Background: Tribe Oenantheae consists mainly of aquatic species within the Apioideae. The unique morphology and habitat distinguish this group from other Apioideae groups. However, the genomic information of these group species has not been widely developed, and the molecular mechanisms of adaptive evolution remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicroalgae have the potential to fix CO into valuable compounds. Low photosynthetic efficiency caused by low light was one of the challenges faced by microalgae carbon sequestration. In this study, Melatonin (MT) and indole-propionic acid (IPA) were used to alleviate the growth inhibition of Spirulina in CAMC system under low light restriction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Delphinium L. represents a taxonomically intricate genus of significant phylogenetic and economic importance in Ranunculaceae. Despite the existence of few chloroplast genome datasets, a comprehensive understanding of genome structures and selective pressures within the genus remains unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTriple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is insensitive to conventional targeted therapy and endocrine therapy, and is characterized by high invasiveness and high recurrence rate. This study aimed to explore the role and mechanism of RHOXF2 and HOXC13 on the malignant progression of TNBC. RT-qPCR and western blot were used to detect RHOXF2 and HOXC13 expression in TNBC cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCO absorption-microalgae conversion (CAMC) system is a promising carbon capture and utilization technology. However, the use of HCO as a carbon source often led to a slower growth rate of microalgae, which also limited the application of CAMC system. In this study, the assimilation efficiency of HCO in CAMC system was improved through mixotrophic, and the potential mechanism was investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The genus Sanicula comprises ca. 45 taxa, widely distributed from East Asia to North America, which is a taxonomically difficult genus with high medicinal value in Apiaceae. The systematic classification of the genus has been controversial for a long time due to varied characters in key morphological traits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlobal soil cadmium (Cd(II)) contamination threatens the soil environment, food safety, and human health. Conventional electrokinetic remediation (EKR) and enhancement methods usually operate in strong electric fields, leading to strong side reactions and uneven removal. In this work, to remove Cd(II) from soil effectively in a low-voltage electric field, a new-style electrokinetic-adsorption remediation using double-group electrodes coupled with chitosan-activated carbon composite membranes (DE-EKR-CAC) was developed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell
December 2023
Semantic segmentation has achieved huge progress via adopting deep Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN). However, the performance of FCN-based models severely rely on the amounts of pixel-level annotations which are expensive and time-consuming. Considering that bounding boxes also contain abundant semantic and objective information, an intuitive solution is to learn the segmentation with weak supervisions from the bounding boxes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeveloping circularly polarized room-temperature phosphorescent (CPRTP) materials with a high dissymmetry factor () and long afterglow is very attractive but highly challenging. Here, a CPRTP emission featuring ultrahigh value and desired visualization characteristic in a bilayer composite photonic film is achieved for the first time. In the constructed system, N and P co-doped carbonized polymer dots (NP-CPDs) are dispersed into polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as the phosphorescent emitting layer, and helically structured cholesteric polymer films are used as selective reflective layers to convert the unpolarized emission of NP-CPDs into circularly polarized emission.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA polymer-stabilized liquid crystal (PSLC)-based environment-adaptative smart window with multi-modulations is demonstrated. This PSLC system contains a right-handed dithienyldicyanoethene-based chiral photoswitch and a chiral dopant, S811, with opposite handedness, of which the reversible cis-trans photoisomerization of the switch can drive self-shading of the smart window under UV light stimulus because of the transition from nematic phase to cholesteric one. With the assistance of solar heat, the opacity of the smart window can be deepened because the heat promotes the isomerization conversion rate of the switch.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMixotrophic cultivation was proposed to enhance the biomass and carbon sequestration efficiency of Spirulina in CO absorption and microalgae conversion (CAMC) system, and the underlying metabolic mechanism was also explored. The result showed that mixotrophic enhanced the performance of CAMC system, the maximum biomass, total carbon conversion capacity and efficiency was obtained at 0.5 g/L acetate group, which was 60.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFwas an important medicinal plant. The complete plastid genome of this species was reported for the first time. The full length of the complete chloroplast genome is 153,302 bp, with a typical quadripartite organization: a large single-copy (LSC) region of 84,417 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,767 bp, and a pair inverted repeat regions (IR and IR) with 25,059 bp for each.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConstructing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with high volatile organic compounds (VOCs) adsorption capacity and excellent water resistance remain challenging. Herein, a monocarboxylic acid-assisted mixed ligands strategy was designed to synthesize a novel fluorinated MOFs, MIL-53 (Al). The monocarboxylic acid promoted crystallization and produced abundant crystal defects, which increased pore volume.
