Post-operative infections in orthopaedic implants are severe complications that require urgent solutions. Owing to the presence of implants and the formation of bacterial biofilms, the efficacy of antibiotics is limit...
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Background: Eutrophication of freshwater systems can result in blooms of phytoplankton, in many cases cyanobacteria. This can lead to shifts in structure and functions of phytoplankton communities adversely affecting ...
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Background: Eutrophication of freshwater systems can result in blooms of phytoplankton, in many cases cyanobacteria. This can lead to shifts in structure and functions of phytoplankton communities adversely affecting the quality of drinking water sources, which in turn impairs public health. Relationships between structures of phytoplankton communities and concentrations of the toxicant, microcystin-leucine-arginine (MC-LR), have not been well examined in large shallow lakes. The present study investigated phytoplankton communities at seven locations from January to December of 2015 in Tai Lake, and relationships between structures and diversities of phytoplankton communities and water quality parameters, including concentrations of MC-LR and metals, were analyzed. Results: A total of 124 taxa of phytoplankton were observed, and the predominant taxa were Microcystis sp. and Dolichospermum flos-aquae of Cyanophyta and Planctonema sp. of Chlorophyta. The greatest diversities of phytoplankton communities, as indicated by species richness, Simpson, Shannon-Wiener, the Berger and Parker, and the Pielou evenness indices, were observed in spring. Furthermore, productivity of phytoplankton was significantly and negatively correlated with diversities. These results demonstrated that Simpson, Shannon-Wiener, the Berger and Parker, and the Pielou evenness indices of phytoplankton communities were significantly related to trophic status and overall primary productivity in Tai Lake. In addition, temperature of surface water, pH, permanganate index, biochemical oxygen demand, total phosphorus, arsenic, total nitrogen/total phosphorous ratio, and MC-LR were the main factors associated with structures of phytoplankton communities in Tai Lake. Conclusion: The present study provided helpful information on phytoplankton community structure and diversity in Tai Lake from January to December of 2015. Our findings demonstrated that Simpson, Shannon-Wiener, the Berger and Parker, and the
This paper describes a short-range transceiver architecture using frequency-hopped sinusoidal OOK pulses. Since signal bandwidth does not necessarily have to satisfy > 500 MHz requirement like conventional ultra-wi...
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This paper describes a short-range transceiver architecture using frequency-hopped sinusoidal OOK pulses. Since signal bandwidth does not necessarily have to satisfy > 500 MHz requirement like conventional ultra-wideband (UWB) pulses, the proposed transceiver named as a very-wide band (VWB) transceiver offers degrees of freedom to choose an optimum operation duty cycle in terms of energy efficiency, bandwidth efficiency, and communication range, while providing much lower operation duty cycle than that of narrow band OOK transceiver. The VWB transmission significantly relaxes the complexity of transceiver design without requiring advanced CMOS technology. In the transmitter, pulse generation circuit design is simplified with the duty-cycled sinusoidal signal compared to that in the impulse-radio UWB (IR-UWB) transmitter. In the receiver, an asynchronous energy detection topology is proposed to achieve robust energy detection by overcoming the synchronization issue as well as the saturation problem of the integrator circuit. A prototype 3-to-4 GHz VWB transceiver is implemented in 0.18 mu m CMOS. The transceiver achieves the communication distance of > 2 m at 1 Mb/s data rate with the peak-to-peak pulse amplitude of only 300 mV and the duty cycle of 0.6%, consuming 0.42 mW from a 1.8 V supply.
The crude extract of the endophytePaecilomyces variotii known as ZhiNengCong(ZNC)has function of promoting plant growth and enhancing disease resistance and is widely used in *** study aims to evaluate the molecular...
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The crude extract of the endophytePaecilomyces variotii known as ZhiNengCong(ZNC)has function of promoting plant growth and enhancing disease resistance and is widely used in *** study aims to evaluate the molecular mechanisms of plant growth promotion and disease *** generated transcriptome profiles from ZNC-treated seedlings using RNA *** function of salicylic acid(SA) in ZNC-mediated immunity was examined using SA biosynthesis and signaling pathway *** concentrations of nitrogen(N) and phosphorus(P) in seedlings under ZNC treatment were *** effect of ZNC on the level of the hormone auxin in roots was tested using transgenic plants containing DR5:*** exhibited ultrahigh activity in promoting plant growth and enhancing disease resistance,even at concentrations as low as 1-10 ng/*** induced ROS accumulation,callose deposition,and expression of PR *** biosynthesis and signaling pathways were required for the ZNC-mediated defense ***,in improving plant growth,ZNC increased the level of auxin in root tips and regulated the absorption of N and *** to these results,ZNC is a highly effective plant elicitor that promotes plant growth by inducing auxin accumulation at the root tip at low concentrations and enhances plant disease resistance by activating the SA signaling pathway at high concentrations.
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