Efficacy of vericiguat in patients with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction: a prospective observational study by Yinge Zhan, Liu Li, Jie Zhou, Yishan Ma, Xuchong Guan, Suo Wang, Ya Chang

“…Compared to the standard treatment group, the Vericiguat group demonstrated significantly higher Peak Oxygen Consumption, Anaerobic Threshold, and a lower Carbon Dioxide Equivalent Slope, with P values all below 0.05. …”
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Research on the influence of g-C3N4 microstructure changes on the efficiency of visible light photocatalytic degradation by Hong Tu, Bihong Tian, Zhichao Zhao, Renjiang Guo, Ya Wang, Shunhong Chen, Jian Wu

“…The structural modulation of pristine graphitic carbon nitride poses a considerable challenge in the rational design of catalysts for the efficient degradation of small organic pollutants under visible light. …”
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Chemical reactivity of alliin and its molecular interactions with the M proteasepro of SARS-CoV-2 by López-Orozco Wendolyne, Mendoza-Huizar Humberto Luis, Álvarez-Romero Giaan Arturo, Torres-Valencia Jesús Martín, Sanchez-Zavala Maricruz

“…For electrophilic attacks, the more reactive sites are on the carbon atoms of the prop-2-ene moiety. The more active sites for nucleophilic attacks are located on the thioether group. …”
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Synthesis of uniform two-dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene films via thermal evaporation as efficient oxygen reduction catalysts by Xue-Wei Lu, Xiaoliang Zhang, Ruxuan Chen, Shuwei Wang, Zile Wang, Huajun Tian, Liying Jiao

“…Using poly(2,5-benzimidazole) (ABPBI) as a nitrogen and carbon precursor, we deposited nitrogen-rich NG thin films with a size of 50 × 50 mm2 and controllable thickness within the range of 0.5–1.5 nm. …”
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Study on the Siting of Offshore Wind Farms and Prospects for Future Development by Zhichuan LI, Xinghua LI, Jingshui LAO, Zhiyou YU, Wei XU, Jianzhang SUN, Zijian ZHANG, Ya LI

“…[Objective] Under the background of carbon neutrality, the development of new energy has attracted more attention from countries and regions, and offshore wind farms, based on abundant wind resources, have been vigorously developed by governments. …”
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A new approach to off-gas analysis for shaken bioreactors showing high CTR and RQ accuracy by Andreas Schulte, Janik Brockmann, Nina Müller, Tibor Anderlei, Jochen Büchs

“…This study aimed to develop a respiration activity online measurement system via off-gas analysis, named “Transfer rate Online Measurement” (TOM), for determining the oxygen transfer rate (OTR), carbon dioxide transfer rate (CTR), and the respiration quotient (RQ) in surface-aerated bioreactors, primarily targeting shake flasks. …”
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Regulatory mechanism of carbohydrate metabolism pathways on oil biosynthesis of oil plant Symplocos paniculata by Wenbin Zeng, Beilei Xie, Yunzhu Chen, Jingzhen Chen, Peiwang Li, Lijuan Jiang, Changzhu Li, Qiang Liu, Yan Yang

“…The mechanism underlying oil synthesis in oil plant fruits remains elusive, as sugar metabolism provides the essential carbon skeleton without a clear understanding of its intricate workings. …”
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Investigation of factors that affect post-fire recovery of photosynthetic activity at global scale by Yicheng Shen, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison

“…The time taken for ecosystems to recover after wildfire affects the rate of carbon sequestration, and this in turn impacts land–atmosphere exchanges and hydrological processes. …”
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Renewable energy consumption, institutional quality and life expectancy in EU countries: a cointegration analysis by Anca-Florentina Vatamanu, Mihaela Onofrei, Elena Cigu, Florin Oprea

“…The entire EU health policy and the government's recommitment to narrowing the gap in healthy life expectancy should be focused on improving institutional quality and reducing carbon emissions through promoting projects capable of increasing renewable energy consumption. …”
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Fine-scale forest classification with multi-temporal sentinel-1/2 imagery using a temporal convolutional neural network by Rongfei Duan, Chunlin Huang, Peng Dou, Jinliang Hou, Ying Zhang, Juan Gu

“…Monitoring and mapping forest vegetation are crucial for conserving biodiversity and estimating biomass and carbon. However, spectral similarity between different vegetation types and the issue of mixed pixels in medium-resolution satellite imagery remain significant challenges for fine-scale forest classification. …”
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Environmental and health implications of liquid waste from the stone carving industry: Case study in Sedayu Village, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia by Sutaryono Sutaryono Sutaryono, Rezyana Budi Syahputri, Tuti Susilowati, Teguh Setyadi, Purwanti, Sukamsi, Dhanik Ernawati, Mohamad Samsudin, Taufiq Hidayat, Hastin Dyah Kusumawardani, Ina Kusrini

