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In the current era of technological explosion, applications are widely adopted and continuously improved, significantly impacting the education sector and creating a high demand for training within educational institutions. This manuscript identifies technological factors influencing communication quality at Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry and Trade, with broader implications for enhancing communication strategies in other educational and public sector organizations. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, the study involved in-depth interviews with experts and a survey of 582 students, utilizing descriptive statistics, reliability testing, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and regression on SPSS 20.0 software. The proposed model includes five factors: Application Utility, Digital Transformation Enhancement, Practical Flexibility, Technological Trends, and Technology 4.0 Experience. Results show these factors positively support the school's brand and communication quality.

The detoxification of lethal organophosphate (OP) residues in the environment is crucial to prevent human exposure and protect modern society. Despite serving as excellent catalysts for OP degradation, natural enzymes require costly preparation and readily deactivate upon exposure to environmental conditions. Herein, we designed and prepared a series of phosphotriesterase mimics based on stable, self-assembled peptoid membranes to overcome these limitations of the enzymes and effectively catalyze the hydrolysis of dimethyl p-nitrophenyl phosphate (DMNP)─a nerve agent simulant. By covalently attaching metal-binding ligands to peptoid N-termini, we attained enzyme mimetics in the form of surface-functionalized crystalline nanomembranes. These nanomembranes display a precisely controlled arrangement of coordinated metal ions, which resemble the active sites found in phosphotriesterases to promote DMNP hydrolysis. Moreover, using these highly programmable peptoid nanomembranes allows for tuning the local chemical environment of the coordinated metal ion to achieve enhanced hydrolysis activity. Among the crystalline membranes that are active for DMNP degradation, those assembled from peptoids containing bis-quinoline ligands with an adjacent phenyl side chain showed the highest hydrolytic activity with a 219-fold rate acceleration over the background, demonstrating the important role of the hydrophobic environment in proximity to the active sites. Furthermore, these membranes exhibited remarkable stability and were able to retain their catalytic activity after heating to 60 °C and after multiple uses. This work provides insights into the principal features to construct a new class of biomimetic materials with high catalytic efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and reusability applied in nerve agent detoxification.

Sharing economy models are expanding and making substantial contributions to economic transitions and quality of life globally. This has been made possible mainly because of the development of information and communication technologies. Vietnam – an emerging economy with high technology adaptability – cannot escape the inevitable global trend by which sharing economy models – mainly Uber, Grab and Airbnb – have recently made a significant appearance throughout the country to meet the high demand for transportation or to enhance individuals’ quality of life. We employ a rich set of quantitative techniques, such as logit and probit estimations and propose that eight antecedents of customer intention to use Uber/Grab services exist, including gender, age, living costs, distance, utility of Uber/Grab, dissemination of Uber/Grab, tendency to use Uber/Grab from relatives and the community and attractiveness of public and private transport. This study provides new empirical evidence on customer behaviour within the context of new technological infrastructure. Hence, based on the findings of the paper, we propose recommendations for stimulating and enhancing the development of Uber/Grab services in Vietnam.

Rising levels of greenhouse gases, particularly CO2, pose severe threats to ecological and economic systems. Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCUS) has emerged as a vital strategy to mitigate these effects. Among various sorbent materials, ionic liquids (ILs) are increasingly recognized for their unique properties such as structural tunability, strong CO2affinity, and nonvolatility, making them promising alternatives to conventional solvents in separation and purification processes. This review thoroughly examines the latest advancements in IL-based sorbents for CO2capture and utilization. It explores the design and optimization of conventional, functionalized, and supported ILs, discussing the critical factors that influence their CO2sorption performance. The paper emphasizes the transformative role of ILs in converting CO2into cyclic carbonates and presents effective strategies for greenhouse gas reduction. Additionally, it integrates process simulation insights, combining computational predictions with experimental validation to optimize the design and efficiency of these processes on an industrial scale. This holistic approach not only enhances the understanding of CO2/ILs processes among researchers but also bridges the gap between laboratory research and industrial application, thereby improving the feasibility and sustainability of IL-based technologies.

El cierre percutáneo de orejuela izquierda (COI) se ha establecido como una alternativa no farmacológica para la prevención de eventos tromboembólicos en pacientes con fibrilación auricular no valvular. Hay pocos datos sobre las readmisiones después del COI. El objetivo de este estudio es determinar la tasa de readmisiones tempranas (≤30 días) y tardías (31-365 días) después del COI, y evaluar los predictores y el impacto clínico de las rehospitalizaciones.

