Highly sensitive split ring resonator-based sensor for quality monitoring of edible oils.

This research presents the design and analysis of a compact metamaterial (MTM)-based star-shaped split-ring resonator (SRR) enclosed in a square, constructed on a cost-effective substrate for liquid chemical sensing applications. The designed structure has dimensions of 10 × 10 mm and is optimized for detecting adulteration in edible oils. When the sample holder is filled with different percentages of oil samples, the resonance frequency of the MTM-based SRR sensor shift significantly.

Removal of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) from contaminated local park lake using mycelial pellets.

Eutrophication and hypereutrophication in lakes foster harmful blue-green algal blooms, which pose a significant threat to the ecological health of freshwater reservoirs. This study investigated the effectiveness of the bio-flocculation approach using the fungus strain BGF4A1 to remove these harmful blooms, specifically targeting cyanobacterial species like PCC-7914. Key flocculation parameters, cyanobacterial concentrations, adsorption kinetics, and pellet morphology were explored in this research.

Design of dual peak star shaped metamaterial absorber for S and C band sensing applications.

This paper presents the detailed design configuration and investigation of a small-scale dual-band metamaterial absorber (MTMA) for solid and liquid sensing applications. The overall dimension of the MTMA unit cell is 10 × 10 × 1.57 mm and constitutes an affordable FR-4 substrate.

Revisiting surgical margins for invasive breast cancer patients treated with breast conservation therapy - Evidence for adopting a 1 mm negative width.

Clinical trials have demonstrated conclusively the non-inferiority of breast-conserving surgery followed by breast radiation therapy (BCT) compared with mastectomy for the treatment of early-stage invasive breast cancer (BC). The definition of the required surgical margin to ensure adequate removal of the cancer by BCT to obtain an acceptable low local recurrence (LR) rate remains controversial. Meta-analyses published by Houssami et al.

Correlation of Neutrophil-Lymphocyte and Albumin-Globulin Ratios With Outcomes in Patients With Breast Cancer Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy or Upfront Surgery.

Purpose: Higher neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLRs) indicate a pro-inflammatory state and are associated with poor survival. Conversely, higher albumin-globulin ratio (AGRs) may be associated with improved prognosis. We aimed to investigate the association between NLR and AGR and prognosis and survival in patients with breast cancer.

Cross enclosed square split ring resonator based on D.N.G. metamaterial absorber for X-band glucose sensing application.

This article presents a novel real-time meta-material (MM) sensor based on a non-invasive method that operates in microwave frequency ranges at 8.524 GHz to measure blood glucose levels with quality factor 184 is designed and fabricated. A cross enclosed between two square shapes produces a strong interaction between glucose samples and electromagnetic waves.

Short Fragmented Peptides from Exhibit Stronger Anticancer Activities in Residue Replacement and Analyses.

Background: Cancer is a worldwide issue. It has been observed that conventional therapies face many problems, such as side effects and drug resistance. Recent research reportedly used marine-derived products to treat various diseases and explored their potential in treating cancers.

Evaluating the necessity of post-processing techniques on d4PDF data for extreme climate assessment.

The occurrence and severity of extreme precipitation events have been increasing globally. Although numerous projections have been proposed and developed for evaluating the climate change impacts, most models suffer from significant bias error due to the coarse resolution of the climate datasets, which affects the accuracy of the climate change assessment. Therefore, in this study, post-processing techniques (interpolation and bias correction methods) were adopted on the database for Policy Decision Making for Future Climate Change (d4PDF) model for extreme climatic flood events simulation in the Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand, under + 4-K future climate simulation.

Treatment of the common cold with herbs used in Ayurveda and Jamu: monograph review and the science of ginger, liquorice, turmeric and peppermint.

Background: The common cold is typically managed with decongestants, antihistamines, antitussives and antipyretics. In addition to these established medications, herbal ingredients have been used over centuries to help treat common cold symptoms. The Ayurveda and Jamu systems of medicine, originating from India and Indonesia, respectively, have leveraged herbal therapies to treat many illnesses.

Double-negative metamaterial square enclosed Q.S.S.R For microwave sensing application in S-band with high sensitivity and Q-factor.

Metamaterials have gained much attention due to their exciting characteristics and potential uses in constructing valuable technologies. This paper presents a double negative square resonator shape metamaterial sensor to detect the material and its thickness. An innovative double-negative metamaterial sensor for microwave sensing applications is described in this paper.

Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography as a Bioanalytical Platform for Drug Discovery and Analysis.

Over the last decades, comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) has emerged as a significant separation tool for high-resolution analysis of disease-associated metabolites and pharmaceutically relevant molecules. This review highlights recent advances of GC×GC with different detection modalities for drug discovery and analysis, which ideally improve the screening and identification of disease biomarkers, as well as monitoring of therapeutic responses to treatment in complex biological matrixes. Selected recent GC×GC applications that focus on such biomarkers and metabolite profiling of the effects of drug administration are covered.

Treatment performance of multistage active biological process (MSABP) reactor for saline sauerkraut wastewater: acclimatization, optimization and improvement.

The wastewater with a high concentration of organics and salt is a major contaminant in the production of sauerkraut. In this study, a multistage active biological process (MSABP) system was constructed to treat sauerkraut wastewater. The key process parameters of the MSABP system were analyzed and optimized by response surface methodology.

Smallholder oil palm plantation sustainability assessment using multi-criteria analysis and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Oil palm agriculture has caused extensive land cover and land use changes that have adversely affected tropical landscapes and ecosystems. However, monitoring and assessment of oil palm plantation areas to support sustainable management is costly and labour-intensive. This study used an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to map smallholder farms and applied multi-criteria analysis to data generated from orthomosaics, to provide a set of sustainability indicators for the farms.

