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The production process of the metallurgical industry generates a significant quantity of hazardous waste. At present, the common disposal method for metallurgical hazardous waste is landfilling, which synchronously leads to the leaching of toxic elem...

This study proposes an innovative method for the harmless treatment of barium slag using the industrial by-product Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum. Barium slag is a by-product of the barium carbonate production process, and due to its high content of...

Phosphogypsum is a waste from the phosphorus chemical industry which has certain environmental hazards. Using it as a substitute for building materials was thought to alleviate the problems of phosphogypsum pollution and natural mineral consumption....

Germicidal lamps that primarily emit 254 nm ultraviolet (UV) radiation have been effectively utilized for surface sterilization, but they cannot be used on human skin and eyes due to their harmful and genotoxic activity. Recent reports have shown tha...

Industrial transformation has brought about huge changes to the human society in many different aspects [...]

Barium slag is classified as a hazardous waste due to its high content of soluble Ba²⁺. To achieve safe disposal and high-value utilization, this study developed a novel all-solid-waste road base material by synergistically combining harmlessly treat...

Remanufacturing has become popular as a system for reducing CO₂ emissions caused by the life cycle of products. Therefore, producing more components via remanufacturing is important. Shot peening can be used to render surface defects harmless owing t...

Additive-manufactured metals have a low fatigue limit due to the defects formed during the manufacturing process. Surface defects, in particular, considerably degrade the fatigue limit. In order to expand the application range of additive-manufacture...

Electrolytic manganese residue (EMR) is a byproduct of electrolytic manganese production, rich in soluble pollutants such as manganese and ammonia nitrogen. Traditional stockpiling methods result in contaminant leaching and water pollution, threateni...

In recent years, the rapid development of lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology under 250 g has begun to challenge the validity of existing mass-based safety classifications. The commonly used 250 g threshold for defining “harmle...

The treatment of arsenic (As) in tin tailings (TT) has been an urgent environmental problem, and stabilization/solidification (S/S) treatment is considered an effective technology to eliminate contamination of As. In this study, we developed a low-ca...

Phosphogypsum, a by-product of phosphate fertilizer production, was predominantly used as a supplementary additive in recycled construction materials. However, there are few detailed studies on utilizing phosphogypsum as the primary component in inor...

As a metal of strategic value, tungsten plays an important part in civil and military applications. Currently, China is the biggest tungsten producer all over the world, and the metallic smelting technologies for tungsten are well established. Howeve...

High-performance deep learning models require extensive computational resources and datasets, making their ownership protection a pressing concern. To address this challenge, we focus on advancing model security through robust watermarking mechanisms...

A striatal toe is a misalignment of the hallux in dorsal flexion that frequently presents as a symptom of Parkinson’s disease and also atypical Parkinson syndromes. It can negatively impact patients during activities such as walking, putting on...

Enterococci are gastrointestinal commensals whose hardiness allowed them to colonize very diverse environments, including soils, water, food, and feed. This ability to overcome adverse conditions makes enterococci problematic once they colonize hospi...

The outbreak of major health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, has posed numerous challenges to waste management. Environmentally sound treatment of such epidemic-related municipal solid waste (MSW) plays a vital role in interrupting virus...

Following blood meals or questing bouts, hard ticks (Ixodidae) must locate moist off-host microhabitats as refuge. Soil-dwelling fungi, including entomopathogenic Beauveria bassiana (Bb), thrive in moist microhabitats. Working with six species of ixo...

The effects of needle peening (NP) on the bending fatigue limit of a high tensile steel (HTS) HT780 (JIS-SHY685)-welded joint containing an artificial semicircular slit on the weld toe were investigated. Three-point bending fatigue tests were conduct...

Vitrification has attracted much attention as an efficient method for solidifying heavy metals in hazardous solid wastes, but its effect is limited when hazardous solid wastes contain chlorides. Aiming at fly ash, a normal chlorine-containing solid w...

In this paper, harmless municipal solid waste incineration fly ash (H-MSWIFA) was used to replace part of the mineral powder in asphalt mastic prepared with different ratios of filler to asphalt (F/A). Cone penetration (CPT), rotational viscosity, lo...

Background/Objectives: Despite the availability of Newcastle disease (ND) vaccines, outbreaks have continued to occur for more than six decades, with significant economic consequences for the global poultry industry. The variability of the Newcastle...

With the increasing rate of urbanization and the annual rise in municipal domestic waste, the use of harmless municipal solid waste incineration fly ash (HMSWIFA) as a construction material has been gradually adopted and promoted. However, significan...

Red mud, which could cause numerous problems to the environment, is a hazardous waste generated from the alumina smelting industry. In general, the storage and harmless utilization of red mud are hard to implement due to its fine particle size and hi...

A variety of co-existing impurities in phosphogypsum limit its large-scale and high-value utilization. This paper summarizes the common contents of major impurity components (silicon and phosphorus) and trace impurity components (fluorine, iron, alum...

