TikTok's : Getting to Know Urban Wildlife through Social Media.

Wildlife residing in cities has made encounters between humans and wild animals a common phenomenon. The perspective of the conflict-laden animal-human relationship has been over-emphasized by traditional media, which neglects the peaceful and harmonious daily encounters between residents and urban wildlife. This paper addresses the lacuna in extant literature by examining the virtual encounters between urban residents and wildlife on TikTok by sharing the living habits of .

Does Tobler's first law of geography apply to internet attention? A case study of the Asian elephant northern migration event.

One of the basic assumptions of spatial theory is formulated in Waldo Tobler's first law of geography: "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." However, as internet space is a complex virtual space independent of the real world, whether this law is applicable to things in the internet space remains to be explored in depth. Therefore, this study takes the event of Asian elephant northern migration as an example, attempts to investigate the issue of the applicability of Tobler's first law of geography to internet attention by integrating geographic methods such as spatial visualization, spatial correlation analysis, and Geo-detector.

Sense of Presence and Subjective Well-Being in Online Pet Watching: The Moderation Role of Loneliness and Perceived Stress.

Watching videos/livestreams concerning pets is becoming an increasingly popular phenomenon among youth in China, thus the social dynamics and psychological impacts of this pet-centred online activities worth in-depth exploration. This study investigates the sensual experiences of the audiences who have watched pet videos/livestreams and examines how these online experiences influence their subjective well-being. We develop a conceptual model that bases on the relationships between telepresence, social presence, flow experience, and subjective well-being to comprehend this mechanism.

Public perception of urban companion animals during the COVID-19 outbreak in China.

This paper responds to the increasing concern regarding the role of non-human life in shaping urban space by exploring the public perception of urban companion animals during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in China. We argue that the public's perception of urban companion animals during emerging infectious disease outbreaks is related to medical and life science issues and reflects the political, economic, and emotional struggles involved in human-animal multispecies cohabitation. We find that the public has mainly followed and reconstructed medical discourses about the risk of companion animal-to-human transmission and discussed sustainable ethical animal practices in urban public health emergency management during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Everyday Life Construction, Outdoor Activity and Health Practice among Urban Empty Nesters and Their Companion Dogs in Guangzhou, China.

In this paper, we argue that research on the everyday life of older people needs to move beyond anthropocentrism because non-human support contributes to the diversity of their social networks. We elaborate this argument by examining how companion dogs are involved in the urban empty-nest family in Guangzhou (an aging and highly urbanized city in China), the building of multispecies kinships by urban empty nesters in later life and improving the health of urban empty nesters. Participatory observations and 20 in-depth interviews were combined to assess the association between dog ownership and the reconstruction of later life.

Measurement of shape and deformation of insect wing.

To measure the shape and deformation of an insect wing, a scanning setup adopting laser triangulation and image matching was developed. Only one industry camera with two light sources was employed to scan the transparent insect wings. 3D shape and point to point full field deformation of the wings could be obtained even when the wingspan is less than 3 mm.

Changes in the Expression of Serum MiR-887-5p in Patients With Endometrial Cancer.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine whether miR-887-5p could be used as a diagnostic marker for endometrial cancer.

Methods: In the first stage, differentially expressed serum micro-RNAs (miRNAs) in the sera of 50 healthy subjects and 50 patients with endometrial cancer were screened by performing Solexa sequencing. In addition, differential expression of these serum miRNAs in endometrial cancer tissues and adjacent normal tissues from 3 patients with endometrial cancer was examined.

MicroRNA-195 inhibits proliferation of cervical cancer cells by targeting cyclin D1a.

Cervical cancer is one of the most frequent gynecological malignancies in women worldwide. MicroRNA-195 (miR-195) was recently found highly expressed in cervical cancer. However, the role of miR-195 in the pathology of cervical cancer remains poorly understood.

No association between p21 gene rs1059234 polymorphisms and risk of endometrial cancer among Han women in Northeast China.

Objective of the study is to find the association between p21 rs1059234 polymorphisms and endometrial cancer in Han women from Northeast China. Genotyping of rs1059234 in the p21 gene was performed by sequencing and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) of peripheral blood samples in 263 endometrial cancer patients (case group) and 315 healthy subjects (control group). C allele frequency of rs1059234 was significantly increased in patients of the case group when compared with that in the control group (P = 0.