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March 2023
Gait recognition plays a special role in visual surveillance due to its unique advantage, e.g., long-distance, cross-view and non-cooperative recognition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe severe hazard of chlorinated volatile organic compounds (CVOCs) to human health and the natural environment makes their abatement technology a key topic of global environmental research. Due to the existence of Cl, the byproducts of CVOCs in the catalytic combustion process are complex and toxic, and the possible generation of dioxin becomes a potential risk to the environment. Well-qualified CVOC catalysts should process favorable low-temperature catalytic oxidation ability, excellent selectivity, and good resistance to poisoning, which are governed by the reasonable adjustment of acidity and redox properties.
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February 2023
Thanks to the advent of deep neural networks, recent years have witnessed rapid progress in person re-identification (re-ID). Deep-learning-based methods dominate the leadership of large-scale benchmarks, some of which even surpass the human-level performance. Despite their impressive performance under the single-domain setup, current fully-supervised re-ID models degrade significantly when transplanted to an unseen domain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntibiotic resistance is one of the most important environmental challenges. Microalgae has been considered as a promising green media for environmental purification. In this work, sulfadimethoxine (SDM) biodegradation potential of sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of highly efficient and stable monolithic catalysts is essential for the removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Copper foam (CF) is a potential ideal carrier for monolithic catalysts, but its low surface area is not conducive to dispersion of active species, thus reducing the interface interaction with active species. Herein, a vertically oriented Cu(OH) nanorod was in situ grown on the CF, which acted as the template and precursor to synthesize CoCu-MOF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Oxidative stress-induced chondrocyte apoptosis and extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation plays an important role in the progression of osteoarthritis (OA). Bardoxolone methyl (BM), a semisynthetic triterpenoid, exerts strong effect against oxidative stress. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of bardoxolone-methyl (BM) in preventing oxidative stress-induced chondrocyte apoptosis and extracellular ECM degradation in vitro and the role of alleviating OA progression in vivo.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCO absorption and microalgae conversion (CAMC) hybrid system is a promising alternative for simultaneous carbon capture and utilization. It can not only overcome the challenge of high energy consumption solvent thermal regeneration in chemical CO absorption, but also enhance the carbon conversion efficiency in biological conversion process. However, the discordance between CO absorption and bio-conversion rate has become the key to limiting the development of CAMC system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVolatile organic compounds (VOCs) with high toxicity and carcinogenicity are emitted from kinds of industries, which endanger human health and the environment. Adsorption is a promising method for the treatment of VOCs due to its low cost and high efficiency. In recent years, activated carbons, zeolites, and mesoporous materials are widely used to remove VOCs because of their high specific surface area and abundant porosity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: A new deep-sea-derived actinomycete 12A22 was isolated from the sediment of the South China Sea which showed potential cytotoxic and antimicrobial activities. The actinomycete was identified as by investigating morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analyses based on its 16S rRNA gene sequence. Two compounds, cyclo-(-Pro--Pro--Tyr--Tyr) () and 2-hydroxyethyl-3-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone (), were isolated and characterized from the fermentation broth of the strain 12A22.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLTP treatment was applied to induce a high-content alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) strain (C-12) from Chlorella sp. L166, the ALA content of C-12 was increased by 48.37%.
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