Publications by authors named "Shengjie You"

Valuable nutrients such as ammonium and phosphate exist in teensy concentrations in marine-culture wastewater (MCW), causing their recovery challenging with inefficient conventional methods. Air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) is systematically explored for the first time to recover nutrients and pure water from low-nutrient MCW. This study assessed the AGMD performance in resource recovery by conducting a thorough investigation and optimization of various parameter conditions.

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Ultrafine particles (UFPs; PM) possess intensified health risk due to their smaller size and unique spatial variability. One of major emission sources for UFPs is vehicle exhaust, which varies based on the traffic composition in each type of roadside sector. The current challenge of epidemiological UFPs study is limited characterization ability due to expensive instruments.

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Anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) offer promise in municipal wastewater treatment, with potential benefits including high-quality effluent, energy recovery, sludge reduction, and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. However, AnMBR face hurdles like membrane fouling, low energy recovery, etc. In light of net-zero carbon target and circular economy strategy, this work sought to evaluate novel AnMBR configurations, focusing on performance, fouling mitigation, net-energy generation, and nutrients-enhancing integrated configurations, such as forward osmosis (FO), membrane distillation (MD), bioelectrochemical systems (BES), membrane photobioreactor (MPBR), and partial nitrification-anammox (PN/A).

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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) widely exist in vivo and participate in many physiological processes, thus emerging as important targets for drug development. Approximately 30% of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs target GPCRs. To date, the 'one disease, one target, one molecule' strategy no longer meets the demands of drug development.

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Docetaxel (Doc), as a first-line chemotherapy drug for prostate cancer (PC), often loses its therapeutic efficacy due to acquired resistance and lack of targeting specificity. Therefore, there is a need to develop a novel drug that can overcome Doc resistance and enhance its targeting ability to inhibit PC progression. In this study, we prepared Au/Doc/Quer@PDA/A10-3.

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Recently, many efforts have been made to address the rapid spread of newly identified COVID-19 virus variants. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is considered a potential early warning tool for identifying the rapid spread of this virus. This study investigated the occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in eight wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and their sewerage systems which serve most of the population in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 few years ago, the increasing of the number of medical waste has become a huge issue because of their harmful impact to environment. A major concern associated to the limitation of technologies for dealing with medical waste, especially conventional technologies, are overcapacities since pandemic occurs. Moreover, the outbreak of new viruses from post COVID-19 should become a serious attention to be prevented not only environmental issues but also the spreading of viruses to new pandemic near the future.

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The tomato ripening process contains complex changes, including ethylene signalling, cell wall softening and numerous metabolic changes. So far, much is still unknown about how tomato plants precisely coordinate fruit maturation and metabolic regulation. In this paper, the ERF family transcription factor SlERF.

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Purpose: This study identified the function of neural precursor cell expressed developmentally down-regulated 4-like (NEDD4L) on bladder cancer (BLCA).

Methods: NEDD4L expression in BLCA patients was scrutinized. The function of NEDD4L on the viability, apoptosis, migration and invasion of BLCA cells was evaluated by cell counting kit-8, flow cytometry and Transwell assays.

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MiRNAs are essential epigenetic modulators that can regulate protein expression. According to the principle of base complementary pairing, miRNA is partially or completely complementary to the 3'-UTR region of its target gene, by which it inhibits the translation of the targeted gene. This study investigated the role of miR-24-1-5p in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).

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Nitric oxide (NO) is an air pollutant impacting the environment, human health, and other biotas. Among the technologies to treat NO pollution, photocatalytic oxidation under visible light is considered an effective means. This study describes photocatalytic oxidation to degrade NO under visible light with the support of a photocatalyst.

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Because of the small size effect leading to the high bandgap of TiO P25, the photocatalytic membrane using this photocatalyst has low antifouling efficiency. This study prepared CuO@TiO composite photocatalyst with a lower bandgap than TiO P25 and used it as antifouling coatings on the PES membrane with PAA intermediate adhesive layer. PAA was grafted onto the surface of the PES membranes through free radicals generated by the cold plasma treatment of the PES membrane.

