Author(s): Vu KA; Mulligan CN;
Oil contamination has become a primary environmental concern due to increased exploration, production, and use. When oil enters the soil, it may attach or adsorb to soil particles and stay in the soil for an extended period, contaminating the soil and surrounding areas. Nanoparticles have been widely used for the treatment of organic pollutants in the soi ...
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Author(s): White PA; Awad YA; Gauvin L; Spencer NJ; McGrath JJ; Clifford SA; Nikiema B; Yang-Huang J; Goldhaber-Fiebert JD; Markham W; Mensah FK; van Grieken A; Raat H; Jaddoe VWV; Ludvigsson J; Faresjö T;
Background/objectives: This study analysed the relationship between early childhood socioeconomic status (SES) measured by maternal education and household income and the subsequent development of childhood overweight and obesity. Subjects/methods: Data from seven population-representative prosp ...
Article GUID: 35821522
Author(s): Brugiapaglia S; Liu M; Tupper P;
Often in language and other areas of cognition, whether two components of an object are identical or not determines if it is well formed. We call such constraints identity effects. When developing a system to learn well-formedness from examples, it is easy enough to build in an identity effect. But can identity effects be learned from the data without exp ...
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Author(s): Martínez RF; Cuccia LA; Viedma C; Cintas P;
By paraphrasing one of Kipling's most amazing short stories (How the Leopard Got His Spots), this article could be entitled "How Sugars Became Homochiral". Obviously, we have no answer to this still unsolved mystery, and this perspective simply brings recent models, experiments and hypotheses into the homochiral homogeneity of sugars on earth. We shal ...
Article GUID: 35796896
Author(s): Wang Z; Geng C; Bian Y; Zhang G; Zheng C; An C;
In this study, aged biochar (CCB350 and CCB650) were obtained from pyrolysis of corn stalk biochar (CB350 and CB650) at the degree of 350 °C and 650 °C by artificial oxidation with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Also, the mechanism of Pb2+ and Cd2+ on fresh and aged biochars was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively by batch adsorption experiments combined ...
Article GUID: 35788642
Author(s): Yue R; An C; Ye Z; Chen X; Lee K; Zhang K; Wan S; Qu Z;
In the present study, an innovative, environmentally benign recyclable, and magnetically mediated surface washing fluid based on water-dispersible magnetite nanoparticles has been designed and investigated for the cleanup of oiled beach sand. The characterization results showed that the as-prepared magnetite nanoparticles had a spherical morphology with a ...
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Author(s): Fortin M; Wolfe D; Dover G; Boily M;
Background: Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) is used to improve muscle strength clinically when rehabilitating various musculoskeletal disorders. However, the effects of NMES on muscle morphology and function in individuals with non-specific chronic low back pain (CLBP) have scarcely been investigated. Although research links deficits in the pa ...
Article GUID: 35773711
Author(s): Howard SL; Grenet D; Bellumori M; Knight CA;
Some people with Parkinson's disease (PD) have disruptions in motor output during rapid isometric muscle contractions. Measures of such disruptions (motor segmentation) may help clarify disease subtype, progression, or effects of therapeutic interventions. We investigated the potential utility of segmentation measures by testing two hypotheses that ar ...
Article GUID: 35768733
Author(s): Alizadeh Ghavidel L; Bagheri M; Mousavi F; Rezaei L; Hazeri S; Hashemi HS;
Purpose: To investigate the pattern of ocular involvement in Behcet's disease (BD) with predictors of patients' final state of vision. Methods: This historical cohort encompassed the clinical records of 200 patients diagnosed according to the International Criteria for BD (ICBD), over a period of 17 years between 2004 and 2021. Results: The prev ...
Article GUID: 35765637
Author(s): Almeida H; Tsang A; Diallo AB;
Motivation: Precise identification of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters (BGCs) is a challenging task. Performance of BGC discovery tools is limited by their capacity to accurately predict components belonging to candidate BGCs, often overestimating cluster boundaries. To support optimizing the composition and boundaries of candidate BGCs, we pro ...
Article GUID: 35762945
Author(s): Schmidt C; Muñoz G; Lancaster LT; Lessard JP; Marske KA; Marshall KE; Garroway CJ;
Global biodiversity is organised into biogeographic regions that comprise distinct biotas. The contemporary factors maintaining differences in species composition between regions are poorly understood. Given evidence that populations with sufficient genetic variation can adapt to fill new habitats, it is surprising that more homogenisation of species asse ...
Article GUID: 35753949
Author(s): Barone G; Buonomano A; Forzano C; Giuzio GF; Palombo A;
In the last years, the Covid-19 outbreak raised great awareness about ventilation system performance in confined spaces. Specifically, the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system design and operating parameters, such as air change per hour, air recirculation ratio, filtration device performance, and vents location, play a crucial role in reducin ...
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