Piezocatalysis-combined advanced oxidation processes for organic pollutant degradation in water system by Heejin Yang, Chang-Gu Lee, Jechan Lee

“…The piezoelectric catalyst process has emerged as a promising technology for energy harvesting, effectively converting natural mechanical energies, such as wind, water flow, and waves, into usable electrical energy using piezoelectric materials. …”
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Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Rolling Bearings Based on CBAM-CNN-LSTM by Bo Sun, Wenting Hu, Hao Wang, Lei Wang, Chengyang Deng

“…Firstly, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is applied to convert the data into the frequency domain. The resulting frequency domain data is then used as input to the convolutional neural network for feature extraction; Then, the weights of channel features and spatial features are assigned to the extracted features by CBAM, and the weighted features are then input into the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network to learn temporal features. …”
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Heat and mass transfer performance of power-law nanofluid flow with thermal radiation and joule heating aspects: Surface heat flux analysis by Mhamed Benaissa, Zia Ullah, A. Dahshan, Md Mahbub Alam, Khadijah M. Abualnaja, Hanaa Abu-Zinadah, Abdullah A. Faqihi, Nidhal Ben Khedher

“…The physical problems are converted into a nonlinear ordinary differential equation under the implementation of similarity transformations, stream functions and Keller box method. …”
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Seismic Response Reduction of Megaframe with Vibration Control Substructure by Jun-Qi Huang, Xun Chong, Qing Jiang, Xian-Guo Ye, Han-Qin Wang

“…Megaframe with vibration control substructure (MFVCS) is a tuned mass damper system, which converts the substructures into the tuned mass. In this study, a kind of MFVCS using both lead-rubber bearings and viscous dampers to connect the vibration control substructure with the megaframe was proposed. …”
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Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Using Tannin-Rich Extract and Coating onto Cotton Textiles for Catalytic Degradation of Congo Red by Penwisa Pisitsak, Kwandee Chamchoy, Varanrada Chinprateep, Wiphawan Khobthong, Pisutsaran Chitichotpanya, Sarute Ummartyotin

“…Tannin-rich extract from Xylocarpus granatum bark was used as both reducing and capping agent, rapidly converting Au (I) salt to AuNPs. Transmission electron microscopy showed the as-prepared AuNPs to be predominantly spherical, with an average diameter of 17 nm. …”
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The Role of Tetrahydrobiopterin and Dihydrobiopterin in Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury When Given at Reperfusion by Qian Chen, Elizabeth Eun Jung Kim, Katrina Elio, Christopher Zambrano, Samuel Krass, Jane Chun-wen Teng, Helen Kay, Kerry-Anne Perkins, Sailesh Pershad, Sloane McGraw, Jeffrey Emrich, Jovan S. Adams, Lindon H. Young

“…Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is an essential cofactor of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) to produce NO, whereas dihydrobiopterin (BH2) can shift the eNOS product profile from NO to superoxide, which is further converted to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and cause I/R injury. …”
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From the Role of Microbiota in Gut-Lung Axis to SARS-CoV-2 Pathogenesis by Sara Ahmadi Badi, Samira Tarashi, Abolfazl Fateh, Pejman Rohani, Andrea Masotti, Seyed Davar Siadat

“…Additionally, the gut microbiota composition affects (and is affected by) the expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE2), which is the main receptor for SARS-CoV-2 and contributes to regulate inflammation. …”
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Real-Time Resonance Detection and Active Damping in Energy Recovery Railways Applications by Giovanni Marini, Alessandro Lidozzi, Marco di Benedetto, M. Moranchel Perez, Luca Solero

“…The proposed method tries to solve a problem when the energy recovery converter, operating with an almost constant power load, stimulates the catenary power line. …”
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Discovering Object Stories: Linking Unstructured Museum Data Through Semantic Annotation by Sarah Middle, Maria Aristeidou, Elton Barker, Daniel Pett, Sarah Alcock

“…The authors aimed to develop methods for converting unstructured data into structured formats using Recogito Studio. …”
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Laser Writing of GaN/Ga2O3 Heterojunction Photodetector Arrays by Pengxiang Sun, Xun Yang, Kexue Li, Zhipeng Wei, Wei Fan, Shaoyi Wang, Weimin Zhou, Chongxin Shan

