The end-Cretaceous Chicxulub impact triggered Earth's last mass-extinction, extinguishing ~ 75 of species diversity and facilitating a global ecological shift to mammal-dominated biomes Temporal details of the impact event on a fine scale hour-to-day, important to understanding the early trajectory of mass-extinction, have largely eluded previous studies This study employs histological and histo-isotopic analyses of fossil fish that were coeval with a unique impact-triggered mass-death assemblage from the Cretaceous-Paleogene KPg boundary in North Dakota USA Patterns of growth history, including periodicity of ẟ18O and ẟ13C and growth band morphology, plus corroborating data from fish ontogeny and seasonal insect behavior, reveal that the impact occurred during boreal Spring/Summer, shortly after the spawning season for fish and most continental taxa The severity and taxonomic symmetry of response to global natural hazards are influenced by the season during which they occur, suggesting that post-impact perturbations could have exerted a selective force that was exacerbated by seasonal timing Data from this study can also provide vital hindsight into patterns of extant biotic response to global-scale hazards that are relevant to both current and future biomesRock mass quality evaluation is a challenging task in geotechnical investigations given the natural heterogeneity and the limited data These investigations mainly depend on the traditional drilling tests However, such tests are expensive and time consuming, provide point measurements, and cannot be conducted in steep topographic areas, and thus cause uncertainties in the geological model Conversely, geophysical methods such as electrical resistivity tomography ERT are non-invasive, user-friendly, and fast In this work, we establish empirical correlation between ERT and limited drilling data to obtain rock mass integrity coefficient Kv The estimated Kv provides 2D/3D imaging of the rock mass quality evaluation via weathered/unweathered rock and faults detection in order to cover the entire area even where no drilling test exists Compared with the past geotechnical investigations, our work reduce the ambiguities caused by the inadequate well tests and provide more accurate geological model for infrastructures design Our work proposes that, in case of sparse borehole data, the established empirical equations can be used to determine Kv along different geophysical profiles via 2D/3D insight of the subsurface Our approach is applicable in any hard rock setting, and the established correlations can be used in areas even where no well test existsChronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD may coexist with lung cancer, but the impact on prognosis is uncertain Moreover, it is unclear whether pharmacological treatment for COPD improves the patient's prognosis We retrospectively investigated patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer NSCLC who had received chemotherapy at Kyoto University Hospital Coexisting COPD was diagnosed by spirometry, and the association between pharmacological treatment for COPD and overall survival OS was assessed Of the 550 patients who underwent chemotherapy for advanced NSCLC between 2007 and 2014, 347 patients who underwent spirometry were analyzed Coexisting COPD was revealed in 103 patients COPD group The median OS was shorter in the COPD group than the non-COPD group 106 vs 168 months Thirty-seven patients had received COPD treatment, and they had a significantly longer median OS than those without treatment 167 vs 82 months Multivariate Cox regression analysis confirmed the positive prognostic impact of COPD treatment Additional validation analysis revealed similar results in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors ICIs Coexisting COPD had a significant association with poor prognosis in advanced NSCLC patients if they did not have pharmacological treatment for COPD Treatment for coexisting COPD has the potential to salvage the prognosisLung adenocarcinoma LUAD belongs to a subgroup of non-small cell lung cancer NSCLC with an increasing incidence all over the world Tanshinone IIA TSA, an active compound of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge, has been found to have anti-tumor effects on many tumors, but its anti-LUAD effect and its mechanism have not been reported yet In this study, bio-information analysis was applied to characterize the potential mechanism of TSA on LUA, biological experiments were used to verify the mechanisms involved TCGA, Pubchem, SwissTargetPrediction, Venny210, STRING, DAVID, Cytoscape 372, Omicshare, GEPIA, RSCBPDB, Chem Draw, AutoDockTools, and PyMOL were utilized for analysis in the bio-information analysis and network pharmacology Our experiments in vitro focused on the anti-LUAD effects and mechanisms of TSA on LUAD cells A549 and NCI-H1975 cells via MTT, plate cloning, Annexin V-FITC and PI dual staining, flow cytometry, and western blot assays A total of 64 differentially expressed genes DEGs of TSA ell cycle, and these were done by regulating CCNA2-CDK2 complex and AURKA/PLK1 pathway These findings are the first to demonstrate the molecular mechanism of TSA in treatment of LUAD combination of network bio-information analysis and biological experiments in vitroCoronavirus disease 2019 COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly spread across the world Inactivating the virus in saliva and the oral cavity represents a reasonable approach to prevent human-to-human transmission because the virus is easily transmitted through oral routes by dispersed saliva Persimmon-derived tannin is a condensed type of tannin that has strong antioxidant and antimicrobial activity In this study, we investigated the antiviral effects of persimmon-derived tannin against SARS-CoV-2 in both in vitro and in vivo models We found that persimmon-derived tannin suppressed SARS-CoV-2 titers measured by plaque assay in vitro in a dose- and time-dependent manner We then created a Syrian hamster model by inoculating