Solar-Driven Interfacial Evaporation: Material Types, Structural Strategies, and Emerging Applications.

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) is an emerging eco-friendly and low-carbon technology and has been widely studied in the field of photothermal applications in recent years. With the attention and development of SDIE in innovation fields, new strategies, structures, and typical materials are gradually being developed and applied. Therefore, it is important to report on these latest developments.

Association between living alone and frailty, and its gender disparity: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Chinese older adults undergoing hospitalisation.

Background: The association between living alone and frailty has not been systematically investigated in previous studies, among which inconsistent results were yielded. This study aimed to understand the association and its gender disparity in Chinese older adults undergoing hospitalisation.

Methods: This multicenter cross-sectional study included 1037 older adults aged 65 years or older.

Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Versatile Solar Energy Conversion Applications.

Solar thermal conversion technology, as an emerging solar energy harvesting strategy, has attracted much attention in many application areas. In this field, plasmonic materials have a strong application potential owing to their localized surface plasmon resonance. The use of plasmonic materials with extensive solar energy absorption, combined with their practical applications, provides new routes for realizing efficient photothermal conversion in multidisciplinary applications.

Chinese Expert Consensus on Standardized Outpatient Management of Sarcopenia in the Elderly (2024).

Sarcopenia is an age-related disorder that influences the daily living ability of older adults and interacts with various chronic diseases. Older adults with sarcopenia typically experience a deterioration in their quality of life and healthy lifespan. The number of Chinese persons with sarcopenia is considerable, and the burden of sarcopenia is substantial; however, the specific sarcopenia clinics available for outpatients are insufficient.

Li Quasi-Grotthuss Topochemistry Transport Enables Direct Regeneration of Spent Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes.

Direct regeneration of spent lithium-ion batteries offers economic benefits and a reduced CO footprint. Surface prelithiation, particularly through the molten salt method, is critical in enhancing spent cathode repair during high-temperature annealing. However, the sluggish Li transport kinetics, which predominantly relies on thermally driven processes in the traditional molten salt methods, limit the prelithiation efficiency and regeneration of spent cathodes.

Frailty as a breakthrough point for multimorbidity management among older adults: challenges and opportunities in China.

argue that tailored strategies are needed to seamlessly integrate frailty assessment into multimorbidity management, thereby promoting a shift towards a health oriented management approach

Microalgae-derived hydrogels/membranes for phosphorus removal and recovery from aquaculture tailwater: Waste utilization and phosphorus recycling.

Efficient removal and recovery of phosphorus from aquaculture tailwater is challenging due to increasing strict water environment restrictions. This study presents a sustainable approach by using microalgae-waste-derived hydrogels/membranes for phosphorus adsorption and microalgae cultivation. Waste from Euglena gracilis (or Haematococcus pluvialis), modified with magnesium, was converted into biochars (abbreviated as MEBC or MHBC).

Inherently Interpretable Physics-Informed Neural Network for Battery Modeling and Prognosis.

Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in modern society. Accurate modeling and prognosis are fundamental to achieving reliable operation of lithium-ion batteries. Accurately predicting the end-of-discharge (EOD) is critical for operations and decision-making when they are deployed to critical missions.

Prevalence of Frailty Among Chinese Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

To systematically review the epidemiology of frailty in China, one of the world's most populous countries, and to provide insightful guidance for countries to deal with fast population ageing. Six electronic databases were searched until November 2022. Data from cross-sectional studies with a clear definition of frailty and a mean age ≥60 years were pooled using meta-analysis.

Exercise prehabilitation for patients with end-stage liver disease: a best practice implementation project.

Objectives: This study aimed to promote exercise prehabilitation in patients with end-stage liver disease during their waiting period for liver transplantation.

Introduction: End-stage liver disease indirectly contributes to the development of sarcopenia and affects survival after liver transplantation because of low physiological reserves and insufficient aerobic capacity while awaiting transplantation. Exercise prehabilitation could reduce postoperative complications and promote postoperative recovery.

Combined effect of diabetes and frailty on mortality among Chinese older adults: A follow-up study.

Background: Frailty and diabetes are two important health problems associated with aging in older individuals. This paper seeks to analyze the frailty in older adults suffering from diabetes and the combined effect of diabetes and frailty on mortality risk.

Methods: The frailty index (FI) model was employed when evaluating frailty among the older adults based on the baseline data conducted in 2009; and death as outcome variables collected in 2020 were analyzed.

Adaptive-back-stepping-based controller design for double-pendulum rotary cranes.

