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{ "abstract": "Coral-associated microorganisms provide crucial nutritional, protective, and developmental benefits, yet many functional traits remain unexplored. Phototrophic bacteria may enhance coral nutrition and reduce oxidative stress during bleaching via photosynthesis and antioxidant production. Despite this p...
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{ "abstract": "There has been great interest in the fabrication of solid surfaces with desirable under-liquid wettability, and especially under-liquid dual-lyophobicity, because of their potential for widespread use. However, there remains the lack of a general principle to modulate the under-liquid wettability in te...
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Coral reefs worldwide are threatened by increasing ocean temperatures because of the sensitivity of the coral‐algal symbiosis to thermal stress. Reef‐building corals form symbiotic relationships with dinoflagellates (family Symbiodiniaceae), including those species which acquire their initial ...
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Coral reefs worldwide are threatened by increasing ocean temperatures because of the sensitivity of the coral‐algal symbiosis to thermal stress. Reef‐building corals form symbiotic relationships with dinoflagellates (family Symbiodiniaceae), including those species which acquire their initial ...
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Coral reefs worldwide are threatened by increasing ocean temperatures because of the sensitivity of the coral‐algal symbiosis to thermal stress. Reef‐building corals form symbiotic relationships with dinoflagellates (family Symbiodiniaceae), including those species which acquire their initial ...
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PMC11725385
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Coral reefs worldwide are threatened by increasing ocean temperatures because of the sensitivity of the coral‐algal symbiosis to thermal stress. Reef‐building corals form symbiotic relationships with dinoflagellates (family Symbiodiniaceae), including those species which acquire their initial ...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Asymmetric structures have exhibited significant advantages in regulating wetting behavior. Nevertheless, the influence of this unique structural feature on anti‐icing performance remains to be further explored. In this work, static/dynamic anti‐icing performance is investigated on the asymmet...
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PMC3575075
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{ "abstract": "In this study, we present a highly configurable neuromorphic computing substrate and use it for emulating several types of neural networks. At the heart of this system lies a mixed-signal chip, with analog implementations of neurons and synapses and digital transmission of action potentials. Major adva...
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PMC8050072
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{ "abstract": "Expanding the portfolio of products that can be made from lignin will be critical to enabling a viable bio-based economy. Here, we engineer Pseudomonas putida for high-yield production of the tricarboxylic acid cycle-derived building block chemical, itaconic acid, from model aromatic compounds and ar...
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{ "abstract": "Neuromorphic computing\nseeks to replicate the capabilities of parallel\nprocessing, progressive learning, and inference while retaining low\npower consumption by drawing inspiration from the human brain. By\nfurther overcoming the constraints imposed by the traditional von\nNeumann architecture, this ...
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PMC7289024
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{ "abstract": "Methanogens are anaerobic archaea that grow by producing methane gas. These microbes and their exotic metabolism have inspired decades of microbial physiology research that continues to push the boundary of what we know about how microbes conserve energy to grow. The study of methanogens has helped to ...
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{ "abstract": "Currently, major energy sources such as fossil fuels and nuclear fuels face various issues such as resource depletion, environmental pollution, and climate change. Therefore, there is increasing interest in technology that converts mechanical, heat, vibration, and solar energy discarded in nature and d...
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PMC8164749
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{ "abstract": "Background During the acetogenic step of anaerobic digestion, the products of acidogenesis are oxidized to substrates for methanogenesis: hydrogen, carbon dioxide and acetate. Acetogenesis and methanogenesis are highly interconnected processes due to the syntrophic associations between acetogenic bacte...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Aims Fourteen percent of all living coral, equivalent to more than all the coral on the Great Barrier Reef, has died in the past decade as a result of climate change‐driven bleaching. Inspired by the ‘oxidative stress theory of coral bleaching’, we investigated whether a bacterial consortium d...
