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Focused ion beam-induced displacive phase transformation from austenite to martensite during fabrication of quenched and partitioned steel micro-pillar
We report evidence of a displacive phase transformation from retained austenite to martensite during preparation of quenched and partitioned steel micro-pillars by using a focused ion beam (FIB) technique. The BCC phase produced by the FIB damage was identified as martensite. The invariant-plane strain surface relief associated with the martensitic transformation was observed in the retained austenite phase immediately after a FIB scan of the surface with the Ga+ ion beam. Use of a low acceleration voltage appears to lower the probability of the phase transformation, while a decrease of the acceleration voltage will result in an increase of the total milling time required to prepare a micro-pillar. This report addresses challenges related to the preparation of austenite micro-pillars by a conventional FIB technique. Published by Elsevier B.V
Multi-responsive albumin-lonidamine conjugated hybridized gold nanoparticle as a combined photothermal-chemotherapy for synergistic tumor ablation
Herein, we developed a multifunctional nanoplatform based on the nanoassembly of gold nanoparticles (GNP) conjugated with lonidamine (LND) and aptamer AS1411 (AS-LAGN) as an effective cancer treatment. Conjugating AS1411 aptamer on the surface of the nanoparticle significantly improved particle accumulation in cancer cells via specific affinity toward the nucleolin receptors. In vitro study clearly revealed that laser irradiation-based hyperthermia effect enhanced the chemotherapeutic effects of LND. Combinational treatment modalities revealed significant apoptosis with higher cell killing effect due to increased ROS production and inhibition of cell migration. GNP's ability to convert the excited state photon energy into thermal heat enabled synergistic photothermal/chemotherapy with improved therapeutic efficacy in animal models. Moreover, immunohistochemistry staining assays confirmed the ability of ASLAGN to induce cellular apoptosis/necrosis and ablation in tumor tissues, without causing evident damages to the surrounding healthy tissues. Altogether, this AS-LAGN nanoplatform could be a promising strategy for mitochondria-based cancer treatment.
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We have designed a facile biodegradable multifunctional nanocarrier system to target the mitochondria, the major "power house" of the cancer cells. We have constructed a multifunctional nanoassembly of protein coronated gold nanoparticles (GNP) conjugated with lonidamine (LND) and aptamer AS1411 (ASLAGN) as an effective combination of phototherapy with chemotherapy for cancer treatment. The LND was conjugated with albumin which was in turn conjugated to GNP via redox-liable disulfide linkage to generate oxidative stress and ROS to kill cancer cells. GNP's ability to convert the excited state photon energy into thermal heat enabled synergistic photothermal/chemotherapy with improved therapeutic efficacy in animal models. Consistently, AS-LAGN showed enhanced antitumor efficacy in xenograft tumor model with remarkable tumor regression property. (C) 2019 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.This research was supported by a grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. 2018R1A2A2A05021143 and 2018R1D1A1A02085586), and by the Medical Research Center Program (2015R1A5A2009124 and 2018R1A5A2025272) through the NRF funded by MSIP
From civic to citizenship education: Toward a stronger citizenship orientation in the Ethiopian CEE curriculum
Recent research on Civic and Ethical Education (CEE) in Ethiopia has revealed a need for improvement in a number of areas with regard to the current CEE curricula. These materials are currently oriented to a conservative form of civic education than on citizenship education, whose aims are more progressive. The essential problem identified in the present study is that CEE content does not match the Ethiopian Ministry of Education’s stated goals for CEE, including the promotion of global citizenship. An inductive method was used to categorize themes found in the CEE curricula and textbook, which were analyzed with reference to Tawil’s (2013) framework for education for global citizenship. A concept in textual analysis known as ‘internal critique’ was also utilized to identify inconsistencies in the materials between the stated aims of the CEE program and the textbook content itself. The analysis revealed three main characteristics of the CEE textbooks, namely, an emphasis on sovereignty, patriotism, and responsibility; ambivalence to Ethiopia’s independence from/dependence on wealthier nations, and abstraction in CEE content. This content does only partially match the Ethiopian government’s stated aims for CEE. The findings of this study suggest that the content of the ethical dimension of Ethiopia’s CEE curriculum could be greatly improved through the inclusion of content that reflects an emphasis on citizenship education. Such an approach is more progressive than civic education and promotes a more learner-centered and critical orientation to ethical issues on the part of students within the framework of Global Citizenship Education (GCE)
