your body through cuts or sores on your skin as well as through mucous membranes, such as the inside of the vagina, rectum, and penis. The bright side – saliva does not spread HIV infection. So sharing food, kissing, or sharing utensils do not initiate a HIV party. Hugging, holding hands, coughing, or sneezing cannot cause the spread of HIV either. Neither can a mere toilet seat. What actually causes HIV to spread is unprotected vaginal or anal sex with an infected partner, accidental pricks from HIV-infected needles (used for tattooing, taking blood samples, piercing, or injecting drugs), the spread of infection from an infected mother to her baby, and accidental exposure of infected blood, semen, or vaginal fluids on open wounds or sores.
4. The Progression of Symptoms: From HIV to AIDS
You could have flu-like symptoms like fever, aches, and sickness for the first two to four weeks. However, most people who contract this infection feel perfectly healthy. The symptoms can take over ten years to manifest (longer for those on HIV medications). This means that you could be unaware of your HIV status even after you are infected, and you may transmit this virus to others.
When HIV turns into AIDS, you may develop a thick, white coating on the tongue or mouth, commonly known as oral thrush; other symptoms include sore throat, unexpected weight loss, frequent infections, extreme tiredness, skin lesions, chronic diarrhea, swollen lymph nodes, purple growths on the body or mouth, anxiety, depression, memory loss, lesions on the mouth, nose, anus, or genitals.
5. HIV Medications: Restoring Hope to Affected People
HIV cannot be cured; however, some medications can prolong a person’s lifespan and keep them healthy. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a combination of drugs that lessens the impact of HIV on your body and promotes long-term health. Additionally, it can reduce or even eliminate your risk of transmitting HIV to others. Taking these medicines in the earliest stages of HIV infection may even save you from ever contracting AIDS.
World AIDS Day falls on December 1. Knowing the facts, you could carry it forward and spread the word. Encourage people to get tested and learn about their preventive options. This December, let us come to the aid of AIDS fighters and help save lives. That is our kind of superhero.

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OPPO F23 5G is now available for sale in India with these offers and discounts
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smartphone, the company has focused the most on battery and camera performance. The special thing is that in the very first sale of Oppo F23 5G, many offers have been given on this
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F-series smartphone and 64MP triple camera setup is available on its rear panel. The smartphone has a large battery with a capacity of 5000mAh, which gets 67W fast charging
support. It is claimed that after charging this smartphone for only 5 minutes, it can make phone calls for 6 hours, or watch YouTube videos for 2.5 hours. Let us know what offers
are available on this in the first sale. Neither Samsung, nor Apple .. This smartphone of Oppo got the title of 'Best Camera Phone'
Oppo F23 5G price and offersThe Oppo
smartphone has been launched by the company in a single variant with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage and can be purchased in two color options – Bold Gold and Cool Black. This device
can be purchased from Oppo's online store and shopping platform Amazon for Rs 24,999. Till May 23, those who buy this phone are getting a chance to buy Oppo Enco Air2i earbuds at a
discounted price of Rs 1,799. Talking about other offers, the benefit of 10% cashback is being given on paying for this phone with ICICI Bank, SBI Cards and Kotak Mahindra Bank
cards. Apart from the bank discount available till May 31, those who exchange old Oppo phones are being given a discount of Rs 2,500 under exchange + loyalty bonus. There is a
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) – An 18-year-old woman charged with the murder of an off-duty Cleveland police officer faced a judge Thursday for a pretrial hearing in the case.
Tamara McLoyd is charged with shooting and killing officer Shane Bartek, 25, in a carjacking on New Year’s Eve.
She was arrested hours after Bartek was murdered.
The judge presiding over the case laid out Thursday what the State of Ohio and the defense will need for McLoyd to have a speedy trial.
In addition to the 10-county indictment in the murder case, McLoyd has also been indicted on multiple charges in an aggravated robbery case.
She is being represented by Jaye M. Schalachet in the aggravated murder case. Schalachet was appointed by the court.
A key piece of evidence both sides need to present the case is Bartek’s autopsy report.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge John P. O’Donnell expressed concerns about the possible delays.
“The medical examiner’s office has been, let’s be solicitous of them, and say busy. So busy, that in one recent case I have, an autopsy report hasn’t been prepared and I think the decedent was killed 6 months ago,” Judge O’Donnell shared.
FOX 8 has reached out to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s office about the backlog.
The State will not be ready to meet the burden of proof until the autopsy is available.
