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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La difficile gestion globale de l’eau en Camargue (France) : le Contrat de delta by Alain Dervieux

“…The Contract of the Camargue Delta project must manage the use and allocation of fresh-water with mutual respect for the different beneficiaries while collectively respecting the many natural environments on which a good part of the territory's economy depends (tourism, grazing, hunting, fishing…). …”
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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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Feasibility and psychometric quality of smartphone administered cognitive ecological momentary assessments in women with metastatic breast cancer by Ashley M Henneghan, Emily W Paolillo, Kathleen M Van Dyk, Oscar Y Franco-Rocha, Soyeong Bang, Rebecca Tasker, Tara Kaufmann, Darren Haywood, Nicolas H Hart, Raeanne C Moore

“…Cognitive ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) allow for assessment of individual cognitive functioning in natural environments and can be administered via smartphones. …”
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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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Quantifying spectral information about source separation in multisource odour plumes. by Sina Tootoonian, Aaron C True, Elle Stark, John P Crimaldi, Andreas T Schaefer

“…Odours released by objects in natural environments can contain information about their spatial locations. …”
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The effect of nature on creativity through mental imagery. by Aaron C Drake, Fiza Hasan, Arianna Gibson, Julia W Y Kam

“…While comparisons of post-walk creativity scores between the nature and urban environment did not significantly differ from each other, the comparisons between the pre- and post-walk creativity scores revealed a significant improvement in convergent creative thinking in the nature environment condition, but not the urban environment condition. …”
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Wheat disease recognition method based on the SC-ConvNeXt network model by Tianliang Dong, Xiao Ma, Bin Huang, Wenyu Zhong, Qingan Han, Qinghai Wu, You Tang

“…Additionally, the model’s recognition performance is often disrupted by complex factors in natural environments. To address these issues, this paper proposes a wheat disease identification model, SC-ConvNeXt, which integrates the SimCLR pre-training framework and an improved CBAM attention mechanism. …”
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Genomic insights on cgMLST markers, drug resistance, and urease cluster of Proteus mirabilis strains by Shitao Lian, Yadong Liu, Songnian Hu, Chen Shen, Yinping Ma, Peng Yin, Zilong He

“…ABSTRACT Proteus mirabilis, a significant pathogenic bacterium within the Enterobacteriaceae family, is widely distributed across various natural environments. This study conducted a genomic comparison analysis of 1,267 strains of P. mirabilis using extensive genome data from public databases. …”
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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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Remedies from nature: exploring the moderating mechanisms of natural landscape features on emotions and perceived restoration in urban parks by Yihe Li, Wenbo Li, Yang Liu

“…Urban parks are the primary places where urban residents reconnect with natural environments. Numerous studies have shown that natural landscape features benefit human mental health and promote perceived restoration. …”
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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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Co-occurrence of direct and indirect extracellular electron transfer mechanisms during electroactive respiration in a dissimilatory sulfate reducing bacterium by Liyuan Hou, Rebecca Cortez, Michael Hagerman, Zhiqiang Hu, Erica L.-W. Majumder

“…ABSTRACT Understanding the extracellular electron transfer mechanisms of electroactive bacteria could help determine their potential in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and their microbial syntrophy with redox-active minerals in natural environments. However, the mechanisms of extracellular electron transfer to electrodes by sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) remain underexplored. …”
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Contribution of the Geodiversity knowledge to social, economic, and environmental health development by Cassio Silva, Edson Farias Mello, Gilberto Dias Calaes, Patricia Duringer Jacques, André Luiz Invernizzi

“…We are entirely dependent on the geological characteristics of natural environments, as they provide the raw materials—such as minerals, water, and food—necessary for our survival and socio-economic development. …”
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Detection of Invasive Species (Siam Weed) Using Drone-Based Imaging and YOLO Deep Learning Model by Deepak Gautam, Zulfadli Mawardi, Louis Elliott, David Loewensteiner, Timothy Whiteside, Simon Brooks

“…This study explores the efficacy of drone-acquired RGB images and the YOLO model in detecting the invasive species Siam weed (<i>Chromolaena odorata</i>) in natural environments. Siam weed is a perennial scrambling shrub from tropical and sub-tropical America that is invasive outside its native range, causing substantial environmental and economic impacts across Asia, Africa, and Oceania. …”
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