Exopolysaccharide-Producing Bacteria Regulate Soil Aggregates and Bacterial Communities to Inhibit the Uptake of Cadmium and Lead by Lettuce.

The accumulation of heavy metals in the soil not only causes serious damage to the soil ecosystem, but also threatens human health through the food chain. Exopolysaccharides have the functions of adsorbing and chelating heavy metals and reducing their bioavailability in the soil. In our study, exopolysaccharide-producing bacteria with a high efficiency in adsorbing cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) were screened from heavy metal-contaminated farmland.

Urease-producing bacteria combined with pig manure biochar immobilize Cd and inhibit the absorption of Cd in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.).

The synergistic remediation of heavy metal-contaminated soil by functional strains and biochar has been widely studied. However, the mechanisms by which urease-producing bacteria combine with pig manure biochar (PMB) to immobilize Cd and inhibit Cd absorption in vegetables are still unclear. In our study, the effects and mechanisms of PMB combined with the urease-producing bacterium TJ6 (TJ6 + PMB) on Cd adsorption were explored.

An Efficient Graph Learning System for Emotion Recognition Inspired by the Cognitive Prior Graph of EEG Brain Network.

Benefiting from the high-temporal resolution of electroencephalogram (EEG), EEG-based emotion recognition has become one of the hotspots of affective computing. For EEG-based emotion recognition systems, it is crucial to utilize state-of-the-art learning strategies to automatically learn emotion-related brain cognitive patterns from emotional EEG signals, and the learned stable cognitive patterns effectively ensure the robustness of the emotion recognition system. In this work, to realize the efficient decoding of emotional EEG, we propose a graph learning system Graph Convolutional Network framework with Brain network initial inspiration and Fused attention mechanism (BF-GCN) inspired by the brain cognitive mechanism to automatically learn graph patterns from emotional EEG and improve the performance of EEG emotion recognition.

Screening of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria helps alleviate the joint toxicity of PVC+Cd pollution in sorghum plants.

Combined microplastic and heavy metal pollution (CM-HP) has become a popular research topic due to the ability of these pollutants to have complex interactions. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are widely used to alleviate stress from heavy metal pollution in plants. However, the effects and mechanisms by which these bacteria interact under CM-HP have not been extensively studied.

Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria Influence Microbial Community Composition and Metabolic Function to Enhance the Efficiency of Remediation in Cadmium-Contaminated Soil.

The green and efficient remediation of soil cadmium (Cd) is an urgent task, and plant-microbial joint remediation has become a research hotspot due to its advantages. High-throughput sequencing and metabolomics have technical advantages in analyzing the microbiological mechanism of plant growth-promoting bacteria in improving phytoremediation of soil heavy metal pollution. In this experiment, a pot trial was conducted to investigate the effects of inoculating the plant growth-promoting bacterium sp.

Plant growth-promoting bacteria improve the Cd phytoremediation efficiency of soils contaminated with PE-Cd complex pollution by influencing the rhizosphere microbiome of sorghum.

Composite pollution by microplastics and heavy metals poses a potential threat to the soilplant system and has received increasing attention. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) have good application potential for the remediation of combined microplastic and heavy metal pollution, but few related studies exist. The present study employed a pot experiment to investigate the effects of inoculation with the PGPB Bacillus sp.

[Effects of Combined Stress of High Density Polyethylene Microplastics and Chlorimuron-ethyl on Soybean Growth and Rhizosphere Bacterial Community].

With the vigorous development of agriculture in China， plastic mulch film and pesticides are widely used in agricultural production. However， the accumulation of microplastics （formed by the degradation of plastic mulch film） and pesticides in soil has also caused many environmental problems. At present， the environmental biological effects of microplastics or pesticides have been reported， but there are few studies on the combined effects on crop growth and the rhizosphere soil bacterial community.

Network of Soil Fungi and the Microfauna Community under Diverse Anthropic Disturbances under Planting in the Reservoir.

The reservoir coastal zone is the transitional zone between the terrestrial ecosystem and the aquatic ecosystem. Soil is an essential part of the terrestrial ecosystem and vital for life on Earth. To understand the composition and diversity of the soil eukaryotic microbial community under the background of artificial planting of in various habitats after reservoir construction, including the original habitat (OH), the hydro-fluctuation belt (HB), and the road slope (RS), and to analyze the interaction between the main groups of eukaryotic microorganisms, this study conducted 18S rDNA amplification high-throughput sequencing of the soil eukaryotic microbial community.

[Transcriptome Analysis of Plant Growth-promoting Bacteria Alleviating Microplastic and Heavy Metal Combined Pollution Stress in Sorghum].

Microplastics can become potential transport carriers of other environmental pollutants (such as heavy metals), so the combined pollution of microplastics and heavy metals has attracted increasing attention from researchers. To explore the mechanism of plant growth-promoting bacteria VY-1 alleviating the combined pollution stress of heavy metals and microplastics in sorghum, the effects of inoculation on biomass and accumulation of heavy metals in sorghum were analyzed using a hydroponics experiment, and the effects of inoculation on gene expression in sorghum were analyzed via transcriptomics. The results showed that the combined pollution of polyethylene (PE) and cadmium (Cd) decreased the dry weight of above-ground and underground parts by 17.

[Effects of Combined Pollution of Microplastics and Cadmium on Microbial Community Structure and Function of Rhizosphere Soil].

