Chemical Diversity and Antimicrobial Potential of Cultivable Fungi from Deep-Sea Sediments of the Gulf of Mexico

A collection of 29 cultivable fungal strains isolated from deep-sea sediments of the Gulf of Mexico were cultivated under the “one strain, many compounds” approach to explore their chemical diversity and antimicrobial potential. From the 87 extracts tested, over 50% showed antimicrobial activity, and the most active ones were those from cultures grown at 4 °C in darkness for 60 days (resembling deep-sea temperature). PCA analysis of the LC-MS data of all the extracts confirmed that culture temperature is the primary factor in the variation of the 4462 metabolite features, accounting for 21.3% of the variation. The bioactivity-guided and conventional chemical studies of selected fungal strains allowed the identification of several active and specialized metabolites. Finally, metabolomics analysis by GNPS molecular networking and manual dereplication revealed the biosynthetic potential of these species to produce interesting chemistry. This work uncovers the chemical and biological study of marine-derived fungal strains from deep-sea sediments of the Gulf of Mexico.     

电热蒸发-直接进样-冷原子吸收光谱法测定土壤以及沉积物中汞

采用传统分析仪器测定汞元素,需要对样品进行化学消解,存在操作繁杂、效率低以及易交叉污染等问题。故建立了电热蒸发-直接进样-HGA-100测汞仪测定土壤以及沉积物中汞的方法,无需对样品进行化学前处理,降低环境污染。通过优化HGA-100测汞仪参数条件,汞质量浓度在0~20ng以及20~200ng,相关系数优于0.998,准确称量样品0.05g(精确至0.000 1g),方法检出限为0.5μg/kg,相对标准偏差1.6%~4.6%,加标回收率在90.1%~100%。方法用于对土壤和沉积物标准物质测定,结果与标准值相符。方法高效、准确,可用于测定土壤以及沉积物中的汞。     

电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱法(ICP-OES)测定水系沉积物中6种重金属元素

建立了自动消解仪消解-电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱法(ICP-OES)同时测定水系沉积物中Cu,Zn,Ni,Cr,Pb,Co 6种元素含量的方法。方法中6种元素的检出限为0.000 2~0.02mg/L,工作曲线的相关系数均大于0.999。方法经国家标准物质(GBW07361)验证,准确度和精密度均能达到环境监测分析的要求,为水系沉积物中重金属元素含量的测定提供了简单可靠的分析方法。     

聚氨酯泡沫富集-电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱法(ICP-AES)测定土壤及水系沉积物中铊含量

建立了一种以聚氨酯泡沫富集-电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱法(ICP-AES)测定土壤及水系沉积物中铊含量的分析方法,利用正交实验,确定最佳实验条件,方法的检出限为0.01mg/L,对土壤及水系沉积物标准物质的测定结果与推荐值相符,相对误差小于10%,相对标准偏差(RSD,n=10)在1.9%~4.9%。     

From Shorter to Longer Timescales: Converging Integrated Information Theory (IIT) with the Temporo-Spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC)

Time is a key element of consciousness as it includes multiple timescales from shorter to longer ones. This is reflected in our experience of various short-term phenomenal contents at discrete points in time as part of an ongoing, more continuous, and long-term ‘stream of consciousness’. Can Integrated Information Theory (IIT) account for this multitude of timescales of consciousness? According to the theory, the relevant spatiotemporal scale for consciousness is the one in which the system reaches the maximum cause-effect power; IIT currently predicts that experience occurs on the order of short timescales, namely, between 100 and 300 ms (theta and alpha frequency range). This can well account for the integration of single inputs into a particular phenomenal content. However, such short timescales leave open the temporal relation of specific phenomenal contents to others during the course of the ongoing time, that is, the stream of consciousness. For that purpose, we converge the IIT with the Temporo-spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC), which, assuming a multitude of different timescales, can take into view the temporal integration of specific phenomenal contents with other phenomenal contents over time. On the neuronal side, this is detailed by considering those neuronal mechanisms driving the non-additive interaction of pre-stimulus activity with the input resulting in stimulus-related activity. Due to their non-additive interaction, the single input is not only integrated with others in the short-term timescales of 100–300 ms (alpha and theta frequencies) (as predicted by IIT) but, at the same time, also virtually expanded in its temporal (and spatial) features; this is related to the longer timescales (delta and slower frequencies) that are carried over from pre-stimulus to stimulus-related activity. Such a non-additive pre-stimulus-input interaction amounts to temporo-spatial expansion as a key mechanism of TTC for the constitution of phenomenal contents including their embedding or nesting within the ongoing temporal dynamic, i.e., the stream of consciousness. In conclusion, we propose converging the short-term integration of inputs postulated in IIT (100–300 ms as in the alpha and theta frequency range) with the longer timescales (in delta and slower frequencies) of temporo-spatial expansion in TTC.     

