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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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... Primary and secondary food processing had been identified as areas vulnerable to fraud. Besides the food processing area, other stages within the food supply chain are also vulnerable to fraud. This study aims to develop a Bayesian network (BN) model to predict food fraud type and point of adulteration i.e., the occurrence of fraudulent activity. The BN model was developed using GeNie Modeler (Bay ...
data collection; databases; land cover; land use; neural networks
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... The classification of urban land-use information has become the underlying database for a variety of applications including urban planning and administration. The lack of datasets and changeable semantics of land-use make deep learning methods suffer from low precision, which prevent improvements in the effectiveness of using AI methods for applications. In this paper, we first used GIS data to pr ...
anemia; birth weight; databases; diet; dietitians; gestational diabetes; hypertension; large for gestational age; nutritional intervention; pregnancy; risk; risk reduction; weight gain
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... This study aims to assess the associations between structural features of the Montreal Diet Dispensary’s social nutrition intervention and pregnancy (i.e., anemia, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), gestational weight gain (GWG), hypertension) and birthweight outcomes (i.e., small- or large-for-gestational-age) among pregnant women, most of them recent immigrants. The study consists of a seconda ...
... Globally, organisations are focused on deriving more value from the data which has been collected from various sources. The purpose of this research is to examine the key components of machine learning in making efficient financial decisions. The business leaders are now faced with huge volume of data, which needs to be stored, analysed, and retrieved so as to make effective decisions for achievin ...
... The ecological assessment of all surface water bodies in Europe according to the Water Framework Directive involves the monitoring of biological, physicochemical and hydromorphological quality elements. For the hydromorphological assessment in particular, there are numerous methods that have been developed and adopted by EU member countries. With this study, we compared three different methods (Ri ...
... This study explores a new perspective on triboelectrification that could potentially lead to the development of a non-destructive approach for the rapid characterization of powders. Sieved yellow pea powders at various particle sizes and protein contents were used as a model system for the experimental charge measurements of the triboelectrified powders. A tribocharging model based on the prominen ...
... Although the S8 family in the MEROPS database contains many peptidases, only a few S8 peptidases have been applied in the preparation of bioactive oligopeptides. Bovine bone collagen is a good source for preparing collagen oligopeptides, but has been so far rarely applied in collagen peptide preparation. Here, we characterized a novel S8 gelatinase, Aa2_1884, from marine bacterium Flocculibacter c ...
... In this review, we examined the top 10 nutraceutical products sold in Italian pharmacies and parapharmacies as well as hypermarkets and supermarkets; in the first, three product categories saw the greatest increase in sales (vitamins and minerals, immunostimulants, and sleep products) for the 12-month period between October 2019 and October 2020 (including first pandemic wave of SARS-CoV-2). We ar ...
databases; protein solubility; solubilization; surveys; thiocyanates
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... Over the last one and half century, a myriad of studies has demonstrated that Hofmeister ions have a major impact on protein stability and solubility. Nevertheless, the definition of the physico-chemical basis of their activity has proved to be highly challenging and controversial. Here, by exploiting the enormous information content of the Protein Data Bank, we explored the binding to proteins of ...
... : The extracts of Garcinia mangostana (L) pericarp contain high concentration of prenylated xanthones such as α-, β- and γ-mangostin and related molecules. These extracts possess wide range of biological properties including anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative, antioxidant and pro-apoptotic activities. Till date, α-, β- and γ-mangostin have been extensively studied due to its applica ...
... Transmission towers are easily affected by various meteorological and geological disasters. In this paper, a transmission tower tilt state assessment approach—based on high precision and dense point cloud from UAV LiDAR—was proposed. First, the transmission tower point cloud was rapidly located and extracted from the 3D point cloud obtained by UAV-LiDAR line patrol. A robust histogram local extrem ...
bibliometric analysis; databases; gastronomy; sensory evaluation; social structure; thematic maps
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... This study is the first of its kind in providing an in-depth perspective to the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science (IJGFS). While offering the change and progress that the Journal has undergone since 2015, when it was started to be scanned in the Web of Science (WoS) database, this study is also an indicator of the changing trends in the field of gastronomy. The study analyses th ...
acoustics; aquaculture; biodiversity; computer software; databases; energy; fish; habitats; infrastructure; long term effects; pollution; private sector; water power; wind
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... The growing global demand for sustainable and environmentally friendly energy has stimulated the rapid adoption of renewable offshore energy. However, infrastructure needed for green energy production ironically impacts upon marine species and biodiversity. Consequently, this positional review paper seeks to comprehensively synthesise the prevailing body of knowledge on the impact of offshore ener ...
climate change; climatology; computer software; databases; food security; paddies; pollution; research and development; rice; socioeconomics; stakeholders; staple foods; India
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... Rice is an important cereal and a staple food in many countries in the world. Climate change is a significant challenge that affects paddy production and threatens food security. However, research and development in this area continue to work to ensure the supply of rice fulfils the demands of the population. The study aims to analyse the transformation of international research power in trends in ...
