A New Innovative IoT Watch Reduces Excessive Consumption And Its Implications To Green Logistics

Excessive consumption leads to 7 trends of crises, including destruction of the atmosphere, energy crisis, social decline and conflicts. Over consumption also deteriorates human health. To reduce excessive consumption not only can improve health, it can also reduce transportation from consumption, livestock raise and sale, and medical care. The reducing over consumption can benefit human health and environmental protection through supply chain management. This motivates us to devise an innovative product. Our imaginative innovative product is a new smart watch (SW) which improves several new features based on Apple Watch. After a survey to potential users, it reveals that the new features can help reduce the excessive consumption, deterioration of the human health, transportation, healthcare as well as the destruction of the environment. Enterprises can also achieve their social responsibilities through the implementation and popularization of the SW as soon as possible

Diaqua­bis(1H-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxyl­ato)cadmium(II)

In the title complex, [Cd(C3H2N3O2)2(H2O)2], the CdII atom is coordinated by two N and two O atoms from two deprotonated 1H-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxylic acid ligands (TRIA) and two water mol­ecules. The Cd atom is located on an inversion centre. In the crystal structure, mol­ecules are linked together via O—H⋯O and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a three-dimensional network

Introducing upfront losses as well as gains decreases impatience in intertemporal choices with rewards

People tend to prefer smaller and sooner (SS) rewards over larger and later (LL) ones even when the latter are much larger. Previous research have identified several ways to enhance people’s patience. Adding to this literature, the current paper demonstrates that introduction of upfront losses as well as gains to both SS and LL rewards can decrease people’s impatience. This effect is incompatible with both the normative exponential and descriptive hyperbolic discounting models, which agree on the additive assumption and the independence assumption. We also exculde the integration explanation which assumes subjects integrate upfront money with final rewards and make a decision with bottom line at the end. We consider several possible explanations, including the salience hypothesis, which states that introducing upfront money makes the money dimension more salient than not and thus increases the attractiveness of LL options

Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Myelodysplasia-Related Changes in a Patient with Crohn’s Disease Treated with Immunosuppressive Therapy

We report a case of acute myeloid leukemia with myelodysplasia-related changes in a patient with Crohn’s disease. The patient was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at the age of 47 years and was treated with the tumor necrosis factor α inhibitors adalimumab and infliximab, and a short course of azathioprine. Four years later, the patient developed acute myeloid leukemia with myelodysplasia that involved mainly erythropoiesis. Crohn’s disease is associated with an increased risk of cancers including hematological malignancies. Cancer surveillance including hematology assessment is warranted to monitor the patients on immunosuppressive therapy

Effects of common artificial sweeteners at environmentally relevant concentrations on soil springtails and their gut microbiota

Artificial sweeteners (AS) are extensively utilized as sugar substitutes and have been recognized as emerging environmental contaminants. While the effect of AS on aquatic organisms has garnered recent attention, their effects on soil invertebrates and gut microbial communities remain unclear. To address this knowledge gap, we exposed springtails (Folsomia candida) to both single and combined treatments of four typical AS (sucralose [SUC], saccharin [SAC], cyclamate [CYC], and acesulfame [ACE]) at environmentally relevant concentrations of 0.01, 0.1 and 1 mg kg−1 in soil. Following the first-generational exposure, the reproduction of juveniles showed a significant increase under all the AS treatments of 0.1 mg kg−1. The transcriptomic analysis revealed significant enrichment of several Kyoto Encyclopedia of Gene and Genome pathways (e.g., glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, pentose and glucuronate interconversions, amino sugar, and nucleotide sugar metabolism, ribosome, and lysosome) in springtails under all AS treatments. Analysis of gut bacterial microbiota indicated that three AS (SUC, CYC, and ACE) significantly decreased alpha diversity, and all AS treatments increased the abundance of the genus Achromobacter. After the sixth-generational exposure to CYC, weight increased, but reproduction was inhibited. The pathways that changed significantly (e.g., extracellular matrix-receptor interaction, amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism, lysosome) were generally similar to those altered in first-generational exposure, but with opposite regulation directions. Furthermore, the effect on the alpha diversity of gut microbiota was contrary to that after first-generational exposure, and more noticeable disturbances in microbiota composition were observed. These findings underscore the ecological risk of AS in soils and improve our understanding of the toxicity effects of AS on living organisms