A case report and statewide surveillance of "weak meat" condition of Alaska weathervane scallops, Patinopecten caurinus, linked to a recently identified pathogenic parasite, Merocystis kathae (Apicomplexa: Aggregatidae).

Weathervane scallop, Patinopecten caurinus, the largest scallop species in the world, is distributed from northern California, U.S.A.

Unsupervised foveal vision neural architecture with top-down attention.

Deep learning architectures are an extremely powerful tool for recognizing and classifying images. However, they require supervised learning and normally work on vectors of the size of image pixels and produce the best results when trained on millions of object images. To help mitigate these issues, we propose an end-to-end architecture that fuses bottom-up saliency and top-down attention with an object recognition module to focus on relevant data and learn important features that can later be fine-tuned for a specific task, employing only unsupervised learning.

Capacitance of Nanoporous Carbon-Based Supercapacitors Is a Trade-Off between the Concentration and the Separability of the Ions.

Nanoporous carbon-based supercapacitors store electricity through adsorption of ions from the electrolyte at the surface of the electrodes. Room temperature ionic liquids, which show the largest ion concentrations among organic liquid electrolytes, should in principle yield larger capacitances. Here, we show by using electrochemical measurements that the capacitance is not significantly affected when switching from a pure ionic liquid to a conventional organic electrolyte using the same ionic species.

Uptake and degradation of Orange II by zinc aluminum layered double oxides.

In this work ZnAl-layered double oxide composites (LDO) were developed to remove organic dyes in wastewater by adsorption and photocatalysis. Various LDO composites were synthesized by adjusting synthetic parameters including the molar ratio of Zn to Al, and calcination temperature. LDO adsorption and photocatalytic properties for decomposition of organic dyes were also investigated.

A review of molecular modelling of electric double layer capacitors.

Electric double-layer capacitors are a family of electrochemical energy storage devices that offer a number of advantages, such as high power density and long cyclability. In recent years, research and development of electric double-layer capacitor technology has been growing rapidly, in response to the increasing demand for energy storage devices from emerging industries, such as hybrid and electric vehicles, renewable energy, and smart grid management. The past few years have witnessed a number of significant research breakthroughs in terms of novel electrodes, new electrolytes, and fabrication of devices, thanks to the discovery of innovative materials (e.