1-(2-Hy­droxy­benzo­yl)thio­semicarbazide hemihydrate

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C8H9N3O2S·0.5H2O, contains two thiosemicarbazide mol­ecules with the short distance of 3.521 (3) Å between the centroids of the benzene rings, and one water mol­ecule. In the two independent mol­ecules, the benzene rings and the thio­semicarbazone fragments are twisted at 9.2 (3) and 18.5 (3)°. An extensive three-dimensional hydrogen-bonding network, formed by inter­molecular N—H⋯O, N—H⋯S and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, consolidates the crystal packing

Analysis on the Risk and Supervision of P2P Online Financing Platforms in China

Microcredit is a vital breakthrough to solve the financial problems of low-income groups and small and medium-sized enterprises, while traditional microfinance providers can only meet a small proportion of their capital needs. By using internet technology, P2P online financing extends the innovative development of microcredit with the aim of solving traditional micro-credit problems. This paper mainly explores the existing online financing operation model of P2P in China, and summarizes the relevant problems, such as low entry barriers for P2P online financing enterprises and lack of supervision, Lack of verification on the qualification of borrowers and poor management of the platform, imperfect information revealed or providing false information by platform, etc. Finally, the article put forward some suggestions concerning the healthy development for the P2P online financing platform, including the establishing entry audit system and strengthening the supervision of the P2P platform, strengthening the management of borrowers and improving the credit collection system, and strengthening the disclosure of information by platform

Tetra­aqua­(nitrato-κ2 O,O′)bis­(pyridinium-4-carboxyl­ate-κO)europium(III) dinitrate

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Eu(NO3)(C6H5NO2)2(H2O)4](NO3)2, consists of one-half of the C 2 symmetric coordination cation and one nitrate anion. The eight-coordinated EuIII atom is in a distorted dodeca­hedral coordination environment. The coordination cations and nitrate anions are connected via O—H⋯O and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional network

Boty-like retrotransposons in the filamentous fungus Botrytis cinerea contain the additional antisense gene brtn

AbstractLong-terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons typically contain gag, pol, or gag–pol, and in some case env genes. In this work, we used data mining of the Botrytis cinerea genomic sequence and a molecular approach to identify Boty-like LTR retrotransposons in B. cinerea containing an antisense gene (brtn) between pol and the 3′-LTR. Reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) revealed that some brtn-like genes could be expressed, at least in B. cinerea T4. We conducted BLAST comparisons and conserved-domain analysis, but the function of putative BRTN is presently unknown. Boty-like LTR retrotransposons in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, called ScscLRET and containing brtn homologs at positions similar to brtn, were detected by homology searches and data mining of the S. sclerotiorum 1980 genomic sequence. Thus, this study demonstrated that some fungal LTR retrotransposons contain additional antisense genes