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Jeon et al . (Reports, 29 January 2021, p. 498) reported reversible fluctuations between disordered and crystalline states during nucleation. We argue that the adoption of “magic numbers” for separation of the size range into three parts is misleading when using the sigmoid functions and that their figure 3B was wrongly illustrated. The crystal shape effect was neglected during theoretical analysis.

Low angle dependence single green polystyrene colloidal crystal films were prepared by vertical deposition method using polystyrene microspheres with size of 380 ± 10 nm as raw material and further modified by adding nano-carbon. Without nano-carbon addition, the film showed various colors with changing the angle of incident light under natural light. With nano-carbon addition, saturation and angle dependence of the polystyrene colloidal crystal film were remarkably improved. With 0.01 wt % nano-carbon addition, since the stray light of other wavelengths other than the band gap light was absorbed by the added nano-carbon, the film showed only green color under different angles of incident light, suggesting that the film had low angle dependence. It is significant in the research of color behavior and is helpful to obtain single color polystyrene colloidal crystal film.

Inverse opal zirconia is useful in many ways because of their ability to combine several chemical and physical properties. In this research, polystyrene template was fabricated by self-assembly method and inverse opal zirconia was prepared by colloidal crystal-templating method. The process of preparation of inverse opal zirconia as well as effects on morphology and phase of as-prepared inverse opal zirconia were studied. The results showed precursor ratio of zirconium acetate and methanol, mass ratio of polystyrene templates and precursor and dipping times had remarkable influence on morphology of inverse opal zirconia. When the precursor ratio was 1:1; the mass ratio was 1:15 and dipped once, much better morphology of inverse opal zirconia was obtained. The mass ratio, sintering temperature and holding time had significant effect on crystallization of zirconia. Pure phase zirconia could be obtained when sintered at 600 oC, holding time was 2h and the mass ratio was 1:1. A distinguished single stop band in the visible region of the spectrum and unique structural color were observed in inverse opal zirconia, which will make this material promising candidate for novel pigment.

Using Bi(NO3)3·5H2O and Si(OC2H5)4 as the starting materials, citric acid and polyethylene glycol (PEG)-6000 as the complexing agents, pure Bi2SiO5 powders with good photocatalytic activity were first prepared at low temperature via Pechini sol–gel method. The effect of calcination temperature on the preparation of pure phase as well as the photocatalytic properties was investigated. The thermal analysis and X-ray diffraction results showed that the crystallization temperature of Bi2SiO5 is about 400 °C and pure sample can be obtained at 550 °C. The infrared spectra indicated the pure Bi2SiO5 samples have an Aurivillius-like structure. Furthermore, the as-prepared Bi2SiO5 exhibited efficient photocatalytic activity in the decomposition of Rhodamine B due to a synergistic effect of adsorption and photocatalysis.

Lithium metatitanate (β-Li 2 TiO 3 ) pebbles were fabricated via the modified indirect wet chemistry method. Effect of varied additives, as polyvinyl alcohol, glycerol, and agar on the properties evolution was investigated. The highest density is obtained by adding 2 wt% (weight percent) polyvinyl alcohol, 3 wt% glycerol, and 3 wt% agar, respectively. β-Li 2 TiO 3 pebbles with relative sintered density of 92.4%T.D. (Theoretical Density), the ratio of the intensity of diffraction peak (002) to that of (−133) of about 2.93, about 1.58 mm in diameter, a better sphericity of 1.02, the particle size of 5–6 μm, and the well-developed surface layered structure are successfully fabricated with 3 wt% glycerol. Glycerol is beneficial to improving the properties by other fabrication method as well.

The effects of red/blue=3/1 [R/B=3/1(9/3), as control, CK本试验采用发光二极管(LED)精准调控光源环境,以‘改良大龙茄’为试材,在前期探明红/蓝组合光(R/B)=3/1有利于培育茄子壮苗基础上,以R/B=3/1(9/3,CK

To get optimal nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P本试验采用三因子二次饱和D-最优设计(310),以蛭石为栽培介质,建立了以氮、磷、钾浓度为变量因子,茄子产量和品质为目标函数的三元二次数学模型,以期得到茄子优质高产最优氮磷钾浓度范围.对模型解析结果表明: 氮、磷、钾浓度对茄子产量和品质均有显著影响.对产量和品质的影响程度均以钾浓度较大,对产量的影响程度以氮浓度次之,磷浓度较小,对品质则为磷浓度次之,氮浓度较小.氮磷、氮钾、磷钾浓度交互对茄子产量均有显著影响;氮钾浓度交互对茄子品质亦有显著影响.在低水平条件下,茄子产量和品质均随氮、磷、钾浓度增加而增加,但超过一定范围后,茄子产量和品质均随之降低.通过计算机模拟运算得出,本试验条件下茄子单株产量达3600 g的施肥方案为:氮16.0～20.0 mmol·L

