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Bioremoval of lead ion from the aquatic environment using lignocellulosic (Zea mays), thermodynamics modeling, and MC simulation
Authors: El-hoshoudy A. N. , Matallah M. , Gouzi H. , Saidat B. , Khane Y. , Chabani M. , Nouacer I. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractLead (Pb+2) ions considered a crucial neurotoxic heavy metal result in serious troubles in the live biological environment including poisoning, and liver and kidney shortage, in addition to anemia, hepatitis, encephalopathy, and renal syndrome. In the current study, the biomass of Zea mays (ZMS) was prepared as a biosorbent for the elimination of Pb+2 ions from the aquatic environment in batch mode relevant to contact time, pH solution, biosorbent dose, and temperature. The Zea mays biomass was characterized using an SEM microscope coupled with EDX, FTIR, XRD, and BET surface area analysis to investigate the modification of chemical structure for the biosorption system. According to the biosorption experiments, the supreme biosorbent capability of ZMS approaches 16.9 mg/g for 180 min at pH = 5.5. The evaluation of kinetics analysis reveals that the (Pb+2) biosorption by ZMS was better described with pseudo-second-order kinetics. In addition, the nonlinear regression of Freundlich, Langmuir, Temkin, and Elovich isothermal models was modeled to the equilibrium data, and it was deduced that the Langmuir isotherm provides a better fit than Langmuir based on the correlation coefficient values. The thermodynamic factors were calculated for this biosorption process in which the lead ions are sequestered by the ZMS. According to these factors, it was elucidated that the (Pb+2) ions biosorption onto the Zeamays sponge is exothermic and spontaneous. In addition, Monte Carlo (MC) simulations were conducted to screen the adsorption competence of pigments and ligands in Zea mays for Pb+2 ions adsorption. The outputs of experimental and simulation studies proved the potentiality of Zea mays sponge (ZMS) as a promising biosorbent for eliminating heavy metallic elements from aqueous media.
Heterojunction CuO thin coated CaO drived from eggshell waste for fast removal of organic pollutants from water under visible light
Authors: Ali Ahmed A. , Hattab Z. , Berredjem Y. , Giordana A. , Cerrato G. , Djellabi R. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe conversion of food and agro-industrial wastes to produce useful products is one of the goals of economic and sustainable development, as also evidenced in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. This work aims to study the transformation of CaCO3 based eggshell waste (ES) into a face centered cubic oxide form (namely, CaO), followed by CuO coating to be used as photocatalytic material (ES@CuO) for fast removal of basic fuchsin (BF) dye from water under visible light. Different ES@CuO samples with different CuO amounts (2.5, 5 and 10%, respectively) and calcined at different temperatures (600, 800, and 1000 °C) were prepared by hydrothermal method. Samples with CuO from medium to high amounts (5 and 10%) demonstrated excellent photocatalytic activity, as compared to low CuO amount (2.5%). In addition, the samples calcined at higher temperature (800 and 1000 °C) exhibited superior degradation rates, reaching 88.11% and 88.33%, respectively. The effect of operating parameters was investigated to understand the behavior of ES@CuO under different conditions. ES@CuO shows rapid removal of BF which combines adsorption and photooxidation, wherein the removal rate reaches up 99% for a BF dye concentration of 100 ppm within 30 min using 75 mg/L of ES@CuO5%. ES@CuO exhibits superior adsorption ability and excellent photoproduced charges transfer which provide synergistic effects to boost the quick removal of dye from water. The finding of this investigation encourages valorizing food wastes into sustainable materials for water remediation.
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PCR-positive meningococcal CSF infection without pleocytosis but high IL-6 and IL-8
Authors: Dyckhoff-Shen Susanne , Pfister Hans-Walter , Koedel Uwe , Klein Matthias 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Background
Meningococcal meningitis is still a severe disease causing high mortality and morbidity rates. Early diagnosis is crucial to ensure prompt antibiotic therapy. However, identification of the pathogen can be challenging.

