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Review on conductometric, volumetric and computational studies on surfactants-amino acids interactions
Authors: Ansari Nizamul Haque , Khan Akil Ahmed , Iqubal S. M. Shakeel , Mohammed Tasneem , Asghar Basim H. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractIn this review amino acid-surfactant interactions mainly in aqueous solution has been explained. Amino acids and surfactants interactions are important in many studies because of their enhanced effectiveness in both living and non-living worlds. As physicochemical properties are additive, the study of interactions between amino acids and surfactants offer insights into how proteins unfold and denaturate in various media, which further alters with a change in physiological parameters like pH, additives, no of carbon in the chain and temperature. Keeping this in mind, in this review main emphasis has been on conductometric, volumetric and computational studies for detailed exploration of solute–solvent interactions of amino acids and surfactants in aqueous medium and effect of temperature on these interactions. Conductance data has been used to find the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of the surfactant. Using CMC, standard Gibbs free energy of micellization, ($${\Delta G}_{{\text{m}}}^{{0}}$$

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) have been determined for surfactant in presence of amino acids. In volumetric investigation, density data has been utilized to find apparent molar volumes of amino acids, (ϕv) and partial molar volume (ϕ0v), which is used to find soute-solvent interaction. In computational studies the effects of carbon tail length on CMC and aggregation number, (Ag) for the pure Gemini surfactant system were examined and these data were compared with experimental results to find the agreement between different methods.
Fault Diagnosis of Wastewater Treatment Processes Based on CPSO-DKPCA
Authors: Xu Baochang , Zhuang Peng , Wang Yaxin , He Wei , Wang Zhongjun , Liu Zhongyao 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe wastewater treatment process (WWTP) is one of the most common links in chemical plants. However, the testing for diagnosing faults in wastewater treatment plants is expensive and time-consuming. Due to strong nonlinearity and variable autocorrelation, traditional WWTP diagnostic methods based on principal component analysis (PCA) can lead to low fault detection rates (FDR) or difficulty in determining the root cause of faults. In this paper, an improved dynamic kernel principal component analysis (DKPCA) and Granger causality (GC) analysis model that uses chaotic particle swarm optimization (CPSO) to detect WWTP and locate the root causes of faults is proposed. First, a kernel function is introduced to map a nonlinear matrix to a linear space. Then, the training data are extended through a time lag constant to solve the problem of nonlinear and variable autocorrelation in WWTP. Moreover, a novel fault candidate variables selection method, together with GC, is introduced to locate the root variables of the fault. The CPSO algorithm is employed to optimize DKPCA's kernel function parameters, enhancing the accuracy of fault monitoring and diagnosis models. Compared with traditional methods, the proposed method has a better fault detection rate, achieving 95.83% and 93.33% fault detection rates in simulated and real WWTP, respectively.
High-Resolution Simulation of the Near-Field Pollutant Dispersion in a Nuclear Power Plant Community with High-Performance Computing
Authors: Tang Bowen , Wang Hao , Xu Jianjun , Lin Jiazhen , Hu Jinxing , Chen Rongliang 
Published: February 2024

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This study aims to employ numerical simulations to understand the dynamics of wind fields and air pollutant dispersion in the proximity of a nuclear plant, situated within a specified urban environment. By leveraging computational fluid dynamics (CFD) combined with geographical information system (GIS) data, the research comprehensively models atmospheric interactions in terms of wind flow patterns, building-induced pressure variances, and pollutant trajectories. The computational domain extends over an area of

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, vertically stretching to 0.5 km. The wind and pollutant distribution equations are discretized using the finite volume method, providing detailed insights into fluid interactions with urban topographies. Key findings highlight the profound influences of terrain, urban structures, and wind flow behavior on the dispersion of radioactive aerosols, shedding light on potential risks and safety protocols for nuclear plant environments.
The wettability of metallic glasses: a review
Authors: Guo Yu-yao , Xu Jun-jie , Zhu Li-na , Kang Jia-jie , Zhou Yong-kuan , Fu Zhi-qiang , She Ding-shun 
Published: February 2024

