The association between remnant cholesterol and bone mineral density in US adults: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2013-2018.

Background: Previous evidence showed a possible link of dyslipidemia with bone health. Nevertheless, the correlation of remnant cholesterol (RC) with bone mineral density (BMD) has yet to be well investigated. This study investigated the association of RC with total spine BMD in general Americans.

PKSEA-Net: A prior knowledge supervised edge-aware multi-task network for retinal arteriolar morphometry.

Retinal fundus images serve as a non-invasive modality to obtain information pertaining to retinal vessels through fundus photography, thereby offering insights into cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Retinal arteriolar morphometry has emerged as the most convenient and fundamental clinical methodology in the realm of patient screening and diagnosis. Nevertheless, the analysis of retinal arterioles is challenging attributable to imaging noise, stochastic fuzzy characteristics, and blurred boundaries proximal to blood vessels.

Carboxymethyl cellulose gels immobilized Ag/AgCl-ZnO nanoparticles for improving sunlight-catalyzed antibacterial performance.

Antibacterial sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) gels were prepared via immobilizing ZnO and/or Ag/AgCl in situ to inhibit the aggregation of nano-photocatalyst. Epichlorohydrin was used as a crosslinking agent to prepare CMC gel, simultaneously introducing chlorine-containing branch chains as Cl reservoir to deposit AgCl. The composite gels presented pH responsive swelling properties, with the minimum swelling ratio at pH 8 and pH 4 for CMC gels containing Ag/AgCl and ZnO, respectively.

Sclerostin decreases in regular swimmers after ice swimming and is associated with meteorin-like protein serum levels.

Cold and exercise are two important stimuli affecting the secretion of osteokines and adipomyokines, which often occur simultaneously. However, few studies have investigated the changes in osteokines and adipomyokines induced by exercise during severe cold and their corresponding associations. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the changes in sclerostin and meteorin-like (metrnl) protein before and after cold exercise (ice swimming [IS]) and observe their correlation.

[Effectiveness analysis of minimally invasive safe approach to knee joint for treatment of avulsion fractures of tibial insertion of posterior cruciate ligament].

Objective: To analyze the effectiveness of minimally invasive safe approach of the knee joint in the treatment of avulsion fractures of the tibial insertion of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL).

Methods: The clinical data of 26 patients with avulsion fractures of tibial insertion of PCL treated with open reduction and internal fixation via minimally invasive safe approach of the knee joint between February 2019 and March 2022 were analyzed retrospectively. There were 18 males and 8 females with an average age of 45.

Biochar improved the composting quality of seaweeds and cow manure mixture and altered the microbial community.

The beneficial effects of biochar addition during composting have been proved for many feedstocks, like manures and crop straws. However, the effect of biochar on the quality of composting product with seaweed as the feedstock and the bacterial response has not been investigated. In this study, the wheat straw biochar addition on the quality of the composting product and the bacterial response was explored at the rate of 0-10%.

Effects of Oxathiapiprolin on the Structure, Diversity and Function of Soil Fungal Community.

Pesticides can affect non-target microorganisms in the soil and are directly related to soil microecological health and environmental safety. Oxathiapiprolin is a piperidinyl thiazole isoxazoline fungicide that shows excellent control effect against oomycete fungal diseases, including late blight, downy mildew, root rot, stem rot, and blight. Though it can exist stably in the soil for a long time, its effects on soil microbial structure and diversity are not well investigated.

Silver-based nanocomposite for fabricating high performance value-added cotton.

Cotton is one of the most important cellulose fibers, but the absence of antimicrobial capacity along with the self-cleaning, UV protection and electric conductivity often frustrates its wider applications in many fields. Nanotechnology has provided new insights into the development of functional nanomaterials with unique chemical and physical properties. Silver has been effectively incorporated into the cotton fabrics as the antimicrobial agents due to the strong inhibitory and antimicrobial effects on a broad spectrum of bacteria, fungi and virus with low toxicity to human being.

Toxicity of the novel fungicide oxathiapiprolin to Chlorella vulgaris: Assessments at different levels of biological organization.

Oxathiapiprolin (Otp) is the first successful oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP) inhibitor in oomycete control. It is regarded as a significant milestone in the history of fungicide discoveries and has vast application prospects. There is little available information on the ecotoxicity of Otp to aquatic organisms.

Effects of biocontrol Bacillus and fermentation bacteria additions on the microbial community, functions and antibiotic resistance genes of prickly ash seed oil meal-biochar compost.

This study evaluated the effects of biocontrol Bacillus and fermenting bacteria addition on the microbial community, metabolic functions and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) of new prickly ash seed oil meal (PSOM)-biochar composting. The results showed that the addition of Bacillus subtilis and fermentation bacteria significantly increased the NH-N, bacterial abundance and fungal diversity of compost while decreasing the relative abundances (RAs) of carbon metabolism genes in mature compost. NH-N was significantly correlated with microbial abundance and diversity, and its increase was closely related to microbial amino acid metabolism.

Study on a Mechanical Semi-Active Heave Compensation System of Drill String for Use on Floating Drilling Platform.

There are some disadvantages for existing heave compensation systems of drill string used for the Floating Drilling Platform (FDP), including high energy consumption, large and complex structure, and expensive manufacturing and maintenance costs. In view of the above, we present a streamlined mechanical semi-active heave compensation system (MSAHC) in this study. This system consists of active compensation part with the pinion and rack and passive compensation part.