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"abstract": "Genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions and constraint-based analyses are powerful methods that have the potential to make functional predictions about microbial communities. Genome-scale metabolic networks are used to characterize the metabolic functions of microbial communities via several tec... | 238 |
37903278 | PMC10636363 | pmc | 755 | {
"abstract": "Significance In microbial communities, metabolic functions are distributed across interacting members, depending on the current environment. If the external environment changes, microbes remodel their metabolism. How are interactions consequentially adjusted? How is the growth of community members resu... | 2,440 |
39077733 | PMC11284109 | pmc | 757 | {
"abstract": "Bioelectrochemical systems offer unique opportunities to remove recalcitrant environmental pollutants in a net positive energy process, although it remains challenging because of the toxic character of such compounds. In this study, microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology was applied to investigate the be... | 9,493 |
36161690 | PMC9829402 | pmc | 759 | {
"abstract": "Summary Ester‐linked p ‐hydroxybenzoate occurs naturally in poplar lignin as pendent groups that can be released by mild alkaline hydrolysis. These ‘clip‐off’ phenolics can be separated from biomass and upgraded into diverse high‐value bioproducts. We introduced a bacterial chorismate pyruvate lyase g... | 9,122 |
38204088 | PMC10780097 | pmc | 760 | {
"abstract": "Ice formation and accumulation on surfaces has a negative impact in many different sectors and can even represent a potential danger. In this review, the latest advances and trends in icephobic coatings focusing on the importance of their durability are discussed, in an attempt to pave the roadmap from... | 2,821 |
24324575 | PMC3851020 | pmc | 761 | {
"abstract": "Coral bleaching is a significant contributor to the worldwide degradation of coral reefs and is indicative of the termination of symbiosis between the coral host and its symbiotic algae (dinoflagellate; Symbiodinium sp. complex), usually by expulsion or xenophagy (symbiophagy) of its dinoflagellates.... | 4,482 |
31097757 | PMC6522478 | pmc | 762 | {
"abstract": "Self-healing materials with the ability to partially or completely restore their mechanical properties by healing the damage inflicted on them have great potential for applications where there is no or only limited access available to conduct a repair. Here, we demonstrate a bio-inspired new design for... | 5,667 |
35542157 | PMC9082455 | pmc | 763 | {
"abstract": "The present work reported a simple and effective approach to fabricate a low-cost, self-cleaning and mechanically durable superhydrophobic coating. The coating was prepared by dip-coating certain substrates in an ethyl acetate suspension of silica nanoparticles (SiO 2 ), hydroxyl acrylic resin, cross-l... | 6,099 |
33452425 | PMC7810751 | pmc | 765 | {
"abstract": "The brick-and-mortar architecture of biological nacre has inspired the development of synthetic composites with enhanced fracture toughness and multiple functionalities. While the use of metals as the “mortar” phase is an attractive option to maximize fracture toughness of bulk composites, non-mechanic... | 8,345 |
23623045 | null | s2 | 768 | {
"abstract": "Next-generation biofuels must be compatible with current transportation infrastructure and be derived from environmentally sustainable resources that do not compete with food crops. Many bacterial species have unique properties advantageous to the production of such next-generation fuels. However, no s... | 249 |
29873717 | PMC5989612 | pmc | 769 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Microorganisms are the drivers of biogeochemical methane and nitrogen cycles. Essential roles of chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms in these cycles were predicted long before their identification. Dedicated enrichment procedures, metagenomics surveys and single-cell technologies have enabled... | 13,530 |
39050726 | PMC11267239 | pmc | 770 | {
"abstract": "The persistence of reef-building corals is threatened by macroalgal competitors leading to a major demographic bottleneck in coral recruitment. Whether parental effects exist under coral–algal competition and whether they influence offspring performance via microbiome alterations represent major gaps i... | 5,833 |