Specific siRNA inhibits XIAP expression in human endometrial carcinoma cell apoptosis.

The aim of the study was to investigate the inhibitory effects of RNA interference on XIAP gene expression of human endometrial carcinoma RL95-2 cell and the cell apoptosis. Specific small interference RNA (siRNA) of XIAP was designed and composed. Transfection of siRNA was conducted in endometrial carcinoma cell line RL95-2.

Cyclin D1b overexpression inhibits cell proliferation and induces cell apoptosis in cervical cancer cells in vitro and in vivo.

Cyclin D1b is one of two proteins translated from cyclin D1 transcripts (isoforms a and b) that are generated due to gene polymorphism. Our previous study has reported low cyclin D1b expression in cervical cancer tissue, with an expression level in moderately or poorly differentiated tissues that was significantly lower than that in well-differentiated tissues. However, the functional role of cyclin D1b in cervical cancer remains to be elucidated.

miR-200c modulates ovarian cancer cell metastasis potential by targeting zinc finger E-box-binding homeobox 2 (ZEB2) expression.

This study was to investigate the effect of miR-200c on regulation of ovarian cancer cell metastasis potential and explore the underlying molecular events. qRT-PCR was used to analyze the level of miR-200c expression in 48 ovarian cancer and 30 normal ovarian tissue samples. pre-miR-200c was used to manipulate miR-200c expression in ovarian cancer cells for detection of changed phenotypes of tumor cells.

The diagnostic value of serum hybrid capture 2 (CH2) HPV DNA in cervical cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

The diagnostic accuracy of cervical cancer remains a clinical challenge, and a number of studies have used the serum hybrid capture 2 (HC2) human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in the diagnosis of cervical cancer. The aim of the present meta-analysis was to determine the overall accuracy of HC2 HPV DNA in the diagnosis of cervical cancer. A systematic review of studies from PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Ovid, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database-disc, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Technology of Chongqing (VIP), and Wan Fang database was conducted, and the data concerning the accuracy of HC2 HPV DNA in the diagnosis of cervical cancer were pooled.

Radical hysterectomy and vaginectomy with sigmoid vaginoplasty for stage I vaginal carcinoma.

Objective: To evaluate the therapeutic value of radical hysterectomy and vaginectomy with sigmoid vaginoplasty among patients with International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage I vaginal carcinoma.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted of 5 women (age range, 45-55years) with stage I vaginal carcinoma who underwent surgery at Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China, between January 4, 2009, and December 30, 2011. All participants had lesions in the upper third of the vagina and wished to retain sexual function.

[Association of interferon-γ gene polymorphism and risk of cervical HPV infection].

Objective: To investigate the association of interferon (IFN) γ gene polymorphisms and risk and prognosis of HPV cervical infection.

Methods: PCR-ASP was used for detecting IFN-γ rs2430561 polymorphism in 179 HPV positive patients and 328 HPV negative normal controls.

Results: The frequency of A allele of 63.

Association of p21 SNPs and risk of cervical cancer among Chinese women.

Background: The p21 codon 31 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs1801270, has been linked to cervical cancer but with controversial results. The aims of this study were to investigate the role of p21 SNP-rs1801270 and other untested p21 SNPs in the risk of cervical cancer in a Chinese population.

Methods: We genotyped five p21 SNPs (rs762623, rs2395655, rs1801270, rs3176352, and rs1059234) using peripheral blood DNA from 393 cervical cancer patients and 434 controls.

TNF-alpha rs1800629 polymorphism is not associated with HPV infection or cervical cancer in the Chinese population.

Background: While HPV infection is the main cause of cervical cancer, genetic susceptibility to HPV infection is not well understood. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), involved in the defense against HPV infection, plays an important role in cervical cancer progression and regression. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the TNF-alpha rs1800629 polymorphism and risk of HPV infection or cervical cancer.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor with synchronous isolated parenchymal splenic metastasis of ovarian cancer.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) represents the most common intramural mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract, but the synchronous occurrence of GIST in the stomach and gynecological cancer is rare. We present a unique case of a 56-year-old female patient who was diagnosed with the synchronous development of GIST and an isolated parenchymal splenic metastasis of ovarian cancer. She underwent a wide local excision of gastric lesions with splenectomy.