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Correction to: Machine Learning Accelerates De Novo Design of Antimicrobial Peptides
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Machine Learning Accelerates De Novo Design of Antimicrobial Peptides
Efficient and precise design of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) is of great importance in the field of AMP development. Computing provides opportunities for peptide de novo design. In the present investigation, ...
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Can the transfer of polluting industries achieve a win–win situation for both the economy and the environment? Research based on the perspective of environmental regulation
As China’s industrial structure is continuously evolving, the transfer of polluting industries between domestic regions has become increasingly evident, and the resulting economic and environmental contradicti...
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How does artificial intelligence development affect green technology innovation in China? Evidence from dynamic panel data analysis
As the global climate problem becomes increasingly serious, the green technology innovation to achieve “carbon peak and carbon neutral” has gradually become the global consensus of major countries, and how the...
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Fiscal decentralization, government innovation preference, and haze pollution
Local governments are the dominant players in haze pollution control; furthermore, financial power reconstruction affects the effectiveness of haze control. Government innovation preference achieves win-win re...
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Forecasting carbon emissions from energy consumption in Guangdong Province, China with a novel grey multivariate model
Carbon dioxide has a significant impact on global climate change due to its natural greenhouse effect. The objective and credible forecast of carbon emissions is very important for the government to formulate ...
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The employment effect of Chinese industrial enterprises embedded in environmental cost-adjusted global value chains
The employment effect of enterprises embedded in global value chains (GVCs) has important theoretical value, but existing research has ignored the impact of environmental costs on employment under the division...
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Diversity and distribution of bacterioplankton in the coastal upwelling waters off Hainan Island, China
The diversity, community composition and 16S rRNA gene abundance of bacterioplankton along a transect across an upwelling area off the eastern coast of Hainan Island (the Qiongdong upwelling) were investigated...
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Effects of Suspended Particulate Reactive Phosphorus on Phosphorus Cycle in the Pearl River Estuary
Phosphorus (P) is potentially the most limiting nutrient in the Pearl River estuary, and thus, it is important to understand various sources of P. Suspended particulate matter (SPM) is usually high in the rive...
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Numerical Study of the Three Gorges Dam Influences on Chlorophyll-a in the Changjiang Estuary and the Adjacent East China Sea
The impoundment of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) has altered downstream hydrological characteristics and sediment discharge, and it has caused ecological impacts, such as changes in chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) in estuarie...
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Open AccessDynamics of nutrient and phytoplankton in Epe Lagoon, Nigeria: possible causes and consequences of reoccurring cyanobacterial blooms
The impact of environmental variables and processes of nutrient enrichment on phytoplankton community at Epe lagoon was studied for 18 months (November 2012–April 2014). Two cyanobacterial bloom incidences wer...
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Regeneration and utilization of nutrients during collapse of a Mesodinium rubrum red tide and its influence on phytoplankton species composition
High-biomass red tides occur frequently in some semi-enclosed bays of Hong Kong where ambient nutrients are not high enough to support such a high phytoplankton biomass. These high-biomass red tides release ma...
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GlobalHAB: Fostering International Coordination on Harmful Algal Bloom Research in Aquatic Systems
GlobalHAB, “Global Harmful Algal Blooms,” is a new scientific programme on harmful algal blooms (HABs) cosponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO and the Scientific Committee...
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Effects of sandy vs muddy sediments on the vertical distribution of microphytobenthos in intertidal flats of the Fraser River Estuary, Canada
Benthic algae or microphytobenthos (MPB) in intertidal flats play an important role in the sediment and overlying water ecosystems. We hypothesize that there are effects of sediment texture on the vertical dis...
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Open AccessEffects of viruses on bacterial functions under contrasting nutritional conditions for four species of bacteria isolated from Hong Kong waters
Free living viruses are ubiquitous in marine waters and concentrations are usually several times higher than the bacterial abundance. These viruses are capable of lysing host bacteria and therefore, play an im...
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Spatial and seasonal variations of nutrients in sediment profiles and their sediment-water fluxes in the Pearl River Estuary, Southern China
Three cruises were launched in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) in 2005 to investigate the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients associated with early diagenesis related to degradation of organic matter. Seasonal a...
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Resistance of Hong Kong waters to nutrient enrichment: assessment of the role of physical processes in reducing eutrophication
Hong Kong waters receive high nutrient loading from year-round sewage effluent and Pearl River discharge during the summer wet season. We assessed the role of physical processes in reducing eutrophication by c...
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Nitrogen Sources and Rates of Phytoplankton Uptake in Different Regions of Hong Kong Waters in Summer
Phytoplankton uptake rates of ammonium (NH4 +), nitrate (NO3 −), and urea were measured at various depths (light levels) in Hong Kong waters during the summer of 2008 using 15N tra...
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Inorganic and Organic Nitrogen Uptake by Phytoplankton and Bacteria in Hong Kong Waters
Measurements of uptake rates of inorganic (NO 3 − and NH 4 + ) and organic (urea, glycine, and glutamic aci...
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Chemometric study of spatial variations of environmental and ecological characteristics in the Zhujiang River (Pearl River) Estuary and adjacent waters
Chemometric approach based on principal component analysis (PCA) was utilized to examine the spatial variances of environmental and ecological characteristics in the Zhujiang River (Pearl River) Estuary and ad...
