The Upper Maastrichtian fluvial Hell Creek Formation of the Fort Peck Lake area, Montana (and regional equivalents) is notable for its vertebrate fossils and for the K-Pg mass extinction at or near its upper contact. Despite intense study, internal s...
The Cenomanian–Early Turonian Mishrif Formation is a great contributor to oil production in Iraq. Integrating petrographic, mineralogical, and wireline logging data from 52 wells, this study provides an improved understanding of the sequence st...
Seismic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, as emerging interdisciplinary fields, demonstrate unique advantages in characterizing seismic geomorphological responses of various system tracts within the stratigraphic frameworks of rift lacustrine...
Gravity-flow deposits form the northern part of the Crocker Formation (Oligocene–Early Miocene), with the most significant interpretation as a sand-rich system in the proximal and a mud-rich system in the distal area of the deep-water turbidite...
Due to the influence of multiple tectonic movements in rift basins, the sequence and sedimentary filling modes of continental petroleum reservoirs are complex, which makes it difficult to establish isochronous stratigraphic frameworks and thus affect...
This study presents a thorough analysis of the sedimentology, diagenesis, and sequence stratigraphy of the Middle Jurassic Samana Suk Formation in the Hazara Basin of northern Pakistan. Focusing on two sections, namely Mera Rehmat and Por Miana, the...
Coal and organic-rich shale in the Yan’an Formation in the southwestern margin of the Ordos Basin are widely developed, which is an important fact for oil and gas exploration in China that has been widely explored for a long time. In this paper...
Marine intraplatform reef–shoal systems are important carbonate reservoirs. Understanding their evolution and reservoir response is critical for reducing exploration uncertainty and supporting more efficient hydrocarbon exploration. This study...
Using 2D/3D seismic data and a large number of drilling and logging data and applying sequence stratigraphy, seismic sedimentology, and petroleum geology concepts, the characteristics of the sedimentary sequence of the forced regression have been ana...
Bioinformatics has become a central component of biological and biomedical research, supporting the organization, analysis, interpretation, and integration of large-scale biological data. The rapid expansion of high-throughput technologies, particula...
Effective shale gas exploration is hindered by the need for obtaining high-resolution correlations between shale strata and the need for classifying shale facies. To address these issues, chemostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and shale gas geolog...
The Chang 7 Member in the Zhidan area of the Ordos Basin is a strategic target for the exploration and development of continental shale oil. However, a systematic understanding of high-resolution sequence stratigraphic division, the spatial distribut...
Debris flows with different magnitudes can have a large impact on debris fan characteristics such as height or slope. Moreover, knowledge about the impact of random sequences of debris flows of different magnitudes on debris fan properties is sparse...
The Lower Cambrian Changping Formation in the Western Hills of Beijing hosts tidal flat and lagoonal carbonates comprising dolomites, limestones, and dolomitic limestones, reflecting the processes of dolomite cementation and dolomitization within a s...
The rates of deamidation reactions of asparagine (Asn) residues which occur spontaneously and nonenzymatically in peptides and proteins via the succinimide intermediate are known to be strongly dependent on the nature of the following residue on the...
This study investigates how the composition and synthesis sequence affect the structure and responsive behavior of single-network (SN) and double-network (DN) hydrogels composed of poly(N,N’-diethylacrylamide) (PDEAAm) and polyacrylamide (PAAm)...
A chiral gelator (R)-H6L with multiple carboxyl groups based on a 1,1′-bi-2,2′-naphthol (BINOL) skeleton was prepared, and it could form a supramolecular gel under the induction of water in DMSO/H2O and DMF/H2O (1/1, v/v). In the EtOH/H2O...
The Lower-Middle Jurassic Xishanyao Formation in the Nileke Sag of the Yili Basin contains substantial reserves of coal and coalbed methane (CBM). Elucidating its depositional evolution and the controlling factors of coal accumulation within a sequen...
The transformation of a diffuse molecular cloud into a star necessarily increases the entropy of the universe, chiefly through the radiation emitted as gravitational binding energy is released. We present a compact, fully closed-form thermodynamic mo...
Laizhou Bay Sag is a typical continental rift lake basin, which is affected by strike–slip activity, salt rock activity, volcanic activity, and paleoclimate change in the Tanlu fault zone, where three major lithologies—volcanic rock, clas...
Various types of pores, including organic and inorganic variations, exhibit distinct impacts on the storage capacity of shale gas reservoirs and play a significant role in shale gas occurrence. However, there is a limited number of studies that have...
In 1953, Pauling and Corey predicted that enantiomeric β-sheet peptides would coassemble into so-called “rippled” β-sheets, in which the β-sheets would consist of alternating l- and d-peptides. To date, this phenomenon has...
Structural elements inserted in proteins are essential to define folding/unfolding mechanisms and partner recognition events governing signaling processes in living organisms. Here, we present an original approach to model the folding mechanism of th...
The Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and early Toarcian events indicate significant environmental and oceanographic instabilities attributed to the emplacement of the Karoo–Ferrar large igneous province and subsequent greenhouse gas emissi...
The Xujiaweizi Fault Depression in the Songliao Basin is a significant area for deep natural gas exploration, and the Shahezi Formation has been recognized as the primary hydrocarbon-source rock. This research integrates core, logging, and seismic da...
