291 Results Found

Analytical performance and efficiency are two pivotal issues for developing an on-site and real-time aptasensor for cadmium (Cd²⁺) determination. However, suffering from redundant preparations, fabrications, and incubation, most of them fail to well...

Steam mopping is an eco-friendly solution for cleaning and disinfecting floors, avoiding harsh chemicals or harmful UV lights. Currently, commercial steam mopping systems are manually operated, which is laborious and unsafe. This work presents the de...

MoP is a topological semimetal which has drawn attention due to its unique electrical and optical properties resulting from massless electrons. In order to utilize these properties for practical applications, it is necessary to develop a technique to...

Molybdenum phosphide (MoP) catalyzes the hydrogenation of CO, CO₂, and their mixtures to methanol, and it is investigated as a high-activity catalyst that overcomes deactivation issues (e.g., formate poisoning) faced by conventional transition metal...

μ-opioid receptor ligands such as morphine and fentanyl are the most known and potent painkillers. However, the severe side effects seen with their use significantly limit their widespread use. The continuous broadening of knowledge about the prop...

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are widely used by researchers and practitioners to solve multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs), since they require minimal assumptions and are capable of computing a finite size approximation of the ent...

Mountainous cities face various land use challenges, including complex topography, low land use efficiency, and the insufficient control of land use in small-scale areas at the urban fringe. Considering population changes, environmental conservation,...

The industry–academic collaboration (IAC) in developed and developing countries enables these economies to gain momentum in continuous innovation and, thus, economic growth. Patent commercialization is one major channel of knowledge flow in IAC. Howe...

Bombali virus (BOMV) is a novel Orthoebolavirus that has been detected in free-tailed bats in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Kenya, and Mozambique. We screened our collection of 349 free-tailed bat lungs collected in Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania for...

The psoralens 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP), 4,5′,8-trimethylpsoralen (TMP) and 5-methoxypsoralen (5-MOP) find clinical application in PUVA (psoralen + UVA) therapy. PUVA treats skin diseases like psoriasis and atopic eczema. Psoralens target the D...

The μ-opioid receptors belong to the family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and their activation triggers a cascade of intracellular relays with the final effect of analgesia. Classical agonists of this receptor, such as morphine, are the...

Optimization of the territorial spatial patterns can promote the functional balance and utilization efficiency of space, which is influenced by economic, social, ecological, and environmental factors. Consequently, the final implementation of spatial...

Potato mop-top virus (PMTV) is an emerging viral pathogen that causes tuber necrosis in potatoes. PMTV is composed of three single-stranded RNA segments: RNA1 encodes RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, RNA2 contains the coat protein (CP), and RNA3 harbors...

We attempted to examine the alterations elicited by opioids via coexpressed μ-opioid (MOP) and nociceptin/orphanin FQ (NOP) receptors for receptor localization and Erk1/2 (p44/42 MAPK) in human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells. Through two-photon...

The field of coordination chemistry has undergone rapid transformation from preparation of monometallic complexes to multimetallic complexes. So far numerous multimetallic coordination complexes have been synthesized. Multimetallic coordination compl...

In the real word, optimization problems in multi-objective optimization (MOP) and dynamic optimization can be seen everywhere. During the last decade, among various swarm intelligence algorithms for multi-objective optimization problems, glowworm swa...

Mallotus oblongifolius (MO), which is rich in polyphenols, is a characteristic tea resource with medicinal value. In this study, a total of 45 polyphenolic components of MO, including narirutin, isoquercitrin, rutin and digallic acid, were identified...

Although there have been documented Ebola virus disease outbreaks for more than 40 years, the natural reservoir host has not been identified. Recent studies provide evidence that the Angolan free-tailed bat (Mops condylurus), an insectivorous microba...

The polysaccharides were extracted from the leaves of Mallotus oblongifolius (MO) using an ultrasonic-assisted extraction method in this study. The main variables affecting the yield of polysaccharides extracted from Mallotus appallatus (MOPS) were i...

Considering the electromagnetic protection needs of important ground buildings, exploring the electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorption performance of manganese ore powder (MOP) building materials is an effective way to overcome its low added value and d...

Topical psoralens plus ultraviolet A radiation (PUVA) therapy consists in the topical application of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) followed by the skin irradiation with ultraviolet A radiation. The employment of classical 8-MOP vehicles in topical PUVA t...

Background: Bicomponent split microfiber reusable wipers and flat mops are innovative textiles used to hygienically clean healthcare surfaces and, hence, reduce hospital-acquired infections. Sustainability improvements are reflected as reduced energy...

Optimizing the cost and benefit allocation among multiple players in a public-private partnership (PPP) project is recognized to be a multi-objective optimization problem (MOP). When the least present value of revenue (LPVR) mechanism is adopted in t...

RPL is the IPv6 routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks in the Internet of Things which supports point-to-point (P2P) communication. However, the partition of two modes of operations (MOPs) in downward routing complicates achieving high per...

Land-use optimization, as an important resource-allocation method, can be defined as the process of allocating various activities to different geographic units. How to manage and control land expansion has become an urgent issue, leading a series of...