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PMC9595181
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{ "abstract": "Mechanical energy harvesting using piezoelectric nanogenerators (PNGs) offers an attractive solution for driving low-power portable devices and self-powered electronic systems. Here, we designed an eco-friendly and flexible piezocomposite nanogenerator (c-PNG) based on H 2 (Zr 0.1 Ti 0.9 ) 3 O 7 nanow...
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PMC11137249
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{ "abstract": "Deep neural feedforward networks are effective models for a wide array of problems, but training and deploying such networks presents a significant energy cost. Spiking neural networks (SNNs), which are modeled after biologically realistic neurons, offer a potential solution when deployed correctly on ...
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{ "abstract": "Reef corals are mixotrophic organisms relying on symbiont-derived photoautotrophy and water column heterotrophy. Coral endosymbionts (Family: Symbiodiniaceae), while typically considered mutualists, display a range of species-specific and environmentally mediated opportunism in their interactions with ...
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{ "abstract": "A bio-inspired approach for superhydrophobic surface modification was investigated. Hydrophilic conversion of the superhydrophobic surface was easily achieved through this method, and the superhydrophobic-hydrophilic alternating surface was generated by the method combined with soft-lithography. The re...
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{ "abstract": "Background Cyanobacteria account for 20–30% of Earth's primary photosynthetic productivity and convert solar energy into biomass-stored chemical energy at the rate of ∼450 TW [1] . These single-cell microorganisms are resilient predecessors of all higher oxygenic phototrophs and can be found in self-s...
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{ "abstract": "To understand the effect of chemical composition on the anti-icing properties of a nanostructured superhydrophobic surface (SHP), four SHP surfaces were prepared on glass, which was initially roughed by a radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering method and then modified with HDTMS (a siloxane coupling...
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{ "abstract": "With the increasing demand for rare earth elements (REEs) in many emerging clean energy technologies, there is an urgent need for the development of new approaches for efficient REE extraction and recovery. As a step toward this goal, we genetically engineered the aerobic bacterium Caulobacter crescent...
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PMC3866191
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{ "abstract": "To date, few analyses of mutualistic networks have investigated successional or seasonal dynamics. Combining interaction data from multiple time points likely creates an inaccurate picture of the structure of networks (because these networks are aggregated across time), which may negatively influence t...
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PMC8112011
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{ "abstract": "Background The demand for biobased polymers is increasing steadily worldwide. Microbial hosts for production of their monomeric precursors such as glutarate are developed. To meet the market demand, production hosts have to be improved constantly with respect to product titers and yields, but also shor...
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Coral reefs and their photosynthetic algae form one of the most ecologically and economically impactful symbioses in the animal kingdom. The stability of this nutritional mutualism and this ecosystem is, however, at risk due to increasing sea surface temperatures that cause corals to expel the...
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{ "abstract": "Nanoscale inorganic electronic synapses or synaptic devices, which are capable of emulating the functions of biological synapses of brain neuronal systems, are regarded as the basic building blocks for beyond-Von Neumann computing architecture, combining information storage and processing. Here, we dem...
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PMC10036481
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{ "abstract": "Cable bacteria are centimeter-long filamentous bacteria that conduct electrons via internal wires, thus coupling sulfide oxidation in deeper, anoxic sediment with oxygen reduction in surface sediment. This activity induces geochemical changes in the sediment, and other bacterial groups appear to benefi...
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{ "abstract": "Spiking neural networks coupled with neuromorphic hardware and event-based sensors are getting increased interest for low-latency and low-power inference at the edge. However, multiple spiking neuron models have been proposed in the literature with different levels of biological plausibility and differ...
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PMC12064777
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{ "abstract": "Neuromorphic computing based on two-dimensional materials represents a promising hardware approach for data-intensive applications. Central to this new paradigm are memristive devices, which serve as the essential components in synaptic kernels. However, large-scale implementation of synaptic matrix us...
