Red yeast rice-induced severe rhabdomyolysis complicated by acute kidney injury and respiratory failure: a case report.

Red yeast rice (RYR), a commonly used supplement with statin-like properties, is generally considered safe but may cause severe adverse effects such as rhabdomyolysis. We report a rare case of severe RYR-induced rhabdomyolysis complicated by acute kidney injury (AKI) and respiratory failure, with diaphragmatic dysfunction as a key contributing factor. A 78-year-old woman developed progressive proximal muscle weakness, dyspnea, and tea-colored urine after taking RYR (2 g/day) for 1 month.

Species- and sex-specific bioaccumulation, tissue-specific distribution, and maternal transfer of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in tiger frogs (Hoplobatrachus chinensis) and forest frogs (Rana chensinensis).

Amphibians are sensitive biomonitors of environmental pollutants. However, existing research on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) between different species of amphibians is limited. In the present study, water, soil, tiger frog (Hoplobatrachus chinensis) and forest frog (Rana chensinensis) samples were collected from Qingyuan County, South China.

ACNet: An Attention-Convolution Collaborative Semantic Segmentation Network on Sensor-Derived Datasets for Autonomous Driving.

In intelligent vehicular networks, the accuracy of semantic segmentation in road scenes is crucial for vehicle-mounted artificial intelligence to achieve environmental perception, decision support, and safety control. Although deep learning methods have made significant progress, two main challenges remain: first, the difficulty in balancing global and local features leads to blurred object boundaries and misclassification; second, conventional convolutions have limited ability to perceive irregular objects, causing information loss and affecting segmentation accuracy. To address these issues, this paper proposes a global-local collaborative attention module and a spider web convolution module.

Effects of hibernation on the bioaccumulation and tissue distribution of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in frogs (Rana tigrina cantor) via skin exposure.

We investigated the bioaccumulation, tissue distribution, maternal transfer and effects of hibernation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in frogs via skin exposure. Relationships between toxicokinetic parameters, such as assimilation efficiencies and depuration rate constants of PFASs, and carbon chain length were revealed, indicating a high bioaccumulation potential for PFASs with longer carbon chains. Eggs were the main site for the deposition of perfluoroalkyl sulfonic acids (PFSAs) and C9 - C16 perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs), whereas the carcass was the primary organ for C4 - C8 PFCAs.

Toward Open-World Domain Adaptation via Iteratively Contrastive Learning and Clustering.

The open-set domain adaptation (DA) aims to address both covariate shift and category shift between a labeled source domain and an unlabeled target domain. Nevertheless, existing open-set DA methods always ignore the demand for discovering novel classes that are not present in the source domain and simply reject them as "unknown" sets without further exploration, which motivates us to understand the unknown sets more specifically. In this article, we present a more challenging open-world DA problem that recognizes seen classes while discovering novel classes in the target domain.

Realizing High ZT in N-Type Diamondoid AgInSe Thermoelectrics via Lone-Pair Electrons and Isomorphous Alloy.

Recently, diamondoid compounds have attracted significant attention in thermoelectrics due to their unique transport properties, with ZT beyond 1.6 reported in several p-type systems. In contrast, n-type diamondoid compounds remain largely unexplored.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Smart Glasses in Reducing Patient Care Time in Emergency Departments: Cohort Study From the Hangzhou Asian Games.

Background: Challenges in emergency medicine include overcrowding, insufficient emergency care resources, and extended emergency department (ED) waiting times. These issues contribute to delays in treatment and unfavorable outcomes. This situation worsens in events with large crowds and particularly worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The influence of agricultural drought on carbon emissions across the four sub-regions of China.

Vegetation is crucial in carbon sequestration, as it stores soil carbon and biomass. However, agricultural droughts significantly reduce vegetation growth, directly impacting the amount of carbon sequestered through photosynthesis. This study investigates the effects of agricultural drought on carbon emissions across four sub-regions of China, Northwest China, North China, the Qinghai-Tibet region, and South China, from 2001 to 2020.

Soldering and Bonding in Contemporary Electronic Device Packaging.

Electronic packaging can transform the chip to a device for assembly. Soldering and bonding are important procedures in the process of electronic packaging. The continuous development of packaging architecture has driven the emergence of improved soldering and bonding processes.

Intrinsic Off-Centering and Light Conduction Band Structure Lead to High Thermoelectric Performance in N-Type Diamondoid AgInSe.

Historically, the rocksalt crystal structure and its variants have long dominated the field of advanced thermoelectrics. Developing new structural thermoelectric materials is an interesting topic for the thermoelectric community. In this work, an n-type diamondoid compound, AgInSe, was identified with extremely low thermal conductivity and very high carrier mobility.

Off-Center Distortions and Resonant Levels: A Pathway to Enhance Power Generation and Thermoelectric Cooling in PbSe Crystals.

The scarcity of tellurium (Te) poses significant challenges to the widespread application of BiTe-based thermoelectric systems. In this work, we investigated the potential of Te-free PbSe for thermoelectric applications by optimizing carrier mobility through crystal growth and a two-step strategy of light alloying and doping. First, Cd alloying was employed to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity () of n-type PbSe through the off-center effect while preserving carrier mobility.

Accumulation of lipophilic and proteinophilic halogenated organic pollutants (HOPs) in the different types of feathers of laying hens.

This study investigated the bioaccumulation of halogenated organic pollutants (HOPs) in three types of feathers from laying hens through exposure experiments. The HOPs included lipophilic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as proteinophilic perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs). Concentrations of PCBs, PBDEs, and short-chain PFCAs (≤8) were significantly higher in the body feathers than in the primary feathers, while long-chain PFCAs (>8) showed no significant differences among primary, tail, and body feathers.