Metastable Bi2SiO5 phase powders were synthesized successfully by Pechini sol-gel method using a simple starting hydro-alcoholic solution consisting of Bi(NO3)3 · 5H2O, TEOS, citric acid, and PEG-6000. The effects of Bi/Si molar ratio, citric acid, and PEG-6000 on the properties of pure Bi2SiO5 powders were investigated. The crystalline phase and fluorescence properties were characterized. The process of Pechini sol-gel method and the effect of purity on fluorescence properties were studied in this paper. X-ray diffraction results illustrate that single phase of Bi2SiO5 can be obtained at 650°C for 1 h. Furthermore, the maximum fluorescence emission wavelength of the powders is located at 355 nm, which represents the band gap of Bi2SiO5 powders is 3.49 eV.

Due to the increasing number of service agreements between service providers and users and the lack of standard in agreement specifications in service computing environments, there is need for an efficient service mapping and provider selection approach that focuses on Service Level Agreement (SLA) documents. This paper proposes a novel SLA mapping and provider selection approach with annotated ontological semantic information to WS-Agreement and advanced mapping rules using semantic web rule language (SWRL) and web ontology language (OWL) ontologies. The experimental data shows that our proposed approach is superior to other proficient approaches, because it can properly exploit ontological semantic technology in service specification and matchmaking.

Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL) is a rare gastrointestinal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, originating from intraepithelial T-lymphocyte, which is specifically associated with celiac disease. EATL most commonly presents in the sixth and seventh decades of life. We report a unique case of type I EATL in the colon with liver metastasis, which was presented with nonspecific radiological findings and at a very young age (29 years old) compared with previously published data. We suggest that EATL should be regarded as part of differential diagnosis in any patient presenting with abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, and malabsorption because delay in treatment can result in an irreversible clinical outcome.

The solution culture method was used to study the effects of sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on plant growth, nutrient uptake and antioxidant enzyme activities of tomato seedlings under iron deficiency and NO采用营养液培养方法,研究外源NO供体(硝普钠,SNP)对缺铁和硝酸盐胁迫番茄幼苗生长、养分吸收及抗氧化酶活性的影响.结果表明: 处理7 d后,缺铁使番茄幼苗生长受到抑制,叶绿素a、b、类萝卜素含量显著降低,出现明显失绿症状;降低叶片中超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)、过氧化物酶(POD)和过氧化氢酶(CAT)的活性,电解质渗漏率、丙二醛含量明显增加,脯氨酸和可溶性糖含量变化不显著,幼苗叶片和根中N、P、K、Ca、Mg、Fe含量比对照处理有不同程度的减少.硝酸盐和缺铁双重胁迫对番茄幼苗生长抑制加剧,叶绿素a、b、类萝卜素含量、SOD、POD和CAT活性显著降低,电解质渗漏率、脯氨酸、可溶性糖和丙二醛含量明显增加;番茄幼苗叶片和根中N、P、Mg、Fe含量显著减少,而K、Ca含量显著增加. 与不添加处理相比,添加0.1 mmol·L

'Jinyan No. 4'cucumber was used as experimental material. The growth of cucumber radicles treated with different concentrations of p-hydroxybenzoic acid (0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, 15, 17.5 and 20 mmol·L以‘津研四号’黄瓜为试材,分别用0、2.5、5、7.5、10、12.5、15、17.5、20 mmol·L

To investigate the effect of calcium and ABA on photosynthesis and the activities of antioxidant enzymes in cucumber seedlings under drought stress, the cucumber was used as the expe-riment materials, normal nutrient solution culture was considered as the control, and PEG-6000 application in the nutrient solution simulated the drought stress. There were five different treatments which were spraying water, ABA, CaCl为探讨在干旱胁迫下钙与脱落酸对黄瓜幼苗光合作用及相关酶活性的影响,以黄瓜为试材,正常营养液栽培为对照,利用PEG-6000(聚乙二醇)营养液添加模拟干旱胁迫,设干旱胁迫条件下幼苗叶片喷施清水、脱落酸(ABA)、CaCl