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{ "abstract": "One of the mechanisms of rapid adaptation or acclimatization to environmental changes in corals is through the dynamics of the composition of their associated endosymbiotic Symbiodiniaceae community. The various species of these dinoflagellates are characterized by different biological properties, some...
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{ "abstract": "Significance Coral reefs are threatened by global bleaching, spurring a need to improve upon reef restoration practices. Yet the strong capacity for corals and their symbionts to acclimatize to their local environment has brought into question whether or not corals that are temperature tolerant in one ...
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PMC7875522
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{ "abstract": "Oxygen reduction in a cable bacterium is condensed in a few terminal cells, while the rest of the filament lives oxygen free.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION The rise of molecular oxygen O 2 in the atmosphere during the Great Oxidation Event (2.4 to 2.0 billion years ago) posed a grand challenge to ...
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{ "abstract": "Summary \n How mycoheterotrophic plants that obtain carbon and soil nutrients from fungi are integrated in the usually mutualistic arbuscular mycorrhizal networks is unknown. Here, we compare autotrophic and mycoheterotrophic plant associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and use network analysis...
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{ "abstract": "Summary Self-powered wearable devices, with the energy harvester as a source of energy that can scavenge the energy from ambient sources present in our surroundings to cater to the energy needs of portable wearable electronics, are becoming more widespread because of their miniaturization and multifunc...
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{ "abstract": "Neuromorphic systems aim to provide accelerated low-power simulation of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), typically featuring simple and efficient neuron models such as the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) model. Biologically plausible neuron models developed by neuroscientists are largely ignored in neuro...
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{ "abstract": "In collectively foraging groups, communication about food resources can play an important role in the organization of the group's activity. For example, the honeybee dance communication system allows colonies to selectively allocate foragers among different floral resources according to their quality. ...
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{ "abstract": "Significance Kelp forests are declining worldwide due to varied combinations of environmental change and the trophic downgrading of urchin-controlling predators. These processes have increased the frequency and extent of rapid, nonlinear shifts to so-called urchin barrens whose ecological functioning a...
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{ "abstract": "Self-healing materials are indispensable for soft actuators and robots that operate in dynamic and real-world environments, as these machines are vulnerable to mechanical damage. However, current self-healing materials have shortcomings that limit their practical application, such as low healing streng...
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{ "abstract": "Thermally induced bleaching has caused a global decline in corals and the frequency of such bleaching events will increase. Thermal bleaching severely disrupts the trophic behaviour of the coral holobiont, reducing the photosynthetically derived energy available to the coral host. In the short term thi...
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{ "abstract": "Introduction The spiking neural network (SNN) is a bionic model that is energy-efficient when implemented on neuromorphic hardwares. The non-differentiability of the spiking signals and the complicated neural dynamics make direct training of high-performance SNNs a great challenge. There are numerous c...
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{ "abstract": "Developing intelligent neuromorphic solutions remains a challenging endeavor. It requires a solid conceptual understanding of the hardware's fundamental building blocks. Beyond this, accessible and user-friendly prototyping is crucial to speed up the design pipeline. We developed an open source Loihi e...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Lignin is a largely untapped source for the bioproduction of value‐added chemicals. Pseudomonas putida KT2440 has emerged as a strong candidate for bioprocessing of lignin feedstocks due to its resistance to several industrial solvents, broad metabolic capabilities, and genetic amenability. ...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Lignin is a largely untapped source for the bioproduction of value‐added chemicals. Pseudomonas putida KT2440 has emerged as a strong candidate for bioprocessing of lignin feedstocks due to its resistance to several industrial solvents, broad metabolic capabilities, and genetic amenability. ...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Lignin is a largely untapped source for the bioproduction of value‐added chemicals. Pseudomonas putida KT2440 has emerged as a strong candidate for bioprocessing of lignin feedstocks due to its resistance to several industrial solvents, broad metabolic capabilities, and genetic amenability. ...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Lignin is a largely untapped source for the bioproduction of value‐added chemicals. Pseudomonas putida KT2440 has emerged as a strong candidate for bioprocessing of lignin feedstocks due to its resistance to several industrial solvents, broad metabolic capabilities, and genetic amenability. ...
