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Selenium (Se) respiration in bacteria was revealed for the first time at the end of 1980s. Although thermodynamically-favorable, energy-dense and documented in phylogenetically-diverse bacteria, this metabolic process appears to be accompanied by a number of challenges and numerous unanswered questions. Selenium oxyanions, SeO42- and SeO32-, are reduced to elemental Se (Se0) through anaerobic respiration, the end product being solid and displaying a considerable size (up to 500 nm) at the bacterial scale. Compared to other electron acceptors used in anaerobic respiration (e.g. N, S, Fe, Mn, and As), Se is one of the few elements whose end product is solid. Furthermore, unlike other known bacterial intracellular accumulations such as volutin (inorganic polyphosphate), S0, glycogen or magnetite, Se0 has not been shown to play a nutritional or ecological role for its host. In the context of anaerobic respiration of Se oxyanions, biogenic Se0 appears to be a by-product, a waste that needs proper handling, and this raises the question of the evolutionary implications of this process. this website Why would bacteria use a respiratory substrate that is useful, in the first place, and then highly detrimental? Interestingly, in certain artificial ecosystems (e.g. upflow bioreactors) Se0 might help bacterial cells to increase their density and buoyancy and thus avoid biomass wash-out, ensuring survival. This review article provides an in-depth analysis of selenium respiration (model selenium respiring bacteria, thermodynamics, respiratory enzymes, and genetic determinants), complemented by an extensive discussion about the evolutionary implications and the properties of biogenic Se0 using published and original/unpublished results.A C-nucleoside derivative of phenylpyridine or the respective palladacycle was incorporated at either 3'- or 5'-terminus of a short oligodeoxynucleotide. Hybridization properties of these modified oligonucleotides were studied in a fluorescence-based competition assay in addition to conventional UV melting temperature analysis and compared with those of a previously prepared analogue featuring the modified nucleoside in the middle of the sequence. With the unpalladated phenylpyridine oligonucleotides, UV melting temperature qualitatively correlated with the ability to displace a strand from a double helix in the competition assay, decreasing in the order 5' > 3' > middle. Corresponding results on the palladacyclic oligonucleotides were more difficult to interpret but both UV melting and competition experiments revealed a decrease in the duplex stability upon palladation in most cases. On the other hand, dependence of the UV melting temperature on the identity of the canonical nucleobase opposite to the modified nucleobase analogue was much more pronounced with the palladacyclic duplexes than with their unpalladated counterparts. Furthermore, UV melting profiles of the palladacyclic duplexes featured an additional transition at a temperature exceeding the melting temperature of the unmodified part of the duplex. Taken together, these results lend support to the idea of Pd(II)-mediated base pairs that are highly stable but incompatible with the geometry of a double helix.Sweden has a population-based mammography screening programme for women aged 40-74. The objective of this study was to examine the association between mammography screening attendance and sociodemographic factors in 15 of Sweden's 21 health care regions. Register-based information was collected on all mammography screening invitations and attendance during 2017 and 2018, and linked to individual-level sociodemographic data from Statistics Sweden. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for attendance were computed by sociodemographic factor. The study sample included 1.5 million women, aged 40-75, with an overall screening attendance of 81.3%. The lowest odds of attending were found for women living without a partner (OR = 0.52, 95% CI 0.52-0.53), low-income women (OR = 0.57, 95% CI 0.56-0.57), and non-Nordic women born in Europe (OR = 0.60, 95% CI 0.59-0.61). Other groups with lower odds of attending were women whose main source of income was social assistance or benefits (OR = 0.62, 95% CI 0.62-0.63), those not owning their home (OR = 0.66, 95% CI 0.66-0.67), and those with low level of education (OR = 0.72, 95% CI 0.71-0.73). Having multiple of these sociodemographic characteristics further lowered the odds of attending. Although overall mammography screening attendance in Sweden is high, sociodemographic inequalities exist, and efforts should be made to address these. Particular attention should be given to low-income women who live without a partner.In this paper, we aim to solve the optimal tracking control problem for a class of nonaffine discrete-time systems with actuator saturation. First, a data-based neural identifier is constructed to learn the unknown system dynamics. Then, according to the expression of the trained neural identifier, we can obtain the steady control corresponding to the reference trajectory. Next, by involving the iterative dual heuristic dynamic programming algorithm, the new costate function and the tracking control law are developed. Two other neural networks are used to estimate the costate function and approximate the tracking control law. Considering approximation errors of neural networks, the stability analysis of the proposed algorithm for the specific systems is provided by introducing the Lyapunov approach. Finally, via conducting simulation and comparison, the superiority of the developed optimal tracking method is confirmed. Moreover, the trajectory tracking performance of the wastewater treatment application is also involved for further verifying the proposed approach.
This study aims to determine the relationship between smartphone use among intern nursing students, fear of missing out and their care-related behaviour.
Today, smartphone use is common and fear of missing out is a prominent issue in our society; this behaviour and issue are linked and may lead to adverse consequences.
The study is conducted as a cross-sectional design.
The target population in this research consists of senior nursing students (n = 101). There was no sampling selection and the study was completed with 97 students who agreed to participate in the research. Data were collected with introductory questionnaire forms, the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS), the Fear of Missing Out Scale (FoMOs) and the Caring Assessment Questionnaire (Care-Q). The valid and reliable SAS, FoMOs and Care-Q were transformed into online forms and the link was distributed to the participants via online Google forms.
Based on the results of the study, the mean scores were 83.30 ± 2.21 of SAS, 21.56 ± 6.42 for FOMOs and 5.
