The whitespotted conger (Conger myriaster) is an ecologically and economically significant benthic marine species widely distributed across East Asia's coastal waters. Despite this importance, the genomic resource...
The whitespotted conger (Conger myriaster) is an ecologically and economically significant benthic marine species widely distributed across East Asia's coastal waters. Despite this importance, the genomic resources for this species remain limited, hindering evolutionary and aquaculture research. Here, we present the first high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly of C. myriaster using PacBio CLR, WGS, 10X Genomics and Hi-C data. The resulting 1.09 Gb genome assembly exhibits excellent contiguity, with 97.49% of sequences anchored onto 19 chromosomes. The assembled genome achieved a BUSCO completeness stands at 98.00%, containing 34.80% repetitive sequences and 24,063 predicted protein-coding genes. This foundational genomic resource overcomes a major limitation, providing the essential framework for future investigations into the evolutionary adaptations and for the genetic improvement of C. myriaster in aquaculture.
Interface modification of aluminum particles plays a crucial part in reducing the agglomeration during the combustion of solid propellants. In this study, the aluminum (Al) particles are pretreated with gallic acid (G...
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Interface modification of aluminum particles plays a crucial part in reducing the agglomeration during the combustion of solid propellants. In this study, the aluminum (Al) particles are pretreated with gallic acid (GA) to get Al@GA with an adhesion-favorable surface, which facilitates the further coating procedure. One new fluorine-containing organic substance is prepared, namely p-HFBA. The p-HFBA further coats the Al@GA to produce Al@GA/p-HFBA. The interface between Al@GA and the coating layer p-HFBA forms Al-F bonds and induces a pre-ignition reaction with an aluminum oxide shell. Hence, the agglomerate size of propellants containing Al@GA/p-HFBA significantly decreases from 176.30 mu m to 84.72 mu m. The agglomerates volume is reduced by approximately 97 %. Additionally, more gaseous products investigated by TG-MS provide the Al particles with greater impetus (aerodynamic forces, Fae), enabling them to leave the burning surface and reduce the residence time. The rise in Fae and drop in adhesion force (Fad) effectively reduce the agglomeration intensity according to the skeleton layer model. This work proves that interface modification can effectively enhance the combustion performance of aluminized solid propellants.
Aquaponics is a novel ecological agricultural strategy that combines aquaculture and hydroponic cultivation. The relationships between fish immunological and digestive functions, water quality, and bacterial populatio...
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Aquaponics is a novel ecological agricultural strategy that combines aquaculture and hydroponic cultivation. The relationships between fish immunological and digestive functions, water quality, and bacterial populations were not well understood. This study aims to investigate the effects of aquaponics on aquaculture water quality, fish growth performance, and fish health, as well as exploring the roles of microbial taxa in these processes. In the present study, three aquaponics systems were established, and three same sized recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) were constructed to act as controls. To evaluate bacterial community diversity and compositions across different microhabitats in the two systems, we used amplicon-based high-throughput sequencing technique targeting the 16S rRNA gene. In aquaponics, fish had a much greater nitrogen utilization rate, weight gain rate (WGR), feed conversion ratio (FCR), and specific growth rate (SGR) than in controls. The activities of alkaline phosphatase (AKP), acid phosphatase (ACP), lysozyme (LYS), lipase (LPS), and trypsin (TRP) in tissues, all of which are indicators of fish health, were significantly greater in aquaponics than in controls. Aquaponics effectively lowered chlorophyll-a levels while having little effect on other water quality metrics, indicating their potential for better algae control. Water quality measures such as dissolved organic carbon, chlorophyll-a, dissolved oxygen, and ammonia nitrogen had a substantial impact on the fish's immunological and digestive capabilities. In terms of microbial influence, particular gut bacteria-such as the bacterial orders Pseudomonadales, Caulobacterales, Defluviicoccales, Exiguobacterales, and Gemmatales-have been identified as influencing various functions in fish. Among these bacterial orders, we found that Pseudomonadales and Exiguobacterales were more abundant in aquaponics than control systems. This study demonstrated that aquaponics can increase fish health an
Platelets are critical regulators of liver regeneration, but the mechanisms are still not fully understood. Platelets have been shown to contain a wide variety of microRNAs (miRNAs) and play an important role in many ...