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PMC10536645
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{ "abstract": "Over the past decade, the artificial neural networks domain has seen a considerable embracement of deep neural networks among many applications. However, deep neural networks are typically computationally complex and consume high power, hindering their applicability for resource-constrained application...
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{ "abstract": "Microbial communities are ubiquitous in nature and exhibit several attractive features, such as sophisticated metabolic capabilities and strong environment robustness. Inspired by the advantages of natural microbial consortia, diverse artificial co-cultivation systems have been metabolically constructe...
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PMC3148050
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{ "abstract": "The emerging field of biomimetics allows one to mimic biology or nature to develop nanomaterials, nanodevices, and processes which provide desirable properties. Hierarchical structures with dimensions of features ranging from the macroscale to the nanoscale are extremely common in nature and possess pr...
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PMC7105894
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{ "abstract": "Among the recent innovative technologies, memristor (memory-resistor) has attracted researchers attention as a fundamental computation element. It has been experimentally shown that memristive elements can emulate synaptic dynamics and are even capable of supporting spike timing dependent plasticity (S...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Scleractinian corals are assumed to be stenohaline osmoconformers, although they are frequently subjected to variations in seawater salinity due to precipitation, freshwater run‐off and other processes. Observed responses to altered salinity levels include differences in photosynthetic perform...
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PMC8267251
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{ "abstract": "Spiking Neuromorphic systems have been introduced as promising platforms for energy-efficient spiking neural network (SNNs) execution. SNNs incorporate neuronal and synaptic states in addition to the variant time scale into their computational model. Since each neuron in these networks is connected to ...
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{ "abstract": "Conventional vision, auditory, and olfactory sensors generate large volumes of redundant data and as a result tend to consume excessive power. To address these shortcomings, neuromorphic sensors have been developed. These sensors mimic the neuro-biological architecture of sensory organs using aVLSI (an...
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PMC4989317
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{ "abstract": "Much research has been invested into engineering microorganisms to perform desired biotransformations; nonetheless, these efforts frequently fall short of expected results due to the unforeseen effects of biofeedback regulation and functional incompatibility. In nature, metabolic function is compartmen...
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{ "abstract": "Dragline silk from orb-weaving spiders is a copolymer of two large proteins, major ampullate spidroin 1 (MaSp1) and 2 (MaSp2). The ratio of these proteins is known to have a large variation across different species of orb-weaving spiders. NMR results from gland material of two different species of spid...
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{ "abstract": "Resistive switching devices were used as technological synapses to learn about the spatial- and temporal-correlated neuron spikes.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION The human brain outperforms most of the existing artificial neural networks (ANNs) in terms of energy-efficient and error-tolerant computi...
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{ "abstract": "The term ‘biomimetic’ might be applied to any material or process that in some way reproduces, mimics, or is otherwise inspired by nature. Also variously termed bionic, bioinspired, biological design, or even green design, the idea of adapting or taking inspiration from a natural solution to solve a mo...
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{ "abstract": "Significance Biofilms are a ubiquitous form of bacterial community. Within biofilms, bacteria communicate via chemical signals in a process called quorum sensing (QS). However, if signal production is nutrient-limited, then the nutrient-deficient interior of a biofilm cannot contribute to QS, which lim...
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PMC5455293
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{ "abstract": "Coral microbiomes are known to play important roles in organismal health, response to environmental stress, and resistance to disease. The coral microbiome contains diverse assemblages of resident bacteria, ranging from defensive and metabolic symbionts to opportunistic bacteria that may turn harmful i...
