Probiotics and Alcoholic Liver Disease: Treatment and Potential Mechanisms

Despite extensive research, alcohol remains one of the most common causes of liver disease in the United States. Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) encompasses a broad spectrum of disorders, including steatosis, steatohepatitis, and cirrhosis. Although many agents and approaches have been tested in patients with ALD and in animals with experimental ALD in the past, there is still no FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved therapy for any stage of ALD. With the increasing recognition of the importance of gut microbiota in the onset and development of a variety of diseases, the potential use of probiotics in ALD is receiving increasing investigative and clinical attention. In this review, we summarize recent studies on probiotic intervention in the prevention and treatment of ALD in experimental animal models and patients. Potential mechanisms underlying the probiotic function are also discussed

Modernización de la agricultura

The development of agriculture has its own history from primitive agriculture, traditional agriculture to modem agriculture. Is it a historical road we must follow?Human being had experienced a long history of living on collection and hunting for about 2,000 to 3,000 millenniums since human being appeared on earth. After we settled down, another 10 millenniums passed. Human being began to cultivate crops and raise animals. Thus, we entered the primitive agriculture stage. The primitive agriculture lasted for 7,000 years to get our food security on primitive crop cultivation and animal raising

Agriculture ideas and modernization of agriculture

The development of agriculture has its own history from primitive agriculture, traditional agriculture to modem agriculture. Is it a historical road we must follow?Human being had experienced a long history of living on collection and hunting for about 2,000 to 3,000 millenniums since human being appeared on earth. After we settled down, another 10 millenniums passed. Human being began to cultivate crops and raise animals. Thus, we entered the primitive agriculture stage. The primitive agriculture lasted for 7,000 years to get our food security on primitive crop cultivation and animal raising.</p

Agriculture ideas and modernization of agriculture

The development of agriculture has its own history from primitive agriculture, traditional agriculture to modem agriculture. Is it a historical road we must follow?Human being had experienced a long history of living on collection and hunting for about 2,000 to 3,000 millenniums since human being appeared on earth. After we settled down, another 10 millenniums passed. Human being began to cultivate crops and raise animals. Thus, we entered the primitive agriculture stage. The primitive agriculture lasted for 7,000 years to get our food security on primitive crop cultivation and animal raising

Modernización de la agricultura

The development of agriculture has its own history from primitive agriculture, traditional agriculture to modem agriculture. Is it a historical road we must follow?Human being had experienced a long history of living on collection and hunting for about 2,000 to 3,000 millenniums since human being appeared on earth. After we settled down, another 10 millenniums passed. Human being began to cultivate crops and raise animals. Thus, we entered the primitive agriculture stage. The primitive agriculture lasted for 7,000 years to get our food security on primitive crop cultivation and animal raising

Earthworms helping economy, improving ecology and protecting health

Earthworms can treat organic garbage, livestock manure and poultry droppings and turn them into premium organic fertilisers, because humus only exists in earthworm feces and castings, compared with other fertilisers. Earthworms can also supply quality animal protein as feed, and offer the best raw materials for the biochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Vermiculture should be put into a whole circular economy as a means of protecting environment, maintaining ecological balance, and fully utilising resources. However, it should be oriented to stabilise sludge and organic wastes at present time.vermiculture, macro-agriculture, sludge stabilisation, circular economy, earthworm composting, earthworms, vermicomposting, organic waste,

Developing rice fish culture in shallow waters of lakes

Meeting: National Rice Fish Farming Systems Symposium, 4-8 Oct. 1988, Wuxi, CNIn IDL-1614

Evolution and Influencing Factors of Venture Capital Network Structure among Chinese Cities

Inter-city Venture Capital (VC) exchange is a micro-embodiment of the cross-regional flow of innovative elements such as capital and technology, and also an important driving force for shaping the network of VC cities. Compared with other types of investment activities, VC has more advantages in promoting the development of innovative industries, especially high-tech industries, and then driving urban economy and regional development; hence, it is widely regarded as a "catalyst" for economic growth and technological innovation. The study of VC networks is helpful in understanding the financial activity links between cities across the country and provides key support for further rational allocation of financial resources between cities. The existing research rarely uses the actual investment amount of VC transaction events between cities to construct the city network. The analysis of the continuous dynamic evolution research and the influencing factors of the overall spatial network structure over a long period of time needs to be strengthened. To compensate for the shortcomings in the above research, this study uses the data of China's inter-city VC flow between 2000 and 2018 to construct the Chinese urban VC network. The long-term spatial evolution characteristics and overall network structure influencing factors of the national inter-city VC network are discussed based on complex network analysis, GIS spatial technology analysis, multiple linear regression model, and so on. This study derives the following results: (1) The connection between cities tends to be closer, and the agglomeration degree of the national VC network increases, displaying obvious characteristics of high aggregation and small-world network. However, the cyber spatial structure of investors/start-ups tends to be flattened, there is a trend of decentralization. (2) The VC connection between cities has expanded from the eastern coastal axis to the central and western regions as a whole, exhibiting obvious characteristics of path dependence and distance attenuation. Additionally, the VC connection continues to sink from the three major urban agglomerations to other marginal cities, and the core node cities of the network also display a tendency of quantitative expansion and power transfer. (3) The city's entrepreneurial foundation, VC industry development level, financial environment, and urban accessibility all have differentiated impacts on the spatial structure of the national VC network. Moreover, the aforementioned are affected by various mechanisms such as multi-dimensional proximity, urban economy, and path dependence, which promote the construction of national and regional VC networks and the formation and evolution of regional capital centers

Low-Density and High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced PP/POE Composite Foam via Irradiation Crosslinking

This study addresses the challenge of achieving foam with a high expansion ratio and poor mechanical properties, caused by the low melt viscosity of semi-crystalline polypropylene (PP). We systematically employ a modification approach involving blending PP with polyolefin elastomers (POE), irradiation crosslinking, and fiber reinforcement to prepare fiber-reinforced crosslinked PP/POE composite foam. Through optimization and characterization of material composition and processing conditions, the obtained fiber-reinforced crosslinked PP/POE composite foam exhibits both low density and high performance. Specifically, at a crosslinking degree of 12%, the expansion ratio reaches 16 times its original value, and a foam density of 0.057 g/cm3 is reduced by 36% compared to the non-crosslinked PP/POE system with a density of 0.089 g/cm3. The density of the short-carbon-fiber-reinforced crosslinked sCF/PP/POE composite foam is comparable to that of the crosslinked PP/POE system, but the tensile strength reaches 0.69 MPa, representing a 200% increase over the crosslinked PP/POE system and a 41% increase over the non-crosslinked PP/POE system. Simultaneously, it exhibits excellent impact strength, tear resistance, and low heat shrinkage. Irradiation crosslinking is beneficial for enhancing the melt strength and resistance to high temperature thermal shrinkage of PP/POE foam, while fiber reinforcement contributes significantly to improving mechanical properties. These achieve a good complementary effect in low-density and high-performance PP foam modification