A Review of Cutting-Edge Sensor Technologies for Improved Flood Monitoring and Damage Assessment.

Floods are the most destructive, widespread, and frequent natural hazards. The extent of flood events is accelerating in the context of climate change, where flood management and disaster mitigation remain important long-term issues. Different studies have been utilizing data and images from various types of sensors for mapping, assessment, forecasting, early warning, rescue, and other disaster prevention and mitigation activities before, during, and after floods, including flash floods, coastal floods, and urban floods.

A 3D DEM modeling of soil-rock mixture considering spatial distribution orientation of blocks.

Spatial distribution orientations of blocks can cause significant errors in the discrete element model (DEM) calculation of soil-rock mixture (SRM). To avoid this error, spherical harmonic (SH) series whose harmonization degrees fixed at 15 were proposed for block reconstruction. This research refers to the case-history of a deep excavation rift valley spanning from the Mabian to Zhaojue section of the Leshan-Xichang Expressway, mainly containing moderately-weathered silty mudstone, in the Leshan City, Sichuan Province, China.

High-risk powered two-wheelers scenarios generation for autonomous vehicle testing using WGAN.

Objective: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to revolutionize the future of mobility by significantly improving traffic safety. This study presents a novel method for validating the safety performance of AVs in high-risk scenarios involving powered 2-wheelers (PTWs). By generating high-risk scenarios using in-depth crash data, this study is devoted to addressing the challenge of public road scenarios in testing, which often lack the necessary complexity and risk to effectively evaluate the capabilities of AVs in high-risk situations.

Combined gastroscopic and laparoscopic resection of gastric metastatic adenosquamous carcinoma from lung: A case report.

Background: Primary lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Common metastatic sites include the brain, liver, bones, and adrenal glands. However, gastric metastases from lung cancer are rare.

Emissive Covalent Organic Frameworks: Improved Fluorescence via Flexible Building Blocks and Selective Sensing of Nitroaromatic Explosives.

2D covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are attractive for fluorescence sensing due to their lightweight, robust, and highly ordered porous structures. However, the highly conjugated structures between adjacent layers of covalent organic frameworks can often result in aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) properties. Here, the study designs two flexible hydrazone-linked COFs to suppress ACQ effects, thereby enhancing their luminescent activities.

GSC: efficient lossless compression of VCF files with fast query.

Background: With the rise of large-scale genome sequencing projects, genotyping of thousands of samples has produced immense variant call format (VCF) files. It is becoming increasingly challenging to store, transfer, and analyze these voluminous files. Compression methods have been used to tackle these issues, aiming for both high compression ratio and fast random access.

Monolithic 24 cm flexible triple-junction solar cell encapsulated module based on the ipsilateral electrode welding technology: erratum.

This erratum corrects an error in Fig. 1 of the original paper, Appl. Opt.

Monolithic 24 cm flexible triple-junction solar cell encapsulated module based on the ipsilateral electrode welding technology.

The inverted metamorphic multi-junction solar cell is anticipated to be widely applied in stratospheric flight because of its exceptional properties of flexibility and light weight. We propose an ipsilateral welding technology based on Ti/Au electrodes to simplify the fabrication process of GaInP/GaAs/InGaAs solar cells and encapsulate large-sized flexible solar cells. After annealing at 200°C for 2 h, the Ti/Au electrode achieved a low specific contact resistivity of 2.

Recombinant Human Keratinocyte Growth Factor Ameliorates Cancer Treatment-Induced Oral Mucositis on a Chip.

Oral mucositis (OM) is a severe complication of cancer therapies caused by off-target cytotoxicity. Palifermin, which is recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor (KGF), is currently the only mitigating treatment available to a subset of OM patients. This study used a previously established model of oral mucositis on a chip (OM-OC) comprised of a confluent human gingival keratinocytes (GIE) layer attached to a basement membrane-lined subepithelial layer consisting of human gingival fibroblasts (HGF) and human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HMEC) on a stable collagen I gel.

An ethynyl-modified interpenetrated metal-organic framework for highly efficient selective gas adsorption.

