Biological Reduction of Perchlorate from Spent Modified Reed Mediated by an Enriched Microbial Culture by Salem Baidas, Khaled Al-Deyain, Xiaoguang Meng, Baoyu Gao

“…In conclusion, anaerobic biodegradation of perchlorate from spent MR can be used as an efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly alternative or supplement to other treatment options, such as ion exchange and incineration. This approach can also be an effective solution to the waste generated by using MR to remove perchlorate from contaminated water.…”
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The pedagogical model for developing research/investigation competence in primary school students (Natural Sciences) by Marieta NEAGU

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Heavy Scalar, Vector, and Axial-Vector Mesons in Hot and Dense Nuclear Medium by Arvind Kumar

“…The study of the medium modifications of the above mesons may be helpful for understanding their production rates in heavy-ion collision experiments. The results of present investigations of medium modifications of scalar, vector, and axial-vector mesons at finite density and temperature can be verified in the compressed baryonic matter (CBM) experiment of FAIR facility at GSI, Germany.…”
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Improvement of the Conductive Ability of Polymer Electrolytes by Xu Hailiang

“…., poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate, can significantly enhance the mechanical and electrical properties of polymer electrolytes; the gel electrolyte prepared by compounding highly polar β-polyvinylidene fluoride (β-PVDF) with nylon 6 shows significant application potential in improving ion conduction efficiency and enhancing battery safety. …”
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Evaluation of In Vitro Antioxidant Properties of Methanol and Aqueous Extracts of Parkinsonia aculeata L. Leaves by Sonia Sharma, Adarsh Pal Vig

“…Antioxidant activity was studied using DPPH, CUPRAC, reducing power assay, deoxyribose degradation (site and nonsite specific), ferric reducing antioxidant potential (FRAP), ferric thiocyanate (FTC), thiobarbituric acid (TBA), and molybdate ion reduction, respectively. The total phenolic contents of the methanol and aqueous leaf extract were 39 mg GAE/g and 38 mg GAE/g, whereas flavonoid contents of these extracts were found to be 0.013 mg RE/g and 0.006 mg RE/g, respectively. …”
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Bioinorganic Relevance of Some Cobalt(II) Complexes with Thiophene-2-glyoxal Derived Schiff Bases by Prashant Singh, Shanu Das, Rajesh Dhakarey

“…IR spectra manifest the coordination of the ligand to the metal ion through the carbonyl oxygen, azomethine nitrogen and thienyl sulphur atoms. …”
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Structural insights into light-gating of potassium-selective channelrhodopsin by Takefumi Morizumi, Kyumhyuk Kim, Hai Li, Probal Nag, Tal Dogon, Oleg A. Sineshchekov, Yumei Wang, Leonid S. Brown, Songhwan Hwang, Han Sun, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar, Igor Schapiro, Elena G. Govorunova, John L. Spudich, Oliver P. Ernst

“…Abstract Structural information on channelrhodopsins’ mechanism of light-gated ion conductance is scarce, limiting its engineering as optogenetic tools. …”
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Reduced Representation Libraries from DNA Pools Analysed with Next Generation Semiconductor Based-Sequencing to Identify SNPs in Extreme and Divergent Pigs for Back Fat Thickness by Samuele Bovo, Francesca Bertolini, Giuseppina Schiavo, Gianluca Mazzoni, Stefania Dall’Olio, Luca Fontanesi

“…DNA samples from two groups of Italian Large White pigs with divergent estimating breeding value (EBV) for BFT were separately pooled and sequenced, after preparation of reduced representation libraries (RRLs), on the Ion Torrent technology. Taking advantage from SNAPE for SNPs calling in sequenced DNA pools, 39,165 SNPs were identified; 1/4 of them were novel variants not reported in dbSNP. …”
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Contributions of Jets in Net Charge Fluctuations from the Beam Energy Scan at RHIC and LHC by Bushra Ali, Shaista Khan, Shakeel Ahmad

“…Dynamical net charge fluctuations have been studied in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions from the beam energy scan at RHIC and LHC energies by carrying out the hadronic model simulation. …”
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Reversibly thermosecreting and convertible lubricative oil-in-water mixtures using multiple hydrogen bonding interactions by Qianhui Zhou, Mingfei Li, Weiyan Yu, Yunjing Wang, Yujie Yang, Jingcheng Hao, Lu Xu

“…An additional component, such as a surfactant, particle, solvent or ion is normally required to stabilize the small liquid droplets by providing sufficiently low interfacial tensions or strong repulsive forces. …”
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Characterization and Inhibitory Effects of Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized from Plant Extracts on HeLa Cells by Bernard Owusu Asimeng, Emmanuel Nyankson, Johnson Kwame Efavi, Amartey Nii Amarkai, Gloria Pokuaa Manu, Elvis Tiburu

