Urbanisation increases pollutant generation within catchments and their transport to receiving waters.Changes to rainfall patterns, particularly in the age of climate change, make pollution mitigation a challenging task.Understanding how rainfall characteristics could influence the changes to stormwater pollutant runoff is important for designing e
Abstract Background Osteosarcoma (OS), the most prevalent primary malignant bone tumor in children and adolescents, arises from bone-forming mesenchymal cells.Despite advancements in surgical resection and neoadjuvant chemotherapy (cisplatin, doxorubicin, and methotrexate), chemotherapy resistance remains a significant challenge, leading to poor su
Alkylnaphthalene as base oils are widely applied in the production of high-performance lubricating oils.Here, we report the synthesis of multi-butylnaphthalenes by alkylation of naphthalene and n-butene with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid as catalyst.Trifluoromethanesulfonic acid exhibited excellent catalytic performance with naphthalene conversion,
Invoice factoring is a very useful tool for developing businesses that face liquidity problems.The main property that a factoring system needs to fulfill is to prevent an invoice from being factored twice.In order to prevent double factoring, many factoring ecosystems use one or several centralized entities Dice to register factoring agreements.How