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PMC10233687
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{ "abstract": "To combine the advantages\nof elastic and nonelastic triboelectric\nmaterials, this work proposes a new type of triboelectric nanogenerator\n(TENG) based on stacking —the stacked FKM/PU TENG. By stacking\nthe elastomer polyurethane (PU) and the nonelastomer fluororubber\n(FKM), the FKM/PU TENG combines...
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{ "abstract": "Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) have been proven to be effective for the collection of low-frequency vibrational energy in the environment. However, most polymer materials as friction layers are highly susceptible to mechanical damage during operation, which reduces the performance and lifetime of ...
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{ "abstract": "Energy recovery from low-strength wastewater through anaerobic methanogenesis is constrained by limited substrate availability. The development of efficient methanogenic communities is critical but challenging. Here we develop a strategy to acclimate methanogenic communities using conductive carrier (C...
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{ "abstract": "Quorum sensing is a process of chemical communication that bacteria use to monitor cell density and coordinate cooperative behaviors. Quorum sensing relies on extracellular signal molecules and cognate receptor pairs. While a single quorum-sensing system is sufficient to probe cell density, bacteria fr...
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{ "abstract": "The potential to convert renewable plant biomasses into fuels and chemicals by microbial processes presents an attractive, less environmentally intense alternative to conventional routes based on fossil fuels. This would best be done with microbes that natively deconstruct lignocellulose and concomitan...
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{ "abstract": "Bacterial biofilms are ubiquitous in natural environments and play an essential role in bacteria’s environmental adaptability. Quorum sensing (QS), as the main signaling mechanism bacteria used for cell-to-cell communication, plays a key role in bacterial biofilm formation. However, little is known abo...
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{ "abstract": "In recent years, machine-learning techniques, particularly deep learning, have outperformed traditional time-series forecasting approaches in many contexts, including univariate and multivariate predictions. This study aims to investigate the capability of (i) gated recurrent neural networks, including...
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{ "abstract": "In recent years, machine-learning techniques, particularly deep learning, have outperformed traditional time-series forecasting approaches in many contexts, including univariate and multivariate predictions. This study aims to investigate the capability of (i) gated recurrent neural networks, including...
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{ "abstract": "In recent years, machine-learning techniques, particularly deep learning, have outperformed traditional time-series forecasting approaches in many contexts, including univariate and multivariate predictions. This study aims to investigate the capability of (i) gated recurrent neural networks, including...
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{ "abstract": "In recent years, machine-learning techniques, particularly deep learning, have outperformed traditional time-series forecasting approaches in many contexts, including univariate and multivariate predictions. This study aims to investigate the capability of (i) gated recurrent neural networks, including...
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{ "abstract": "In recent years, machine-learning techniques, particularly deep learning, have outperformed traditional time-series forecasting approaches in many contexts, including univariate and multivariate predictions. This study aims to investigate the capability of (i) gated recurrent neural networks, including...
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{ "abstract": "In recent years, machine-learning techniques, particularly deep learning, have outperformed traditional time-series forecasting approaches in many contexts, including univariate and multivariate predictions. This study aims to investigate the capability of (i) gated recurrent neural networks, including...
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{ "abstract": "In recent years, machine-learning techniques, particularly deep learning, have outperformed traditional time-series forecasting approaches in many contexts, including univariate and multivariate predictions. This study aims to investigate the capability of (i) gated recurrent neural networks, including...
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PMC9230140
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{ "abstract": "In recent years, machine-learning techniques, particularly deep learning, have outperformed traditional time-series forecasting approaches in many contexts, including univariate and multivariate predictions. This study aims to investigate the capability of (i) gated recurrent neural networks, including...
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{ "abstract": "In recent years, machine-learning techniques, particularly deep learning, have outperformed traditional time-series forecasting approaches in many contexts, including univariate and multivariate predictions. This study aims to investigate the capability of (i) gated recurrent neural networks, including...