Case presentation
A 32-year-old male patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presented to the emergency room with fever, nausea, vomiting, headache and lower back pain as well as multiple petechial bleedings. On suspicion of meningococcal infection, the emergency doctor had already administered one dose of ceftriaxone before arrival to the clinic. Blood works showed massive inflammation due to bacterial infection. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed normal cell count, protein and glucose levels but PCR was positive for Neisseria meningitis and IL-6 as well as IL-8 were elevated. On antibiotic therapy with ceftriaxone, the patient’s condition improved quickly.

Conclusions
We present a rare case of meningococcal infection of the CSF in a SLE patient without further CSF abnormalities. We discuss the involvement of early antibiotic treatment and the role of the patient’s immune status in the normal CSF findings of this case. Moreover, this case demonstrates the importance of early antibiotic therapy in bacterial meningitis for the clinical outcome.
Traumatic Optic Neuropathy: Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Neuroprotective and Neuroregenerative Therapies
Authors: Tsai Nicole Y. , Gallo Ryan A. , Pelaez Daniel , Tse David T. , Kinde Benyam 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Purpose of Review
Traumatic optic neuropathy (TON) is a devasting disorder that can result in irreversible vision loss. Understanding the current research to promote neuroprotection and neuroregeneration of the optic nerve after injury may shed light on promising therapeutic avenues.

Recent Findings
With evolving methods to model traumatic optic neuropathy, recent work manipulating signal transduction and cell damage response pathways reveals new clinical opportunities for patients with traumatic injury to the optic nerve.

Summary
Despite years of basic science and clinical research, no treatment for TON exists. The absence of therapies highlights the importance of a comprehensive understanding of molecular pathways involved in retinal ganglion cell survival. Promising therapeutic opportunities may arise from a multi-pronged approach, targeting multiple pathways simultaneously in this complex disease.
Gender and equity considerations in AMR research: a systematic scoping review
Authors: Lynch Ingrid , Fluks Lorenza , Manderson Lenore , Isaacs Nazeema , Essop Roshin , Praphasawat Ravikanya , Middleton Lyn , Naemiratch Bhensri 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Research on gender and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) beyond women’s biological susceptibility is limited. A gender and equity lens in AMR research is necessary to promote gender equality and support the effectiveness, uptake, and sustainability of real-world AMR solutions. We argue that it is an ethical and social justice imperative to include gender and related intersectional issues in AMR research and implementation. An intersectional exploration of the interplay between people’s diverse identities and experiences, including their gender, socio-economic status, race, disability, age, and sexuality, may help us understand how these factors reinforce AMR risk and vulnerability and ensure that interventions to reduce the risk of AMR do not impact unevenly. This paper reports on the findings of a systematic scoping review on the interlinkages between AMR, gender and other socio-behavioural characteristics to identify priority knowledge gaps in human and animal health in LMICs. The review focused on peer-reviewed and grey literature published between 2017 and 2022. Three overarching themes were gendered division of caregiving roles and responsibilities, gender power relations in decision-making, and interactions between gender norms and health-seeking behaviours. Research that fails to account for gender and its intersections with other lines of disadvantage, such as race, class and ability, risks being irrelevant and will have little impact on the continued and dangerous spread of AMR. We provide recommendations for integrating an intersectional gender lens in AMR research, policy and practice.