“…Abstract Photodetectors play a crucial role in converting light signals into electrical signals and have significant applications in various fields such as communications, imaging, and sensing. …”
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Sludge interface recognition method of coal mine water sump automatic cleaning robot by Xuefeng JIA, Guijun GAO, Guihu LI

“…Finally, by superimposing the converted lidar data with the camera data, the 3D point cloud data of the depth camera was filtered through the depth mean of the lidar sampling points to realize the identification of the sludge interface. …”
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Podocyturia: A Clue for the Rational Use of Amiloride in Alport Renal Disease by H. Trimarchi, R. Canzonieri, A. Muryan, A. Schiel, A. Araoz, M. Paulero, J. Andrews, T. Rengel, M. Forrester, F. Lombi, V. Pomeranz, R. Iriarte, E. Zotta

“…Commonly drug-based approaches include angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, which are employed to reduce proteinuria and thus retard kidney disease progression and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Combustion and Knock in a Dual Fuel Gas/Diesel Compression Ignition Engine by A. Gharehghani, S. M. Mirsalim, S. A. Jazayeri

“…Conventional compression ignition engines can easily be converted to a dual fuel mode of operation using natural gas as main fuel and diesel oil injection as pilot to initiate the combustion. …”
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Pressure treatment enables white-light emission in Zn-IPA MOF via asymmetrical metal-ligand chelate coordination by Qing Yang, Weibin Wang, Yunfeng Yang, Pengyuan Li, Xinyi Yang, Fuquan Bai, Bo Zou

“…Time delay phosphor-converted light-emitting diodes are fabricated with long emission time up to ~7 s after switching off, providing significant advancements for white-light and time-delay lighting applications.…”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles Using Cannonball Leaves and Their Cytotoxic Activity against MCF-7 Cell Line by Preetha Devaraj, Prachi Kumari, Chirom Aarti, Arun Renganathan

“…Cannonball leaf broth as a reducing agent converts silver ions to AgNPs in a rapid and ecofriendly manner. …”
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Effects of Feeding of Two Potentially Probiotic Preparations from Lactic Acid Bacteria on the Performance and Faecal Microflora of Broiler Chickens by Paula Fajardo, Lorenzo Pastrana, Jesús Méndez, Isabel Rodríguez, Clara Fuciños, Nelson P. Guerra

“…In the second experiment, although no differences in BWG were observed between treatments, Ross 308 broilers receiving the probiotic Lactobacillus preparation exhibited the lowest FCE values and were considered the most efficient at converting feed into live weight.…”
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Facial Edema Evaluation Using Digital Image Processing by A. E. Villafuerte-Nuñez, A. C. Téllez-Anguiano, O. Hernández-Díaz, R. Rodríguez-Vera, J. A. Gutiérrez-Gnecchi, J. L. Salazar-Martínez

“…Trismus is measured by converting pixels to centimeters in a digitally obtained image of an open mouth. …”
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Functional Conducting Polymers in the Application of SPR Biosensors by Rapiphun Janmanee, Sopis Chuekachang, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant

“…In recent years, conducting polymers have emerged as one of the most promising transducers for both chemical, sensors and biosensors owing to their unique electrical, electrochemical and optical properties that can be used to convert chemical information or biointeractions into electrical or optical signals, which can easily be detected by modern techniques. …”
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Investigation of Interactions between Thrombin and Ten Phenolic Compounds by Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis and Molecular Docking by Qiao-Qiao Li, Yu-Xiu Yang, Jing-Wen Qv, Guang Hu, Yuan-Jia Hu, Zhi-Ning Xia, Feng-Qing Yang

“…Thrombin plays a vital role in blood coagulation, which is a key process involved in thrombosis by promoting platelet aggregation and converting fibrinogen to form the fibrin clot. In the receptor concept, drugs produce their therapeutic effects via interactions with the targets. …”
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Living Therapeutics for Synergistic Hydrogen‐Photothermal Cancer Treatment by Photosynthetic Bacteria by Yingyi Zhang, Xiaolian Deng, Lili Xia, Jianghui Liang, Meng Chen, Xiaoling Xu, Wei Chen, Jianwei Ding, Chengjie Yu, Limei Liu, Yang Xiang, Yiliang Lin, Fangfang Duan, Wei Feng, Yu Chen, Xiang Gao

“…Living R. sphaeroides exhibits strong absorption in the NIR spectrum, effectively converting light energy into thermal energy while concurrently generating H2. …”
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