From waste to resource: King coconut biochar as a green adsorbent for bisphenol A removal by Hashinika Matharage, Mahesh Jayaweera, Nilanthi Bandara, Jagath Manatunge, Daham Jayawardana, Janith Dissanayake

“…Kinetic studies demonstrated that the pseudo-second-order model accurately represented the adsorption dynamics, implying chemisorption as the rate-limiting step. …”
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Transparent, flexible graphene–ITO-based neural microelectrodes for simultaneous electrophysiology recording and calcium imaging of intracortical neural activity in freely moving m... by Miao Yuan, Fei Li, Feng Xue, Yang Wang, Baoqiang Li, Rongyu Tang, Yijun Wang, Guo-Qiang Bi, Weihua Pei

“…Abstract To understand the complex dynamics of neural activity in the brain across various temporal and spatial scales, it is crucial to record intracortical multimodal neural activity by combining electrophysiological recording and calcium imaging techniques. …”
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Effect of Microbial Biomass on Formation of Structurally Incorporated Uranium in Iron Oxides and Their Geochemical Behavior by XIA Qingyin

“…The differential behavior of uranium in goethite and magnetite formed under varying biomass conditions underscores the need for careful consideration of microbial dynamics in bioremediation strategies and the management of uranium-contaminated sites.…”

Data-driven strategies for digital native market segmentation using clustering by Md Ashraf Uddin, Md. Alamin Talukder, Md. Redwan Ahmed, Ansam Khraisat, Ammar Alazab, Md. Manowarul Islam, Sunil Aryal, Ferdaus Anam Jibon

“…Leveraging an open-access prototype dataset from social networking sites (SNS), our study employs a variety of clustering techniques, including Kmeans, MiniBatch Kmeans, AGNES, and Fuzzy C-means, to uncover hidden interests of teenage consumers from SNS data. …”
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MSPT: A Transformer-Based Model Using Multiscale Periodic Information for 10–30 d Subseasonal Daily Sea Surface Temperature Forecasting by Qi He, Zhenfeng Lan, Wei Song, Wenbo Zhang, Yanling Du, Wei Zhao

“…Each periodic scale features an independent branch composed of patch embedding and Transformer encoder, dedicated to specifically learning temporal variations at that scale. …”
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Robust self-supervised denoising of voltage imaging data using CellMincer by Brice Wang, Tianle Ma, Theresa Chen, Trinh Nguyen, Ethan Crouse, Stephen J. Fleming, Alison S. Walker, Vera Valakh, Ralda Nehme, Evan W. Miller, Samouil L. Farhi, Mehrtash Babadi

“…Traditional denoising methods, such as matrix factorization, impose rigid assumptions about noise and signal structures, while existing deep learning approaches fail to fully capture the rapid dynamics and complex dependencies inherent in voltage imaging data. …”
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Automated quantitative analysis of coat and skin coloration in laboratory animals by V. A. Prikhodko, U. V. Nogaeva, D. Yu. Ivkin, S. V. Okovityi

“…The algorithm does not require the use of specialized software, is fast and straightforward, and can be employed for batch image processing to obtain quantitative data for further statistical analysis.…”
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Cu⁰-Functionalized, ZIF-8-Derived, Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Composites for Efficient Iodine Elimination in Solution by Jiuyu Chen, Chensheng Gao, Jingwen Chen, Fei Liu, Zhiwen Liu

“…The presence of an appropriate amount of Cu⁰ particles could increase the specific surface area of Cu@Zn-NC. The subsequent batch adsorption results demonstrated that the as-fabricated composites showed high I₂ adsorption amounts (1204.9 mg/g) and relatively fast dynamics in an iodine–cyclohexane solution when the Cu content was 30% and the pyrolysis temperature was 600 °C, outperforming the other Cu-based materials. …”
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Exploring the molecular characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease from the perspective of hypoxia-related genes by Lei Zheng, Lin Mou, Lingying Hao, Rui Chen, Yifei Wang, Miao Yu, Xueyan Zhang

“…Data preprocessing involved mitigating batch effects via the sva package and normalizing with the limma package. …”
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Efficiently enriched Ni, Co, and Zn with (NH4)2S-SDD combined system in MnSO 4 electrolyte by Panpan Mu, Xiaoguang Zhang, Gang Fang, Guosai Jiang, Zhe Tan, De’an Pan

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Taxonomic structure of bacterial communities in sourdoughs of spontaneous fermentation by V. K. Khlestkin, M. N. Lockachuk, O. A. Savkina, L. I. Kuznetsova, E. N. Pavlovskaya, O. I. Parakhina

