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He took a left at the turn of the decade into the world of performance art. With space to write more freely, three more outfits followed (one of them, Gain Dangerous Visions, featured ambient pioneer Robert ÆOLUS Myers) Ebersbach was immersed in the works of John Cage exploring aleatoric composition and delegating his creative process to a random number manual: “I liked that you didn’t have to make a decision…where to set the parameters would be my creativity.” It suited a musician who In idiosyncratic fashion, it follows then that Ebersbach spent much of the next 20 years reviving the fantastical, cinematic world of exotica. Often tongue-in-cheek on the surface, Don Tiki’s lounge lizard aesthetic concealed complex arrangements and sophisticated jazz improvisation “My favorite music is the kind of music that you don’t have to listen to in order to enjoy,” he explains I like that because Hawaii is exactly that same way.” Listen to the “Secret Waterfall” of Na’alehu on Aloha ‘Āina Vol. 1 and you’ll hear the familiar gushing of water and you’ll hear a cascade of intertwining poly-rhythms an innate musicality in the environment unlocked by attending to the details of the sound Ebersbach revels in the particularities of fast-moving streams and extols the stereo qualities of the smallest waves occasionally enhanced by the distant whooping of surfers catching a break the legacy of agricultural exploitation carving peculiar echo chambers into the hillsides He notes the orchestration of the wind as “short-form,” coming-and-going more actively than the “long-form” wind of New Jersey “I’m intensely interested in things that are right on the edge of music and sound,” Ebersbach says, looking for a thread to tie his restless musical career together. 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Volume 12 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.780250 This article is part of the Research TopicThe Brassicaceae — Agri-Horticultural and Environmental Perspectives, Volume IIView all 19 articles Phenotyping is considered a significant bottleneck impeding fast and efficient crop improvement and will require exploitation of diverse genetic resources to develop locally adapted high yielding and stress resistant cultivars A pilot study was completed to assess the feasibility of using indoor high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) and machine learning to capture the phenotypic diversity of agronomically important traits in a diverse B grown and phenotyped in six replicates under two treatment conditions (control and drought) over 38 days in a LemnaTec Scanalyzer 3D facility and estimated biovolume were extracted and derived through processing of RGB and NIR images Anthesis was automatically and accurately scored (97% accuracy) and the number of flowers per plant and day was approximated alongside relevant canopy traits (width supervised machine learning was used to predict the total number of raceme branches from flower attributes with 91% accuracy (linear regression and Huber regression algorithms) and to identify mild drought stress a complex trait which typically has to be empirically scored (0.85 area under the receiver operating characteristic curve The study demonstrates the potential of HTP image processing and computer vision for effective characterization of agronomic trait diversity in B although limitations of the platform did create significant variation that limited the utility of the data the results underscore the value of machine learning for phenotyping studies particularly for complex traits such as drought stress resistance application of machine learning to the problem of phenotyping is still in its infancy and widespread deployment of these tools will require further refinements to algorithms and analysis pipelines thus the full potential of HTP technologies for above ground trait quantification has yet to be explored The work provides a comprehensive reference image dataset for B as well as computational methods that can be used to extract maximal information from such datasets including a novel method for prediction of drought stress The work also exposes some limitations of current HTP platforms which should be considered when considering such an approach A total of 51 spring-type (or annual) lines were selected from the larger dataset to establish a Brassica napus NAM population (SKBnNAM) (Supplementary Table 3.2) Founder line selection was based on an assessment of levels of heterozygosity The chosen founder lines encompassed material from countries where spring rapeseed production is an economic priority and these were augmented with material from a diverse geography as well as the inclusion of synthetic rapeseed The genotype data allowed the selection of the most diverse array of inbred material The line N99-508 (NAM 0) was selected as the common parent for the NAM population N99-508 is adapted to the Canadian environment which potentiates the evaluation of the NAM population under Canadian field conditions Experimental set-up of high-throughput indoor phenotyping of 50 B napus founder lines at LemnaTec Scanalyzer 3D facility at University of Nebraska Six replicates were grown of each genotype and three plants were subjected to one of two watering regimes between 35 DAS and 55 DAS: control plants (C) were kept at 100% field capacity (blue bars) while drought treated (D) plants were maintained at 40% field capacity during that period (orange bars) Dataset annotations (ground truths) were generated via manual evaluation and scoring of selected traits in both treatment groups all images were assessed for presence of open flowers (0 = not flowering with the earliest date of open flowers being counted as the date of anthesis the number of raceme branches was counted for each plant and phenotyping time point plants were assessed for symptoms of drought stress using both top view and side view RGB images using a binary scoring scheme in which healthy looking plants were scored as unstressed (0) and any plant exhibiting mild to severe drought stress (e.g. drooping leaves) was scored as stressed (1) Due to considerable time investment necessary to score this trait as well as the exploratory nature of this study this ground truth was restricted to 49 DAS which was toward the end of the experimental treatment phase but before the majority of plants had started to flower Image segmentation workflow and corresponding examples of top view (left) and side view (right) images NIR pixel intensities were summarized using mean and 75th percentile NIR values for each plant and day of imaging due to divergent fields-of-view of the RGB and NIR cameras this was only possible between 37 DAS and 59 DAS Figure 3. NIR image processing