AbstractMetallic glasses, displaying extraordinary physical and chemical properties, have garnered robust research enthusiasm. Inspired by the exceptional wetting biological surfaces, superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted considerable attention. Superhydrophobic surfaces with both excellent mechanical and chemical stability could be prepared using metallic glasses and have developed considerably over the last few years. In this review, diverse fundamental aspects of wettability are discussed in detail. The methods for preparing superhydrophobic metallic glass surfaces are briefly summarized and compared. The corrosion resistance, self-cleaning, oil/water separation and other potential promising applications of the superhydrophobic surfaces are demonstrated. In the last section, the current limitations in preparative methods for superhydrophobic metallic glass surfaces and future trends in preparation and application are also discussed. It can be used to guide the surface modification of metallic glasses as well as more engineering applications.
CRISPR/Cas-mediated germplasm improvement and new strategies for crop protection
Authors: Dong Ganggang , Fan Zaifeng 
Published: February 2024

AbstractGlobal agriculture and food security are encountering unprecedented challenges from both the ever-growing population and rapidly changing climate conditions. CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing technology has revolutionized plant functional genetic research and precision crop breeding with robustness, high target specificity and programmability. Furthermore, numerous emerging biotechnologies based on the CRISPR/Cas platform provide the opportunity to create new crop germplasms with durable resistance against disease or insect pests, herbicide tolerance, and other stress-tolerant improvements, reshaping crop protection to increase agricultural resilience and sustainability. In this review, we briefly describe the CRISPR/Cas toolbox, including base editing, prime editing, compact genome manipulation, transcriptional regulation and epigenetic editing, and then overview the most important applications of CRISPR/Cas-mediated crop genetic improvement, highlighting crop protection-based stress resistance engineering. In addition, we enumerate global regulations on genome-edited crops. Finally, we discuss some bottlenecks facing this cutting-edge technology and infinite possibilities for the future.
On the Troped ‘Kyrie Eleison’: A Thomistic Perspective
Authors: Belleza Jose 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThis paper examines, from a Thomistic perspective, the possible consequences of the twentieth-century reform of the ‘Kyrie eleison’ from ninefold set of invocations to a sixfold call-and-response structure. First, we present Aquinas’s distinctly Trinitarian exegesis of the ‘Kyrie’ in light of the history of troped liturgical texts. Next, we will account for the historical diversity of the troped ‘Kyrie’ genre while emphasizing importance of the Trinitarian elements. The third section recounts recent work on Aquinas’s theory of the passions and their effects of language formation; this leads to the fourth section, which casts a philosophical eye on the role of melisma in the liturgy. To conclude this study, we suggest the restoration of some troped ‘Kyrie’ texts in the Roman Rite.
The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things
Authors: Spiridonov Andrej , Eldredge Niles 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe process of evolution and the structures it produces are best understood in the light of hierarchy theory. The biota traditionally is described by either the genealogical Linnaean hierarchy or economic hierarchies of communities or ecosystems. Here we describe the Bretskyan hierarchy—a hybrid eco-genealogical hierarchy that consists of nested sets of different-sized, usually polyphyletic communities of interacting individuals separated from other such communities in space and time at multiple scales. The Bretskyan hierarchy consists of elements that have both genealogical and economic properties and functions—situated between, and connecting the elements of, the economic hierarchies (Vernadskyan) and the genealogical (Linnaean) hierarchy. The described hierarchy at lower tiers is populated by holobionts, individuals composed of multiple polyphyletic lineages integrated by functional interactions or biotically fabricated structures, such as membranes. At larger spatial tiers and longer time scales, the members of the Bretskyan hierarchy are of a more diffuse nature, partially due to the small size and relatively short duration of us as observers of larger and longer-lasting structures, here described as geobiomes. Their individuality is externally forced and directly tied to the spatial and temporal physical structures of our planet. These are sub-bioprovinces and bioprovinces—large and effectively isolated spatiotemporal structures of biota integrated internally by coevolution and individuated externally by a hierarchy of barriers. Gaia is here understood as the largest eco-genealogical individual compartmentalized by the outer space of the Earth and integrated at long time scales by biotic interactions and plate tectonic mixing of biota. The existence of a hierarchy of barriers and multilevel allopatry suggests that geographic isolation takes part not only in individuating species lineages, but also in producing coherent complexes of separate lineages forming bioprovinces at multiple space and time scales. The sizes, configurations, and durations of Bretskyan units are directly tied to geodynamics, demonstrating the central role of the physical planet in the processes of individuation and merging of geobiomes and the control of coevolution, and all its ramifications, at multiple space and time scales. The Bretskyan hierarchy also allows the integration of previously unconnected themes—“egalitarian” major transitions in individuality (e.g., eukaryogenesis) and some of the megatrajectories in the history of life—into a single theoretical framework of spatial and temporal scaling of eco-genealogy. The pervasive scaling of geodynamical processes and the direct connection of geodynamics to the dynamics of Bretskyan units allows us to formulate conjectures on the scales and limits of spatial and temporal contingency and competitiveness of biotas in evolution.
Bridging the gaping hole: central bank economists’ role in the rise of macro-finance post-crisis
Authors: Thiemann Matthias , Priester Stefan 
Published: February 2024

