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This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.We demonstrate that trimethylamine borane can exhibit desirable piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties. The material was shown to be able operate as a flexible film for both thermal sensing, thermal energy conversion and mechanical sensing with high open circuit voltages (>10 V). A piezoelectric coefficient of d33 ≈10-16 pC N-1 , and pyroelectric coefficient of p≈25.8 μC m-2  K-1 were achieved after poling, with high pyroelectric figure of merits for sensing and harvesting, along with a relative permittivity of ϵ 33 σ ≈ 6.3. © 2020 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.So far, over 50 spontaneous male sterile mutants of tomato have been described and most of them are categorized as genetic male sterility. Until now, the mechanism of tomato genetic male sterility remained unclear. In this study, differential proteomic analysis was performed between genetic male sterile line (2-517), which carries the male sterility (ms1035 ) gene, and its wild type (VF-11) using an isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ)-based strategy. A total of 8272 proteins were quantified in the 2-517 and VF-11 lines at the floral bud and florescence stages. These proteins are involved in different cellular and metabolic processes, which express obvious functional tendencies toward the hydroxylation of the ω-carbon in fatty acids, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the glycolytic and pentose phosphate pathways. SNX-2112 solubility dmso Based on our results, a protein network explaining the mechanisms of tomato genetic male sterility was proposed, finding the compromising fat acid metabolism may cause the male sterility. These results were confirmed by parallel reaction monitoring (PRM), qRT-PCR and physiological assays. Taken together, these results provide new insights into the metabolic pathway of anther abortion induced by ms1035 and offer useful clues to identify the crucial proteins involved in genetic male sterility in tomato. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.The scoping review is one of the alternatives of producing a literature review. However, this approach still lacks a clearly accepted definition, and the scoping terminology is also somewhat fuzzy. Although the methodology of scoping review processing is relatively uniform, terminological chaos appears in the titles of studies with scoping review methodology. This paper presents an analysis of selected published studies with a focus on the content of their titles. A total of 13 thematic dimensions were identified covering the content of titles that show a degree of inconsistency and frequent terminological and methodological "chaos." This study includes a broad scope of themes and areas for which scoping reviews were produced. We would like to recommend to authors (especially scoping review beginners) to - if not necessary or desirable - avoid introducing new concepts and specifications of titles of produced and published scoping review studies. In the case of literature reviews and knowledge synthesis it is necessary to search according to specific keywords and search phrases - more fragmented scoping review terminology makes literature search more difficult or even impossible. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.BACKGROUND Chronic nasal congestion affects 20% of the population with significant impact on quality of life. This study investigated the simultaneous administration of nasal acoustic vibration and oscillating expiratory pressure for the treatment of nasal congestion. METHODS Patients with chronic nasal congestion but without fixed anatomic obstruction participated in a prospective clinical study applying simultaneous acoustic vibrations and positive expiratory pressure to the nasal cavity twice daily over 5 weeks. Safety was assessed by rhinoscopy and patient questionnaires. Efficacy was assessed using peak nasal inspiratory flow (PNIF), visual analogue scale (VAS) of nasal symptoms, Total Nasal Symptom Score (TNSS), Nasal Obstruction and Septoplasty Effectiveness (NOSE) score, and the 22-item Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22). RESULTS Forty patients (mean age 39 years, 65% female) completed the study with no adverse effects. At the 2 week follow-up, PNIF improved by 25.0 L/min (31% increase from baseline, p less then 0.001). At the 5 week follow-up, nasal congestion VAS improved from mean ± SD of 5.8 ± 2.4 to 2.6 ± 2.3, TNSS improved from 7.2 ± 3.5 to 3.5 ± 3.1, NOSE improved from 50.4 ± 19.9 to 23.3 ± 17.2, and SNOT-22 improved from 31.7 ± 20.3 to 14.2 ± 12.7, all p less then 0.001. Eighty percent of patients would use the device again and 87.5% would recommend to others. CONCLUSION Simultaneous administration of acoustic vibration and oscillating expiratory pressure appears to be a safe treatment for chronic nasal congestion. Results from this initial study are promising with regard to efficacy but will require further study. © 2020 The Authors. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy and American Rhinologic Society.Excess/unreacted lead iodide (PbI2 ) has been commonly used in perovskite films for the state-of-the-art solar cell applications. However, an understanding of intrinsic degradation mechanisms of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) containing unreacted PbI2 has been still insufficient and, therefore, needs to be clarified for better operational durability. Here, it is shown that degradation of PSCs is hastened by unreacted PbI2 crystals under continuous light illumination. Unreacted PbI2 undergoes photodecomposition under illumination, resulting in the formation of lead and iodine in films. Thus, this photodecomposition of PbI2 is one of the main reasons for accelerated device degradation. Therefore, this work reveals that carefully controlling the formation of unreacted PbI2 crystals in perovskite films is very important to improve device operational stability for diverse opto-electronic applications in the future. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.