Exploratory behavior is associated with the cognitive speed in male chestnut thrushes.

Intra-individual variation in cognitive abilities has been widely reported in animals. Recent studies have found that individual cognitive performance varies with personality traits in a wide range of animal taxa, with a speed-accuracy trade-off between cognition and personality traits. Few studies investigated whether these relationships change depending on different contexts.

Green light all the way: Triple modification synergistic modification effect to enhance the photoelectrochemical water oxidation performance of BiVO photoanode.

The recombination of photogenerated electron-hole pairs of the photoanode seriously impairs the application of bismuth vanadate (BiVO) in photoelectrochemical water splitting. To address this issue, we prepared a Yb:BiVO/CoO/FeOOH composite photoanode by employing drop-casting and soaking methods to attach CoO/FeOOH cocatalysts to the surface of ytterbium-doped BiVO. The prepared Yb:BiVO/CoO/FeOOH photoanode demonstrates a high photocurrent density of 4.

Development of structure-tailored and composite magnetic-fluorescent microspheres through the PRI method.

Multifunctional micro- and nanoparticles have found their applications in fields like medicine, display materials, cosmetics, and so on. Advances in these fields have been demonstrated to need scalable uniformly sized, mass-produced, and structured spherical particles. In this work, we proposed structure-tailored and multifunctional composite polymeric microspheres with tunable diameter size, by using a versatile and scalable in-fiber particle fabrication through the Plateau-Rayleigh capillary instability method.

Development of high-efficiency superparamagnetic drug delivery system with MPI imaging capability.

In this study, a high-efficiency superparamagnetic drug delivery system was developed for preclinical treatment of bladder cancer in small animals. Two types of nanoparticles with magnetic particle imaging (MPI) capability, i.e.

Evidence for a reproductive sharing continuum in cooperatively breeding mammals and birds: consequences for comparative research.

Extreme reproductive skew occurs when a dominant female/male almost monopolizes reproduction within a group of multiple sexually mature females/males, respectively. It is sometimes considered an additional, restrictive criterion to define cooperative breeding. However, datasets that use this restrictive definition to classify species as cooperative breeders systematically overestimate reproductive skew by including groups in which reproduction cannot be shared by definition (e.

Recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) polymers from a mixed microbial culture through combined ultrasonic disruption and alkaline digestion.

PHAs are a form of cellular storage polymers with diverse structural and material properties, and their biodegradable and renewable nature makes them a potential green alternative to fossil fuel-based plastics. PHAs are obtained through extraction via various mechanical, physical and chemical processes after their intracellular synthesis. Most studies have until now focused on pure cultures, while information on mixed microbial cultures (MMC) remains limited.

Flexible and robust low-loss selenium-based multimaterial infrared fibers towards CO laser ablation.

A small-scale delivery medium for CO laser energy with stable performance, flexibility, and high-strength is crucial in extreme laser processing environments, especially for minimally invasive surgery in high-humidity, twisty and narrow channels. Here, flexible and robust multimaterial infrared fibers made of selenium-based chalcogenide glasses and thermoplastic polymer were developed with a low loss of 7.18 dB/m at 10.

Are cognition and personality related in budgerigars?

In recent years, researchers have been attempting to relate differences in personality (e.g., boldness, aggressiveness, exploration tendency) to variation in cognition (performances in tasks that require learning, reasoning, attention, or memory, etc.

Glycine betaine enhances biodegradation of phenol in high saline environments by the halophilic strain sp. PT-20.

The halophilic bacterial strain PT-20, isolated from saline alkali soil samples and identified as a member of the genus , exhibited a robust ability to degrade phenol under high salt conditions. It was determined that strain PT-20 was capable of degrading 1000 mg L phenol completely in the presence of 10% NaCl within 120 h. Under the optimal degradation conditions, pH 8.

Study on removal of pyrene by L. in pyrene-Ni co-contaminated soil.

Heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) co-contamination in the soil is widespread. Phytoremediation is often used to remediate co-contaminated soil, but few studies focused on the effects of nickel on the dissipation and uptake of pyrene in phytoremediation. The dissipation of pyrene, the uptake, and distribution of pyrene in L.

Problem-solving males become more attractive to female budgerigars.

Darwin proposed that mate choice might contribute to the evolution of cognitive abilities. An open question is whether observing the cognitive skills of an individual makes it more attractive as a mate. In this study, we demonstrated that initially less-preferred budgerigar males became preferred after females observed that these males, but not the initially preferred ones, were able to solve extractive foraging problems.

Diode-pumped 1.5-1.6 μm laser operation in Er³⁺ doped YbAl₃(BO₃)₄ microchip.

Er3+ doped YbAl3(BO3)4 crystal with large absorption coefficient of 184 cm(-1) at pump wavelength of 976 nm is a promising microchip gain medium of 1.5-1.6 μm laser.

Diode-pumped passively Q-switched Er3+:Yb3+:Sr3Lu2(BO3)4 laser at 1534 nm.

End-pumped by a 970 nm diode laser, 1534 nm pulse laser with about 16 μJ energy, 48 ns duration, and 21 kHz repetition rate was obtained at absorbed pump power of 11.8 W in a Z-cut 1.08-mm-thick Er(3+):Yb(3+):Sr(3)Lu(2)(BO(3))(4) crystal passively Q-switched by a Co(2+):Mg(0.

Impacts of aquatic macrophytes configuration modes on water quality.

Constructed wetland technology is regarded as an important ecological restoration technology and used widely in sewage disposal. In order to give them a wider scope of application and to improve their performance in water restoration, the current experiment was designed. Four aquatic macrophytes (dwarf cattail (TM), yellow-flowered iris (WI), water shallot (ST) and watermifoil (MS)) were picked and planted in artificial floating islands (AFIs) in different configurations (TM + WI, ST + MS and TM + WI + MS) and two patterns, radiation pattern (RP) and annular pattern (AP), for a 60-day experiment.

Passively Q-switched 1.5-1.6 μm Er:Yb:LuAl3(BO3)4 laser with Co2+:Mg(0.4)Al(2.4)O4 saturable absorber.

Using a Co(2+):Mg(0.4)Al(2.4)O(4) spinel crystal as saturable absorber, efficient passively Q-switched pulse laser operating at 1.