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Anadenanthera colubrina; National Center for Biotechnology Information; antioxidants; antiviral properties; bark; databases; environmental impact; ethnobotany; flavonoids; herbal medicines; indigenous species; insecticides; mechanism of action; therapeutics; toxicity; toxicology; traditional medicine; trees; triterpenoids; South America
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... Anadenanthera colubrina (Vell.) Brenan is an endemic tree to South America and different parts of it are used by the population for the treatment of various diseases, as well as in indigenous rituals. This species has high pharmacological potential but may present toxic potential due to the presence of psychotropic compounds. To review published studies with the species A. colubrina regarding ethn ...
... This study investigates the environmental impacts of using two different power groups in a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The first power group consists of a conventional electric motor, a lithium polymer battery and a propeller. The second power group is the hybrid power group formed by adding the Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell. The life cycle assessment (LCA) method is appli ...
... Cattle ranching has increased globally in the last decades, and although pasture expansion is well documented across different regions, there is little understanding of the intensity at which cattle operate in these areas. With freely available Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, we mapped for the first time polyethylene silage bags used for forage conservation in a year with the Random Forest algorithm ...
Japan; antibiotic resistance; aquaculture; biofiltration; databases; environment; nitrogen; phosphorus; wastewater treatment; water pollution; China
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... Biological filtration has been widely used in wastewater treatment around the world, yet achieving satisfactory removal of pollutants remains a challenge due to the complexity of water pollution. In order to reveal the hotspots and trends of biological filtration from the perspective of research innovation, 5454 SCI papers and 14,287 patents collected from the Web of Science Core Collection and De ...
... Cactus mucilage (CMU) have been widely studied in various applications. This review addresses the sources, extraction methods, composition, biological properties and CMU applications with the help of bibliometric analysis to select scientific articles available in the Web of Science database and evaluated by VOSviewer (2001–2021). CMU are generally characterized as an arabinogalactan-type polysacc ...
... Detecting proteins via surface assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (SALDI-MS) method is still highly challenging, and only few examples of nanomaterials have been demonstrated to perform such detection so far. In this study, carbon nanowalls (CNWs), vertically aligned graphene sheet-based materials, presenting specific morphology, dimensions, and boron doping levels have shown i ...
... Fish is an important food source but can contain allergens which cause mild to life-threatening symptoms. The aim of this study was to compare the identified proteins in fresh and powdered fish in skipjack tuna and Nile tilapia using proteomic approach. The biological functions of the proteins were identified using the UniProt database. Potential allergens were identified based on the sequence sim ...
... Ethylene is a key hormone in regulating fruit ripening, thus inhibiting ethylene production is an effective way to delay postharvest ripening of fruit. Aminoethoxyvinylglycine (AVG) is a competitively ethylene synthesis inhibitor that can significantly delay the fruit softening at postharvest stage and prolong the fruit shelf life. However, the high production cost of AVG limits its widespread use ...
databases; dietary protein; environment; environmental impact; fish; food quality; greenhouse gases; human health; land use; pork; poultry; protein composition; protein intake; risk; ruminants; surveys; vegan diet; France
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... Patterns of protein intake are strong characteristics of diets, and protein sources have been linked to the environmental and nutrition/health impacts of diets. However, few studies have worked on protein profiles, and most of them have focused on specific diets like vegetarian or vegan diets. Furthermore, the description of the environmental impact of diets has often been limited to greenhouse ga ...
... PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are single-stranded, 23–36 nucleotide long RNAs that regulate gene expression in the germline but are also detected in some cancers. However, there are no reports yet on piRNA expression in tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC), the most common oral cancer (80–90% percent of all oral cancers). We performed small RNA and whole transcriptome sequencing in H357 tongue c ...
... Tunas are among the most economically important fish species and play critical roles in food composition and nutrition of humans. As apex predators, they also keep the marine ecosystem healthy and balanced. Both natural and human factors influence the status of this important marine resource and their habitats. There is a large cadre of studies on how tunas are of great significance to the exploit ...
Japan; activated sludge; biodegradation; biological treatment; biotransformation; databases; metrology; nitrogen; phosphorus; toxicity; wastewater; water reuse; water treatment; China
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... In order to reveal the hotspots and trends of biological water treatment from the perspectives of scientific and technological innovation, both of the bibliometric review and patents analysis were performed in this study. The Web of Science Core Collection database and Derwent Innovation Index database recorded 30023 SCI papers and 50326 patents, respectively were analyzed via information visualiz ...
... Histone H1 acts as an essential chromatin component and participates in the formation of higher chromatin structures together with core histones. In addition, H1 also has important functions in physiological processes such as gene expression regulation, DNA repair, and the immune response. In this study, the histone homologous protein Pm-H1.2-like was identified from the transcriptome database of ...
... Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant brain tumor among adults. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are known to drive treatment resistance and recurrence. However, a few CSC markers have been identified as therapeutic targets for GBM. This study aimed to show highly coexpressed genes in GBM CSCs and TCGA GBM samples and to identify possible therapeutic targets for GBM. The gene expression profiles ...
... Interactions between lichens and invertebrates are widespread and have evolved independently in several orders of invertebrates. Lichens participate as food, shelter, background for mimicry, or as camouflage for animals to wear. For this study, we discovered caterpillars of the moth family Psychidae living inside bags made from silk and lichens. We used molecular techniques to identify the lichens ...
... To understand the long-term performance of bioretention systems under sulfamethoxazole (SMX) stress, an unplanted bioretention system (BRS) and two modified BRSs with coconut-shell activated carbon (CAC) and CAC/zero-valent-iron (Fe⁰) granules (CAC-BRS and Fe/CAC-BRS) were established. Both CAC-BRS and Fe/CAC-BRS significantly outperformed BRS in removing total nitrogen (TN) (CAC-BRS: 82.48%; Fe/C ...
... This study focuses on the potential capability of numerous machine learning models, namely CatBoost, GradientBoosting, HistGradientBoosting, ExtraTrees, XGBoost, DecisionTree, Bagging, light gradient boosting machine (LGBM), GaussianProcess, artificial neural network (ANN), and light long short-term memory (LightLSTM). These models were investigated to predict the photocatalytic degradation of mal ...
algorithms; databases; decision support systems; model validation; models; regression analysis; soil organic carbon; Czech Republic
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... There are relatively few studies that explicitly evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms (MLAs) such as decision trees while varying conditions like data splitting strategies and feature selection methods in digital soil mapping (DSM). Since several more powerful black-box models such as Random Forest (RF) exist, regular models like the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) are ...
... The genus Vibrio includes important pathogenic species for human and aquatic organisms such as Vibrio cholera, V. parahaemolyticus, V. vulnificus, V. anguillarum or V. harveyi. At present, Vibrionaceae family consists of >190 described species, classified into nine genera. Vibrio are widespread in shellfish, finfish and marine ecosystems and show resourceful ecologies, which recognized as one of t ...
... To explore the responses of soil microbial communities to concentration gradients of antibiotic residues in soil, 32 soil samples were collected from a typical greenhouse vegetable production base in Northern China in 2019. The total concentrations of 26 antibiotic residues in these soil samples was 83.24–4237.93 μg·kg⁻¹, of which metabolites of tetracyclines were 23.34–1798.80 μg·kg⁻¹. The total ...
agricultural zoning; blood serum; databases; dust; environment; gas chromatography; humans; liquid crystals; mass spectrometry; sediments; soil
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... Recent studies have reported the occurrence of liquid crystal monomers (LCMs) in sediment, indoor dust, hand wipes, and human serum samples; however, information regarding their contamination status in soil is currently unavailable. The concentrations of 39 target LCMs were determined in n = 96 surface soil samples collected from five different urban functional zones including agricultural, scenic ...
carcinogenicity; catenas; databases; human health; linear models; morphometry; pollution; prediction; risk; risk assessment; soil; support vector machines
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... Determining the levels and spatial distribution of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is essential in designing mitigating strategies to remediate contaminated areas. Efficient prediction of PTEs is difficult due to high spatial variability and multiple sources of contamination. The use of machine learning algorithms is an alternative for the improvement of the predictions. Objective of the study w ...
Escherichia coli; amino acid sequences; databases; peptides; protein phosphorylation
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... Protein phosphorylation is one of the most commonly studied and ubiquitous post-translational modifications (PTMs), and defining site-specific phosphorylation is essential to understand basic and disease biology. However, the chemical properties and biological activities hamper the detection of non-canonical N-phosphorylation from biological samples, and the study of N-phosphorylation over the las ...
chemical species; chemistry; data collection; databases; dry deposition; particle size; pollutants; China; North America
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... The dry deposition process refers to the flux loss of an atmospheric pollutant due to uptake of the pollutant by the earth's surfaces. Dry deposition flux of a chemical species is typically calculated as the product of its surface-layer concentration and its dry deposition velocity (Vd). Field measurement based Vd data are very scarce or do not exist for many chemical species considered in chemist ...
databases; ecological economics; human development; humans; nationalities and ethnic groups; sustainable development; systematic review
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... Monitoring progress towards key social and economic goals requires a comprehensive understanding of the social, cultural, and economic aspects of sustainability and the indicators available to track their performance. Through a systematic review of 84 studies focusing on socioeconomic indicators of human development, we compiled a comprehensive database of 1389 socioeconomic indicators and examine ...
databases; gas chromatography; ionization; mass spectrometry
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... Electron ionization (EI) is the most widely used ionization method in gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS). This method possesses a lot of advantages including versatility for various classes of volatile and semi volatile organic compounds, high sensitivity, structure informativity and reproducibility, production of database searchable mass spectra. On the other hand there are a number of ...
