Energy efficiency and productivity improvements analysis in a Brazilian steel plant: simulation model using JaamSim open source software by Rodrigo de Paula Oliveira, Wilson Trigueiro de Sousa Júnior, Roberta Alves, Alexandre Ferreira de Pinho, Helio Tavares de Sá Neto

“…Still hardly used to explore issues related to sustainability, a DES model allows the representation of an existing system in a virtual space, providing an ideal environment for conducting experiments, without the need to make changes in practice. …”
Get full text

Uranium Mineral Transport in the Peña Blanca Desert: Dissolution or Fragmentation? Simulation in Sediment Column Systems by Victoria Pérez-Reyes, Rocio M. Cabral-Lares, Jesús G. Canche-Tello, Marusia Rentería-Villalobos, Guillermo González-Sánchez, Blanca P. Carmona-Lara, Cristina Hernández-Herrera, Fabián Faudoa-Gómez, Yair Rodríguez-Guerra, Gregorio Vázquez-Olvera, Jorge Carrillo-Flores, Ignacio A. Reyes-Cortés, Daniel Hernández-Cruz, René Loredo-Portales, María E. Montero-Cabrera

“…This study presents an experimental simulation of uranium transport in SPB sediments using three approaches: (i) a batch experiment to evaluate the ideal adsorption of (UO₂)²⁺ by fine sediment; (ii) a column system fed with 569 mgU L⁻¹ UO₂(NO₃)₂ to simulate adsorption by different sediment particle sizes; (iii) a column system with an upper horizon of uranophane from the area, fed with deionized water, to simulate uranium weathering and transport in particulate material, determined by liquid scintillation counting, revealed that the clay fraction had the highest adsorption capacity for U. …”
Get full text

Apelinergic System Affects Electrocardiographic Abnormalities Induced by Doxorubicin by Kasper Buczma, Hubert Borzuta, Katarzyna Kamińska, Dorota Sztechman, Katarzyna Matusik, Jan Pawlonka, Michał Kowara, Barbara Buchalska, Agnieszka Cudnoch-Jędrzejewska

“…Electrocardiography (ECG) and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) with assessment of left ventricular (LV) systolic parameters were conducted on the first and last days of the experiment. <b>Results</b>: Lower doses of APJ agonists prevented the prolongation of QT and QTc intervals induced by DOX, while higher doses of these drugs exerted no such effect. …”
Get full text

Experimental study on pressure relief blasting in rock-blast tunnel by ZhenLin Chen, Wenjing Cai, Meng Wei, Cassandra J. Rutherford, Xiao Zhu, Zelin Wang, Tao Su

“…The traditionally obtained stress attenuation coefficient is shown to require modification through further in-situ experiments. Future studies will refine this coefficient, contributing to the development of more reliable methods for safeguarding urban lifelines. …”
Get full text

A Cornflower Extract Containing N-Feruloylserotonin Reduces Inflammation in Human Skin by Neutralizing CCL17 and CCL22 and Inhibiting COX-2 and 5-LOX by Christophe Carola, Andrew Salazar, Christin Rakers, Franck Himbert, Quoc-Tuan Do, Philippe Bernard, Joerg von Hagen

“…N-Feruloylserotonin was identified as a neutraligand of CCL22 in these experiments. A cornflower extract containing N-feruloylserotonin was selected for further in vitro tests: the gene expression modulation of inflammation biomarkers induced by CCL17 or CCL22 in the presence or absence of this extract was assessed in the HaCaT keratinocyte cell line. …”
Get full text

Growth, yield and nutrient uptake of two tomato varieties using some agricultural wastes as nutrient sources on an Alfisol of derived savanna by Christopher Aboyeji, Gbadamosi Abiodun, Temidayo Olofintoye, Adeniyi Helen, Afolayan John, Bambgose Oluwasola, Adebukola Adewumi

“…These wastes could serve as alternative materials for soil amendment and nutrient sources for crop production. A screen house experiment was conducted for two successive seasons (2019 and 2020) to evaluate the performance of charred poultry feather waste and plantain peel as nutrient sources on the growth, yield and nutrient uptake of two varieties (Eva and Nemo-netta) of tomato.Method Four levels each of charred poultry feather waste and plantain peel at 2, 5, 8, and 10 t PF ha-1, control and 200 kg NPK ha-1 were used as treatments. …”
Get full text

