The observed Raman bands at 390, 275, and 220 cm-1 were weak; therefore, the obtained films exhibited a low level of nylon 6 polymerization and short-distance arrangement, indicating crystal symmetry and interchain interactions. The mechanical properties of the nylon-on-diamond were determined by a nanoindentation test in multiload mode. Increasing the maximum load during the nanoindentation test resulted in a decreased hardness of the fabricated structure. The integration of freestanding diamond nanosheets will make it possible to design flexible chemical multielectrode sensors.Ba2SiO4-δN2/3δEu2+ (BSONEu2+) materials with different N3- contents were successfully prepared and characterized. Rietveld refinements showed that N3- ions were partially substituted for the O2- ions in the SiO4-tetrahedra because the bond lengths of Si‒(O,N) (average value = 1.689 Å) were slightly elongated compared with those of Si‒O (average value = 1.659 Å), which resulted in the minute compression of the Ba(2)‒O bond lengths from 2.832 to 2.810 Å. The average N3- contents of BSONEu2+ phosphors were determined from 100 nm to 2000 nm depth of grain using a secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) 0.064 (synthesized using 100% α-Si3N4), 0.035 (using 50% α-Si3N4 and 50% SiO2), and 0.000 (using 100% SiO2). Infrared (IR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements corroborated the Rietveld refinements the new IR mode at 850 cm-1 (Si‒N stretching vibration) and the binding energy at 98.6 eV (Si-2p) due to the N3- substitution. Furthermore, in UV-region, the absorbance of N3--substituted BSONEu2+ (synthesized using 100% α-Si3N4) phosphor was about two times higher than that of BSOEu2+ (using 100% SiO2). Owing to the N3- substitution, surprisingly, the photoluminescence (PL) and LED-PL intensity of BSONEu2+ (synthesized using 100% α-Si3N4) was about 5.0 times as high as that of BSOEu2+ (using 100% SiO2). The compressive strain estimated by the Williamson-Hall (W-H) method, was slightly increased with the higher N3- content in the host-lattice of Ba2SiO4, which warranted that the N3- ion plays an important role in the highly enhanced PL intensity of BSONEu2+ phosphor.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/enarodustat.html  These phosphor materials could be a bridgehead for developing new phosphors and application in white NUV-LEDs field.Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is a more rapid and controllable method for plant propagation than traditional breeding methods. However, it often suffers from limited efficiency. SERK1 promotes SE in several plants, including pineapple (Ananas comosus L.). We investigate the embryonic cell-specific transcriptional regulation of AcSERK1 by methylation analysis of CpG islands in AcSERK1 regulatory sequences. This revealed differences in the methylation status of CpG islands between embryonic callus and non-embryonic callus; the methylation inhibitor 5-azaC increased AcSERK1 expression and also accelerated SE. These findings indicate that the expression of AcSERK1 is regulated epigenetically. This study lays the foundation for further analysis of epigenetic regulatory mechanisms that may enhance the efficiency of SE in pineapple and other plants.BACKGROUND Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is a syndrome characterized by a rapid decline in renal function that often causes end-stage renal disease. Although it is important to predict renal outcome in RPGN before initiating immunosuppressive therapies, no simple prognostic indicator has been reported. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) to renal outcomes in patients with RPGN. METHODS Forty-four patients with a clinical diagnosis of RPGN who underwent renal biopsy were enrolled. The relationships between NLR and PLR and renal outcome after 1 year were investigated. RESULTS NLR and PLR were significantly higher in patients with preserved renal function in comparison to patients who required maintenance hemodialysis (p less then 0.05 and p less then 0.01, respectively). An NLR of 4.0 and a PLR of 137.7 were the cutoff values for renal outcome (area under the curve, 0.782 and 0.819; sensitivity, 78.4% and 89.2%; specificity, 71.4% and 71.4%, respectively). Furthermore, an NLR of 5.0 could predict recovery from renal injury in patients requiring hemodialysis (area under the curve, 0.929; sensitivity, 83.3%; specificity, 85.7%). CONCLUSION NLR and PLR could be candidates for predicting renal outcomes in patients with RPGN.In paleoecological studies, molecular markers are being used increasingly often to reconstruct community structures, environmental conditions and ecosystem changes. In this work, nodularin, anabaenopeptins and selected DNA sequences were applied as Nodularia spumigena markers to reconstruct the history of the cyanobacterium in the Norwegian fjords. For the purpose of this study, three sediment cores collected in Oslofjorden, Trondheimsfjorden and Balsfjorden were analyzed. The lack of nodularin in most recent sediments is consistent with the fact that only one report on the sporadic occurrence and low amounts of the cyanobacterium in Norwegian Fjords in 1976 has been published. However, analyses of species-specific chemical markers in deep sediments showed that thousands of years ago, N. spumigena constituted an important component of the phytoplankton community. The content of the markers in the cores indicated that the biomass of the cyanobacterium increased during the warmer Holocene periods. The analyses of genetic markers were less conclusive; they showed the occurrence of microcystin/nodularin producing cyanobacteria of Nostocales order, but they did not allow for the identification of the organisms at a species level.This paper presents the development of a lightweight and low-power Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to detect buried landmines in harsh terrain, using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Despite the fact that GPR airborne systems have been already used for a while, there has yet been no focus on the UAV autonomy, which depends on the payload itself. Therefore, the contribution of this work is the introduction of a lightweight and low-power consumption GPR system, which is based on the Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave (SFCW) radar principle. The Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver represents an improved implementation of the super-heterodyne architecture, which currently offers higher sensitivity. This is achieved by combining analog and digital processing techniques. The experimental results showed that the developed system can detect both metallic and plastic buried targets. Target detection with a scanning height up to about 0.5 m shows good applicability in an unstructured, harsh environment, which is typical of mined terrain.