The acceleration of industrial development and urban expansion has led to a significant increase in flue gas emissions, posing a significant risk to human health and ecosystems. Recent studies have elucidated the significant potential of microalgae in the domain of sustainable industrial flue gas treatment. However, the inherent multifaceted factors within flue gas exert inhibitory effects on microalgal growth, thereby diminishing the overall system efficacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species of Interphasma Chen & He, 2008 are described in this article from Yunnan, China. Interphasma monticola sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe abundance of insects in Burmese amber illustrates a highly diverse insect community from the mid-Cretaceous period; yet, records of crickets (Grylloidea) are notably scarce. In this study, we describe two new genera with three new species, gen. et sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA phylogeny of Cyrtophyllitinae Zeuner, 1935 Gorochov, Jarzembowski & Coram, 2006, based on wing morphology, is presented including all genera. Cyrtophillitinae is found to be paraphyletic. Except for Oppenheim, 1888, all other species were moved from the subfamily Cyrtophyllitinae (Hagloidea, Haglidae).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper describes a new genus with a new species from Burmese amber, namely: Latedactylus longapedi gen. et sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present the description of a new genus and new species of Trigonidiidae, Qiongqi crinalis gen. et sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe article describes two new species of Trigonidiidae Saussure, 1874, namely Pteronemobius yuani Ma & Wang sp. nov. and Metiochodes tianfuensis Ma, Yuan & Gu sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper describes a new species of the genus Burmadactylus Heads, 2009 (Tridactylidae: Dentridactylinae) from Burmese amber, namely: Burmadactylus tenuicerci sp. nov. This new species is similar to Burmadactylus grimaldi Heads, 2009, but differs from latter by mesotibia basally inflated and almost as long as mesofemur; the second segment of cercus distinctly slender; paraproctal lobe covered with sparse and slender setae, one of the setae near the apex distinct thick and long.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aimed to examine the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI).
Methods: A retrospective study was conducted with data collected from AMI patients who underwent successful PPCI. The study included 61 cases that received 8-week MBSR intervention (MBSR group) and 61 cases that received weekly health education (control group) over the same period.
The abundance of insects in Burmese amber illustrates a highly diverse orthoptera community of the mid-Cretaceous, but the records of ripipterygids are relatively rare. Here, we reviewed the genus of (Xu, Fang and Jarzembowski, 2020) and transfered it from Tridactylidae to Ripipterygidae. Based on four ambers specimens collected from northern Myanmar, two new species, sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species attributed to the genus Panorpidium Westwood, 1854 are described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Beipiao county, Liaoning province, China: Panorpidium acusicaudum sp. nov., P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMitius was initially described by Gorochov in 1985, using Gryllus flavipes (=Mitius flavipes) Chopard, 1928 as the type species. To date, nine species have been discovered across the world (Storozhenko, Kim Jeon, 2015; Cigliano et al. 2021).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe discovery two new species (Trigonidium nigripes sp. nov. and Pteronemobius luojishanensis sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe abundance of insects in Burmese amber illustrates a highly diverse insect community of the mid-Cretaceous, but the records of crickets are relatively rare. Here, we erect two new genera with two new species, gen. et sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe revise the subfamily Zeuneropterinae (Orthoptera, Ensifera) and treat it as the family Palaeorehniidae Zeuner stat. nov. We restore the late Eocene Palaeorehnia Cockerell from Florissant, Colorado, USA to the taxon and describe two new genera and species in it: Ypopteron nicola n.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA high portion of the earliest known insect fauna is composed of the so-called 'lobeattid insects', whose systematic affinities and role as foliage feeders remain debated. We investigated hundreds of samples of a new lobeattid species from the Xiaheyan locality using a combination of photographic techniques, including reflectance transforming imaging, geometric morphometrics, and biomechanics to document its morphology, and infer its phylogenetic position and ecological role. sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new species of Cyrtophyllitinae, Gu, Yue & Ren, is described from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation, Daohugou Village, Inner Mongolia, China. The species is characterized by its ScA reaching the anterior wing margin at the level of the divergence of M+ CuA, distally branched RP, lengths of free CuA and free M equal, and numerous branches of CuA + CuPaα. A new fossil of Gu & Ren, 2012 is described which increases knowledge of its wing venation and indicates that should be assigned to the Tuphellidae.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new fossil genus and species is described from the Middle Jurassic of China. The type of has body and legs preserved. It is distinguished from all other elcanids by the unique combination of wing venation and stout ovipositor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new species of Elcanidae (Orthoptera, Elcanoidea), , is described based on four new specimens from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of northeastern China. The new species differs from all other known Archelcaninae species by its combination of wing-venation characters. This new finding improves our knowledge of variation on wing venation in elcanid insects and constitutes the first record of Elcanidae from the Daohugou fossil bed (Yanliao Biota) of northeastern China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao
February 2019
Objective To investigate the expression of α-smooth muscle actin(α-SMA)in advanced colorectal cancer tissue and its association with chemotherapy response and prognosis.Methods The expression of α-SMA was detected by immunohistochemistry in tissues from 52 advanced colorectal cancer patients who received oxaliplatin plus 5-fluorouracil regimen as first-line chemotherapy. Its relationship with clinical characteristics,chemotherapy response,and survival were analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopment of a photosensitizer that can achieve tumor specificity, improve therapeutic efficacy, and reduce side effects remains a challenge for photodynamic therapy (PDT). In this work, a pH-sensitive activatable nanophotosensitizer (SMSN-ZnPc1) has been elaborately designed, which could be readily prepared by using a functionalized zinc(ii) phthalocyanine (ZnPc) to conjugate with stellate mesoporous silica nanoparticles (SMSNs) through an acid-sensitive hydrazone bond. Meanwhile, a non-activatable analogue SMSN-ZnPc2 has also been prepared as a negative control.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOrthoptera is divided into two suborders, the Ensifera (katydids, crickets and mole crickets) and the Caelifera (grasshoppers and pygmy mole crickets). The earliest definitive caeliferans are those found in the Triassic (Bethoux & Ross 2005). The extinct caeliferan families, such as Locustopsidae and Locustavidae, may prove to be stem groups to some of the modern superfamilies (Grimaldi & Engel 2005).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBehaviors are challenging to reconstruct for extinct species, particularly the nature and origins of acoustic communication. Here we unravel the song of Archaboilus musicus Gu, Engel and Ren sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to understand the effects of stem numbers per ground area on the quality of standard cut Chrysanthemum morifolium, an experiment with different cultivars, different stem numbers per plant, different planting densities, and different planting dates was conducted in a greenhouse in Shanghai in 2005 and 2006. The effects of stem numbers per ground area on the canopy leaf area index and external quality of standard cut C. morifolium were quantified using the experimental data.
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