39248387 | PMC11558148 | pmc | 771 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) combine contact electrification and electrostatic induction effects to convert waste mechanical energy into electrical energy. As conventional devices contribute to electronic waste, TENGs based on ecofriendly and biocompatible materials have been developed... | 2,017 |
30833729 | PMC6453112 | pmc | 772 | {
"abstract": "Methanogenesis is an ancient metabolism of key ecological relevance, with direct impact on the evolution of Earth’s climate. Recent results suggest that the diversity of methane metabolisms and their derivations have probably been vastly underestimated. Here, by probing thousands of publicly available ... | 6,939 |
23673639 | PMC3878185 | pmc | 774 | {
"abstract": "OP9 is a yet-uncultivated bacterial lineage found in geothermal systems, petroleum reservoirs, anaerobic digesters, and wastewater treatment facilities. Here we use single-cell and metagenome sequencing to obtain two distinct, nearly-complete OP9 genomes, one constructed from single cells sorted from h... | 1,824 |
23673639 | PMC3878185 | pmc | 774 | {
"abstract": "OP9 is a yet-uncultivated bacterial lineage found in geothermal systems, petroleum reservoirs, anaerobic digesters, and wastewater treatment facilities. Here we use single-cell and metagenome sequencing to obtain two distinct, nearly-complete OP9 genomes, one constructed from single cells sorted from h... | 1,824 |
23673639 | PMC3878185 | pmc | 775 | {
"abstract": "OP9 is a yet-uncultivated bacterial lineage found in geothermal systems, petroleum reservoirs, anaerobic digesters, and wastewater treatment facilities. Here we use single-cell and metagenome sequencing to obtain two distinct, nearly-complete OP9 genomes, one constructed from single cells sorted from h... | 1,824 |
23673639 | PMC3878185 | pmc | 775 | {
"abstract": "OP9 is a yet-uncultivated bacterial lineage found in geothermal systems, petroleum reservoirs, anaerobic digesters, and wastewater treatment facilities. Here we use single-cell and metagenome sequencing to obtain two distinct, nearly-complete OP9 genomes, one constructed from single cells sorted from h... | 1,824 |
29500185 | PMC5866589 | pmc | 776 | {
"abstract": "Significance Lignin valorization is critical for economic viability of future biorefineries but is hindered due to the challenges of engineered bio-chassis such as the slow kinetics of substrate uptake, aromatics toxicity, and cost. Here, an autoregulatory system involving a vanillin autoinducible prom... | 1,940 |
22347151 | PMC3270576 | pmc | 779 | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate bistable attractor dynamics in a spiking neural network implemented with neuromorphic VLSI hardware. The on-chip network consists of three interacting populations (two excitatory, one inhibitory) of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons. One excitatory population is distinguished by str... | 4,363 |
30453032 | null | s2 | 780 | {
"abstract": "Human functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data are acquired while participants engage in diverse perceptual, motor, cognitive, and emotional tasks. Although data are acquired temporally, they are most often treated in a quasi-static manner. Yet, a fuller understanding of the mechanisms that su... | 384 |
24939247 | PMC4061545 | pmc | 781 | {
"abstract": "This report discusses the electrical characteristics of two-terminal synaptic memory devices capable of demonstrating an analog change in conductance in response to the varying amplitude and pulse-width of the applied signal. The devices are based on Mn doped HfO 2 material. The mechanism behind recon... | 4,591 |
27058503 | PMC5030696 | pmc | 782 | {
"abstract": "Members of the candidate phylum Hyd24-12 are globally distributed, but no genomic information or knowledge about their morphology, physiology or ecology is available. In this study, members of the Hyd24-12 lineage were shown to be present and abundant in full-scale mesophilic anaerobic digesters at Dan... | 6,752 |
39882623 | PMC11784650 | pmc | 783 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are bioplastics produced by few bacteria as intracellular lipid inclusions under excess carbon source and nutrient-deprived conditions. These polymers are biodegradable and resemble petroleum-based plastics. The rising environmental concerns have increased the deman... | 2,578 |
30532651 | PMC6225455 | pmc | 785 | {
"abstract": "A major biological challenge in the postgenomic era has been untangling the composition and functions of microbes that inhabit complex communities or microbiomes. Multi-omics and modern bioinformatics have provided the tools to assay molecules across different cellular and community scales; however, me... | 1,127 |
25530008 | PMC4335971 | pmc | 787 | {