workflow. (A) Top view RGB image. (B) Corresponding image segmentation resulting from workflow described in Figure 2 (D) Resized and rescaled RGB image segmentation used as an image mask for NIR image (E) Segmented plant outline overlaying NIR image (yellow boundary) (F) Segmented plant area overlaying NIR image (yellow region) The predicted flower annotations were then compared to manual flower scores as described above Flower and raceme branch detection workflow (A) Exemplary RGB top view image of a flowering B (C) Image components in the blue yellow channel after pixel-based thresholding (D) Binary image components mapped according to their x and y coordinates and number of pixels Colors correspond to clusters assigned via hierarchical clustering and roughly correspond to raceme branches the results from the flower detection protocol (see above) were used to extract the maximum canopy width and the approximate canopy angle in order to identify genotypes with particularly loose or particularly compact inflorescences Prediction accuracy of different machine learning algorithms was then gauged by comparing to the manually established ground truth of raceme branch numbers The lines can be arranged according to user-specified trait data in order to facilitate exploration of underlying genetic variation Principal Component Analysis of genotypic diversity of 297 spring (light blue dots) and semi-winter (gray dots) B Founder lines of SKBnNAM introduced in this study are colored according to their mean total aliphatic glucosinolate (TAG) levels Visualizations at three resolutions comparing SNPs in 50 B napus genotypes against a reference genotype (NAM 0) with the genotypes ordered by their increasing erucic acid content The visualizations are all organized with rows representing different lines and columns of pixels representing each SNP The color at each SNP indicates whether that SNP is the same (blue) as or different (red) from the allele in the reference genotype shown at the top of the view and missing data is encoded in white a map of phenotypic trait values (erucic acid content and genotype origin) are shown on the left napus genome horizontally separated by chromosome (B) Chromosome-level view of chromosome 8 in B (C) SNP-level view of chromosome 8 (9.73 mb to 13.03 mb) that displays SNP names at the top of the column This was likely caused by uneven watering administered during plant growth mainly resulting from the large basal leaves blocking the automated watering system data analyses mainly focused on assessing and improving the efficacy of semi-automated image analysis protocols Whenever genotype-specific traits were extracted (e.g. the outlined process used to derive these thresholds can be applied for other crops and experimental setups Morphological diversity among founder lines of SKBnNAM based on eight selected growth traits extracted from the dataset (A) Images show individuals representing minimum and maximum values for each growth trait (except for days to flowering) (B) Mean values for each trait and genotype (control group only) Tiles are colored based on normalized trait means (darker colors indicating lower values Absolute mean values are given in each tile Only genotypes that started to flower before DAS 59 are included in this plot (n = 37) Flowering phenology and intensity for 50 B napus genotypes ranked by date of anthesis and flower output napus genotypes that flowered during the LemnaTec experiment Dots represent average estimated number of flowers recorded from three individuals (control group) of each genotype The dots are colored according to previous greenhouse observations of flowering time Underlying gray bars represent variation in flowering onset (B) Flowering intensity per phenotyped day of flowering Sizes and colors of circles represent average number of flowers recorded from three individuals (control group) of each genotype Order of genotypes is shown in left-hand column in (A) Mean accuracies for inflorescence branch number prediction from image-derived traits for 50 B napus genotypes using different machine learning algorithms It was anticipated that withholding water from a subset of actively growing plants would result in a reduced growth rate an increase in temperature resulting from reduced evapotranspiration In order to test semi-automated detection of these symptoms drought stress was visually scored for all plants of both control and drought-treatment groups using a binary scheme (0: unstressed 1: symptoms of drought stress) and the top and side view RGB images on DAS 49 two-way combinations of any of the three traits could not reliably distinguish between stressed and non-stressed plants (data not shown) Summary of histogram of curvature over scale (HOCS) method for all unstressed (0 Each plot shows a series of 25 histograms that are composed of 5 bins each summarizing the curvature of the segmentation boundary at a given scale Error bars give standard deviations across all individuals in each group (unstressed Overall histogram distributions were visibly different between these two groups (highlighted by red column portions signifying absolute mean differences for each bin) high within-group variation across the diversity panel masked these between-group differences and prevented accurate drought stress prediction from curvature of segmentation boundaries alone and mean accuracies for drought stress identification from image-derived traits for 50 B The potential of HTP combined with automated image processing and machine learning for accelerating crop improvement has been increasingly acknowledged; however deployment is currently hampered by the lack of reliable and easy to implement data processing methods The results presented here show that scoring of basic plant traits but also more complex traits such as flowering traits and canopy architecture in a streamlined semi-automated fashion can be reliably achieved the potential of machine learning to identify multi-dimensional plant phenotypes such as drought stress resistance was shown This methodology thus shows great promise for application in targeted breeding programs for B Based on preliminary genotype data and available field phenotype data it was expected that SKBnNAM would be a valuable resource for dissecting the genetic architecture of complex traits in B and thus be instrumental for rapeseed crop improvement it was still necessary to establish a clear picture of the level of phenotypic variation potentially segregating within the population Most of these challenges are connected to the plant architecture of B napus as compared to other crop species frequently used in indoor HTP experiments (e.g. maize and rice) which suggests that scaling this system to different crop species requires crop-specific