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To investigate the effect of magnetic field on the electrochemical corrosion behavior of X70 pipeline steel and the effect of magnetic field on the corrosion behavior of X70 steel after immersed in Kuerle soil simulation solution, the electrochemical corrosion behavior of pipeline steel under different magnetic field strengths, directions and the presence or absence of product films was analyzed by electrochemical tests, immersion tests and metallographic analysis. Results showed that as the magnetic field strength increased, the corrosion rate of X70 steel first increased and then decreased. Changing the direction of the magnetic field had no significant effect on the electrochemical corrosion behavior of X70 steel. The corrosion trend of X70 pipeline steel was the same in both cases after immersed for 3 and 5 d, respectively, and the corrosion rate increased with the increase of external magnetic field. Moreover, the adsorption resistance of X70 steel with a product film on its surface was higher than that without a product film, and the X70 steel with the product film exhibited lower corrosion current density and lighter corrosion degree. However, different immersing times had little effect on the corrosion current density.

Organic pollution of agricultural land will cause environmental problems and agricultural economic effects. To explore the reliable effect of remediation of organic pollution in agricultural land, wheat straw biochar was prepared in this paper. Moreover, this paper uses experimental research and comparison methods to study the difference in the adsorption performance of biochar at different pyrolysis temperatures on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and the effect of pyrolysis biochar on the availability of phenanthrene and pyrene microorganisms in the soil at the same temperature. Additionally, statistical methods are utilised in this research to do analytics and data processing on test data, and test findings are visually displayed using a combination of graphs and tables. Finally, to understand the experimental research findings, this system employs analytical approaches. The results of the experiment show that wheat straw biochar can effectively reduce soil organic pollution, which can expand the research on the restoration of other crop straw biochar on agricultural land.

Spectral interference from backgrounds is not negligible for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) tags and often influences the accuracy and reliability of SERS applications. We report the design and synthesis of orthogonal gap-enhanced Raman tags (O-GERTs) by embedding alkyne and deuterium-based reporters in the interior metallic nanogaps of core–shell nanoparticles and explore their signal orthogonality as optical probes against different backgrounds from common substrates and media (e.g., glass and polymer) to related targets (e.g., bacteria, cancer cells, and tissues). Proof-of-concept experiments show that the O-GERT signals in the fingerprint region (200–1800 cm−1) are likely interfered by various backgrounds, leading to difficulty of accurate quantification, while the silent-region (1800–2800 cm−1) signals are completely interference-free. Moreover, O-GERTs show much higher photo and biological stability compared to conventional SERS tags. This work not only demonstrates O-GERTs as universal optical tags for accurate and reliable detection onto various substrates and in complex media, but also opens new opportunities in a variety of frontier applications, such as three-dimensional data storage and security labeling.

This article presents the numerical solutions of nonlinear stochastic It o∧–Volterra integral equations by using the basis function method under the global Lipschitz condition. Integral operator matrixes of triangular functions are used to convert the nonlinear stochastic integral equations into a system of algebraic equations. Meanwhile, we gain the error of the current method, and it is demonstrated that the error accuracy of this method is higher than that of the BPFs. In the end, the feasibility, accuracy, and validity of the current method are demonstrated by numerical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lysosome, the digestive organelle in eukaryotic cells, plays an important role in the degradation and recirculation of cellular products as well as in maintaining the stability of cellular metabolic microenvironment. Surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a molecular fingerprint technology with high detection sensitivity and photostability, suited for revealing various intracellular molecular information by inducing endocytosis of SERS‐active nanoparticles. However, it remains challenging to selectively extract the molecular information of specific organelles (e.g., lysosomes) from a high‐dimensional spectral set. Herein, we proposed a novel paradigm by combining label‐free SERS spectroscopy with confocal fluorescence imaging to investigate the digestion behavior of lysosomes in cells. The structural similarity algorithm was innovatively introduced and exhibited its effectiveness in screening out the wavenumbers in the SERS spectral set with high correlation with the metabolic behaviors of lysosomes. With comprehensive experiments on HeLa single cells, we captured the intracellular macromolecular digestion phenomenon and discovered the changing pattern of cellular SERS spectra after starvation‐induced autophagy, and analyzed the molecular information within the lysosomes in three‐dimensional space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pedestrian trajectory prediction based on vision is a popular task in autopilot system. As pedestrian trajectories always cross each other, pedestrian targets will frequently obscure each other, which makes the collected pedestrian trajectories produce errors. Moreover, the interaction between pedestrians will have an impact on their trajectories in crowded areas, which leads to great challenge in trajectory prediction. In order to solve the above two problems, a pedestrian trajectory prediction method is proposed. Based on the YOLOv7 algorithm, it is connected with the StrongSORT algorithm. Then adding a feature recognition (ReID) module to the model, the problem of target switching and jumping in the process of pedestrian tracking can be solved. The dot product attention mechanism is also integrated into the long short term memory (LSTM) algorithm, the improved LSTM correlate target position and distance information for the pedestrian trajectory prediction. Extensive experiments on three most challenging datasets showed that this method improves the performance and largely reduces the model size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The detection of deep‐seated lesions is of great significance for biomedical applications. However, due to the strong photon absorption and scattering of biological tissues, it is challenging to realize in vivo deep optical detections, particularly for those using the safe laser irradiance below clinical maximum permissible exposure (MPE). In this work, the combination of ultra‐bright surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) nanotags and transmission Raman spectroscopy (TRS) is reported to achieve the non‐invasive and photosafe detection of "phantom" lesions deeply hidden in biological tissues, under the guidance of theoretical calculations showing the importance of SERS nanotags' brightness and the expansion of laser beam size. Using a home‐built TRS system with a laser power density of 0.264 W cm−2 (below the MPE criteria), we successfully demonstrated the detection of SERS nanotags through up to 14‐cm‐thick ex vivo porcine tissues, as well as in vivo imaging of "phantom" lesions labeled by SERS nanotags in a 1.5‐cm‐thick unshaved mouse under MPE. This work highlights the potential of transmission Raman‐guided identification and non‐invasive imaging toward clinically photosafe cancer diagnoses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]