Publications by authors named "Guan Ting"

Water scarcity constrains potato production in arid and semiarid regions. Therefore, improving water use efficiency is critical for sustainable potato production. We use Inner Mongolia of China as a case site to examine the effects of shallowly burying drip irrigation tape (SSI) on water use efficiency over four years by comparing it with surface drip irrigation (SI) in terms of tuber yield, irrigation water productivity (WP), root dry weight, leaf area index (LAI), dry matter accumulation of potatoes, and evapotranspiration.

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Purpose: Few existing interventions have effectively improved the quality of life (QOL) for patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers, partly due to limited research on the factors associated with QOL. Guided by an adapted stress-coping model, this study aimed to examine the associations between the QOL of cancer patients and their caregivers and their primary and secondary appraisals. Primary appraisals involve perceptions and evaluations of advanced cancer and related caregiving, while secondary appraisals relate to their available resources and coping capabilities.

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Introduction: Assistive robots and human-robot interaction have become integral parts of sports training. However, existing methods often fail to provide real-time and accurate feedback, and they often lack integration of comprehensive multi-modal data.

Methods: To address these issues, we propose a groundbreaking and innovative approach: CAM-Vtrans-Cross-Attention Multi-modal Visual Transformer.

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There is limited literature on the roles and tasks conducted by oncology social workers (OSW) who work with cancer patients in inpatient units. The purpose of this study was to delineate the roles reported to be significant to practice among OSWs who practice in inpatient settings and to identify the domains into which these roles fall. The data used in this secondary data analysis were collected in a large national study of OSWs to delineate the roles and tasks across all cancer settings.

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A series of novel piperidamide-3-carboxamide derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their inhibitory activities against cathepsin K. Among these derivatives, compound exhibited the most potent inhibition, with an IC value of 0.08 µM.

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  • Accurate cancer subtype identification is essential for prognosis and personalized treatment, but traditional clustering methods struggle due to data complexity.
  • A novel contrastive-learning-based approach using deep learning was proposed to better cluster patients based on multi-omics data, yielding superior results in separating survival outcomes across nine datasets.
  • The study identified important cancer-related genes and showed that mRNA is the most influential omics data type for cancer survival, highlighting the method's effectiveness in revealing biologically significant cancer subtypes.
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This study aims to examine the relationship between knowledge of the SDGs and public policy support for the SDGs. By categorizing knowledge into objective and subjective knowledge, we examine the impact of these two types of knowledge on public support. And we further explores the moderating role of public trust in international/environmental organizations and the mediating role of individuals' perceptions of SDGs' relevance.

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Objectives: Social workers are vital in delivering psychosocial services in palliative care, yet their specific roles in palliative oncology remain undefined. This study aimed to delineate the current practice role of oncology social workers involvement in palliative care in the United States.

Methods: This study utilized a cross-sectional design and involved secondary analysis of data from a nationwide survey focused on workforce conditions for oncology social workers.

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We report a case of overlooked Subacute Thyroiditis (SAT) potentially induced by the administration of a COVID-19 vaccine. This case prompted a thorough review of the existing literature to elucidate possible mechanisms by which immune responses to the COVID-19 vaccine might precipitate thyroid damage. The primary objective is to enhance the clinical understanding and awareness of SAT among healthcare professionals.

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  • This research assessed functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) in premature infants during their first year, examining various neonatal factors that influence these conditions.
  • Out of 988 preterm infants, 725 (73.4%) were found to have FGIDs, including common conditions like infant colic and regurgitation, with lower gestational age and certain feeding practices identified as significant risk factors.
  • The study concludes that reducing unnecessary antibiotic use, promoting breastfeeding, and addressing Cesarean deliveries and passive smoking could help manage and lower the incidence of FGIDs in preterm infants.
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Objective: The relationship between illness uncertainty and quality of life (QOL) has been examined for either the patient or caregiver, but not among the patient-caregiver dyads. This study examined relationships between illness uncertainty and QOL among patients with advanced cancer and family caregivers.

Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial that examined the effects of a dyadic-based intervention on psychological outcomes for patients with advanced cancer and family caregivers (N = 484 dyads).

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Objectives: Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an effective evidence-based model to provide early intervention and treatment to people with substance use disorders across diverse health settings. Yet, how SBIRT has been implemented within oral health settings and its associated outcomes has not been explored. This scoping review assessed how SBIRT has been implemented in oral health settings in the U.

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In genome assembly, scaffolding can obtain more complete and continuous scaffolds. Current scaffolding methods usually adopt one type of read to construct a scaffold graph and then orient and order contigs. However, scaffolding with the strengths of two or more types of reads seems to be a better solution to some tricky problems.