... On the one hand, environmental certifications like the Blue Flag award (BFA) are well-known globally for its role in beach management and tourism attraction. Plastic pollution like microplastics, on the other hand, has become a global concern due to their increasing persistence and negative environmental repercussions. This paper examines and discusses the factors that would lead to (micro)plastic ...
... Due to complex, valuable, and often extremely opaque supply chains, seafood is a commodity that has experienced a high prevalence of food fraud throughout the entirety of its logistics network. Fraud detection and prevention require an in‐depth understanding of food supply chains and their vulnerabilities and risks so that food business operators, regulators, and other stakeholders can implement p ...
... The aim of this work is a comprehensive study of the 16-year periodicity of winter surface temperature in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) region, described earlier, and its possible source based on weather station records over the 1952–2019 period making use of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Reference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research (READER) database, as well as Fouri ...
... In an integrated poultry-fish (IPF) farming system, fish and bird are reared simultaneously. It is a common practice in Sub-Saharan Africa countries like Nigeria, Cameroon, Madagascar, and Benin, offering economic benefits to farmers and minimizing farm running costs. It seems like another way for farmers to manage poultry waste as it is a common practice in IPF farm settings to feed reared fishes ...
... A comprehensive analysis of crucial metabolites in seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) was conducted by analyzing the methanolic extract of berries originating from 37 geographical sites of the Indian Himalayas by using ¹H NMR-based metabolome profiling. The concentration of 103 metabolites was annotated, of which two, spermidine and beta-alanine, were reported for the first time in higher conc ...
... Phospholipids are the main constituent of cellular membranes and have recently been identified to have diagnostic value as biomarkers for many diseases. Accordingly, much emphasis is now laid on developing optimal analytical techniques for the phospholipid profiles of various biological samples. In the present study, different classes of phospholipids are first separated by optimized hydrophilic i ...
... Hydration free energy (HFE) is a key factor in improving protein–ligand binding free energy (BFE) prediction accuracy. The HFE itself can be calculated using the three-dimensional reference interaction model (3D-RISM); however, the BFE predictions solely evaluated using 3D-RISM are not correlated to the experimental BFE for abundant protein–ligand pairs. In this study, to predict the BFE for multi ...
advection; air; air temperature; climatology; cluster analysis; cold; cooling; databases; factor analysis; heat; summer; surface temperature; Europe; Northern Africa
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... The air temperature extremes in the southern Balkans and the synoptic conditions that favor their occurrence are examined for the 40-year period 1979–2018, with the use of the ERA5 database. The 12UTC and 06UTC daily 0.25°×0.25° surface temperature values are used for the identification of the extreme high and extreme low temperature days, respectively. These days are defined based on the temperat ...
... 5-Demethylnobiletin (5DN) is a polymethoxyflavone (PMF) primarily found in citrus fruits. It has various health-promoting properties and hence has attracted significant attention from scholars worldwide. This review is the first to systematically summarize the recent research progress of 5DN, including its pharmacological activity, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, and toxicological effects. ...
... Psychological stress is a crucial driver of tumorigenesis and cancer metastasis. The impact of the stress-associated neurotransmitter 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) on tumor progression is poorly understood. We aimed to identify the role of 5-HT in the pathogenesis of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and to identify innovative therapeutic strategies. The expression of 5-HT and related signaling mole ...
... Globally, colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) is one of the most frequent types of malignant tumors. About 40~50% of patients with advanced colon adenocarcinoma die from recurrence and metastasis. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and 5-methylcytosine (5mC) regulatory genes have been demonstrated to involve in the progression and prognosis of COAD. The goal of this study was to explore the biological charact ...
Domenico M. Doronzo; Mauro A. Di Vito; Ilenia Arienzo; Monica Bini; Benedetta Calusi; Matteo Cerminara; Stefano Corradini; Sandro de Vita; Biagio Giaccio; Lucia Gurioli; Giorgio Mannella; Giovanni P. Ricciardi; Ilaria Rucco; Domenico Sparice; Micol Todesco; Elisa Trasatti; Giovanni Zanchetta
... A full review of the 79 CE Plinian eruption of Vesuvius is presented through a multidisciplinary approach, exploiting the integration of historical, stratigraphic, sedimentological, petrological, geophysical, paleoclimatic, and modelling studies dedicated to this famous and devastating natural event. All studies have critically been reviewed and integrated with original data, spanning from proxima ...