This means the case won’t be able to go to trial until the medical examiner completes it.
Officer Bartek was laid to rest on Jan. 11.
In addition to the autopsy, Judge O’Donnell pressed the prosecution to be prepared with ballistics, gunshot residue testing, fingerprints and any reports from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation in the case.
The State said ballistics might take some time but didn’t feel it would be crucial due to the volume of evidence.
“The incident is captured on video, and I do not believe the identity of the perpetrator will be an issue,” the State argued.
The judge also urged the defense to have McLoyd go through a competency hearing to make sure she can stand trial.
“These things, in my experience, tend to slow down a speedy trial,” the judge shared.
Another pretrial conference will be scheduled in about 2 weeks, a deadline set by the judge for both sides in the case to have the evidence needed for a trial.
That trial date is expected to be scheduled in that pretrial hearing if the autopsy has been released.
McLoyd has entered a not-guilty plea.
Her bond in the aggravated murder case is set at $5 million.
In the hearing, the defense expressed interest in McLoyd’s aggravated murder case going to trial before the aggravated robbery case.


Equity markets took a pause amid news of China reporting a higher number of coronavirus cases. This comes as Chinese authorities changed the process which now includes “clinically diagnosed” people as well.
All major equity markets reacted negatively to the new numbers while there was a modest flight to safety.
XAU/USD Clears Resistance, but Will it Hold?
The precious metal maintained a bullish momentum which finally allowed price to break past the resistance area of 1573 – 1569. Given that the Stochastics is well overbought, there is doubt if the bullish streak can be maintained.
If prices slip back below this level, we expect the declines to continue.


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4-Methylthioamphetamine (4-MTA) is a designer drug of the substituted amphetamine class developed in the 1990s by a team led by David E. Nichols, an American pharmacologist and medical chemist, at Purdue University. It acts as a non-neurotoxic highly selective serotonin releasing agent (SSRA) in animals. 4-MTA is the methylthio derivative of amphetamine.
In 1997, the Forensic Science Laboratory of the Netherlands received reports of three unrelated drug deaths. The substance in question was a new ring-substituted amphetamine derivative. In 1998 two additional cases of this still unknown compound were added to the list, and the incidents were reported to the IPSC (Institut de Police Scientifique et de Criminologie, University of Lausanne, Switzerland). In both the Netherlands and Switzerland, the unknown compound was encountered in the hydrochloride salt form, and pictures of the different tablets were compared to each other. After an investigation, it appeared that in other European countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany the derivative was also encountered. The new drug even got as far as Australia. After analytical research, the compound was identified as 4-methylthioamphetamine (4-MTA). This was an already known compound originally only intended for pharmacological studies on animals. The studies of 4-MTA by David Nichols were then linked to the tablets found in all the different countries.
4-MTA was developed by the research team led by David Nichols but was intended to be used only as an agent for laboratory research into the serotonin transporter protein. Nichols was reportedly sad to see 4-MTA appear as a drug of abuse on the street. He said after finding out his research was used as a dangerous serotonin releasing drugs, "I was stunned. I had published information ultimately led to human death." Nichols intentions were to discover how MDMA worked in the brain to eventually find a positive use for it in psychotherapy. Nichols studied thereby molecules with similar structure, including 4-MTA. Between 1992 and 1997 they published three papers on the effects of this drug in rats and the idea that it could potentially be used in the treatment of depression and be a potential replacement for Prozac. Without the knowledge of Nichols and his team, others synthesized the drugs into a tablet. These tablets were known by their street name, 'flatliners'. Nichols' laboratory had published that the rats perceived the effects of 4-MTA to be like those of ecstasy, which was probably the motivation for its production and distribution to humans. Nichols also said, "I have never considered my research to be dangerous, and in fact hoped one day to develop medicines to help people." Because of the 4-MTA relating death, Nichols' laboratory was asked to study the human effects of other materials they have studied, to avoid likewise situation as with 4-MTA. Most of the molecules the laboratory further had published could not kill in reasonable dosages.
The typical tablets sold on the street contained approximately between 100–140 mg 4-MTA. 4-MTA was briefly sold in smart shops in the Netherlands, though was soon banned by the Dutch government after serious side-effects started to emerge. The Union of Smartshop Owners decided to leave it out of their assortment after they discovered the drug had only been tested on rats. It was also briefly sold on the black market as MDMA during the late 1990s, mainly in the US, but proved unpopular due to its high risk of severe side effects (several deaths were reported) and relative lack of positive euphoria.