Evaluation of Cryogen-Free Thermal Modulation-Based Enantioselective Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography for Stereo-Differentiation of Monoterpenes in spp. Leaf Oils.

This study evaluates the applicability of enantioselective gas chromatography (GC) and enantioselective comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) coupled with flame ionization detection for the stereospecific analysis of designated chiral monoterpenes within essential oils distilled from the leaves of (CH), (CL), (CP), and (CM). A cryogen-free solid-state modulator with a combination of enantioselective first-dimension and polar second-dimension column arrangements was used to resolve potential interferences in spp. leaf oils that can complicate the accurate determination of enantiomeric compositions.

Phytochemical Composition, Antioxidant and Antiproliferative Activities of , , and Leaf Essential Oils against Human Cervical Cancer Cell Line.

The essential oil derived from plants has long been used for medicinal purposes, due to its broad spectrum of therapeutic characteristics. To date, approximately 162 species have been identified, and many investigational studies have been conducted to explore the pharmacological potential of spp. oils.

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with mass spectrometry: an advanced bioanalytical technique for clinical metabolomics studies.

The detection of human-derived metabolites as potential diagnostic biomarkers of genetic disorders, metabolic diseases, systemic diseases, and infectious diseases has been much studied in recent years, especially as technical capabilities improve, and statistical procedures are increasingly able to tease critical chemical attributes from complex data sets. Given the complex distribution of human biological matrices, the characterization and/or identification of these chemical entities is technically challenging, and is often confounded by incomplete chromatographic resolution or insufficient discriminatory power of the mass spectrometry (MS) domain. Recently, comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) has evolved into a mature higher separation order technique that offers unprecedented resolving power, which in turn can greatly advantage clinical metabolomics studies the expansion of metabolite coverage.

Spatiotemporal impact of COVID-19 on Taiwan air quality in the absence of a lockdown: Influence of urban public transportation use and meteorological conditions.

The unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 significantly improved the atmospheric environment for lockdown-imposed regions; however, scant evidence exists on its impacts on regions without lockdown. A novel research framework is proposed to evaluate the long-term monthly spatiotemporal impact of COVID-19 on Taiwan air quality through different statistical analyses, including geostatistical analysis, change detection analysis and identification of nonattainment pollutant occurrence between the average mean air pollutant concentrations from 2018-2019 and 2020, considering both meteorological and public transportation impacts. Contrary to lockdown-imposed regions, insignificant or worsened air quality conditions were observed at the beginning of COVID-19, but a delayed improvement occurred after April in Taiwan.

Phytochemical Constituents and Antiproliferative Activities of Essential Oils from Four Varieties of Malaysian Roscoe against Human Cervical Cancer Cell Line.

This study evaluates the volatile metabolic constituents and anticancer potential of essential oils distilled from the rhizomes of four Malaysian Roscoe (Zingiberaceae family) varieties (Bentong (BE), Cameron Highlands (CH), Sabah (SA), and Bara (BA)). The ginger essential oils were analyzed by gas chromatography coupled with quadrupole mass spectrometry (GC qMS). A total of 58 secondary compounds were tentatively identified, representing 82.

A low power, highly efficient, linear, enhanced wideband Class-J mode power amplifier for 5G applications.

In wireless communication networks, the necessity for high-speed data rates has increased in emerging 5G application areas. The Power Amplifier (PA) topologies reported to date achieved desired Power Added Efficiency (PAE) and linearity. However, these harmonically tuned switching PAs are less appealing for broadband applications as they are restricted to narrow bandwidth (BW).

Multi-center evaluation of artificial intelligent imaging and clinical models for predicting neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in breast cancer.

Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) plays an important role in the management of locally advanced breast cancer. It allows for downstaging of tumors, potentially allowing for breast conservation. NAC also allows for in-vivo testing of the tumors' response to chemotherapy and provides important prognostic information.

Water quality index modeling using random forest and improved SMO algorithm for support vector machine in Saf-Saf river basin.

The water quality index is one of the prominent general indicators to assess and classify surface water quality, which plays a critical role in river water resources practices. This research constructs a hybrid artificial intelligence model namely sequential minimal optimization-support vector machine (SMO-SVM) along with random forest (RF) as a benchmark model for predicting water quality values at the Wadi Saf-Saf river basin in Algeria. The fifteen input water quality datasets such as biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), oxygen saturation (OS), the potential for hydrogen (pH), chemical oxygen demand (COD), chloride (Cl), dissolved oxygen (DO), electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS), nitrate-nitrogen (NO-N), nitrite-nitrogen (NO-N), phosphate (PO), ammonium (NH), temperature (T), turbidity (NTU), and suspended solids (SS) were employed for constructing the predictive models.

Management of acute upper respiratory tract infection: the role of early intervention.

Introduction: Upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) is an illness caused by an acute infection by viruses or bacteria of the nose, sinuses, pharynx, and larynx. Most URTIs are short, mild, and self-limiting, but some can lead to serious complications, resulting in heavy social and economic burden on individuals and society.

Areas Covered: This article presents the management guidelines and consensus established through the Delphi method during an expert roundtable conducted in November 2020 and results of a targeted literature review.

Assessment and Clinical Utility of a Non-Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Technology.

Rolling-circle replication (RCR) is a novel technology that has not been applied to cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing until recently. Given the cost and simplicity advantages of this technology compared to other platforms currently used in cfDNA analysis, an assessment of RCR in clinical laboratories was performed. Here, we present the first validation study from clinical laboratories utilizing RCR technology.