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Water Sci Technol
January 2025
China Construction Fifth Engineering Division Co., Ltd, Changsha, Hunan 410004, China.
Road runoff underwent treatment using a filter filled with sludge from drinking water treatment plants to assess its capacity for removing dissolved organic matter (DOM). This evaluation utilized resin fractionation, gel permeation chromatography, three-dimensional excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy, and UV-Visible spectroscopy. The filter demonstrated enhanced efficiency in removing dissolved organic carbon, achieving removal rates between 70 and 80%.
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January 2025
School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK.
Background: For people receiving haemodialysis, a balance has to be struck between removing sufficient but not too much fluid during a treatment session and maintaining any remaining kidney function they might have. In the BISTRO trial, this study sought to establish if getting the balance right might be improved by the additional use of bioimpedance, a device that measures body fluid composition to help decide how much fluid to remove during dialysis. Designing and executing this trial, which incorporated complex and repeated trial procedures that would be dependent on participant engagement, presented challenges that demanded effective public and patient involvement.
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January 2025
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.
The interplay of electronic charge, spin, and orbital currents, coherently driven by picosecond long oscillations of light fields in spin-orbit coupled systems, is the foundation of emerging terahertz lightwave spintronics and orbitronics. The essential rules for how terahertz fields interact with these systems in a nonlinear way are still not understood. In this work, we demonstrate a universally applicable electronic nonlinearity originating from spin-orbit interactions in conducting materials, wherein the interplay of light-induced spin and orbital textures manifests.
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January 2025
EXPLOR! Center, Air Liquide Healthcare, Bagneux, France.
Background: Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) services have expanded throughout the world thanks to elastomeric pumps (EP). Their flowrate is known to vary by ±15%. Treatment effectiveness and the organization of care at home may be impacted, especially with piperacillin/tazobactam infusion (TAZ).
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January 2025
Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Periodontology, Marmara University;
Dental ultrasonic scalers are commonly employed in periodontal treatment; however, their ability to roughen tooth surfaces is a worry since roughness may increase plaque production, a key cause of periodontal disease. This research studied the influence of a piezoelectric ultrasonic scaler on the roughness of two distinct flowable composite filling materials. To do this, 10 disc-shaped samples were generated from each of the two flowable composite materials.
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