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"The Tootin' Golden" is a children's book written to help children struggling with anxiety and big feelings."The Tootin' Golden" is the story of one Golden Retriever's struggle to control his anxious thoughts. Arby starts to miss out on fun things because of his fear-filled thoughts that create big feelings. Read "The Tootin' Golden" to find out how Arby discovers he doesn't need to be afraid of his feelings or his toot because he learns about the power of his thoughts. He also discovers that being kind and making new friends is always a good idea.

“One of the sexiest Spainards to foray through romance in a long while…sensual, emotional, engrossing.”—Katherine Sutcliffe Gabriel Cristobel de Espinosa y Ramirez has served the Spanish crown with honor, crossing swords with brigands and cutthroats on the high seas. His actions against the British and the French have earned him the name El Condor. But now he finds that his greatest challenge is, of all things, a woman. While searching for his sister and her English husband on the island of Martinique, he meets Lady Sarah Drake, who would have been abducted by a band of cowards had he not intervened. To protect Lady Sarah from further harm, he must stay in a convent where she has yet to give her vows. El Condor has never been so enchanted by a member of the British aristocracy, but conquering her will be more difficult than any army he has ever faced.

In the last 15 years, NAFTA has been one of the legal instruments that has driven the creation and consolidation of international business (IB) in the North American region around various productive sectors of goods and services, which has also led to the growth of supply and value and chains in this region. The current international business environment recognizes the need to incorporate new issues and actions that seek to continue or deepen the interdependence of economies within a region to improve and maintain their economic and social development. This approach identifies international trade policy as the main way - through regional international trade agreements - to achieve these objectives but it is not the only one, there are governmental actions around the negotiation, assimilation and application of national legal frameworks that can be as or more efficient to build an efficient and secure international business environment for the North American region and other regions of the world.

The trade relations between Mexico and the United States of America (USA), regulated mainly by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), have experienced legal and economic changes, positive and negative for both states, which are reflected in economic data which would be analyzed in conjunction with the legal sources that promote and develop the commercial policy of the states. In this context, US trade policy has been the main promoter of global and regional free trade in the last 60 years.At the regional level, NAFTA has been the legal framework that has allowed the creation and consolidation of several productive sectors in the region of North America, including Canada. Mexico, despite being a large recipient of US foreign investment and its main trading partner is the US, fails to break the developing country barrier, so the current context of regional negotiations such as the Transpacific Agreement are interesting to incorporate new themes and actions that seek to achieve a regional free trade project that allows to improve and maintain, the economic and social development of the participants.

Weekly To Do List & 2018 Calendar :Record Notebook Remember List Time Management: Designed Pages 8.5 inches By 11 inches ,102 Pages Organize Your Day Today Creativity, and smarts to everyday life

Braintown: a YA book with sci-fi elements. The book is set in 2060 and is told from the point of view of Alice Garcia, an iconoclastic teenager who wakes up on her seventeenth birthday, questioning, for the first time, everything about the town she's lived in her entire life: her boy-crazy friends; her teachers' propagandist curriculum; the pressure her parents put on her to both look a certain way and obsess about her looks; the militant generals who make her skin crawl and the feared King Manu, whose laws; machines and followers make the women of Braintown subservient to the patriarchal order. Alice is launched on an amazing journey of self-realization, in which she learns about the transformative role she's destined to play in Braintown, and the truth about her own identity and exceptional abilities.

