Association analysis of dry heat or wet cold weather and the risk of urolithiasis hospitalization in a southern Chinese city.

To analyze the relationship between hot or cold, and wet or dry interacting weather, and urolithiasis-related hospitalizations. Distributed lag nonlinear model for time series design was used to build exposure-response curves for the association of daily mean temperature and relative humidity with urolithiasis-related hospitalizations. Cut-off values were determined for temperature, humidity, and dichotomous categories to define heat-cold and wet-dry meteorological conditions.

Identification and genetic diversity analysis of specific walnut F1 progeny based on SSR molecular markers: taking heart-shaped walnuts and Jinghong 1 as examples.

To gain a deeper understanding of the genetic diversity and authenticity of natural pollinated F1 progeny populations of specific walnuts (heart-shaped walnuts and Jinghong 1), as well as the genetic relationship between F1 offspring and their maternal parent. 32 heart-shaped walnut F1 offspring, 45 Jinghong 1 F1 offspring, and their maternal parent were selected as materials, and 14 pairs of SSR markers were used for genetic diversity and parent-child relationship analysis. The results showed that Jr05, Jr11, Jr29, Jr44, Jr45, Jr52, Jr53, Jr55, and Jr56 could be used as SSR markers for the identification of hybrid offspring in heart-shaped walnuts.

Soil temperature and fungal diversity jointly modulate soil heterotrophic respiration under short-term warming in the Zoige alpine peatland.

Global warming has changed carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, but it remains unclear how climate warming affects soil heterotrophic respiration (R). We conducted a field experiment in the Zoige alpine peatland to investigate the mechanism of how short-term warming affects R by examining the relationships between plant biomass, soil properties, soil microbial diversity, and functional groups and R. Our results showed that warming increased R after one growing season of warming.

Feature Mixture on Pre-Trained Model for Few-Shot Learning.

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims at recognizing a novel object under limited training samples. A robust feature extractor (backbone) can significantly improve the recognition performance of the FSL model. However, training an effective backbone is a challenging issue since 1) designing and validating structures of backbones are time-consuming and expensive processes, and 2) a backbone trained on the known (base) categories is more inclined to focus on the textures of the objects it learns, which is hard to describe the novel samples.

Earthworms and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cooperate to promote the biodegradation of tetracycline residues in livestock manure.

Tetracycline is an antibiotic with extensive veterinary use in the livestock industry. However, their widespread application poses risks to soil health as residue in livestock feces, and their removal is crucial for sustainable soil-ecosystem development. Physical and chemical approaches to extract tetracycline may have adverse effects on soil ecosystems, but no studies have thus far examined the potential for biological methods, such as collective degradation action of soil fauna.

Effects of ambient temperature and humidity on COPD mortality in Ganzhou city, China.

This study used the time series data of Ganzhou city to explore the individual and interaction effects of temperature and humidity on COPD death, and identify vulnerable subgroups of the population. We collected daily COPD mortality and meteorological data in Ganzhou from 2016 to 2019. The nonlinear distribution lag model was used to examine the associations and interaction between daily mean temperature and humidity and COPD mortality.

The ratio of high aspartate aminotransferase to alanine aminotransferase: an independent risk factor associated with poor prognosis in IgA nephropathy.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between the aspartate aminotransferase to alanine aminotransferase ratio (AAR) and the prognosis of IgA nephropathy (IgAN).

Methods: Clinical, pathological and follow-up data of 271 patients with IgAN from January 1, 2013, to July 31, 2023, were collected. A 50% decrease in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) or end-stage renal disease (ESRD) was used as renal composite end point events.

Association between ambient temperature and hospitalizations for urolithiasis in four counties of Ganzhou, China.

We collected meteorological and urolithiasis-related hospitalization data from four counties in Ganzhou City for 2018-2019 and used the DLNM method to assess the lagged and cumulative effects of temperature on urolithiasis hospitalizations and obtain the total effect after meta-combination. Based on the nonlinear association between temperature and urolithiasis hospitalizations, the relative risk of overall high temperature (30℃) was 2.10 (95% CI: 1.

Overlooked uneven progress across sustainable development goals at the global scale: Challenges and opportunities.

Differences in progress across sustainable development goals (SDGs) are widespread globally; meanwhile, the rising call for prioritizing specific SDGs may exacerbate such gaps. Nevertheless, how these progress differences would influence global sustainable development has been long neglected. Here, we present the first quantitative assessment of SDGs' progress differences globally by adopting the SDGs progress evenness index.

Extreme drought alters methane uptake but not methane sink in semi-arid steppes of Inner Mongolia.

Global climate change, particularly drought, is expected to alter grassland methane (CH) oxidation, a key natural process against atmospheric greenhouse gas accumulation, yet the extent of this effect and its interaction with future atmospheric CH concentrations increases remains uncertain. To address this research gap, we measured CH flux during an imposed three-month rain-free period corresponding to a 100-year recurrence drought in soil mesocosms collected from 16 different Eurasian steppe sites. We also investigated the abundance and composition of methanotrophs.

Asynchronous responses of microbial CAZymes genes and the net CO exchange in alpine peatland following 5 years of continuous extreme drought events.

