Resolving the Stellar-Collapse and Hierarchical-Merger Origins of the Coalescing Black Holes.

Spin and mass properties provide essential clues in distinguishing the origins of coalescing black holes (BHs). With a dedicated semiparametric population model for the coalescing binary black holes (BBHs), we identify two distinct categories of BHs among the GWTC-3 events, which is favored over the one population scenario by a logarithmic Bayes factor (lnB) of 7.5.

Chlorogenic acid alleviates renal fibrosis by reducing lipid accumulation in diabetic kidney disease through suppressing the Notch1 and Stat3 signaling pathway.

Aims: Abnormal renal lipid metabolism causes renal lipid deposition, which leads to the development of renal fibrosis in diabetic kidney disease (DKD). The aim of this study was to investigate the effect and mechanism of chlorogenic acid (CA) on reducing renal lipid accumulation and improving DKD renal fibrosis.

Methods: This study evaluated the effects of CA on renal fibrosis, lipid deposition and lipid metabolism by constructing and models of DKD, and detected the improvement of Notch1 and Stat3 signaling pathways.

Assembly processes of eukaryotic plankton communities in the world's largest drinking water diversion project.

The largest engineered water diversion project-the Middle Route of the South to North Water Diversion Project (MRP), is of strategic importance in solving the problem of the northern water shortage in China. Eukaryotic plankton are important to the water quality stability in the MRP, but little has been reported about their dynamics and assembly processes, especially for abundant and rare communities. In this study, amplicon sequencing was used to investigate the eukaryotic plankton communities.

[Purification Effect of Piggery Wastewater with by Immobilized Biofilm-Attached Culture].

Piggery wastewater treatment with microalgae is a biological recycling technology. To evaluate the purification effect, this study investigated the treatment of piggery wastewater at different dilution ratios with by attached cultivation and lipid production of algae cells and explored the tolerance of to the piggery wastewater, which has high ammonia nitrogen. The piggery wastewater was diluted with purified water 1-, 2-, 5-, and 10-fold in culture media.

Development of nitrogen supply strategy for Scenedesmus rubescens attached cultivation toward growth and lipid accumulation.

In this study, the microalgae Scenedesmus rubescens were cultivated under the following nitrogen sources, nitrogen concentrations, and nitrogen feeding times (NFTs). This was to help assess biomass and lipid productivity. Scenedesmus rubescens can grow well by adhering to the cellulose acetate membrane in five kinds of nitrogen medium: KNO, urea, NaNO, (NH)CO, and NHNO.

Biofilm Attached Cultivation of Is a Developed System for Swine Wastewater Treatment and Lipid Production.

This study showed the new potential of using soluble contents and heavy metals in swine wastewater as nutrient supplements for the algae with biofilm attached method. Algae with biofilm attached cultivation grew well in unpasteurized wastewater reaching a biomass productivity of 5.03 g m d, lipid content of 35.