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Modifying crude oil synergistic properties with carbon dots and ultrasonic waves
Antibacterial, self-healing, and pH-responsive PVA/ZIF-8@tannic acid nanocomposite hydrogel for sustained delivery of garlic extract
Circulating gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, systemic inflammation biomarkers and risk of lung cancer in the UK biobank prospective cohort study
A novel isoquinoline mitophagy inducer ameliorates paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy in Drosophila and mouse models
Extended exergy accounting of agricultural resources in China’s four provinces of mountains and rivers
Abstract The agricultural sector in China has to balance resource investment, environmental emissions and yields to satisfy the high dietary demands of the population. In this study, extended exergy accounting (EEA) was conducted to analyse the usefulness of resources invested in agriculture and the yields of strategic importance to China in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan (four provinces of mountains and rivers) in 2017 from a thermodynamics perspective. The fluxes resources of energy, materials, environmental emissions, labour, capital and yields were measured in joules. The results revealed that the exergy from the natural environment, with an energy exergy value of 9.92 EJ, contributed the most to the agricultural sector in the region. The labour and capital exergy values were much lower than those of the other resources. The non-renewable resource inputs were exceeded by emissions. Animal wastes accounted for 80% of emissions. The resource conversion efficiency in Shandong was 0.46, which was higher than those in the region and China. Shanxi exhibited considerable potential to increase its resource conversion efficiency. EEA was applied in agroecological systems to diagnose the shortage of resource depletion and environmental emissions which could be adopted in other zones or sectors from sustainable development perspective.
Complete genomic characterization of global pathogens respiratory syntical virus and human norovirus using probe based capture enrichment
Evaluation of advanced Kalman filter on real-time agricultural soil parameters through an IoT resources-constrained device
Physico-mechanical characterization of 3D-printed PLGA for patient-specific resorbable implants in craniofacial surgery
Hybrid framework for improved PM2.5 prediction based on seasonal-trend decomposition and tailored component processing
Effect of digital noise reduction processing on subcortical speech encoding and relationship to behavioral outcomes
Cacography based Ransomware Email Phishing Attack Prevention using Language Pack Tuned Transformer Language Model
Association of DHEAS levels with COVID19 severity, gender, age, comorbidities, and management strategies
The use of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma 2D and 3D models to evaluate NDV infection, replication and induced cell death
Small non-coding RNAs have predicted roles in reproductive biology and transposable element regulation in the parasitic worm Strongyloides venezuelensis
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil substrate on invasive plant Alternanthera philoxeroides
Corneal epithelium is altered in keratoconus and forme fruste keratoconus
Stability and practical feasibility of the 3D nonlinear guidance law
CytoBead ANA 2 assay - a novel method for the detection of antinuclear antibodies
In vitro activity of phages against periprosthetic joint infection-associated staphylococcal biofilms
Abstract Lytic phages are potential therapeutic options, based on their ability to lyse bacteria in vitro. Although many infection-types for which phage therapy is being considered involve biofilms, in vitro anti-biofilm activity of phage is poorly defined, in part due to a lack of standardized methods for assessment. Here, phages SaMD07phi1 and SaRBI05030phi5 were evaluated against Staphylococcus aureus SaMD07 and SaRBI05030, respectively, in biofilms formed in 96-well plates and on glass beads, and planktonically, in TSB and PBS, with endpoints including by CFUs and Biolog Omnilog hold times. The bead biofilm assay in TSB using the Omnilog (BBTO) was employed to test eight staphylococcal phages against S. aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Staphylococcus lugdunensis from periprosthetic joint infection. Biofilms on beads in TSB showed better eradication than in microtiter wells, with no significant changes with PBS in either format. CFU counts and Omnilog units correlated linearly through 8 h of testing. In the bead assay, CFU counts showed that phage SaMD07phi1 eliminated growth at 4 h, while SaRBI05030phi5 achieved a ~ 3-log reduction at 8 h; with Omnilog hold times of 37 and 28 h, respectively. Diverse activity and good reproducibility of the BBTO was observed among 8 phages, with SaMD07phi1 showing the highest activity. In conclusion the BBTO is a promising potential method for biofilm susceptibility testing.