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The fluvial processes of sediment-laden flow running through the Xiaobeiganliu (XBGL) River reach changed dramatically after the year 2000. Thus, the connection between the sediment source area (area between Toudaoguai and Longmen) and the lower channel requires further analysis. This study aims to investigate the effects of human activities in the drainage area of Toudaoguai-Longmen on XBGL River...
As a coupling river system, watershed management in sediment source areas may influence downstream reach. However, the connectivity between water and sediment retention (WSR) in two coarse sediment source areas (tributaries entering the Inner Mongolia Reach, IMR, and tributaries entering the Middle Yellow River, MYR) and deposition in the Lower Yellow River (LYR) have rarely been compared. Experiential...
Water and soil conservation practices in the Wei River Basin (WRB) may influence the Lower Wei River (LWR) itself and the Lower Yellow River (LYR), of which the Wei is a tributary. Based on data of measured and natural runoff and suspended sediment load (SSL) in the WRB, the connections between runoff and SSL from the WRB and deposition in the LWR, the elevation of Tonggguan Hydrology Station, and...
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from municipal solid waste (MSW) management significantly contribute to high global warming potential (GWP). However, most studies have failed to facilitate identifying MSW management schemes capable of comprehensively meeting the goals from decision-makers at different hierarchical levels under uncertainties. This study develops an inexact bi-level linear programming...
This study proposes an integrated method that simulates and optimizes groundwater design and management in combination with goal programming, which establishes the equilibrium between technical and environmental constraints in a pump-and-treat system. This method is applied to a petroleum-contaminated site in Western Canada to identify optimal remediation strategies given a set of remediation scenarios...
This study proposes an inexact sequential response planning (ISRP) approach for floodplain management on the basis of two-stage stochastic programming techniques. It can facilitate rapid response decision making for upcoming severe flood disasters by efficiently operating available multiple control measures in a quantified manner. The case study considers a floodplain management problem where decision...
Mammary epithelial cells (MECs) from Kunming mice were isolated and stimulated in vitro with 10 µg/mL of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The release of tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) into culture supernatants was measured by ELISA. Furthermore, blocking experiments with Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and TLR4 antibodies were performed to verify whether cytokine secretion...
Caspase-8 is a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family which plays a central role in apoptosis and development. We screened caspase-8 interacting proteins from mouse T-cell lymphoma and 7.5-day embryo cDNA libraries by yeast two-hybrid system and obtained eleven positive clones, including Vacuolar protein sorting 41 (Vps41), a protein involved in trafficking of proteins from...
Mucilage can strongly bind Al in the rhizosphere. Although there are still debates about the role of mucilage in protection of the root apex from Al toxicity, we considered that it might be associated with the characteristics of Al adsorption in mucilage. When the mucilage was kept intact, the accumulation of Al and induction of callose in root tips of pea (Pisum sativum) remained lower; thus root...
The γ-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) of Helicobacter pylori (HpGT) is a newly found virulence factor. In an approach to gain insight into the gene function, the four domains of the HpGT were cloned and expressed in baculovirus expression system. The results of a functional assay showed that the HpGT products acted as GGT, even when the N-terminal 380 amino acids were deleted. However, only the full...
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