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Surging dismissal of plastics into water resources results in the splintered debris generating microscopic particles called microplastics. The reduced size of microplastic makes it easier for intake by aquatic organisms resulting in amassing of noxious wastes, thereby disturbing their physiological functions. Microplastics are abundantly available and exhibit high propensity for interrelating with the ecosystem thereby disrupting the biogenic flora and fauna. this website About 71% of the earth surface is occupied by oceans, which holds 97% of the earth's water. The remaining 3% is present as water in ponds, streams, glaciers, ice caps, and as water vapor in the atmosphere. Microplastics can accumulate harmful pollutants from the surroundings thereby acting as transport vectors; and simultaneously can leach out chemicals (additives). Plastics in marine undergo splintering and shriveling to form micro/nanoparticles owing to the mechanical and photochemical processes accelerated by waves and sunlight, respectively. Microplastics differ in color and density, considering the type of polymers, and are generally classified according to their origins, i.e., primary and secondary. About 54.5% of microplastics floating in the ocean are polyethylene, and 16.5% are polypropylene, and the rest includes polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, polyester, and polyamides. Polyethylene and polypropylene due to its lower density in comparison with marine water floats and affect the oceanic surfaces while materials having higher density sink affecting seafloor. The effects of plastic debris in the water and aquatic systems from various literature and on how COVID-19 has become a reason for microplastic pollution are reviewed in this paper.In recent years, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have been known to be a viable method for meeting the electrical energy needs, thereby enhancing the overall reliability of renewable energy systems. PEMFCs demonstrate various promising attributes like pollution-free, totally sustainable, non-self-discharging. These need hydrogen as fuel, and air for their operation, while the final product is pure water only. Thus, under varying operating conditions, the appropriate modeling and parameter optimization of PEMFCs have gained considerable importance in recent times. The evolutionary optimization approaches had been utilized in recent past for estimating PEMFCs parameters as exact modeling of the same does not exist in the literature. For the evaluation of PEMFCs performance criteria, a newly proposed algorithm is developed in this manuscript i.e. black widow optimization (BWO). Firstly, the performance of this proposed algorithm is checked by complex benchmark results. After that, this proposed algorithm is applied to extract the parameters of PEMFCs models under different operating temperatures. The parameter optimization results are obtained using BWO and are further compared with those obtained with five other algorithms, i.e., particle swarm optimization (PSO), multi-verse optimizer (MVO), sine cosine algorithm (SCA), whale optimization algorithm (WOA), and grey wolf optimization (GWO). The complete error analysis is carried out for the two data sheets of the PEMFCs to establish the superiority of BWO. It has been observed that the developed proposed algorithm gives better results when compared to those obtained with rest of the algorithms considered in this work. After calculating the error, non-parametric test is performed which suggests that the BWO is better than the rest of the compared algorithms.With the rapid development of construction industry, consumption of ready-mixed concrete has increased rapidly in China. As a kind of green building material and waste comprehensive utilization product, industrial solid waste-based ready-mixed concrete have better performance in terms of resource conservation and durability. However, some typical issues are associated with industrial solid waste resource recycling in ready-mixed concrete production process such as energy and material consumption, as well as leaching pollutant emissions. So, a "life cycle assessment" of the particular elements has been carried out, determining the resources consumption of all the processes of the ready-mixed concrete production. Through preparation of several different strength grades of concrete, the embodied energy and resources consumption indicator are quantitative evaluation. In addition, the environmental safety assessment was also proposed. The results show a certain linear relationship of concrete with various strength grade and its resources consumption, the higher strength grade, the more resources consumption potentials in the production of concrete. In this case, the linear correlation coefficient R2=0.98313 between them, and the equivalent coefficient's order of the main resources, is as follows the first is oil, then natural gas, iron ore, limestone, gypsum, and fly ash, and the last is coal. The more preceding shows more scarcity. Meanwhile, the general leaching of heavy metals Cu, Zn, Ni, Cr, Pb, Cd, and Ba of solid waste-based C20 concrete were also checked out. So, to further ensure the environmental safety, the potential ecological risk method was adopted to assess the heavy metal security and solid waste resource utilization.β-catenin and endothelial mesenchymal transformation play an important role in the formation of pulmonary hypertension. To explore the role of β-catenin in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), we first established a rat model of CTEPH by repeated autologous thromboembolization and then treated these rats with a β-catenin specific inhibitor, XAV939, for two or four weeks. We further examined the expression of β-catenin, α-SMA and CD31, mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP), and histopathology in the pulmonary artery, and analyzed their correlation. In the thrombus group without treatment of the inhibitor, the expression of β-catenin and α-SMA in pulmonary artery was increased with time; mPAP, the thickness of pulmonary artery wall, and the area/total area of pulmonary artery (WA/TA) were also increased; however, the expression of CD31 was decreased. Interestingly, these symptoms could be improved by treatment with XAV939. In this study, in CTEPH rat model, the expression of β-catenin signal affects pulmonary vascular remodeling and pulmonary artery pressure, and positively correlated with pulmonary arterial endothelial mesenchymal transformation (EMT), indicating that β-catenin signal may play an important role in the occurrence and development of CTEPH.