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PMC5364354
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{ "abstract": "Methanotrophs play a key role in balancing the atmospheric methane concentration. Recently, the microbial methanotrophic diversity was extended by the discovery of thermoacidophilic methanotrophs belonging to the Verrucomicrobia phylum in geothermal areas. Here we show that a representative of this new...
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PMC10821171
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{ "abstract": "At the sediment-water interfaces, filamentous cable bacteria transport electrons from sulfide oxidation along their filaments towards oxygen or nitrate as electron acceptors. These multicellular bacteria belonging to the family Desulfobulbaceae thus form a biogeobattery that mediates redox processes be...
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PMC9640510
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{ "abstract": "Optoelectronic memristor is a promising candidate for future light-controllable high-density storage and neuromorphic computing. In this work, light-tunable resistive switching (RS) characteristics are demonstrated in the CMOS process-compatible ITO/HfO 2 /TiO 2 /ITO optoelectronic memristor. The devic...
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PMC7214871
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{ "abstract": "Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are potentially highly efficient models for inference on fully parallel neuromorphic hardware, but existing training methods that convert conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs) into SNNs are unable to exploit these advantages. Although ANN-to-SNN conversion has ac...
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PMC11790713
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{ "abstract": "Under drought conditions, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi may improve plant performance by facilitating the movement of water through extensive hyphal networks. When these networks interconnect neighboring plants in common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs), CMNs are likely to partition water among many ind...
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PMC6270765
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{ "abstract": "The lotus plant is recognized as a ‘ King plant ’ among all the natural water repellent plants due to its excellent non-wettability. The superhydrophobic surfaces exhibiting the famous ‘ Lotus Effect ’, along with extremely high water contact angle (>150°) and low sliding angle (<10°), have been broadl...
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PMC10282152
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{ "abstract": "Working memory refers to the brain's ability to store and manipulate information for a short period. It is disputably considered to rely on two mechanisms: sustained neuronal firing, and “activity-silent” working memory. To develop a highly biologically plausible neuromorphic computing system, it is an...
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PMC3659410
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{ "abstract": "Changes in communities of syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacteria (SAOB) and methanogens caused by elevated ammonia levels were quantified in laboratory-scale methanogenic biogas reactors operating at moderate temperature (37°C) using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). The experimental reacto...
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PMC11967857
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The biobased production of chemicals is essential for advancing a sustainable chemical industry. 1,5‐Pentanediol (1,5‐PDO), a five‐carbon diol with considerable industrial relevance, has shown limited microbial production efficiency until now. This study presents the development and optimizati...
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PMC7764841
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{ "abstract": "In numerous fields such as aerospace, the environment, and energy supply, ice generation and accretion represent a severe issue. For this reason, numerous methods have been developed for ice formation to be delayed and/or to inhibit ice adhesion to the substrates. Among them, laser micro/nanostructurin...
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PMC9792797
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{ "abstract": "Increasing untreated environmental outputs from industry and the rising human population have increased the burden of wastewater and other waste streams on the environment. The most prevalent wastewater treatment methods include the activated sludge process, which requires aeration and is, therefore, e...
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PMC11307446
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{ "abstract": "Direct training of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic hardware has the potential to significantly reduce the energy consumption of artificial neural network training. SNNs trained with Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) benefit from gradient-free and unsupervised local learning, which...
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PMC5832778
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{ "abstract": "Superhydrophobic surfaces have great potential for application in self-cleaning and oil/water separation. However, the large-scale practical applications of superhydrophobic coating surfaces are impeded by many factors, such as complicated fabrication processes, the use of fluorinated reagents and noxi...
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{ "abstract": "The factors affecting plant uptake of heavy metals from metalliferous soils are deeply important to the remediation of polluted areas. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), soil-dwelling fungi that engage in an intimate exchange of nutrients with plant roots, are thought to be involved in plant metal upt...
