Impact of water residence time and stratification on water quality improvement of an artificial brackish waterway by Bo-Kyung Kim, Dong Hyeon Kim, Jin Hwan Hwang

“…Study focus: This study investigates how water residence time and stratification affect water quality in an artificial brackish water system, which has different characteristics from natural environments and is under-researched, using numerical simulations. …”
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Virtual reality support during systemic cancer therapy to improve anxiety/depressive symptoms and reduce toxicity in patients with gastrointestinal cancers—OncoVR by S. Kasper, S. Liszio, K. Schorrmann, M. Gerigk, S. Jovic, O. Basu, K. Kostbade, B. Goraus, A. Elsakka, B. Puladi, J. Kleesiek, M. Schuler, G. Luijten, J. Egger

“…We hypothesize that virtual reality (VR) systems which project a relaxing nature environment may help to reduce psychological stress and toxicities of cancer therapies. …”
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Interactive effects of temperature, cadmium, and hypoxia on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) liver mitochondrial bioenergetics by John O. Onukwufor, Collins Kamunde

“…Fish in their natural environments possess elaborate mechanisms that regulate physiological function to mitigate the adverse effects of multiple environmental stressors such as temperature, metals, and hypoxia. …”
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Comparative Genomics Analysis of Plasmid pPV989-94 from a Clinical Isolate of Pantoea vagans PV989 by Lei Xu, Min Yin, Tingyuan Zhu, Yabo Liu, Yuanyuan Ying, Junwan Lu, Chaoqing Lin, Jianchao Ying, Teng Xu, Liyan Ni, Qiyu Bao, Shunfei Lu

“…Pantoea vagans, a gram-negative bacterium from the genus Pantoea and family Enterobacteriaceae, is present in various natural environments and considered to be plant endophytes. …”
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Relationship with place: a transformative and sustainable pedagogy for the planet by Julie Singleton

“… The central hypothesis of this conceptual commentary is that place-based educational approaches that use local environments as the learning context could not only provide needed educational reforms but also sow the seeds of sustainable behaviors of future generations. Furthermore, natural environments are offered as an optimal context for the emotional and sensory-rich needs of learning experiences that transform eco-paradigms and develop land ethics. …”
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Ovid Among the Floating Garbage: Derek Mahon on Recycling and Exile by Peter Kelly

“…Mahon is keenly aware of how the postmodern erosion of place and locality through globalization and exponential urbanization has contributed to the destruction of natural environments. Mahon’s growing environmental concerns are interwoven with a persistent interaction with the works of ancient Greek and Roman writers, perhaps most frequently Ovid. …”
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Two new species of Plagiostomum (Prolecithophora, Plagiostomidae) from China with its morphology, phylogeny, and reproductive strategy by Leyuan Feng, Shiyan Zhang, Ming Tao, Ting Sun, Antai Wang

“…The reproductive studies indicate that in natural environments or larger mating groups, these two new species tend to invest resources in male reproductive functions to enhance fertilization success, while in smaller or single-individual cultures, they shift resources toward complete female reproductive functions. …”
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Does environmental public policy act as a slowdown for urban expansion? A 2012-2023 analysis with Landsat images by Jorge Alberto Escandón-Calderón, Columba Jazmín López-Gutiérrez, Demian Vázquez-Muñoz, Marco Antonio Gálvez-Lomelín, Marcela Rosas-Chavoya

“…Urban expansion constitutes one of the main activities that modify natural environments worldwide; the most vulnerable areas to these effects are peri-urban areas. …”
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Perceived urban environment elements associated with momentary and long-term well-being: An experience sampling method approach by Yu-Ru Chen, Atsushi Nakagomi, Masamichi Hanazato, Noriyuki Abe, Kazushige Ide, Katsunori Kondo

“…Meanwhile, relaxing/clean (0.56) and natural environments (0.14) were associated with higher MWB. …”
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Adaptation features of the invasive species <i>Berberis aquifolium</i> Pursh and <i>Daphne laureola</i> L. in forest communities on the Southern Coast of Crimea by N. A. Bagrikova, Z. D. Bondarenko

“…According to a majority of edaphoclimatic factors, their habitat conditions corresponded to the parameters of the fundamental niches for the studied species, which explains their high degree of adaptation to the natural environments on the Southern Coast of Crimea.…”
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Deposition behaviors and interfacial interaction mechanism between carboxyl-modified polystyrene nanoplastics and magnetite in aquatic environment by Meimei Ran, Xin Nie, Jingxin Wang, Ruiyin Xie, Xiaoping Lin, Hanjun Zhu, Quan Wan, Yuhong Fu