Numerical simulation of a multi-port differential mobility analyzer(MP-DMA) used in a real-time nano-particle sizer (NPS)
In a recently conducted study, we developed a nano-particle sizer (NPS) that consists of a multi-port differential mobility analyzer (MP-DMA) and two multi condensation particle counters (M-CPCs) for achieving fast measurements of aerosol particles; however, the performance of MP-DMA was not detailed in the study. Therefore, the objective of this study is to perform numerical simulations to obtain the transfer function of each port in the MP-DMA, which is the main component of the NPS. We observed good agreement between the numerically obtained central particle size of each port and the experimental data under the same operating conditions. The transmission probability and resolution of each port were determined and analyzed under various conditions using the transfer function. The findings of this study shall help in understanding the advantages of NPS.This work was supported by the research fund of Hanyang University (HY-2019-P)
Extensive evaluation and classification of low‐cost dust sensors in laboratory using a newly developed test method
An extensive evaluation of low-cost dust sensors was performed using an exponentially decaying particle concentration. A total of 264 sensors including 27 sensors with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and 237 sensors with laser lighting sources were tested. Those tested sensors were classified into 4 groups based on the deviation from the reference data obtained by a reference instrument. The response linearities of all the tested samples for PM1, PM2.5, and PM10 were in excellent agreement with the reference instrument, except a few samples. For the measurements of PM1 and PM2.5, the lighting source, that is, LED or laser, did not show any significant difference in overall sensor performance. However, LED-based sensors did not perform well for PM10 measurements. The 32, 24, and 16% of all the tested sensors for PM1, PM2.5, and PM10 measurement, respectively, are in the category of Class 1 (reference instrument reading +/- 20%) requirement. The performance of the low-cost dust sensors for PM10 measurement was relatively less satisfactory.The Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea)
Ultrathin WO3 Nanosheets Converted from Metallic WS2 Sheets by Spontaneous Formation and Deposition of PdO Nanoclusters for Visible Light-Driven C−C Coupling Reactions
It is not facile to obtain ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) WO3 nanosheets through the exfoliation of their bulk counterpart in solution due to strong covalent interaction between interlayers. In addition, they require additional functionalization with cocatalysts to expand their applicability in photocatalytic organic reactions owing to their insufficient conduction band edge position. Here, we report a chemical approach for the simultaneous production and functionalization of ultrathin 2D WO3 nanosheets through the direct conversion of metallic WS2 nanosheets, accomplished by the spontaneous formation and deposition of PdO nanoclusters on the nanosheet surface in H2O. When chemically exfoliated metallic WS2 nanosheets were simply mixed with K2PdCl4 in H2O under mild conditions (50 degrees C, 1 h), they were converted to semiconducting WO3 nanosheets on which PdO nanoclusters of a uniform size (similar to 3 nm) were spontaneously formed, leading to the production of PdO-functionalized ultrathin WO3 (PdO@WO3) nanohybrids. The conversion yield of WO3 nanosheets from metallic WS2 nanosheets increased with increasing coverage of PdO nanoclusters on the nanosheet surface. In addition, the conversion of WO3 nanosheets induced by PdO nanocluster formation was effective only in H2O but not in organic solvents, such as N-methylpyrrolidone and acetonitrile. A mechanical study suggests that the chemisorption of hydrated Pd precursors on the chalcogens of metallic WS2 nanosheets leads to their facile oxidation by water molecules, producing WO3 nanosheets covered with PdO nanoclusters. The as-prepared PdO@WO3 nanosheets exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity and recyclability in Suzuki cross-coupling reactions of various aryl halides under visible light irradiation.This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program (NRF-2014R1A2A1A11051877 and NRF-2017R1A2B2008455) through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT
Study of the underlying event in top quark pair production in pp collisions at 13 TeV
Measurements of normalized differential cross sections as functions of the multiplicity and kinematic variables of charged-particle tracks from the underlying event in top quark and antiquark pair production are presented. The measurements are performed in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13��, and are based on data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb(-1). Events containing one electron, one muon, and two jets from the hadronization and fragmentation of b quarks are used. These measurements characterize, for the first time, properties of the underlying event in top quark pair production and show no deviation from the universality hypothesis at energy scales typically above twice the top quark mass.We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of theWorldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses.
Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and the Austrian Science Fund; the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; the Brazilian Funding Agencies (CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP); the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science; CERN; the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, and National Natural Science Foundation of China; the Colombian Funding Agency (COLCIENCIAS); the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, and the Croatian Science Foundation; the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus; the Ministry of Education and Research, Estonian Research Council via IUT23-4 and IUT23-6 and European Regional Development Fund, Estonia; the Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and Helsinki Institute of Physics; the Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules/CNRS, and Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives/CEA, France; the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, Germany; the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece; the National Scientific Research Foundation, and National Innovation Office, Hungary; the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology, India; the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and National Research Foundation (NRF), Republic of Korea; the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; the Ministry of Education, and University of Malaya (Malaysia); the Mexican Funding Agencies (CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI); the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand; the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia; the Secretaria de Estado de Investigacion, Desarrollo e Innovacion and Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies (ETH Board, ETH Zurich, PSI, SNF, UniZH, Canton Zurich, and SER); the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand, Special Task Force for Activating Research and the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand; the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and Turkish Atomic Energy Authority; the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and State Fund for Fundamental Researches, Ukraine; the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; the US Department of Energy, and the US National Science Foundation.
Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS program of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste); MIUR project 20108T4XTM (Italy); the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; and the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund
Proposing value-based technology acceptance model: testing on paid mobile media service
Rapid growth of online media markets among world populations led to attempts by companies to exploit mobile services as part of business planning practices. Relatedly, this study examines adoption of paid mobile media service (i.e., Amazon Prime Video) as a source of new information and communication technology with online-offline integrated mobile services. The study’s main objective is to identify a technology acceptance model from the perspective of consumer experiences of value perceptions. This study proposed a value-based technology acceptance model, deriving from classic variables related to technology acceptance with regard to relevant consumer value perception literature. The proposed model examined effects of positive and negative experiences of value perceptions on consumers’ beliefs about paid service which explained future use of the paid service. Results indicated that consumers’ positive experiences—social, emotional, and functional values—derived from using mobile media services positively explained consumers’ belief of the usefulness of the paid mobile media service. Consumers’ negative experiences with technological barriers negatively influenced consumers’ beliefs with regard to the ease of use for paid mobile service, while price risk negatively influenced perceived usefulness. Consequently, consumers’ perceptions of ease of use and usefulness related to using the paid service positively influenced behavioral intention for continuous use of the paid mobile media service
Comparison of laboratory indices of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease for the detection of incipient kidney dysfunction
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is closely linked to insulin resistance and related adverse health outcomes. We investigated the non-invasive index of NAFLD that has the best performance in estimating the renal manifestations of metabolic disturbances. This nation-wide, cross-sectional study included 11,836 subjects, using various non-invasive assessments comprising routinely measured clinical and laboratory variables. The subjects were native Koreans aged 20 years or older and had no diabetes, history of liver or kidney disease. All participants were divided into quintiles according to their fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) results. Participants in the highest quintile were more hypertensive and obese with greater glycemic exposure, poor lipid profiles, and impaired kidney function, than those in the other quintiles. Multiple logistic regression, adjusted for age, sex, smoking, systolic blood pressure, white blood cell, platelet, fasting plasma glucose, and triglyceride, demonstrated that FIB-4, the hepatic steatosis index, the aspartate aminotransferase/alanine aminotransferase (AST/ALT) ratio, Gholam's model for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and the BARD score were independently associated with kidney dysfunction. ROC curve analysis revealed that FIB-4 (AUC = 0.6227, 95% CI [0.5929-0.6526], p = 0.0258) was the most precise in predicting kidney dysfunction. Our findings suggest that FIB-4 may be a favorable screening tool for the renal manifestation of hepatic metabolic disturbances
Effects of acute carbon monoxide poisoning on venous thromboembolism: a population based study
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