The effects of white light, red light, blue light, yellow light, red+blue light and red+blue+yellow light on the growth and quality of Gynura bicolor were investigated under the same light intensity (350±5 μmol·m以紫背天葵为供试材料,采用LED灯精量调控光质和光强,研究相同光照强度(350±5 μmol·m

In breast cancer, metastasis is the main reason for patient mortality. In the present study, we used breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells and a mouse xenograft model to demonstrate the effect of emodin on the migration, invasion and metastasis of human breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells and the related mechanisms. In vitro, wound healing and Transwell assays showed that emodin dose-dependently inhibited the migration and invasion of MDA-MB-231 cells. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) showed that emodin decreased the secretion of MMP-2 and MMP-9. Western blot analysis showed that emodin downregulated the expression levels of MMP-2, MMP-9, uPA and uPAR as well as p38 inhibitor SB203580 and ERK inhibitor PD980559, even though TIMP-1 and TIMP-2 were not obviously changed in the MDA-MB-231 cells. Furthermore, emodin inhibited the activity of p38 and ERK1/2 in the MDA-MB-231 cells. In vivo, emodin inhibited lung metastasis in mice bearing the breast cancer MDA-MB-231 xenografts with no obvious changes in body weight, liver and kidney functions. These results indicated that emodin inhibited the lung metastasis of human breast cancer in a mouse xenograft model, and inhibited the invasion of MDA-MB-231 cells associated with the downregulation of MMP-2, MMP-9, uPA and uPAR expression as well as decreased activity of p38 and ERK.

Bi2SiO5 is a metastable phase compound and one of the important Bi-based Aurivillius phase oxide semiconductors. Pure Bi2SiO5 powders were synthesized successfully by Pechini sol–gel method. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, field-emission scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, thermal analyzer, FTIR spectrometer, Raman spectrometer, fluorescence spectrophotometer and UV/Vis/NIR spectrophotometer. The mechanism of the reaction process was studied. The structure, the optical and photocatalytic properties of pure samples were investigated. The results show that citric acid, polyethylene glycol, solvents and calcination temperature have important effects on the reaction, and pure Bi2SiO5 can be obtained at 650 °C for 1 h. The as-prepared Bi2SiO5 has a typical Aurivillius-like structure and its bang gap energy is 3.5 eV. The results of degradation of Rhodamine B reveal that pure Bi2SiO5 powders prepared by Pechini sol–gel method possess a synergistic effect of adsorption and photocatalysis, which indicates that the Bi2SiO5 powders can be used as an efficient material for wastewater treatment.

The new method of laser prestressed bending of Titanium alloy sheet is put forward in this paper. Titanium alloy sheet is produced pre-deformation by a clamp, the laser beam with some certain intensity scans its surface along the given path, and it is formed due to the thermal effect of the laser to reduce the yield strength of the scanning area and enhance its plastic deformation ability. A feasibility experiment for Ti-6Al-4V sheet is done and the bending effect is remarkable. Laser prestressed bending mechanism is described and the main influence factors are analyzed.

The effects of red light, blue light, red+blue light and white light (control) generated by LED on the quality and antioxidation capacity of fruit and yield of ' Brita' eggplants were stu died. The results showed that under blue LED, the soluble protein, free amino acids contents o eggplant pulps and the anthocyanin content of eggplant peels were significantly higher by 15.1%, 27.2% and 73.6% than control respectively, but flavonoid and phenolic contents of pulps and the yield were significantly lower than those of the other treatments. Under red LED, the eggplant peels flavonoid was remarkably increased, but vitamin C (Vc) and soluble protein contents were consi derably decreased. Under red+blue LED, the soluble sugar of pulps and phenolic, red pigment yellow pigment contents, total antioxidation capacity (TAG) of peels and the yield were significantly higher than those of the other treatments, in which, the TAC of peels and the yield increased by 43.5% and 43.4% compared with control, respectively. Vc, flavonoid and phenolic contents and TAC of eggplant pulps were the highest under white LED. There was significant positive correlation between the phenol content of peels and Vc content of pulps with TAC. Under the protected cultivation condition, an appropriate amount of blue or red LED could improve the quality of eggplant fruit, and red+blue LED was more beneficial to promote the quality of eggplant peels and the yield.