Some operations on intuitionistic fuzzy graphs via novel versions of the Sombor index for internet routing
Authors: Imran Muhammad , Azeem Muhammad , Jamil Muhammad Kamran , Deveci Muhammet 
Published: April 2024

AbstractTopological indices (TIs) are numerical structures that are associated with a graph to identify its topology. TIs are highly popular in the literature with a wide range of applications from chemistry to economics. However, TIs have limitations in representating complex relations within the graphs creating some uncertainities. Fuzzy graph (FG) and intuitionistic fuzzy graph (IFG) are introduced to overcome these uncertainities. While a FG a describes degree of membership of an object in a graph, IFG delineate information on membership or nonmembership under uncertainity. This study aims to introduce novel TIs such as the general second Zagreb index, the Sombor index of the third version, and the Sombor index of the fourth version in the IFG framework in order to improve practicality of FG and IFG applications. Some properties of the proposed indices and their upper bounds are provided as well. Proposed TIs are applied to an internet routing network as a case study. Results of the study show that adding more internet routers in the network can increase internet speed and the strength of the entire system. Finally, comparative studies for the Sombor index of the third version and the Sombor index of the fourth version are also revealed.
MR-based navigation for robot-assisted endovascular procedures
Authors: Bijlsma Jelle , Kundrat Dennis , Dagnino Giulio 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThere is increasing interests in robotic and computer technologies to accurately perform endovascular intervention. One major limitation of current endovascular intervention—either manual or robot-assisted is the surgical navigation which still relies on 2D fluoroscopy. Recent research efforts are towards MRI-guided interventions to reduce ionizing radiation exposure, and to improve diagnosis, planning, navigation, and execution of endovascular interventions. We propose an MR-based navigation framework for robot-assisted endovascular procedures. The framework allows the acquisition of real-time MR images; segmentation of the vasculature and tracking of vascular instruments; and generation of MR-based guidance, both visual and haptic. The instrument tracking accuracy—a key aspect of the navigation framework—was assessed via 4 dedicated experiments with different acquisition settings, framerate, and time. The experiments showed clinically acceptable tracking accuracy in the range of 1.30–3.80 mm RMSE. We believe that this work represents a valuable first step towards MR-guided robot-assisted intervention.
Performance of a durum wheat diversity panel under different management systems
Authors: Cséplő Mónika , Puskás Katalin , Vida Gyula , Mészáros Klára , Uhrin Andrea , Tóth Viola , Ambrózy Zsuzsanna , Grausgruber Heinrich , Bonfiglioli Luca , Pagnotta Mario Augusto , Urbanavičiūtė Ieva , Mikó Péter , Bányai Judit 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThirty winter and spring durum wheat varieties and breeding lines were evaluated between 2020 and 2022 under low-input, conventional and organic management. Analysis of variance revealed statistically significant effects for the year, management, genotype and their interactions for heading, lodging, grain yield, grain width and length, test weight and thousand grain weight. In the case of ground cover, the genotype × management and the genotype × management × year interactions were not significant. In 2020 and 2022, the latest heading variety ‘Mv Makaróni’ headed on 20th and 21st of May, respectively, whilst in 2021, due to the rainy and cold spring weather, 73% of the varieties started to head only after this date. Lodging was observed only on the conventional sites in two years. The average yield of the experiment was 5.94 t ha−1. For grain yield ‘Mv Vékadur’ and ‘NS Dur’ in the low-input and conventional trials, and genotypes ‘Sambadur’, ‘NS Žad’ and line MVTD12-23 in the organic trials were found as highly stable and best performing genotypes. Significant positive correlations were found between grain width and grain weight. Early ground coverage was measured in all three managements across two years and resulted in significant positive correlation with grain yield.
Concepts and Contexts: Towards a Theory of “Hermeneutical Bastardization”
Authors: Drury Megan R. F. 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
This paper theorizes and defends a process I term “hermeneutical bastardization.” This concept tracks the way in which some hermeneutical injustices arise not from a gap in a shared pool of hermeneutical resources, but from the decontextualization of an advantageous hermeneutical resource into another (typically dominant) hermeneutical domain. This decontextualization bastardizes hermeneutical resources by severing the concept from its original meaning and significance. I focus on the term “trans woman” and examine the way in which dominant epistemic agents rewrite and redefine the concept according to prominent and prevalent pernicious representations. Specifically, once decontextualized, the term “trans woman” denotes an individual who is thoroughly erotic and sexual in nature. Hermeneutical bastardization can illuminate how hermeneutically marginalized groups are reconstructed by other dominant epistemic agents according to these pernicious representations and can be silenced whilst their concepts, or rather their terms, are being utilized in sets of dominant hermeneutical resources in ways that severely diverge from their original intra-communal conceptualization. This type of hermeneutical injustice does not arise from a lacuna in our set of resources, but instead depends on the uptake of a concept's term and its subsequent decontextualization.