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Objective: This review aimed to systematically examine the characteristics and outcomes of family-based psychosocial interventions offered to adult Latino patients with cancer and their caregivers.

Methods: We searched six databases from their inception dates through June 2022. Studies were eligible for inclusion if they (1) targeted both adult Latino patients diagnosed with cancer and their adult caregivers or reported subgroup analyses of Latino patients and caregivers; (2) included family-based psychosocial interventions; (3) used randomized controlled trial (RCT) or quasi-experimental designs; and (4) were published in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

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Cancer is becoming a public health issue in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This systematic review aims to synthesise psychosocial interventions and their effects on the health outcomes of adult cancer patients and their family caregivers in SSA. We identified eligible publications in English language from PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature Plus with Full Text, Embase, APA PsycInfo, Scopus, and African Index Medicus databases.

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Purpose: Illness uncertainty is widely recognized as a psychosocial stressor for cancer survivors and their family caregivers. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to identify the sociodemographic, physical, and psychosocial correlates that are associated with illness uncertainty in adult cancer survivors and their family caregivers.

Methods: Six scholarly databases were searched.

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Guided by the World Health Organization quality of life (WHOQOL) framework, this systematic review aimed to examine evidence about the prevalence and severity of QOL-related health problems and their influencing factors in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We identified eligible publications in English language from PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature Plus with Full Text, Embase, APA PsycInfo, Scopus, and African Index Medicus databases. We included quantitative descriptive studies that measured overall and subdomains of QOL as the outcome in adult patients/survivors with cancer in SSA.

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α-Mangostin (α-MG) has demonstrated to display potent activities against Gram-positive bacterial. However, the contribution of phenolic hydroxyl groups of α-MG to the antibacterial activity remains obscure, severely hampering selection of structure modification to develop more potential α-MG-based anti-bacterial derivatives. Herein, twenty-one α-MG derivatives are designed, synthesized and evaluated for the antibacterial activities.

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Improving communication and engagement with the public is vital for implementing sustainable development goals (SDGs). Public attitude toward SDGs can influence this engagement, as people are more likely to accept SDG-relevant information and take actions that are consistent with their own attitudes. This study examines the determinants for individual attitudes in supporting SDGs and further explores the formation of public attitudes toward SDGs, i.

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Social work is an essential workforce integral to the United States' public health infrastructure and response to COVID-19. To understand stressors among frontline social workers during COVID-19, a cross-sectional study of U.S-based social workers (N = 1,407) in health settings was collected (in June through August 2020).

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Hexahydromethanocarbazole is a privileged scaffold in the discovery of new drugs and photoactive organic materials due to its good balance between structural complexity and minimized entropy penalty upon receptor binding. To address the difficulty of synthesizing this highly desirable bridged polycyclic scaffold, we designed a convenient multicomponent reaction cascade as intercepted Heck addition/C-H activation/C-palladacycle formation/electrophilic attack of ANP/N-palladacycle formation/Buchwald amination. A distinguishing feature of this sophisticated strategy is the successive generation of two key phenylnorbornyl palladium species to control the reaction flow towards desired products.

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and steatohepatitis (NASH) are hepatic manifestations of systemic metabolic dysfunction, which affect one-quarter of the adult population worldwide as estimated, and exhibit high risk in progressing to hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Current drug discovery focuses on modifying homeostasis of lipids, carbohydrates, and cholesterol, as well as inhibiting inflammation and fibrogenesis. Many natural products show promising activities on various molecular targets involving these mechanisms; however, they have not been fully exploited.

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Purpose: Promoting positive health behaviors helps improve cancer survivors' health outcomes during survivorship; however, little is known about whether health behaviors differ by marital status. The purpose is to examine whether health behaviors and obesity among cancer survivors vary by marital status and whether the type of cancer and sociodemographic factors influence the relationship.

Methods: We examined smoking, physical activity, and body mass index (BMI) among 1880 individuals diagnosed with prostate, breast, or colon cancer who were identified from the 2011-2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).

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Purpose: To better understand the current salaries and student loan debt levels among oncology social workers (OSWs).

Design: Cross-sectional study using online survey.

Sample: OSWs across a variety of cancer care settings in the U.

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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative chronic disease that most often occurs in the knee joint. Studies have shown that some food supplements, such as curcumin and chondroitin sulfate, are effective in treating knee osteoarthritis (KOA) by exhibiting different protective effects. In this study, we further investigated the combined therapeutic effects of curcumin and chondroitin sulfate on cartilage injury in rats with arthritis.

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