The control effects of Eupolyphaga (Eupolyphaga sinensis Walker) frass and its extracts on Meloidogyne incognita were studied through laboratory assays and pot experiments, and the organic volatile compounds and oligochitosan contents in the frass were analyzed. The results indicated that the nematode immobility and mortality was significantly increased with increasing the extract concentration and treatment time. Compared with the control, egg hatching was significantly inhibited when the extract concentration was beyond 20%. Pot experiment indicated that root galling of tomato seedlings was reduced and the relative control effect was significantly improved with the increasing frass application. Meanwhile, plant height, stem diameter and leaf number of tomato increased with the increasing dosage of eupolyphaga frass. The ingredients analysis showed that the content of oligochitosan was about 4.35% and there were 9 categories and 110 kinds of volatile compounds in the frass.

In order to explore the effects of NO3- stress on photosynthetic characteristics and nitrogen metabolism, strawberry seedlings were grown in sand culture condition under different concentrations of NO3- (64, 112 and 160 mmol · L(-1)) with the control of 16 mmol NO3- · L(-1). The results indicated that at the 8th day after treatment, with the increased NO3- concentration, the strawberry leaf net photosynthetic rate (Pn), stomatal conductance (g(s)), PS II actual photochemical efficiency (ΦPS II), PS II maximum photochemical efficiency (Fv/Fm), and photochemical quenching coefficient (q(P)) significantly decreased, and decreased by 67.7%, 68.4%, 35.7%, 23.2% and 26.9%, respectively, when NO3- concentration reached 160 mmol · L(-1) compared with the control. The non-photochemical quenching coefficient (q(N)) increased by 4.4%, 10.9% and 75.8% respectively in the treatments of 64, 112 and 160 mmol NO3- · L(-1) compared with the control. The intercellular CO2 concentration (Ci) decreased under low NO3- concentration stress and then increased under high NO3- concentration stress, while the stomatal limitation (Ls) was vice versa. With the increased NO3- concentration, the nitrate nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen and Kjeldahl nitrogen contents in the strawberry leaves and roots increased, but the protein nitrogen content decreased. The activities of nitrate reductase (NR) , glutamine sybthetase (GS), glutamate synthase (GOGAT) and glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) increased at low NO3- concentration and then decreased at high NO3 concentration. Consequently, the net photosynthetic rate of strawberry seedling leaves decreased, the PS II electron transfer was blocked, the nitrogen accumulated with the increasing NO3- concentration, and the nitrogen metabolism enzyme activity decreased at high NO3- concentrations. When the NO3- concentration reached 64 mmol · L(-1) or higher in the nutrient solution, the growth of strawberry seedlings were inhibited significantly.

The effects of NO3- stress on the growth and the magnesium absorption of cucumber seedlings were investigated after 1 and 14 d of suboptimal temperature [18 °C/12 °C (day/night)] treatment. The results indicated that the growth, net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, Fv/Fm and ΦPSII of cucumber seedlings were significantly inhibited by NO3- stress under suboptimal temperature. The magnesium content of cucumber seedlings was also significantly decreased compared with control treatment, especially in the IV treatment (suboptimal temperature +140 mmol · L(-1) NO3- + 1 mmol · L(-1) Mg2+), and the antagonistic impact of magnesium ion absorption on the absorption of potassium and calcium ion was observed. The magnesium deficiency symptom of cucumber seedlings could be partly alleviated by increasing the concentration of magnesium ion in the nutrient solution.

Based on the density functional calculations, the structural and electronic properties of the WS2/graphene heterojunction under different strains are investigated. The calculated results show that unlike the free mono-layer WS2, the monolayer WS2 in the equilibrium WS2/graphene heterojunctionis characterized by indirect band gap due to the weak van der Waals interaction. The height of the schottky barrier for the WS2/graphene heterojunction is 0.13 eV, which is lower than the conventional metal/MoS2 contact. Moreover, the band properties and height of schottky barrier for WS2/graphene heterojunction can be tuned by strain. It is found that the height of the schottky barrier can be tuned to be near zero under an in-plane compressive strain, and the band gap of the WS2 in the heterojunction is turned into a direct band gap from the indirect band gap with the increasing schottky barrier height under an in-plane tensile strain. Our calculation results may provide a potential guidance for designing and fabricating the WS2-based field effect transistors.