Soil moisture controls over carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions: a review by Yuefeng Hao, Jiafu Mao, Charles M. Bachmann, Forrest M. Hoffman, Gerbrand Koren, Haishan Chen, Hanqin Tian, Jiangong Liu, Jing Tao, Jinyun Tang, Lingcheng Li, Laibao Liu, Martha Apple, Mingjie Shi, Mingzhou Jin, Qing Zhu, Steve Kannenberg, Xiaoying Shi, Xi Zhang, Yaoping Wang, Yilin Fang, Yongjiu Dai

“…The interactive model-experiment framework emerges as a promising approach for linking experimental data with model refinement, enabling continuous improvement of CS-GHG predictions. …”
Get full text

Method of Helicopter Turboshaft Engines’ Protection During Surge in Starting Mode by Denys Baranovskyi, Serhii Vladov, Maryna Bulakh, Victoria Vysotska, Viktor Vasylenko, Jan Czyżewski

“…The backpropagation algorithm with hyperparameter optimization via Bayesian optimization was used to train the network. The computational experiments result with the TV3-117 turboshaft engine on a semi-naturalistic simulation stand showed that the proposed model effectively prevents compressor surge by stabilizing pressure, vibration, and gas temperature and reduces rotor speed by 29.7% under start-up conditions. …”
Get full text

Chasing the Beginning of Reionization in the JWST Era by Christopher Cain, Garett Lopez, Anson D’Aloisio, Julian B. Muñoz, Rolf A. Jansen, Rogier A. Windhorst, Nakul Gangolli

“…Observations by multiple experiments (including JWST, Roman, and CMB-S4) in the coming years will establish a concordance picture of reionization's beginning or uncover such deficiencies.…”
Get full text

Optimization of cultivation parameters for bovine respiratory syncytial virus strain Vologda/2019 by V. V. Kirpichenko, S. V. Kononova, I. N. Shumilova, A. A. Nesterov, M. V. Turkova, Ye. A. Bukhon, D. V. Romenskaya, A. V. Sprygin, B. L. Manin, O. P. Byadovskaya

“…The Vologda/2019 strain of the bovine respiratory syncytial infection virus isolated from biological material obtained from a calf with respiratory symptoms was used in the experiment. The strain was adapted to the continuous cell culture derived from bovine turbinate tissue (BT) and deposited in the State collection of microorganism strains at FGBI “ARRIAH”. …”
Get full text

Genomic analysis and antibiotic resistance of a multidrug-resistant bacterium isolated from pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plant sludge by Ningyu Sun, Hu Gao, Xinbo Zhang, Zeyou Chen, Anping Peng

“…N4 exhibited high resistance to both antibiotics and metals, with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of chloramphenicol and cefazolin reaching 1024 mg·L−1 and MICs of Cu2+ and Zn2+ reaching 512 mg·L−1. Co-sensitization experiments revealed that when antibiotics are co-existing with heavy metal ions (such as TET and Cd2+, AMP and Cu2+) could enhance the resistance of N4 to them. …”
Get full text

Event-Based Slip Estimation Framework for Space Rovers Traversing Soft Terrains by Ruqayya Alhammadi, Yahya Zweiri, Ahmad Abubakar, Mubarak Yakubu, Laith Abuassi, Lakmal Seneviratne

“…This framework consists of a denoising filter and a Hough transformer. Experiments conducted on a single-wheel test rig demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed event-based framework in estimating slip ratios that range from 2% to 90% with an estimated accuracy of above 95% in well-lit conditions and above 94% in low-light conditions. …”
Get full text

Multi-Year Pseudo-Persistence, Mobility, and Degradation of Glyphosate and Its Degradation Product (AMPA) in a Gleysol in Quebec (Canada) by Stéphane Petit, Marc Lucotte, Gilles Tremblay

“…This study evaluates the pseudo-persistence of glyphosate over three growing seasons in agricultural soils (gleysol) in Québec, Canada. The experiment was carried out in long established plots following a corn–soybean–wheat rotation cycle with various combinations of N-fertilization (mineral N-fertilization, organic N-fertilization, without fertilization) and tillage techniques (conventional tillage and no-till). …”
Get full text