4-MTA is a strong serotonin releaser similar to paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA), which can cause pronounced hyperthermia potentially resulting in organ failure and death.[better source needed] Therefore, the major neuropharmacological effect is an increased release of serotonin, and the inhibition of serotonin uptake of mono oxidase A (MAO-A). The combination of the releasing of serotonin from neurons, but the prevention of breaking this neurotransmitter down again, leads to dangerous serotonin syndrome. The serotonin syndrome is a hyper serotonergic state, which can become fatal and is a side effect of serotonergic enhancing drugs. The symptoms of serotonin syndrome caused by 4-MTA are described in the Report on the Risk Assessment of 4-MTA
Symptoms of the serotonin syndrome caused by 4-MTA
 Another effect is the increase of the secretion of several hormones, like adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), corticosterone, prolactin, oxytocin, and renin induced by 4-MTA through stimulation of serotonergic neurotransmission.
There has been suggested that 4-MTA because of its slow onset of action, is more dangerous than other designer drugs. Users of the drug rapidly take another dose because they assume the first was inadequate; thus increasing the possibility of an overdose. (EMCDDA, 1999)
Today the knowledge about the effects of 4-MTA is narrow, because of very limited research and experimental data. The only 4 studies that are conducted show a weak effect on dopamine and noradrenaline. This study was executed with a single dose of 4-MTA, no study where the effect of multiple doses 4-MTA where researched exist up to date.
In a procedure analogous to the production of other amphetamines, 4-MTA has been prepared from 4-(methylthio)phenylacetone by the Leuckart reaction and the reaction byproducts have been characterized.
4-MTA undergoes limited biotransformation, the metabolic pathways of the metabolites in humans is postulated in the following steps:
The main metabolite was identified as 4-methylthiobenzoic acid. This compound leads to bioactivation (toxification), since the metabolite increases dramatically the sensitivity to the reduction in ATP content. The biotransformation shows great similarities to the metabolic pathway of the structurally related 4-methoxyamphetamine

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Monday, January 7, 2013 , Updated 11:44 a.m., January 9, 2013
UPDATED: Ex-Melissa mayor pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud
Dorman faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
MELISSA David Dorman, the mayor of Melissa from 1999-2009, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud for the deprivation of honest services at a hearing in Sherman on Monday, his attorney told The Dallas Morning News in a story published Saturday morning.
Dorman, who has also contributed columns to TownSquareBuzz.com, was indicted last September and accused of soliciting a bribe from real estate broker John Christie in order to annex a tract of land just outside Melissa.
For the complete Dallas Morning News story on the plea deal, click here.
UPDATE: Dorman entered his plea on Monday in Sherman in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Amos Mazzant. Another defendant in the case, John Christie, 65, of Frisco, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony last week.
According to information presented in court, in 2007, Dorman, then mayor of the city of Melissa, solicited a $70,000 bribe from Christie in exchange for arranging for the city of Melissa to annex a portion of land from the city of McKinney. Christie would then develop and sell the land to potential customers.
Based on a letter from Dorman, the cities of Melissa and McKinney approved the annexation and in exchange, Christie made three payments to Dorman totaling $30,000.
Dorman faces up to 20 years in federal prison, while Christie faces up to three years. Sentencing dates have not been set.
In August 2011, Dorman announced he was seeking the Precinct 3 seat on the Collin County Commissioners Court. However, he later dropped out of the race and did not appear on the ballot.
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Social Media and Divorce
Social media can act as a very useful tool for many, allowing us to connect with others and receive valuable information. However, the effect that social media use has on romantic relationships can be negative. We live in a digital age where we rely on our cell phones and computers for nearly everything.
We can sometimes lose priority in what is really most important in life. Both partners can get so caught up in their devices to the point where it is causing extreme problems within the relationship. If you seek a divorce lawyer in Glen Cove, contact Simonetti & Associates for more information.
Social Media: How is it Affecting Your Relationships?
Research has shown how increased social media use has lead to various marriage issues, infidelity, and eventually divorce. There are some specific reasons how social media use can result in marital issues, they include:
“Get off of Facebook, you are on all day”
- It is not always just what the person is doing on their social media accounts, but how much time they are spending online, and away from their spouse. Too much time spent on social media has been shown to negatively affect relationships.