PRODUCT LIABILITY AND ONLINE MARKETPLACES: COMPARISON AND REFORM
Authors: Fairgrieve Duncan , Busch Christoph , Büyüksagis Erdem , Garrett Zachary G. , Straetmans Gert , Karaiskos Antonios , Linley Robin D. , Markou Christiana , Paterson Jeannie Marie , Sharkey Catherine M. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis article analyses the challenges that online marketplaces and e-commerce pose to traditional product liability doctrines. It uses a comparative perspective to examine whether an online platform can be liable to a consumer for a defective product purchased on its platform, and the adaption of product liability law to this challenge in a series of jurisdictions. It reflects on the role of litigation and regulation, focusing on Europe and the United States, and considers reform in a number of jurisdictions in this area. It concludes with proposals for increasing the accountability of online marketplaces for products sold on their websites.
Coinage networks in fifth-century BCE Ionia
Authors: Loy Michael 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis article revisits ‘the problem of Classical Ionia’, the long-persisting idea put forward by John Manuel Cook in 1961 that Ionia experienced regional economic impoverishment in the fifth century BCE. By looking comprehensively at the dataset of coinage available from fifth-century Ionia, this article argues that there is actually significant evidence for regional networking in Classical Ionia, and that various communities, even if not continually emitting new coinages at all points in the fifth century, adopted various strategies for maintaining their economic reach and extending their network of trading partners. Formal network analysis is applied to the coinage dataset, taking the shared weight standards to which communities minted their coins as indicative of participation in common economic networks. The network patterns are tested against two other patterns, specifically the distribution of fifth-century Chian and Samian amphoras, and the pattern of Ionian-coin-containing hoards from within and beyond Ionia. Together, these patterns strengthen the case for a high-level Ionian economic resilience, offering a radically different position to Cook and reaffirming that continuing economic networking was crucial to the activities of fifth-century Ionian states.
Genome-wide association study on seed dormancy in barley
Authors: Zhou Gaofeng , McFawn Lee-Anne , Zhang Xiao-qi , Angessa Tefera Tolera , Westcott Sharon , Li Chengdao 
Published: April 2024

AbstractSeed dormancy is an important trait associated with pre-sprouting and malting quality in barley. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been used to detect quantitative trait loci (QTLs) underlying complex traits in major crops. In the present study, we collected 295 barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) accessions from Australia, Europe, Canada and China. A total of 25,179 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)/diversity arrays technology sequence markers were used for population structure, linkage disequilibrium and GWAS analysis. Candidate genes within QTL regions were investigated, and their expression levels were analysed using RNAseq data. Five QTLs for seed dormancy were identified. One QTL was mapped on chromosome 1H, and one QTL was mapped on chromosome 4H, while three QTLs were located on chromosome 5H. This is the first report of a QTL on the short arm of chromosome 5H in barley. Molecular markers linked to the QTL can be used for marker-assisted selection in barley breeding programmes.