"abstract": "The anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is an important sink of methane that plays a significant role in global warming. AOM was first found to be coupled with sulfate reduction and mediated by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB). ANME, often forming consortia w... | 2,509 |
37469628 | null | s2 | 788 | {
"abstract": "The study of quorum sensing, bacterial cell-to-cell communication mediated by the production and detection of small molecule signals, has skyrocketed since its discovery in the last third of the 20th century. Building from early investigations of bacterial bioluminescence, the process has been characte... | 194 |
34199202 | PMC8231790 | pmc | 789 | {
"abstract": "We performed a comparative study on the Gaussian noise and memristance variation tolerance of three crossbar architectures, namely the complementary crossbar architecture, the twin crossbar architecture, and the single crossbar architecture, for neuromorphic image recognition and conducted an experimen... | 2,177 |
30679712 | PMC6345747 | pmc | 790 | {
"abstract": "Marine cleaning interactions have been useful model systems for exploring evolutionary game theory and explaining the stability of mutualism. In the Indo-Pacific, cleaner organisms will occasionally “cheat” and remove live tissue, clients use partner control mechanisms to maintain cleaner honesty, and ... | 5,612 |
30872585 | PMC6418196 | pmc | 791 | {
"abstract": "Materials with in situ reversible wettability have attractive properties but remain a challenge to use since the inverse process of liquid spreading is normally energetically unfavorable. Here, we propose a general electrochemical strategy that enables the in situ reversible superwetting transition bet... | 986 |
36594031 | PMC9804144 | pmc | 792 | {
"abstract": "Summary Biofilms are surface-attached multicellular microbial communities. Their genetics have been extensively studied, but the cell-scale morphogenetic events of their formation are largely unknown. Here, we recorded the entirety of morphogenesis in Escherichia coli , and discovered a previously unk... | 2,538 |
32680450 | null | s2 | 793 | {
"abstract": "Quorum sensing is a process in which bacteria secrete and sense a diffusible molecule, thereby enabling bacterial groups to coordinate their behavior in a density-dependent manner. Quorum sensing has evolved multiple times independently, utilizing different molecular pathways and signaling molecules. A... | 250 |
36950108 | PMC10025973 | pmc | 794 | {
"abstract": "Summary Neuromorphic computing is a promising computing paradigm toward building next-generation artificial intelligence machines, in which diverse types of synaptic plasticity play an active role in information processing. Compared to long-term plasticity (LTP) forming the foundation of learning and m... | 3,386 |
29713790 | PMC5959977 | pmc | 796 | {
"abstract": "The production of biogas by anaerobic digestion (AD) of agricultural residues, organic wastes, animal excrements, municipal sludge, and energy crops has a firm place in sustainable energy production and bio-economy strategies. Focusing on the microbial community involved in biomass conversion offers th... | 2,067 |
33614094 | PMC7890512 | pmc | 797 | {
"abstract": "Social insects are one of the best examples of complex self-organized systems exhibiting task allocation. How task allocation is achieved is the most fascinating question in behavioural ecology and complex systems science. However, it is difficult to comprehensively characterize task allocation pattern... | 4,966 |
37242908 | PMC10223960 | pmc | 798 | {
"abstract": "The extensive utilization of traditional petroleum-based plastics has resulted in significant damage to the natural environment and ecological systems, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable alternatives. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have emerged as promising bioplastics that can compete with pet... | 1,493 |
21541019 | PMC3081813 | pmc | 799 | {
"abstract": "Division of labour (DoL) is a fundamental organisational principle in human\nsocieties, within virtual and robotic swarms and at all levels of biological\norganisation. DoL reaches a pinnacle in the insect societies where the most\nwidely used model is based on variation in response thresholds among\ni... | 3,490 |
37599920 | PMC10433335 | pmc | 800 | {
"abstract": "Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) are self-healing\nprotective coatings that can be made by infiltration of a porous scaffold\nwith a chemically resistant oil. A popular method to apply a SLIPS\ncoating is using electrospinning to deposit a nanofiber mesh onto\nthe intended substrate. How... | 6,714 |
