How to reduce chlorinous odor in hypochlorous acid with essential oils?

Resonance Breathing is a promising intervention for clients with substance use disorder (SUD). The intervention and technological advances (Apps) make it possible for people to train with the intervention by themselves and independent of location.

When planning a longer study for at-home use with an App over several weeks - what would you suggest would be the optimal length, frequency and duration of the overall training? That is, how many weeks, how often per week and how long per session (minutes)? Are there recommendations or best practice examples?

Our intended outcomes apart from HRV (pre/post) would include questionnaires about the SUD and fMRI. Specifically, executive functions, general well-being, substance use parameters.

Since Sunday 6.11.2022 in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh for about 2 weeks, the United Nations Conference on Mainly Emerging Climate Change, i.e. the UN Climate Summit COP27, is underway, with lectures, debates and discussions on the question of what needs to be done to increase the scale of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the development of international cooperation to solve global problems, to slow down the progressive process of global warming, to counteract the negative effects of this process, necessary to take decisions to protect the climate, biosphere and biodiversity of the planet. What needs to be done is obvious, as even the children of the Youth Climate Strike, which has finally been recognized by the UN and admitted to UN Climate Summits since COP27, know this. What needs to be done in terms of urgently and swiftly carrying out a green transformation of the energy sector to avoid or reduce the scale of the global climate catastrophe that may already occur at the end of this 21st century is already well known. Today we have a significantly different reality in terms of environmental and climate awareness in many different circles not only in the scientific community, but also in the media, parts of business, politics, etc. In the reality of the previous energy crisis, i.e. in the 1970s, emerging signals from the world of science informing and warning about the growing risks and threats to the future of the climate, the biosphere, biodiversity, future generations of people resulting from the progressive process of global warming were ignored and swept under the rug in the world of business and politics. As a result, at that time there was also a high scale of ignorance in the media world about the growing dangers of the greenhouse effect generated by increasing greenhouse gas emissions of civilization origin, mainly from the development of dirty combustion energy and ignoring the technological and financial possibilities of developing renewable and emission-free energy sources. Today, the level of pro-climate and pro-environmental awareness is much higher. On the other hand, half a century of time has already been lost, because so much earlier the processes of carrying out a pro-environmental and pro-climate transformation of the classic growth, brown, linear economy of excess to a sustainable, green, zero-carbon zero-growth and closed-loop economy could have been started Now we also know that the key issue is time, in fact, it is already very limited time to carry out a full green transformation of energy but also other pro-climate measures such as. stopping the process of forest deforestation, carrying out the transformation of the agricultural sector towards the development of sustainable organic farming, the development of hydrogen-fueled electromobility, etc. The lost time of the mid-century will not be made up, but there is an opportunity to save a significant part of the planet's biosphere and biodiversity, to slow down the progressive process of global warming, to reduce the scale, also for the next generations of people, of the negative effects of the global climate catastrophe, which, unfortunately, is already imminent, since already in the current 21st century may occur. Now we also know that much depends on the development of international cooperation, including economic and financial assistance from developed countries provided to the economically poorest countries to support the green economic transformation processes taking place in these countries and to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. At the previous UN Climate Summit COP26, a new and particularly important provision and declaration of many countries was the issue of stopping the deforestation of areas of natural forest ecosystems by the end of the current decade, i.e. by 2030. But we now know that waiting until 2030 to fulfill this kind of declaration is not a wise solution either, because in order for the strategic goal of green transformation to be achieved, the goal set during the 2015 Paris Agreement, i.e. limiting the increase in the average level of the atmosphere's temp. by max. 1.5 degrees C counting from the beginning of the first industrial revolution until the end of the 21st century, the mentioned green transformation of the economy globally would have to be achieved not by the end of 2050 but within the current decade. This means urgent and drastic paradigm shifts, new decisions made at the policy level, new green strategies and missions established by many companies, businesses, corporations, including especially those operating in the energy sector. An exceptionally large representation of companies, enterprises, corporations operating in the dirty combustion energy sector at the UN Climate Summit COP27 may prove to be a positive aspect. It will prove to be a positive aspect of this issue if indeed the era of ignorance is replaced by an era of real action to bring about the smooth implementation of a green, i.e. pro-climate, pro-environmental and thus pro-social transformation of the energy sector towards future generations of people. Green energy technologies are already available. For example, clean energy technologies generated from hydrogen power. A transitional solution may be the development of other renewable energy sources. The technology of clean energy generated from nuclear fusion needs to be refined and will also soon be achievable. Banks and other financial institutions are eager to finance the green transformation of the economy. The problem of global warming and its negative effects is a global problem. Therefore, it is necessary to increase international cooperation to increase the scale of support, synergy, simultaneity of the processes of pro-climate and pro-environmental transformation of the economy implemented in all countries. It is necessary to develop green financing of afforestation programs for civilizationally degraded areas and wastelands, since forests are an important factor in absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. Countries characterized by a low level of economic development without external assistance alone are unable to efficiently and quickly make a green transformation of the economy, including, among other things. make the necessary changes in agriculture by changing the dominant crop production models so that this is done according to the model of sustainable organic agriculture production of crops as a source of food primarily for people, which is particularly important in the reality of increasingly frequent periods of drought and other negative effects of the progressive process of global warming, declining productivity in terms of the level of production of crops per hectare, the growing problem of hunger in the poorest countries and often already most burdened by the negative effects of climate change. We know what needs to be done, but we don't really know how to raise the issue of making the green transition a priority of global environmental and climate policy, and how to establish such a priority at the global level. The UN COP Climate Summits are trying to make this happen, but for the time being this is basically done only on the basis of non-committal declarations made by individual countries and, unfortunately, often not all countries, that something will be done about the green transformation of the economy over the next few years or a few decades. And unfortunately, time is short.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of researchers and scientists:

