Aerobic composting is a typical biochemical process of stabilization and harmlessness of organic wastes during which organic matter degrades, and then aggregates, to produce humic substances (HSs). ...HSs are a core product of—and a crucial indicator of—the maturation of compost that can be used in soil amendments. The formation of HSs is affected by the characteristics of the raw materials involved, the presence of compost additives, microbial activity, temperature, pH, the C/N ratio, moisture content, oxygen content and particle size, all of which can interact with each other. The formation of HSs is therefore complex. Moreover, it is difficult to identify definitive structures of humic acids (HAs) and fulvic acids (FAs), which are the two major components of HSs. However, HSs represent the same functional groups and structural arrangements, which helps to predict their structures. Functional groups represented by phenol and carboxylic acid groups of HAs and FAs can provide various agronomic functions, such as plant growth enhancement, water and nutrient retention, and disease suppression capacity. Overall, HSs can act as a soil amendment, fertilizer, and plant growth regulator. These functions of HSs enhance the reuse potential of organic waste compost products; however, this requires scientific control of various composting parameters and appropriate application of final products.
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•HSs are core components relative to humification after aerobic composting process.•Degradation of macromolecular compounds into precursors, then polymerization to HSs•HSs can enhance plant growth, retain water, enrich nutrient and suppress disease.•Reported functions of HSs are mainly associated with phenolic and carboxylic groups.•It has practically benefit to identify agronomic function related groups of HSs.
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Multitudinous topological configurations spawn oases of many physical properties and phenomena in condensed-matter physics. Nano-sized ferroelectric bubble domains with various polar ...topologies (e.g., vortices, skyrmions) achieved in ferroelectric films present great potential for valuable physical properties. However, experimentally manipulating bubble domains has remained elusive especially in the bulk form. Here, in any bulk material, we achieve self-confined bubble domains with multiple polar topologies in bulk Bi
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ferroelectrics, especially skyrmions, as validated by direct Z-contrast imaging. This phenomenon is driven by the interplay of bulk, elastic and electrostatic energies of coexisting modulated phases with strong and weak spontaneous polarizations. We demonstrate reversable and tip-voltage magnitude/time-dependent donut-like domain morphology evolution towards continuously and reversibly modulated high-density nonvolatile ferroelectric memories.
Vertical deformation can be revealed by various techniques such as precise leveling, satellite imagery, and extensometry. Despite considerable effort, recording detailed subsurface deformation using ...traditional extensometers remains challenging when attempting to detect localized deformation. Here we introduce distributed fiber optic sensing based on Brillouin scattering as a geophysical exploration method for imaging distributed profiles of vertical deformation. By examining fiber optic cable‐soil interaction we found a threshold in confining pressure to achieve a strong cable‐soil coupling, thus validating data collected from a borehole‐embedded fiber optic cable deployed in Shengze, southern Yangtze Delta, China. Clear‐cut strain profiles acquired from November 2014 to December 2016 allowed us to pinpoint where compaction or rebound was actively occurring and examine strain responses at various locations along the entire cable length. We suggest that distributed fiber optic sensing can complement with extensometry and remote sensing techniques for improved monitoring of vertical deformation.
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Recording detailed subsurface deformation using traditional methods (e.g., extensometers) is sometimes difficult due to limited measuring points. This dilemma may be overcome by using the emerging distributed fiber optic sensing technology, which transforms common telecommunication fiber optic cables into sensors capable of making distributed strain measurements. We report the use of this technology for monitoring distributions of vertical deformation resulting from groundwater ion in Shengze, southern Yangtze Delta, China. An evaluation of the performance of a borehole‐embedded fiber optic cable helps us to validate the in situ strain data. The advantage of using this technology for vertical deformation sensing is the ability to locate any strata undergoing compaction or rebound and look at strain responses at any depth of interest. Moreover, recording subsurface changes in this fashion may also be useful in other geophysical and engineering applications that require refined monitoring of the media.
Key Points
Distributed fiber optic sensing with Brillouin scattering provides a clear subsurface strain profile using a single fiber optic cable
We find a threshold in confining pressure to achieve a strong fiber optic cable‐soil coupling
Distributed fiber optic sensing can complement with existing techniques for improved monitoring of vertical deformation
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•Five specific application fields of ML in OSW were identified and analyzed.•Characteristics and suitability of different ML models were summarized.•Most frequently employed ML model ...is ANN, followed by SVM, GA, and DT/RF.•Data scarcity hinders implementation of ML in OSW treatment and recycling.•Low interpretability and unclear selection basis of ML models need to be overcome.
Conventional treatment and recycling methods of organic solid waste contain inherent flaws, such as low efficiency, low accuracy, high cost, and potential environmental risks. In the past decade, machine learning has gradually attracted increasing attention in solving the complex problems of organic solid waste treatment. Although significant research has been carried out, there is a lack of a systematic review of the research findings in this field. This study sorts the research studies published between 2003 and 2020, summarizes the specific application fields, characteristics, and suitability of different machine learning models, and discusses the relevant application limitations and future prospects. It can be concluded that studies mostly focused on municipal solid waste management, followed by anaerobic digestion, thermal treatment, composting, and landfill. The most widely used model is the artificial neural network, which has been successfully applied to various complicated non-linear organic solid waste related problems.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been extensively used to ameliorate diseases in Asia for over thousands of years. However, owing to a lack of formal scientific validation, the absence of ...information regarding the mechanisms underlying TCMs restricts their application. After oral administration, TCM herbal ingredients frequently are not directly absorbed by the host, but rather enter the intestine to be transformed by gut microbiota. The gut microbiota is a microbial community living in animal intestines, and functions to maintain host homeostasis and health. Increasing evidences indicate that TCM herbs closely affect gut microbiota composition, which is associated with the conversion of herbal components into active metabolites. These may significantly affect the therapeutic activity of TCMs. Microbiota analyses, in conjunction with modern multiomics platforms, can together identify novel functional metabolites and form the basis of future TCM research.
