Urinary incontinence (UI) is a disease that quietly yet seriously impacts women's health and represents a global health burden that is often neglected. This study aims to systematically assess the prevalence and dynamics of female UI in China, and can inform further policies and have international implications. This study used three nationwide investigations: A national cross-sectional survey in 2021; another nationwide cross-sectional survey in 2006; and data regarding the institutions and physicians providing pelvic floor rehabilitation services from 2005 to 2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSensitivity analysis is a valuable method for evaluating the impact of model parameters on health risk characterization, thereby supporting the prediction of critical uncertainty factors. However, limitations arise in terms of cross-disciplinary discussions and in-depth analyses of previous research. To overcome these limitations, a systematic and multifaceted approach was introduced for analyzing the parameter sensitivities in soil contamination risk assessment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is important to identify key performance and core progress features of soil contamination management practices. Traditional research currently focuses on numerical statistics of contaminated sites but exhibits structural limitations regarding cross-assessment and in-depth analysis of published findings. Herein, we report a multidimensional perspective to assess the environmental management performance of soil contamination via systematic and historical development of construction land risk control and remediation lists (RCRLs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCarbon-based materials are important desirable materials in areas such as supercapacitors and capacitive deionization. However, traditional commercial materials are heterogeneous and prone to agglomeration in nanoscale and have structural limitation of electrochemical and desalination performance due to poor transport channels and low capacitance of prepared electrodes. Here, we introduce the facile strategy for controllable preparation of two types of hollow carbon-based nanotubes (HCTs) with amorphous mesoporous structures, which are synthesized by employing a MnO linear template method and calcination of polymer precursors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiogeochemical gradient forms in vadose zone, yet little is known about the assembly processes of microbial communities in this zone under petroleum disturbance. This study collected vadose zone soils at three sites with 0, 5, and 30 years of petroleum contamination to unravel the vertical microbial community successions and their assembly mechanisms. The results showed that petroleum hydrocarbons exhibited higher concentrations at the long-term contaminated site, showing negative impacts on some soil properties, retarding in the surface soils and decreasing along soil depth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContamination significantly affects soil microbial community structures, and the metabolisms of organic contaminants might particularly alter soil carbon cycling by shaping microbial carbon cycling genes. Although numerous studies have discussed the impacts of petroleum contamination on soil bacterial communities and relevant degrading genes, there is no work addressing how soil carbon cycling genes are affected by petroleum contamination. In this study, 77 soil samples were collected from five typical oilfields horizontally located in China to explore the influence of environmental variables and petroleum contamination on microbial carbon cycling genes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe stability of soil organic carbon (SOC) is crucial for soil quality, fertility, and natural attenuation processes of pollutants. The physicochemical structures of SOC were believed to control its stability, yet has become controversial. Here we hypothesized that disturbance intensity and variations in the soil environment can also influence the SOC stability, and conducted a case study with oil contaminated soils to quantify the contributions to SOC stability of various factors including contamination level, carbon physicochemical structure, and soil properties.
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