Publications by authors named "Gu Xiang"

With the growing prominence of autonomous driving, the demand for accurate and efficient lane detection has increased significantly. Beyond ensuring accuracy, achieving high detection speed is crucial to maintaining real-time performance, stability, and safety. To address this challenge, this study proposes the ECBAM_ASPP model, which integrates the Efficient Convolutional Block Attention Module (ECBAM) with the Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) module.

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Deep networks on 3D point clouds have achieved remarkable success in 3D classification, but they are vulnerable to geometric variations resulting from inconsistent data acquisition procedures. This leads to challenging 3D domain generalization and adaptation tasks, aiming to tackle the challenge that the performance of a model trained on a source domain will degrade on an out-of-distribution target domain. In this paper, we introduce a novel Multi-Scale Part-based feature Representation, dubbed MSPR, as a generalizable representation for point cloud domain generalization and adaptation.

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  • Recaticimab is a new monoclonal antibody that significantly lowers LDL cholesterol levels with less frequent dosing compared to current treatments, potentially every 12 weeks.
  • The REMAIN-2 trial examined the efficacy and safety of recaticimab as an add-on to statin therapy for patients with nonfamilial hypercholesterolemia over 48 weeks.
  • Results showed that patients receiving recaticimab experienced a significant reduction in LDL cholesterol levels compared to those on a placebo, particularly notable at the 24-week mark.
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  • Alda-1 acts as an agonist of ALDH2 in mitochondria, helping maintain their structure and function.
  • The study tested Alda-1's ability to reduce mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS) and protect heart cells (cardiomyocytes) from oxidative damage using hydrogen peroxide.
  • Findings revealed that Alda-1 prevented mtROS buildup, reduced the harmful interactions that lead to cardiomyocyte damage, and showed that downregulating TXNIP further improved Alda-1's protective effects against oxidative stress.
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China has faced barriers to implementation of a population-based mammographic screening program. Breast ultrasound provides an alternative screening modality to mammography in low-resource settings. To evaluate the performance of ABUS with remote reading as the primary screening modality for breast cancer.

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  • The study investigates how agricultural plastic film (APF) residue moves due to soil erosion and its related phthalate acid esters (PAEs) emissions into China's water systems from 1998 to 2020.
  • Results show significant APF residue loss, peaking in 2016, with the highest losses observed in various regions of China, particularly the southwestern and eastern areas.
  • PAEs emissions were also assessed, revealing lower ecological risks to aquatic environments, while providing important data for understanding and managing plastic contamination issues.
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  • The study aimed to identify risk factors for poor prognosis in uveal melanoma among a Chinese population, focusing on the genetic markers monosomy 3, 8q gain, and EZH2 staining.
  • Examining 89 patient cases from 2012 to 2021, researchers conducted immunohistochemical analysis and evaluated survival rates using statistical methods like Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression.
  • Key findings indicated that factors such as age, tumor size, stage, and the presence of 8q gain and high EZH2 expression were linked to higher rates of distant metastasis, while monosomy 3 showed no significant association in this study.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent childhood disorder, and related research has been increasing in recent years. However, it remains a challenging issue to accurately identify individuals with ADHD. The research proposes a method for ADHD detection using Recursive Feature Elimination-Genetic Algorithm (RFE-GA) for the feature selection of EEG data.

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Glutamine is one of the most abundant non-essential amino acids in human plasma and plays a crucial role in many biological processes of the human body. Tumor cells take up a large amount of glutamine to meet their rapid proliferation requirements, which is supported by the upregulation of glutamine transporters. Targeted inhibition of glutamine transporters effectively inhibits cell growth and proliferation in tumors.

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As a gasotransmitter, endogenous sulfur dioxide (SO) plays an important role in cardiovascular regulation. In addition, excessive SO can react with overexpressed hydrogen peroxide (HO) in tumor cells to generate toxic radicals, which can induce severe oxidative damage to tumor cells and result in cell apoptosis. This highlights the potential of SO in oncotherapy.

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Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Despite significant advances in current drug therapies, issues such as poor drug targeting and severe side effects persist. In recent years, nanomedicine has been extensively applied in the research and treatment of CVDs.

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Background: The incidence and mortality rates of hepatocellular carcinoma among Hispanic individuals in the United States are much higher than in non-Hispanic White people. We conducted multi-omics analyses to elucidate molecular alterations in hepatocellular carcinoma among Hispanic patients.

Methods: Paired tumor and adjacent nontumor samples were collected from 31 Hispanic hepatocellular carcinomas in South Texas for genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic profiling.

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Breast cancer, due to resistance to standard therapies such as endocrine therapy, anti-HER2 therapy and chemotherapy, continues to pose a major health challenge. A growing body of research emphasizes the heterogeneity and plasticity of metabolism in breast cancer. Because differences in subtypes exhibit a bias toward metabolic pathways, targeting mitochondrial inhibitors shows great potential as stand-alone or adjuvant cancer therapies.

