Analysis of the complex correlations between land use and water quality using the PLS-SEM method combined with fluorescence fingerprinting data.

Accurate analysis of surface water pollution mechanisms is critical for effective environmental restoration and protection. However, evaluation methods for small watersheds with dense populations and complex pollution sources remain limited. This study integrates partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with fluorescence fingerprinting data from excitation-emission matrix-parallel factor analysis (EEM-PARAFAC) to investigate nutrient sources in rivers of southeastern China.

Structural and functional characterization of itaconyl-CoA hydratase and citramalyl-CoA lyase involved in itaconate metabolism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Itaconate is a key anti-inflammatory/antibacterial metabolite in pathogen-macrophage interactions that induces adaptive changes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa-exposed airways. However, the impact and mechanisms underlying itaconate metabolism remain unclear. Our study reveals that itaconate significantly upregulates the expression of pyoverdine in P.

The value of multimodality MR in T staging evaluation after neoadjuvant therapy for rectal cancer.

Background: Surgery is the preferred treatment for rectal cancer, but surgical treatment alone sometimes does not achieve satisfactory results.

Objective: To explore the value of multimodal Magnetic Resonance (MR) images in evaluating T staging of rectal cancer after neoadjuvant therapy and to compare and analyze with pathological results.

Methods: This study retrospectively analyzed 232 patients with stage T3, T4 rectal cancer between January 1, 2017 and October 31, 2022.

aiWave: Volumetric Image Compression With 3-D Trained Affine Wavelet-Like Transform.

Volumetric image compression has become an urgent task to effectively transmit and store images produced in biological research and clinical practice. At present, the most commonly used volumetric image compression methods are based on wavelet transform, such as JP3D. However, JP3D employs an ideal, separable, global, and fixed wavelet basis to convert input images from pixel domain to frequency domain, which seriously limits its performance.

Rectified Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks for Perceptual Image Restoration.

Wasserstein generative adversarial network (WGAN) has attracted great attention due to its solid mathematical background, i.e., to minimize the Wasserstein distance between the generated distribution and the distribution of interest.

End-to-End Optimized Versatile Image Compression With Wavelet-Like Transform.

Built on deep networks, end-to-end optimized image compression has made impressive progress in the past few years. Previous studies usually adopt a compressive auto-encoder, where the encoder part first converts image into latent features, and then quantizes the features before encoding them into bits. Both the conversion and the quantization incur information loss, resulting in a difficulty to optimally achieve arbitrary compression ratio.

The interaction of sodium dodecyl sulfate with trypsin: Multi-spectroscopic analysis, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics simulation.

The bioactivity of enzymes is sensitive to certain factors in their application environment, such as the pH, temperature, ionic strength, and additives, which can alter the native conformation of enzymes. To determine the mechanism by which the interaction of SDS influences the structure and activity of trypsin, molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, DSC, and multi-spectroscopic measures including UV absorption, fluorescence, and circular dichroism were used. The results show that the hydrolytic activity towards casein could be dramatically restrained by SDS.

Preparation of ZnO nanoparticle loaded amidoximated wool fibers as a promising antibiofouling adsorbent for uranium(vi) recovery.

In this study, nano-ZnO loaded amidoxime-functionalized wool fibers (wool-AO@ZnO) were synthesized by radiation-induced copolymerization and co-precipitation as a novel adsorbent with good antibiofouling properties for uranium recovery. The prepared adsorbent was characterized by SEM-EDS and FT-IR spectroscopy. Batch adsorption experiments showed that the prepared wool-AO@ZnO have a good uranium adsorption property at pH 6.