AbstractHow has mainstream academic economic discourse evolved to regain its epistemic authority after the financial crisis of 2008 revealed serious blind spots in economic modelling that shattered the profession’s claim to be able to predict and control macroeconomic variables? To answer this question, we combine content with bibliometric analyses of nearly 70,000 papers on macroeconomics and finance published in academic journals from 1990 to 2019. These analyses reveal how a structural rapprochement between macroeconomics and finance created the new subfield of macro-finance. We show that contributions by central bank economists, driven by central banks’ newly acquired macroprudential mandate, were key to its establishment. Acting within the space of regulatory science, they connected macroeconomic and financial knowledge to satisfy their employers’ administrative needs, while also helping to bridge the gaping hole in economic discourse, thereby taking on an important stabilizing role for the epistemic authority of economics.
HELLENISTIC POETRY, MAGICAL GEMS AND ‘THE SWORD OF DARDANUS’ IN APULEIUS’ CUPID AND PSYCHE
Authors: May Regine 
Published: February 2024

AbstractApuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche is shown to feature detailed knowledge of ancient magic integrated into the plot, especially the magic of the so-called ‘Sword of Dardanus’ spell and of other papyri with Middle Platonic content. A recently published gemstone from Perugia testifies to the wide distribution of the ‘Sword’. Apuleius’ allusion to the erotic spell involves both Cupid and Venus torturing Psyche. Although Venus’ intentions are to prevent the bond between the lovers, her actions inadvertently echo those depicted in the ‘Sword’ and contribute to the couple's eternal union. Ancient magic is therefore shown to be potent and effective, despite Venus’ plans. This is a methodology Apuleius is known to use widely, for example in his obvious allusions to, and adaptations of, Hellenistic poetry in the story. Magic joins poetry and philosophy as a category of texts shown to be playfully integrated into Apuleius’ construction of the plot of Cupid and Psyche.
Gal 2.16c und die Logik von 3.10(–12)
Authors: Bachmann Michael 
Published: February 2024

