Synergistic enhancement effect of straw-earthworms in the reduction of sulfamethoxazole and antibiotic resistance genes.

Soil antibiotic pollution is a global concern. It has been confirmed that straw or earthworm can enhance microbial degradation of antibiotics in soil. However, in the C/N transformation processes of soil ecosystems, straw and earthworms are closely interconnected.

Dynamic Regulation for the Well-Distribution of Electrons and Zn Ions Achieving Uniform Zn Redox in Ah-Scale Pouch Cells.

Uneven distribution of the electric field and zinc ion (Zn), and crosstalk effects all lead to irreversible redox of Zn, eventually accelerating the failure of various Zn-metal energy storage devices, especially Ah-scale pouch batteries. This study pioneers a strategy to dynamically regulate electrons and Zn ions for uniform Zn redox, in which a series of additive molecules with varying electron delocalized spaces is designed to verify this dynamic regulation mechanism. Due to the large electron delocalized space, the additives with delocalized π-bonds and ‒COOH form a stable molecular layer for the Zn anode.

Selective conversion of CO to CH in pure water photocatalyzed by fluorobenzene-linked perylene diimide.

Photochemical CO conversion to valuable C products is desirable but challenging due to high C-C coupling barriers. This study constructs an acceptor-donor-acceptor type N, N'-bis(4-fluorophenyl) perylene-3,4,9,10-bis(dicarboximide)-supramolecular photocatalyst for efficiently and selectively photo-converting CO and water vapor into CH, achieving a high production rate of 124.84 μmol g h with 85% selectivity under continuous 50-hour illumination.

Conductive, flexible, and adhesive lignin-polyacrylic acid hydrogel crosslinked with aluminum ions for supercapacitors.

Hydrogel electrolytes have gained considerable attention as key components in flexible supercapacitors for electronic devices. However, traditional hydrogels face challenges due to inadequate mechanical properties and low energy density in supercapacitor applications. In this study, a highly conductive and flexible hydrogel (PAA-LS-Al) composed of polyacrylic acid (PAA), lignosulfonate (LS), and Al was fabricated.

Comparison of image quality of 40 keV virtual monoenergetic images of vertebral arteries using DLIR and ASIR-V algorithms under a dual-low scanning protocol.

Objective: This study aims to compare the image quality of 40 keV Virtual Monoenergetic Images (VMI) of the vertebral artery (VA) reconstructed using two algorithms, Deep Learning Image Reconstruction (DLIR) and Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction (ASIR-V), under a dual-low scanning protocol, which simultaneously reduces both the radiation dose and the contrast agent dose during the CT scanning process.

Methods: A total of 88 patients were randomly assigned to an experimental group (n = 44) and a control group (n = 44). Both groups underwent dual-energy carotid CT angiography (DE-CTA) with a contrast agent dose of 0.

The impact of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy on nutritional status and survival in cervical esophageal cancer patients undergoing chemoradiotherapy.

Objective: This retrospective study aimed to study the effects of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) on nutritional status and overall survival (OS) of cervical esophageal cancer (CEC) patients who received concurrent chemoradiotherapy.

Methods: Thirty-four CEC patients who underwent concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) were retrospectively reviewed. A series of nutritional indicators: controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score, weight, body mass index, albumin, lymphocyte counts, hemoglobin (HGB) was introduced to evaluate the nutritional status between patients with or without PEG.

Access to 4-methylene-phospholenes through BF·EtO catalyzed isomerization of 3,4-dimethylphosphole sulfides.

We have developed a practical synthetic approach to 4-methylene-phospholene derivatives through BF·EtO-catalyzed isomerization of 3,4-dimethylphosphole sulfides. The reaction simultaneously establishes a P-stereocenter while performing skeletal rearrangement. The transformation is enabled by the weak antiaromatic character of the phosphole sulfides, which facilitates the thermodynamically favoured migration of an endocyclic double bond to the exocyclic terminal position.

Neurological outcomes and predictive factors in traumatic spinal cord injury patients in the intensive care unit.

Background: This study aims to analyze the demographic characteristics, clinical features, and neurological outcomes of patients with traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), in order to provide scientific evidence for the prevention and management of TSCI.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on data from TSCI patients admitted to the ICU between January 2018 and December 2022. Demographic information, neurological injury characteristics, complications during hospitalization, treatment interventions, and prognosis were comprehensively collected.