Distribution of microplastics and phthalic acid esters during dry anaerobic digestion of food waste and potential microbial degradation analysis.

Food waste (FW) and its biogas residue were considered as sources of terrestrial microplastics (MPs) and phthalic acid esters (PAEs) contamination. However, there was a lack of research and understanding of the MPs and PAEs pollution problem in FW dry anaerobic digestion process (DADP). The MPs and PAEs in three stages of the DADP with the largest monomer disposal scale in China were identified.

Strong, bacteriostatic and transparent polylactic acid-based composites by incorporating quaternary ammonium cellulose nanocrystals.

Renewable natural fibers (e.g., cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs)) are being applied for reinforcing bio-based polylactic acid (PLA).

Residual plastic film decreases crop yield and water use efficiency through direct negative effects on soil physicochemical properties and root growth.

Film mulching has been extensively used to improve agricultural production in arid regions of China. However, without sufficient mulch film recovery, large amounts of residual film accumulated in the farmland, which would affect crop yield and water use efficiency (WUE). In order to comprehensively analyze the effects of residual film on crop yield and WUE, and clarify its influencing mechanism, present study adopted a meta-analysis to systematically evaluate the impacts of residual film on soil physicochemical properties, crop root growth, yield, and WUE.

Construction and application of a novel WGAN-CNN-based predicting approach for dust concentration at underground coal mine working faces.

To enhance the real-time monitoring and early-warning capabilities for dust disasters in underground coal mine, this paper presents a novel WGAN-CNN-based prediction approach to predict the dust concentration at underground coal mine working faces. Dust concentration, wind speed, temperature, and methane concentration were collected as the original data due to their nonlinear relationship. The consistency between the generated and original data distributions was verified through PCA dimensionality reduction analysis.

Tissue-Specific Distribution and Maternal Transfer of Persistent Organic Halogenated Pollutants in Frogs.

Persistent organic pollutants pose a great threat to amphibian populations, but information on the bioaccumulation of contaminants in amphibians remains scarce. To examine the tissue distribution and maternal transfer of organic halogenated pollutants (OHPs) in frogs, seven types of tissues from black-spotted frog (muscle, liver, kidney, stomach, intestine, heart, and egg) were collected from an e-waste-polluted area in South China. Among the seven frog tissues, median total OHP concentrations of 2.

A Millimeter-Wave Broadband Multi-Mode Substrate-Integrated Gap Waveguide Traveling-Wave Antenna with Orbit Angular Momentum.

Orbit angular momentum (OAM) has been considered a new dimension for improving channel capacity in recent years. In this paper, a millimeter-wave broadband multi-mode waveguide traveling-wave antenna with OAM is proposed by innovatively utilizing the transmitted electromagnetic waves (EMWs) characteristic of substrate-integrated gap waveguides (SIGWs) to introduce phase delay, resulting in coupling to the radiate units with a phase jump. Nine "L"-shaped slot radiate elements are cut in a circular order at a certain angle on the SIGW to generate spin angular momentum (SAM) and OAM.

Quaternary ammonium salts for water treatment with balanced rate of sterilization and degradation.

The growing number of infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria which arise from the overuse of antibiotics has severely affected the normal operation of human society. The high antibacterial activity of QAS makes it promising as an alternative to antibiotics, but it suffers from secondary pollution due to its non-degradation. Here we have synthesized a class of gemini quaternary ammonium salts (GQAS) with different carbon chain lengths containing ester groups by using facile methylation reaction.

A 60Mb/s -64dBm Body Channel Communication Transceiver Utilizing Manchester Code.

Body channel communication (BCC) which uses the human body as the communication channel has shown better energy efficiency and security compared with air channel communication. This article presents a simple, stable, and high transfer rate BCC technique using Manchester encoding, capacitive termination, and digital signal transfer operation. Manchester encoding is used to realize the spectrum migration of the baseband signal, and digital signal transmission simplifies system design and improves signal stability.

The Role of circRNA-miRNA-mRNA Regulatory Network and its Potential Biomarker Function in Colorectal Cancer.

Background: Revealing the process and mechanism of colorectal cancer will facilitate the discovery of new biomarkers and contribute to the development of targeted drugs.

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the potentially functional circRNA-miRNA-mRNA network in colorectal cancer (CRC), and further explore its mechanism.

Methods: Bioinformatics analysis was used to identify the differentially expressed circRNAs and mRNAs.

Dynamic characteristics of soil heavy metals and microbial communities under moss cover at different successional stages in a manganese mining area.

The mining and smelting of manganese ores and the accumulation of slag not only pollute the environment and increase the threat to biodiversity, but also adversely affect the health of human and other organisms. Therefore, it's important to study the restoration of manganese mining area. Since mosses play an irreplaceable role in the ecological restoration of mine sites, this study is carried out in a slag heap area that has been in continuous operation for about 50 years, and spatial variation is used instead of temporal variation to study the diversity of moss plants, the characteristics of soil heavy metal changes under moss cover, and the characteristics of bacterial communities in manganese mine sites at different time scales.

Preparation of a high-efficiency low-toxicity CdS/C bactericide and investigation of the mechanism.

Photocatalysis is considered as a promising technology to solve bacterial contamination, but the development of efficient photocatalysts with a strong generalizable light response remains a challenge. CdS has a suitable energy gap and good response to visible light, but the photogenerated carrier separation efficiency is low, and the photo-corrosion phenomenon leads to the significant release of Cd. In this paper, the CdS/C composite photocatalyst bactericide is synthesized a simple one-step hydrothermal method.