“…Two spontaneously fermented sourdoughs were studied: dense rye sourdough and liquid rye sourdough, both prepared using the same batch of peeled rye flour. To study the taxonomic structure of the sourdough microbiome in dynamics, the method of high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA gene fragments of microorganisms was used. …”
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A Review of the Modeling of Adsorption of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants from Water Using Artificial Neural Networks by Hilda Elizabeth Reynel-Ávila, Ismael Alejandro Aguayo-Villarreal, Lizbeth Liliana Diaz-Muñoz, Jaime Moreno-Pérez, Francisco Javier Sánchez-Ruiz, Cintia Karina Rojas-Mayorga, Didilia Ileana Mendoza-Castillo, Adrián Bonilla-Petriciolet

“…Overall, the studies on adsorption modeling with artificial neural networks have focused mainly on the analysis of batch processes (87%) in comparison to dynamic systems (13%) like packed bed columns. …”
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Single-stage separation and quantitation of anionic and cationic forms of transition metals from environmental water using organo-functionalized ordered mesoporous silica by Natalia Kobylinska

“…A simple methodology was proposed for the separation and quantitation of toxic heavy metals (Pb2+, Cr3+, Cu2+, Mn2+, Cd2+, CrO42- and MnO4-) in the fixed-bed column and batch adsorption experiments using functionalised mesoporous silicas. …”
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Patchy burn severity explains heterogeneous soil viral and prokaryotic responses to fire in a mixed conifer forest by Sara E. Geonczy, Luke S. Hillary, Christian Santos-Medellín, Jess W. Sorensen, Joanne B. Emerson

“…ABSTRACT Effects of fire on soil viruses and virus–host dynamics are largely unexplored, despite known microbial contributions to biogeochemical processes and ecosystem recovery. …”
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Ecological Zoning Based on Suitability Evaluation of Ecological Product Development from the Value-Risk-Cost-Demand Perspective by Ming Gao, Pei Du, Xinxin Zhou, Zhenxia Liu, Wen Luo, Zhaoyuan Yu, Linwang Yuan

“…Ecological risks were modeled using multi-scale patch analysis (MSPA) and other models. Development costs were estimated using cost entropy. …”
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Repetitive magnetic stimulation with iTBS600 induces persistent structural and functional plasticity in mouse organotypic slice cultures by Han Lu, Shreyash Garg, Maximilian Lenz, Andreas Vlachos

“…Methods:: We applied iTBS600 to entorhino-hippocampal organotypic tissue cultures and conducted a 24-hour analysis using c-Fos immunostaining, whole-cell patch-clamp recordings, time-lapse imaging of dendritic spines, and calcium imaging. …”
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Investigation on Evolutionary Computation Techniques of a Nonlinear System by Tran Trong Dao

“…A nonlinear mathematical model is required to describe the dynamic behaviour of batch process; this justifies the use of evolutionary method of the EAs to deal with this process. …”
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A scRNA-seq reference contrasting living and early post-mortem human retina across diverse donor states by Luning Yang, Yiwen Tao, Qi Pan, Tengda Cai, Yunyan Ye, Jianhui Liu, Yang Zhou, Yongqing Shao, Quanyong Yi, Zen Huat Lu, Lie Chen, Gareth McKay, Richard Rankin, Weihua Meng

“…Additionally, by comparing living and post-mortem samples, our study highlights differences in transcriptional dynamics: living tissue preserved coherent RNA velocity streams, enabling clear dynamic state transitions, while post-mortem tissue exhibited disorganized patterns. …”
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Grain size effect of landscape in Jiangxi Guanshan subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest by RAN Huan1, LAN Yong2, DAI Yufeng2, XIONG Yong2, WEN Renquan1, SONG Qingni1, YANG Qingpei1, LIU Jun1*

“…In contrast, at smaller granularity, there was a noticeable trend of fragmentation in landscape types, providing a more comprehensive display of the quantity, density, and shape of each landscape type. Patch density(PD), number of patches(NP), edge density(ED), landscape shape index(LSI), mean fractal dimension index(FRAC_MN), contagion index(CONTAG)exhibited significant negative correlations with increasing grain size, while mean patch area(AREA_MN), Shannon's diversity index(SHDI), Shannon's evenness index(SHEI)exhibited significant positive correlations with increasing grain size.(3)The coefficients of variation for landscape indices PD, NP, ED, LSI, and AREA_MN were the highest, combining landscape structural stability and diversity, the changes in different landscape indices were primarily concentrated around the inflection point at 5 meters. …”
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Altered expression of adenosine A1 receptor in the paraventricular thalamus and its role in the regulation of sleep by ZHU Yifeng, WANG Na, HU Junya

“…RT-qPCR and fluorescence in situ hybridization were used to observe the changes of adenosine A1 receptor in PVT. Whole-cell patch-clamp recording was conducted to determine the effects of adenosine on the membrane potential and discharge frequency of PVT neurons. …”
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