Searching for a low-cost soil amendment that can reduce the reliance on chemical fertilizers while maintaining crop yields is a vital issue to sustainable agricultural development. In this study, bio-organic matter derived from harmless disposal of l...

Based on a “filter press backwash–chemical precipitation–gaseous membrane absorption” process, treatment of harmless cyanide tailings was conducted using cyanide tailings from a gold smelting enterprises (Yunnan Province, China) as the research objec...

Spent automotive catalysts (SAC) not only contain significant amounts of platinum group metals (PGMs) but also hazardous heavy metals, rendering them a solid waste. A harmless technology for the efficient recovery of PGMs through copper smelting has...

Differently from alpha- and betaherpesviruses affecting swine, interest in the recently discovered Suid gammaherpesvirus 3, Suid gammaherpesvirus 4, and Suid gammaherpesvirus 5, also known as porcine lymphotropic herpesviruses (PLHV-1, PLHV-2, and PL...

Type II endoleak (T2EL) represents a challenging clinical entity following endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR). Although several studies have suggested that T2ELs are related to an increased risk of aneurysm sac growth and subsequent...

With the rapid development of industry, the discharge of heavy metal-containing wastewater poses a significant threat to aquatic and terrestrial environments as well as human health. This paper provides a brief introduction to the basic principles of...

More economical and effective technology is being developedin the wastewater treatment process to deal with the products of phenylhydrazine hydrochloride (PHH). Fixed ammonium in the effluent is converted to free ammonia by utilizing the neutralizati...

Botrytis cinerea, a necrotrophic fungus responsible for grey rot disease, causes substantial economic losses. However, recent studies have discovered distinct non-sporogenic and non-infective isolates of this species, such as the B459 field strain. E...

Microalgae of the genus Prototheca (P.) spp are associated with rare algal infections of invertebrates termed protothecosis. Among the seven generally accepted species, P. zopfii genotype 2 (GT2) is associated with a severe form of bovine mastitis wh...

Mycopathogenic moulds are responsible for the greatest crop losses of cultivated mushrooms, thus having a significant negative economic impact on industry. Pesticides are the most common treatment against mycopathogenic moulds, but ultraviolet-B (UV-...

The WMI (weak muddy intercalation) is a typical weak structural surface in the red-bedded rock mass; ensuring slope stability by increasing the strength of the WMIs helps reduce project costs and carbon emissions. With the advantages of energy saving...

This study investigated the lethal and transgenerational effects of botanical and synthetic insecticides on the egg parasitoid Trichogramma atopovirilia, an important natural enemy of Spodoptera frugiperda in Brazil and beyond. The treatments were as...

It is well-documented that large-scale pollution generated by human activity has a dramatic impact on ecosystems. In this context, removing harmful chemicals via photocatalysis has tremendous potential as a depollution method, utilizing freely availa...

The lining of paintings is a process of conservation science and art restoration used to strengthen, flatten, or consolidate paintings on canvas by attaching by means of adhesives a second canvas to the back of the existing one. To this aim, the pros...

The harmless treatment of historical lead smelting slag (LSS) is of significance to ecological and environmental protection, but it is still challenging in terms of the economic feasibility of alone processing due to the low content of valuable metal...

In order to immobilize heavy metals in livestock and poultry manure and promote the safe utilization of pig manure resources, this experiment utilized three types of dried pig manure mixed with soil as raw materials. A combination of biochar and bent...

In chemical production processes in China, a huge volume of salt waste is produced, contributing to environmental pollution due to the lack of proper treatment procedures to manage this waste effectively. With the current lack of proper treatment met...

Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash contains chlorides, heavy metals, and organic pollutants, which requires appropriate disposal to eliminate this risk. In this study, the effects of agents on heavy metals removal from MSWI fly ash by...

The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of bulking agents on the maturity and gaseous emissions of composting kitchen waste. The composing experiments were carried out by selected core bacterial agents and universal bacterial age...

As a solid waste generated during the desulfurization process of coal-fired power plants, the output of desulfurization dross is increasing year by year. If not properly treated, it may occupy land and potentially pollute the environment. This articl...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an environmentally sustainable approach for managing invasive plants species, mitigating pollution, and generating renewable energy. However, the complex structure of these biomasses limits their biodegradability and neces...

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of disinfectants as tools to prevent and fight against coronavirus spreading. An ideal disinfectant and sanitizer must be nontoxic to surface contact, noncorrosive, effective, and relatively inexpen...

Groundwater protection is essential for global sustainable development. Due to the lack of motivation among farmers to build harmless disposal facilities for livestock excrement, there is a huge challenge surrounding groundwater protection, which als...

Flavonoids have multiple functions, including host-plant defense against attacks from herbivorous insects. This manuscript reviewed and analyzed the scientific literature to test the hypothesis that flavonoids can be utilized to manage pests without...

The gastrointestinal system is responsible for the digestion and the absorption of nutrients. At the same time, it is essentially involved in the maintenance of immune homeostasis. The strongest antigen contact in an organism takes place in the diges...