Cryptorchidism or undescended testis is one of the most common pediatric disorders of the male endocrine glands and the most typical congenital abnormality identified at birth. Bilateral cryptorchidism is frequently associated with azoospermia and male infertility. The standard therapy is the surgical repositioning of the testes (orchidopexy) within the scrotal sac after the age of six months to eighteen months. Current findings suggest that no sperm is recovered in the ejaculate, for patients with bilateral cryptorchidism, when the mean age at the time of orchidopexy is around 16 years and above. Here we report an unusual case of an adult patient with bilateral cryptorchidism and non-obstructive azoospermia for which orchidopexy resulted in the recovery of sperm in the ejaculate, improving his options for future fertility treatment.

Climate change impacts ocean nutrient availability and will likely alter the marine food web. While climate models predict decreased average ocean productivity, the extent of these changes, especially in the marginal seas upon which large human populations depend, is not well understood. Here, we reconstructed changes in seawater phosphate concentration and nitrate source over the past 400 years, which reveals a more than 50% decline in residence time of seawater phosphate, and 8%–48% decline in subsurface nitrogen supply following the coldest period of Little Ice Age. Our data indicates a link between surface ocean nutrient supply and the East Asian Summer Monsoon strength in an economically important marginal sea. As climate models predict that the East Asian Summer monsoon will strengthen in the future, our study implies that surface ocean primary productivity may increase in the South China Sea, contrary to the predicted decrease in global average ocean productivity. Global climate models predict that surface ocean nutrient concentrations will significantly decrease over the next 100 years as our climate changes. However, in the world's marginal seas, which human populations depend on most heavily for food security, the surface ocean biogeochemical changes are still difficult to predict with global‐scale models. Here, using coral‐based paleoclimate proxies, we reconstruct changes to surface phosphate concentration and to sources of surface nitrogen over the past four centuries in the South China Sea (SCS). Combined with box model simulations, our data reveal a more than 50% decline in phosphate residence time and an 8%–48% decline in subsurface nitrate supply from the 1600s to present. Such a decline implies a significant decrease in primary productivity and likely a community shift toward nitrogen‐fixing phytoplankton. Importantly, our data indicate that the decrease in nutrient supply was driven by weakened monsoon‐induced upwelling, demonstrating strong ties between nutrient supply and monsoon strength in the SCS. Climate change is predicted to strengthen the East Asian Summer Monsoon, and our results suggest that primary productivity in this economically important region may increase, contrary to the widely predicted decreases in average global ocean productivity. Coral skeletal phosphorus content with scattered nitrogen isotopes is reconstructed over the past 400 yearsNutrient supply declined up to 48% since the Little Ice Age in the western South China SeaThe coral record from links nutrient supply to monsoon wind, implying higher productivity under a stronger monsoon in the future Coral skeletal phosphorus content with scattered nitrogen isotopes is reconstructed over the past 400 years Nutrient supply declined up to 48% since the Little Ice Age in the western South China Sea The coral record from links nutrient supply to monsoon wind, implying higher productivity under a stronger monsoon in the future

The dry reforming of methane is a potential solution to mitigate the global warming effect. In this study, the effects of various preparation methods including the impregnation, coprecipitation, and combined coprecipitation-impregnation on physical characteristics and DRM catalytic performance of Ni-CeO2-Al2O3were investigated. The synthetic procedure was discovered to have a crucial role in the basicity and reducibility, as well as nickel dispersion of catalyst. With affordable basicity and high reducibility, the combination of coprecipitation-impregnation exhibited the best performance with CH4and CO2steady-state conversions of 72% and 82%, respectively. Moreover, the deactivation of catalysts was also studied. The formation of low graphitic type showed less harmful to catalyst.

The utilization of lignin as a source of phenolic compounds requires highly efficient and selective depolymerization catalysts. Herein, lignin depolymerization was investigated over Ni2P catalysts supported on nitrogen-doped activated carbon (Ni2P/AC_N). The catalysts were prepared by an incipient wetness co-impregnation method followed by reduction with H2gas. The presence of nitrogen-containing functional groups on the activated carbon surface resulted in the dispersion of Ni2P particles. The good distribution and small crystal size of Ni2P significantly increased the active surface area, which enhanced both the catalytic activity and phenol selectivity. Investigations of the catalytic activity at different reaction temperatures and lignin-to-catalyst ratios using pyrolysis–gas chromatography/mass spectrometry revealed that the highest phenol selectivity of 80% was achieved using the Ni2P/AC_N25% catalyst. The proposed reaction mechanism involves lignin depolymerization via C–O and C–C cleavage with subsequent phenol formation by demethoxylation. Owing to its high phenol selectivity, the Ni2P/AC_N catalyst has good potential for the transformation of lignin to phenol.