25365180 | PMC4264147 | pmc | 801 | {
"abstract": "In order to use cyanobacteria for the biological production of hydrogen, it is important to thoroughly study the function and the regulation of the hydrogen-production machine in order to better understand its role in the global cell metabolism and identify bottlenecks limiting H 2 production. Most of... | 2,578 |
30906420 | PMC6426328 | pmc | 802 | {
"abstract": "Biofilms are communities of bacteria adhered to surfaces. Recently, biofilms of rod-shaped bacteria were observed at single-cell resolution and shown to develop from a disordered, two-dimensional layer of founder cells into a three-dimensional structure with a vertically-aligned core. Here, we elucidat... | 1,129 |
40335917 | PMC12060303 | pmc | 804 | {
"abstract": "Background Low salinity is a crucial environmental stressor that affects estuarine coral ecosystems considerably. However, few studies have focused on the effects of low-salinity conditions on coral-associated microorganisms and the adaptability of coral holobionts. Methods We explored the community st... | 4,785 |
39915510 | PMC11802840 | pmc | 805 | {
"abstract": "Coral-associated microbes have essential roles in promoting and regulating host function and health. As climate change advances and other environmental perturbations increasingly impact corals, it is becoming ever more important that we understand the composition of the microbial communities hosted. Wi... | 4,368 |
39835901 | PMC7617349 | pmc | 806 | {
"abstract": "Significance Experiments have shown that when one plant is attacked by a herbivore, this can lead to other plants connected to the same mycorrhizal network up-regulating their defense mechanisms. It has been hypothesized that this represents signaling, with attacked plants producing a signal to warn ot... | 1,593 |
39763704 | PMC11702357 | pmc | 807 | {
"abstract": "Marine heatwaves are starting to occur several times a decade, yet we do not understand the effect this has on corals across biological scales. This study combines tissue-, organism-, and community-level analyses to investigate the effects of a marine heatwave on reef-building corals. Adjacent conspeci... | 5,866 |
39915603 | PMC11803100 | pmc | 808 | {
"abstract": "Mining activities produce a significant amount of gold mine tailings (GMT) rich in rare earth elements. Despite this, little information is available regarding the effective extraction of these precious elements from GMT. We describe a novel strategy for removing Pr, Ce, and Eu from GMT using Acidithi... | 9,708 |
38817912 | PMC11137280 | pmc | 809 | {
"abstract": "In this study, we explore spintronic synapses composed of several Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs), leveraging their attractive characteristics such as endurance, nonvolatility, stochasticity, and energy efficiency for hardware implementation of unsupervised neuromorphic systems. Spiking Neural Network... | 4,628 |
31720211 | PMC6838517 | pmc | 810 | {
"abstract": "Recent advances in metabolic engineering enable the production of high-value chemicals via expressing complex biosynthetic pathways in a single microbial host. However, many engineered strains suffer from poor product yields due to redox imbalance and excess metabolic burden, and require compartmentali... | 1,953 |
31921047 | PMC6929412 | pmc | 811 | {
"abstract": "Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell–cell communication mechanism among bacterial populations that is regulated through gene expression in response to cell density. The pathogenicity of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris ( Xcc ) is modulated by the diffusible signal factor (DSF)-mediated QS system. DSF... | 2,963 |
35208432 | PMC8879938 | pmc | 812 | {
"abstract": "In embedded neuromorphic Internet of Things (IoT) systems, it is critical to improve the efficiency of neural network (NN) edge devices in inferring a pretrained NN. Meanwhile, in the paradigm of edge computing, device integration, data retention characteristics and power consumption are particularly i... | 2,805 |
38360683 | PMC10870720 | pmc | 813 | {
"abstract": "Background Bioconversion of plant biomass into biofuels and bio-products produces large amounts of lignin. The aromatic biopolymers need to be degraded before being converted into value-added bio-products. Microbes can be environment-friendly and efficiently degrade lignin. Compared to fungi, bacteria ... | 11,479 |
39309514 | PMC11414745 | pmc | 817 | {