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PMC8479340
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{ "abstract": "Flocking is a fascinating phenomenon observed across a wide range of living organisms. We investigate, based on a simple self-propelled particle model, how the emergence of ordered motion in a collectively moving group is influenced by the local rules of interactions among the individuals, namely, metr...
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PMC11696043
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{ "abstract": "Neuromorphic computing holds immense promise for developing highly efficient computational approaches. Memristor-based artificial neurons, known for due to their straightforward structure, high energy efficiency, and superior scalability, which enable them to successfully mimic biological neurons with ...
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PMC11506689
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{ "abstract": "Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent a promising technology for sustainable energy generation, which leverages the metabolic activities of microorganisms to convert organic substrates into electrical energy. In oil spill scenarios, hydrocarbonoclastic biofilms naturally form at the water–oil interface...
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PMC11923061
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{ "abstract": "Memristor crossbar arrays (CBAs) based on two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a potential solution to overcome the limitations of energy consumption and latency associated with conventional von Neumann architectures. However, current 2D memristor CBAs encounter specific challenges such as li...
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{ "abstract": "Symbiotic microorganisms in reef-building corals, including algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses, play critical roles in the adaptation of coral hosts to adverse environmental conditions. However, their adaptation and functional relationships in nutrient-rich environments have yet to be fully e...
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37513093
PMC10385009
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{ "abstract": "The electrical characteristics and resistive switching properties of memristive devices have been studied in a wide temperature range. The insulator and electrode materials of these devices (silicon oxide and titanium nitride, respectively) are fully compatible with conventional complementary metal-oxi...
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21283583
PMC3026804
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{ "abstract": "The architecture and properties of many complex networks play a significant role in the functioning of the systems they describe. Recently, complex network theory has been applied to ecological entities, like food webs or mutualistic plant-animal interactions. Unfortunately, we still lack an accurate v...
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37666802
PMC10477309
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{ "abstract": "Anaerobic digestion of municipal mixed sludge produces methane that can be converted into renewable natural gas. To improve economics of this microbial mediated process, metabolic interactions catalyzing biomass conversion to energy need to be identified. Here, we present a two-year time series associa...
10,525
37502701
PMC10369077
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{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are ubiquitous in soil and form nutritional symbioses with ~80% of vascular plant species, which significantly impact global carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) biogeochemical cycles. Roots of plant individuals are interconnected by AMF hyphae to form common AM networks (CAMN...
4,533
22666024
PMC3355405
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{ "abstract": "Autoinducer signals enable coordinated behaviour of bacterial populations, a phenomenon originally described as quorum sensing. Autoinducer systems are often controlled by environmental substances as nutrients or secondary metabolites (signals) from neighbouring organisms. In cell aggregates and biofil...
5,613
24194675
PMC3806361
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227
{ "abstract": "We optimized and tested a postbioprocessing step with a single-culture archaeon to upgrade biogas (i.e., increase methane content) from anaerobic digesters via conversion of CO 2 into CH 4 by feeding H 2 gas. We optimized a culture of the thermophilic methanogen Methanothermobacter thermautotrophic...
5,606
22439005
PMC3306304
pmc
228
{ "abstract": "Foundation species, such as kelp, exert disproportionately strong community effects and persist, in part, by dominating taxa that inhibit their regeneration. Human activities which benefit their competitors, however, may reduce stability of communities, increasing the probability of phase-shifts. We te...
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{ "abstract": "Experimental tests of community assembly mechanisms for host-associated microbiomes in nature are lacking. Asymptomatic foliar fungal endophytes are a major component of the plant microbiome and are increasingly recognized for their impacts on plant performance, including pathogen defense, hormonal man...
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{ "abstract": "Synthetic spider silk holds great potential for use in various applications spanning medical uses to ultra lightweight armor; however, producing synthetic fibers with mechanical properties comparable to natural spider silk has eluded the scientific community. Natural dragline spider silks are commonly ...
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