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  • Constructing a knowledge graph for diseases, specifically heart failure, is important for enhancing clinical diagnosis, treatment, and health management, but current methods often struggle with limited training data and out-of-distribution entities.* -
  • This study introduces an innovative pipeline that uses large language models, prompt engineering, and expert refinement to improve the design and extraction phases of knowledge graph construction.* -
  • Results show the proposed TwoStepChat method significantly outperforms traditional methods, saving 65% of annotation time and effectively handling information not present in training data.*
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Heavy metal(loid) (HM) pollution in agricultural soils has become an environmental concern in antimony (Sb) mining areas. However, priority pollution sources identification and deep understanding of environmental risks of HMs face great challenges due to multiple and complex pollution sources coexist. Herein, an integrated approach was conducted to distinguish pollution sources and assess human health risk (HHR) and ecological risk (ER) in a typical Sb mining watershed in Southern China.

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  • Research highlights the development of a dual-site single-atom nanozyme (Ni-DAB) that efficiently oxidizes uric acid by mimicking the mechanisms of natural enzymes.
  • This nanozyme features a metal center (Ni) and a ligand carbon atom that work together to create specific binding sites for uric acid and oxygen, enhancing its catalytic selectivity.
  • The study also proposes a biofuel cell that utilizes human urine, demonstrating practical applications for this advanced type of artificial enzyme.
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And sentences associated with these attributes and relationships have been neglected. in this paper ►We propose an end-to-end model called Knowledge Graph Enhanced neural network (KGENet) to address the above shortcomings. specifically ►We first construct a disease knowledge graph that focuses on the multi-view disease attributes of ICD codes and the disease relationships between these codes.

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Six Transmembrane Epithelial Antigen of Prostate 2 (STEAP2) belongs to a family of metalloreductases, which indirectly aid in uptake of iron and copper ions. Its role in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains to be characterized. Here, we report that STEAP2 expression was upregulated in HCC tumors compared with paired adjacent non-tumor tissues by RNA sequencing, RT-qPCR, Western blotting, and immunostaining.

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The ubiquitous and adverse effects of estrogens have aroused global concerns. Natural and synthetic estrogens in 255 water samples from the southern Bohai Sea were analyzed over three years. Total estrogen concentrations were 11.

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  • - The study investigates the heightened rates of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) among Hispanics in the U.S. by analyzing tumor and adjacent non-tumor samples from Hispanic patients in South Texas through comprehensive multi-omics approaches.
  • - Key findings include high mutation frequencies related to the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and the identification of HCC subtypes, where one subtype showed better survival rates associated with immune activity and lower liver function-related gene activity.
  • - The research aims to provide insights into specific molecular features and potential biomarkers for HCC among Hispanic patients, laying groundwork for improved therapeutic strategies.
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Background: Berberine is an active compound found in different herbs used in Chinese medicine and is well-known for its potential anticancer properties. The study aimed to figure out the role of berberine in regulating the malignant behavior of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) cells.

Methods: LSCC cell lines (SNU-899 and AMC-HN-8) were treated with different concentrations of berberine (0-200 μM) to determine its cytotoxicity.

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Background: Recycling of synaptic vesicles plays an important role in vesicle pool replenishment, neurotransmitter release and synaptic plasticity. Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is considered to be the main mechanism for synaptic vesicle replenishment. AP-2 (adaptor-related protein complex 2) and myosin Ⅵ are known as key proteins that regulate the structure and dynamics of CME.

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Protective masks are critical to impeding microorganism transmission but can propagate infection via pathogen buildup and face touching. To reduce this liability, we integrated electrospun photocatalytic graphitic carbon nitride (g-CN) nanoflakes into standard surgical masks to confer a self-sanitization capacity. By optimizing the purine/melamine precursor ratio during synthesis, we reduced the g-CN band gap from 2.

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The COVID-19 pandemic during 2020-2023 has wrought adverse impacts on coastal and marine environments. This study conducts a comprehensive review of the collateral effects of COVID-19 on these ecosystems through literature review and bibliometric analysis. According to the output and citation analysis of these publications, researchers from the coastal countries in Asia, Europe, and America payed more attentions to this environmental issue than other continents.

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Adoptive immunotherapy in the T cell landscape exhibits efficacy in cancer treatment. Over the past few decades, genetically modified T cells, particularly chimeric antigen receptor T cells, have enabled remarkable strides in the treatment of hematological malignancies. Besides, extensive exploration of multiple antigens for the treatment of solid tumors has led to clinical interest in the potential of T cells expressing the engineered T cell receptor (TCR).

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