Incidental iron oxide nanoclusters drive confined Fenton-like detoxification of solid wastes towards sustainable resource recovery.

The unique properties of nanomaterials offer vast opportunities to advance sustainable processes. Incidental nanoparticles (INPs) represent a significant part of nanomaterials, yet their potential for sustainable applications remains largely untapped. Herein, we developed a simple strategy to harness INPs to upgrade the waste-to-resource paradigm, significantly reducing the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

Predicting allergen immunotherapy efficacy based on early maintenance phase response in routine clinical practice.

Background: While allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) is acknowledged as an effective treatment, its efficacy varies, and consensus on predictive indicators for AIT responders remains elusive.

Objective: This study aimed to identify alternative parameters for predicting AIT responders based on clinical data collected in daily practice.

Method: We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients with house-dust-mite-driven asthma and/or rhinitis who completed 3 years of subcutaneous AIT (3y-AIT).

Neglected role of iron redox cycle in direct interspecies electron transfer in anaerobic methanogenesis: Inspired from biogeochemical processes.

Anaerobic digestion is an indispensable technical option towards green and low-carbon wastewater treatment, with interspecies electron transfer (IET) playing a key role in its efficiency and operational stability. The exogenous semiconductive iron oxides have been proven to effectively enhance IET, while the cognition of the physicochemical-biochemical coupling stimulatory mechanism was circumscribed and remains to be elucidated. In this study, semiconductive iron oxides, α-FeO, γ-FeO, α-FeOOH, and γ-FeOOH were found to significantly enhance syntrophic methanogenesis by 76.

Alzheimer's disease diagnosis from multi-modal data via feature inductive learning and dual multilevel graph neural network.

Multi-modal data can provide complementary information of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its development from different perspectives. Such information is closely related to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AD, and hence it is necessary and critical to study AD through multi-modal data. Existing learning methods, however, usually ignore the influence of feature heterogeneity and directly fuse features in the last stages.

Lanthanum-modified pyroaurite as a geoengineering tool to simultaneously sink Microcystis cyanobacteria and immobilize phosphorus in eutrophic water.

Excessive phosphorus (P) in eutrophic water induces cyanobacterial blooms that aggravate the burden of in-situ remediation measures. In order to ensure better ecological recovery, Flock & Lock technique has been developed to simultaneously sink cyanobacteria and immobilize P but requires a combination of flocculent and P inactivation agent. Here we synthesized a novel lanthanum-modified pyroaurite (LMP), as an alternative for Flock & Lock of cyanobacteria and phosphorus at the background of rich humic acid and suspended solids.

Chinese expert consensus on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of asthma in women across life.

Background: The epidemiology and severity of asthma vary by sex and age. The diagnosis, treatment, and management of asthma in female patients are quite challenging. However, there is hitherto no comprehensive and standardized guidance for female patients with asthma.

Association between human blood metabolome and the risk of pre-eclampsia.

Pre-eclampsia is a complex multi-system pregnancy disorder with limited treatment options. Therefore, we aimed to screen for metabolites that have causal associations with preeclampsia and to predict target-mediated side effects based on Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. A two-sample MR analysis was firstly conducted to systematically assess causal associations of blood metabolites with pre-eclampsia, by using metabolites related large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) involving 147,827 European participants, as well as GWASs summary data about pre-eclampsia from the FinnGen consortium R8 release data that included 182,035 Finnish adult female subjects (5922 cases and 176,113 controls).

Structure Evolution of Iron (Hydr)oxides under Nanoconfinement and Its Implication for Water Treatment.

In the development of nanoenabled technologies for large-scale water treatment, immobilizing nanosized functional materials into the confined space of suitable substrates is one of the most effective strategies. However, the intrinsic effects of nanoconfinement on the decontamination performance of nanomaterials, particularly in terms of structural modulation, are rarely unveiled. Herein, we investigate the structure evolution and decontamination performance of iron (hydr)oxide nanoparticles, a widely used material for water treatment, when confined in track-etched (TE) membranes with channel sizes varying from 200 to 20 nm.

Occurrences and fates of per- and polyfluoralkyl substances in textile dyeing wastewater along full-scale treatment processes.

Industrial wastewater is a substantial source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in the environment. However, very limited information is available on the occurrences and fates of PFASs along industrial wastewater treatment processes, particularly for the textile dyeing industry where PFASs occur extensively. Herein, the occurrences and fates of 27 legacy and emerging PFASs were investigated along the processes of three full-scale textile dyeing wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) based on UHPLC-MS/MS in combination with self-developed solid extraction protocol featuring selective enrichment for ultrasensitive analysis.