expertise and adjustments Despite these challenges it was possible to focus on plant traits that were unaffected and further test the feasibility of different image analysis approaches for B This can lead to a broad spectrum of drought stress symptoms among closely related crop varieties These wide-ranging symptoms are often visually scored by experienced breeders but this integrated task is much harder to translate into automated stress detection protocols This illustrates the limitations of using these traits in complex experimental settings Figure 10. Examples of B. napus individuals exhibiting mild to moderate drought stress on 47 DAS. All images show plants from control group. For further examples of drought stress symptoms, see Supplementary Figure 3.3 our results underline the utility of NIR and multispectral RGB for this kind of problem Despite these promising results, several drawbacks remain to be solved. Image data preprocessing, one of the most crucial steps for successful use of machine learning methods (Singh et al., 2016), is time-consuming and requires deep-rooted knowledge of the organism of interest for input feature selection. For example, even though several different combinations of input features were tested (Supplementary Table 3.4) it was not possible to achieve stress identification ROC AUC of >85% in this experiment further refinement of the input feature combinations for reliable drought stress identification for example using additional plant attributes or traits could lead to higher identification accuracies further improvements could likely be achieved through expansion of the manually scored stress ground truth to multiple days in order to allow for better genotypic-specific trait learning this would require a significant time investment as manually scoring mild drought symptoms from images can be relatively tedious and somewhat subjective even to the experienced eye The ultimate goal of stress phenotyping is stress prediction before the onset of stress symptoms that can be distinguished by the human eye Even though our study makes a valuable contribution to this overall problem future work will be needed to solve the puzzle of drought stress prediction in B Phenotyping is considered a major bottleneck slowing the development of new crop varieties This study illustrates the utility of semi-automated image processing and supervised machine learning for pre-breeding activities in B napus by demonstrating their efficacy in scoring key agronomic traits including flowering characteristics (e.g. and early symptoms of drought stress in a diverse panel of spring lines Despite several methodological challenges connected to scaling an indoor HTP platform to different crops the results presented underline the promise of state-of-the-art HTP technologies and supervised machine learning for crop improvement in particular when combined with genomics and systematic breeding strategies The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. The names of the repository/repositories and accession number(s) can be found below: https://p2irc-data-dev.usask.ca/dataset/10.1109.SciDataManager.2020.7284788, N/A; https://genomevis.usask.ca/haplotype-map-tree/ IP and SR conceived and supervised the original experiments and research plans NK supervised by IM designed and performed image processing and wrote article with contributions from all the authors VB and CG conceived and built the SNP data visualization tool SV was involved in NAM founder line selection and original phenotyping EH contributed SNP genotyping and genomic mapping data and provided technical assistance for their analysis KH assisted with founder line selection and further population development IP agreed to serve as the author responsible for communication All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version The SKBnNAM population was developed with funding from the Saskatchewan Agricultural Development Fund we would like to acknowledge the funding for the phenotyping work: Canada First Research Excellence Fund through the “Designing Crops for Global Food Security” at the University of Saskatchewan The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher We would like to thank the AAFC canola breeding field team for assistance with field phenotyping The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.780250/full#supplementary-material Analysis of hyperspectral images for detection of drought stress and recovery in maize plants in a high-throughput phenotyping 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be able to recover the costs of providing backup power to those who use alternate energy sources without charging other customers On the other were environmental groups who questioned whether the utility really needed to charge solar panels owners to tie into their grid to recover those costs and whether it was meant to discourage rooftop installation “It’s really curtailing its use and it’s holding Alabama back as far as states all around us and this technology taking off and creating the jobs that come along with it,” said Keith Johnston the managing attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC).  Both made their cases in a two-hour hearing before the Alabama Public Service Commission on Thursday a Birmingham nonprofit that advocates against air pollution and for renewable energy brought the complaint against the fee in 2018; SELC represented the group at the hearing.  Most of the hearing involved testimony from Natalie Dean regulatory pricing manager for Alabama Power Alabama Power charges a $5 per kilowatt for rooftop solar panel owners to tie into their systems when they need backup power The fee is not exclusive to solar power customers but solar power users make up the vast majority of those assessed Critics say the fee is meant to discourage rooftop solar panel installation The utility insists that it costs money to provide energy to solar power users allows them to charge solar users those costs without spreading them to other Alabama Power customers.  “I still have to stand ready to serve each individual customer’s needs 100 percent of the time whenever they need it,” Dean said during testimony.  was not developed in conjunction with forecasted development of solar power but to allow the utility to recover costs when it may be overcast or if a panel breaks.  “They have requested the company to provide a service to them and there’s a cost to that service,” she said.  Fewer than 200 people statewide — .02 % of the utility’s 1.2 million customers -- get charged Ebersbach noted that the combined total capacity of those customers is about 650 kW compared to a total utility capacity of 13,000 to 14,000 mW (or 13 to 14 million kW).  