The Jianghan Basin is a lacustrine basin in central China developing multiple salt bearing deposits in the Eocene with the success of shale oil exploration in the Qianjiang Formation. The lower member of the Xingouzui Formation in the Chentuokou Depr...
Cu-Al composites are widely applied materials exhibiting advanced properties of both matrix metals. Controlling the brittle interfacial phases is a key factor in improving the interfacial strength of Cu-Al composites. This paper studied the interfaci...
The Early Cretaceous Yamama Formation of X oilfield, deposited in a semi-restricted setting, holds considerable oil reserves. However, the reservoir is extremely heterogeneous and is poorly studied. Integrating outcrops, cores, cast thin sections, re...
Listeria monocytogenes is an important pathogen responsible for listeriosis, a serious foodborne illness associated with high mortality rates. Therefore, L. monocytogenes is considered a challenge for the food industry due to the ability of some stra...
The Middle Jurassic was a time of marginal to shallow shelf settings dominated by organic matter-rich deposition in northern Egypt, southern Tethys. Paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic reconstructions are of paramount significance for a bet...
The Yangzhuang Formation of the Mesoproterozoic Jixian System exhibits a well-developed carbonate sedimentary sequence. However, the carbonate cycles within the Yangzhuang Formation and their co-evolution with paleoclimate and paleoceanographic envir...
Bovine leukemia virus (BLV), which is closely related to human T-cell leukemia viruses, is the causative agent of enzootic bovine leukosis, the most common neoplastic disease of cattle. The transmembrane subunit of the BLV envelope glycoprotein, gp30...
Investigation of the microbial community in the female reproductive tract has revealed that the replacement of a community dominated by Lactobacillus with pathogenic bacteria may be associated with implantation failure or early spontaneous abortion i...
Shale reservoirs, the most important unconventional resource, are difficult to characterize. Shale formations require detailed interpretation of geological, petrophysical, and geochemical analyses, and an integration of these disciplines. In terms of...
Lactococcus garvieae DZ is a specialized fermentation strain isolated from raw water buffalo milk, previously shown to exhibit excellent fermentation performance and significantly enhance the flavor and nutritional quality of butter. To elucidate the...
Fuzzing is one of the most successful software testing techniques used to discover vulnerabilities in programs. Without seeds that fit the input format, existing runtime dependency recognition strategies are limited by incompleteness and high overhea...
The Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation (T3x) represents a critical terrestrial source rock system in the Sichuan Basin, exhibiting pronounced vertical and lateral heterogeneity. Previous stratigraphic subdivisions relied primarily on lithological corre...
In contrast to the widely used sequence stratigraphic models for passive continental margins, the stacking patterns of strata within epeiric seas, which are influenced by regional tectonic activity, may display opposing characteristics during the sam...
The sandstone layer connectivity in coal measure strata is one of the key factors in CBM escape in underlying coal seams, which lacks systematic research currently. This study aimed to explore sandstone layer connectivity and its control on CBM accum...
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) harbor a segmented RNA genome that is organized into eight distinct viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complexes. Although a segmented genome may be a major advantage to adapt to new host environments, it comes at the cost of a...
The white poplar (Populus alba L.) is an economically significant tree species with a natural distribution spanning an extensive region of Eurasia. Nevertheless, there is currently no hypothesis regarding the historical shaping of this range. In this...
Growing evidence shows a close association of transposable elements (TE) with non-coding RNAs (ncRNA), and a significant number of small ncRNAs originate from TEs. Further, ncRNAs linked with TE sequences participate in a wide-range of regulatory fun...
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are nuclear receptors, which function as transcription factors. Among them, PPARβ/δ is highly expressed in endothelial cells. Pharmacological activation with PPARβ/δ agonists h...
To elucidate the development control factors, diagenetic evolution, and pore evolution of oil and gas reservoirs of the Huagang Formation in the East China Sea Shelf Basin Central Anticlinal Belt, this study involved geological analyses, including th...
Background/Objectives: A central question in molecular genetics concerns how transcriptional regulatory sequences and de novo genes originate and reach evolutionary fixation. In this study, we utilize the human bicistronic gene SMIM45 as a model to a...
The Songliao Basin contains some of the largest volumes of oil shales in China; however, these energy sources are located in areas covered by arable land, meaning that the best way of exploiting them is likely to be environmentally friendly in situ c...
As a facultative intracellular pathogen, Salmonella Enteritidis must develop an effective oxidative stress response to survive exposure to reactive oxygen species within the host. To study this defense mechanism, we carried out a series of oxidative...
Thyroid hormone (T3) receptors (TRs) mediate T3 effects on vertebrate development. We have studied Xenopus tropicalis metamorphosis as a model for postembryonic human development and demonstrated that TRα knockout induces precocious hind limb d...
The Chang 8 Member in the Longdong area of the Ordos Basin hosts significant petroleum resources, demonstrating substantial potential for tight oil exploration and development. Astronomical forcing exerts a discernible influence on the evolution of i...
Background/Objectives: Enterococcus species are important causes of healthcare-associated infections, particularly multidrug-resistant (MDR) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). This study characterized antimicrobial susceptibility, biofilm fo...
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