Development and Application of Colloidal Gold Test Strips for the Rapid Detection of Canine Brucellosis.

Brucellosis is a global problem, with the causative agent being the genus . can cause undulant fever in dogs, which is a zoonotic disease that can spread not only among dogs but also to humans. This poses a public health threat to society.

Gradient-based autonomous obstacle avoidance trajectory planning for B-spline UAVs.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become the focus of current research because of their practicability in various scenarios. However, current local path planning methods often result in trajectories with numerous sharp or inflection points, which are not ideal for smooth UAV flight. This paper introduces a UAV path planning approach based on distance gradients.

Antimicrobial Peptides Targeting Streptococcus mutans: Current Research on Design, Screening and Efficacy.

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are small-molecule peptides that play a vital role in the nonspecific immune defense system of organisms. They mainly kill microorganisms by physically destroying the cell membrane and causing the leakage of contents. AMPs have attracted much attention as potential alternatives to antibiotics due to their low susceptibility to resistance.

Ash problems and prevention measures in power plants burning high alkali fuel: Brief review and future perspectives.

Large-scale utilization of high-alkali fuels is considered an effective solution for alleviating energy shortages and reducing CO emissions. However, combustion of high-alkali fuels in boilers releases alkali metals into the flue gas, which leads to severe ash deposition and corrosion on the heating surface. Consequently, research into the efficient use of highly alkaline fuels has been conducted in recent years.

Deep-Learning-Based Automatic Detection of Photovoltaic Cell Defects in Electroluminescence Images.

Photovoltaic (PV) cell defect detection has become a prominent problem in the development of the PV industry; however, the entire industry lacks effective technical means. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning-based defect detection method for photovoltaic cells, which addresses two technical challenges: (1) to propose a method for data enhancement and category weight assignment, which effectively mitigates the impact of the problem of scant data and data imbalance on model performance; (2) to propose a feature fusion method based on ResNet152-Xception. A coordinate attention (CA) mechanism is incorporated into the feature map to enhance the feature extraction capability of the existing model.

GaO-Based Solar-Blind Position-Sensitive Detector for Noncontact Measurement and Optoelectronic Demodulation.

As a kind of photodetector, position-sensitive-detectors (PSDs) have been widely used in noncontact photoelectric positioning and measurement. However, fabrications and applications of solar-blind PSDs remain yet to be harnessed. Herein, we demonstrate a solar-blind PSD developed from a graphene/GaO Schottky junction with a 25-nanometer-thick GaO film, in which the absorption of the nanometer-thick GaO is enhanced by multibeam interference.

GaO based multilevel solar-blind photomemory array with logic, arithmetic, and image storage functions.

Photomemories offer great opportunities for multifunctional integration of optical sensing, data storage, and processing into one single device. However, little attention has been paid to photomemories working in the solar-blind region so far, which may have unique advantages of insusceptibility to ambient light and higher capacity. Herein, we propose and demonstrate a GaO based solar-blind photomemory array with logic, arithmetic, and optoelectronic memory functions.

Reviews and advances in diagnostic research on Schistosoma japonicum.

Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic parasitic disease caused by blood flukes (trematode worms) of the genus Schistosoma. Schistosoma japonicum (S. japonicum) infection has decreased significantly in prevalence and intensity of infection in China.

Evaluation of a real-time PCR assay for diagnosis of schistosomiasis japonica in the domestic goat.

Background: Schistosomiasis japonica is an infectious disease caused by Schistosoma japonicum that seriously endangers human health. Domestic animals have important roles in disease transmission and goats are considered a primary reservoir host and source of infection. The prevalence and intensity of schistosomiasis infections have significantly decreased in China, and a more sensitive, specific detection method is urgently needed.

Acceleration of Hg Adsorption onto Natural Sphalerite by Cu Activation during Flotation: Mechanism and Applications in Hg Recovery.

The rate of gaseous Hg adsorption onto natural sphalerite increased by approximately 1.9-7.7 times after Cu activation during flotation of the natural sphalerite to remove impurities.

Significant Enhancement of Gaseous Elemental Mercury Recovery from Coal-Fired Flue Gas by Phosphomolybdic Acid Grafting on Sulfurated γ-FeO: Performance and Mechanism.

The existing technologies to control Hg emissions from coal-fired power plants can be improved to achieve the centralized control of Hg emissions, which continue to pose a risk of Hg exposure to human populations. In this work, MoS@γ-FeO, formed by the sulfuration of phosphomolybdic acid (HPMo)-grafted γ-FeO, was developed as a magnetic and regenerable sorbent to recover gaseous Hg from coal-fired flue gas as a cobenefit to the use of wet electrostatic precipitators. The thermal stability of γ-FeO was notably enhanced by HPMo grafting; thus, the magnetization of MoS@γ-FeO hardly decreased during the application.

Remarkable improvement of Ti incorporation on Hg capture from smelting flue gas by sulfurated γ-FeO: Performance and mechanism.

Except for the dangerous Boliden-Norzink technology, recovering gaseous Hg as liquid Hg using recyclable sorbents was an achievable method to control Hg emissions from smelting flue gas. In this study, Ti was incorporated into sulfurated γ-FeO to improve its performance for capturing Hg from smelting flue gas, and the mechanism of Ti incorporation on Hg adsorption onto sulfurated γ-FeO was investigated by comparing the kinetic parameters. The kinetic analysis showed that the Hg adsorption rate primarily depended on the amounts of surface adsorption sites for the physical adsorption of Hg and surface S for Hg oxidation.

Functions of pancreatic stellate cell-derived soluble factors in the microenvironment of pancreatic ductal carcinoma.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal forms of cancer with poor prognosis because it is highly resistant to traditional chemotherapy and radiotherapy and it has a low rate of surgical resection eligibility. Pancreatic stellate cells (PSC) have become a research hotspot in recent years, and play a vital role in PDAC microenvironment by secreting soluble factors such as transforming growth factor β, interleukin-6, stromal cell-derived factor-1, hepatocyte growth factor and galectin-1. These PSC-derived cytokines and proteins contribute to PSC activation, participating in PDAC cell proliferation, migration, fibrosis, angiogenesis, immunosuppression, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and chemoradiation resistance, leading to malignant outcome.

Transgenic sperm produced by electrotransfection and allogeneic transplantation of chicken fetal spermatogonial stem cells.

To study self-renewal, genetic modification, and differentiation of avian spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs), we isolated chicken SSCs from fetal testes on the 16th hatching day via enzyme digestion, and then cultured the SSCs over 2 months after purification in vitro. SSCs were identified by alkaline phosphatase staining and SSEA-1 fluorescence. The EGFP gene was transfected into SSCs by three different methods: electroporation, liposome transfer and calcium acid phosphate precipitation.