“…This study may provide insights for better understanding of environmental behaviors of COOH-PSNPs associated with magnetite and organic matter in natural environments at the molecular level.…”
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A Watershed Approach to Co-Creating Just Sustainabilities: Reflections from the Lake Superior Living Labs Network by Charles Z. Levkoe, Nairne Cameron, Lindsay P. Galway, Rachel L. W. Portinga, Randy Hanson, Kathryn Milun, Erika Vye

“…Living labs aim to co-create innovative solutions to complex challenges through interdisciplinary, placed-based experiential learning and community-engaged action in the built and natural environments. In this paper, we focus on the potential for living labs to establish connections between people and communities and increasing the impact of place-based activities focused on social and environmental justice and sustainability, also known as just sustainabilities. …”
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Uniaxial compressive damage evolution and constitutive modeling of fissure-like rocks under different loading rates based on acoustic emission by Qinyong Wang, Wei Chen, Wenqing Peng, Yuanzeng Wang, Yu Zhou, Zhili Peng

“…Abstract In natural environments, most rocks possess internal fissures and are often exposed to diverse external loads arising from engineering activities and ground stress, among other factors. …”
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Microbial community differentiation in vent chimneys of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field reflects habitat heterogeneity by Osama M. Alian, William J. Brazelton, Karmina A. Aquino, Katrina I. Twing, H. Lizethe Pendleton, Gretchen Früh-Green, Susan Q. Lang, Matthew O. Schrenk, Matthew O. Schrenk

“…The findings of this study underscore the need to more closely examine microbe-mineral interactions in natural environments, critically informing not just population-level distributions, but also the functional underpinnings of these extremophile microbial communities.…”
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Climate Projections and Pacific Lamprey Conservation: Evidence That Larvae in Natural Conditions May Be Resilient to Climate Warming by Timothy A. Whitesel, Paul M. Sankovich

“…This work suggests that ectothermic, larval Pacific lampreys in natural environments may be resilient to the water temperatures that are likely to result from climate warming. …”
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YOLOv8n-CA: Improved YOLOv8n Model for Tomato Fruit Recognition at Different Stages of Ripeness by Xin Gao, Jieyuan Ding, Ruihong Zhang, Xiaobo Xi

“…This study addresses the challenges of tomato maturity recognition in natural environments, such as occlusion caused by branches and leaves, and the difficulty in detecting stacked fruits. …”
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Contaminant-degrading bacteria are super carriers of antibiotic resistance genes in municipal landfills: A metagenomics-based study by Fang-Zhou Gao, Wei-Li Jia, Bing Li, Min Zhang, Liang-Ying He, Hong Bai, You-Sheng Liu, Guang-Guo Ying

“…Results showed that the antibiotic resistome in landfills contained 1,403 ARG subtypes, with the total abundance over the levels in natural environments and reaching the levels in human feces and sewage. …”
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Characterization of the Phosphotransferase from <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> 1101 That Is Responsible for the Biotransformation of Zearalenone by Yuzhuo Wu, Qiuyu Zhou, Junqiang Hu, Yunfan Shan, Jinyue Liu, Gang Wang, Yin-Won Lee, Jianrong Shi, Jianhong Xu

“…<i>Bacillus</i> microorganisms play an important role in the zearalenone (ZEA) biotransformation process in natural environments. The phosphotransferase pathway in <i>Bacillus</i> is both widespread and relatively well conserved. …”
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Reflections on the role of chemical osmosis mechanisms on the long-term behavior of a collapsed salt cavity by Ledoux, Emmanuel, Hertz, Emmanuel, Robinet, Jean-Charles, Combes, Pierre

“…A brine and dissolved salt balance is established and proves to be highly dependent on the osmotic efficiency coefficient, a parameter that is difficult to assess in natural environments. However, the fluxes remain low, indicating that the chemical osmotic effect is unlikely to significantly modify the orders of magnitude of the salt fluxes evacuated into the environment following intensive exploitation of a salt layer altering the protective clay series.…”
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Exploring SLEEPINESS through home monitoring with ultra-long-term subcutaneous EEG and ecological momentary assessment in sleepy treatment naïve obstructive sleep apnea patients st... by Mathias Sarkez-Knudsen, Martin Ballegaard, Martin Ballegaard, Henning Piilgaard, Esben Ahrens, Martin Christian Hemmsen, Tobias Søren Andersen, Jakob Eyvind Bradram, Preben Homøe, Preben Homøe

“…Daily assessments with the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale, the Psychomotor Vigilance Task test, and a sleep/nap diary will be collected using EMA methods.DiscussionThis study combines data collection from sleepy OSA patients' natural environments using ULT-EEG and EMA methods to obtain sleepiness metrics suitable for developing and preliminarily validating the possibilities of ULT-EEG sleepiness monitoring. …”
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