Ebersbach at one point asked Dean if solar customers can relieve the burden to the utility at peak usage times Dean said the company factored that into their charge but she acknowledged that it did allow the company to avoid the cost of providing energy to that customer.  that suggested that solar customers on average cost less to the utility than non-solar customers.  Dean insisted throughout her testimony that while the company avoided variable costs that might be associated with solar customers the utility had to provide fixed service.  “I cannot change my infrastructure to serve that customer,” she said “I do not avoid the fixed cost to serve that customer.” The commission also heard a statement from Karl Rabago and unlawful” and said the fee was hurting the development of the solar industry in Alabama.  More: Climate and change: How to decarbonize Alabama “Solar naturally creates a tension with the traditional utility monopoly model,” he said “Customer-installed solar cuts int the traditional utility profit-making model by reducing sales.”  the chief administrative law judge for the PSC Commission members listened to testimony but did not ask any questions during the hearing Garner asked both sides to develop proposed orders by Dec Alabama Power has filed a petition to install about 400 mW of solar power in five counties in the state Thursday’s hearing drew a large crowd Garner said there would be no videoing of the proceedings Police escorted two attendees — Laura Casey a 2018 Democratic nominee for the PSC — who videoed or live-streamed the meeting A third person was also asked to leave.  Both Casey and Powell said in separate interviews after the meeting police briefly took their phones as a condition of returning Both said they believed they had the right to record under the Open Meetings Act.  Casey and Powell also said they considered solar power critical to the future.  “Renewables will move us forward,” Casey said “It’s better for our environment and our economy It’s safe not to have a grid subject to attack It’s just safer on every level.  Powell said she was “an advocate for any kind of clean energy “The planet is literally on fire right now,” she said “I have children and I want to leave them a cleaner planet and a cleaner Alabama RINGWOOD — Trustee Andrew Burgoyne — until recently a member of the school board's Harassment Intimidation and Bullying Committee — refused calls this week for his resignation after he acknowledged posting "divisive and hurtful" comments on social media Burgoyne opened Monday's school board meeting by apologizing for comments made on Parler that disparaged politicians with profane insults and — in a response to a post on diversity training — likened college instruction to brainwashing a father of three who works as an electrician and building maintenance supervisor at William Paterson University said he inappropriately engaged in “some political banter” and vowed to learn from his mistakes Parler is a social media account favored by far-right extremists that fell into disrepute after the Capitol riots with Apple and Google pulling the apps from their stores and Amazon ending their hosting agreement with the company Screenshots from the @Burgoyneandsons Parler account show posts that derisively characterize the weight of 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, refer to the governors of New York and New Jersey as “[expletive] jerkoffs” and call for leaders in the tech industry to be “erased.” “I didn't realize how divisive and hurtful words could be until I became on the receiving end of them,” Burgoyne said “I do realize my comments were hurtful but had no ill intentions.” The 44-year-old won his seat on the school board in November 2020 during a rare contested race The results ushered in a new majority that vowed to be more fiscally conservative after budget cuts that administrators said were necessitated by a drop in state aid Need a COVID vaccine in NJ?:  This list tells you which sites have appointments available Local:  Ringwood quarry given license extension amid talks over $9.2 million reclamation bond Bonuses: These Bergen County employees received $1.4M total in bonuses during COVID last year Burgoyne declined to leave the board even though he faced dozens of calls for his resignation He stepped down from the board’s Harassment Intimidation and Bullying Committee before the public meeting president of the Ringwood Education Association said Burgoyne’s comments were not befitting a trustee but she stopped short of asking him to resign the fourth-grade teacher said the association is “hopeful meaningful change can come from this experience.” it won't change the fact that there is more work to do,” Camporeale said Most of the speakers during Monday's meeting did Former school board member Allison Beesley said “hate and disregard for education alone should be disqualifying.” Rasheeda Flournoy of the Ringwood Anti-racism Collaborative and current board member Cheryl Botsolas also urged Burgoyne to quit “If a student or staff member were to write or say these words it would be an actionable offense,” Botsolas said “I do not accept this behavior and do not want it on our board.” A few of the more than 300 who viewed the virtual meeting said Burgoyne made a stupid mistake and Monday’s barrage of criticism (one letter writer repeatedly called Burgoyne “a clown” while criticizing his comments) was bullying “This is more hatred than anything that has been posted on social media,” said board member Richard Ebersbach Ebersbach and Burgoyne both opposed Botsolas’ successful motion to form a board subcommittee to examine censure for Burgoyne most of the board members said nothing in relation to Burgoyne’s posts Most of them ran for 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This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Metrics details need to receive the right treatment to be restored and to elongate their lifespan Determination of the degradation degree and even better the type of the degradation is a crucial knowledge for the way of subsequent conservation Collagen based materials are very sensitive to the deterioration and undergo Namely acid hydrolysis and photooxidation are the most often causes of the disintegration of leather a few studies dedicated to parchment described some typical features of hydrolysis oxidation and gelatinization observed applying Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier-Transform Infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) which is widely used in collagen degradation type research Except of the collagen secondary structure we determined the shrinkage temperature of the collagen substrate by Micro Hot Table method (MHT) to reach the degradation level artificially degraded leather samples as a theoretical representative of cultural