Integrated machine learning algorithms identify KIF15 as a potential prognostic biomarker and correlated with stemness in triple-negative breast cancer.

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) have the potential to self-renew and induce cancer, which may contribute to a poor prognosis by enabling metastasis, recurrence, and therapy resistance. Hence, this study was performed to identify the association between CSC-related genes and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) development. Stemness gene sets were downloaded from StemChecker.

The role of extracellular organic matter on the cyanobacteria ultrafiltration process.

The membrane fouling caused by extracellular organic matter (EOM) and algal cells and organic matter removal of two typical cyanobacteria (M. aeruginosa and Pseudoanabaena sp.) during ultrafiltration (UF) process were studied in this work.

Disinfection by-product formation and toxicity evaluation for chlorination with powered activated carbon.

With the deterioration of source water quality, pre-chlorination and pre-addition of powdered activated carbon (PAC) have been widely applied to improve water treatment efficiency, which would lead to PAC exposure to chlorine. Although previous studies reported that some emerging carbon materials (e.g.

Powdered activated carbon-catalyzed chlorine oxidation of bisphenol-A and methylene blue: Identification of the free radical and effect of the carbon surface functional group.

The effect of powdered activated carbon (PAC) on chlorine oxidation is not well understood, therefore this study was designed to further investigate the chlorine oxidation mechanism with the presence of PAC. The oxidation processes of two model organic pollutants (bisphenol-A and methylene blue) with chlorine were compared in the absence and presence of PAC. The results showed a significant increase in reaction rates with the addition of PAC.

The role of interactions between extracellular organic matter and humic substances on coagulation-ultrafiltration process.

Removals of extracellular organic matter (EOM) derived from cyanobacterium M. aeruginosa and humic acid (HA) in single-component and bi-component systems and the interactions during the coagulation-ultrafiltration (C-UF) process were investigated in this study. In a single-component system, only 23% EOM could be removed by alum at dose as high as 6 mg/L, which induced serious membrane fouling in the following UF process.

Characterization and application of poly-ferric-titanium-silicate-sulfate in disperse and reactive dye wastewaters treatment.

A novel coagulant poly-ferric-titanium-silicate-sulfate (PFTS) was synthesized and employed to treat two typical kinds of dye wastewaters-disperse blue and reactive yellow. The results indicated that PFTS with a Si/Fe molar ratio of 0.02 exhibited superior coagulation performance, especially under alkaline condition.

A comparison study of in-situ coagulation and magnetic ion exchange (MIEX) as pre-treatments for ultrafiltration: Evaluating effectiveness of organic matters removals and fouling mitigation.

This work was designed to compare the effectiveness of in-situ coagulation and MIEX as pre-treatments prior to ultrafiltration (UF) to improve organic matter (OM) removal and mitigate membrane fouling. Three kinds of OMs, i.e.

Fabrication of a novel Z-scheme g-CN/BiO heterojunction photocatalyst with enhanced visible light-driven activity toward organic pollutants.

In this work, highly efficient g-CN/BiO heterojunction photocatalysts have been successfully fabricated by a facile method. Compared with the bare photocatalysts, the obtained g-CN/BiO hybrid photocatalysts exhibited efficient degradation activity toward methylene blue (MB), phenol, rhodamine B (RhB), and bisphenol A (BPA) under visible light irradiation. The influences of different g-CN contents on the photocatalytic efficiency of the hybrid photocatalysts have been investigated.