Tongji University

About: Tongji University is a education organization based out in Shanghai, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Population. The organization has 76116 authors who have published 81176 publications receiving 1248911 citations. The organization is also known as: Tongji & Tóngjì Dàxué.

Fate of antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes during wastewater chlorination: implication for antibiotic resistance control.

Abstract: This study investigated fates of nine antibiotic-resistant bacteria as well as two series of antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treated by various doses of chlorine (0, 15, 30, 60, 150 and 300 mg Cl2 min/L). The results indicated that chlorination was effective in inactivating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Most bacteria were inactivated completely at the lowest dose (15 mg Cl2 min/L). By comparison, sulfadiazine- and erythromycin-resistant bacteria exhibited tolerance to low chlorine dose (up to 60 mg Cl2 min/L). However, quantitative real-time PCRs revealed that chlorination decreased limited erythromycin or tetracycline resistance genes, with the removal levels of overall erythromycin and tetracycline resistance genes at 0.42 ± 0.12 log and 0.10 ± 0.02 log, respectively. About 40% of erythromycin-resistance genes and 80% of tetracycline resistance genes could not be removed by chlorination. Chlorination was considered not effective in controlling antimicrobial resistance. More concern needs to be paid to the potential risk of antibiotic resistance genes in the wastewater after chlorination.

Disruption risks in supply chain management: a literature review based on bibliometric analysis

Abstract: Disruption risks in supply chain management have a great negative influence on the performance of supply chain members. Therefore, the field of supply chain disruption (SCD) has received increasing...

Coexistence of size-dependent and size-independent thermal conductivities in phosphorene

Abstract: Thermal conductivity of single layer phosphorene is investigated by combining density functional calculations and the Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation. Differing from isotropic and divergent thermal conductivities in two-dimensional graphene and ${\mathrm{MoS}}_{2}$, a compelling coexistence of size-dependent and size-independent thermal conductivities is discovered for single layer black phosphorus (BP) along zigzag (ZZ) and armchair (AM) directions, respectively. Additionally, thermal conductivities in single layer phosphorene are found to be highly anisotropic because of orientation dependent group velocities and phonon relaxation times; e.g., thermal conductivities at 300 K are 83.5 and 24.3 W/m K along ZZ and AM directions, respectively, for single layer BP with a size of $10\phantom{\rule{0.28em}{0ex}}\ensuremath{\mu}\text{m}$.