Excessive heavy metals (HMs) in livestock manure due to additives over-use limits its recycling through composting. However, few studies have investigated the interactive influence of microbial ...communities, functional genes, and environmental factors in HM immobilization during composting. Therefore, treatments with different C/N ratios (15:1, 20:1, 25:1) and bulking agents (maize straw, green waste, vinasse) were conducted to explore the HMs immobilization pathways using structural equation model (SEM). Results confirmed the promoting effect of C/N ratio of 20:1 and vinasse on microbial diversity, thus leading to greater HMs immobilization rate. Meanwhile, the dominant microbial phyla of Cu/Zn, Cd, As, and Cr were identified as Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Chytridiomycota, and Bacteroidota, respectively. Moreover, the significant correlation between functional genes (copC, mt, cbh1, aoxB, yieF) and HMs illustrated potential immobilization effects of metal-binding proteins on Cu and Zn, humus complexation on Zn, and oxidase/reductase on As/Cr. Finally, SEM indicated that the redistribution of Cu, Zn, As, and Cr fractions was interactively influenced by environmental factors (organic matter, pH, electrical conductivity, and total phosphorus), microbial communities, and functional genes, while Cd was directly regulated by organic matter and total phosphorus. These results may provide a deeper understanding of HM immobilization pathways during swine manure composting.
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•C/N of 20:1 and vinasse bulking agent favored HM immobilization during composting.•Microbial community diversity inactivated Cu, Zn, Cd, and Cr, but not As.•Binding proteins, humus, oxidase/reductase related genes involved HM passivation.•Cu, Zn, As, and Cr are interactively influenced by microbial metabolic networks.
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With both ferrocene and air as the redox catalysts, for the first time, the low-cost natural ilmenite (FeTiO3) was successfully used for photocatalytic bond formations. Under the assistance of a ...traceless H-bond, and HCHO as the methylene reagent, a variety of imidazo1,5-aquinoxalinones were semi-heterogeneously photosynthesized in high yields with good functional group compatibility.
Thermal depolarization temperature, Td, of ferroelectric oxides Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 (BNT), where dielectric and piezoelectric signals exhibit remarkable changes, is providing rich research contents but is ...not well understood yet. Herein, on the domain‐scale, we give the direct and clear real‐space images of thermal depolarization process on BNT‐based complex oxides. As disclosed by the piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM), heating above Td breaks the poling‐induced large‐sized‐oriented domains into smaller sized polar clusters with different orientations, leading to the thermal depolarization phenomenon. Although the poling‐induced domain decays above Td, the broken domains exhibit a rather larger coherence length than that of the incipient labyrinth‐like nano‐domains. During the heating process, BNT possesses a structural transition from the long‐range‐correlated R3c (a−a−a− anti‐phase tilting) to the short‐range‐correlated P4bm (a0a0c+ in‐phase tilting) phase, which should be the fundamental driving force for the fluctuations of poling‐induced large‐sized‐oriented domains. We expect these results will further promote the understanding about the origin of Td in BNT‐based relaxor ferroelectrics, and provide an intuitive method for the characterization of the thermodynamic and kinetic process in this kind of materials.
Domain‐scale architectures extracted from the experimental results in this work.
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The first example of TBAI/H2O cooperative electrocatalytic coupling-annulation of quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones with N-arylglycines was developed. A broad range of tetrahydroimidazo1,5-aquinoxalin-4(5H)-ones ...were obtained in good to excellent yields with exclusive chemoselectivities and excellent regioselectivities. The H-hydrogen bond served as a key factor for the electrocatalytic production of aminomethyl radical at lower oxidative potential.
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The first example of TBAI/H2O cooperative electrocatalytic coupling-annulation of quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones with N-phenylglycines was developed. The reaction proceeds under chemical oxidant-, additive-, exogenous electrolyte-free and mild conditions with high functional-group tolerance, as demonstrated by the acid-, base- and oxidant-sensitive groups can be well tolerated. Mechanistic studies revealed that the generated H-bond between N-arylglycine and water served as a key factor for yielding α-aminomethyl radical at lower oxidative potential.
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. Due to the growing economic burden of NAFLD on public health, it has become an emergent ...target for clinical intervention. DUSP12 is a member of the dual specificity phosphatase (DUSP) family, which plays important roles in brown adipocyte differentiation, microbial infection, and cardiac hypertrophy. However, the role of DUSP12 in NAFLD has yet to be clarified. Here, we reveal that DUSP12 protects against hepatic steatosis and inflammation in L02 cells after palmitic acid/oleic acid treatment. We demonstrate that hepatocyte specific DUSP12‐deficient mice exhibit high‐fat diet (HFD)–induced and high‐fat high‐cholesterol diet–induced hyperinsulinemia and liver steatosis and decreased insulin sensitivity. Consistently, DUSP12 overexpression in hepatocyte could reduce HFD‐induced hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance, and inflammation. At the molecular level, steatosis in the absence of DUSP12 was characterized by elevated apoptosis signal‐regulating kinase 1 (ASK1), which mediates the mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway and hepatic metabolism. DUSP12 physically binds to ASK1, promotes its dephosphorylation, and inhibits its action on ASK1‐related proteins, JUN N‐terminal kinase, and p38 MAPK in order to inhibit lipogenesis under high‐fat conditions. Conclusion: DUSP12 acts as a positive regulator in hepatic steatosis and offers potential therapeutic opportunities for NAFLD.
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