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Platelets are critical regulators of liver regeneration, but the mechanisms are still not fully understood. Platelets have been shown to contain a wide variety of microRNAs (miRNAs) and play an important role in many diseases. However, the mechanism that how the platelet microparticles (PMPs)-derived miRNA regulate the hepatocyte proliferation is not very clear. In this study, we have successfully isolated and identified PMPs. We also found that PMPs, which could be well integrated into the HHL-5 cells, could upregulate the level of miR-25-3p in HHL-5 cells. Meanwhile, we found that PMPs-derived miR-25-3p promoted HHL-5 cells proliferation by accelerating cells into the S phase, and enhanced the autophagy by increasing the LC3II expression and reducing the P62 expression. Then, we proved that the miR-25-3p could target the B-cell translocation gene 2 (BTG2) and downregulate the expression levels of the BTG2 gene in HHL-5 cells. In addition, the overexpression of BTG2 significantly inhibited the proliferation and autophagy abilities of HHL-5 cells, while cotransfected miR-25-3p mimics or PMPs could partially rescue HHL-5 cells proliferation and autophagy. Furthermore, we proved that PMPs accelerated hepatocyte proliferation by regulating autophagy pathways. Therefore, PMPs-derived miR-25-3p promoted HHL-5 cell proliferation and autophagy by targeting BTG2, which may be a new therapeutic method for liver regeneration.
A surfactant interfacial adsorption process is highly associated with its micellization behaviors in the water phase, which is of great fundamental and practical significance in enhanced oil recovery. In this paper, t...
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A surfactant interfacial adsorption process is highly associated with its micellization behaviors in the water phase, which is of great fundamental and practical significance in enhanced oil recovery. In this paper, the typical anionic surfactant 1-dodecanesulfonic acid sodium (DAS) and nonionic surfactants octylphenol polyoxyethylene ether-n (OP-n, n = 1, 5, and 10) are introduced to investigate their micellization behavior and interfacial adsorption process via molecular dynamics simulation. Number density profiles reveal that the additional OP5 molecules in the water phase generate the mixed micelle with DAS molecules and greatly promote its interfacial adsorption. Interaction energy calculation is employed to confirm the interaction of anionic/nonionic surfactants in the mixed micelle. Then, the radial distribution function, solvent-accessible surface area, and solvation free energy are calculated to further explore and verify the adsorption mechanism of the mixed micelle. It is found that the nonionic surfactant obviously decreases the hydrophilicity of the mixed micelle in the water phase, which should be responsible for its intensive tendency of the interfacial adsorption.
The present invention falls within in the fields of organic synthesis and pharmaceutical chemistry. In particular, the present invention relates to a series of dimeric indole alkaloid compounds as shown in structural ...
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The present invention falls within in the fields of organic synthesis and pharmaceutical chemistry. In particular, the present invention relates to a series of dimeric indole alkaloid compounds as shown in structural general formula I, preparation methods therefor and the use of same in the preparation of antibacterial drugs. After same undergo in vitro activity screening, the results show that such compounds have strong antibacterial activity, in particular have specific inhibitory effects on gram-positive bacteria, such as strains of staphylococcus, bacillus and enterococcus, and related drug-resistant strains thereof, and can be used as the lead compounds for developing new antibacterial drugs.
Detection of surface defects using computer vision is a pivotal technology for achieving intelligent manufacturing. Leather products are one of the most widely traded goods in the world, and automatic identification, ...
Detection of surface defects using computer vision is a pivotal technology for achieving intelligent manufacturing. Leather products are one of the most widely traded goods in the world, and automatic identification, localization, and detection of surface defects in leather are indispensable for achieving intelligent manufacturing of leather products. This research paper proposes FG-DETR, a multi-scale feature fusion extraction structure for small target detection algorithms. Given the recent success of deep learning methods in various related fields and that certain defects and flaws in leather pictures in our dataset are relatively small. FG-DETR is based on DETR with some improvements as follows, Initially, DETR's ResNet50 network performs feature extraction on the original image and produces four scales of feature maps. Second, we apply a modified Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) to downsample and upsample the four scales of feature maps, followed by the fusion and output of a single feature map. A Gaussian kernel and output then process the fused feature maps as the final feature maps. Finally, the feature maps are merged with the position encoding information and combined into the Transformer encoder-decoder architecture, resulting in the detection outcomes through the Position-wise Feed-Forward Networks (FFN). In our leather dataset, the FG-DETR model is more effective in detecting small targets than DETR, as our leather images are large, and the original DETR is nearly ineffective for images with relatively small defects. The average detection accuracy of medium and large targets also improved, with a 7.6 percentage point improvement at AP50. The experimental findings demonstrate that the multi-scale feature fusion extraction structure significantly enhances the detection accuracy of DETR.
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