Author(s): Wang Z; Bian Y; Xu Y; Zheng C; Jiang Q; An C;

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Fresh biochar has been widely applied to the remediation of heavy metals in soil by its property of adsorption, but the changes in its physicochemical properties and in situ adsorption performance over time cannot be ignored. In this study, the sorption of Cd²⁺ by corn straw biochars (CB) and m ...

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Author(s): Cai Z; Pellegrino G; Lina JM; Benali H; Grova C;

Investigating the relationship between task-related hemodynamic responses and cortical excitability is challenging because it requires simultaneous measurement of hemodynamic responses while applying noninvasive brain stimulation. Moreover, cortical excitability and task-related hemodynamic responses are both associated with inter-/intra-subject variabi ...

Article GUID: 36250709

Author(s): Samaei A; Deshmukh SS; Protheroe C; Nyéki S; Tremblay-Ethier RA; Kálmán L;

The influence of illumination history of native bacterial reaction centers (BRCs) on the ability of binding and photo-induced oxidation of manganous ions was investigated in the pH range between 8.0 and 9.4. Binding of manganous ions to a buried site required 6 to 11-fold longer incubation periods, depending on the pH, in dark-adapted BRCs than in BRCs ...

Article GUID: 36216075

Author(s): Abdar M; Salari S; Qahremani S; Lam HK; Karray F; Hussain S; Khosravi A; Acharya UR; Makarenkov V; Nahavandi S;

The COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic has become a major global threat to human health and well-being. Thus, the development of computer-aided detection (CAD) systems that are capable of accurately distinguishing COVID-19 from other diseases using chest computed tomography (CT) and X ...

Article GUID: 36217534

Author(s): Golden CK; Kazmirchuk TDD; McNally EK; El Eissawi M; Gokbayrak ZD; Richard JD; Brett CL;

Diverse physiology relies on receptor and transporter protein down-regulation and degradation mediated by ESCRTs. Loss-of-function mutations in human ESCRT genes linked to cancers and neurological disorders are thought to block this process. However, when homologous mutations are introduced into model organisms, cells thrive and degradation persists, su ...

Article GUID: 36215320

Author(s): Hansen JY; Markello RD; Tuominen L; Nørgaard M; Kuzmin E; Palomero-Gallagher N; Dagher A; Misic B;

Neurotransmitter receptors modulate signaling between neurons. Thus, neurotransmitter receptors and transporters play a key role in shaping brain function. Due to the lack of comprehensive neurotransmitter receptor/transporter density datasets, microarray gene expression measuring mRNA transcri ...

Article GUID: 36209794

Author(s): Gálvez Á; Peres-Neto PR; Castillo-Escrivà A; Bonilla F; Camacho A; García-Roger EM; Iepure S; Miralles-Lorenzo J; Monrós JS; Olmo C; Picazo A; Rojo C; Rueda J; Sahuquillo M; Sasa M; Segura M; Armengol X; Mesquita-Joanes F;

The metacommunity concept provides a theoretical framework that aims at explaining organism distributions by a combination of environmental filtering, dispersal, and drift. However, few works have attempted a multitaxon approach and even fewer have compared two distant biogeographical regions u ...

Article GUID: 36199222

Author(s): Wu G; Eastwood C; Zeng Y; Quan H; Long Q; Zhang Z; Ghali WA; Bakal J; Boussat B; Flemons W; Forster A; Southern DA; Knudsen S; Popowich B; Xu Y;

Background: Measurement of care quality and safety mainly relies on abstracted administrative data. However, it is well studied that administrative data-based adverse event (AE) detection methods are suboptimal due to lack of clinical information. Electronic medical records (EMR) have been wide ...

Article GUID: 36197944

Author(s): Zhu Y; Chen Z;

Source identification plays a vital role in implementing control measures for sudden river pollution incidents. In contrast to single-point source identification problems, there have been no investigations into inverse identification of multi-point emissions. In this study, an inverse model is developed based on the observed time series of pollutant con ...

Article GUID: 36191500

Author(s): Pou KRJ; Raghavan V; Packirisamy M;

The increasing trend in ensuring safe and quality foods necessitates the monitoring of food products throughout the food supply chain. Food packaging is an indispensable process as it provides various functions such as containment, protection, convenience, and communication. The development of innovative packaging systems is required to ensure foods are ...

Article GUID: 36192908

Author(s): Quilico E; Wilkinson S; Duncan L; Sweet S; Bédard E; Trudel E; Colantonio A; Swaine B;

Background: Research about using physical activity (PA) to improve health, quality of life, and participation after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is receiving growing attention. However, best-practices for maintaining PA participation after TBI have yet to be defined. In this context, a team of researchers and stakehol ...

Article GUID: 36188895

Author(s): Mehrabi M; Zamani B; Hamou-Lhadj A;

The development of IoT-based Android health monitoring mobile applications (apps) using traditional software development methods is a challenging task. Developers need to be familiar with various programming languages to manage the heterogeneity of hardware and software systems and to support different communication technologies. To address these proble ...

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