... To date, over 150 different RNA modifications have been identified, playing crucial roles in biological processes and disease pathogenesis. Thanks to the advancement of high-throughput sequencing technologies employed for transcriptome-wide mapping, a bunch of RNA modification databases have emerged as an exciting area, which promotes further investigation of the mechanisms and functions of these ...
... An annotated checklist of the helminth parasites associated with reptiles from Peru is provided, as the result of a compilation of parasitological papers published between 1963 and January 2022 and records of species deposited in national and international collections. The list provides data on hosts, developmental stage, sites of infection, geographical distribution in Peruvian territory, code of ...
... Since late 2019, when SARS-CoV-2 was reported at Wuhan, several sequence analyses have been performed and SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences have been submitted in various databases. Moreover, the impact of these variants on infectivity and response to neutralizing antibodies has been assessed. In the present study, we retrieved a total number of 176 complete and high-quality S glycoprotein sequences of ...
... In this critical review, we synthesize data from peer-reviewed literature reporting on triazole fungicide exposures in the zebrafish model. Based on their mode of action in plants (potent inhibitors of ergosterol synthesis), we focused attention on mechanisms related to cellular, lipid, and steroid metabolism. Evidence from several studies reveals that zebrafish exposed to triazoles present with i ...
... Sustainable growth is one of the major challenges of the XXI century; the antagonism between the needs of “development” and finiteness of natural resources is more and more evident, forcing international Agencies to endorse a “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” to promote, among other goals, a responsible management of natural resources. The key issue here is the lack of a consistent sustain ...
... The Carbon Ore Resources Database (CORD) is a working collection of 399 data files associated with carbon ore resources in the United States. The collection includes spatial/non-spatial, filtered, processed, and secondary data files with original data acquisition efforts focused on domestic coal resources. All data were acquired via open-source, online sources from a combination of 18 national, st ...
biogeography; computer software; data collection; databases; ecosystems; energy; environmental monitoring; freshwater; macroinvertebrates; species diversity; stoichiometry
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... MOTIVATION: Ecological stoichiometry investigates the equilibrium and the fluxes of chemical elements and energy between organisms and their environment. Several studies have pointed out the value of integrating stoichiometric traits for a better understanding of the mechanisms behind community and ecosystem processes. Especially in the light of globally changing nutrient levels in freshwater syst ...
... Psidium friedrichsthalianum (O. Berg) Nied. is a tropical tree species in the Myrtaceae family, natively distributed from southern Mexico to eastern Venezuela and Ecuador and commonly known as "Cas'', "Costa Rican guava" or “Sour Guava”. The “Cas” produces a fruit with a rather distinctive acidic flavor and has bioactive compounds with biological potential equal or greater than common Guava; is co ...
Internet; case studies; computers; data visualization; databases; decision support systems; ecotourism; income; land policy; rural economics; rural tourism; sustainable development; tourists; Italy
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... Nowadays, the business of ecotourism and rural tourism is a very important activity for many inland areas, enabling them to both produce important income and sustain the rural economy. Moreover, sustainable tourism is included in the UN 17th Sustainable Development Goal, which is to be achieved by 2030 (SDG 8.9 and SDG 12). Recent progress in digital tourism promises to deliver important changes t ...
Japan; animals; carbon; carbon footprint; databases; diet; environmental impact; fruits; global change; international trade; models; rice; sustainable development; synergism; tobacco; water footprint; India; South Korea
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... Exploring the environmental impact of dietary consumption has become increasingly important to understand the carbon-water-food nexus, vital to achieving UN sustainable development goals. However, the research on diet-based nexus assessment is still lacking. Here, we developed an Environmentally Extended Multi-Regional Input-Output (EE-MRIO) model with compiling a global MRIO table based on the la ...
Internet; data collection; databases; electronic equipment; furniture; industry; material flow analysis; product life cycle; stakeholders; statistics; wastes; Switzerland
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... A material flow analysis of the main plastic types used and arising as waste in Switzerland in 2017 is conducted, including consideration of stock change. Seven main plastic application segments are distinguished (packaging; building and construction; automotive; electrical and electronic equipment; agriculture; household items, furniture, leisure and others; and textiles), further divided into 54 ...
