Zum insgesamt 17. Mal fand der von World Federation of Societies Anesthesiologists (WFSA) organisierte Congress Anaesthesiologists (WCA) statt — erstmals als virtuelles Format. Es wurde aber einiges geboten, um die Interaktion zwischen den über 6.000 Teilnehmer*innen aus allen Teilen Welt zu fördern.

Studies on the wettability properties of solid surfaces are very important in any scientific and industrial fields. The most common principle for a superhydrophobic self-cleaning surface is lotus effect induced by roughness. In this study, silicate compounds have been used to produce hydrophobic surfaces. way, firstly, SiO2–ZnO nanocomposite was produced, then vinyl trimethoxy silane increase w...

Portfolio selection process is a subject focused by many researchers. Various criteria involved in this process have undergone alterations over time, necessitating the use of appropriate investment decision support tools. An optimization approach used in different sciences is using meta-heuristic algorithms. In the present study, using Water Cycle Algorithm (WCA), a model was introduced for sel...

Superhydrophobic and superoleophilic (SHSO) membranes have found great attention in oil–water separation application. We fabricate a SHSO stainless steel mesh-based membrane, using facile one-stage dip-coating technique, investigate the effects of silane alkyl chain size, ratio micro-to-nanoparticles coating solid fraction. Silane compounds with short- long-alkyl functional chains (Dynasylan® S...

This work attempted to fabricate superhydrophobic fabric via a simple immersion technique. Textile fabrics were coated with silica nanoparticles prepared from tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) obtain sufficient roughness hydrophobic surface chemistry. Then, the treated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) reduce energy. The effects of PDMS concentration on morphology superh...

Machine learning (ML) methods have shown noteworthy skill in recognizing environmental patterns. However, presence of weather noise associated with the chaotic characteristics water cycle components restricts capability standalone ML models modeling extreme climate events such as droughts. To tackle problem, this article suggests two novel hybrid based on combination machine (ELM) algorithm (WC...

Nutrient loading from the Everglades Agricultural Area and nearby urban communities plus water flow rate and canal size have significantly influenced the amount of sediment and phosphorus (P) pools stored in the Water Conservation Area (WCA) canals in the Everglades. A study was conducted to characterize the potential impact that sediments might have on the overlying water column by conducting ...

The Pig Frog (Rana grylio) is an aquatic frog that is an abundant component of the Everglades ecosystem. South Floridians recreationally and commercially hunt pig frogs in marshes throughout Water Conservation Areas (WCA) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BCNP) in South Florida. Most of these areas are under fish consumption advisories because of high levels of methylmercury present in game fi...

Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization and invasive disease peak around the third and first birthdays, respectively, and decline thereafter. While these declines are attributable in part to immunity acquired via natural exposure, maturation of innate immune responses may also be involved. A mucosally administered candidate whole-cell pneumococcal vaccine (WCV) containing killed pneumococcal anti...

Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising method to study functional organization of the prefrontal cortex. However, in order to realize the high potential of fNIRS, effective discrimination between physiological noise originating from forehead skin haemodynamic and cerebral signals is required. Main sources of physiological noise are global and local blood flow regulation pr...