The combined pollution of microplastics and heavy metals can potentially interact. This may have an important impact on the growth and development of plants and the rhizosphere microbial community and function. In this study, the effects of heavy metal cadmium combined with different types of microplastics(PE and PS), different particle sizes(13 μm and 550 μm), and different concentrations(0.

A hybrid graph network model for ASD diagnosis based on resting-state EEG signals.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder and early diagnosis is crucial for effective treatment. Stable and effective biomarkers are essential for understanding the underlying causes of the disorder and improving diagnostic accuracy. Electroencephalography (EEG) signals have proven to be reliable biomarkers for diagnosing ASD.

EEG based emotion recognition by hierarchical bayesian spectral regression framework.

Spectral regression (SR), a graph-based learning regression model, can be used to extract features from graphs to realize efficient dimensionality reduction. However, due to the SR method remains a regularized least squares problem and being defined in L2-norm space, the effect of artifacts in EEG signals cannot be efficiently resisted. In this work, to further improve the robustness of the graph-based regression models, we propose to utilize the prior distribution estimation in the Bayesian framework and develop a robust hierarchical Bayesian spectral regression framework (named HB-SR), which is designed with the hierarchical Bayesian ensemble strategies.

Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of the Effect of Treatment with Vitamin K2 on Vascular Calcification in Hemodialysis Patients (Trevasc-HDK).

Introduction: Vitamin K deficiency among patients on hemodialysis (HD) affects the function of matrix GLA protein (MGP), a potent vitamin K-dependent inhibitor of vascular calcification (VC).

Methods: We conducted a single-center randomized controlled trial (RCT) on maintenance HD patients to examine if vitamin K2 supplementation can reduce progression of coronary artery calcification (CAC) over an 18-month study period. Patients were randomized to vitamin K2 group receiving menaquinone-7360 μg 3 times/wk or control group.

Plant growth-promoting bacteria modulate gene expression and induce antioxidant tolerance to alleviate synergistic toxicity from combined microplastic and Cd pollution in sorghum.

Microplastics (MPs) can act as carriers for environmental pollutants; therefore, MPs combined with heavy metal pollution are attracting increasing attention from researchers. In this study, the potential of the plant growth-promoting bacterium Bacillus sp. SL-413 to mitigate the stress caused by exposure to both MPs and cadmium (Cd) in sorghum plants was investigated.

Polyamine-producing bacteria inhibit the absorption of Cd by spinach and alter the bacterial community composition of rhizosphere soil.

Polyamines (PAs) are small aliphatic nitrogenous bases with strong biological activity that participate in plant stress response signaling and the alleviation of damage from stress. Herein, the effects of the PA-producing bacterium Bacillus megaterium N3 and PAs on the immobilization of Cd and inhibition of Cd absorption by spinach and the underlying mechanisms were studied. A solution test showed that strain N3 secreted spermine and spermidine in the presence of Cd.

Dermatologists' Perceptions of the Use of Teledermatology in Managing Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Survey Study.

Background: The field of teledermatology has expanded tremendously and has been used for conditions including hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). However, due to the sensitive location of lesions, HS may be considered less suitable for teledermatology.

Objective: We sought to assess dermatologists' experiences and perceptions toward using teledermatology for HS relative to atopic dermatitis (AD) as a comparison.

Understanding Discordant Perceptions of Disease Severity Between Physicians and Patients With Eczema and Psoriasis Using Structural Equation Modeling.

Importance: Patients and physicians often have differing opinions on the patient's disease severity. This phenomenon, termed discordant severity grading (DSG), hinders the patient-physician relationship and is a source of frustration.

Objective: To test and validate a model explaining the cognitive, behavioral, and disease factors associated with DSG.

Clinical predictors of wheeze trajectories and associations with allergy in Asian children.

Background: Childhood wheezing is a highly heterogeneous condition with an incomplete understanding of the characteristics of wheeze trajectories, particularly for persistent wheeze.

Objective: To characterize predictors and allergic comorbidities of distinct wheeze trajectories in a multiethnic Asian cohort.

Methods: A total of 974 mother-child pairs from the prospective Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) cohort were included in this study.

Intraoperative cell-salvaged autologous blood transfusion is safe in metastatic spine tumour surgery: early outcomes of prospective clinical study.

Purpose: Allogeneic blood transfusion (ABT) is current standard of blood replenishment despite known complications. Salvaged blood transfusion (SBT) addresses majority of such complications. Surgeons remain reluctant to employ SBT in metastatic spine tumour surgery (MSTS), despite ample laboratory evidence.

[Effects of Microplastic High-density Polyethylene on Cotton Growth, Occurrence of wilt, and Rhizosphere Soil Bacterial Community].

Plastic mulch, especially polyethylene mulch, is widely used in agricultural production in China, but the microplastics formed by its degradation gradually have accumulated in soil, causing a series of environmental problems. At present, there have been many reports on the environmental biological effects of microplastics in farmland soil, but studies on the effects of microplastics on crop growth, disease occurrence, and rhizosphere soil bacterial communities are still lacking. In the previous study, it was found that 1% high-density polyethylene (HDPE, 500 mesh) could increase the incidence rate of cotton wilt (33.

Information transmission velocity-based dynamic hierarchical brain networks.

The brain functions as an accurate circuit that regulates information to be sequentially propagated and processed in a hierarchical manner. However, it is still unknown how the brain is hierarchically organized and how information is dynamically propagated during high-level cognition. In this study, we developed a new scheme for quantifying the information transmission velocity (ITV) by combining electroencephalogram (EEG) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and then mapped the cortical ITV network (ITVN) to explore the information transmission mechanism of the human brain.