German AbstractDas Papier bezieht sich auf die exegetische Auffassung, es beruhe die Argumentation von Gal 3,10 gerade auch auf einer unterdrückten praemissa minor („die Toravorschriften lassen sich nicht vollständig einhalten“), und es richtet sich gegen die These von P. C. Moore, nach welcher die in 2,16c aufgenommenen Worte aus Ps 143(142),2 genau diese Prämisse bieten sollen. Nicht zuletzt die Aufeinanderfolge der Partikeln γάρ, (ὅτι) δέ, ὅτι und δέ in Gal 3,10b, 11a, 11b und 12a lässt auf ein deutlich wahrscheinlicheres Szenario aufmerken: Paulus argumentiert in 3,10-12 mittels zweier Syllogismen, und er benutzt dabei letztlich durch biblische Formulierungen (aus: Deut 27,26; Hab 2,4; Lev 18,5) vorgegebene, abgesicherte Prämissen.
Moses, Elijah, and Jesus’ Divine Glory (Mark 9.2–8)
Authors: Friedeman Caleb T. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractScholars generally agree that Moses and Elijah appear at the Transfiguration because they are connected to each other in some way, and that this connection informs the significance of the story as a whole. However, there is no consensus regarding how Moses and Elijah are related, and consequently there is significant disagreement about how their presence contributes to the Transfiguration. The present study, which focuses on Mark's account (Mark 9.2–8), argues that Moses and Elijah appear together because they received similar theophanies at Mount Sinai and, as a result, the Transfiguration should be read as a mountaintop theophany in which Jesus constitutes the personal presence of Israel's God.
Can a Slave Serve Two Masters? Jointly Owned Slaves in Documentary Papyri and the Synoptic Gospels
Authors: Alabi Afetame 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThis article examines the synoptic saying on serving two masters (Matt 6.24; Luke 16.13) in light of the evidence for jointly owned slaves in documentary papyri. The saying implies that the slave of two masters will inevitably be more loyal or exclusively loyal to one master. Scholars usually accept this as an accurate depiction of jointly owned slaves. However, the papyrological evidence shows that the relationship between jointly owned slaves and their owners varied in everyday life and that slaves had little control over their loyalty to each master. The saying is, therefore, not a fully realistic portrait of how jointly owned slaves served their masters in antiquity but is possibly a slave stereotype that contributes to the (un)faithful slave imageries in the Gospels.
Not Just One Long Vacation: Revisiting the Importance of Lifestyle Planning in the Transition to Retirement
Authors: Hutchinson Susan L. , Ausman Christine 
Published: February 2024

AbstractBackgroundThere is a need to further understand the nature and role of planning for one’s lifestyle in retirement.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to examine retirement planning and how it impacts perceived preparedness and satisfaction with the retirement transition, as well as to explore personal experiences of retirement.MethodsCanadians (n = 748) fully or partly retired participated in an online survey that included quantitative questions about perceived retirement preparedness and satisfaction and open-ended questions about retirement goals, fears, challenges, and advice.FindingsResults determined that while both financial and lifestyle planning were significant predictors of higher perceived preparedness, only lifestyle planning was a significant predictor for satisfaction. Overall, no gender differences were detected. Open-ended comments highlighted the importance of planning for one’s lifestyle in retirement, including meaningful activities and social connections.DiscussionIndividualized career advising as well as group-based educational programs or peer-assisted learning initiatives appear warranted to support people in planning for their lifestyle in retirement.
Temperature Dependence of H2O Solubility in Al‐Free Stishovite
Authors: Purevjav Narangoo , Fei Hongzhan , Ishii Takayuki , Criniti Giacomo , Lin Yanhao , Mao Ho‐Kwang , Katsura Tomoo 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe role of stishovite in transporting water in subducting slabs has been a subject of debate for several decades. Here we investigated stishovite's water solubility and its potential role in water transportation as a function of temperature from 1300 to 2100°C at 22 GPa. Under water‐saturated conditions, high‐quality, Al‐free stishovite single crystals were synthesized with multi‐anvil press, and their water contents were measured using infrared spectroscopy. The H2O solubility in stishovite increases from 128(20) to 521(47) wt. ppm with increasing temperature from 1300 to 1700°C and decreased to 145(26) wt. ppm at 2100°C. The maximum H2O content was about seven times larger than earlier high‐temperature multi‐anvil studies but significantly lower than recent laser‐heated diamond anvil cell and low‐temperature multi‐anvil studies. We suggest that Al‐free stishovite may not be a significant H2O carrier in subducting slabs, at least at the topmost lower mantle corresponding to our experimental conditions.
Scale‐Dependent Drivers of Marine Heatwaves Globally
Authors: Bian Ce , Jing Zhao , Wang Hong , Wu Lixin 
Published: February 2024