SARS-CoV-2 into hamsters' mouths Oral administration of persimmon-derived tannin dissolved in carboxymethyl cellulose before virus inoculation dramatically reduced the severity of pneumonia with lower virus titers compared with a control group inoculated with carboxymethyl cellulose alone In addition, pre-administration of tannin to uninfected hamsters reduced hamster-to-hamster transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from a cohoused, infected donor cage mate These data suggest that oral administration of persimmon-derived tannin may help reduce the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission of the virusIn this research the interlayer contact condition was considered between the adjacent layers of orthotropic steel deck pavement, and an interface contact bonding model was applied to simulate the interlayer bonding condition and evaluate the response of deck pavement under vehicle loads An advantage of this model is that it can simulate not only the full-bond condition but also the debonding condition at somewhere between adjacent layers The responses of the orthotropic steel deck pavement were calculated and analyzed by the model, and it found that this model is reasonable and credible to evaluate the responses of the deck pavement comparing with the previous researches The full-bond condition was an ideal condition between adjacent layers, which was prone to underestimate the responses and deformation of the deck pavement Moreover, the position and size of the disengaging area have a notable influence on the tensile strain at the top of SMA layer and the bottom of GA layer, and the tensile strain of them also increase with the increase of the disengaging area Finally, the responses of the steel deck pavement changed obviously when the vehicle speed increase, so the suitable speed limit may reduce the responses and deformation for prolonging the service life of the orthotropic steel deck pavementA difficult genome editing goal is the site-specific insertion of large genetic constructs Here we describe the GENEWRITE system, where site-specific targetable activity of Cas endonucleases is coupled with the reverse transcriptase activity of the ORF2p protein of the human retrotransposon LINE-1 This is accomplished by providing two RNAs a guide RNA targeting Cas endonuclease activity and an appropriately designed payload RNA encoding the desired insertion Using E coli as a simple platform for development and deployment, we show that with proper payload design and co-expression of helper proteins, GENEWRITE can enable insertion of large genetic payloads to precise locations, although with off-target effects, using the described approach Based upon these results, we describe a potential strategy for implementation of GENEWRITE in more complex systemsCompared with traditional Fabry-Perot optical filters, plasmonic color filters could greatly remedy the complexity and reduce the cost of manufacturing In this paper we present end-to-end demonstration of visible light spectroscopy based on highly selective plasmonic color filter array based on resonant grating structure The spectra of 6 assorted samples were measured using an array of 20 narrowband color filters and detected signals were used to reconstruct original spectra by using new unmixing algorithm and by solving least squares problem with smoothing regularization The original spectra were reconstructed with less than 0137 root mean squared error This works shows promise towards fully integrating plasmonic color filter array in imagers used in hyperspectral camerasParabens PBs are a group of substances commonly used in industry They also pollute the environment, penetrate into living organisms and adversely affect various internal organs  https//wwwselleckchemcom/products/butyzamidehtml  During this study, the degree of exposure of people living in Olsztyn, a city in north eastern Poland, to selected parabens most often used in industry was studied The chemicals under investigation included methyl paraben-MePB, ethyl paraben-EtPB, propyl paraben-PrPB, benzyl paraben BePB and butyl paraben -BuPB To this aim, hair samples collected from the scalps of 30 volunteers were analyzed using a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry technique All PBs studied were present in a high percentage of analyzed samples from 767 in the case of BePB to 100 in the case of MePB and PrPB The mean concentration levels were 44253 pg/mg for MeBP, 7040 pg/mg for EtPB, 8257 pg/mg for PrPB, 1352 pg/mg for BePB and 1545 pg/mg for BuPB Significant differences in PB concentration levels between particular persons were visible On the other hand, gender, age and artificial hair coloring did not cause statistically significant differences in PB levels Obtained results have clearly indicated that people living in north eastern Poland are exposed to various PBs, and therefore these substances may affect their health status However, the evaluation of PBs influence on human health requires further researchMalania oleifera Olacaceae, a tree species endemic to Southwest China, has seed oils enriched with nervonic acid and is therefore good source of this chemical Because of this, there are promising industrial perspective in the artificial cultivation and use of this species Understanding the variability in the fruit characters among individuals forms the basis or resource prospection In the current investigation, fifty-three mature fruiting trees were sampled from two locations with divergent climates Guangnan and Funing Morphological characterization of fruits fruit and stone weight, fruit transverse and longitudinal diameter, stone transverse and longitudinal diameter was conducted, and the concentration of seed oil and its fatty acid composition were also analyzed in all individuals Differences in all the morphological characters studied were more significant among individual trees than between different geographic localities, even though these had different climates Eleven fatty acids were identified contributing between 91