The emergence of the web has fundamentally affected most aspects of information communication, including scholarly communication. The immediacy that characterizes publishing information to the web, ...as well as accessing it, allows for a dramatic increase in the speed of dissemination of scholarly knowledge. But, the transition from a paper-based to a web-based scholarly communication system also poses challenges. In this paper, we focus on reference rot, the combination of link rot and content drift to which references to web resources included in Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM) articles are subject. We investigate the extent to which reference rot impacts the ability to revisit the web context that surrounds STM articles some time after their publication. We do so on the basis of a vast collection of articles from three corpora that span publication years 1997 to 2012. For over one million references to web resources extracted from over 3.5 million articles, we determine whether the HTTP URI is still responsive on the live web and whether web archives contain an archived snapshot representative of the state the referenced resource had at the time it was referenced. We observe that the fraction of articles containing references to web resources is growing steadily over time. We find one out of five STM articles suffering from reference rot, meaning it is impossible to revisit the web context that surrounds them some time after their publication. When only considering STM articles that contain references to web resources, this fraction increases to seven out of ten. We suggest that, in order to safeguard the long-term integrity of the web-based scholarly record, robust solutions to combat the reference rot problem are required. In conclusion, we provide a brief insight into the directions that are explored with this regard in the context of the Hiberlink project.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Unilamellar vesicles composed of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) with varying 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-poly(ethylene ...glycol)-2000-N-3-(2-pyridyldithio) propionate (DSPE-PEG-PDP) concentration between 0 mol % and 24 mol % were assembled on atomically flat template-stripped gold (TS Au) surfaces. Force spectroscopy, using an atomic force microscope (AFM), of the resulting tethered lipid bilayer membranes (tLBMs) in buffer provided information regarding mechanical response as a function of tethering molecule, DSPE-PEG-PDP, concentration. Young’s modulus was determined by fitting the force–indentation curve with a recently modified Sneddon model that corrects for contributions from the substrate underneath. At low concentrations, Young’s modulus is lower than that of a supported POPC LBM, i.e., directly sitting on a solid substrate. The decrease in modulus is attributed to increased membrane fluidity as coupling between the tLBM and solid substrate is reduced by the incorporation of DSPE-PEG-PDP tethering groups. From the determined Young’s modulus values, the PEG chain conformation is found to dominate tLBM rigidity at concentrations above 6 mol %. Analysis of AFM force spectroscopy data indicates that the poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) mushroom to brush transition occurs near 6 mol %, and this leads to first softening and then abrupt stiffening of tLBMs at higher DSPE-PEG-PDP concentration associated with the transition. When DSPE-PEG-PDP concentration is increased to 24 mol %, AFM topography and Young’s modulus appear correlated with another phase transition; AFM topography images are consistent with a bilayer disk structure with DSPE-PEG-PDP segregated at the rim of the disk.
Health professionals are being called upon to embrace a stronger role in addressing climate change, yet understanding how health professionals perceive climate change and climate action has garnered ...minimal attention in academic literature. Through semi-structured interviews with climate-engaged health professionals (n = 19), this exploratory paper describes trends and key issues with respect to health professionals’ perceptions of climate change and climate mitigation within the rural and remote context of Northern Ontario. Participating health professionals viewed climate change as a profound health problem in Northern Ontario, with impacts extending beyond physical health, impacting mental health and psychosocial wellbeing, in addition to driving further health inequities based on social determinants of health. Participants felt engagement with climate change within their role could be furthered to protect health. However, the current expectations of the health professionals’ role, the politicization of climate change as a topic, and the fear of damaging the trusted relationship between clients, community and the health professional were all identified as challenges. Participants voiced the need to better contextualize approaches to addressing climate change, calling for collaborative, localized action and enhanced education. This insight of health professionals’ perceptions offers a contextualized understanding for future climate action engagement.
Nanoparticles from colloidal solutionwith controlled composition, size, and shapeserve as excellent building blocks for plasmonic devices and metasurfaces. However, understanding hierarchical ...driving forces affecting the geometry of oligomers and interparticle gap spacings is still needed to fabricate high-density architectures over large areas. Here, electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flow is used as a long-range driving force to enable carbodiimide cross-linking between nanospheres and produces oligomers exhibiting sub-nanometer gap spacing over mm2 areas. Anhydride linkers between nanospheres are observed via surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. The anhydride linkers are cleavable via nucleophilic substitution and enable placement of nucleophilic molecules in electromagnetic hotspots. Atomistic simulations elucidate that the transient attractive force provided by EHD flow is needed to provide a sufficient residence time for anhydride cross-linking to overcome slow reaction kinetics. This synergistic analysis shows assembly involves an interplay between long-range driving forces increasing nanoparticle–nanoparticle interactions and probability that ligands are in proximity to overcome activation energy barriers associated with short-range chemical reactions. Absorption spectroscopy and electromagnetic full-wave simulations show that variations in nanogap spacing have a greater influence on optical response than variations in close-packed oligomer geometry. The EHD flow–anhydride cross-linking assembly method enables close-packed oligomers with uniform gap spacings that produce uniform SERS enhancement factors. These results demonstrate the efficacy of colloidal driving forces to selectively enable chemical reactions leading to future assembly platforms for large-area nanodevices.