... We provide an extended ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr database for the water of Lake Baikal collected along the lake and within its bays at a depth range from the surface down to 1366 m, the major tributary rivers, lake animals, and atmospheric precipitation. The water of open Lake Baikal, the Little Sea (Maloe More) Strait, and large bays are characterized by a uniform ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr = 0.7086266 ± 0.0000045 (n = 44, uncer ...
... Colorectal cancer (CRC) is an important death-related disease in the world and new therapeutic strategies are urgently needed to reduce mortality. Several studies have demonstrated that emodin, the main ingredient of Rheum palmatum, fights cancer but its potential anti-tumor effect on CRC is still unknown. The present study is aimed to explore the potential anti-tumor effects of emodin against CRC ...
... Animal gut microbiomes play important roles in the health, diseases, and production of animal hosts. The volume of animal gut metagenomic data, including both 16S amplicon and metagenomic sequencing data, has been increasing exponentially in recent years, making it increasingly difficult for researchers to query, retrieve, and reanalyze experimental data and explore new hypotheses. We designed a d ...
Alzheimer disease; HIV infections; artificial intelligence; databases; isozymes; ligands; protein kinase C; stereochemistry
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... The protein kinase C (PKC) family consists of ten isozymes and is a potential target for treating cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and HIV infection. Since known natural PKC agonists have little selectivity among the PKC isozymes, a new scaffold is needed to develop PKC ligands with remarkable isozyme selectivity. Taking advantage of machine-learning and computational chemistry approaches, we screened ...
... Fascin is the main actin-bundling protein in filopodia and is highly expressed in metastatic tumor cells. The overexpression of Fascin has been associated with poor clinical prognosis and metastatic progression. Post-translational modifications of Fascin, such as phosphorylation, can affect the proliferation and invasion of tumor cells by regulating the actin-bundling activity of Fascin. However, ...
United States Environmental Protection Agency; air; algorithms; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; chromium; data collection; databases; etiology; gender; health services; inventories; methylene chloride; nickel; pollution; styrene
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... Most amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cases are sporadic (∼90%) and environmental exposures are implicated in their etiology. Large industrial facilities are permitted the airborne release of certain chemicals with hazardous properties and report the amounts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of its Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) monitoring program. The objective of this pr ...
Trichosanthes cucumerina; biodiesel; biomass; carbon monoxide; databases; diesel fuel; energy use and consumption; fruits; neural networks; nitric oxide; opacity; pollution; regression analysis; research; smoke; temperature
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... In this research work, the experimental tests were conducted on a single-cylinder, constant speed, variable compression ratio (VCR) engine fuelled with green diesel. Initially, bio-oil was extracted from waste Trichosanthes cucumerina fruit seeds using the Soxhlet apparatus. The acquired bio-oil is used to make green diesel through the trans-esterification process. The fuel blends were prepared wi ...
... Schematic maps are popular for representing transport networks. In the last two decades, some researchers have been working toward automated generation of network layouts (i.e., the network geometry of schematic maps), while automated labelling of schematic maps is not well considered. The descriptive-statistics-based labelling method, which models the labelling space by defining various station-b ...
augmented reality; bricks; color; databases; mobile telephones; models; photogrammetry; standard deviation
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... Building heritage contributes to the historical context and industrial history of a city. Brick warehouses, which comprise a systematic interface between components, demand an interactive manipulation of inspected parts to interpret their construction complexity. The documentation of brick details in augmented reality (AR) can be challenging when the relative location needs to be defined in 3D. Th ...
... Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering rely on computational search tools for predictions of novel biosynthetic pathways to industrially important compounds, many of which are derived from aromatic amino acids. Pathway search tools vary in their scope of covered reactions and compounds, as well as in metrics for ranking and evaluation. In this work, we present a new computational resource cal ...
anthropogenic activities; climate; data collection; databases; environmental management; geographical distribution; geomorphology; information sources; risk; spatial data; stakeholders; Italy
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... In many territories, geo-hydrological disasters represent a problem of considerable importance, given that they can cause substantial property damage, above all, life losses. In Italy, the geo-hydrological risk is widespread depending on the geomorphological settings, climate conditions and anthropic pressure. Accurate knowledge regarding the spatial and temporal extensions of past events, as well ...
... Objective: Endometriosis is a benign gynecological disease characterized by distant metastasis. Previous studies have discovered abnormal numbers and function of immune cells in endometriotic lesions. We aimed to find potential biomarkers of endometriosis and to explore the relationship between ASPN and the immune microenvironment of endometriosis. Methods: We obtained the GSE141549 and GSE7305 da ...