Publications by authors named "Cong Rao"

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  • * Research revealed that certain CYP6AE genes, particularly one highly expressed gene, are crucial in insecticide resistance, especially following exposure to common pesticides like chlorpyrifos and cypermethrin.
  • * The study found that enhancing the expression of a specific P450 gene in transgenic flies increased their resistance to multiple insecticides, suggesting pathways for better pest management strategies in agriculture.
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Vegetation porous concrete is a novel material that integrates concrete technology with plant growth, offering excellent engineering applicability and environmental friendliness. This material is mainly utilized in eco-engineering projects such as riverbank protection, architectural greening, and slope protection along roads. This paper systematically reviews the current research progress of vegetation porous concrete by collecting and analyzing the relevant literature from both domestic and international sources.

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Previous studies have demonstrated that lipopolysaccharide (LPS), as a central toxic factor of gram-negative bacteria, can induce oxidative stress and cellular inflammation to result in the impairment of female fertility in different organisms. Particularly, it has harmful effects on the oocyte quality and subsequent embryonic development. However, the approach concerning how to prevent oocytes from LPS-induced deterioration still remains largely unexplored.

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  • Researchers studied how Chilo suppressalis, a pest in China, developed resistance to diamide insecticides like chlorantraniliprole from 2016-2018, linking this resistance to specific mutations in the RyR gene.
  • The study identified several key mutations, including I4758M and Y4667D, and confirmed that these mutations significantly increased resistance to various diamide insecticides in genetically modified fruit flies.
  • The findings enhance our understanding of insect resistance mechanisms and highlight the importance of target-site mutations in the RyR gene for managing pest resistance to diamide pesticides.
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Heterocycles, a class of molecules that includes oxazoles, constitute one of the most common building blocks in current pharmaceuticals and are common in medicinally important natural products. The antitumor natural product nataxazole is a model for a large class of benzoxazole-containing molecules that are made by a pathway that is not characterized. We report structural, biochemical, and chemical evidence that benzoxazole biosynthesis proceeds through an ester generated by an ATP-dependent adenylating enzyme.

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3D printed objects are rapidly becoming prevalent in science, technology and daily life. An important question is how to obtain strong and durable 3D models using standard printing techniques. This question is often translated to computing smartly designed interior structures that provide strong support and yield resistant 3D models.

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In this paper, a learning-based shape descriptor for shape matching is demonstrated. Formulated in a bag-of-words like framework, the proposed method summarizes the local features extracted from certain shape to generate a integrated representation. It contributes to the speed-up of shape matching, since the distance metric in the vector space analysis can be directly applied to compare the constructed global descriptors, eliminating the time consuming stage of local feature matching.

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