Recent Advances of Photocatalytic CO Reduction Based on Hybrid Molecular Catalyst/Semiconductor Photocatalysts: A Review.

Molecular catalysts often exhibit superior activity and selectivity in the process of photocatalytic reduction of CO (PCR). However, the practical application of molecular catalysts is restricted by the unsatisfied charge separation, low stability, and recycling difficulty. Fortunately, constructing organic-inorganic hybrids of molecular catalysts and semiconductors can tackle the above problems, which can improve the efficiency of charge separation and keep beneficial active sites simultaneously.

Three-Dimensional Mesoporous Covalent Organic Framework for Photocatalytic Oxidative Dehydrogenation to Quinoline.

Developing precious metal-free catalysts for organic reactions under mild conditions is urgent. Herein, we report a three-dimensional covalent organic framework (3D-COF) with high crystallinity and permanent pores, termed 3D-TABPA-COF, for the oxidation of tetrahydroquinoline to quinoline. The 3D-TABPA-COF assembled based on ,-bis(4'-amino-[1,1'-biphenyl]-4-yl)-[1,1'-biphenyl]-4,4'-diamine (TABPA) is the catalytic active center for the conversion of tetrahydroquinoline.

Incidental Finding of an Intratendinous Supraspinatus Cyst.

We present the case of a 32-year-old male patient with an intratendinous cyst of the supraspinatus tendon identified during shoulder arthroscopy. The patient presented with right shoulder pain, worsened by shoulder flexion and abduction, after playing darts. There was no history of trauma.

Mapping epilepsy biomarkers: a bibliometric and content analysis.

Epilepsy, a complex global neurological disorder, has spurred extensive research efforts focused on enhancing diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, with a growing emphasis on the identification of biomarkers. This bibliometric study examines 1,774 publications from 2000 to 2023, revealing a notable increase in research activity, particularly in the past decade. The US, China, and the UK lead contributions, with Asian countries exhibiting growing potential.

A simple and cost-effective hybrid stationary phase for the separation of peptides, proteins and benzene derivatives through liquid chromatography.

A very simple and cost-effective silica-based hybrid stationary phase was synthesized for the separation of five synthetic peptides, five proteins, and benzene derivatives. Silica monolith was synthesized sol-gel process. Particles obtained through the grinding of silica monolith were suspended in methanol and sedimented under gravity to obtain sub-2 μm particles.

A digital health-supported and community pharmacy-based lifestyle intervention program for adults with pre-diabetes: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: Pre-diabetes indicates an elevated risk of developing type-2 diabetes and presents a window for preventive actions. The Pre-diabetes Intervention, Management and Evaluation (PRIME) programme is a community pharmacy-based pre-diabetes management programme that uses a mobile application for self-monitoring and pre-diabetes education, aiming to promote lifestyle changes among participants with pre-diabetes.

Methods And Analysis: This is a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial that aims to evaluate the impact of the PRIME programme on participants' clinical outcomes and explore participants' and pharmacists' views towards its implementation.

Bioaerosol Inactivation by a Cold Plasma Ionizer Coupled with an Electrostatic Precipitator.

Despite best efforts in air purification, airborne infectious diseases will continue to spread due to the continuous emission of bioaerosols by the host/infected person. Hence, a shift in focus from air purification to bioaerosol inactivation is urgently needed. To explore the potential of the cold plasma technology for preventing rapid spread of airborne infectious diseases, we studied a cold plasma ionizer (CPI) device and an electrostatic precipitator (ESP)-coupled CPI (CPI-ESP) device for the inactivation and cleaning of surface-spread microorganisms and bioaerosols, using porcine respiratory coronavirus (PRCV), (), and aerosolized as representatives.

Stochastic switching and analog-state programmable memristor and its utilization for homomorphic encryption hardware.

Homomorphic encryption performs computations on encrypted data without decrypting, thereby eliminating security issues during the data communication between clouds and edges. As a result, there is a growing need for homomorphic encryption hardware (HE-HW) for the edges, where low power consumption and a compact form factor are desired. Here, a Pt/TaO/Mo metallic cluster-type memristors (Mo-MCM) characterized by the Mo as a mobile species, and its utilization for the HE-HW via a 1-trasistor-1-memristor (1T1M) array as a prototype HE-HW is proposed.

Carbon-Boosted and Nitrogen-Stabilized Isolated Single-Atom Sites for Direct Dehydrogenation of Lower Alkanes.

Lower olefins are widely used in the chemical industry as basic carbon-based feedstocks. Here, we report the catalytic system featuring isolated single-atom sites of iridium (Ir) that can function within the entire temperature range of 300-600 °C and transform alkanes with conversions close to thermodynamics-dictated levels. The high turnover frequency values of the Ir system are comparable to those of homogeneous catalytic reactions.

Direct Microenvironment Modulation of CO Electroreduction: Negatively Charged Ag Sites Going beyond Catalytic Surface Reactions.

Electrochemical reduction of CO is an important way to achieve carbon neutrality, and much effort has been devoted to the design of active sites. Apart from elevating the intrinsic activity, expanding the functionality of active sites may also boost catalytic performance. Here we designed "negatively charged Ag (nc-Ag)" active sites featuring both the intrinsic activity and the capability of regulating microenvironment, through modifying Ag nanoparticles with atomically dispersed Sn species.

Memristive Monte Carlo DropConnect crossbar array enabled by device and algorithm co-design.

Device and algorithm co-design aims to develop energy-efficient hardware that directly implements complex algorithms and optimizes algorithms to match the hardware's characteristics. Specifically, neuromorphic computing algorithms are constantly growing in complexity, necessitating an ongoing search for hardware implementations capable of handling these intricate algorithms. Here, we present a memristive Monte Carlo DropConnect (MC-DC) crossbar array developed through a hardware algorithm co-design approach.