heritage objects were examined We discuss the use of both techniques (IR and MHT) as potential methods for fast assessment of oxidation and hydrolysis of vegetable tanned leathers and degradation level New samples of leather tanned by various vegetable tannins were artificially degraded under controlled conditions We simulated the photooxidation by means of the Xenon arc lamp exposure oxidation using the soaking in hydrogen peroxide acid hydrolysis by the soaking in hydrochloric acid and alkaline hydrolysis using the soaking in natrium hydroxide ATR-FTIR spectra of reference and tested samples were compared Oxidation causes increase of the distance between amide I (AI) and amide II (AII) wavenumbers (Δν) above 100 cm−1 and the intensity ratio between AI and AII bands (AI/AII) above 1.6 The AI/AII ratio depends on the type of hydrolysis The increase above 1.8 proves acid hydrolysis while the decrease under 1 demonstrate alkaline hydrolysis mainly the hydrolysis causes the decrease of the temperatures We have found out that knowledge of the whole shrinkage interval is important and provides more appropriate information about the leather disintegration it is hard to decide which treatment method is the best if the reason of the disintegration is unknown That’s why a method to determine the cause of the change is needed A wide range of different effects influence the mechanism of leather deterioration The main goal of this research was to find out useful characterization for description of leather degradation Decomposition of peptide chain: a oxidation; b hydrolysis Oxidation and hydrolysis deterioration processes can pass over separately or in combination [11] The order of shrinkage intervals and their description in special cases taking of only small sample is possible Bonding of tannin molecule (a) to collagen structure (b) [1] the degradation parameter Δν(AI–AII) is assigned to denaturation (gelatinization) process Parchment is considered to be denatured if Δν is above 95 cm−1 The second parameter is related to intensities of AI and AII bands the occurrence of this band is disputable at this wavenumber range because typical bands of hydrolysable tannins can be found in this region the different environmental and chemicals conditions influence changes of leather properties different ways of disintegration of model leather samples have been tested We suppose that their behaviour will be similar to parchment Therefore ATR-FTIR spectra have been recorded and shrinkage activity has been determined under altering conditions of the degradation processes that were caused by photooxidation and oxidation The purpose of this research was to explore if it is possible to use ATR-FTIR for study of leather degradation process The determination of shrinkage activity by MHT was chosen for degradation level evaluation Both methods are fundamental in evaluating the structural and physical–chemical changes related to ageing and deterioration of historical objects they are often used for research of highly valuable historic objects The knowledge of the type and level of degradation influence enables to choose an appropriate conservation process displaying or storage in archives and museums The spectra of new degraded leathers (corium side) were recorded between IR spectra for corium and grain side Photooxidation experiments were performed using Q-SUN B02 Xenon Test Chamber at Textile Testing Institute The samples (roughly 5 × 2 cm) were exposed to xenon air cooled by arc lamp (1800 weeks) for 1 week The three new leather samples tanned with different tannin types (sumac quebracho-mimosa combination and unknown tannin) were provided by Gara TZL PLUS s.r.o. The five new vegetable tanned leather samples (tanned with quebracho mimosa and chestnut) were provided by Leather and Footwear Research Institute there are two groups of leathers–leathers containing hydrolysable tannins HL (5 samples) and condensed ones CL (4 samples) All results are presented as mean values from all measurements It means that for HL samples the total number of measurements (n) n = 15 The list of all samples (cattle hide) is mentioned in Table 3 Sample treatment was carried out under observing ethic codex It is necessary to mention that no similar testing of leathers has been published so far how to carry out experiments dealing with the leather degradation no official or international standard methods dealing with evaluation of hydrolytic or oxidative degradation the relative high concentration of reagents) were chosen to ensure degradation will be detectable and provable The samples in one type of experiment were tested more times Photooxidation was performed according to description of technical equipment mentioned in chapter devoted to technical equipment Oxidation was performed by immersing the samples in 50 ml of 25% (v/v) H2O2 for 1 or 5 weeks Acid hydrolyses was performed by immersing the samples in 50 ml of 25% (v/v) HCl for 1 and 5 weeks Alkaline hydrolysis was performed by immersing the samples in 50 ml of 10% (w/v) NaOH for 24 h All experiments containing liquid phase were carried out in 50 ml beaker The size of all leather was roughly 2 × 2 cm washed with freshly distilled water until the pH of washing liquid became constant samples were let to dry in laboratory conditions under light press Even though the photooxidation of leather samples was performed only for 1 week significant changes were observed in IR spectra in comparison with spectra of reference samples (Fig. 4). dedicated to parchment where the increase of the ∆ν above 95 cm−1 can be ascribed to gelatinization Due to the influence of light, intensity of AII decreased. Therefore, the ratio of AI/AII increased after the exposure of leather samples (Fig. 5) As was mentioned in “Introduction”, generally, the oxidation of parchment is characterized by appearance of new absorption band at 1740–1720 cm−1. In our experiments, the formation of such band was not observed (Fig. 4) As it was mentioned above, the hydrothermal stability can be described by several intervals (Fig. 2) MHT—development of the shrinkage intervals according to degradation process (°C) The start temperature values of the B1 interval for aged samples (Fig. 6) were lower than values for reference ones of both tannin groups (Table 5) Reference samples reached temperature 79.3 ± 0.2 °C the values for photodegraded samples were not too different (70.3 ± 6.2 °C) Ts for photooxidized samples decreased mainly in case of HL group (from 67.3 ± 5.4 °C to 60.9 ± 9.4 °C) while CL changed only from 85.0 ± 2.2 °C for reference to 82.1 ± 6.0 °C for photooxided The temperature values for reference and degraded samples in A2 an B2 intervals were almost identical (Table 5) It follows from the results mentioned above that leathers tanned by