What is your opinion on this topic?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

I am writing a review article in biotechnology and as you know graphic images are so important in these papers. I would appreciate it if you suggest the best options. Thank you

Dear all,

what are the possible instruments to use to obtain the purity of a powder (NaCl sold in a pellet form) (has 99% purity or above)?

the cheapest instrument to the expensive one if possible according to your experience

Thank you in advance

I'm looking for a method to determine the concentration of free chlorine in a detergent solution (10-20 % NaOH and 3-10% NaOCl) at different temperatures. Can Iodometric tritation be used in this case?

How can I write a Personal letter where I introduce myself and present my qualifications? Does anybody have any sample?

Premise 1: Neurogenic bradycardia and RSA are mediated by different branches of the vagus and need not respond in concert.

Premise 2: Neurogenic bradycardia associated with orienting is a phylogenetic vestigial relic of the reptilian brain and is mediated by the dorsal motor nucleus (DMNX).

Premise 3: Withdrawal of cardiac vagal tone through Nucleus Ambiguus (NA) mechanisms is a mammalian adaptation to select novelty in the environment while coping with the need to maintain metabolic output and continuous social communication.

(From Porges SW (2013) Polvagal Theory. NY: Norton)

The current evolutionary vagal evidence indicates that neither Premises 2 nor 3 are accurate. Also 1) there is a confluence of evidence regarding Premise 1 showing that the DMNX  may only manifest vagal effects upon heart rate under conditions of severe physiological respiratory distress (and even this is not very well documented), 2) Porges provides  merely very indirect findings to support his hypothesis (and his Figure 2.3 of  the time course of putative DMNX-stimulated bradycardia in a single anesthetized rabbit shows much too rapid onset and offset for the heart rate drop to be a response of the unmyelinated DMNX vagal fibers [which should have a much more gradual onset and offset than shown because slow conduction time of these fibers prevent sudden changes]), and 3) no mention is made by Porges of earlier findings that indicate that the DMNX is not implicated in normal vagal control of heart rate.

Nevertheless, perhaps there are strands of direct evidence of which I am unaware? In any case, polvagal conjectures have become very popular in psychology, psychophysiology and therapy literature. It seems, therefore, high time to critically assess the value of Stephen Porges' ideas in this area.

How can I know the area of ISI?  Was used an internal standard which has c20-c 40 alkane standard. How could I found the area of my IS as it is showing many peaks? Secondly, How to calculate conc. of analyte from GC/MS chromatogram?

I am looking for a semi-qualitative method to determine microbial oxygen usage in human stool samples. In Wikipedia, Thioglycolate broth is used for the differentiation of obligate aerobes, obligate anaerobes, facultative anaerobes, microaerophiles, and aerotolerant organisms. They grow in different layers in the medium. Anyone familiar with this protocol?