It is crucial to prioritize research and development as part of rural revitalization efforts to promote balanced economic growth, preserve cultural heritage, and reduce urban migration. This ensures sustainability and encourages equal access to opportunities, resources, and a healthy environment for people in both rural and urban areas. For the first time, this study explores the interplay between sustainability (Factor A) and health-related environment (Factor B) under the background of rural revitalization in the eight towns (Chengguan, Haocheng, Liacheng, Renqiao, Hugou, Xinmaqiao, Liuji, and Wangzhuang) located in Guzhen County, Bengbu City, China.
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October 2024
Background: A consensus on the management of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) in patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS) has not yet been established. This study aimed to compare the long-term outcomes after open TAAA repair in patients with and without MFS.
Methods: This retrospective study examined 230 consecutive patients who underwent TAAA repair between 2012 and 2022, including of 69 MFS patients and 161 non-MFS patients.
Background: Liguzinediol (Lig) has emerged as a promising candidate for mitigating Doxorubicin (DOX)-induced cardiotoxicity, a significant limitation in the clinical application of this widely used antineoplastic drug known for its efficacy. This study aimed to explore the effects and potential mechanisms underlying Lig's protective role against DOX-induced cardiotoxicity.
Methods: C57BL/6 mice were treated with DOX.
The efficient removal of droplets on solid surfaces holds significant importance in the field of fog collection, condensation heat transfer, and so on. However, on current typical surfaces, droplets are characterized by a passive and single removal mode, contingent on the traction force (e.g.
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May 2024
Efficient removal of droplets from solid surfaces is significant in various fields, including fog collection and condensation heat transfer. However, droplets removal on common surfaces with static structures often occurs passively, which limits the possibility of increasing removal efficiency and lacks intelligent controllability. In this paper, an active strategy based on extrusion ejection is proposed and demonstrated on the magnetic responsive polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) superhydrophobic microplates (MPSM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPregnancy predisposes to arrhythmias in females due to physiological changes in the cardiovascular system, enhanced activity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), and changes in the endocrine system, regardless of whether there exist cardiovascular diseases before the pregnancy. Tachyarrhythmias may present for the first time or worsen persistently during pregnancy, potentially leading to maternal heart failure and sudden death, as well as some adverse fetal outcomes such as growth restriction, distress, premature birth, and stillbirth. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is one of the most important therapeutic methods for tachyarrhythmias.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn seasonally frozen regions, the bearing capacity of soil decreases and gradually deteriorates after undergoing freeze-thaw cycles. To resolve this problem, based on the idea of frost-resistant filling materials, a filling scheme of expanded polystyrene (EPS) particles lightweight soil in cold regions was proposed. Unconfined compressive strength, direct shear, and micro-SEM tests were carried out to study the physical and mechanical properties of EPS particles lightweight soil under freeze-thaw cycles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The choice of anastomosis technique after esophagectomy is closely associated with the postoperative complications. Whether circular stapled or linear stapled anastomosis is the optimal technique has not been established. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis to show the latest and most comprehensive published assessment of circular stapled anastomosis in comparison with linear stapled anastomosis in postoperative complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-precision microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes are significant in many applications. Bias instability (BI) is an important parameter that indicates the performance of a MEMS gyroscope and is affected by the 1/ noise of the MEMS resonator and readout circuit. Since the bandgap reference (BGR) is an important block in the readout circuit, reducing its 1/ noise is key to improving a gyroscope's BI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComplex and controlled reversible actuation inevitably relies on changing thermal fields (direct or indirect) for semi-crystalline reversible shape memory networks. Unfortunately, the non-tunability of thermal signals often brings potential limitations to actuators' applications. In practice, a wide response temperature range (-range) formed by and in the remarkable reversible actuation is an obvious fact.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe oral cavity is the second largest microbial bank in humans after the intestinal canal, colonizing a large number of microorganisms including viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi and protozoa. The great number of microbial cells, good DNA stability, and individual has a unique microbial community, these characteristics make the human microbiome expected to become a new biomarker for forensic individual identification. This article describes the characteristics of human oral microorganisms and microbial molecular markers in detail, analyzes the potential application value of microorganisms in forensic individual identification, and reviews the research progress of human oral microorganisms in forensic individual identification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recent investigations have shown that, on average, patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have a poorer postdischarge prognosis than those hospitalized without COVID-19, but this effect remains unclear among patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) who are on dialysis.
