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Beginning of the Novel Reassortant H5N3 Parrot Coryza Trojan inside Korean Mallard Geese inside 2018.
Novel energy material is the investigation focus to overcome the environment pollution and resource shortage crisis. TiO2 nanotube arrays (TiO2 NTA) could be used for pollutant decomposition, photoelectric conversion and H2, CH4 generation. BiOBr nanosheets were fabricated on TiO2 NTA by a solvothermal deposition method, and then transformed into Bi2S3 nanosheets after the ion exchange reaction. The results revealed that the ion concentration significantly influenced the morphology, microstructure, optical harvesting and photoelectrochemical capacity of Bi2S3-BiOBr/TiO2 NTA. The samples also exhibited high photocatalytic activity for the removal of dyes and Cr(VI), and the excellent photocurrent and photovoltage were obtained under visible light irradiation. The photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen generation was carried out, and the photocatalytic hydrogen production rate achieved 17.26 μmol·cm-2·h-1. The photocatalyst showed the remarkable stability, and the photocatalytic ability still maintained high level after several repeated photocatalytic cycles. The photocatalytic data indicated that the Bi2S3-BiOBr/TiO2 NTA photocatalyst provided a perfect strategy for the sensitizer deposition on TiO2 NTA and novel approach for the photocatalytic performance improvement.Hierarchical lithium titanate@erbium oxide (Li4Ti5O12@Er2O3) microspheres from coating to doping were successfully synthesised by a simple and scalable one-step co-precipitation method. Microscopic observations revealed that the Li4Ti5O12@Er2O3 microspheres present a well-defined hierarchical structure and that Li4Ti5O12 is coated by the Er2O3 layer. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) results demonstrate that partial Ti4+ is reduced to Ti3+ and induces oxygen vacancy because partial Er3+ dope into octahedral 16d Li+/Ti4+ sites of Li4Ti5O12. Owing to the hierarchical microsphere structure, Er2O3 coating, and Er3+ doping, the material exhibits excess rate capacity (183.7 mAh g-1 at 30C). The hierarchical microsphere structure shortens the diffusion pathways for Li+ ions. The Er2O3 coating on the surface reduces the adverse interface reaction. Importantly, oxygen vacancy induced by Er3+ doping enhances Li+ ion diffusion kinetics and offers extra space to store Li+ ions, which endows this sample with excess rate capacity.
Flexible and wearable hydrogel strain sensors have attracted significant attention for human activity monitoring and electronic skins. Chlorogenic Acid However, it remains a great challenge to develop an integrated hydrogel strain sensor showing intrinsic adhesive performances, tunable mechanical and high strain-sensitive properties. Marine mussels show a superior capacity to adhere to various substrates (including organic and inorganic), while polycaprolactone (PCL) can be easily modified into crosslinkers with different degrees of functionality (bi-, tri-, and quadri-functional groups) to control the crosslinking density. Therefore, the developed mussel-inspired 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl-l-alanine acrylamide-polycaprolactone (l-DMA-PCL) hydrogels could address these issues and serve as the potential wearable strain sensors for biomaterials and healthcare monitoring.

l-DMA monomers were successfully crosslinked by functionalized PCL (bi-, tri-, and quadri-functional) using UV light (wavelength~365nm) to prepare the l-DMA-PCL hrain sensors.Binary transition metals can facilitate the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) through the synergistic integration of different electrochemical properties. To determine binary transition metals that are highly active, Greely et al. conducted a simulation of 256 different binary transition metals. They demonstrated that BiPt, PtRu, AsPt, SbPt, BiRh, RhRe, PtRe, AsRu, IrRu, RhRu, IrRe, and PtRh could be used as efficient electrocatalysts for HER. However, only few of them are synthesized and used as electrocatalysts. In this work, we report the synthesis of the raspberry-like antimony-platinum (SbPt) nanoparticles (NPs) via a colloidal nanocrystal synthesis. These NPs exhibited efficient activity with a low overpotential of 27 mV to reach 10 mA cm-2 in acidic media. We conducted long-term durability test for 90,000 s under an applied voltage of 0.5 V (vs. RHE) and cycling tests of over 10,000 cycles under an applied voltage of 0.1 to -0.5 V (vs. RHE). The high activity exhibited by the raspberry-like SbPt NPs may be due to the following reasons (1) the raspberry-like SbPt NPs exhibited versatile active exposed (110), (100), (101), and (012) facets as efficient HER catalysts, and (2) as confirmed by both the density functional theory (DFT) simulation and experimental results, the presence of Sb 3d subsurface broadened the Pt surface d-band, which caused synergistic effects on water splitting. In summary, synthesis of the new colloidal raspberry-like SbPt NPs is essential to elucidate the fundamental properties of the nanomaterial and nanostructure design. This study could facilitate the development of Pt-group materials that can be used as HER catalysts.
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) have the potential to aid in surgical decision-making, predict surgical outcomes, assess recovery, and evaluate long-term success. We performed a pilot study testing the ability to use PROs in a broad surgical population in preparation for wide spread use.

Surgical patients completed five Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) measures during their preoperative encounter in the preanesthesia clinic and again postoperatively via emailed link. Preoperative to postoperative changes in PROMIS scores, factors related to completion of postoperative measures, intercorrelations between PROMIS measures, and numbers of patients with normal function, and mild, moderate, and severe deficits in PROMIS scores were analyzed.

A total of 393 patients undergoing surgery in 8 specialties completed preoperative PROMIS measures; 239 (60.8%) completed them postoperatively. Physical function (P<0.0001), pain (P<0.0001), and cognitive function (P=0.03) PROMIS sco a broad surgical population completed PROMIS measures successfully, both preoperatively and postoperatively, although the postoperative completion rate was lower than other studies reported in the literature. PROMIS scores were reflective of the effects of surgery. Some of the PROMIS measures were highly correlated suggesting that some measures could be eliminated or replaced with measures assessing other important effects of surgery. Consideration could be made to alert health care providers about patients having PROs in the "severe" range for potential intervention.
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