Jealousy, Snooping, and Suspicious Behavior
- Social media provides easy access for people to sneak on their spouse. Whether they have suspicions of cheating, discovering secrets of their past, or just blatant mistrust of their partner, the online atmosphere no doubt causes issues. This will lead to increased jealousy and monitoring within the marriage, which is a recipe for an unhealthy relationship.
Social Media and Cheating
- There are unfortunately often times when a person will seek out suspicions of their partner online and find that they are being untrustworthy. 1 in 10 adults admit to hiding messages from their partner, and 8% of adults have admitted to having secret online accounts.
- With today’s technology, it has become easy and accessible for adults who are dissatisfied with their relationship to seek out new partners, or an ex online. Apps such as Tinder make it easy to meet new people, and it has been shown that 30% of users are married.
On a brighter note, many people are finding their loved ones through online dating sites and social media and research show that those people have happy and long-lasting marriages. Adults today are recognizing the threat of social media within their relationships, and are doing their best to combat online pressures and temptations.
Nonetheless, social media will forever be a prevalent force in our society, and we must learn how to use this tool in a positive manner, especially in regards to our relationships. If you seek a divorce lawyer in Glen Cove, contact Simonetti & Associates today to get the help you need.


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Animal Report Choose an Assign groups of students to complete this report on a planet, then have groups share their findings with the class. Planet Report Template and Outline books, and text books from school. Write down the information to use when writing your informational report. 1. What is the name of the planet? 2. Are there any other names for the planet? What are they? 3. Interesting information about the planet name.
Writing a Planet Report plus a Rubric: how to write a good planet report. Advertisement. is a usersupported site. Nine Planets, a good search engine, an encyclopedia, and individual books on astronomy and the Solar System. As you're reading about your planet, take notes on key information, such as your planet These book report forms are suitable for both beginning readers and older children.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — Legislation to give tax exemptions to volunteer firefighters and EMS workers in New York has been signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Experts say the legislation is needed to attract and retain volunteers.
“Well contrary to popular belief and popular culture, most fire and emergency response in New York and frankly across the country is done by volunteers,” said John D’Alessandro, Association Secretary for the Fire Fighters Association of the State of NY.
D’Alessandro said New York has seen a decline in volunteer firefighters, making it challenging to adequately respond to calls, but they’re doing everything possible to fill vacant spots.
“We have numerous programs, everything from this tax break to providing college tuition reimbursement, you know we have a number of bills that we still continue to pursue, that would create more incentives for the men and women who want to volunteer and can volunteer to protect their communities,” he said.
D’Alessandro said one reason for the decline could be that people think they don’t have the time to commit.
“Despite what people think — that I have to be that person on the end of a hose line running into a burning building — there are dozens of jobs in your local volunteer fire department and if you’ve got a skill set and you got a little bit of time, we are happy to take that and to put it to good use,” he said.
The bill will allow local municipalities to provide up to 10% in property tax exemption to volunteers. Key sponsor of the bill Assembly member Angelo Santababara said this will help keep well-deserved money in their pockets.
“They do so much work for our community. They respond, they keep us safe, they respond to fires, emergencies, car crashes, you name, it they do it. And like I said, they volunteer, they’re dedicated, they take time out of their day to provide the services for us and our upstate communities really can’t function without them,” he said.
D’Alessandro said if you think you may be interested in becoming a volunteer, look to your local fire department on a night when they’re practicing to get a feel for what the job entails.


Replacing OB vans with LiveU substantially cut down NewsJ’s broadcasting expenses
HACKENSACK, New Jersey, June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — NewsJ, a news channel of MANTARO NETWORK PVT LTD catering to the Tamil speaking population in India, is known to harbour the best talents and technologies the industry offers. So, when it came to adopting cutting-edge technology for their newsgathering operation, they inevitably turned to LiveU. The LU600 was chosen for its hardware-based HEVC encoding capabilities and its ability to deliver flawless HD video with extreme bandwidth efficiency and low power consumption. The deal has been overseen by Lamhas Satellite Services, LiveU’s local partner in India, which provides onsite service and support.
Mr. Manikandan Velu, CTO of NewJ, said, “The performance of the LU600 HEVC devices has been excellent with amazing clarity – to the extent that we’ve been confident enough to replace our traditional OB vans with LiveU backpacks almost entirely. As a result, during the coverage of this year’s General Election, we managed to save a lot of money yet did not compromise with the quality.”
