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The results showed that the predominant bacteria in the air at 200 rpm were Bacillus (78.78%), Paenibacillus (11.77%) and Lysinibacillus (1.40%). When the rotating speed reached 800 rpm, the dominant bacteria became Bacillus (55.50%), Acinetobacter (31.01%), and Paenarthrobacter (13.17%). The contribution of the wastewater to bioaerosols increased from 46.49% to 65.10%, in which surface water was the main source of bioaerosols (34.64% on average). Although the contribution of bottom water was lower than that of surface water, its contribution increased more, from 15.36% to 29.31%. The health risk of bioaerosols was 1.28 × 10-2 on average, which increased with the increase of rotational speed. At the same exposure concentration, children (2.31 × 10-2) have a higher exposure risk than adults (7.67 × 10-3). This study is aimed at exploring the variation law of bioaerosols discharged from WWTP with oxidation ditch process and providing preliminary data for reducing its risk.Modern wastewater treatment plants cannot completely remove pollutants. Often, effluents entering the aquatic environment still contain micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals or pesticides, which may impose adverse effects on aquatic biota. At the same time, a large proportion of free-living aquatic species are known to be infected with parasites, which raises the question of interactions between environmental stressors (such as micropollutants) and parasite infection. We chose the freshwater amphipod Gammarus fossarum (Koch, 1835) as a test organism to investigate potential pollutant-parasite interactions. This gammarid is frequently used in ecotoxicological tests and is also commonly infected with larvae of the acanthocephalan parasite species Polymorphus minutus (Zeder, 1800) Lühe, 1911. We exposed infected and uninfected specimens of G. fossarum to conventionally-treated wastewater and river water in a 22-day flow channel experiment. The test organisms' response was measured as mortality rates, concentrations or activities of five biomarkers, and overall locomotor activity. No significant differences were found between mortality rates of different exposure conditions. Contrastingly, three biomarkers (phenoloxidase activity, glycogen, and lipid concentrations) showed a significant increase in infected gammarids, while the effect of the water type was insignificant. Infected gammarids also showed a significantly higher locomotor activity in both water types. Our results suggest that the response of G. fossarum during the exposure experiments was mainly driven by parasite infection. This implies that parasites may act as additional biotic stressors in multiple stressor scenarios, and therefore, might play an important role when measuring the response of organisms to chemical stressors. Future ecotoxicological studies and assessments thus should consider parasite infection as an additional test parameter.The fluorescent probe, GXY-ADP-2, with xanthene structure as the fluorescent core was designed and prepared for the selective detection of peroxynitrite (ONOO-). ONOO- can be produced endogenously and exogenously and is a strong oxidant with a short half-life. Oxidative modifications of biomolecules, that can be attributed to the formation of ONOO-, occur in the reactions of biomolecules with secondary ONOO--derived radical oxidants. Therefore, it is very important to develop a specific fluorescent probe for detecting ONOO- to monitor oxidative stress state. The excitation wavelength and emission wavelength of the probe are 689 nm and 739 nm respectively. In the process of co-incubation with ONOO-, generate a new substance with two internal conjugated structures through a special reaction mechanism, one giving the fluorescence with the excitation wavelength of 347 nm and the emission wavelength of 484 nm with the detection limit of 0.12 μM, and the other that with the excitation wavelength of 433 nm and the emission wavelength of 583 nm with the detection limit of 0.077 μM. The linear dynamic range of the probe is 0-5 μM. Its response is not affected by the other reactive oxygen species, thus can sensitively detect ONOO-. In bioimaging experiments with HepG2 cells, the green and blue cell fluorescence signals (583 nm and 433 nm, respectively) were increased, while the red one (739 nm) was significantly reduced, under lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced oxidative stress, proving that the probe could sensitively detect ONOO- in living cells. This work provides a new tool for the dynamic changes of ONOO- and oxidative stress processes in biological systems.Analyte-sensitive DNA-based hydrogels find multiple applications in the field of biosensors due to their adaptable nature. Here, the design of DNA-based hydrogel and its application as sensing platform for the detection of a specific target sequence are presented. DNA-functionalized hydrogel structures were formed via a free radical co-polymerization process. A simple one-step probe immobilization procedure is reported DNA probe molecules are added to the photoactive polymer mixture, dispensed onto a solid support, or a mold, and covalently attached while the hydrogel is formed through UV light exposure. Such hydrogels can be synthesized with desired recognition ability through the selection of a certain nucleotide sequence. Here we show the application of DNA-based hydrogel to detect the target with high performance in fluorescence microarray format and, additionally, to fabricate holographic surface relief gratings for label-free sensing assays.The flexible electrochemical sensor is a key component of the health monitoring system which can continuously track the physiological signals of the human body, while there is no