"Widespread environmental contamination by plastic is an issue of global concern. While governments, companies, and individuals are shifting towards increased sustainability, for instance by reducing the consumption of single-use plastics, the use and mismanagement of plastics remain common. Several studies have confirmed the presence of microplastics in consumer products and other sources, however, nanoplastics 100 nm have rarely been identified. Their small size adds a significant barrier to detection in complex matrices such as natural soils, waters, and foods. The objective of this thesis was to combine existing technologies and explore their detection limits to characterize micro- and nanoplastics in commercial goods and environmental samples. One approach to meet this goal is to analyze products known to contain plastic particles. While the presence of primary microplastics in facial scrubs has been reported; in this work, the presence of nanoplastics was confirmed for the first time. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) were used to identify polyethylene nanoparticles. While it may not be surprising to find nanoplastics as part of the size distribution in facial scrubs, this work also shows that micro- and nanoplastics can be produced from products that do not contain plastic particles but are rather packaged in plastic. Teabags made of polyethylene terephthalate and nylon were identified as a direct source of micro- and nanoplastics to humans. It was found that approximately 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics can be released into a single cup of tea, highlighting the importance of considering the fate of food packagings. While it has been established that bulk plastics can break down and release secondary microplastics, the fragmentation of these particles into nanoplastics has yet to be thoroughly studied. Four types of microplastics were placed in water and under UV-light or thermal degradation stimuli for 18 weeks. The leachate was subsequently analyzed using nanoparticle tracking analysis, SEM, and FTIR and it was found that all four plastics released some fraction of smaller particulate material. This study contributes to our understanding of the breakdown of microplastics into smaller micro- and nanoplastics. The most commonly used techniques for identifying microplastics are Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy and Raman microscopy. Unfortunately, characterization using such techniques is costly, time-consuming, and limited to larger particles. There is a need for rapid on-site identification of microplastics, as governments move towards requiring the screening of drinking water for microplastic presence. One potential alternative to the laborious and time-intensive methods is Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (Py-GC-MS). Py-GC-MS was used for a fast and qualitative screening of microplastics ( 1.5 æm) in drinking water and Arctic water. The analysis of Py-GC-MS spectra is ambiguous as different scientists have different benchmarks to confirm the presence of plastics in samples. In this study, a scoring system was proposed with which the presence of plastics can be evaluated. This system in combination with FTIR and Nile red dye were used to propose a fast, low-cost, screening method for microplastics in bottled water. Overall, this work identified micro- and nanoplastics released from consumer goods using conventional characterization techniques, while acknowledging their limitations. Findings illustrate the importance of monitoring micro- and nanoplastics in consumer goods, as they lead to direct contact with humans and in some cases ingestion. This work also contributes to the field of microplastic identification by developing rapid and low-cost methods to identify microplastics in environmental samples"--

Abstract: Fusarium circinatum (Nirenberg and O' Donnell) is the causal agent of pine pitch canker (PPC) disease, one of the most devastating forest diseases worldwide. Long-distance spread occurs mainly through the movement of infected seeds whereas at regional level, the movement of seedlings, substrates, or containers may play an important role in fungal dispersal. Invasion of nurseries takes place via infected seeds and further spread can occur by planting contaminated seedlings, especially due to the possibility of infected plants remaining symptomless. Once established, F. circinatum spreads by rain, wind, and insects. The natural spread of the pathogen is limited due to the short dispersal distances of the spores and the fairly short flight distances of disseminating insects. In this review, we summarize the currently known dispersal pathways of the pathogen, discussing both natural and human-assisted processes. With the purpose of understanding how to best intervene in the disease's development in nurseries and forests, we outline the epidemiology of the pathogen describing the key factors influencing its spread. Preventive measures to control the spread of F. circinatum locally and globally are described with special emphasis on the challenges in implementing them

En las últimas décadas, el abaratamiento de diversas pruebas médicas y moleculares ha aumentado el número de datos disponibles dentro de la práctica clínica y de investigación en medicina. esto, sumado al avance de las tecnologías de la información y la inteligencia artificial, han permitido el desarrollo de multitud de estrategias basadas en aprendizaje automático para apoyar la toma de decisiones en las distintas dimensiones que abarca la investigación médica y clínica. Todas estas aplicaciones tienen como principal objetivo generar nuevo conocimiento acerca de las enfermedades estudiadas y acercar a la práctica clínica a un sistema más personalizado, centrado en las caracterísiticas individuales de cada sujeto y sus necesidades como paciente...