Correction: Insights Into the Use of a Digital Healthy Aging Coach (AGATHA) for Older Adults From Malaysia: App Engagement, Usability, and Impact Study.

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Insights Into the Use of a Digital Healthy Aging Coach (AGATHA) for Older Adults From Malaysia: App Engagement, Usability, and Impact Study.

Background: Digital inclusion is considered a pivotal social determinant of health, particularly for older adults who may face significant barriers to digital access due to physical, sensory, and social limitations. Avatar for Global Access to Technology for Healthy Aging (AGATHA) is a virtual healthy aging coach developed by the World Health Organization to address these challenges. Designed as a comprehensive virtual coach, AGATHA comprises a gamified platform that covers multiple health-related topics and modules aimed at fostering user engagement and promoting healthy aging.

Incidence and predictors of posttraumatic epilepsy and cognitive impairment in patients with traumatic brain injury: A retrospective cohort study in Malaysia.

Objective: Posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) significantly impacts morbidity and mortality, yet local PTE data remain scarce. In addition, there is a lack of evidence on cognitive comorbidity in individuals with PTE in the literature. We sought to identify potential PTE predictors and evaluate cognitive comorbidity in patients with PTE.

The Effect of an Online Health Literacy Promotion Program for Filipino Domestic Workers: A Mixed Method Study.

Introduction: Health literacy refers to acquiring and utilizing health information to make health-related actions and decisions. Filipino domestic workers with low health literacy are often vulnerable to health problems due to poor living and working conditions.

Objective: This study examined the effect of an online health literacy promotion program on health literacy and health knowledge of Filipino domestic workers in Macao.

Effect of crystal facets in plasmonic catalysis.

While the role of crystal facets is well known in traditional heterogeneous catalysis, this effect has not yet been thoroughly studied in plasmon-assisted catalysis, where attention has primarily focused on plasmon-derived mechanisms. Here, we investigate plasmon-assisted electrocatalytic CO reduction using different shapes of plasmonic Au nanoparticles - nanocube (NC), rhombic dodecahedron (RD), and octahedron (OC) - exposing {100}, {110}, and {111} facets, respectively. Upon plasmon excitation, Au OCs doubled CO Faradaic efficiency (FE) and tripled CO partial current density (j) compared to a dark condition, with NCs also improving under illumination.

Circular RNA as a source of neoantigens for cancer vaccines.

Background: The effectiveness of somatic neoantigen-based immunotherapy is often hindered by the limited number of mutations in tumors with low to moderate mutation burden. Focusing on microsatellite-stable colorectal cancer (CRC), this study investigates the potential of tumor-associated circular RNAs (circRNAs) as an alternative source of neoepitopes in CRC.

Methods: Tumor-associated circRNAs in CRC were identified using the MiOncoCirc database and ribo-depletion RNA sequencing of paired clinical normal and tumor samples.

Fluorescently Modified NDM-1: A Versatile Drug Sensor for Rapid β-Lactam Antibiotic and Inhibitor Screening.

We successfully developed a fluorescent drug sensor from clinically relevant New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1). The F70 residue was chosen to be replaced with a cysteine for conjugation with thiol-reactive fluorescein-5-maleimide to form fluorescent F70Cf, where "f" refers to fluorescein-5-maleimide. Our proteolytic studies of unlabeled F70C and labeled F70Cf monitored by electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) revealed that fluorescein-5-maleimide was specifically linked to C70 in 1:1 mole ratio (F70C:fluorophore).

Umbilical Cord Plasma Lysophospholipids and Triacylglycerols Associated with Birthweight Percentiles.

Dysregulated transplacental lipid transfer and fetal-placental lipid metabolism affect birthweight, as does maternal hyperglycemia. As the mechanisms are unclear, we aimed to identify the lipids in umbilical cord plasma that were most associated with birthweight. Seventy-five Chinese women with singleton pregnancies recruited into the GUSTO mother-offspring cohort were selected from across the glycemic range based on a mid-gestation 75 g oral glucose tolerance test, excluding pre-existing diabetes.

"What's up with price controls?" Stakeholders' views on the regulation of pharmaceutical pricing in Malaysia.

Escalating costs have made the accessibility of drugs one of the biggest challenges faced by the Malaysian government. The government agreed to regulate drug prices by means of external reference pricing, but its proposed policy had a setback owing to much opposition from the pharmaceutical industry. The policy did gain support from the public and from non-governmental organisations because it ensured easy access to affordable medicines.

Patellar Cartilage Bossing Causing Patellofemoral Pain After Cartilage Repair With Hyalofast® Scaffold and Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate (BMAC).

Chondral lesions of the knee are common orthopedic issues encountered in daily practice. Hyalofast (Anika Therapeutics, Bedford, Massachusetts) grafting with bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) has been shown, in numerous studies, to be clinically efficacious in the surgical treatment of these lesions. We describe a case of chondral lesions in the knee initially successfully treated with arthroscopic chondroplasty and Hyalofast grafting with BMAC, but who subsequently developed patellar cartilage bossing, causing anterior patellofemoral joint pain eight months after surgery.

Engineering Molecular Heterostructured Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction.

Introducing a second metal species into atomically dispersed metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) catalysts to construct diatomic sites (DASs) is an effective strategy to elevate their activities and stabilities. However, the common pyrolysis-based method usually leads to substantial uncertainty for the formation of DASs, and the precise identification of the resulting DASs is also rather difficult. In this regard, we developed a two-step specific-adsorption strategy (pyrolysis-free) and constructed a DAS catalyst featuring FeCo "molecular heterostructures" (FeCo-MHs).