Balancing economic growth and environmental conservation through the optimization of rail transit routes for sustainable development.

Drawing from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this study offers a framework for optimizing rail transit routes, balancing economic benefits with environmental preservation. Using the Bivariate Choropleth-Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (BC-MCDA) model, we categorize global regions into economic benefit, environmental conservation, high-conflict, and low-conflict zones. Specifically, 7.

Investigating the Spatial Distribution and Influencing Factors of Non-Grain Production of Farmland in South China Based on MaxEnt Modeling and Multisource Earth Observation Data.

Excessive non-grain production of farmland (NGPF) seriously affects food security and hinders progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger). Understanding the spatial distribution and influencing factors of NGPF is essential for food and agricultural management. However, previous studies on NGPF identification have mainly relied on high-cost methods (e.

Analysis of Characteristics and Driving Mechanisms of Non-Grain Production of Cropland in Mountainous Areas at the Plot Scale-A Case Study of Lechang City.

With the continuous advancement of urbanization and industrialization, non-grain production on cropland (NGPCL) is gradually becoming more widespread. This phenomenon will compress the space for grain production and trigger a global food crisis. How to scientifically understand and effectively control NGPCL has become a scientific issue.

Evaluation of popular science tourism in Guangzhou HEMC based on PLS-SEM.

Science popularization is not only a prerequisite for national development, but also an effective means of enhancing citizens' personal quality. All sectors of society, represented by colleges and universities, bear the responsibility of promoting popular science. The integration of popular science and tourism in popular science tourism serves to advance both the field of popular science and the tourism industry simultaneously.

Lower serum branched-chain amino acid catabolic intermediates are predictive signatures specific to patients with diabetic foot.

Diabetic foot (DF) is one of the serious chronic complications of diabetes. Accurate prediction of the risk of DF may take timely intervention measures to prevent its occurrence. The understanding of metabolomic changes in the progression of diabetes to DF may reveal new targets for interventions.

Evolution and Simulation of Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Storage and Sustainability Assessment in Karst Areas: A Case Study of Guizhou Province.

Against the background of "carbon neutrality" and sustainable development goals, it is of great significance to assess the carbon storage changes and sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems in order to maintain the coordinated sustainable development of regional ecological economies and the balance of terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, the terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage in Guizhou from 2010 to 2020 was assessed with the InVEST model. Using the PLUS model, the distribution of terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage by 2030 and 2050 was predicted.

Land suitability assessment for supporting transport planning based on carrying capacity and construction demand.

With the rapid global urbanization, the unlimited increasing transportation infrastructure has met the needs of urban expansion, but it has caused a series of ecological problems lacking consideration of ecological conservation. The land suitability assessment for supporting transport planning based on carrying capacity and demand for construction is an effective way to promote urban socioeconomic development and ecological conservation. Therefore, we constructed a logical framework of resources and environment supporting, traffic construction demand driving, and ecological protection red line and basic farmland constraining, and applied the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), GIS, three-dimensional magic cube method, and gravity model to evaluate the suitability of expressway development in Sichuan Province, China.

Paraneoplastic ocular sarcoidosis in the setting of recurrent rectal carcinoid tumor diagnosed by F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET CT.

Purpose: Nuclear medicine imaging can provide a noninvasive means of distinguishing inflammatory mass lesions from oncologic intraocular tumors.

Observation: We report a case of paraneoplastic ocular sarcoidosis with choroidal mass lesions that was initially concerning for choroidal metastasis of a primary carcinoid tumor. PET CT was utilized with two different tracers to characterize the choroidal mass as being FDG-avid, consistent with a sarcoid-like lesion, and lacking the Gallium (Ga-68) DOTATAE uptake of carcinoid tumor metastases.

Thermal shock fracture behavior of wave-transparent brittle materials in hypersonic vehicles under high thermal flux by digital image correlation.

During diving, high orbit maneuver, or target detection and positioning, a hypersonic vehicle will experience high thermal flux. Aerodynamic heating will cause intense thermal shock to the antenna window and radar dome, which are usually made of brittle materials that are transparent to electromagnetic waves and are critical to the mission of target positioning and hitting. Therefore, determination of the time to fracture of the brittle materials under high thermal flux is of great significance.

Ultrasound microbubble-carried PNA targeting to c-myc mRNA inhibits the proliferation of rabbit iliac arterious smooth muscle cells and intimal hyperplasia.

Objective: To elucidate the transfected effect of albumin ultrasound microbubbles carrying peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) against c-myc gene to the vascular walls and their effect on the intimal proliferation induced by vascular denudation.

Methods: A rabbit iliac artery intimal proliferation model was constructed and PNA against c-myc mRNA was designed and synthesized and was added to albumin solution before ultrasound microbubbles were prepared and encapsulated in matrix of albumin. The ultrasound microbubbles carrying PNA were transfected to intima under ultrasound exposure.

The association of (18)F-FDG PET and glucose metabolism biomarkers GLUT1 and HK2 in p16 positive and negative head and neck squamous cell carcinomas.

Objectives: To investigate the relationship between FDG-PET maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax), p16, EGFR, GLUT1 and HK2 expression in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC).

Materials And Methods: Immunohistochemical staining of p16, EGFR, GLUT1 and HK2 was performed on primary tumor tissue from 97 locally advanced HNSCC patients treated with definitive chemoradiation. SUVmax along with p16, EGFR, GLUT1 and HK2 expression were analyzed for associations including local control, locoregional control and disease free survival.

Strain measurement of objects subjected to aerodynamic heating using digital image correlation: experimental design and preliminary results.