A Raman Spectroscopic Study of Lightning‐Induced Glass Produced From Five Mineral Phases
Authors: Woods T. W. , Genareau K. , Park C. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractLightning‐induced volcanic spherules (LIVS) are glasses produced by the rapid melting and solidification of molten volcanic ash grains. High temperatures generated by lightning will alter the physical and chemical properties of minerals exposed to the discharge. Laboratory experiments reveal that LIVS glass composition varies depending on the starting material, exhibiting heterogeneous compositional features common in other glasses created by cloud‐to‐ground lightning, nuclear explosions, and high velocity impact events. This study uses scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy to investigate the structure and Raman signatures of lightning‐induced glass spherules manufactured from five igneous minerals (<32 μm powders of albite, labradorite, augite, hornblende, and magnetite). LIVS were created through high‐current impulse experiments using peak currents of 25 and 40 kA. Analysis of the post‐experimental albite, labradorite, augite, and hornblende LIVS reveal primarily homogeneous silicate or aluminosilicate glasses with limited heterogeneity. Their amorphous Raman spectra are comparable to rhyolitic and mafic natural glasses along with Na2O‐K2O‐Al2O3‐SiO2, CaCO3‐Al2O3‐SiO2, and CaO‐MgO‐SiO2 synthetic glass networks. A few of the augite and hornblende LIVS spectra exhibit premelting effects, which occur below the melting point and represent the onset of cation disordering in phases that remain crystalline. Magnetite samples produced crystal‐rich, glass‐poor LIVS characterized by the growth of dendritic microcrystals and crystalline spectra that also contain a few bands alluding to the composition of their silicate–phosphate glass matrix. By understanding these chemical changes induced by lightning, we can extract information from other types of glasses produced during high temperature, short duration events.
Applying High‐Speed Video Images to Inverse Channel Base Current Based on NARX Neural Network
Authors: Zhang Qi , Luo Xiaojun , Shi Lihua , Fu Shangchen 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe high‐speed video (HSV) images were taken as the input data of the nonlinear autoregressive network (NARX) to reconstruct the return‐stroke channel base current (CBC). The integrated luminosity (IL) of discharge channel is firstly obtained by summing the pixel values in HSV images, and the correlation between the IL and CBC is analyzed as well. Then, a NARX model is trained by taking the IL and CBC as the input and output data, respectively. With the input of the IL of another discharge channel, the trained NARX model is applied to inverse the corresponding CBC. The inversed result suggests that the proposed method can be used to infer the CBC that was not yet measured.
The Latitudinal and Longitudinal Variation of the Semidiurnal Lunar Tide in the Ionosphere During 2013
Authors: Mo Xiaohua , Xu Chenwei , Zhang Donghe 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe present paper studies the latitudinal and longitudinal variation of ionospheric semidiurnal lunar tide (M2) perturbations in 2013 with total electron content (TEC) data. Results show that the latitudinal distribution of M2 exhibits longitudinal difference. At 100 ∼ 120°E and 80 ∼ 100°W longitudes, the strongest M2 perturbations in the northern and southern hemispheres roundly appeared at about 10° ∼ 20°N and 15° ∼ 25°S magnetic latitude (MLAT), respectively, which supports previous suggestion that the M2 maximized in the EIA crest regions. Moreover, the latitude range of M2 at 80 ∼ 100°W longitudes was wider than that at 100 ∼ 120°E longitudes, especially for southern hemisphere (SH). The M2 maximized at 20° ∼ 30°N MLAT in the northern hemisphere (NH) and was absent in the SH at 50°W ∼ 20°E longitudes, which was distinctly different than those at other longitudes. This abnormal behavior of latitudinal distribution of M2 may be caused by the large magnetic declination angle at 50°W ∼ 20°E longitudes. Meanwhile, the longitudinal variation and hemispheric asymmetry of M2 amplitude are different between NH winter (SSW period) and other seasons. The M2 amplitudes were stronger disturbances in the NH and in the American longitudinal sector in NH winter. However, in other seasons, the M2 amplitude was largest in Asian sector, and the M2 amplitude in NH was larger than SH at 0° ∼ 130°E longitudes, which was contrast to these at 0° ∼ 110°W longitudes. These differences of M2 variation between NH winter and other seasons may be related to the differences of the combined effects of the geomagnetic configuration and background conditions of the atmosphere and ionosphere.