The co-precipitation method was successfully used to synthesize Ba(YGdEu)O (0.01 ≤ x ≤ 0.09) phosphors with heavy Gd doping, resulting in significantly enhanced thermal stability and luminescence performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore the safety and effectiveness of separation surgery in patients with neurological symptoms of spinal metastases.
Methods: From January 2020 to December 2022, 14 patients with neurological symptoms of spinal metastases underwent separation surgery, including 7 males and 7 females, aged from 30 to 76 years old with an average of (61.57±12.
Optical physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are powerful tools to combat counterfeiting, owing to their unpredictable preparation processes and unique, identifiable information content. Achieving high entropy and robustness in optical PUFs is essential for practical applications but remains challenging. This study demonstrates a multilevel, solar-blind, and thermostable PUF based on host-sensitized luminescence of trivalent dysprosium (Dy) in β-phase gallium oxide (β-GaO).
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May 2025
Intracellular pH is a key indicator of cellular stability and plays a critical role in understanding biological processes and diagnosing various diseases. In this study, yellow-emitting carbon dots (C-dots) were synthesized via hydrothermal treatment of o-phenylenediamine and p-aminobenzoic acid. These C-dots exhibited pH-sensitive fluorescence, with intensity increasing as the pH ranged from 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe electrocatalytic nitrate reduction reaction (NORR) presents a promising alternative to the traditional Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonium (NH) under mild conditions. Supported single atoms have emerged as active catalysts for this conversion; however, the efficiency of NH production are limited by the modest activity and selectivity of these catalysts. In this study, it is demonstrated that zinc single atoms supported on nitrogen-doped carbon (ZnNCs), derived from zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8), possess remarkable catalytic performance for this conversion, achieving an unprecedented selectivity (exceeding 90%) for NH formation across a broad potential range (-0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Chinese Basic Public Health Service has achieved certain results since its implementation. As direct providers, understanding the job satisfaction and its influencing factors among basic public health service practitioners is crucial for enhancing service quality and efficiency. This study examines levels of motivational factors and their contribution to job satisfaction among community health workers in China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a noninvasive optical method, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) has been applied to diagnose the plasma parameters. Previous reports mainly focused on the phase and amplitude changes of THz waves induced by the plasma, while the terahertz polarization characteristics were rarely reported. In this paper, in addition to the plasma electron density and terahertz transmittance, we further applied the terahertz time-domain polarimetry (THz-TDP) method to diagnose the terahertz polarization rotation angles induced by an argon inductively coupled plasma (ICP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFor surveillance video management in university laboratories, issues such as occlusion and low-resolution face capture often arise. Traditional face recognition algorithms are typically static and rely heavily on clear images, resulting in inaccurate recognition for low-resolution, small-sized faces. To address the challenges of occlusion and low-resolution person identification, this paper proposes a new face recognition framework by reconstructing Retinaface-Resnet and combining it with Quality-Adaptive Margin (adaface).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs one of the most harmful heavy metal pollutants, hexavalent chromium Cr(VI) is becoming a serious threat to human health. Thus pursuing a remarkably sensitive method to monitor the Cr(VI) concentration in natural conditions is favored for the fast response to prevent harm. In the present work, an ethylenediamine (En) and SiO-modified wool keratin-based carbon quantum dot (CQD)(En@CQDs@SiO) fluorescent sensor is prepared, and the En is found to improve the discrimination ability by binding the Cr(VI) with the surface carboxyl groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe study aimed to elucidate the underlying pharmacological mechanism of the traditional Chinese medicine Pue in ameliorating myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (MIRI), a critical clinical challenge exacerbated by reperfusion therapy. In vivo MIRI and in vitro anoxia/reoxygenation (A/R) models were constructed. The results demonstrated that Pue pretreatment effectively alleviated MIRI, as manifested by diminishing the levels of serum CK-MB and LDH, mitigating the extent of myocardial infarction and enhancing cardiac functionality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeep phenotyping can enhance the power of genetic analysis, including genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but the occurrence of missing phenotypes compromises the potential of such resources. Although many phenotypic imputation methods have been developed, the accurate imputation of millions of individuals remains challenging. In the present study, we have developed a multi-phenotype imputation method based on mixed fast random forest (PIXANT) by leveraging efficient machine learning (ML)-based algorithms.
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January 2025
Objective: The short-term efficacy of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion among general traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients is unclear.
Methods: We used the MIMIC database to compare the efficacy of liberal (10 g/dL) versus conservative (7 g/dL) transfusion strategy in TBI patients. The outcomes were neurological progression (decrease of Glasgow coma scale (GCS) of at least 2 points) and death within 28 days of ICU admission.
Statement Of Problem: Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) has been used in clinical dentistry because of its excellent physical and biological properties. However, achieving an effective and durable bond with enamel is challenging because of its chemical inertness and low surface energy, and data on the effects of different surface treatments on the durability of PEEK-enamel bonds are scarce.
Purpose: The purpose of this in vitro study was to investigate airborne-particle abrasion, sulfuric acid etching, and the combined use of these treatments on the bonding durability of PEEK-enamel bonds and to gain a deeper understanding of their bonding mechanism.
Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is a vascular disease associated with high mortality rates. Ferroptosis has been shown to mediate the transformation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). However, the regulatory mechanisms by which ferroptosis influences TAA remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intrathecal morphine pump helps alleviate pain in the advanced stages of cancer, and thus, ensuring safe intrathecal morphine pump infusion is important. In this study, we investigated the effect of healthcare failure mode and effects analysis (HFMEA) in the management of patients with intrathecal morphine pump implantation.
Methods: We included 112 cancer patients with severe pain who met the inclusion criteria for intrathecal morphine pump implantation treatment in the pain department of our hospital from November 2021 to October 2022.
The relative motion of the reticle stage and wafer stage caused by vibration during the scanning exposure process of the lithography machine is an important factor that affects the imaging quality under limited lithography ability. In this paper, the influence of the vibration of the lithography stage system on the lithography imaging quality is studied. The lithography model including the vibration error of the stage is taken into account in the framework of source and mask optimization (SMO).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConductive polymer foam (CPF) with excellent compressibility and variable resistance has promising applications in electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and other integrated functions for wearable electronics. However, its insufficient change amplitude of resistance with compressive strain generally leads to a degradation of shielding performance during deformation. Here, an innovative loading strategy of conductive materials on polymer foam is proposed to significantly increase the contact probability and contact area of conductive components under compression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a phosphine-mediated cyclodehydration procedure for the facile synthesis of -aryl/alkyl-substituted hydrazonyl sultones, a class of bioorthogonal reagents, from the readily prepared vicinal sulfo-acyl hydrazides in moderate to good yields. The aqueous stability and bioorthogonal reactivity of these hydrazonyl sultones toward bicyclo[6.1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Finerenone has been approved for treating diabetic kidney disease (DKD) with reducing cardiorenal risk. Real-world data on finerenone treatment for the management of DKD are presently lacking. This study aimed to investigate the effect of finerenone on the renal parameters of the Chinese DKD population in the real-world medical setting for the first time, especially in combination with renin-angiotensin system inhibitors (RASi) and sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i).
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