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... Assisted reproductive techniques (ART) are widely used in domestic species, with increasing applications in wildlife conservation. However, the currently available techniques for semen preparations are not fully reliable or applicable in all species to ensure successful ART outcomes. Recent developments in nanotechnology offer new horizons for further optimization of sperm preparations. The use of ...
Bacillariophyceae; carbonates; climate; drying; flora; fossils; habitats; lakes; landscapes; magnetism; mixing; solar radiation; stratigraphy; woodlands; Andes region; Pacific Ocean; Peru
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... We present a 12,6700-yr limnological history of Lake Miski, a high-elevation lake in a wet section of the Peruvian Andes. While many shallow Andean lakes dried up during the mid-Holocene, loss-on-ignition, magnetic susceptibility, and diatom analysis showed that Lake Miski was a constant feature in the landscape. Overall, fluctuations in the fossil diatom communities of Lake Miski tracked changes ...
... Safety and efficacy testing is a crucial part of the drug development process, and several different methods are used to obtain the necessary data (e.g. in vitro testing, animal trials and clinical trials). Our group has been investigating the potential of modelling and simulation as an alternative approach to some of the methods used for testing drugs for cardiac effects. To achieve our goal of d ...
... Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) are frequently found in the environment and could be adversely affecting organisms. In fact, nine OPFRs have been shown to cause endocrine disruptions, but information on the metabolism-perturbing properties of these OPFRs remains unclear. In this study, the ¹H-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based metabolomic method was applied to evaluate the metabolic d ...
... Tuberculosis meningitis (TBM) is the most severe form of tuberculosis, and currently lacks efficient diagnostic approaches. Metabolomics has the potential to differentiate patients with TBM from those with other forms of meningitis and meningitis-negative individuals. However, no systemic metabolomics research has compared the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of these patients.¹H nuclear magnetic resonan ...
... The 3D CoNi alloy particles embedded N-doped porous carbon (CoNi@PRM-NC) foam with open reticular structures and high-performance microwave absorption are prepared by the novel sponge-templated strategy that uses melamine foam as a sacrificial scaffold and supporting template, phenolic resol as a carbon precursor and cobalt nickel nitrate as a magnetic particle precursor. It is worth noting that t ...
... The use of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) for wastewater treatment fits in a circular economy context, as they can produce electricity by the removal of organic matter in the wastewater. Activated carbon (AC) granules are an attractive electrode material for bioanodes in MFCs, as they are cheap and provide electroactive bacteria with a large surface area for attachment. The characterization of biofil ...
biosafety; magnetic materials; magnetism; models; orthodontics; titanium
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... With the introduction of rare earth magnets like neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB), it has become possible to produce small magnets with high forces, necessary for its usage in the field of dentistry, such as for orthodontic tooth movement. The ultimate goal of this project is to establish magnetic force-driven orthodontic treatment as a future treatment modality for comprehensive orthodontic treatment ...
... The structures and properties of one-dimensional (1D) sandwich molecular wires constructed with altering 3d transition metal (TM) and the metallofullerene (TM@C₆₀) entities, [TM&(TM@C₆₀)]∞, are studied using density functional theory calculations. Different from the bonding character insensitivity to TM of previously reported 1D [TMBz]∞ and [TMCp]∞ analogues, the bonding characters of the investig ...
cations; cobalt; ferrimagnetic materials; fluorides; magnetic properties; magnetism; manganese; metal ions; neutron diffraction; nickel; phase transition; temperature; uranium; zinc
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... Uranium(IV) 5f² magnetism is dominated by a transition from a triplet to a singlet ground state at low temperatures. For the first time, we achieved magnetic ordering of U(IV) atoms in a complex fluoride through the incorporation of 3d transition metal cations. This new route allowed us to obtain an unprecedented series of U(IV) ferrimagnetic materials of the new composition Cs₂MU₃F₁₆ (M = Mn²⁺, C ...
Gambierdiscus; chemical reactions; islands; magnetism; mass spectrometry; moieties; organic compounds
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... A new analogue of gambierone, 44-methylgambierone, was isolated from the benthic dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus australes collected from Raoul Island (Rangitahua/Kermadec Islands). This molecule has been previously reported as maitotoxin-3. The structure of 44-methylgambierone was elucidated using 1D- and 2D-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques. The nine-ring poly ...
