Monitoring and analysis of contamination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio alginolyticus in seafood in Haikou

Objective:To investigate the contamination and distribution of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio alginolyticus in seafood in Haikou City.Methods:Three types of seafood sold in Haikou from 2020 to 2022 were collected,Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio alginolyticus were detected according to the National Food Safety Standard Food Microbiological Examination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus(GB 4789.7-2013),and they were identified by real-time fluorescence PCR.The detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio alginolyticus in different kinds of seafood,different years and different quarters was analyzed.Results:A total of 119 seafood samples were collected.Among them,24 samples were positive with Vibrio parahaemolyticus,with a positive rate of 20.1%;46 samples were positive with Vibrio alginolyticus,with a positive rate of 38.7%.Among various types of seafood,shrimp have the highest positivity rate for Vibrio parahaemolyticus at 50%,while shellfish have the highest positivity rate for Vibrio alginolyticus at 48%.Comparing between monitoring years,the positive rate of Vibrio alginolyticus was the highest in 2021(76.7%),while the positive rate of Vibrio parahaemolyticus was the highest in 2022(25%).Comparing between different quarters,the positivity rate for Vibrio alginolyticus was found to be highest in the second quarter at 80%,while the positivity rate for Vibrio parahaemolyticus was highest in the fourth quarter at 33.3%.There were statistically significant differences(P<0.05)in the positivity rate for Vibrio alginolyticus in different years and quarters,as well as in the positivity rate for Vibrio parahaemolyticus in different types and quarters.Conclusion:Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio alginolyticus were found in seafood products in Haikou City from 2020 to 2022.It is recommended that relevant departments strengthen supervision to ensure the safety of seafood products consumed by the public.

Tao and Golden Ratio: A Scientific View of Contemporary Acupunctural Principles through Geometry

It is universally accepted that the philosophy of the Tao is the essence that animates the Chinese Cosmogony. Therefore, in last decades I have tried to consolidate its scientific background, looking for solid explanations through Exact Sciences (“Between Heaven and Earth” Scientific Basis of the Action of Shao Yin: Lightning’s Physical-Mathematical Analysis”;“Is Traditional Chinese Medicine Definitely an Exact Science?”;“Euclidean Geometry and Traditional Chinese Medicine: Diving into the Real Origin of the Five Elements”;“Solitons: A Cutting-Edge Scientific Proposal Explaining the Mechanisms of Acupuntural Action”) Currently, research on Chinese medicine leads us—with Dr. Erica Arakaki, collaborator and assistant—to verify through a profound bibliographic review the application of Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio in the constitution of T’ai Ji Tu, adding yet more substance to the hypothesis of Acupuncture and demonstrating how said Chinese Ancient Science is not only an empirical knowledge but a wisdom derived from the most ancient exact science: Geometry.

Study on Chemical Synthesis and Insecticidal Activity of Peptideκ-CTx-btg02

[Objectives]This study was conducted to investigate the chemical synthesis of peptideκ-CTx-btg02.[Methods]Linear peptideκ-CTx-btg02 was synthesized by solid phase peptide synthesis(SPPS).After oxidation and folding of the linear peptide,mass spectrometry identification and high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC)purification were performed.Then,the MTT method and insect injection method were applied to study its insecticidal activity.[Results]The peptideκ-CTx-btg02 was successfully synthesized by the SPPS method,and identified for the formation of disulfide bonds by mass spectrometry identification,and the purity after HPLC separation was greater than 95%.The MTT experiment showed that the peptideκ-CTx-btg02 could inhibit the growth of insect cells sf9,with a half effective dose of 0.13 nM.The insect injection experiment showed that the peptideκ-CTx-btg02 could effectively kill Tenebrio molitor,with a half lethal dose of 15.6 nM.The results of the electrophysiological experiment showed that 10μM peptideκ-CTx-btg02 had no blocking activity on murine acetylcholineα2β3 andα3β4.Therefore,the peptideκ-CTx-btg02 had a good inhibitory effect on the growth of insect cells,highly effective insecticidal activity and weak mammalian toxicity.[Conclusions]This study lays a foundation for the development of new,safe and efficient peptide biological insecticides.

Event-Based Anomaly Detection for Non-Public Industrial Communication Protocols in SDN-Based Control Systems

As the main communication mediums in industrial control networks,industrial communication protocols are always vulnerable to extreme exploitations,and it is very difficult to take protective measures due to their serious privacy.Based on the SDN(Software Defined Network)technology,this paper proposes a novel event-based anomaly detection approach to identify misbehaviors using non-public industrial communication protocols,and this approach can be installed in SDN switches as a security software appliance in SDN-based control systems.Furthermore,aiming at the unknown protocol specification and message format,this approach first restructures the industrial communication sessions and merges the payloads from industrial communication packets.After that,the feature selection and event sequence extraction can be carried out by using the N-gram model and K-means algorithm.Based on the obtained event sequences,this approach finally trains an event-based HMM(Hidden Markov Model)to identify aberrant industrial communication behaviors.Experimental results clearly show that the proposed approach has obvious advantages of classification accuracy and detection efficiency.

GEOCHEMICAL BACKGROUND VALUE OF MERCURY IN 100 SPECIES OF TROPICAL PLANTS IN HAINAN ISLAND

Mercury pollution is a worldwide trouble at present. Both the worldwide mercury pollution and biocycle of tropical plants have important influence on the background value of mercury in the tropical landscape. The geochemical background value of mercury in 100 plants species is based on the present level of tropical plants collected from Hainan Island.