An ethynyl-modified interpenetrated MOF material with topology, [Cu(BTEB)(NMF)]·NMF·8HO (compound 1, HBTEB = 4,4',4'',4'''-(benzene-1,2,4,5-tetrayltetrakis(ethyne-2,1-diyl))tetrabenzoic acid, NMF = -Methylformamide), was successfully synthesized by using an alkynyl-functionalized HBTEB organic ligand under solvothermal conditions. Structural analysis shows that compound 1, consisting of a tetradentate carboxylic acid ligand and classical [Cu(CO)] paddle-wheel structure building units, has a rare 4-connected topology with dual interpenetrating structure, which can improve the framework stability, as well as the gas adsorption capacity and selectivity due to the restricted pore channel. According to the study of gas adsorption performance, compound 1 with a larger surface area, boasts a superior adsorption capacity for small gas molecules.

Growth, Biochemical Characteristics, Flesh Quality, and Gut Microbiota of the Pacific White Shrimp () Fed a Defatted Superworm () Larvae Meal.

This study evaluated the effects of defatted superworm () larvae meal (DBWLM) as an alternative protein ingredient for juvenile Pacific white shrimp (). Six isonitrogenous and isolipidic experimental diets were characterized by replacing 0%, 15%, 30%, 45%, 60%, and 75% fish meal (DBWLM0, DBWLM15, DBWLM30, DBWLM45, DBWLM60, and DBWLM75, respectively) with DBWLM on a w/w basis and feeding them to juvenile shrimp (0.34 ± 0.

AI Transformers for Radiation Dose Reduction in Serial Whole-Body PET Scans.

Purpose: To develop a deep learning approach that enables ultra-low-dose, 1% of the standard clinical dosage (3 MBq/kg), ultrafast whole-body PET reconstruction in cancer imaging.

Materials And Methods: In this Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant study, serial fluorine 18-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose PET/MRI scans of pediatric patients with lymphoma were retrospectively collected from two cross-continental medical centers between July 2015 and March 2020. Global similarity between baseline and follow-up scans was used to develop Masked-LMCTrans, a longitudinal multimodality coattentional convolutional neural network (CNN) transformer that provides interaction and joint reasoning between serial PET/MRI scans from the same patient.

Accelerated aging of unencapsulated flexible GaInP/GaAs/InGaAs solar cells by means of damp heat and thermal cycling tests.

The extended damp heat and thermal cycling tests were performed on unencapsulated flexible thin-film GaInP/GaAs/InGaAs solar cells to assess the long-term stability. The solar cells were subjected to 85 °C/85% damp heat test for more than 1000 h and 420 cycles of thermal cycling test between -60 °C and 75 °C, respectively. The performance attenuations of flexible solar cells were less than 2% in both cases, which were due to the slow decline of the open-circuit voltage with aging time.

Methodology for assessing pipeline failure probability due to a debris flow in the near field.

Aboveground transmission oil pipelines can cross debris flow-prone areas. Currently, there are no available methodologies to assess pipeline failure status with the different pipeline arrangements (location, direction, and segment lengths) and different operating conditions. For solving the research gap, this study proposes a novel methodology to simulate the cascade processes of debris flow propagation, the impact of debris flow on pipelines, and pipeline failure.

Programmable Physical Properties of Freestanding Chitosan Membranes Electrofabricated in Microfluidics.

Microfluidic-integrated freestanding membranes with suitable biocompatibility and tunable physicochemical properties are in high demand for a wide range of life science and biological studies. However, there is a lack of facile and rapid methods to integrate such versatile membranes into microfluidics. A recently invented interfacial electrofabrication of chitosan membranes offers an in-situ membrane integration strategy that is flexible, controllable, simple, and biologically friendly.

Dissolvable alginate hydrogel-based biofilm microreactors for antibiotic susceptibility assays.

Biofilms are found in many infections in the forms of surface-adhering aggregates on medical devices, small clumps in tissues, or even in synovial fluid. Although antibiotic resistance genes are studied and monitored in the clinic, the structural and phenotypic changes that take place in biofilms can also lead to significant changes in how bacteria respond to antibiotics. Therefore, it is important to better understand the relationship between biofilm phenotypes and resistance and develop approaches that are compatible with clinical testing.

Semantic Decomposition Network With Contrastive and Structural Constraints for Dental Plaque Segmentation.