In thermomechanical testing of hypersonic materials and structures, direct observation and quantitative strain measurement of the front surface of a test specimen directly exposed to severe aerodynamic heating has been considered as a very challenging task. In this work, a novel quartz infrared heating device with an observation window is designed to reproduce the transient thermal environment experienced by hypersonic vehicles. The specially designed experimental system allows the capture of test article's surface images at various temperatures using an optical system outfitted with a bandpass filter.

Detection of Aberrant Right Subclavian Artery by PET/CT.

An aberrant right subclavian artery can be diagnosed by PET/CT, as demonstrated in this case of a 70-y-old man undergoing PET/CT for staging of squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung. It is important to report this finding during the evaluation of oncologic patients, to prevent severe complications that may arise from various oncologic interventions.

Accurate ex situ deformation measurement using an ultra-stable two-dimensional digital image correlation system.

In situ planar deformation measurement using two-dimensional digital image correlation (2D-DIC) and a fixed camera has been fully investigated in many published works and widely used for various applications. However, in certain special cases (e.g.

Complementary role of 18F-FDG PET and 123I-ioflupane SPECT in the diagnosis of Lewy body disease.

We present a case demonstrating how correlative imaging with (123)I-ioflupane SPECT and (18)F-FDG PET can be used to help make the diagnosis of Lewy body disease more specific.

Semantic Dementia Diagnosed by F-18 FDG PET/MRI: Co-registered Images.

We report a case of a 61-year-old male who presented with a sudden change in mental status. From a psychiatric standpoint, his symptoms were consistent with a bipolar disorder. A neurology consult raised suspicion for vascular dementia, given the sudden onset of symptoms; however, the magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) was unremarkable.

Optimization of a three-dimensional digital image correlation system for deformation measurements in extreme environments.

An optimized 3D digital image correlation (3D-DIC) system using active optical imaging is developed for accurate shape and 3D deformation measurements in nonlaboratory conditions or extreme high-temperature environments. In contrast to a conventional 3D-DIC system using white or natural light illumination, the proposed active imaging 3D-DIC system is based on a combination of monochromatic lighting and bandpass filter imaging. Because the bandpass filter attached before the imaging lenses allows only the actively illuminated monochromatic light to pass through and blocks all light outside of its bandpass range, the active imaging 3D-DIC system is therefore insensitive to serious variations in ambient light in nonlaboratory environments and to the thermal radiation of hot objects in extreme high-temperature environments.

Revisiting the Marrow Metabolic Changes after Chemotherapy in Lymphoma: A Step towards Personalized Care.

Purpose. The aims were to correlate individual marrow metabolic changes after chemotherapy with bone marrow biopsy (BMBx) for its potential value of personalized care in lymphoma. Methods.

[Clinical manifestations and neuroimaging characteristics of children with moyamoya disease].

Objective: To study the clinical manifestations and neuroimaging characteristics of pediatric moyamoya disease.

Methods: The clinical data of 17 children with moyamoya disease were retrospectively studied.

Results: The onset age was between 3 and 14 years.

Granulomatous disease: is it a nuisance or an asset during PET/computed tomography evaluation of lung cancers?

Objectives: To evaluate combined PET-computed tomography (CT) criteria for differentiating between granulomatous disease (GD) and malignancy (CA) in oncologic PET-CT studies.

Methods: Sixty-two patients who were referred for fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) PET-CT evaluation of pulmonary lesion(s) without a history of concurrent infection were studied. PET-CT was performed 1.

Assessment of progression and treatment response of optic pathway glioma with positron emission tomography using alpha-[(11)C]methyl-L-tryptophan.

Purpose: To report the utility of positron emission tomography (PET) with alpha-[(11)C]methyl-L-tryptophan (AMT) for monitoring progression and response to treatment of an isolated optic pathway glioma (OPG) in a 16-year-old girl.

Procedures: Positron emission tomography scanning of the brain was performed 20 minutes after intravenous administration of AMT. The AMT-PET images were reconstructed and examined for tumor uptake of the tracer in correlation with coregistered magnetic resonance images.

A novel computerized approach to enhancing lung tumor detection in whole-body PET images.

Positron emission tomography (PET) is complimentary to other imaging modalities such as CT and MRI and provides a unique and effective means for detecting tumors in vivo through tissue metabolism measurement. At the majority of clinics, only the attenuation-corrected images are read by the physician for tumor diagnosis; the unconnected images are not examined, losing critically important information for a small portion of patients. We have developed a novel image processing method capable of automatically detecting and ranking tumor candidates in the lungs using the whole-body PET images.

A statistical investigation of normal regional intra-subject heterogeneity of brain metabolism and perfusion by F-18 FDG and O-15 H2O PET imaging.

Background: The definite evaluation of the regional cerebral heterogeneity using perfusion and metabolism by a single modality of PET imaging has not been well addressed. Thus a statistical analysis of voxel variables from identical brain regions on metabolic and perfusion PET images was carried out to determine characteristics of the regional heterogeneity of F-18 FDG and O-15 H2O cerebral uptake in normal subjects.

Methods: Fourteen normal subjects with normal CT and/or MRI and physical examination including MMSE were scanned by both F-18 FDG and O-15 H2O PET within same day with head-holder and facemask.

In vivo uptake and metabolism of alpha-[11C]methyl-L-tryptophan in human brain tumors.

Abnormal metabolism of tryptophan has been implicated in modulation of tumor cell proliferation and immunoresistance. alpha-[(11)C]Methyl-L-tryptophan (AMT) is a PET tracer to measure cerebral tryptophan metabolism in vivo. In the present study, we have measured tumor tryptophan uptake in 40 patients with primary brain tumors using AMT PET and standard uptake values (SUV).