The operating process of rotary crane is often very complicated and there are many unpredictable conditions, such as the condition of the load sway around the hook, which will undoubtedly make the sway characteristics analysis of the system and the controller design become more difficult. In addition, for the purpose of decreasing the complexity of controller design, traditional control methods often perform model linearization processing operation, which can reduce the robustness of the system to a certain extent (when the parameters of the crane are unknown or there are external disturbances, the control capability of traditional control methods will be largely degraded). Based on the above, this paper first uses kinematic analysis to derive rotary crane model, and then proposes a nonlinear controller based on adaptive back-stepping method to achieve pendulum elimination and boom positioning.

Specific lysophosphatidylcholine and acylcarnitine related to sarcopenia and its components in older men.

Background: Metabolic profiling may provide insights into the pathogenesis and identification of sarcopenia; however, data on the metabolic basis of sarcopenia and muscle-related parameters among older adults remain incompletely understood. This study aimed to identify the associations of metabolites with sarcopenia and its components, and to explore metabolic perturbations in older men, who have a higher prevalence of sarcopenia than women.

Methods: We simultaneously measured the concentrations of amino acids, carnitine, acylcarnitines, and lysophosphatidylcholines (LPCs) in serum samples from a cross-sectional study of 246 Chinese older men, using targeted metabolomics.

Specific Metabolites Involved in Antioxidation and Mitochondrial Function Are Correlated With Frailty in Elderly Men.

Background: As an age-related syndrome, frailty may play a central role in poor health among older adults. Sarcopenia overlaps with the physical domain of frailty, and most existing studies have analyzed the associated factors of frailty and sarcopenia as an isolated state. Perturbations in metabolism may play an important role in the presence of frailty or sarcopenia; however, the metabolites associated with frailty, especially overlapping with sarcopenia remain unclear.

Clinical features and risk factors of severely and critically ill patients with COVID-19.

Background: As of June 1, 2020, over 370000 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths have been reported to the World Health Organization. However, the risk factors for patients with moderate-to-severe or severe-to-critical COVID-19 remain unclear.

Aim: To explore the characteristics and predictive markers of severely and critically ill patients with COVID-19.

Nomogram to Predict the Number of Thrombectomy Device Passes for Acute Ischemic Stroke with Endovascular Thrombectomy.

Purpose: This study aimed to determine the risk factors associated with the number of thrombectomy device passes and establish a nomogram for predicting the number of device pass attempts in patients with successful endovascular thrombectomy (EVT).

Methods: We enrolled patients from a signal comprehensive stroke center (CSC) who underwent EVT because of large vessel occlusion stroke. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to develop the best-fit nomogram for predicting the number of thrombectomy device passes.

Frailty Status Among the Elderly of Different Genders and the Death Risk: A Follow-Up Study.

Frailty in the elderly population is currently a frontier and focus in the field of health and aging. The goal of this study was to explore the frailty status among the elderly of different genders and its influence on the risk of death during 11 years. Frailty index (FI) was used to evaluate the frailty status in the elderly based on the baseline data conducted in 2009; and death as outcome variables collected in 2020 were analyzed.

The Membrane Interaction of Alpha-Synuclein.

A presynaptic protein closely related to Parkinson's disease (PD), α-synuclein (α-Syn), has been studied extensively regarding its pathogenic mechanisms. As a physiological protein in presynapses, however, α-Syn's physiological function remains unclear. Its location in nerve terminals and effects on membrane fusion also imply its functional role in synaptic transmission, including its possible interaction with high-curvature membranes its N-terminus and amorphous C-terminus.

Recommendations for the prevention and treatment of the novel coronavirus pneumonia in the elderly in China.

The population is commonly susceptible to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), especially the elderly with comorbidities. Elderly patients infected with 2019-nCoV tend to have higher rates of severe illness and mortality. Immunosenescence is an important cause of severe novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) in the elderly.

Synergistic modification of bentonite by acid activation and hydroxyl iron pillaring for enhanced dye adsorption capacity.

Despite the fact of natural abundance, low cost and environmental friendliness, the far-from-sufficient adsorption capacity of natural bentonite (BT) has limited such a promising application to remove dye pollutants. In this paper, we proposed a facile modification strategy to enhance adsorption performance of bentonite utilizing synergistic acid activation and hydroxyl iron pillaring, by which the adsorbent (abbreviated as S-Fe-BT) exhibited the highest adsorption capacity (246.06 mg/g) and a high rapid adsorption rate for a typical organic dye, Rhodamine B (RhB).

Successful treatment with pazopanib plus PD-1 inhibitor and RAK cells for advanced primary hepatic angiosarcoma: a case report.

Background: Primary hepatic angiosarcoma (PHA) is a rare and aggressive solid tumor, with high rates of local recurrence and distant metastasis, and poor prognosis. There are no established treatment guidelines for PHA.

Case Presentation: A 78-year-old asymptomatic man with PHA that was successfully treated with pazopanib plus PD-1 inhibitor and RetroNectin-activated killer cells (RAK cells).