Tailoring of Crystal Phase Distinct CuS Templates for Polymorphic Synthesis of Binary Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles.

Cation exchange (CE) reaction utilizing the CuS nanoparticles (NPs) as the template is an attractive approach to address the limitations in the current polymorphic synthesis of metal sulfide NPs. As such, preformation of the CuS NPs with the hexagonal phase and cubic phase is highly desired. Here, we report a facile crystal phase tailoring of CuS NPs by tuning the amount of the sulfur precursor thiourea.

High-Entropy Regulation of Lattice Oxygen p-Band toward Sustainable Electrocatalytic Biomass Valorization.

Electrocatalytic 5-hydroxymethylfurfural oxidation reaction (HMFOR) presents a promising approach for converting biomass derivatives into high-value chemicals but is challenging due to poor stability and low Faradaic efficiency. Herein, we present a high-entropy NiCoFeMnAl layer double hydroxide (NiCoFeMnAl-LDH) for HMFOR via a hydrothermal method. At a potential of 1.

An adhesive, antibacterial, conductive zwitterionic cellulose nanofibers-containing hydrogel for flexible strain sensors and super-capacitors.

Cellulose-based hydrogels are promising materials for constructing flexible supercapacitors and energy storage devices due to their environmental sustainability and resource renewability. However, preparing cellulose-based hydrogel electrolytes with super flexibility, high conductivity, and high specific capacitance for practical applications is still challenging. Herein, an adhesive, antibacterial, conductive zwitterionic cellulose nanofibers-reinforced poly(sulfobetaine methacrylate-acrylic acid-acrylamide (ZCNF/PSAA) composite hydrogel was fabricated by a blue light-triggered free radical polymerization of 2-methacryloyloxy ethyl dimethyl-3-sulfopropyl ammonium hydroxide (SBMA), acrylic acid (AA), acryl amide (AM), dopamine methacrylamide (DMA) and zwitterionic cellulose nanofibers (ZCNF).

Progressive fine-to-coarse reconstruction for accurate low-bit post-training quantization in vision transformers.

Due to its efficiency, Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) has been widely adopted for compressing Vision Transformers (ViTs). However, when quantized into low-bit representations, there is often a significant performance drop compared to their full-precision counterparts. To address this issue, reconstruction methods have been incorporated into the PTQ framework to improve performance in low-bit quantization settings.

A Chitosan-Containing Dual-Crosslinked Resilient Patch for Tissue Adhesive and Sealant.

Adhesive patches are optimum candidates for distinct biomedical applications, including tissue adhesion and leakage sealing in outpatient or surgical procedures. Unfortunately, most adhesive patches are significantly less effective at providing strong adhesion to the surface of wet tissue, which increases the risk and reduces the fault tolerance in surgery. Meanwhile, customization is difficult to achieve in terms of mechanical adaptability.

Therapeutic Hypothermia Increases the Expression of RNA-binding Protein Motif 3 and Attenuates Cognitive Deficits Following Cardiac Arrest in Rats.

Cardiac arrest (CA) remains a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Cognitive deficits are common neurological sequelae among CA survivors. Preclinical and clinical studies have confirmed that therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is an effective intervention for mitigating brain injury following CA.

MIT-SAM: Medical Image-Text SAM With Mutually Enhanced Heterogeneous Features Fusion for Medical Image Segmentation.

In recent times, leveraging lesion text as supplementary data to enhance the performance of medical image segmentation models has garnered attention. Previous approaches only used attention mechanisms to integrate image and text features, while not effectively utilizing the highly condensed textual semantic information in improving the fused features, resulting in inaccurate lesion segmentation. This paper introduces a novel approach, the Medical Image-Text Segment Anything Model (MIT-SAM), for text-assisted medical image segmentation.

A review on cellulose-based derivatives and composites for sustainable rechargeable batteries.

Batteries have become an integral part of today's life and are presented as the most appropriate approach for energy storage; however, the environmental impacts of their vast usage need to be considered. Therefore, it is essential to incorporate eco-friendly materials to design batteries. Cellulose, the most abundant natural polymer, comprises excellent physical, mechanical, and chemical properties.

3D-Printed Flexible and Integrable Asymmetric Microsupercapacitors with High-Areal-Energy-Density.

