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Unbalanced Second Chiral Crystallization associated with Pentahelicene Propellers along with their Planarization into Nanographenes.
e., HP process) suggesting strong aggregation at 0-50 cm scale in all marshes, and aggregated intensity enhanced with increasing water level. Interestingly, the spatial distribution of D. angustifolia fits better with the nested double-cluster model (i.e., IT process) at all scales in WM and SI marshes, indicating that there is a series of clustered patterns under the slight flood stress. However, the spatial pattern fits well with the Poisson cluster model (i.e., HT process) at all scales in PI marsh, implying the small-scale clustering disappeared with the intensification of flooding stress. Our results highlight that the D. angustifolia population could adapt to flooding stress in a certain degree via individual miniaturization strategies and multi-aggregation mechanisms in the freshwater wetlands.Natural resource-rich countries transfer more sources to military expenditures due to extreme security concerns. As public revenues have declined due to the decline in oil prices, military expenditures have been cut in many countries. Nevertheless, this is not valid for all countries. Even in some countries, despite the decrease in oil prices and volatility, military expenditures increase. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Cyclopamine.html The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between volatility in oil prices and military expenditures in GCC countries (United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Oman). The analysis period was determined differently for each country depending on the availability of data. UAE and Qatar were excluded from the analysis as the defense expenditures data of these countries could not be provided regularly. ARDL model was preferred for the research. According to the bound test results, there is a cointegration relationship between the variables in all countries. Besides, the long-term results showed that the volatility in oil prices in all countries, except for Bahrain, positively affects military expenditures. The error correction model indicated that there is a reverse relationship between oil price volatility and military expenditures. These findings indicated that despite the volatility in oil prices, military expenditures in GCC countries are not reduced.As a commonly used anti-diabetic drug, metformin (MEF) is frequently detected in different water bodies which pose a potential threat to human health and the ecological environment. In this study, oxidative degradation of MEF under ultraviolet (UV) light was studied, and its influencing factors, photolysis mechanism, and intermediates identification carried out as well. The results showed that the hydroxyl radical contributed 73% during the 6 h MEF photolysis process among the reactive oxygen species (ROS). In addition, triplet excited-state organic matter and singlet oxygen also played a role in the photolysis process. The reaction rates of hydroxyl radical and singlet oxygen with MEF are (6.45 ± 0.4) × 109 and (5.4 ± 0.7) × 106 L·(mol s)-1, respectively. By calculating the light screening effect of environmental factors, it is found that the presence of NO3- and Cl- had a greater excitation effect on ROS than the screening effect, and generally promoted the photolysis rates of MEF from 90.3 to 193.5% and from 16.1 to 80.6% during the 6-h reaction process, respectively. For bicarbonate and fulvic acid, the light screening effects were dominant and inhibited photolysis rates by 10-52% and 13-71%, respectively. The results demonstrated that the photoreactivity of environmental factors in water is the cause of the different photodegradation rates of MEF. The oxidative degradation product of MEF under UV light was detected by UPLC/Q-TOF as methylbiguanide (MBG), 2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazine (2,4-DAT), biguanide (BGN), 1,1-dimethylguanidine (1,1-DiMBG), 4-amino-2-imino-1-methyl-1,2-dihydro-1, 3,5-triazine (4,2,1-AIMT), and 2-amino-4-methylamino-1,3,5-triazine (2,4-AMT). The result which showed that the primary sites of ∙OH attacked is consistent with that of density functional theory calculation. Graphical abstract.Biochar amendment has complex impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, crop production and economic benefit. However, few studies have comprehensively investigated the effects of biochar amendment in coastal saline rice fields. Thus, a biochar amendment field experiment was established in a coastal saline rice field in China to estimate the CH4 and N2O emissions, global warming potential (GWP), greenhouse gas intensity (GHGI), and net ecosystem economic budget (NEEB) of the biochar amendment during the rice growing season in 2017. There were six treatments (N0B0, N0B1, N0B2, N1B0, N1B1, N1B2) with different N fertilizer levels of 0 and 300 kg N ha-1 and biochar rates of 0, 20, and 40 t ha-1. The results showed that the application of N fertilizer increased N2O emissions and rice yield by 128.3% (p  less then  0.001) and 44.4% (p  less then  0.001), respectively, while decreased the GHGI by 20.5% (p  less then  0.01); additionally, there were no significant effects on the CH4 emissions and GWP compared with the treatments without N fertilizer. Although biochar amendment significantly increased the N2O emissions and rice yield by 13.7-38.1% and 31.5-34.9%, respectively, biochar amendment had no significant effects on CH4 emissions, GWP, and GHGI relative to the treatments without biochar amendment. From an economic perspective, N fertilizer significantly increased the NEEB by 135.5%, relative to the treatments without N fertilizer. Due to the high price of biochar and the large quantity applied, biochar amendment significantly reduced the NEEB by 99.8-229.3% compared with the treatments without biochar amendment. Considering the different characters between field-aged biochar and fresh biochar. Thus, long-term observations are needed to evaluate the environmental and economic profits affected by biochar and N fertilizer.In this study, a novel, simple, and highly sensitive analytical procedure for the quantitative evaluation of oxygenated and nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in volcanic ash samples based on dispersive solid-liquid microextraction (DSLME) coupled to ultra high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) was developed. Diverse chemometric tools were applied to optimize DSLME working conditions. Thus, a linear calibration curve for all the target analytes in the concentration range from 0.01 to 100 μg g-1 (r2 > 0.994) was obtained. The limits of detection for all the compounds were between 14.6 and 56.0 pg g-1, with high reproducibility (relative standard deviation (RSD) was below 8.1% for all the analytes). Additionally, recoveries ranged from 94.2 to 100%. The applicability of the method was evaluated and the feasibility of the existence of nitrated and oxygenated-PAHs in volcanic ashes at ultra-trace levels was demonstrated, which reveals an unknown source of distribution of these pollutants to the environment.
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