应用结构摄动策略的有分流换热网络优化

有分流节点非结构模型（NNM-SS）应用于换热网络优化时,因难以生成合适的分流结构而使优化陷入局部极值.根据NNM-SS的优化特点及网络结构中分流次数对费用的影响,提出结构摄动策略,并将其引入强制进化随机游走算法（RWCE-SS）.策略的主要思想为：在优化过程中,以一定的概率随机抽取一个无分流结构的换热器,并在该位置上生成一组新的分流结构以增加网络中的分流次数,通过对结构的摄动实现对算法搜索能力的提升.算例验证表明应用该策略改进的算法可获得更好的优化结果.     

Interaction between Wells and a Groundwater Stream

The interaction between a natural contaminated groundwater stream and a flow induced by wells is investigated. When the flow is potential, the boundaries of the regions protected from the contaminated stream are determined for several configurations of their location and all possible flow diagrams. Dimensionless critical well flow rates corresponding to transition from one diagram to another are found.     

含水合物沉积物三轴剪切试验与损伤统计分析

天然气水合物开采诱发水合物分解,削弱水合物地层强度,可能导致地层滑动和生产平台倒塌等工程地质灾害,对水合物开采安全性构成严重威胁.深入理解含水合物沉积物力学性质并建立合理的本构关系模型是水合物开采安全性评价的前提条件.在自主研发的含水合物沉积物力学性质测试实验装置上,采用饱和水海砂沉积物气体扩散法制备了含水合物沉积物样品,并开展了系列的排水三轴剪切试验,通过时域反射技术实现了样品中水合物饱和度的实时在线测量;基于复合材料的罗伊斯(Reuss)应力串联模型和沃伊特(Voigt)应变并联模型提出了含水合物沉积物等效弹性模量的细观力学混合律模型,结合损伤统计理论和摩尔-库伦破坏准则改进了含水合物沉积物的本构关系模型.结果表明:随着水合物饱和度的增加和有效围压的减小,应力-应变曲线由应变硬化型变为应变软化型,割线模量和峰值强度均随水合物饱和度与有效围压的增加而提高,黏聚力受水合物饱和度影响明显,而内摩擦角基本不变;提出的等效弹性模量细观力学混合律模型与改进的本构关系模型均具有良好的适用性,模型参数少且物理意义明确.      

Reducing pressure and increasing peak capacity by incorporating an adaptable flow stream splitting platform to high-performance liquid chromatography columns: A study on C18 silica-based monoliths

In this study, an adaptable end-column platform was fitted to a commercially available monolith, which enabled the column to be fitted with a flow-splitting device. A variety of flow-splitting adapters could be incorporated into the platform, and in this study, a radial flow stream splitter was utilized. The advantage of the radial flow stream spitter was that it overcame issues relating bed density variations that could cause bands to distort in the radial cross-section of the column. Using propylbenzene as a test standard in isocratic elution mode, height equivalent to a theoretical plate curves were constructed across ten flow rates, and it was found that the column efficiency improved by as much as 73%. Furthermore, the dual outlet flow splitter enabled a very substantial reduction in column back pressure, with the decrease being consistently between 20 to 30% depending on the column length. Additionally, sensitivity increased by 45%, consistent with the observed increase in efficiency. The adaptable end-column platform could be retrofitted to almost any commercial column with the expectation of gaining efficiency, sensitivity, and reducing back pressure.