Segmenting dental plaque from images of medical reagent staining provides valuable information for diagnosis and the determination of follow-up treatment plan. However, accurate dental plaque segmentation is a challenging task that requires identifying teeth and dental plaque subjected to semantic-blur regions (i.e.

Probing mutual interactions between and in a biofabricated membrane-based microfluidic platform.

Microbes are typically found in multi-species (polymicrobial) communities. Cooperative and competitive interactions between species, mediated by diffusible factors and physical contact, leads to highly dynamic communities that undergo changes in composition diversity and size. Infections can be more severe or more difficult to treat when caused by multiple species.

Oral mucositis on a chip: modeling induction by chemo- and radiation treatments and recovery.

Oral mucositis (OM) is a debilitating complication affecting roughly 70% of head and neck cancer patients receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment. No broadly effective preventative treatment for OM exists. Therefore, anmodel of cancer treatment-induced OM would aid studies into possible origins of the pathology and future drug targets to ameliorate it.

Bacterial chemotaxis in static gradients quantified in a biopolymer membrane-integrated microfluidic platform.

Chemotaxis is a fundamental bacterial response mechanism to changes in chemical gradients of specific molecules known as chemoattractant or chemorepellent. The advancement of biological platforms for bacterial chemotaxis research is of significant interest for a wide range of biological and environmental studies. Many microfluidic devices have been developed for its study, but challenges still remain that can obscure analysis.

Growth, Health, and Gut Microbiota of Female Pacific White Shrimp, Broodstock Fed Different Phospholipid Sources.

Phospholipids have an important antioxidant effect on animals. The effects of different dietary phospholipid sources on the growth, antioxidant activity, immunity, and gut microbiota of female broodstock of Pacific white shrimp were investigated. Four isoproteic and isolipid semi-purified diets containing 4% soybean lecithin (SL), egg yolk lecithin (EL), or krill oil (KO) and a control diet without phospholipid supplementation were fed to female broodstock of (34.

Mining the Prognostic Role of DNA Methylation Heterogeneity in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

Purpose: DNA methylation heterogeneity is a type of tumor heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment, but studies on the identification of the molecular heterogeneity of the lung adenocarcinoma genome with respect to DNA methylation sites and their roles in lung cancer progression and prognosis are scarce.

Methods: Prognosis-associated DNA methylation subtypes were filtered by the Cox proportional hazards model and then established by unsupervised cluster analysis. Association analysis of these subtypes with clinical features and functional analysis of annotated genes potentially affected by methylation sites were performed.

Dual-modality digital holographic and polarization microscope to quantify phase and birefringence signals in biospecimens with a complex microstructure.

Optical phase and birefringence signals occur in cells and thin, semi-transparent biomaterials. A dual-modality quantitative phase and polarization microscope was designed to study the interaction of cells with extracellular matrix networks and to relate optical pathlength and birefringence signals within structurally anisotropic biomaterial constructs. The design was based on an existing, custom-built digital holographic microscope, to which was added a polarization microscope utilizing liquid crystal variable retarders.

Effects and Mechanism of Different Phospholipid Diets on Ovary Development in Female Broodstock Pacific White Shrimp, .

Research on nutrition and feed development for the broodstock of the Pacific white shrimp, , is rare, and a poor broodstock quality is a critical factor restricting the seed supply in shrimp farming. As an essential nutrient for the gonadal development of , one control diet (no phospholipid) and three typical phospholipids (soybean lecithin, egg yolk lecithin, and krill oil) were evaluated in a semipurified diet of 4% phospholipid for a 28-day trial (initial weight 34.7 ± 4.

A hydroponic plants and biofilm combined treatment system efficiently purified wastewater from cold flowing water aquaculture.

Recently, more and more cold flowing water aquaculture has been adopted, but its wastewater treatment is always ignored, which causes great pressure on the environment. In this study, a compound in-situ treatment system that applied hydroponic plants and biofilm was constructed to treat the wastewater produced by cold flowing water culture of sturgeon. The removal efficiency of the nutrients from culture and the microbial composition in water and biofilm were tested, the correlation between the water quality indexes and bacterium was analyzed, and the abundance of nitrogen and phosphorus cycling genes was quantified.