"abstract": "Superhydrophobic polyurethanes offer robust hydrophobicity and corrosion resistance. However, it is essential to consider the durability and environmental constraints associated with these materials. This study prepared a bio-based superhydrophobic polyurethane coating film using epoxidized soybean oil... | 5,719 |
35253476 | PMC9045482 | pmc | 818 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The success of tropical scleractinian corals depends on their ability to establish symbioses with microbial partners. Host phylogeny and traits are known to shape the coral microbiome, but to what extent they affect its composition remains unclear. Here, by using 12 coral species representing ... | 11,448 |
38306426 | PMC10836727 | pmc | 819 | {
"abstract": "Conductive hydrogels have a remarkable potential for applications in soft electronics and robotics, owing to their noteworthy attributes, including electrical conductivity, stretchability, biocompatibility, etc. However, the limited strength and toughness of these hydrogels have traditionally impeded t... | 8,366 |
35141504 | PMC8810406 | pmc | 820 | {
"abstract": "Summary The metabolic activity of microbial communities plays a primary role in the flow of essential nutrients throughout the biosphere. Molecular genetics has revealed the metabolic pathways that model organisms utilize to generate energy and biomass, but we understand little about how the metabolism... | 5,112 |
26776497 | PMC4716644 | pmc | 821 | {
"abstract": "Background Methanosarcina acetivorans is a model archaeon with renewed interest due to its unique reversible methane production pathways. However, the mechanism and relevant pathways implicated in (co)utilizing novel carbon substrates in this organism are still not fully understood. This paper provide... | 7,786 |
37367620 | PMC10301184 | pmc | 822 | {
"abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been shown to assist plants in increasing metal tolerance and accumulation in heavy metal (HM)-contaminated soils. Herein, a greenhouse pot experiment was conducted to assess the interactions of growth substrates (S1, S2, and S3, respectively) with various HM con... | 4,497 |
26982030 | PMC4794241 | pmc | 823 | {
"abstract": "Pollinators, such as bees, often develop multi-location routes (traplines) to exploit subsets of flower patches within larger plant populations. How individuals establish such foraging areas in the presence of other foragers is poorly explored. Here we investigated the foraging patterns of pairs of bum... | 4,417 |
31459509 | PMC6648443 | pmc | 824 | {
"abstract": "A water\ncontact angle greater than 150° together with a sliding\nangle less than 10° is a special surface phenomenon that appears\non superhydrophobic surfaces. In this paper, a brief introduction\nof the development history and present research on superhydrophobic\nsurfaces was given. Polymeric super... | 6,431 |
28666005 | PMC5493405 | pmc | 825 | {
"abstract": "Corals in the Arabian/Persian Gulf (PAG) survive extreme sea temperatures (summer mean: >34°C), and it is unclear whether these corals have genetically adapted or physiologically acclimated to these conditions. In order to elucidate the processes involved in the thermal tolerance of PAG corals, it is e... | 3,865 |
24988360 | PMC4119280 | pmc | 826 | {
"abstract": "Certain environmental parameters are accessible to cells only indirectly and require an encoding step for cells to retrieve the relevant information. A prominent example is the phenomenon of quorum sensing by microorganisms, where information about cell density is encoded by means of secreted signaling... | 5,652 |
29308265 | PMC5750032 | pmc | 827 | {
"abstract": "Extraordinary water-repelling properties of superhydrophobic surfaces make them novel candidates for a great variety of potential applications. A general approach to achieve superhydrophobicity requires low-energy coating on the surface and roughness on nano- and micrometre scale. However, typical cons... | 2,368 |
36234496 | PMC9565234 | pmc | 828 | {
"abstract": "As a unique surface wettability, superhydrophobicity has great application value. A variety of preparation methods for superhydrophobic surfaces have been reported, which have the disadvantages of high cost and complicated process. In order to design a method that is easy to operate, low-cost, and suit... | 4,060 |
39125253 | PMC11314723 | pmc | 830 | {
"abstract": "Biopolymers are highly desirable alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics owing to their biodegradable nature. The production of bioplastics, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), has been widely reported using various bacterial cultures with substrates ranging from pure to biowaste-derived sugars.... | 3,061 |