hydrolysable tannins are more susceptible to photooxidation than leathers tanned by condensed tannins, which was proved by lower values of start temperatures for intervals A1, B1 and C. According to above mentioned classification, the leather samples HLRef and HLXe fall into the category 2 (Table 1) Samples CLRef and CLXe fall into category 1 The greater susceptibility of leather can be explained by the presence of tannin and its faster degradation It follows from evaluation of all results that photooxidation is characterized by the shift of the AI band to a higher wavenumber the ∆ν value increases over 100 cm−1 and the ratio AI/AII is greater than 1.6 at the same time which indicates the photooxidation new band at ~ 1412 cm−1 appeared in IR spectra and some bands are dismissed or weakened (~ 1317 As was mentioned in “Introduction” Ts (the beginning of C interval) is often used by conservators for evaluation of leather degradation But it is necessary to follow the course of all intervals (from A1 to Tlast) Photooxidation has greater influence on intervals A1 while Ts (start temperature of interval C) is not too influenced by photooxidation Photooxidation occur influence on the hydrothermal stability of leather samples It can be postulated that hydrolysable tanned leathers are affected more than condensed tanned ones According to Table 1 samples \({\text{CL}}_{{{\text{H}}_{ 2} {\text{O}}_{ 2} }}\) still fall into the category 1 while the samples in group \({\text{HL}}_{{{\text{H}}_{ 2} {\text{O}}_{ 2} {\text{ - b}}}}\) fall into the category 4 appearance of this new bands in IR spectra is ascribed to oxidation hydrolysable tannins absorb IR irradiation in this region and thus this result can be hardly interpreted It follows from Table 4 that the wavenumber of AI was slightly shifted to lower values in the dependence on time of soaking a sample by HCl solution Values are almost identical for hydrolysable and condensed tanned leathers Further, the wavenumber of AII was almost without changes after 1 week of ageing. The AII wavenumbers after 1 week of ageing (1546 ± 3 cm−1) were almost the same for both tannins groups. The similar values were also reached after 5 weeks of ageing Table 4 Results are comparable for hydrolysable and condensed tanned leathers and practically no significant difference It is quite unexpected because the greater deterioration could be awaited in case of hydrolysable tannins It can be caused by relatively drastic acid conditions The tannin band at ~ 1315 cm−1 present at sample H1Ref, H2Ref, C8Ref and C9Ref dismissed or the intensity decreased after degradation (Fig. 4) It affirms the fact that tannins are degraded in acid conditions Newly, the shoulder or band at ~ 1710 cm−1 was observed (Fig. 4) in case of all leather samples This band was most evident in sample H2HCl_5w The resolution and intensity of vibration bands increased with longer time of soaking small shoulder at ~ 1410 cm−1 was observed at all samples It follows from results that the corresponding ∆ν value can be used for detection of acid hydrolysis (Fig. 5) The ∆ν of our samples decrease below 75 cm−1 and then leathers are predisposed to easier gelatinization that was also confirmed by MHT Acid hydrolysis can be also proved by ratio AI/AII new band or shoulder at ~ 1710 cm−1 and small shoulder at ~ 1410 cm−1 were detected after acid hydrolytic degradation process Alkaline hydrolysis was performed by immersing leather samples into 10% NaOH for 24 h (if the samples had been immersed longer or the NaOH concentration was higher Using of 10% solution was chosen to be sure that the leather deterioration will be evident whereas corium and grain layer were not possible to distinguish For all samples, the intensity of AI decreased (Fig. 5) while intensity of AII is much higher The huge increase of AII intensity is inspectional mainly for hydrolysable samples H1NaOH, H2NaOH, H4NaOH, H5NaOH and C6NaOH. It can be said that this AII intensity increase is the most characteristic demonstration of alkaline hydrolysis. However in some cases, the AII intensity is comparable with AI intensity for samples C7NaOH, C8NaOH and C9NaOH (Fig. 4) Therefore it is not surprising that the AI/AII ratio was totally reversed. The samples HLNaOH have the AI/AII ratio 0.805 ± 0.137 and CLNaOH (0.973 ± 0.120) (Table 4) Weakening or disappearance of characteristic tannin bands at ~ 1744 (H1NaOH, H2NaOH), ~ 1317 (H2NaOH, H3NaOH, C8NaOH, C9NaOH), ~ 1280 (H2NaOH, H3NaOH,C7NaOH, C9NaOH), ~ 1160 and 1115 (H2NaOH, H4NaOH, C7NaOH, C8NaOH and C9NaOH), ~ 976 cm−1(H2NaOH, H3NaOH, H4NaOH, C7NaOH) supports the tannin degradation (Fig. 4) On the other hand, new weak bands at ~ 1410 cm−1 was found in all degraded samples and intensive band ~ 870 cm−1 was detected in case of samples H1NaOH, H2NaOH, H4NaOH, C8NaOH, C9NaOH) (Fig. 4) The band at ~ 870 cm−1 is assigned to C–H or C–C vibration and can be ascribed to the chain splitting it was not possible to separate fibres from samples for MHT determinations it was also not possible to recognize grain and corium side Our results indicate that the leathers, tanned by hydrolysable tannins HL, are more sensitive to alkaline hydrolysis than leathers tanned by condensed tannins CL. The proof is decrease of ∆ν under 76 cm−1 for HL while for CL the ∆ν value was almost identical with reference sample (Table 4) The fact, that intensities of both amides AI, AII are swapped and the ratio AI/AII is below value 1, denotes that leather samples underwent alkaline hydrolysis (Fig. 5) Based on scree plot, three important principal components (PC1 53.4%; PC2 29.1% and PC3 7.1%) cover almost 90% of the total variability, were identified (Additional file 1: Fig Score plot (a PC1 vs PC2; b PC1 vs PC3) of IR spectra Photooxided samples were distinguished more precisely (Fig. 7b) from the other degradation patterns if the PC1 and PC3 were combined If the PC2 and PC3 values were combined (Additional file 1: Fig alkaline and acid hydrolysis samples were distinguishable due to their PC2 values Acid hydrolysis samples had positive values of PC2 whereas samples treated with alkaline hydrolysis fell into negative values of PC2 photooxidation was the best distinguishable S5) in regions around 1800–1700 cm−1 and 1200–900 cm−1 The first region is in agreement with the spectra where the occurrence of new absorption band was observed around 1710 cm−1 no significant changes for acid hydrolysis were observed for comparison of the spectra in the region 1200–900 cm−1 If the AI and AII wavenumbers were put together into the plot (Additional file 1: Fig S6) only the alkaline hydrolysis was separated in region 1632 cm−1 for AI and 1556 cm−1 for AII the highest wavenumber for AI 1640 cm−1 and more and the lowest wavenumber for AII (under 1545 cm−1) were found for