Optimizing domestic energy management with a wild Mice colony-inspired algorithm: Enhancing efficiency and coordination in smart grids through dynamic distributed energy storage.

Energy management (EM) is a critical strategy that spans the production and consumption of electricity, enhancing the stability of the electricity network. Smart grid technology significantly improves the electrical system's energy efficiency (EE), facilitating a transformation from a conventional power grid (PG) to a smart PG. This paper presents a key strategy for modeling the EE of the smart grid tailored to domestic demand, establishing smart coordination between domestic demand, energy production, and storage to reduce energy waste and costs.

TNIP3 protects against pathological cardiac hypertrophy by stabilizing STAT1.

Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is one of the major risk factors of heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases. However, the mechanisms underlying pathological cardiac hypertrophy remain largely unknown. Here, we identified the first evidence that TNFAIP3 interacting protein 3 (TNIP3) was a negative regulator of pathological cardiac hypertrophy.

The role of dietary fats on cognition and sarcopenia in the elderly.

Background And Objectives: To elucidate the role of dietary fats on the relationship between mild cognitive impairment and sarcopenia and help identifying and preventing the decline of cognitive and muscle function in elderly individuals.

Methods And Study Design: The study conducted involving a group of 1812 individuals between the ages of 61 and 92. Body composition and BMR were assessed by bioelectrical impedance analysis.

Chitinase 3 like-1 activates the Akt pathway, inducing NF-κB-dependent release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and promoting the proliferative ability in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells.

Background: Chitinase 3 like-1 (CHI3L1) has been reported to function as an oncogene in many types of cancer. However, the biological function of CHI3L1 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) remains unknown.

Methods: Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in NPC tissues in GSE64634 and GSE12452 were downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO).

Association between sodium and potassium intake levels and body compositions of Chinese college students.

Background And Objectives: To investigate the relationship between sodium (Na) and potassium (K) nutritional condition and body compositions in youth aiming to give target population reasonable diet recommendations.

Methods And Study Design: The cross-sectional study was conducted involving 512 healthy youth aged 18 to 31 years from universities in Beijing. Food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and bioelectrical impedance analyzer (BIA) were used to collect dietary intake information and body compositions.

NAT10 promotes the tumorigenesis and progression of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma through ac4C modification of FOXM1 mRNA.

Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), is a prevalent malignant tumor, belongs to the category of head and neck tumors. N-acetyltransferase 10 (NAT10) can alter mRNA stability through N4- acetylcytidine (ac4C) modification. This study aimed to make an investigation into the role of NAT10-mediated ac4C modification in the malignant processes of LSCC cells.

MI-DAGSC: A domain adaptation approach incorporating comprehensive information from MI-EEG signals.

Non-stationarity of EEG signals leads to high variability between subjects, making it challenging to directly use data from other subjects (source domain) for the classifier in the current subject (target domain). In this study, we propose MI-DAGSC to address domain adaptation challenges in EEG-based motor imagery (MI) decoding. By combining domain-level information, class-level information, and inter-sample structure information, our model effectively aligns the feature distributions of source and target domains.

Improving suppressive activity of compost on phytopathogenic microbes by inoculation of antagonistic microorganisms for secondary fermentation.

Antimicrobial activity contributes to plant disease control property of composts but its source is still not clear. From composting cow manure during secondary fermentation, 50 microbial strains with antifungal activity were isolated and identified. Two bacterial strains Bacillus mojavensis B282 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa F288, antagonistic against both phytopathogenic fungi and bacteria, were respectively used as the inoculum of compost for secondary fermentation.

The Role of Dietary Patterns and Dietary Quality on Body Composition of Adolescents in Chinese College.

There is limited evidence regarding the effects of dietary pattern and dietary quality on the risk of unhealthy weight status and related body composition in Chinese adolescence. In particular, studies using bioelectrical impedance analyzer (BIA) in these subjects are rare. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of diet in body composition, to find a healthy dietary pattern for Chinese youth, and to promote the application of BIA among this population.

Association of Dietary Inflammatory Potential with Blood Inflammation: The Prospective Markers on Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Inflammation is known as an important mechanism of cognitive dysfunction. Systemic immune inflammation index (SII) and system inflammation response index (SIRI) are two blood inflammatory markers, which are related to many chronic diseases including cognitive impairment. It is recognized that dietary inflammatory index (DII), which is used to estimate the overall inflammatory potential of diet, may be related to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as well.

Identification of the regulatory role of the circ_0004788/miR-515-5p/FGF2 network in nasopharyngeal carcinoma development.

Background: CircularRNAs (circRNAs) played vital roles in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). However, the impacts of circ_0004788 on the development of NPC have not been explored.

Methods: Cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8), 5-Ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine (EdU) and colony formation assays were applied to determine cell proliferation.

[Evaluation of the color stability of infiltrant resin in comparison to aesthetic composite resins].

Objective: To investigate the color stability of infiltrant resin together with three other composites exposed to staining solution.

Methods: Three types of anterior aesthetic composite resins (Filtek Z250, Filtek Z350 XT, and Beautiful Flow Plus F00) and artificial caries with Icon infiltrant resin were used. The samples were randomly divided into two groups (each contained 10 specimens): coffee solution and distilled water immersion for three weeks.