28555880 | null | s2 | 831 | {
"abstract": "Methods to generate fibers from hydrogels, with control over mechanical properties, fiber diameter, and crystallinity, while retaining cytocompatibility and degradability, would expand options for biomaterials. Here, we exploited features of silk fibroin protein for the formation of tunable silk hydrog... | 384 |
38739105 | PMC11181286 | pmc | 832 | {
"abstract": "Piezoelectric energy harvesters have gained significant\nattention\nin recent years due to their ability to convert ambient mechanical\nvibrations into electrical energy, which opens up new possibilities\nfor environmental monitoring, asset tracking, portable technologies\nand powering remote “Internet... | 2,032 |
23868689 | PMC3715747 | pmc | 835 | {
"abstract": "Conventional leaching (extraction) methods for gold recovery from electronic waste involve the use of strong acids and pose considerable threat to the environment. The alternative use of bioleaching microbes for gold recovery is non-pollutive and relies on the secretion of a lixiviant or (bio)chemical ... | 2,695 |
21633702 | PMC3102110 | pmc | 836 | {
"abstract": "Background Corals worldwide are in decline due to climate change effects (e.g., rising seawater temperatures), pollution, and exploitation. The ability of corals to cope with these stressors in the long run depends on the evolvability of the underlying genetic networks and proteins, which remain largel... | 5,165 |
35648822 | PMC9191775 | pmc | 837 | {
"abstract": "Significance Enabling distributed neurologic and cognitive functions in soft deformable devices, such as robotics, wearables, skin prosthetics, bioelectronics, etc., represents a massive leap in their development. The results presented here reveal the device characteristics of the building block, i.e.,... | 730 |
33506264 | PMC7842101 | pmc | 841 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background Biogas production with anaerobic digestion (AD) is one of the most promising solutions for both renewable energy production and resolving the environmental problem caused by the worldwide increase in organic waste. However, the complex structure of the microbiome in AD is poorly und... | 584 |
34877492 | PMC8633030 | pmc | 842 | {
"abstract": "Summary Maintaining the superhydrophobicity underwater offers drag resistance reduction, antifouling, anti-corrosion, noise reduction, and gas collection for boat hulls and submarine vehicles. However, superhydrophobicity typically does not last long underwater since the Cassie state is metastable. Her... | 2,457 |
35558060 | PMC9090926 | pmc | 843 | {
"abstract": "To promote the water vapor condensation efficiency in the presence of a non-condensable gas, both high nucleation rate and efficient droplet departure are desired on the condensing surface. Superhydrophobic surfaces with large water contact angles ensure the dropwise condensation mode and efficient dro... | 7,176 |
37091376 | PMC10116617 | pmc | 845 | {
"abstract": "Water-based superamphiphobic coatings are environment-friendly,\nwhich have attracted tremendous attention recently, but the performances\nare severely limited by the dispersibility of hydrophobic particles.\nTo solve the poor dispersibility of modified silica powder with hydrophobicity,\nsilica disper... | 8,524 |
23468605 | PMC3585391 | pmc | 847 | {
"abstract": "The spontaneous emergence of pattern formation is ubiquitous in nature, often arising as a collective phenomenon from interactions among a large number of individual constituents or sub-systems. Understanding, and controlling, collective behavior is dependent on determining the low-level dynamical prin... | 12,139 |
40128811 | PMC11934532 | pmc | 848 | {
"abstract": "Background Biofuels produced from algae have enormous advantages in replacing fossil fuels, and Microcystis aeruginosa has a great potential for biofuel production, due to growing fast to form large amounts of biomass. Light is essential for algal growth, and the optimum light quality can promote the... | 6,320 |
21347422 | PMC3036657 | pmc | 850 | {
"abstract": "Microbial consortia constitute a majority of the earth's biomass, but little is known about how these cooperating communities persist despite competition among community members. Theory suggests that non-random spatial structures contribute to the persistence of mixed communities; when particular struc... | 1,869 |
20557974 | null | s2 | 851 | {