Effect of Nano-Silica on Mechanical Properties and Cytotoxicity of Calcium-Silicate-Based Root Canal Filling Materials by Hao He, Bolang Hao, Xiang Xiong, Yi Cheng, Jia Lou, Zheyu He, Dongyang Li, Zhihuan Wang, Jian Qin

“…The residual NS and the calcium hydroxide (CH; Ca (OH)₂) content were investigated to analyze the hydration products. The experiments demonstrated that NS facilitates the hydration of calcium-silicate-based materials, enhances the formation of hydration products, and ensures effective porosity filling. …”
Get full text

TRAIL and Ceruloplasmin Inverse Correlation as a Representative Crosstalk between Inflammation and Oxidative Stress by Veronica Tisato, Stefania Gallo, Elisabetta Melloni, Claudio Celeghini, Angelina Passaro, Giorgio Zauli, Paola Secchiero, Carlo Bergamini, Alessandro Trentini, Gloria Bonaccorsi, Giuseppe Valacchi, Giovanni Zuliani, Carlo Cervellati

“…After stratification for high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels, the inverse association between TRAIL and ceruloplasmin levels remained strong and significant (r=−0.508, p<0.001, R2=0.260) only in the presence of inflammation, confirming the role of inflammation as emerged in in vitro experiments where recombinant TRAIL decreased ceruloplasmin expression levels in TNF-treated PBMC cultures. …”
Get full text

Effects of fertilizer application on the bacterial community and weathering characteristics of typical purple parent rocks by Xuan Wang, Xuan Wang, Jixia Zhao, Chunpei Li, Chunpei Li, Limei Deng, Limei Deng, Rongyang Cui, Rongyang Cui, Tao Zhou, Tao Zhou, Zakir Hussain, Zakir Hussain, Gangcai Liu

“…However, the mechanisms underlying the influence of fertilizer application on weathering remain poorly understood, especially with respect to bacterial intervention.MethodsIn this study, purple parent rocks from Shaximiao Group (J2s) and Penglaizhen Group (J3p) were selected to investigate the effects of fertilizer application on the bacterial community and weathering characteristics of these rock by leaching experiment.ResultsThe results revealed that: fertilizer application, especially when at high levels, greatly altered the abundance, diversity and composition of the bacterial community in weathered products. …”
Get full text

Influence of Pectolytic Enzymes and Selected Yeast Strains on the Chemical Composition of Blackberry Wines by Tomić Antonija, Žulj Marin Mihaljević, Andabaka Željko, Tomaz Ivana, Jakobović Snježana, Jeromel Ana

“…The concentration of procyanidin B2 which was the predominant flavan-3-ol compound, ranged from 103 to 117 mg/L, and there were no significant differences between individual wine variants in the experiment. Rutin is the predominant compound in the flavonol group, followed by quercetin-3-O-glucoside. …”
Get full text

Effect of dietary lecithin on antioxidant defense of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss broodstock and offspring by Fatemeh Jafari, Naser Agh, Farzaneh Noori, Abdoljabbar Irani, Reyhaneh Ravanbakhsh, Mahdi Imani

“…Materials and methods: For this purpose, fish were fed four isoproteic and isolipidic diets containing graded levels of soybean lecithin (SBL) as a source of phospholipid (including 0, 2, 4 and 6%) for 190 days. At the end of the experiment, the samples of serum, ovum, egg and larvae were collected for antioxidant activity of CAT, SOD and MDA analyses. …”
Get full text

Analysis of the anthropogenic effect on the Silencio River in Salvador Escalante, Michoacán, México by Mario Alberto Pérez-Méndez, Guadalupe Selene Fraga-Cruz, Gustavo Álvarez-Gómez, Fabricio Nápoles-Rivera, Gladys Jiménez-García, Rafael Maya-Yescas

“…., factors) was performed, based on a 2 $\hat {}$ ˆ (4-1) factorial design of experiments at laboratory-scale, measuring pH, chemical oxygen demand (COD) and electrical conductivity (responses). …”
Get full text

Semantic-Injected Bidirectional Multiscale Flow Estimation Network for Infrared and Visible Image Registration by Chunna Tian, Liuwei Xu, Xiangyang Li, Heng Zhou, Xiqun Song

“…SFE exploits semantic knowledge to promote fine alignment of different foreground objects and improve the accuracy of cross-modal image registration. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art registration networks on both the MSRS and RoadScene infrared and visible image registration datasets.…”
Get full text