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Effects of the urban landscape on heatwave-mortality associations in Hong Kong: comparison of different heatwave definitions

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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2024年第1期18卷 145-156页

作者： Jinglu Song Yi Lu Thomas fischer Kejia Hu Department of Urban Planning and Design Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversitySuzhou 215123China Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering City University of Hong KongKowloon TongHong Kong 999077China Environmental Assessment and Management Research Centre School of Environmental SciencesUniversity of LiverpoolLiverpool L35TRUK Research Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management Faculty of Natural and Agricultural SciencesNorth West UniversityPotchefstroom 31750South Africa Institute of Big Data in Health Science School of Public HealthZhejiang UniversityZijingang CampusHangzhou 310058China

Despite increased attention given to potential modifiers of temperature-mortality associations, evidence for variations between different urban landscape characteristics remains limited. It is in this context that in this paper effect modifications of multiple urban landscape characteristics are explored under different heatwave definitions for different age groups and gender in Hong Kong, China. Daily meteorological data and heatwave-related mortality counts from 2008 to 2017 were collected from the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department, China. A case-only design was adopted, combined with logistic regression models to examine the modification effects of five urban landscape characteristics under six heatwave definitions. Stratified analyses were conducted to investigate age- and gender-specific effect modifications. It is found that individuals living in greener areas experienced lower levels of mortality during or immediately after heatwaves. In contrast, a higher building density and nighttime land surface temperature (LST) were associated with a higher heatwave-related mortality risk. Pronounced effect modifications of these urban landscape characteristics were observed under hotter and longer heatwaves, and in older adults (age ≥ 65 years) and males. The findings provide a scientific basis for policymakers and practitioners when considering measures for coping with hotter, longer, and more frequent heatwaves in the context of global climate change.

关键词： Urban landscape Heatwave Mortality Effect modification Intra-urban differences Health risk reduction

Inhibition of tubulin detyrosination:a novel strategy to promote central nervous system regeneration

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第12期19卷 2557-2558页

作者： Charlotte Zeitler Marco Leibinger Dietmar fischer Center of Pharmacology Institute for PharmacologyMedical Faculty and University of CologneCologneGermany

The adult mammalian central nervous system(CNS) coordinates essential functions such as sensation,movement,autonomic control,thought processes,and ***,injuries or diseases of the CNS are often associated with devastating and permanent functional impairments because damaged axons normally fail to *** insufficient neuron-intrinsic growth capacity and an inhibitory environment at the injury site are the leading causes of this regenerative failure.

关键词： injuries sensation diseases

Estimating wood quality attributes from dense airborne LiDAR point clouds

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Forest Ecosystems 2024年第2期11卷 226-235页

作者： Nicolas Cattaneo Stefano Puliti Carolin fischer Rasmus Astrup Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research(NIBIO) Division of Forest and Forest ResourcesHøgskoleveien 81433ÅsNorway

Mapping individual tree quality parameters from high-density LiDAR point clouds is an important step towards improved forest *** present a novel machine learning-based workflow that uses individual tree point clouds from drone laser scanning to predict wood quality indicators in standing *** object reconstruction methods,our approach is based on simple metrics computed on vertical slices that summarize information on point distances,angles,and geometric attributes of the space between and around the *** models use these slice metrics as predictors and achieve high accuracy for predicting the diameter of the largest branch per log (DLBs) and stem diameter at different heights (DS) from survey-grade drone laser *** show that our models are also robust and accurate when tested on suboptimal versions of the data generated by reductions in the number of points or emulations of suboptimal single-tree segmentation *** approach provides a simple,clear,and scalable solution that can be adapted to different situations both for research and more operational mapping.

关键词： UAV laser scanning Wood quality Machine learning Point cloud metrics

Dieback of managed spruce stands in western Germany promotes beetle diversity

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Journal of Forestry Research 2024年第3期35卷 55-71页

作者： Eva Plath Chantal Trauth Jan Gerhards Laura Griebel Klaus fischer Department Biology Institute of Integrated Natural SciencesKoblenz-Landau University56070 KoblenzGermany

Biodiversity loss is a significant problem at a global scale and may be amplified by climate *** recent years,coniferous forests have had substantial die-back across Europe due to drought and subsequent bark-beetle *** many studies on the consequences of disturbance and subsequent management have focused on natural stands,management implications for managed spruce stands are not well understood,even though such stands are widespread throughout *** this study,beetle taxonomy,conservation value,and community com-position are compared among spruce plantations and four post-disturbance management approaches:standing dead-wood,lying deadwood,clear cuts,and long-term *** and community composition differed significantly among management categories,while different beetle fami-lies responded *** spruce stands harbored the lowest beetle diversity while the highest taxonomic diver-sity and conservation value was on clear cuts and stands with lying or standing *** proportion of forest specialists was highest in successional *** summary,different forest management categories harbored distinct beetle communities at the family-,species-,and ecological guild ***,post-disturbance management should consider the landscape scale and include different management *** enhances landscape heterogeneity and thus overall biodiversity but could also mitigate negative impacts of natural disturbances on ecosystem services.