"abstract": "Predominant frameworks for understanding plant ecology have an aboveground bias that neglects soil micro-organisms. This is inconsistent with recent work illustrating the importance of soil microbes in terrestrial ecology. Microbial effects have been incorporated into plant community dynamics using ide... | 217 |
34354559 | PMC8329666 | pmc | 852 | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel spiking neural network (SNN) classifier architecture for enabling always-on artificial intelligent (AI) functions, such as keyword spotting (KWS) and visual wake-up, in ultra-low-power internet-of-things (IoT) devices. Such always-on hardware tends to dominate the power effi... | 3,364 |
36073844 | PMC9685438 | pmc | 853 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Resistive random‐access memories are promising candidates for novel computer architectures such as in‐memory computing, multilevel data storage, and neuromorphics. Their working principle is based on electrically stimulated materials changes that allow access to two (digital), multiple (multil... | 1,141 |
26426118 | PMC4591267 | pmc | 854 | {
"abstract": "Bleaching episodes caused by increasing seawater temperatures may induce mass coral mortality and are regarded as one of the biggest threats to coral reef ecosystems worldwide. The current consensus is that this phenomenon results from enhanced production of harmful reactive oxygen species (ROS) that d... | 5,576 |
36248639 | PMC9560128 | pmc | 855 | {
"abstract": "Recently, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been widely studied by researchers due to their biological interpretability and potential application of low power consumption. However, the traditional clock-driven simulators have the problem that the accuracy is limited by the time-step and the lateral i... | 2,470 |
30708986 | PMC6387213 | pmc | 856 | {
"abstract": "The creation of functional materials from renewable resources has attracted much interest. We previously reported on the genetic code expansion of the domesticated silkworm Bombyx mori to functionalize silk fiber with synthetic amino acids such as 4-azido-L-phenylalanine (AzPhe). The azido groups act... | 3,507 |
35377486 | PMC9325543 | pmc | 857 | {
"abstract": "Summary \n Renewed interests in the development of bioenergy, biochemicals, and biomaterials have elicited new strategies for engineering the lignin of biomass feedstock plants. This study shows, for the first time, that 3,4‐dihydroxybenzoate (DHB) is compatible with the radical coupling reactions that... | 4,943 |
30979882 | PMC6461649 | pmc | 858 | {
"abstract": "On coral reefs, microorganisms are essential for recycling nutrients to primary producers through the remineralization of benthic-derived organic matter. Diel investigations of reef processes are required to holistically understand the functional roles of microbial players in these ecosystems. Here we ... | 3,044 |
37177655 | PMC10181665 | pmc | 859 | {
"abstract": "Conventional processing of sensory input often relies on uniform sampling leading to redundant information and unnecessary resource consumption throughout the entire processing pipeline. Neuromorphic computing challenges these conventions by mimicking biology and employing distributed event-based hardw... | 6,274 |
34622046 | PMC8482434 | pmc | 863 | {
"abstract": "Vehicle routing problem is a widely researched combinatorial optimization problem. We developed a hybrid of three strategies—a modified ant system, a sweep algorithm, and a path relinking—for solving a capacitated vehicle routing optimization problem, a vehicle routing problem with a capacity constrain... | 3,357 |
29588660 | PMC5863372 | pmc | 865 | {
"abstract": "Background Lignin is a heterogeneous polymer representing a renewable source of aromatic and phenolic bio-derived products for the chemical industry. However, the inherent structural complexity and recalcitrance of lignin makes its conversion into valuable chemicals a challenge. Natural microbial commu... | 7,337 |
28000139 | PMC5174012 | pmc | 866 | {
"abstract": "The metabolic state of microflora (mixed microbial cultures) in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is currently unclear. Metabolomic analyses were conducted of microflora growing on the anodic electrodes of MFCs operated at pH 7.0, 5.5, or 4.0 and utilizing starch as the major carbon substrate. A much higher ... | 2,146 |
25336453 | PMC4212834 | pmc | 867 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Microbial conversion of carbon dioxide to organic commodities via syngas metabolism or microbial electrosynthesis is an attractive option for production of renewable biocommodities. The recent development of an initial genetic toolbox for the acetogen Clostridium ljungdahlii has suggested th... | 5,149 |
