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Heavy metal pollution in marine environment poses a severe threat to the safety of marine products and is thus causing increasingly concerns in terms of their toxicity and potential health risks pose to human. Due to the complex matrix of marine products, a fast screening method for heavy metals at trace level with low price, reusability, high accuracy and long lifetime is of urgency and necessity for consumers and processing factories. This work described a simplified screening system through the preparation, characterization and particular application of Au nano particle sensor (AuNPS) in the complex marine matrix, the main aim is to significantly increase the stability, sensitivity and lifetime of detection system dedicated to Cu and Hg trace analysis in marine products. It is worth mentioning that, the proposed screening system was characterized through electrochemical experiments and theoretical calculations, which could be a new evidence for selecting the detection system in commercially complex samplesdard analytical methods.

Peru has a public health problem because of asbestos imports. We analyzed the mortality trends for mesothelioma in Peru and its provinces from 2005 to 2014 and estimated their relationship with the amount of asbestos imported previously.

We computed age-standardized mortality rates (ASMRs) per 100,000 population (direct method and SEGI world standard population reference), and the standardized mortality ratio (SMR). The relationship between the amount of asbestos imported annually along the period 1965-2010 and the number of mesothelioma deaths per year from 2005 to 2014 was estimated by log-linear Poisson regression models and Pearson correlation calculations.

After correcting the number of deaths, Peru registered 428 cases (or 430 when corrected cases are rounded by sex) between 2005 and 2014. The highest ASMRs were in Arequipa and Callao (range 0.40-0.41/100,000 population), followed by Huancavelica (0.36/100,000 population). This translates into approximately one death per each 68-111 of asbestos tons imported. The latency period for the higher level of positive correlation found was 8 years (r = 0.8). Male female sex ratio was lower in provinces such as Junin and Hunacavelica with geological asbestos risk.

Two patterns of mesothelioma risk have been detected, occupational and environmental. During the 2002-2006 years, Peru increased the asbestos use. If crocidolite imports were also increased, this could be behind the 8 years latency period detected. Peru should boost strategies towards the total ban of all forms of asbestos.

Two patterns of mesothelioma risk have been detected, occupational and environmental. During the 2002-2006 years, Peru increased the asbestos use. Linifanib If crocidolite imports were also increased, this could be behind the 8 years latency period detected. Peru should boost strategies towards the total ban of all forms of asbestos.The interaction between sugars and water molecules plays a crucial role in exploring the complex metabolic reactions of living systems. The fully random conformational search is employed to investigate the first hydration shell structure of glucose. The circumference of glucose is divided into three hydrate sites according to the location of water molecules. Especially, four water molecules can saturate hydrate site AI and while more water molecules will be required to saturate hydrate sites AIII and AII. Moreover, the hydration energies of water molecules at different hydration region indicate that the competition of the three hydrate sites for water molecules changes dynamically with the increase of water molecules. In addition, we calculate the Raman spectra of the hydrated glucose, which are in good agreement with the experimental and theoretical Raman spectra of the glucose solution.

Thermoresponsive polymers are important materials for various applications. However, the number of polymers that exhibit this property in the temperature range of interest remains limited. The development of novel rational design strategies through the understanding of the thermal transition's origin is therefore of utmost importance.

Bisurea-functionalized water-soluble polymers were synthesized by RAFT polymerization. After direct dissolution in water, the supramolecular assemblies were analyzed by cryo-TEM and SANS. Their temperature-dependent water-solubility was characterized by various techniques, namely DLS, SANS, DSC, IR, to understand the origin of the temperature sensitivity.

The supramolecular assemblies exhibit an unexpected temperature-dependent solubility. For instance, a cloud point of only 39°C was measured for poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) assemblies. This property is not restricted to one specific polymer but is rather a general feature of bisurea-functionalized polymers that form supraic effect. The second transition is related to the dissociation of intermolecular bisurea hydrogen bonds. Finally, we show that it is possible to widely tune the cloud point temperature through the formation of co-assemblies.Cooperation in human groups is challenging, and various mechanisms are required to sustain it, although it nevertheless usually decays over time. Here, we perform theoretically informed experiments involving networks of humans (1,024 subjects in 64 networks) playing a public-goods game to which we sometimes added autonomous agents (bots) programmed to use only local knowledge. We show that cooperation can not only be stabilized, but even promoted, when the bots intervene in the partner selections made by the humans, re-shaping social connections locally within a larger group. Cooperation rates increased from 60.4% at baseline to 79.4% at the end. This network-intervention strategy outperformed other strategies, such as adding bots playing tit-for-tat. We also confirm that even a single bot can foster cooperation in human groups by using a mixed strategy designed to support the development of cooperative clusters. Simple artificial intelligence can increase the cooperation of groups.An important viromics challenge is associating bacteriophages to hosts. To address this, we developed adsorption sequencing (AdsorpSeq), a readily implementable method to measure phages that are preferentially adsorbed to specific host cell envelopes. AdsorpSeq thus captures the key initial infection cycle step. Phages are added to cell envelopes, adsorbed phages are isolated through gel electrophoresis, after which adsorbed phage DNA is sequenced and compared with the full virome. Here, we show that AdsorpSeq allows for separation of phages based on receptor-adsorbing capabilities. Next, we applied AdsorpSeq to identify phages in a wastewater virome that adsorb to cell envelopes of nine bacteria, including important pathogens. We detected 26 adsorbed phages including common and rare members of the virome, a minority being related to previously characterized phages. We conclude that AdsorpSeq is an effective new tool for rapid characterization of environmental phage adsorption, with a proof-of-principle application to Gram-negative host cell envelopes.