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Metal pollution is a great concern worldwide and the development of new technologies for more sustainable extraction methods as well as for the remediation of polluted sites is essential. Extremophilic microorganisms are attractive for this purpose since they have poly-resistance mechanisms which make them versatile. In this work, we sampled an acidic river and a hot spring of Caviahue-Copahue volcanic environment. The indigenous microbial communities were exposed to five heavy metals (Cd, Co, Cu, Ni and Zn) in batch-cultures favouring different metabolisms of biotechnological interest. Remarkably, high tolerance values were reached in all the cultures, even though most of the metals studied were not present in the environmental sample. Particularly, outstanding tolerances were exhibited by acidophiles, which grew at concentrations as high as 400 mM of Zn and Ni. High-throughput amplicon sequencing of 16S rRNA gene was used to study the indigenous communities and the resistant consortia. We took three approaches for the analysis phylotypes, OTUs and amplicon sequence variants (ASVs). Interestingly, similar conclusions were drawn in all three cases. Analysing the phylogenetic structure and functional potential of the adapted consortia, we found that the strongest selection was exerted by the culture media. Notably, there was a poor correlation between alpha diversity and metal stress; furthermore, metal stress did not seem to harm the functional potential of the consortia. All these results reveal a great adaptability and versatility. At the end, 25 metal-resistant extremophilic consortia with potential uses in bioremediation, bioleaching or biomonitoring processes were obtained.Nitrate leaching caused by overusing or misusing nitrogen (N) fertilizers in field vegetable cropping systems in China is a leading contributor to nitrate contamination of groundwater. Identification of the critical fertilizer N input rate could support management decisions that maintain yields while reducing the impact of nitrate leaching on groundwater. A four-season field experiment involving six N treatments (0, 60, 120, 180, 240, and 300 kg N ha-1) was undertaken to investigate the impacts of various N rates on N use efficiency (NUE), seasonal nitrate leaching loss (SNLL), nitrate residue (NR), and radish yield, and to identify the critical N fertilizer rate for both optimum yield and minimum nitrate leaching loss in a field vegetable (radish, Raphanus sativus L.) cropping system in northern China. The results showed that radish yield enhanced quadratically and NUE reduced linearly with increasing N addition, while the NR and SNLL increased exponentially. The yield did not increase markedly when N fertilization exceeded 180 kg N ha-1. SNLL and nitrate concentrations in the leachate averaged 11.5-71.5 kg N ha-1 and 5.1-35.6 mg N L-1, respectively, under N rates of 60-300 kg N ha-1. The results showed that N fertilizer rate ranging from 180 to 196 kg N ha-1 resulted in high yields and low nitrate leaching losses. Compared with those in response to the N fertilizer amount applied by local farmers, the NUE, NR, and SNLL in response to the N fertilizer amount identified in this study increased, decreased by 30.9%-35.0%, and decreased by 49.9%-55.7%, respectively, without any yield loss. Thus, a critical N fertilizer rate ranging from 180 to 196 kg N ha-1 is recommended to obtain optimum yields with minimal environmental risks in radish fields in northern China.Heterogeneous photochemical reaction of O3 with humic acid (HA) under simulated sunlight was performed using a flow tube reactor coupled to an O3 analyzer at ambient pressure. It was confirmed that light significantly enhanced the uptake of O3 on HA. The initial uptake coefficient (γi) and the steady-state uptake coefficient (γss) of O3 under irradiation increased by 1.6 and 3.8 times compared to those in the dark, respectively. The γi and γss on HA varied in the range of 0.76-2.77 × 10-5 and 1.50-9.55 × 10-6, respectively, which were dependent on various environmental factors including HA mass, total irradiance, initial O3 concentration, O2 content, temperature, relative humidity (RH) and HA solution pH. Both γi and γss showed linear dependence on the total irradiance (0-2.07 × 1016 photons/(cm2⋅s)) of the light source, and increased with the HA mass (0-3.2 μg/cm2), temperature (278-298 K) and HA solution pH (4.0-9.6). However, they showed negative correlations with the initial O3 concentration and O2 content. The γi remained constant in the RH range of 7%-60%, while γss exhibited the maximum value at RH = 20%. During the ozonization of HA under irradiation, some functional groups were consumed, including CH2, CH3, aromatic CC, OH, CO, COOH and COO-. HA aged by O3 exhibited a decrease in the mass absorption efficiency (MAE) and a small increase in the absorption Ångström exponent between 300 and 600 nm wavelength (AAE300,600), which was ascribed to changes in the composition of HA during the photochemical ozonization process.We aimed to detail language profiles, brain metabolic patterns and proportion of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in a cohort of patients with mixed primary progressive aphasia (mPPA). We considered 58 patients with PPA 10 with non-fluent/agrammatic variant (nfvPPA), 16 with semantic variant (svPPA), 21 with logopenic variant (lvPPA) and 9 with mPPA. Selleckchem Ilginatinib Patients with mPPA were further classified as 4 nf/lvPPA (with prevailing features for nfvPPA and lvPPA) and 5 s/lvPPA (with prevailing features for svPPA and lvPPA). Nf/lvPPA patients were characterized by higher proportion of Naming impairment compared to nfvPPA and more frequent Grammatical Errors and Phonologic Errors than lvPPA. S/lvPPA had higher proportion of impairment in Sentences Repetition compared to svPPA and in Single-word Comprehension compared to lvPPA. 100% of nf/lvPPA and 40% of s/lvPPA had Aβ positive biomarkers. Brain hypometabolic pattern in Nf/lvPPA was consistent with lvPPA, while s/lvPPA had a brain metabolism resembling svPPA. We concluded that nf/lvPPA patients might be considered as PPA variant due to Alzheimer's disease and s/lvPPA group mainly included patients with svPPA.
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