... The increase in fraudulent incidents has resulted in a change of focus in theory related to investigating food fraud from risk mitigation to vulnerability reduction. While the literature provided a framework from which to identify possible areas of vulnerability to food fraud, it does not provide a methodology that would allow food producers and processors to quantify and assess their vulnerabilit ...
databases; energy; environmental assessment; solar radiation; wind speed; China
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... The typical meteorological year (TMY) is one of the key factors to accurately estimate building energy consumption and analysis indoor environment. Therefore, high-performance TMY is crucial. A new TMY generation method based on empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) in this paper was put forward for different climates of China. The results show that the proposed method effectively improves the repre ...
... The exponential increase in the number of genomes deposited in public databases can help us gain a more holistic understanding of the phylogeny and epidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae. However, inferring the evolutionary relationships of K. pneumoniae based on big genomic data is challenging for existing methods. In this study, core genes of K. pneumoniae were determined and analysed in terms of ...
... SARS-CoV-2 is the RNA virus responsible for COVID-19, the prognosis of which has been found to be slightly worse in men. The present study aimed to analyze the expression of different mRNAs and their regulatory molecules (miRNAs and lncRNAs) to consider the potential existence of sex-specific expression patterns and COVID-19 susceptibility using bioinformatics analysis. The binding sites of all hu ...
... Tailings dams are commonly built incrementally to increase the storage capacity of the Tailings Storage Facility (TSF), usually without interrupting the mining activities. Dam management practices, lack of knowledge on tailings behaviour and the poor performance of monitoring and management processes have resulted in disastrous tailings dam failures with human and economic losses, as well as huge ...
... The solute carrier (SLC) superfamily is the largest group of transporters in humans, with the role to transport solutes across plasma membranes. The SLCs are currently divided into 65 families with 430 members. Here, we performed a detailed mining of the SLC superfamily and the recent annotated family of “atypical” SLCs in human and D. melanogaster using Hidden Markov Models and PSI-BLAST. Our ana ...
Caesalpinia sappan; Carthamus tinctorius; Rubia; color; databases; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; humans; museums; solvents; tandem mass spectrometry; ultra-performance liquid chromatography; China
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... Dyes on ancient silks have been a worth studying field through human's history, although current reports ignore the connection between natural dyes origin and relevant colour reduction methods, which poses an insurmountable obstacle for restoration of historical silks. In this paper, a series of 12 red hue silks from six natural dyes (sappanwood, Chinese madder, safflower, lac, cochineal, dragon's ...
African swine fever; Ornithodoros erraticus; acaricides; adults; antigens; databases; females; fever; genomics; glycolysis; humans; liquid chromatography; males; proteinases; proteome; proteomics; saliva; tandem mass spectrometry; tick control; ticks; transcriptomics; Mediterranean region
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... BACKGROUND: The argasid tick Ornithodoros erraticus is the main vector of tick-borne human relapsing fever (TBRF) and African swine fever (ASF) in the Mediterranean Basin. The prevention and control of these diseases would greatly benefit from the elimination of O. erraticus populations, and anti-tick vaccines are envisaged as an effective and sustainable alternative to chemical acaricide usage fo ...
biodegradation; databases; environment; ethylene; groundwater; groundwater contamination; meta-analysis; phytoremediation; trees
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... Applications and acceptance of phytoscreening, i.e., the use of trees as screening tools for underground contamination, are still limited in many countries due to the lack of awareness of application policies, the intrinsic qualitative nature of the technique, and the paucity of critical analyses on available data. To date, the conditions influencing the effectiveness of the technique have been de ...
... The increasing number of cancer patients, together with the side effects of current chemical treatments have encouraged the exploration of the potential of Iranian medicinal plants as a rich source of anticancer compounds. In the current review, 114 medicinal plant species grown in Iran were selected and their major constituents, animal or cell targets, as well as possible anticancer mechanisms, w ...
... The sub-committee constituted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for the management of cervical cancer (CC) detailed in the consensus document (2016) reported CC as a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in women. The incidence of an increase in CC and associated mortality in women is a major cause of cancer. To date, human papilloma viral (HPV) infection accounts for more th ...
Aeromonas; databases; freshwater fish; lead; mortality; pathogens; China
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... Aeromonas spp are the most common devastating fish bacterial pathogens associated with a wide range of cultured freshwater fish resulting in mass mortality. The present study plots the Aeromonas research output in fish during 1998–2020 by means of the Web of Science (WoS) database. A total of 1944 publications were used for this investigation to evaluate the scientific productivity in this selecte ...