obvious discomfort and invasiveness. Therefore, it has great potential in personalized medical testing. However, the development of flexible electrochemical sensors currently faces many difficulties, such as the limitations of conductive material properties and manufacturing methods, and the disadvantages of commonly used flexible substrates that are not resistant to high temperatures. In this work, inorganic nanomaterials commonly used to make flexible electrochemical sensors were classified to zero-dimensional (0D) nanomaterials, one-dimensional (1D) nanomaterials, two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, and hybrid nanomaterials according to their morphology. The fabrication method of the nanomaterials-based flexible electrochemical sensors was also introduced. Furthermore, the application of flexible electrochemical sensors for chemical and biological sensing and their detection performance were summarized. The detection targets were classified to ion, small molecule, biomacromolecule, and bacteria, respectively.Heavy metals represent a serious issue regarding both environmental and health status. Their monitoring is necessary and it is necessary the development of decentralized approaches that are able to enforce the risk assessment. Electrochemical sensors and biosensors, with the various architectures, represent a solid reality often involved for this type of analytical determination. Although these approaches offer easy-to-use and portable tools, some limitations are often highlighted in presence of multi-targets and/or real matrices. However, chemometrics- and artificial intelligence-based tools, both for designing and for data analyzing, display the capability in producing novel functionality towards the management of complex matrices which often contain more information than those that are visualized with sensor detection. Design of experiment, exploratory, predictive and regression analysis can push the world of electrochemical (bio)sensors beyond the state of the art, because is still too large the number of analytical chemists that do not deal with multivariate thinking. In this paper, the use of multivariate methods applied to electrochemical sensing of heavy metals is showed, and each approach is described in terms of efficacy and outputs.More than six billion tests for COVID-19 has been already performed in the world. The testing for SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2) virus and corresponding human antibodies is essential not only for diagnostics and treatment of the infection by medical institutions, but also as a pre-requisite for major semi-normal economic and social activities such as international flights, off line work and study in offices, access to malls, sport and social events. Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, time to results and cost per test are essential parameters of those tests and even minimal improvement in any of them may have noticeable impact on life in the many countries of the world. We described, analyzed and compared methods of COVID-19 detection, while representing their parameters in 22 tables. Also, we compared test performance of some FDA approved test kits with clinical performance of some non-FDA approved methods just described in scientific literature. RT-PCR still remains a golden standard in detection of the virus, but a pressing need for alternative less expensive, more rapid, point of care methods is evident. Those methods that may eventually get developed to satisfy this need are explained, discussed, quantitatively compared. The review has a bioanalytical chemistry prospective, but it may be interesting for a broader circle of readers who are interested in understanding and improvement of COVID-19 testing, helping eventually to leave COVID-19 pandemic in the past.This work reports the synthesis of a monomer 2-((2-(3-(prop-1-en-2-yl)phenyl)propan-2-yl)carbamoyl)oxy)ethyl methacrylate (MVTPM) and the evaluation of its performance as an additive in the formulation of Bis-GMA/TEGDMA based composite resins. Experimental composite resins formulated with the MVTPM monomer were compared with a control reference. Double bond conversion, polymerization kinetics, shrinkage and associated stress, sorption, and aqueous solubility, cell viability, as well as mechanical properties were evaluated according to international measurements standards. read more The experimental composite resins show comparable mechanical properties with the control reference and improvements in other properties, such as better hydrolytic and hygroscopic behavior and lower shrinkage stress, are reported. This makes MVTPM monomer potentially useful in the formulation of dental composite resins.Healthy human descending thoracic aortas, obtained during organ donation for transplant and research, were tested in a mock circulatory loop to measure the mechanical response to physiological pulsatile pressure and flow. The viscoelastic properties of the aortic segments were investigated at three different pulse rates. The same aortic segments were also subjected to quasi-static pressure tests in order to identify the aortic dynamic stiffness ratio, which is defined as the ratio between the stiffness in case of pulsatile pressure and the stiffness measured for static pressurization, both at the same value of pressure. The loss factor was also identified. The shape of the deformed aorta under static and dynamic pressure was measured by image processing to verify the compatibility of the end supports with the natural deformation of the aorta in the human body. In addition, layer-specific experiments on 10 human descending thoracic aortas allowed to precisely identify the mass density of the aortic tissue, which is an important parameter in cardiovascular dynamic models.