“…The proposed WWTP should include activated carbon filtration to remove heavy metals and advanced oxidation processes for organic pollutants like phenol.…”
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Hydrogen production with grid-connected electrolysis: scenario-based analysis of the EU criteria for renewable fuels by Bernhard Thaler, Gerhard Pirker, Nicole Wermuth

“…However, during the transition to a clean energy system, the production of H _2 with electrolysis runs the risk of increasing carbon dioxide (CO _2 ) emissions if the electricity system is still partly based on fossil fuels. …”
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Isorhamnetin Inhibits Liver Fibrosis by Reducing Autophagy and Inhibiting Extracellular Matrix Formation via the TGF-β1/Smad3 and TGF-β1/p38 MAPK Pathways by Ning Liu, Jiao Feng, Xiya Lu, Zhilu Yao, Qing Liu, Yang Lv, Yuru Han, Jingfan Deng, Yingqun Zhou

“…Mouse models of hepatic fibrosis were established by intraperitoneal injection of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) or bile duct ligation (BDL). …”
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Combined Application of Coagulation/Flocculation/Sedimentation and Membrane Separation for the Treatment of Laundry Wastewater by Camila O. C. Nascimento, Márcia T. Veit, Soraya M. Palácio, Gilberto C. Gonçalves, Márcia R. Fagundes-Klen

“…The total efficiency of the combined C/F/S-MF process indicated the quality of the treated wastewater since it reduced 98.4% of the color, 99.1% of turbidity, 71.7% of the surfactants, and more than 55% of the total dissolved solids (TDS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), and total organic carbon (TOC) from the industrial laundry wastewater. …”
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Unraveling the response of the apparent temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration to rising temperature by Zhentao Liu, Junguo Liu, Deliang Chen

“…Global warming is expected to intensify carbon loss, as ecosystem respiration (RECO) rates increase exponentially with rising temperatures. …”
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Predicting deamidation and isomerization sites in therapeutic antibodies using structure-based in silico approaches by David Hoffmann, Joschka Bauer, Markus Kossner, Andrew Henry, Anne R. Karow-Zwick, Giuseppe Licari

“…The most effective QSAR model considered the accessible surface area (ASA) of the residue, the pKa value of the backbone amide, and the root mean square deviations of both the alpha carbon and the side chain. The accuracy was further enhanced by incorporating the QSAR model into a decision tree, which also includes empirical information about the sequential successor and the position in the protein. …”
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Topological transformation of microbial proteins into iron single-atom sites for selective hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis by Xiaofeng Xiao, Zechao Zhuang, Shuhu Yin, Jiexin Zhu, Tao Gan, Ruohan Yu, Jinsong Wu, Xiaochun Tian, Yanxia Jiang, Dingsheng Wang, Feng Zhao

“…These moieties resemble the structural features of nonheme Fe-dependent enzymes while being effectively confined on a microbe-derived, electrically conductive carbon support, enabling high-current density electrolysis. …”
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Construction of Multi-Scale Fusion Attention Unified Perceptual Parsing Networks for Semantic Segmentation of Mangrove Remote Sensing Images by Xin Wang, Yu Zhang, Wenquan Xu, Hanxi Wang, Jingye Cai, Qin Qin, Qin Wang, Jing Zeng

“…Mangrove forests play a crucial role in coastal ecosystem protection and carbon sequestration processes. However, monitoring remains challenging due to the forests’ complex spatial distribution characteristics. …”
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Utilization of distiller's grains for energy conservation and emissions reduction: A comprehensive investigation on pyrolysis kinetics and air-steam gasification performances by Minwei Liu, Peng Wang, Jincan Zeng, Qin Wang, Xi Liu, Guori Huang, Rongfeng Deng, Jianbiao Chen

“…Air-steam gasification experiments of DGs were conducted to investigate the impacts of gasifying temperature, air volume flow, and steam flow on gas compositions and yields, lower calorific value of syngas (Qgas), efficiencies of carbon conversion and gasification (ηC and ηG). All performance parameters first grew and then reduced with temperature rising, and the highest values of Qgas, ηC and ηG all reached at 750 °C. …”
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Effect of different initial C/N ratio of cow manure and straw on microbial quality of compost by M. A. Macias-Corral, J. A. Cueto-Wong, J. Morán-Martínez

“…Purpose The effect of different initial carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratios on the prevalence of Salmonella spp., fecal coliforms and helminth eggs over composts produced from several mixtures of maize straw (S) and dairy manure (M) was investigated. …”
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