关键词： Bark-beetle outbreak Forest dieback Spruce Deadwood Nature conservation Beetle biodiversity-Coleoptera Coniferous forests

Mechanism of cross-level settlements and void accumulation of wide and conventional sleepers in railway ballast

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Railway Engineering Science 2024年第3期32卷 361-383页

作者： Olga Nabochenko Mykola Sysyn Norman Krumnow Szabolcs fischer Institute of Railway Systems and Public Transport Technical University of DresdenDresdenGermany Rhomberg Sersa Deutschland GmbH BerlinGermany Central Campus Győr Széchenyi István UniversityGyorHungary

The cross-level and twist irregularities are the most dangerous irregularity types that could cause wheel unloading with the risk of derailments and additional maintenance ***,the mechanism of the irregularities initiation and development is *** motivation of the present study was the previous experimental studies on the application of wide sleepers in the ballasted *** long-term track geometry measurements with wide sleepers show an enormous reduction of the vertical longitudinal irregularities compared to the conventional ***,wide sleepers had higher twist and cross-section level *** present paper aims to explain the phenomenon by discrete element method(DEM)modeling the development process of sleeper inhomogeneous support at cross-level depending on the sleeper *** DEM simulations show that the maximal settlement intensity is up to 3.5 times lower for a wide sleeper in comparison with the conventional ***,the cross-level differential settlements are almost the same for both *** particle loading distribution after all loading cycles is concentrated on the smaller area,up to the half sleeper length,with fully unloaded zones under sleeper *** flow limitation under the central part of the sleeper could improve the resilience of wide sleepers to the development of cross-level *** mechanism of initiation of the cross-level irregularity is proposed,which assumes the loss of sleeper support under sleeper *** further growth of inhomogeneous settlements along the sleeper is assumed as a result of the interaction of two processes:ballast flow due to dynamic impact during void closing and on the other side high pressure due to the concentration of the pressure under the middle part of the *** DEM simulation results support the assumption of the mechanism and agree with the experimental studies.

关键词： Wide sleeper Ballasted track Sleeper support inhomogeneity Sleeper foot form Discrete element modeling Void accumulation

Convective drying of wood chips:Accelerating coupled DEM-CFD simulations with parametrized reduced single particle models

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Particuology 2024年第1期84卷 158-167页

作者： Lucas Reineking Jonas fischer Ali Mjalled Enric Illana Siegmar Wirtz Viktor Scherer Martin Monnigmann Automatic Control and System Theory Ruhr-Universität-BochumUniversitätstraße 150Bochum44801Germany Energy Plant Technology Ruhr-Universität-BochumUniversitätstraße 150Bochum44801Germany

The simulation of industry-scale reactive bulks is challenging due to the complex interaction between fluid and *** particles in the bulk and their interaction with the fluid flow can be described by combined Discrete Element Method-Computational Fluid Dynamics(DEM-CFD)***,the computational cost of the Finite Volume(FV)methods deployed in these models can become prohibi-tively expensive,especially for high inner-particle *** particle Reduced Models(RMs)can be used to achieve both fast and accurate descriptions of the processes in each *** an example of bulk systems comprising heat and mass transfer,we compared FV and RM simulations for the drying of wood chips in a bulk reactor.A manifold-based nonlinear interpolation was applied to resolve changing boundary conditions for the *** simulations showed that RMs provide accurate values for the thermodynamic state variables of the ***,the time required for the bulk simulation was reduced by 67%with the *** is evident that simulations with high inner-particle resolution can be accelerated by RMs if manifold-based nonlinear interpolation is used to address changing boundary conditions.

关键词： Reduced model Reactive bulk Discrete element method Manifold-based interpolation Drying of porous mediaDEM-CFD

In vivo polydopamine coating of Rhodobacter sphaeroides for enhanced electron transfer

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Nano Research 2024年第2期17卷 875-881页

作者： Rossella Labarile Danilo Vona Maria Varsalona Matteo Grattieri Melania Reggente Roberto Comparelli Gianluca M.Farinola Fabian fischer Ardemis A.Boghossian Massimo Trotta Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici Consiglio Nazionale delle RicercheBari 70126Italy Dipartimento di Chimica Universitàdegli Studi di BariBari 70126Italy Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering(ISIC) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL)Lausanne 1015Switzerland Institute of Life Technologies HES-SO Valais-Wallis1950 SionSwitzerland Institute for Renewable Energy HES-SO Valais-Wallis1950 SionSwitzerland

Recent advances in coupling light-harvesting microorganisms with electronic components have led to a new generation of biohybrid devices based on microbial *** devices are limited by the poorly conductive interface between phototrophs and synthetic materials that inhibit charge *** study focuses on overcoming this bottleneck through the metabolically-driven encapsulation of photosynthetic cells with a bio-inspired conductive *** of the purple non sulfur bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides were coated with a polydopamine(PDA)nanoparticle layer via the self-polymerization of dopamine under anaerobic *** treated cells show preserved light absorption of the photosynthetic pigments in the presence of dopamine concentrations ranging between 0.05–3.5 *** thickness and nanoparticle formation of the membrane-associated PDA matrix were further shown to vary with the dopamine concentrations in this *** to uncoated cells,the encapsulated cells show up to a 20-fold enhancement in transient photocurrent measurements under mediatorless *** biologically synthesized PDA can thus act as a matrix for electronically coupling the light-harvesting metabolisms of cells with conductive surfaces.