“…The findings show that the particles have a different inhibitory mechanism on HeLa cells ion transfer and are promising to be further exploited for cancer treatment.…”
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Study on the Effect of Cu (II) and Zn (II) on the Accumulation of Pb (II) from Soil to the Biomass of Vegetable by Le Thi Thanh Tran, Le Van Luan, Tran Quang Hieu, Le Van Tan

“…In this study, a field experiment was carried out to investigate the accumulation of lead from soil contaminated by this metal ion on the biomass of some vegetables, including spinach, lettuce, carrots, and potatoes. …”
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The Collection of Zoosporic Eufungi at the University of Michigan (CZEUM): introducing a new repository of barcoded Chytridiomyceta and Blastocladiomycota cultures by D. Rabern Simmons, Anne E. Bonds, Buck T. Castillo, Rebecca A. Clemons, Alex D. Glasco, Jillian M. Myers, Natasha Thapa, Peter M. Letcher, Martha J. Powell, Joyce E. Longcore, Timothy Y. James

“…We sequenced multiplexed samples with an Oxford Nanopore Technology MinION device and software, and demonstrate the method is accurate by producing sequences identical to published Sanger sequences. …”
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Dendritic excitations govern back-propagation via a spike-rate accelerometer by Pojeong Park, J. David Wong-Campos, Daniel G. Itkis, Byung Hun Lee, Yitong Qi, Hunter C. Davis, Benjamin Antin, Amol Pasarkar, Jonathan B. Grimm, Sarah E. Plutkis, Katie L. Holland, Liam Paninski, Luke D. Lavis, Adam E. Cohen

“…Collisions of dSpikes with synaptic inputs triggered calcium channel and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)-dependent dendritic plateau potentials and accompanying complex spikes at the soma. This hierarchical ion channel network acts as a spike-rate accelerometer, providing an intuitive picture connecting dendritic biophysics to associative plasticity rules.…”
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Entropy Production in an Electro-Membrane Process at Underlimiting Currents—Influence of Temperature by Juan Carlos Maroto, Sagrario Muñoz, Vicenta María Barragán

“…The results show that part of the electric power input is dissipated as heat due to both electric migration and diffusion ion transports, while another part is converted into chemical energy stored in the saline concentration gradient. …”
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The mycobacterial ABC transporter IrtAB employs a membrane-facing crevice for siderophore-mediated iron uptake by Imre Gonda, Simona Sorrentino, Laura Galazzo, Nicolas P. Lichti, Fabian M. Arnold, Ahmad R. Mehdipour, Enrica Bordignon, Markus A. Seeger

“…A conserved triple histidine motif coordinating a zinc ion is present below the mycobactin binding site. …”
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Mining the Virgin Land of Neurotoxicology: A Novel Paradigm of Neurotoxic Peptides Action on Glycosylated Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels by Zhirui Liu, Jie Tao, Pin Ye, Yonghua Ji

“…The accumulative research suggested an interaction between the sialic acids chains and ion-permeable pores, giving rise to subtle but significant impacts on channel gating. …”
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Structural basis of phosphate export by human XPR1 by Qixian He, Ran Zhang, Sandrine Tury, Valérie Courgnaud, Fenglian Liu, Jean-luc Battini, Baobin Li, Qingfeng Chen

“…The structure consists of a scaffold domain (TM1, TM3-4) and a core domain (TM2, TM5-10) structurally related to ion-translocating rhodopsins. Bound phosphate is observed in a tunnel within the core domain at a narrow point that separates the tunnel into intracellular and extracellular vestibules. …”
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Analysis of ginseng rusty root symptoms transcriptome and its pathogenesis directed by reactive oxygen species theory by Pengcheng Yu, Xiaowen Song, Wei Zhang, Yao Yao, Junling Ren, Liyang Wang, Wenfei Liu, Zhaoping Meng, Xiangcai Meng

“…In this study, the phloem tissue of healthy Panax ginseng (AG), the nonred tissue of the phloem epidermis around the lesion (BG), and the red lesion site tissue of GRS (CG) were extracted for mRNA transcriptomic analysis; 35,958 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified and were associated with multiple stress resistance pathways, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and iron ion binding. Further study showed that the contents of O2•‐, H2O2, and malondialdehyde (MDA) were significantly increased in BG and CG tissues. …”
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Ranking Executive Actions of Technology Roadmap with the Emphasis on Resources and Technology Acquisition (A Case Study of Two International Roadmaps) by Kiarash Fartash, Mostafa Mohseni Kiasari

“…Findings: Five batteries from the family of ion-lithium batteries (with six technical characteristics) were ranked by TOPSIS and PROMETHEE. …”
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