3D-Printed quasi-solid-state microsupercapacitors (MSCs) present immense potential as next-generation miniature energy storage devices, offering superior power density, excellent flexibility, and feasible on-chip integration. However, the challenges posed by formulating 3D printing inks with high-performance and ensuring efficient ionic transport in thick electrodes hinder the development of advanced MSCs with high areal energy density. Herein, we report 3D-printed ultrahigh-energy-density asymmetric MSCs with latticed electrodes, fabricated using Ni-Co-S/Co(OH)/carbon nanotubes/reduced graphene oxide (Ni-Co-S/Co(OH)/CNTs/rGO) positive electrode ink and activated carbon (AC)/CNTs negative electrode ink.

Flexible cellulose-based hybrid nanogenerators for self-powered wearable bio-monitoring applications.

Flexible hybrid nanogenerators (HNGs) have received significant attention for their potential in harvesting mechanical energy to power portable and miniaturized portable devices. This work presents a method to fabricate flexible, durable and biodegradable electrospun polydopamine@barium titanate/cellulose acetate (PDA@BTO/CA) nanofiber films. This design integrates polydopamine (PDA) and piezoelectric barium titanate (BTO) nanoparticles within a flexible cellulose acetate (CA) matrix to enable self-powered wearable biomonitoring.

The return of stagnant slab recorded by intraplate volcanism.

Subducted plates often stagnate in the mantle transition zone (MTZ), and the fate of the stagnant slabs is still debatable. They may sink into the lower mantle, or remain partially trapped in the MTZ, but it is uncertain whether they can return to the upper mantle. We report geochemical evidence of late-Miocene (~6 Ma) basalts from, and upper mantle seismic evidence beneath Shuangyashan, an area above the slab tear of the stagnant Pacific plate in eastern Asia, to show how the slab returns to the upper mantle from the MTZ.

A deep learning approach for predicting the antenna pointing error caused by transmission faults with simulation data.

Reflector antenna has been widely used in deep space exploration, radar warning, and other fields, all of which requires high pointing accuracy. The antenna elevation bearings are the key component that guarantees its pointing accuracy, while any degradation or fault can seriously affect the antenna's performance, leading to deviations in antenna pointing and instability during operation. However, the relationship between the antenna elevation bearing fault and its pointing accuracy remains unclear because there is insufficient experimental faulty transmission data and pointing error collected from the test-rig simultaneously.

Automated ultrasonographic pupillary assessment: a new neuro-ophthalmological assessment tool.

Objective: To evaluate correlations between ultrasonographic pupillary assessment (UPA) and automated UPA in neurocritical patients.

Methods: This was a prospective, observational study of 20 adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit with neurological pathology. Between UPA and automated UPA, 40 pupillary measurements were made.

Steps to developing a DXA-based risk score for cardiovascular outcomes among older adults: the health, aging, and body composition study.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major chronic disease worldwide and its risk factors have long been investigating in epidemiological studies. Our study aims to develop a body composition-based risk score and integrate it into the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) to improve CVD prediction among well-functioning older adults. We included 1882 older adults from the Health, Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) study to screen body composition variables obtained from the Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA).

Analysis of a case report of meningitis caused by .

Background: is a Gram-positive bacterium transmitted to humans through contaminated food, water, and animal faeces, posing a public health risk. is difficult to isolate and is not sensitive to first-line treatment with broad-spectrum cephalosporins for bacterial meningitis. Listeria meningitis is rare but can progress rapidly and may be accompanied by serious complications (hydrocephalus, ventricular inflammation, cerebral palsy, and brain abscess) and a high mortality rate.

Superfast, large-scale harvesting of cellulose molecules via ethanol pre-swelling engineering of natural fibers.

Cellulose molecules, as the basic unit of biomass cellulose, have demonstrated advancements in versatile engineering and modification of cellulose toward sustainable and promising materials in our low-carbon society. However, harvesting high-quality cellulose molecules from natural cellulosic fibers (CF) remains challenging due to strong hydrogen bonds and unique crystalline structure, which limit solvents (such as ionic liquid, IL) transport and diffusion within CF, making the process energy/time-intensively. Herein, we superfast and sustainably engineer biomass fibers into high-performance cellulose molecules via ethanol pre-swelling of CF followed by IL treatment in the microwave (MW) system.