photooxidation When the AII and Δν were put together (Additional file 1: Fig photooxidation came to wavenumber of AII were under 1545 cm−1 and the Δv was up to 90 cm−1 Similarly alkaline hydrolysis of condensed tanned leathers was distinguishable when AII wavenumber was 1555 cm−1 or higher and the Δv was between 75 and 80 cm−1 When the AI wave number and the AI/AII values were compared (Additional file 1: Fig the alkaline hydrolysis was proven for AI between 1630 and 1653 cm−1 together with the AI/AII ratio less than 1.2 In the same plot photooxidation was detect for the AI wavenumbers higher than 1635 cm−1 and the AI/AII ratio around 1.6 It was also possible to distinguish the acid hydrolysis for the AI wavenumbers between 1624 and 1628 cm−1 and the AI/AII higher than 1.5 Comparison of the AII wavenumber and the AI/AII ratio also enable to distinguish the alkaline hydrolysis very well (Fig. 8a). The AII position was around 1550–1560 cm−1 with the AI/AII ratio under 1.2. Similarly, the photooxidation was distinguishable when AII was between 1535 and 1545 cm−1 and the AI/AII ratio was from 1.5 to 1.6. Plot of AII wavenumber vs AI/AII ratio (a) It follows from Fig. 8b that photooxidation was determined when Δv is 100–110 cm−1 and the AI/AII ratio is 1.5–1.8 Acid hydrolysis is detected when Δv is 70–80 cm−1 and the AI/AII was higher than 1.5 the alkaline hydrolysis was distinguishable when Δv was between 75 and 82 and the AI/AII was lesser than 1.2 Some important patterns for degradation changes of leather were observed for most types of degradation processes Photooxidation was demonstrated by increase of amide bands distance ∆ν(AI–AII) which was more than 100 cm−1 and increase of amide band intensities ratio AI/AII more than 1.6 The newly created band at 1730–1710 cm−1 can be misinterpreted as the evidence of hydrolysable tannins and it is necessary to take a cautious approach both type of hydrolyses caused decrease of the distance ∆ν that is then less than 76 cm−1 The change of amides ratio AI/AII is not definite because acid hydrolysis causes the increase over 1.8 while alkaline hydrolysis caused decrease of the same ratio even less than 1 The common conclusion for both type of hydrolyses was disappearing of band at ~ 1315 cm−1 ~ 1410 or ~ 870 cm−1) or disappeared (~ 1114 and ~ 976 cm−1) during all types of disintegration That is why it is not possible to use it for specific determination of degradation process but it is possible to use them for general evaluation the determination of hydrothermal stability is useful for evaluation of historical leathers and parchment it is not appropriate to recognize type of degradation Results show that not only Ts is the important value It is needed to take all activity interval account as was observed in this study samples had significantly lower beginning of interval A1 an B1 Acid hydrolysis influenced all shrinkage intervals when The results affirmed how important the determination of Ts is The deeper determination of more specific borders of degradation pathways using ATR-FTIR technique and MHT method would allow to assessment of degradation degree of leather more precisely the behaviour of leather in real environment should be also investigated Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier-Transform Infrared spectroscopy Tanning chemistry : the science of leather Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry; 2009 Dimensional studies of specific microscopic fibre structures in deteriorated parchment before and during shrinkage Conservation of leather and related materials Hagerman AE. 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this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) students specializing in flight nursing at Case Western Reserve University will soon be training in the nation’s first state-of-the-art simulator built in an actual helicopter The simulator creates the sense of treating critically injured patients from takeoff to landing The helicopter simulator was installed last week at the university’s Cedar Avenue Service Center in a new classroom designed for the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing’s Dorothy Ebersbach Academic Center for Flight Nursing Program The helicopter will feature some of the most advanced medical equipment with authentic aerial views projected within the windows and movement that mimics changing altitudes and weather conditions throughout the flight “This new training facility will help the school expand the program’s capacity locally nationally and internationally,” said Mary E The helicopter simulator is one of only two in the world dedicated to training health care professionals assistant professor and director of the Learning Resource Center at the school of nursing The simulator will allow acute care nurse practitioner flight students to learn the challenges of patient care of critically ill and injured patients being transported—sometimes from remote locations and difficult terrain The simulator is made from a retired Sikorsky S-76 helicopter fuselage and has a 10-by-7-foot passenger space that provides room for five occupants: the patient up to three student flight nurses and an instructor The students and instructor will work on a “high fidelity” patient simulator inside the fuselage while also being subjected to the movement vibration and altitude that can affect a patient’s vital signs and other health conditions The 800-pound capacity allows students to be trained with the same health-care equipment used in actual critical care transport helicopters The simulator is an exact replica of what the students will eventually fly in while treating patients later in their studies The fuselage will be equipped with mock laser rotors developed by Case Western Reserve biomedical engineering majors so students and their patients can learn to safely enter and exit the helicopter “The aircraft has inherent risks when operating in and around it and these risks can be safely mitigated when proper techniques are applied consistently,” said Stephanie Steiner the director of the Dorothy Ebersbach Center program and an experienced flight nurse practitioner with the Cleveland Clinic critical care transport team the simulator may also be used to train military personnel for pre-deployment those in the air medical industry and EMS first responders ACNP student flight nurses currently are educated and trained on high fidelity patient simulators programmed with vital signs and symptoms that allow students to practice advanced procedures similar to those of an actual patient Students also attend additional flight nursing educational offerings to learn skills such as loading and unloading patients from an operating helicopter and communicating in the air medical environment Their advanced training also involves working alongside leading critical care transport programs locally Alfes described how the simulator was acquired and built in the recent Clinical Simulation in Nursing journal article “Taking Simulation to New Heights: Designing a Flight Simulation Center.” The center envisioned having a training simulator since its inception in 2002 pieces and funding align to make it possible which endowed the program with a $5 million gift made a second gift to the program of around $500,000 which coincidentally turned out to be part of a retired MetroHealth Medical Center life flight helicopter was acquired from Arrow Aviation in Lafayette Texas-based company that builds simulated flight training equipment for pilots completed the $600,000 installation with support from Hartzell Propeller Inc The nursing school also received a second training helicopter—donated by Bell Helicopter in Piney Flats Tenn.