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Pollution levels and ecological risks of PPCPs in water and sediment samples of Danjiangkou Reservoir
The concentrations and distribution patterns of three typical pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in water and sediment samples obtained from Danjiangkou Reservoir during two seasonal sampling p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis and Suggestion of Water Source Safety Guarantee of Danjiangkou Reservoir
Danjiangkou Reservoir is the water source for the Middle Route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project, as well as an important drinking water source of Hubei Province. In 2021, Danjiangkou Reservoir has a go...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Antibiotic Contamination and Ecological Risks Assessment of Typical Lakes in the Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River in China
Antibiotics have been detected in natural environment in many regions of the world, and their potential disadvantageous influences on organisms in the environment have attracted widespread attention. The sewag...
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Feasibility and safety of both His bundle pacing and left bundle branch area pacing in atrial fibrillation patients: intermediate term follow-up
His bundle pacing (HBP) improves heart failure (HF) in atrial fibrillation (AF) pacing–dependent patients with a potential for a progressively increased threshold. HBP with right ventricular pacing (RVP) as a ...
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Open AccessTraining load of newly recruited nurses in Grade-A Tertiary Hospitals in Shanghai, China: a qualitative study
This study aimed to provide insight into the training load of newly recruited nurses in grade-A tertiary hospitals in Shanghai, China. The lack of nurses in hospitals across China has resulted in newly recruit...
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Closing of the Haldane gap in a spin-1 XXZ chain
We study the energy gaps of a spin-1 XXZ model in one dimension. Using an infinite-size density matrix renormalization group (iDMRG) and a variational uniform matrix product state algorithm (vuMPS), we obtaine...
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Spatial distributions of metal(loid)s and their transport in agricultural soils around abandoned metal mine sites in South Korea
To develop efficient strategies and methods to remediate soils contaminated by metal(loid)s, it is vital to monitor the metal(loid)s in the soil by conducting field surveys and properly understanding their tra...
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Open AccessIsolated pulmonary valve endocarditis with rapid progression: a case report and literature review
Isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis (IPE) is rare, accounting for 1.5–2% of all cases of infective endocarditis. Herein, we describe a case of isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis with rapid progression in ...
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Open AccessComparison of left atrial and left atrial appendage mechanics in the risk stratification of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation
Left atrial (LA) and left atrial appendage (LAA) dysfunction has been demonstrated to contribute to atrial fibrillation (AF)-related stroke. However, usefulness of LA and LAA mechanics has not been fully compa...
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N-Terminal Fused Signal Peptide Prompted Extracellular Production of a Bacillus-Derived Alkaline and Thermo Stable Xylanase in E. coli Through Cell Autolysis
Xylanases are extensively used as industrial enzymes for its ability of hydrolyzing xylan to oligosaccharides. Here, XynHB, a thermo and alkaline stable xylanase derived from Bacillus pumilus HBP8, was extracellu...
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An Insight into Diversity and Functionalities of Gut Microbiota in Insects
The gut microbiota has long been of research interests due to its nutritional importance for many insects. It has been demonstrated that diversity of gut microbiota in insects can be modulated by many factors,...
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The leaching characteristics of Cd, Zn, and As from submerged paddy soil and the effect of limestone treatment
Rice is cultivated in a paddy system, in which there are variations in water depth with the growth of rice, as well as alternating physical and chemical conditions in the subsurface soil such as alternating ox...
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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Degrading Microflora in a Tropical Oil-Production Well
The surrounding environment near Dagang oil-production well suffers polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) pollution. In the present study, indigenous microorganisms capable of degrading PAHs were isolated an...
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Evaluate the heavy metal toxicity to Pseudomonas fluorescens in a low levels of metal-chelates minimal medium
A 2-(n-morpholino)ethane sulfonic acid (MES)-buffered minimal medium with low levels of metal chelates was used to evaluate the heavy metal (Co+2, Pb+2, Zn+2, Fe+2, Fe+3, Cd+2, Cu+2, and Cr+6) toxicity to Pseudom...
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Investigating Pseudomonas putida–Candida humicola Interactions as Affected by Chelate Fe(III) in Soil
Microcalorimetric technique was applied to assess the toxic effect of EDTA-chelated trivalent iron on Pseudomonas putida (P. putida) (bacterium), Candida humicola (C. humicola) (fungus) and their mixture in steri...
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Isolation and characterization of a newly isolated pyrene-degrading Acinetobacter strain USTB-X
The pryene-degradation bacterium strain USTB-X was newly isolated from the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-contaminated soil in Bei**g Coking Plant, China. The strain was identified as Acinetobacter with r...
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Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soil on Germination, Metabolism and Early Growth of Green Gram, Vigna radiata L.
The objective of the present study was to evaluate effects of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soil on the leguminous plant, Vigna radiata L. Seed germination, metabolism and early growth performance of V. radi...
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Removal of uranium(VI) from aqueous solution by apricot shell activated carbon
Uranium is a toxic and radioactive heavy metal found in nuclear effluents and should be treated based on environmental considerations. The adsorption of uranyl cations (UO2 2+) by apricot shell ac...
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Construction and Application in Plasmid Vectors of Bacillus cereus Group
The B. cereus group (B. cereus sense lato) is a subgroup of related Bacillus containing six species: B. thuringiensis, B. anthracis, B. cereus, B. weihenstephanensis, B. mycoides and B. pseudomycoides. The first ...
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Rational questing for potential novel inhibitors of FabK from Streptococcus pneumoniae by combining FMO calculation, CoMFA 3D-QSAR modeling and virtual screening
Enoyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) reductase (ENR) is an attractive and potential target for develo** selective antibacterial agents. Recent studies showed that FabK is the sole isoform of ENR in Streptococcus pn...