A novel hantavirus, named Kiwira virus, was molecularly detected in six Angolan free-tailed bats (Mops condylurus, family Molossidae) captured in Tanzania and in one free-tailed bat in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hantavirus RNA was found in dif...

Conjugated coordination polymers attract attention as materials for electrochemical energy storage, mostly as cathode materials for supercapacitors. Faradaic capacity may be introduced to such materials using redox-active building blocks, metals, or...

A 75-year-old patient was transferred to the oncology department due to the discovery of a large pelvic tumor compressing the femoral neurovascular bundle suspected to be of malignant origin. Further investigation revealed a rare complication related...

This paper presents a new data fusion multiscale observation product (MOP) for flood emergencies. The MOP was created by integrating multiple sources of contributed open-source data with traditional spaceborne remote sensing imagery in order to provi...

Smart grids (SGs), as an emerging grid modernization concept, is spreading across diverse research areas for revolutionizing power systems. SGs realize new key concepts with intelligent technologies, maximizing achieved objectives and addressing crit...

The depletion of fossil fuel resources and the growing need for sustainable energy solutions have increased interest in vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs), which offer advantages in urban and variable-wind environments but often exhibit limited perf...

Crossbreeding forms part of Climate-Smart beef production and is one of the strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change. Two Nguni-sired and three Bonsmara-sired crossbred animals underwent whole genome sequencing. Following quality control...

In considering regional sustainable development, optimizing the distribution of land use and land cover (LULC) and improving terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage (CS) have emerged as major concerns. In this study, considering the synergistic effect b...

To meet the dual demands of 6G cellular networks for high spectral efficiency and environmental sensing, this paper proposes a full-duplex (FD) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) dynamic resource allocation framework. At the heart of the fra...

To address the disconnect between macro-quantity planning and micro-spatial allocation at the township level during rapid urbanization, this study developed a coupled model framework based on Multi-Objective Planning (MOP) and the Future Land-Use Sim...

We systematically investigated the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of six facets of ${\mathrm{MoP}}_2$ based on the periodic density functional theory (DFT). The calculated values of Gibbs free energy of hydrogen adsorption ( $\mathsf{\Delta }{G}_{\mathrm{H}}$ ) i...

Simulating the spatial response of ecosystem service value (ESV) caused by land use change in Heilongjiang Province under different scenarios in the future is of great significance for ensuring ecological security and sustainable development in the r...

Promoting the preservation and appreciation of ecosystem services is an important value guide for land use optimization. In this research, Fengdu County in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area was selected as the focus of a case study. From the perspectiv...

Developing low-cost electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution in both acidic and alkaline conditions is crucial for water-electrolytic hydrogen applications. Herein, MoP was synthesized via a simple, low-cost, and green phosphorization route....

Using first-principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) simulations at atmospheric pressure and 300 K, we investigated the adsorption of the molecules CO and CO₂ on each of the surfaces of the 2D materials MoP₂ and NbP₂. We found that both surfaces adsorbed...

Continuously global warming and landscape change have aggravated the damage of flood disasters to ecological safety and sustainable development. If the risk of flood disasters under climate and land-use changes can be predicted and evaluated, it will...

The importance of the dynamic interplay between the opioid and the serotonin neuromodulatory systems in chronic pain is well recognized. In this study, we investigated whether these two signalling pathways can be integrated at the single-cell level v...

We performed first-principle molecular dynamics (FPMD) calculations to test the total attraction force on a physisorbed molecule at a given temperature and ambient pressure and applied it to the hydrogen storage on the 2D material MoP2. We considered...

Efficient electrocatalyst plays a significant role on the development of hydrogen energy. In this work, an N,P-codoped carbon layer coupled with MoP nanoparticles (MoP/NPCs) was prepared through a facile high-temperature pyrolysis treatment. The obta...

This study explores a simple method of fabricating hybrid supercapacitor electrodes, which could potentially broaden the application of this technology. The method involves electrospinning a uniform solution of Matrimid/Metal−Organic Polyhedra...

Unfenced sites on mainland New Zealand have long been considered impossible to defend from reinvasion by possums, and are thus unsuitable for eradication. In July 2019, we began eliminating possums from 11,642 ha (including approximately 8700 ha of s...

This study presents a resource-efficient reconfigurable inference processor for recurrent neural networks (RNN), named AERO. AERO is programmable to perform inference on RNN models of various types. This was designed based on the instruction-set arch...

Land-use/land-cover change (LUCC) is an important factor affecting carbon storage. It is of great practical significance to quantify the relationship between LUCC and carbon storage for regional ecological protection and sustainable socio-economic de...

Olive oil coproducts and their phenolic extracts have shown beneficial effects when added to the diets of food-producing animals, whereas data on their effects on pets are scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of dietary supplemen...

Approximately 50–80% of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) exhibit sleep problems, but the contribution of circadian clock dysfunction to the development of ASDs remains largely unknown. The essential clock gene Bmal1 (Arntl or Mop3...