—which will be housed at Wright State University’s National Center for Medical Readiness a 55-acre disaster training site near Dayton The second helicopter will enable the nursing school to offer specialized disaster training Interested in participating in a research study Looking for an upcoming event in your department Subscribe to The Daily Items that appear in the Community Postings section are submitted by visitors Posts are reviewed to ensure they are appropriate for our audience but typically are not edited by University Marketing and Communications Case Western Reserve University is committed to academic freedom and promoting diversity of thought The views of those who speak on our campus do not necessarily reflect the views of the university administration or any other segment of the university community Get important news about your 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(CSE: MARI) a licensed producer and distributor of medical cannabis in Canada has secured $42,500,000 in non-dilutive financing to further expand operations in Germany The funds come from The Green Streaming Finance Company of Canada Inc. BC-based company that provides non-equity financing to cannabis producers Maricann will receive investment in two separate payments of $15,000,000 and $27,500,000 The money be used to fund construction of a state-of-the-art 150,000 square-foot expansion of cultivation operations at the company’s existing Ebersbach Facility (pictured above) as well as an additional 250,000 square-foot An additional outdoor farm will assist Maricann develop its high-CBD cannabis products It was constructed 20 years ago at a cost of 80 million euros “The Ebersbach facility offers Maricann a significant advantage in cost of overall construction and speed to market The infrastructure for cultivation of cannabis in an indoor secured environment is already in place,” CEO Benjamin Ward said in a statement “We simply need to add the fertigation system “Our competitors are spending north of $70,000,000 CAD for facilities with less than 1/3 the footprint of our Ebersbach location the estimated cost would be over $120 million EUR.” RelatedGermany and Austria Are Pouring Billions into Cannabis Prohibition Stay In TouchReceive updates on new products By providing us with your email address, you agree to Leafly’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. These products are not intended to diagnose Information provided by this website or this company is not a substitute for individual medical advice Event: Leadership Oklahoma Annual Celebration Event: Holiday Healthcare Christmas Gathering Machino and Huddleston and the OKC Advocates fun Christmas party and meet-and-greet evening About: A recruitment party for women who support the fight against heart disease in women Event: Second annual Taste of Memorial to benefit Edmond Memorial High School's athletic Booster Club Happenings: More than 30 Edmond-area restaurants served their top dishes and about 130 items were auctioned off during the family friendly fundraiser in the high school cafeteria Girls' and boys' Bulldog basketball games were going on in the nearby gym Event committee members included Angela Cox booster club board members and parent representatives from each team Of note: This year's fundraiser brought in about $26,000 for the 18 athletic teams at the high school Karen Hellrich says there are no crosswalks in the Wilmington area She arrived at that conclusion after a crash on Super Bowl Sunday that totaled her car think drivers in this area are the worst they've seen in 25 years of marriage and six locations One newcomers club member said she'd been advised not to use turn signals "because then people will know you're not from around here." I've been attending newcomer gatherings and passing around a clipboard to get to know recent arrivals (I'd love to visit your group - give me a call.) On the list from the Wilmington Newcomers Club Hellrich's entry caught my eye: "Where is my car?" Hellrich and Ebersbach moved here in April 2004 from Green Bay they were returning to Wilmington from a friend's party in Pender County stopped at the light at Hoover Road in Hampstead when a pickup truck slammed into the car behind them Witnesses told the couple the pickup seemed to be going 100 mph is charged with speeding and reckless driving to endanger said Lanee Mitchell of the district attorney's office Hellrich and her husband eventually found their car in a tow-truck lot but the insurance company declared it totaled The accident reinforced their belief that mentally local drivers aren't running on all cylinders Hellrich saw a woman on Greenville Loop Road putting her hair up in a ponytail as she drove along Hellrich would have preferred her hands be on the steering wheel "I come from an area where if you step off the curb at a crosswalk you have the right of way," Ebersbach said but you'd be crazy to bank on it with a car coming members kicked around the topic of Wilmington drivers including the common complaint that we don't use our signals they use finger signals," said Maureen Fineman referring to that uncomplimentary "one-finger salute." They said our drivers cross lanes unexpectedly more often than in other places they'd lived we often swing across into the far right lane instead of turning into the near lane but they feel reluctant to do that in the genteel South It might be easy to dismiss these complaints if New Hanover County hadn't been the state's most dangerous county for seven straight years in the number of accidents per vehicle mile traveled We had the second-highest likelihood of injuries in 2005 But we're about in the middle in the frequency of fatalities probably because traffic moves so slowly in our crowded little county About the best we can say is that in Wilmington Contact me at 343-2364 or si.cantwell@starnewsonline.com