Publications by authors named "Ji-ning Liu"

Because Jiangsu is an important economic province of China, it is necessary to examine the pollution characteristics and assess the ecological risk of environmentally persistent pharmaceutical pollutants (EPPPs) in this region. In this study, surface water samples were obtained from grade 1-4 rivers and lakes (with an area of 50 km or more) in Jiangsu Province, and then analyzed to determine the pollution level of EPPPs. In total, 35 EPPPs were detected in the surface water of Jiangsu Province, with total concentrations in the samples ranging from 66.

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In this paper, two level III fugacity models are developed and applied using an environmental system containing six compartments, including air, aerosols, soil, water, suspended particulate matters (SPMs), and sediments, as a "unit world". The first model, assumes equilibrium between air and aerosols and between water and SPMs. These assumptions lead to a four-fugacity model.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study focuses on the biodegradability and removal of seven aromatic amines in sewage treatment plants, assessing their fate for environmental safety.
  • Three testing tiers were used: a standard biodegradability test, a sewage treatment simulation, and model predictions, revealing varied degradation rates among the amines.
  • The findings indicate that while some amines degrade quickly, others persist and may pose risks to aquatic ecosystems, leading to the development of a new model for sewage treatment in China to better predict chemical behavior.
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In recent years, many studies have supported that cancer tissues can make disease-specific changes in some salivary proteins through some mediators in the pathogenesis of systemic diseases. These salivary proteins have the potential to become cancer-specific biomarkers in the early diagnosis stage. How to effectively identify these potential markers is one of the challenging issues.

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Surface water contains a large number of potential pollutants and their transformation products, which cannot be discovered by normal target analysis alone. To detect site-specific and unknown contaminants in the environment, we established an integral analytical strategy based on liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) combined with data processing using specific software (Compound Discoverer 3.0).

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Phthalic acid esters have potential environmental risk due to their endocrine disrupting effect. The biodegradable and removal characteristics of 11 phthalicacidesters were studied. The results showed that dimethyl phthalate(DMP), dimethoxyethyl phthalate (BMEP), diethyl phthalate(DEP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), diisobutyl phthalate(DIBP), dinamyl phthalate (DNPP), di--hexyl phthalate(DNHP)and bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) had ready biodegradability, dinonyl phthalate (DNP)and dicyclohexyl phthalate (DHP)could be biodegraded but did not pass the 10 d window-period, and only 43.

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A total of 22 water samples collected from Luomahu Lake were determined using high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) to evaluate the pollution level,spatial distribution and ecological risk of 32 PPCPs.23 PPCPs were detected in surface water of Luomahu Lake and the total concentrations of 22 samples were 892-1536 ng·L.The concentration of norfloxacin (256-707 ng·L) was the highest among the detected PPCPs,followed by ketoprofen (85-438 ng·L),acesulfame (101-290 ng·L) and naproxen (1.

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The removal rates of 4-nitroaniline, 4-isopropyl aniline and 2-chloro-4-nitroaniline under different hydraulic retention time (HRT) were tested by employing a simulation method of aerobic biochemical sewage treatment technology in this study. The results showed that when HRT was 6 h, 12 h, and 24 h, the removal rates of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) were 70.2%, 80.

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Sewage treatment plant (STP) is a key transfer station for chemicals distributed into different environment compartment, and hence models of exposure prediction play a crucial role in the environmental risk assessment and pollution prevention of chemicals. A mass balance model namely Chinese Sewage treatment plant (C-STP(O)) was developed to predict the fate and exposure of chemicals in a conventional sewage treatment plant. The model was expressed as 9 mixed boxes by compartment of air, water, suspended solids, and settled solids.

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Objective: To explore the correlation of sperm polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)-DNA adducts with semen quality and sperm apoptosis.

Methods: We collected semen samples from 433 infertile Chinese men, detected sperm PAH-DNA adducts using immunofluorescence staining and flow cytometry, and determined the rate of sperm apoptosis by TUNEL.

Results: Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the level of sperm PAH-DNA adducts was correlated negatively with sperm concentration (beta = -0.

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Aim: To find the cause of abnormal NMR spectra of lomerizine dihydrochloride, cetirizine dihydrochloride and flenfluramine camphoramide.

Methods: Hypothesizing, in given conditions, there are changes of stereoisomeric conformation and configuration in structure of N-containing compounds, it results in abnormality of NMR spectra. By using the method of NMR, it is confirmed credibily.

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Aim: To discuss the relationship between the three-point interaction principle in the stereoselective separation of chromatography and applying this principle to survey the infrared spectrometry of racemate.

Methods: In proving the applicability of the three-point interaction principal in IR spectrometry, a special case was found that phenylglycine did not obtain enantioselective separation on the chiral column but its IR spectrometry still obey this principle and explained such special case by experiment.

Results: After an equal quantity of solid crystal of d-phenylglycine and l-phenylglycine were mixed and ground for several minutes, they transformed to racemic compound.

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