Cucumber cultivar 'Jinyan 4' was subjected to suboptimal temperature treatment of 18/12 degrees C (day/night) in the growth chambers. A solution culture experiment was conducted to study the effect of exogenously spraying 5 mg x L(-1) chlorophyllin-iron solution on plant growth, the content of proline, soluble sugar, MDA and activity of peroxidase in the leaves of cucumber seedling under suboptimal temperature. Application of chlorophyllin-iron showed prominent effects on mitigating the stress of suboptimal temperature on growth of the cucumber seedlings, significantly increasing the plant height, leaf area, shoot dry mass, the contents of soluble sugar and proline and the activities of SOD, POD, CAT and APX. Exogenously spraying chlorophyllin-iron could promote the accumulation of proline and soluble sugar, raise the activities of antioxidant enzymes, decrease the membrane lipid peroxidation and improve the adaptability of cucumber seedlings under suboptimal temperature.

Radix Glycyrrhiza has been used in China for thousand years to treat cancer. However, focus on its tumor-suppressing mechanism has been concentrated on its effect on tumor cell growth and apoptosis.With the aid of a panel of human breast cancer cell lines, we reveal that glycyrrhetinic acid (GA), a major component of Radix Glycyrrhiza, is actually a significantly more potent agent to suppress invasion than cell survival.GA effectively inhibits breast cancer cell MMP-2/MMP-9 expression; GA-induced reduction in the MMP-2/9 expression is apparently mediated by GA's ability to specifically inhibit the p38 MAPK activity and its downstream AP1 activation. Moreover, we show that GA down regulates the levels of Fra-1 and c-Jun, two main components of AP1 transcription complex in invasive breast cancer cells and that AP1-specific inhibitor abrogates breast cancer cell invasion. These results suggest that GA impairs the p38 MAPK-AP1 signaling axis, leading to the repression of breast cancer cell invasion. Finally, we demonstrate that GA effectively suppresses breast tumor outgrowth and pulmonary metastasis without causing animal weight loss or eliciting liver/kidney toxicity to the recipient animals.This study indicates that GA represents a good candidate compound for the potential development of therapeutic drug.

Chinese chive (A. tuberosum Rottler ex Spr.) is one of the most widely cultivated Allium species in China. However, minimal transcriptomic and genomic data are available to reveal its evolution and genetic diversity. In this study, de novo transcriptome sequencing was performed to produce large transcript sequences using an Illumina HiSeq 2000 instrument. We produced 51,968,882 high-quality clean reads and assembled them into 150,154 contigs. A total of 60,031 unigenes with an average length of 631 bp were identified. Of these, 36,523 unigenes were homologous to existing database sequences, 35,648 unigenes were annotated in the NCBI non-redundant (Nr) sequence database, and 23,509 unigenes were annotated in the Swiss-Prot database. A total of 26,798 unigenes were assigned to 57 Gene Ontology (GO) terms, and 13,378 unigenes were assigned to Cluster of Orthologous Group categories. Using the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway database, we mapped 21,361 unigenes onto 128 pathways. Furthermore, 2,125 sequences containing simple sequence repeats (SSRs) were identified. This new dataset provides the most comprehensive resource currently available for gene expression, gene discovery, and future genomic research on Chinese chive. The sequence resources developed in this study can be used to develop molecular markers that will facilitate further genetic research on Chinese chive and related species.

The effects of spraying exogenous silicon (Si) (0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 mmol L(-1)) on the growth, photosynthetic characteristics and activity of antioxidant enzymes in continuous-cropped 'Jinyan No. 4' cucumber seedlings were studied. The results showed that with the application of 1-3 mmol x L(-1) Si, electrolyte leakage (EL) and malondialdehyde (MDA) content in leaves were significantly decreased, while the contents of chlorophyll a (Chl a), chlorophyll b (Chl b), carotenoids (Car), chlorophyll (a+b) and photosynthetic rate (Pn) in leaves were significantly improved, the activities of superoxidase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT) and ascorbic acid peroxidase (APX) were significantly increased, and the plant height, stem diameter and dry mass accumulation of cucumber seedlings were promoted. Compared with the low Si concentrations, excessive Si (4-5 mmol x L(-1)) resulted in higher EL and MDA, which were still lower than that in control, decreased the antioxidant enzymes activity and photosynthesis, and inhibited the growth of cucumber seedlings. These findings indicated that exogenous Si could enhance the capacity of scavenging active oxygen species and improve photosynthesis, protect cucumber seedlings from the lipid peroxidation, and increase the resistance to continuous-cropped cucumber obstacle. The optimal silicon concentration was 2 mmol x L(-1).