关键词： bioelectronics photosynthetic bacteria purple bacteria electron transfer polydopamine biophotovoltaics

Post-mortem Interval of Buried Carcasses in a Tropical Rainforest Vegetation of Nigeria

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Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine 2024年第2期10卷 84-91页

作者： Darlington Nnamdi Onyejike Ugochukwu Godfrey Esomonu Victor Adolf fischer Ifeoma Miracle Onyejike Department of Anatomy Faculty of Basic Medical SciencesNnamdi Azikiwe UniversityNnewi CampusNnewiAnambra StateNigeria Department of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology Faculty of Basic Medical SciencesCross River University of TechnologyOkuku CampusOkukuCross River StateNigeria Department of Anatomical Sciences Faculty of Basic Medical SciencesUniversity of CalabarCalabarCross River StateNigeria

Background: Most of the murder victims in Nigeria are concealed in shallow graves or clandestine paths or bushes. Knowledge of post-mortem interval (PMI) of buried carcasses is useful in estimating time since death for buried homicide scenarios. The PMI of buried remains is different from that of remains on the soil surface. Aims and Objectives: The study aimed at investigating the PMI of buried remains in a tropical rainforest vegetation of Nigeria using matured domestic pigs as human analogs. Materials and Methods: Four animals were used for this study. Animals were sacrificed and buried in one-foot-depth graves. A flat wood was placed on top of the animals before it was covered with sand so that the visible changes can be monitored during the study period. The study was carried out during the rainy and dry seasons. Soil analysis was carried out to ensure that there was no chemical substance inhibiting decomposition. Results: Animals did not completely skeletonize within the study period (168 days). However, four stages of decomposition were identified within the study period - Fresh, bloat, active decay, and advanced decay stages. Conclusions: The PMI was influenced by fungi activities and rain infusion. On the last day of the study, the decomposition was at the advanced decay stage and only few bones of the head, neck, trunk, and limbs were visible with greyish discoloration of the skin and other visceral structures. The visible post-mortem changes of the buried carrions noted in this study may be used to estimate the time of death of buried humans in a tropical rainforest vegetation of Nigeria.

关键词： Buried remains concealed homicide post-mortem interval shallow burial

Polydopamine-coated photoautotrophic bacteria for improving extracellular electron transfer in living photovoltaics

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Nano Research 2024年第2期17卷 866-874页

作者： Melania Reggente Charlotte Roullier Mohammed Mouhib Patricia Brandl Hanxuan Wang Stefano Tacconi Francesco Mura Luciana Dini Rossella Labarile Massimo Trotta Fabian fischer Ardemis A.Boghossian Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering(ISIC) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL)Lausanne 1015Switzerland Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin Sapienza University of RomeRome 00185Italy Research Center on Nanotechnology Applied for Engineering of Sapienza(CNIS) University of Rome SapienzaRome 00185Italy CNR-IPCF Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche–Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici Bari 70126Italy Institute of Life Technologies HES-SO Valais-WallisSion 1950Switzerland Institute for Renewable Energy HES-SO Valais-WallisSion 1950Switzerland

Living photovoltaics are microbial electrochemical devices that use whole cell–electrode interactions to convert solar energy to *** bottleneck in these technologies is the limited electron transfer between the microbe and the electrode *** study focuses on enhancing this transfer by engineering a polydopamine(PDA)coating on the outer membrane of the photosynthetic microbe Synechocystis *** coating provides a conductive nanoparticle shell to increase electrode adhesion and improve microbial charge extraction.A combination of scanning electron microscopy(SEM),transmission electron microscopy(TEM),UV–Vis absorption,and Raman spectroscopy measurements were used to characterize the nanoparticle shell under various synthesis *** cell viability and activity were further assessed through oxygen evolution,growth curve,and confocal fluorescence microscopy *** results show sustained cell growth and detectable PDA surface coverage under slightly alkaline conditions(pH 7.5)and at low initial dopamine(DA)concentrations(1 mM).The exoelectrogenicity of the cells prepared under these conditions was also characterized through cyclic voltammetry(CV)and chronoamperometry(CA).The measurements show a three-fold enhancement in the photocurrent at an applied bias of 0.3 V(***/AgCl[3 M KCl])compared to non-coated *** study thus lays the framework for engineering the next generation of living photovoltaics with improved performances using biosynthetic electrodes.

关键词： biophotovoltaics bioelectronics photosynthetic bacteria cyanobacteria polydopamine adherence