... Preclinical cardiovascular research is the foundation of our understanding and broad knowledge of heart function and cardiovascular disease. Reliable cardiac imaging modalities are the basis for applicable results. Four-dimensional cardiac magnetic resonance (4D CMR) has been set as the gold standard for in-vivo assessment of ventricular function in rodents. However, technical improvements in echo ...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction; adsorbents; adsorption; apples; detection limit; iron oxides; lead; light scattering; magnetism; metal ions; milk; nanoparticles; rice; solid phase extraction; tap water; transmission electron microscopy; zeta potential
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... A novel magnetic adsorbent has been designed and fabricated for the adsorption and determination of lead metal ions (Pb²⁺) based on a self-assembly approach between 4′-aminobenzo-18-crown-6 (AB18C6) and Fe₃O₄–CHO via dehydration condensation. 4′-Aminobenzo-18-crown-6 modified Fe₃O₄ (Fe₃O₄@AB18C6) was characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), Fourier t ...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction; chitosan; colon; drug delivery systems; drug therapy; fluorouracil; hydrogels; magnetism; nanocomposites; neoplasms; scanning electron microscopy; thermogravimetry
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... In most cancer treatments, chemotherapy is currently necessary; hence, more attention was devoted to developing new methods for designing drug delivery systems (DDS) with controlled drug release. For this aim, anticancer 5‑fluorouracil (5-FU) drug was loaded into chitosan/polyacrylic acid/Fe3O4 magnetic nanocomposite hydrogel (CS/PAA/Fe3O4) through immersing in the drug solution. The prepared CS/P ...
... Establishing an accurate, simple, and rapid serodiagnosis method aiming for specific cancer antigens is critically important for the clinical diagnosis, therapy, and prognostication of cancer. Currently, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) readout techniques challenge fluorescent-based detection methods in terms of both optical stability and more importantly multiple detection capability, whi ...
accelerometers; algorithms; cameras; databases; humans; magnetism; mobile telephones; remote sensing; signal strength; surveys
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... One of the unavoidable bottlenecks in the public application of passive signal (e.g., received signal strength, magnetic) fingerprinting-based indoor localization technologies is the extensive human effort that is required to construct and update database for indoor positioning. In this paper, we propose an accurate visual-inertial integrated geo-tagging method that can be used to collect fingerpr ...
... Newly developed combination of magnetic cobalt particles based dispersive solid-phase microextraction (Co-MP-DSPME) and slotted quartz tube attached flame atomic absorption spectrometry (SQT-FAAS) was utilized to determine lead at trace levels in tea samples. Co-MPs’ adsorbent properties were tested and validated for their selectiveness to lead. Only with a few and short extraction steps (i.e. add ...
body temperature; hysteresis; magnetic materials; magnetism; monitoring; polymers
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... Herein, a novel temperature sensor is proposed employing a planar Hall resistance (PHR) magnetic sensor, a magnet sheet, and an expanding polymer. It features a tunable temperature range, high linear sensitivity, accuracy, and cycling stability through 1000 cycles, and no thermal hysteresis. This new sensor is promising as a body temperature sensor. ...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; absorption; adsorbents; adsorption; aqueous solutions; cadmium; carbon; chromium; copper; desorption; heavy metals; iron; kinetics; lead; magnetism; manganese; mercury; metal ions; microparticles; pH; scanning electron microscopy; transmission electron microscopy; zinc
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... Herein, Acac-C@Fe₃O₄, a magnetic carbon (C@Fe₃O₄) modified with acetylacetone (Acac), was first prepared and used as a solid-phase adsorbent for adsorbing some heavy metal ions from aqueous solution. The adsorbent was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelect ...
bacteria; bacterial communities; betaine; bioprocessing; denitrification; engineering; growth factors; heme; long term effects; magnetism; methane; nitrites; nitrogen; nucleobases; oxidation; total nitrogen; wastewater treatment
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... Nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation (N-DAMO) is a newly discovered bioprocess which uses methane as electron donor to reduce nitrite into dinitrogen. It is a promising clean bioprocess for denitrification in wastewater treatment. However, the low reaction rate and slow growth rate of N-DAMO bacteria within NC10 phylum limit the application of the process. In this study, we chose vitamin, ...