Mr. Radhakrishnan and Mr. Dinesh Kumar’s, Managing Directors of NewsJ, added, “LiveU truly upholds its title of being the leading technology when it comes to live streaming units. These small yet powerful devices were instrumental when it came to curtailing huge budgets by eliminating the need for OB vans. One simply could not tell the difference in quality.”
“As the market transitions to simpler yet feature-rich and more affordable technologies, LiveU is the invariable choice for NewsJ for their newsgathering operations. We’re delighted that they have put their trust in our technology,” said Mr. Ranjit Bhatti – Director of South Asia, LiveU.
The LU600 HEVC delivers the highest video quality and bitrate in the market, fastest file transfer and lowest delay. When compared to H.264-based encoders, the LU600 HEVC provides the same video quality while using about half the bandwidth or offers greatly improved video quality wherever original H.264 bitrate is maintained. Using a full hardware HEVC encoder is very efficient on power consumption and allows the unit’s internal battery to last for over four hours of live transmission.
“At the end of the day, the goal of any technology ‘maker’ and the ‘provider’ is to keep their customer happy and content. In this case, LiveU never fails to deliver the promised results and we’re proud that the Lamhas team always keeps up with the expectations of the customer,” said Vitalis Noble Martin, Business Head – South India, Lamhas Satellite Services Limited.
LiveU is presenting its full range of live IP video uplink services and streaming solutions at BroadcastAsia2019, Suntec Singapore, 18-20 June 2019 (Stand 6D2-01).
About MANTARO NETWORK PVT LTD
Founded by C.Ve.Radhaakrishnen, S.Dineshkumar, A.Vivek, and K.Kubenthiran, its channel “NEWS J” is a 24 x 7, 365 days TAMIL news channel. The channel has now become the “Voice of the people”, backed by state-of-the-art production facilities with vision and mission to cater to all strata and viewership. This channel is available on all major DTH platforms and cable/MSO networks.
LiveU is driving the live video revolution, providing live video streaming for TV, mobile, online and social media. Let your audience become part of your story with high-quality and flawless live video, transmitted from anywhere in the world, through the use of our patented bonding and video transport technology. LiveU creates a consistent bandwidth and a reliable connection so you can acquire, manage and distribute high quality remote live broadcasts over IP. Our broad portfolio of products sets the industry standard for live video production. From backpacks to smartphones, and satellite/cellular hybrid to external antenna solutions, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage anytime, anywhere. In addition, LiveU offers extensive cloud-based management and video distribution solutions. With over 3,000 customers in 130+ countries, LiveU’s technology is the solution of choice for global broadcasters, online media, news agencies and social media. For more information, visit www.liveu.tv or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn or Instagram.
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CKS Advisors is pleased to announce that Doehrman Company, Inc. has been acquired by Western Pump, Inc.
Doehrman Company Inc. is the leading equipment dealer, installer, and service provider for the automotive service industry across the Southwest. A principal dealer for more than 50 manufacturers and a renowned contractor in the automotive service industry, this family-owned company has been building its reputation for more than 40 years on the very simple foundations of Quality & Customer Service.
“Mark Young and the CKS Team did a great job holding this deal together through the lockdown and the two plus years it took to get closed.” said Doug Doehrman, owner of Doehrman Company.
CKS Advisors served as the exclusive financial advisor to Doehrman Company.
About Doehrman Company
Doehrman Company is the leading automotive service equipment dealer in the Southwestern United States. The Company specializes in the sales, service and installation of automotive lifts, lube and exhaust systems, wheel service equipment, body shop equipment, workbenches, toolboxes, and diagnostic machines. The Company’s excellent reputation has been built on the foundation of experience and expertise, quality products, and strong customer service.
For more information, please visit: https://www.doehrman.com
About Western Pump
Western Pump was founded in 1948 as a service station maintenance company. Today, Western Pump specializes in building and servicing fueling and transportation infrastructure facilities. The Company is the only fully integrated gas station construction and maintenance company offering design, engineering, construction, service, compliance, and equipment distribution in the Southwest.
For more information, please visit: https://www.westernpump.com
About CKS Advisors
CKS Advisors is a market leading Investment Banking Firm located in Scottsdale, Arizona who has been helping business owners achieve their goals for 30+ years. CKS advises business owners in both selling and buying business as well as capital raising for growth and liquidity purposes. Business owners select CKS because of their dedication to their Client’s success.
For more information, please visit: www.cksadvisors.com