Detection of bacterial metabolites at low concentrations in fluids with complex background allows for applications ranging from detecting biomarkers of respiratory infections to identifying ...contaminated medical instruments. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy, when utilizing plasmonic nanogaps, has the relatively unique capacity to reach trace molecular detection limits in a label-free format, yet large-area device fabrication incorporating nanogaps with this level of performance has proven difficult. Here, we demonstrate the advantages of using chemical assembly to fabricate SERS surfaces with controlled nanometer gap spacings between plasmonic nanospheres. Control of nanogap spacings via the length of the chemical crosslinker provides uniform SERS signals, exhibiting detection of pyocyanin, a secondary metabolite of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, in aqueous media at concentration of 100 pg·mL–1. When using machine learning algorithms to analyze the SERS data of the conditioned medium from a bacterial culture, having a more complex background, we achieve 1 ng·mL–1 limit of detection of pyocyanin and robust quantification of concentration spanning 5 orders of magnitude. Nanogaps are also incorporated in an in-line microfluidic device, enabling longitudinal monitoring of P. aeruginosa biofilm formation via rapid pyocyanin detection in a medium effluent as early as 3 h after inoculation and quantification in under 9 h. Surface-attached bacteria exposed to a bactericidal antibiotic were differentially less susceptible after 10 h of growth, indicating that these devices may be useful for early intervention of bacterial infections.
Three-dimensional porous architectures of graphene are desirable for energy storage, catalysis, and sensing applications. Yet it has proven challenging to devise scalable methods capable of producing ...co-continuous architectures and well-defined, uniform pore and ligament sizes at length scales relevant to applications. This is further complicated by processing temperatures necessary for high quality graphene. Here, bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels (bijels) are formed and processed into sacrificial porous Ni scaffolds for chemical vapor deposition to produce freestanding three-dimensional turbostratic graphene (bi-3DG) monoliths with high specific surface area. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images show that the bi-3DG monoliths inherit the unique microstructural characteristics of their bijel parents. Processing of the Ni templates strongly influences the resultant bi-3DG structures, enabling the formation of stacked graphene flakes or fewer-layer continuous films. Despite the multilayer nature, Raman spectra exhibit no discernable defect peak and large relative intensity for the Raman 2D mode, which is a characteristic of turbostratic graphene. Moiré patterns, observed in scanning tunneling microscopy images, further confirm the presence of turbostratic graphene. Nanoindentation of macroscopic pillars reveals a Young's modulus of 30 MPa, one of the highest recorded for sp
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carbon in a porous structure. Overall, this work highlights the utility of a scalable self-assembly method towards porous high quality graphene constructs with tunable, uniform, and co-continuous microstructure.
A three-dimensional gyroid-inspired architecture composed of turbostratic graphene was fabricated using colloidal self-assembly and chemical vapor deposition.
A series of wind tunnel experiments was carried out to investigate particle entrainment from surfaces in which one or more roughness elements were embedded. Thin sand strips were employed to ...eliminate impact and ejection, and thus isolate entrainment by fluid drag. The pattern of erosion is consistent with the presence of coherent vortices, inclusive of trailing vortices in the wake flow. The shape and orientation of the roughness element strongly influence this pattern. When an upwind supply of saltators is introduced, the majority of particles within the bed are entrained through impact, with the exception of a sand tail to the lee of the roughness element. That is, the effect of coherent structures within the airflow, as related to spatial variation in the fluid drag exerted on the bed surface, is completely overprinted by the saltation cloud and the blocking of particle trajectories by the upwind face of the roughness element. In a repeated set of experiments, the bed was allowed to fully adjust its morphology to the transport system. In this case, particle entrainment did not selectively occur within the zone of wake flow, and by inference the fluid stress across the test surface appeared to be uniform. These experiments support the hypothesis that vortex annihilation occurs on morphodynamically adjusted surfaces. In summary, the system response to the emergence of non-erodible roughness elements on surfaces affected by wind erosion involves a suite of geophysical processes, each of which attains varied levels of dominance within a given morphodynamic domain.
Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) is used to characterize the electrical characteristics of vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) Si nanowires (NWs) that are grown in-place between two predefined electrodes. ...KPFM measurements are performed under an applied bias. Besides contact potential differences due to differing materials, the two other primary contributions to measured variations on Si NWs between electrodes are: trapped charges at interfaces, and the parallel and serial capacitance, which are accounted for with voltage normalization and oxide normalization. These two normalization processes alongside finite-element-method simulations are necessary to characterize the bias-dependent response of Si NWs. After applying both normalization methods on open-circuit NWs, which results in a baseline of zero, we conclude that we have accounted for all the major contributions to CPDs and we can isolate effects due to applied bias such as impurity states and charged carrier flow, as well as find open connections when NWs are connected in parallel. These characterization and normalization methods can also be used to determine that the specific contact resistance of electrodes to the NWs is on the order of μΩ cm2. Thus, the VLS growth method between predefined electrodes overcomes the challenge of making low-resistance contacts to nanoscale systems. Thereby, the experiments and analysis presented outline a systematic method for characterizing nanowires in parallel arrays under device operation conditions.
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