Internet; alternative medicine; databases; e-mail; education; humans; medicine; mobile telephones; point-of-care systems; surveys; user interface; Arizona
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... BACKGROUND: Although the vast majority of cancer patients use natural health products (NHPs), 59% of oncology healthcare providers (HCP) report not receiving any education on NHPs. KNOWintegrativeoncology.org (KNOW) is a web-based educational platform that provides up-to-date evidence on NHPs used in cancer care with a user-friendly interface. KNOW is a database of human studies systematically gat ...
... The importance of obtaining comprehensive and accurate information from cellular proteomics experiments asks for a systematic investigation of sample preparation protocols. In particular when working with unicellular organisms with strong cell walls, such as found in the model organism and cell factory Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here, we performed a systematic comparison of sample preparation proto ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
Ayurvedic medicine; Internet; databases; digital libraries; education; electronic learning; health information; health services; hospitals; indigenous knowledge; information systems; morbidity; research management; yoga; India
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... The incorporation of digital technologies is recognized as one of the inevitable factors to achieve better health care services. Recently, Indian Ministry of AYUSH (MoA) embraced digitalization extensively for development, education and research in AYUSH. In this context, we describe India's digital initiatives for AYUSH systems of medicine for information, research, and academia at various levels ...
Laura Duncanson; James R. Kellner; John Armston; Ralph Dubayah; David M. Minor; Steven Hancock; Sean P. Healey; Paul L. Patterson; Svetlana Saarela; Suzanne Marselis; Carlos E. Silva; Jamis Bruening; Scott J. Goetz; Hao Tang; Michelle Hofton; Bryan Blair; Scott Luthcke; Lola Fatoyinbo; Katharine Abernethy; Alfonso Alonso; Hans-Erik Andersen; Paul Aplin; Timothy R. Baker; Nicolas Barbier; Jean Francois Bastin; Peter Biber; Pascal Boeckx; Jan Bogaert; Luigi Boschetti; Peter Brehm Boucher; Doreen S. Boyd; David F.R.P. Burslem; Sofia Calvo-Rodriguez; Jérôme Chave; Robin L. Chazdon; David B. Clark; Deborah A. Clark; Warren B. Cohen; David A. Coomes; Piermaria Corona; K.C. Cushman; Mark E.J. Cutler; James W. Dalling; Michele Dalponte; Jonathan Dash; Sergio de-Miguel; Songqiu Deng; Peter Woods Ellis; Barend Erasmus; Patrick A. Fekety; Alfredo Fernandez-Landa; Antonio Ferraz; Rico Fischer; Adrian G. Fisher; Antonio García-Abril; Terje Gobakken; Jorg M. Hacker; Marco Heurich; Ross A. Hill; Chris Hopkinson; Huabing Huang; Stephen P. Hubbell; Andrew T. Hudak; Andreas Huth; Benedikt Imbach; Kathryn J. Jeffery; Masato Katoh; Elizabeth Kearsley; David Kenfack; Natascha Kljun; Nikolai Knapp; Kamil Král; Martin Krůček; Nicolas Labrière; Simon L. Lewis; Marcos Longo; Richard M. Lucas; Russell Main; Jose A. Manzanera; Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez; Renaud Mathieu; Herve Memiaghe; Victoria Meyer; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza; Alessandra Monerris; Paul Montesano; Felix Morsdorf; Erik Næsset; Laven Naidoo; Reuben Nilus; Michael O’Brien; David A. Orwig; Konstantinos Papathanassiou; Geoffrey Parker; Christopher Philipson; Oliver L. Phillips; Jan Pisek; John R. Poulsen; Hans Pretzsch; Christoph Rüdiger; Sassan Saatchi; Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa; Nuria Sanchez-Lopez; Robert Scholes; Carlos A. Silva; Marc Simard; Andrew Skidmore; Krzysztof Stereńczak; Mihai Tanase; Chiara Torresan; Ruben Valbuena; Hans Verbeeck; Tomas Vrska; Konrad Wessels; Joanne C. White; Lee J.T. White; Eliakimu Zahabu; Carlo Zgraggen
aboveground biomass; data collection; databases; ecosystems; environment; forests; lidar; model validation
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... NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest aboveground biomass density (AGBD). This paper presents the development of the models used to create GEDI’s footprint-level (~25 m) AGBD (GEDI04_A) product, including a description of the datasets used and the procedure for fi ...
... Osteoarthritis (OA), a common joint disorder with an increasing incidence worldwide, severely affects the quality of life of patients. In Chinese herbal medicine, Abrus cantoniensis Hance is considered to exert protective effects on the liver and to have beneficial effects on the gallbladder; additionally, it has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, as well as the ability to enhance imm ...