AbstractMarine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged extreme warm water events, threatening marine ecosystems. Understanding drivers of MHWs over the global ocean is essential for their forecast. Here, we use an eddy‐resolving coupled global climate model with improved realism of MHWs to evaluate the drivers of MHWs at different spatial scales, that is, MHWs defined based on temperature anomalies at different spatial scales. The properties of MHWs are scale‐dependent, being generally weaker, less frequent, and longer with increasing spatial scales. The primary driver of MHWs shifts from local oceanic intrinsic advection to atmospheric forcing as their spatial scale becomes larger. The transition spatial scale between the ocean and atmosphere‐driven regimes varies geographically, being larger in eddy‐rich regions but smaller in gyre interior. This study suggests the complicated dynamics of MHWs at different spatial scales and provides guidance on improving their forecast capacity.
Intensification of the Electron Zebra Stripes in the Earth's Inner Magnetosphere During Geomagnetic Storms
Authors: Pandya Megha , Ebihara Yusuke , Tanaka Takashi , Manweiler Jerry W. , Vines Sarah K. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractWe examined rapid variations in the electron zebra stripe patterns, specifically at L = 1.5, over a three‐month duration, using twin Van Allen Probes within Earth's inner magnetosphere. During geomagnetically quiet intervals, these stripes exhibit a peak‐to‐valley ratio (Δj) ∼1.25 in detrended electron fluxes. However, during geomagnetic storms, they became highly prominent, with Δj > 2.5. The correlation between Δj and net field‐aligned currents (FACs) is observed to be high (0.70). Global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation results indicate that the westward electric field at midnight at low latitudes in the deep inner magnetosphere correlates well with net FACs. An increase in net FACs could amplify the dawn‐to‐dusk electric field in the deep inner magnetosphere, thereby causing the inward transport of electrons. Given that FACs are linked to the interaction between solar wind and the magnetosphere, our findings emphasize the importance of solar wind‐magnetosphere coupling in the deeper regions of the inner magnetosphere.
Climatic Constraints of Spring Phenology and Its Variability on the Mongolian Plateau From 1982 to 2021
Authors: Yuan Zhihui , Bao Gang , Dorjsuren Altantuya , Oyont Ayisha , Chen Jiquan , Li Fei , Dong Gang , Guo Enliang , Shao Changliang , Du Lingtong 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe start of vegetation growing season (SOS) plays an important role in the energy cycle between the land and atmosphere. Due to the limited temporal span of a single satellite sensor through time, the continuous variation of the SOS over 40 years has not been adequately quantified. Using the overlapping periods (2001–2015) between the Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) (1982–2015) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) (2001–2021) data sets, we construct an NDVI data set covering the period 1982–2021 on the Mongolian Plateau and further construct a map of relative climatic constraint on the SOS (divided into “temperature‐constrained,” “precipitation‐constrained,” and “other” regions) for quantifying SOS variability. We show that the constructed NDVI data set has high consistency and continuity with earlier GIMMS NDVI data. Regions with the SOS constrained by temperature account for 55.3% of the plateau and are located in northwestern and northeastern cold areas, while regions with the SOS constrained by precipitation constitute over 34.7% and are located in central and southwestern drier regions. Importantly, the temperature‐constrained SOS has continuously and significantly advanced, with a total advance of 4.8 days over 40 years. In contrast, the precipitation‐constrained SOS reversed from advancing to delaying in 2005. This suggests that differentiating the climatic constraint on the SOS might be a practical treatment for reducing the uncertainties in the SOS trends in previous studies. Interestingly, the precipitation‐constrained SOS does not significantly correlate to both the chilling and forcing temperatures, indicating less dependency of the SOS on chilling, which may not have been well considered previously.