Peatlands act as an important sink of carbon dioxide (CO). Yet, they are highly sensitive to climate change, especially to extreme drought. The changes in the net ecosystem CO exchange (NEE) under extreme drought events, and the driving function of microbial enzymatic genes involved in soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition, are still unclear.

Differences in background environment and fertilization method mediate plant response to nitrogen fertilization in alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

Grassland degradation threatens ecosystem function and livestock production, partly induced by soil nutrient deficiency due to the lack of nutrient return to soils, which is largely ascribed to the intense grazing activities. Therefore, nitrogen (N) fertilization has been widely adopted to restore degraded Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) grasslands. Despite numerous field manipulation studies investigating its effects on alpine grasslands, the patterns and thresholds of plant response to N fertilization remain unclear, thus hindering the prediction of its influences on the regional scale.

Navigating the landscape of global sustainable livelihood research: past insights and future trajectory.

Sustainable livelihoods (SL) have emerged as a crucial area of focus in global environmental change research, aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This field is rapidly gaining prominence in sustainability science and has become one of the primary research paradigms. In our study, we conducted scientometrics analysis using the ISI Web of Science core collection database to examine research patterns and frontier areas in SL research.

Vegetation structural shift tells environmental changes on the Tibetan Plateau over 40 years.

Structural information of grassland changes on the Tibetan Plateau is essential for understanding alterations in critical ecosystem functioning and their underlying drivers that may reflect environmental changes. However, such information at the regional scale is still lacking due to methodological limitations. Beyond remote sensing indicators only recognizing vegetation productivity, we utilized multivariate data fusion and deep learning to characterize formation-based plant community structure in alpine grasslands at the regional scale of the Tibetan Plateau for the first time and compared it with the earlier version of Vegetation Map of China for historical changes.

The associations between body dissatisfaction, exercise intensity, sleep quality, and depression in university students in southern China.

Background: In recent years, depression in early adulthood has become an urgent global public health concern. The university years mark a transitional period from adolescence to adulthood. Young people are required to face academic and life pressures independently, which increases the risk of mental health problems in university.

Plant Community Associates with Rare Rather than Abundant Fungal Taxa in Alpine Grassland Soils.

The importance of the rare microbial biosphere in maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions has been highlighted recently. However, the current understanding of the spatial distribution of rare microbial taxa is still limited, with only a few investigations for rare prokaryotes and virtually none for rare fungi. Here, we investigated the spatial patterns of rare and abundant fungal taxa in alpine grassland soils across 2,000 km of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau.

Extreme temperature exposure and urolithiasis: A time series analysis in Ganzhou, China.

Background: Ambient temperature change is a risk factor for urolithiasis that cannot be ignored. The association between temperature and urolithiasis varies from region to region. Our study aimed to analyze the impact of extremely high and low temperatures on the number of inpatients for urolithiasis and their lag effect in Ganzhou City, China.

Unimodal productivity-biodiversity relationship along the gradient of multidimensional resources across Chinese grasslands.

Resources can affect plant productivity and biodiversity simultaneously and thus are key drivers of their relationships in addition to plant-plant interactions. However, most previous studies only focused on a single resource while neglecting the nature of resource multidimensionality. Here we integrated four essential resources for plant growth into a single metric of resource diversity (RD) to investigate its effects on the productivity-biodiversity relationship (PBR) across Chinese grasslands.

Spatio-Temporal Collaborative Module for Efficient Action Recognition.

Efficient action recognition aims to classify a video clip into a specific action category with a low computational cost. It is challenging since the integrated spatial-temporal calculation (e. g.

Relationship between body dissatisfaction, insufficient physical activity, and disordered eating behaviors among university students in southern China.

Background: With an increasing incidence of obesity, the relationship between obesity and body image has become a hot research topic worldwide. From high school to university, young people experience changes in their social environment. University students have a high incidence of eating disorders and insufficient physical activity.

Mapping Chinese annual gross primary productivity with eddy covariance measurements and machine learning.

Annual gross primary productivity (AGPP) is the basis for grain production and terrestrial carbon sequestration. Mapping regional AGPP from site measurements provides methodological support for analysing AGPP spatiotemporal variations thereby ensures regional food security and mitigates climate change. Based on 641 site-year eddy covariance measuring AGPP from China, we built an AGPP mapping scheme based on its formation and selected the optimal mapping way, which was conducted through analysing the predicting performances of divergent mapping tools, variable combinations, and mapping approaches in predicting observed AGPP variations.

Association between daily temperature and hospital admissions for urolithiasis in Ganzhou, China: a time-series analysis.

Urolithiasis was a global disease and it was more common in southern China. This study looked into the association between daily temperature and urolithiasis hospital admissions in Ganzhou, a large prefecture-level city in southern China. In Ganzhou City from 2016 to 2019, a total of 60,881 hospitalized cases for urolithiasis from 69 hospitals and meteorological data were gathered.

The divergent vertical pattern and assembly of soil bacterial and fungal communities in response to short-term warming in an alpine peatland.

Soil microbial communities are crucial in ecosystem-level decomposition and nutrient cycling processes and are sensitive to climate change in peatlands. However, the response of the vertical distribution of microbial communities to warming remains unclear in the alpine peatland. In this study, we examined the effects of warming on the vertical pattern and assembly of soil bacterial and fungal communities across three soil layers (0-10, 10-20, and 20-30 cm) in the Zoige alpine peatland under a warming treatment.