Long noncoding RNA MEG3 prevents vascular endothelial cell senescence by impairing miR-128-dependent Girdin downregulation.

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are commonly associated with various biological functions, in which the function of lncRNA maternally expressed gene 3 (MEG3) has been identified in various cancers. Strikingly, an association between MEG3 with microRNAs (miRNAs), mRNAs, and proteins has been reported. This study investigates the role of MEG3 in vascular endothelial cell (VEC) senescence.

Adsorption of heavy metal tolerance strains to Pb and Cd in wastewater.

The functional strains with high tolerance to heavy metal Pb and Cd were screened from soil obtained in a heavy metal waste accumulation area. The immobilized biological adsorbent was made by embedding method and used for treatment of wastewater containing heavy metals. The effects of initial concentration of heavy metals, adsorption time, pH value of wastewater, and dosage of adsorbent on adsorption performance were investigated.

[Enrichment Levels and Comprehensive Pollution Assessment of Dust Heavy Metals in Winter in Beijing].

Dust reflects the natural subsidence of particles and is thus generally accepted as an important environmental indicator. Dust heavy metals find their way into soil or water via atmospheric deposition, potentially damaging plants, aquatic organisms, as well as human beings. In order to study the concentration levels, enrichment degrees, and comprehensive pollution characteristics of the dust heavy metals Cd, Cr, Pb, Cu, Zn, Ni, Co, V, Bi, and Mo in winter in Beijing, 49 groups of dust samples were collected from different locations within the city from November 2013 to March 2014.

Engulfment of platelets delays endothelial cell aging via girdin and its phosphorylation.

Endothelial cells are critical in angiogenesis and maintain the homeostasis of the blood‑brain barrier (BBB). Platelets (PLTs) are essential in vascular biology, including angiogenesis. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of PLTs on the aging of endothelial cells.

Adenovirus with p16 gene exerts antitumor effect on laryngeal carcinoma Hep2 cells.

Laryngeal cancer is an uncommon form of cancer. The tumor suppressor P16, known to be mutated or deleted in various types of human tumor, including laryngeal carcinoma, is involved in the formation and development of laryngeal carcinoma. It has been previously reported that the inactivation or loss of P16 is associated with the acquisition of malignant characteristics.

The Vena Tech LP Permanent Caval Filter: Effectiveness and Safety in the Clinical Setting in Three Chinese Medical Centers.

Objective: The effectiveness, safety, and patient outcomes after Vena Tech LP caval filter placement were evaluated retrospectively in China.

Methods And Results: From January 2002 to January 2013, 1,200 patients received Tech LP caval filters to prevent PE at three Beijing University medical centers. The patients' general condition, reasons for DVT formation, filter placement method, indication for filter placement, complications, safety of the filter, treatment post-filter, and follow-up were recorded.

Combinational reasoning of quantitative fuzzy topological relations for simple fuzzy regions.

In recent years, formalization and reasoning of topological relations have become a hot topic as a means to generate knowledge about the relations between spatial objects at the conceptual and geometrical levels. These mechanisms have been widely used in spatial data query, spatial data mining, evaluation of equivalence and similarity in a spatial scene, as well as for consistency assessment of the topological relations of multi-resolution spatial databases. The concept of computational fuzzy topological space is applied to simple fuzzy regions to efficiently and more accurately solve fuzzy topological relations.

Losartan reduces myocardial interstitial fibrosis in diabetic cardiomyopathy rats by inhibiting JAK/STAT signaling pathway.

Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the effect of losartan on the myocardial interstitial fibrosis in diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) rats.

Methods: In this study, a total of 48 male Wister rats (3 groups of 16 animals each) were examined, including the control group, DCM group and losartan-treated (DCM + L) group. Control group was fed with standard diet (14 KJ/g); DCM group and losartan-treated (DCM + L) group were both fed with high glucose and fat diet (20 KJ/g).

[Establishment of an albumin and cytokeratin 19 genetically-modified embryonic stem cell line and evaluation of its hepatoblast differentiation capacities].

Objective: To establish a gene-modified embryonic stem (ES; E14.1-2) cell line with hepatoblast differentiation reporter genes, albumin (ALB) and cytokeratin 19 (CK19), labeled to facilitate study of their potential applicability as differentiated hepatoblasts.

Methods: Two expression vectors were constructed, one with the ALB promotor driving the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) and anti-neomycin genes (pAlb-EGFP), and the other with the CK19 promotor driving the red fluorescence protein and anti-hygromycin genes (pCK19-hCD25-IRES-tdTOMATO).

[Expression of mechano-growth factor in Escherichia coli and activity analysis].

Mechano-growth factor (MGF) is one of IGF-1 isoforms. MGF is mechanosensitive and has important functions in muscle hypertrophy, regeneration and nerve injury recovery. In this study, MGF cDNA (330 bp) was cloned from stretched osteoblasts by RT-PCR.

[The application of mastoid obliteration with homograft tooth in open method tympanoplasty].

Objective: To investigate the effect of open method tympanoplasty with mastoid obliteration with homograft tooth and reconstruction of the attic wall.

Method: Fifty-two cases with cholesteatoma or skeletal ulcer otitis media were performed the open method tympanoplasty with mastoid obliteration with homograft tooth and reconstruction of the attic wall after radical mastoidectomy.

Result: External auditory canals of 48 patients were normal in appearance.