First experience of evaluation of the impact of high-matrix size reconstruction in image quality in arterial CT runoff studies of the lower extremities.

Objectives: To determine whether image reconstruction with a higher matrix size improves image quality for lower extremity CTA studies.

Methods: Raw data from 50 consecutive lower extremity CTA studies acquired on two MDCT scanners (SOMATOM Flash, Force) in patients evaluated for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) were retrospectively collected and reconstructed with standard (512 × 512) and higher resolution (768 × 768, 1024 × 1024) matrix sizes. Five blinded readers reviewed representative transverse images in randomized order (150 total).

Enhanced HO utilization efficiency in Fenton-like system for degradation of emerging contaminants: Oxygen vacancy-mediated activation of O.

Hydrogen peroxide (HO) is the most commonly used oxidant in advanced oxidation processes for emerging organic contaminant degradation. However, the activation of HO to generate reactive oxygen species is always accompanied by O generation resulting in HO waste. Here, we prepare a Ti doped MnO/FeO ternary catalyst (Ti-MnO/FeO) to create abundant oxygen vacancies (OVs), which yields electron delocalization impacts on enhancing the electrical conductivity, accelerating the activation of O to produce HO.

Allergic disease and sensitization disparity in urban and rural China: A EuroPrevall-INCO study.

Background: Studies in comparison with allergic diseases and sensitization between rural and urban environments in westernized countries might be biased and not adequately reflect countries undergoing rapid transition.

Methods: A total of 5542 schoolchildren from urban area and 5139 from rural area were recruited for the EuroPrevall-INCO survey. A subsequent case-control sample with 196 children from urban area and 202 from rural area was recruited for a detailed face-to-face questionnaire and assessment of sensitization.

A patient-informed approach to predict iodinated-contrast media enhancement in the liver.

Objective: To devise a patient-informed time series model that predicts liver contrast enhancement, by integrating clinical data and pharmacokinetics models, and to assess its feasibility to improve enhancement consistency in contrast-enhanced liver CT scans.

Methods: The study included 1577 Chest/Abdomen/Pelvis CT scans, with 70-30% training/validation-testing split. A Gaussian function was used to approximate the early arterial, late arterial, and the portal venous phases of the contrast perfusion curve of each patient using their respective bolus tracking and diagnostic scan data.

Rural environment reduces allergic inflammation by modulating the gut microbiota.

Rural environments and microbiota are linked to a reduction in the prevalence of allergies. However, the mechanism underlying the reduced allergies modulated by rural residency is unclear. Here, we assessed gut bacterial composition and metagenomics in urban and rural children in the EuroPrevall-INCO cohort.

Ceramic nanofiber membrane anchoring nanosized MnO catalytic ozonation of sulfamethoxazole in water.

Catalytic ceramic nanofiber membranes (Mn@CNMs) were prepared by anchoring MnO nanoparticles on the pits of attapulgite (APT) nanofibers via an impregnation and in-situ precipitation method. An integrated catalytic ozonation/membrane filtration process applying Mn@CNM was employed to degrade sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and the removal achieved up to 81.3% during a 7-h continuous filtration.

In-Situ HO Cleaning for Fouling Control of Manganese-Doped Ceramic Membrane through Confined Catalytic Oxidation Inside Membrane.

This work presents an effective approach for manganese-doped AlO ceramic membrane (Mn-doped membrane) fouling control by in-situ confined HO cleaning in wastewater treatment. An Mn-doped membrane with 0.7 atomic percent Mn doping in the membrane layer was used in a membrane bioreactor with the aim to improve the catalytic activity toward oxidation of foulants by HO.

Corrections to "iPhantom: A Framework for Automated Creation of Individualized Computational Phantoms and its Application to CT Organ Dosimetry".

In [1], the dose estimation accuracy using the alternative baseline method under modulated tube current was not correctly calculated due to an unintentional simulation error.

Development and validation of an automated methodology to assess perceptual noise texture in liver CT.

: Developing, validating, and evaluating a method for measuring noise texture directly from patient liver CT images (i.e., ).

Integration of coagulation and ozonation with flat-sheet ceramic membrane filtration for shale gas hydraulic fracturing wastewater treatment: A laboratory study.

The performance of the integrated process of coagulation and ozonation with ceramic membrane filtration was evaluated for the treatment of shale gas hydraulic fracturing flowback wastewater (HFFW). The removal efficiencies of carbon oxygen demand (COD ), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), petroleum oils, and turbidity in effluent by the combined process were 87.1%, 72.