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Predicting water quality through daily concentration of dissolved oxygen using improved artificial intelligence
Abstract As an important hydrological parameter, dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration is a well-accepted indicator of water quality. This study deals with introducing and evaluating four novel integrative methods for the prediction of DO. To this end, teaching–learning-based optimization (TLBO), sine cosine algorithm, water cycle algorithm (WCA), and electromagnetic field optimization (EFO) are appointed to train…
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2023 Holiday Health, Beauty, & Fashion Gift Guide
For twenty-five years, playwright Jeff Gould has been making audiences laugh as he explores the territories of love, sex, and marriage in his full-length plays, including “Troubled Waters,” “It’s Just Sex,” “The Marriage Zone,” “Is […]
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What to Read During Winter Break
Members of the campus community recommend a variety of books to read during the break. Winter break is the perfect time to curl up with a warm beverage and a good book. So, we asked several members of the campus community for recommendations. Their selections range from a look at the lives of barred owls,…
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Paleoenvironments of Late Devonian tetrapods in China
Abstract The major evolutionary transition from fish to amphibian included Late Devonian tetrapods that were neither fish nor amphibian. They had thick necks and small limbs with many digits on elongate flexuous bodies more suitable for water than land. Habitats of Devonian tetrapods are of interest in assessing selective pressures on their later evolution for…
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Wi-Fi for neurons: first map of wireless nerve signals unveiled in worms
The worm Caenorhabditis elegans has 302 neurons (green) that researchers can study using tools such as fluorescent markers.Credit: Heiti Paves/Science Photo Library The idea that the nervous system passes messages from one nerve cell to another only through synapses — the points where the cells link up end to end — is changing. Two studies…
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Else Nutrition Announces Closing of C$5 Million Offering of Units
Not for distribution to United States newswire services or dissemination in the United States VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ELSE NUTRITION HOLDINGS INC. (BABY) (BABYF) (0YL.F) (“Else” or the “Company”), the Plant-Based baby, toddler, and children nutrition company today announces that it has closed its previously announced offering of Units (the…
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Golisano Children’s Hospital Fashion Show raises $130,000
<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> The 11th Annual Golisano Children’s Hospital Fashion Show took place on Nov. 10 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs and raised $130,000 to support Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). As the only PICU between Tampa and Miami, it provides care…
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Thriving Through the Holidays: 8 Ways to Feel Happy and Healthy this Season
As a certified lifestyle medicine physician, Nance is passionate about helping his patients be the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves. He often notices that people struggle during the holiday season with overeating, overdrinking, grief from losing a loved one, seasonal depression or lack of energy. So, no matter what this upcoming season looks like for…
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Art History Professor Receives NFAH Fellowship for Work on Modern Pueblo Painting
Jumping off from a chapter of her first book that focuses on Pueblo artists, Scott’s new work is devoted entirely to Pueblo painters working in New Mexico. These Indigenous artists, she explains, built on a long tradition within their communities of advocating for themselves and fighting colonialism, which was happening long before Anglo activists caught…
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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 11.17.23
News Resource Recycling – November 15 In response to electric power industry requests, EPA is looking to classify solar panels as universal waste. The agency is also working to create a category of universal waste specifically for lithium-ion batteries. EPA regulates hazardous waste pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. However, EPA has developed…