Antibiotic residues in wastewater cause a serious threat to aquatic environment and human safety. Therefore, the development of robust strategies for detecting antibiotic becomes critical. In this work, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate, consisting gold nanoparticles/nano diamond/carbon nitride (Au/ND/C3N4) hybrid, which features enhanced light utilization self-cleaning propert...

In this paper we are going to describe the steps that conform a novel approach for representation of multidimensional datasets through the proposed Framework nD-EVM/Kohonen. In this sense two phases are going to be taken in account: 1) the application of 1-Dimensional Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps (1D-KSOMs) in order to achieve (n-1)D hypervoxelizations' segmentations, n ≥ 2, taking in account t...

Multifunctional tissue scaffold material nanodiamond (ND)/chitosan (CS) composites with different diamond concentrations from 1 wt % to 5 wt % were synthesized through a solution casting method. The microstructure and mechanical properties of the composites were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and n...

The emission characteristics of debris from laser-produced tin plasma were investigated for an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) light source. The ions and droplets emitted from tin plasma produced by a CO2 laser or an Nd: YAG laser were detected with Faraday cups and quartz crystal micro-balance (QCM) detectors, respectively. A higher ion kinetic energy and a lower droplet emission were ob...

Naphthalene (N) or naphthalene-derivative (ND) adsorption-treatment evidently varies the electrical conductivity of single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) bundles over a wide temperature range due to a charge-transfer interaction. The adsorption treatment of SWCNTs with dinitronaphthalene molecules enhances the electrical conductivity of the SWCNT bundles by 50 times. The temperature dependence of...

In interpersonal interaction, the terms synchrony or alignment refer to the way in which communication channels like speech or body movement become intertwined over time, both across interlocutors and within a single individual. A recent trend in alignment research has targeted multimodal alignment, exploring how various communication channels affect one another over time (e.g., Louwerse et al....

Four crustal xenoliths from Scotland have been dissected in order to evaluate the effects of magma-xenolith interaction on Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd isotopic systematics, and hence the use of the xenoliths for accurate determination of source compositions. Each xenolith was sampled from the edge to the center, The Nd isotopic compositions are virtually uniform across each xenolith; however, there are sig...

Diabetic patients have increased cardiac complications during surgery, possibly due to impaired autonomic regulation. Anesthesia lowers blood pressure and heart rate (HR), whereas surgical intervention has opposing effects. The interaction of anesthesia and surgical intervention on hemodynamics in diabetes is unknown, despite being a potential perioperative risk factor. We aimed to determine th...

BACKGROUND The development of drug dependence requires prior initiation. What is the relationship between the risk factors for initiation and dependence? METHODS Using smoking as a model addiction, we assessed smoking initiation (SI) and nicotine dependence (ND) by personal interview in 1898 female twins from the population-based Virginia Twin Registry. We developed a twin structural equation...