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This study aimed to investigate the effects of scaffold matrix attachment region binding protein 1 (SMAR1) on the development of bladder cancer (BCa). SMAR1 expression in paired tumor and corresponding adjacent normal tissues from 55 BCa patients was detected by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. BCa cells were transfected to regulate SMAR1 expression.

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Vitrification technology provides a solution for the issue of safe disposal of hazardous waste containing harmful chemical composition and organic pollutants. This review discusses application of vitrification technologies to treat hazardous waste including, asbestos, fly ash, electronic sludge, nuclear waste, medical waste and radioactive waste. Vitrification processes via Joule heating, microwave heating, plasma technology, electric arc furnaces and incinerators are compared herein.

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Novel phycosphere associated bacteria processes are being regarded as a potential and cost-effective strategy for controlling anthropogenic contaminants in wastewater treatment. However, the underlying concern with the process is its vulnerability to improper organic or nutrient intake. This study established a synergistic interaction between microalgae and activated sludge in a three-photobioreactor system (without external aeration) to understand how pollutants could be mitigated whilst simultaneously yielding biomass under different C/N ratios of 1:1, 5:1 and 10:1.

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Conventional biological treatment has been reported to be ineffective for pollutant removal in tannery wastewater due to high salinity. To overcome it, this work used salt-tolerant bacteria (STB) isolated from a membrane bioreactor to evaluate the organic and nutrient removal through a series of batch experiments. Compared with the control, the STB reactor enhanced the reduction of persistent organics by 11% based on the double exponential decay model.

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Besides photocatalysts, novel catalytic wet-air oxidation (CWAO) catalysts capable of operating under mild conditions are a potential candidate to fabricate antifouling filtration membranes. This study optimized the CWAO catalyst consisting of three metal oxide components (ZnO, CuO, and FeO) and used it to fabricate composite membranes with PES (polyethersulfone). The catalyst was characterized by methods such as FTIR, BET, XRD, UV-Vis DRS, XPS, ESR.

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Ocean life forms are fundamentally well adapted to natural environmental variations, and they can even tolerate extreme conditions for a short time. However, several anthropogenic stressors are causing such drastic changes in the ocean ecosystem. First, the review attempts to outline the impact of climatic and non-climatic stressors on ocean life, and it also outlines the synergistic impact of both stressors.

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Renal pelvic transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) is a relatively rare tumor. This study aimed to develop two prognostic nomograms to predict overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) in renal pelvic TCC patients. Clinicopathological and follow-up data of renal pelvic TCC patients diagnosed between 2010 and 2015 were retrieved from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Result (SEER) database.

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Metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (STS) patients have a poor prognosis with a 3-year survival rate of 25%. About 30% of them present lung metastases (LM). This study aimed to construct 2 nomograms to predict the risk of LM and overall survival of STS patients with LM.

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The information of plasma technologies applications for environmental clean-up on treating and degrading metals, metalloids, dyes, biomass, antibiotics, pesticides, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), bacteria, virus and fungi is compiled and organized in the review article. Different reactor configurations of plasma technology have been applied for reactive species generation, responsible for the pollutants removal, hydrogen and methane production and microorganism inactivation. Therefore, in this review article, the reactive species from discharge plasma are presented here to provide the insight into the environmental applications.

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Objective: The aim of the present study was to analyze the clinical features of Dubin-Johnson syndrome (DJS) related to ABCC2 gene mutations in children and to review the relevant literature to improve understanding of this type of genetic disease and reduce misdiagnosis.

Methods: Three children with clinically suspected DJS who were treated at Beijing Children's Hospital of Capital Medical University between 2017 and 2020 were enrolled in the study. The target genes were captured and sequenced using GenCap target gene capture technology and a new generation of high-throughput sequencing technology (Beijing Mykino Company).

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Background: Regulator of cullins 1 (ROC1) is an important catalytic subunit of cullin-RING E3 ligase. Nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) signaling is closely related to tumor invasion and metastasis. Earlier, we reported that ROC1 was associated with a poor prognosis in patients with bladder cancer (BCa).

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Article Synopsis
  • * It covers essential concepts including types of e-waste, contaminants involved (like metals and VOCs), and the process of vitrification to safely handle waste.
  • * The findings suggest that using plasma technology alongside fusion flux agents can effectively reduce e-waste contaminants and allow for the recycling of materials into environmentally friendly products.
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