39597724 | PMC11596381 | pmc | 868 | {
"abstract": "Rhizosphere microorganisms are crucial for enhancing plant stress resistance. Current studies have shown that Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can facilitate vegetation recovery in heavy metal-contaminated soils through interactions with rhizosphere microbiota. However, the mechanisms by which AMF in... | 3,497 |
38970122 | PMC11225162 | pmc | 869 | {
"abstract": "Background Despite rapid advances in genomic-resolved metagenomics and remarkable explosion of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), the function of uncultivated anaerobic lineages and their interactions in carbon mineralization remain largely uncertain, which has profound implications in biotechnology ... | 4,324 |
39888291 | PMC12005752 | pmc | 870 | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this work, the regulation of liquid self‐transport is achieved through architectural and thermal coupling, transitioning from free surfaces to open channels. Hierarchical structures inspired by the skin of a Texas horned lizard are designed, with the primary structure of wedged grooves and ... | 8,162 |
38251164 | PMC11154518 | pmc | 871 | {
"abstract": "A synaptic device with a multilayer structure is proposed to reduce the operating power of neuromorphic computing systems while maintaining a high-density integration. A simple metal–insulator–metal (MIM)-structured multilayer synaptic device is developed using an 8-inch wafer-based and complementary m... | 4,326 |
37072642 | PMC10238223 | pmc | 872 | {
"abstract": "Abstract In the era of big data and artificial intelligence (AI), advanced data storage and processing technologies are in urgent demand. The innovative neuromorphic algorithm and hardware based on memristor devices hold a promise to break the von Neumann bottleneck. In recent years, carbon nanodots (C... | 2,225 |
33990331 | PMC8121431 | pmc | 873 | {
"abstract": "High dimensionality and fading memory for in-sensor reservoir computing are achieved via two-dimensional memristors.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION The massive amount of data produced and transmitted by the Internet of Things (IoT) requires new insight into real-time information processing by edge c... | 1,374 |
25247576 | PMC4200787 | pmc | 874 | {
"abstract": "Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent a novel platform for treating wastewater and at the same time generating electricity. Using Pseudomonas \n putida ( BCRC 1059 ), a wild-type bacterium, we demonstrated that the refinery wastewater could be treated and also generate electric current in an air-cath... | 5,575 |
28083531 | PMC5183647 | pmc | 875 | {
"abstract": "Ion-conducting memristors comprised of the layered materials Ge 2 Se 3 /SnSe/Ag are promising candidates for neuromorphic computing applications. Here, the spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) application is demonstrated for the first time with a single memristor type operating as a synapse over a ... | 4,232 |
21791580 | PMC3143844 | pmc | 876 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Carbonate chimneys at the Lost City hydrothermal field are coated in biofilms dominated by a single phylotype of archaea known as Lost City Methanosarcinales . In this study, we have detected surprising physiological complexity in single-species biofilms, which is typically indicative of mult... | 10,023 |
39549075 | PMC11568993 | pmc | 877 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Biochemical methane potential (BMP) test is an important tool to evaluate the methane production biodegradability and toxicity of different wastes or wastewaters. This is a key parameter for assessing design and feasibility issues in the full-scale implementation of anaerobic digestion process... | 6,290 |
30374283 | PMC6196279 | pmc | 878 | {
"abstract": "In computational neuroscience, synaptic plasticity learning rules are typically studied using the full 64-bit floating point precision computers provide. However, for dedicated hardware implementations, the precision used not only penalizes directly the required memory resources, but also the computing... | 4,529 |
35149672 | PMC8837800 | pmc | 879 | {
"abstract": "Advances in synthetic biology permit the genetic encoding of synthetic chemistries at monomeric precision, enabling the synthesis of programmable proteins with tunable properties. Bacterial pili serve as an attractive biomaterial for the development of engineered protein materials due to their ability ... | 3,009 |
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