Latest News Releases 15 September

The findings of the University at Buffalo study, published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, highlight the need for higher education policymakers, administrators and instructors in the U.S. to understand the specific needs of a range of underrepresented Asian American ethnic subgroups and develop sustainable reform policies.

Surpassed only by water, tea is the second most consumed beverage worldwide. When boiled tap water is used to brew tea, residual chlorine in the water can react with tea compounds to form disinfection byproducts (DBPs). Now, researchers reporting in <i>Environmental Science & Technology</i> measured 60 DBPs in three types of tea, unexpectedly finding lower levels in brewed tea than in tap water. However, they also detected many unknown DBPs with uncertain health effects.

New research from Trinity College Dublin and University of Edinburgh has examined the association between vitamin D and COVID-19, and found that ambient ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation (which is key for vitamin D production in the skin) at an individual’s place of residence in the weeks before COVID-19 infection, was strongly protective against severe disease and death.

Exterior calculus is a branch of differential geometry in Mathematics that studies geometry of smooth shapes and spaces respectively using the techniques of differential Calculus, integral calculus, linear and multi linear algebra and with exterior algebra. The field has its origins in the study of spherical geometry as far back as antiquity. In Exterior calculus the concept of differentiations is generalized to asymmetric exterior derivatives and the notions of ordinary integration to differential forms of higher degree of arbitrary dimensions. It therefore generalizes the fundamental theorem of calculus to Stokes' theorem that links the concept of differentiating a function with the concept of integrating a function.

Medicinal and Environmental Chemistry: Experimental Advances and Simulations is a collection of topics that highlight the use of pharmaceutical chemistry to assess the environment or make drug design and chemical testing more environment friendly. The book has been compiled with the aim to provide researchers and medicinal chemists, information about the latest research and the modern techniques used to develop more effective and safer drugs that would not be harmful to the environment. It will also prove beneficial for academicians, students of environmental chemistry, pharmacy, researchers, scientists, computational chemists, pharmacologists, environmentalists, policymakers and postgraduate students.

The book Medicinal and Environmental Chemistry: Experimental Advances and Simulations (Part I) introduces the reader to environmental contaminants and techniques for their quantification and removal. A medicinal perspective for effects and remediation of environmental hazards, and therapeutic strategies available to design new and safer drugs, is addressed with a focus on knowledge about experimental and simulation methods. To further elaborate the importance of environmentally safe chemical practice, the concept of green chemistry has also been covered. It highlights the use of pharmaceutical chemistry to assess the environment or make drug design and chemical testing more environment friendly.

Anti-infective agents are a distinct class of pharmacologically important molecules that have served mankind in different capacities to combat life-threatening pathological conditions. They include antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antituberculosis, antimalarial and urinary anti-infective agents. However, evolutionary changes, adaptations and development of new strains of pathogenic microorganisms that have reduced the therapeutic efficacy of existing drugs, thus, limiting their clinical utility over the years.

Unique in its direct and comprehensive approach, the aim of Trefftz and Fundamental Solution-Based Finite Element Methods is to fill the gap mentioned above and present fundamental knowledge of boundary type FEM and comprehensive treatment of its algorithms. The volume summarizes the current state of practice and presents the most recent research outcomes in the subject. It details the development of each of the ideas and techniques beginning with fundamental principles, and new concepts are illustrated with simple examples wherever possible.