Methods: Leveraging a national ESKD patient claims database administered by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, we conducted a retrospective cohort study that characterized the effects of in-hospital COVID-19 on all-cause unplanned readmission and death within 30 days of discharge for patients on dialysis. Included in this study were 436,745 live acute-care hospital discharges of 222,154 Medicare beneficiaries on dialysis from 7871 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities between January 1 and October 31, 2020.
The human microbiome has emerged as a new potential biomarker for forensic investigations with the development of high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatic analysis during the last decade. The oral cavity has many different microbial habitats, with each habit colonized by specific and individualized microbiota. As saliva and buccal mucosa are common biological evidence in forensic science, understanding the differences of microbial communities between the two is important for forensic original identification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Human gut microbiota is individually unique that hints the microbiota in fecal traces left in the crime scene could act as a potential biomarker for forensic personal identification. Next-generation DNA sequencing and bioinformatic analysis of fecal samples are revolutionizing our insights into gut microbial communities. While the formation of the gut microbiota is known to be multifactorial, it is unclear whether these characteristics can be applied to forensic applications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Pancreatic surgery is a complex operation that has been associated with severe intraoperative and postoperative complications, especially in patients with previous abdominal surgery (PAS). Our study aimed to assess the impact of PAS on pancreatic surgery.
Methods: A total of 1430 patients who underwent pancreatic surgery were included in this retrospective study and classified into the following 3 groups: previous upper abdominal surgery (PUAS) (n = 135); previous lower abdominal surgery (PLAS) (n = 161), and no history of abdominal surgery (non-PAS) (n = 1134).
With the widespread use of STR in identification of individuals, paternity testing, as well as population genetics, many commercially robust and validated STR multiplex kits were developed. The AGCU Expressmarker 30 Kit is a new autosomal STR system that contains 29 autosomal STR loci (D3S1358, vWA, D1S1656, CSF1PO, D8S1132, D19S253, D3S3045, D8S1179, D21S11, D16S539, TPOX, D6S477, Penta D, D2S441, D5S818, TH01, FGA, D15S659, D22S1045, D19S433, D13S317, D7S820, D6S1043, D10S1435, D10S1248, D2S1338, D18S51, D12S391, and Penta E), one insertion/deletion polymorphic marker on the Y chromosome (Y indel), and the amelogenin locus. A series of validation studies were performed in this context according to the guidelines of "Validation Guidelines for Forensic DNA Analysis Methods".
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this work, to make out the aryl-fusion effect on the photophysical properties of boron-pyridyl-imino-isoindoline dyes, compounds - were theoretically studied through analyses of their geometric and electronic structures, optical properties, transport abilities, and radiative ( ) and non-radiative decay rate ( ) constants. The highest occupied molecular orbitals of aryl-fused compounds are higher owing to the extended conjugation. Interestingly, aryl fusion in pyridyl increases the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level, while isoindoline decreases the LUMO level; thus, and with aryl fusion both in pyridyl and isoindoline exhibit a similar LUMO to .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents a novel multi-objective parameter optimization method based on the genetic algorithm (GA) and adaptive moment estimation (Adam) algorithm for the design of a closed-loop control system for the sense mode of a Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscope. The proposed method can improve the immunity of the control system to fabrication tolerances and external noise. The design procedure starts by deriving a parameterized model of the closed-loop of the sense mode.
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November 2019
This paper presents a bias drift self-calibration method for micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscopes based on noise-suppressed mode reversal without the modeling of bias drift signal. At first, the bias drift cancellation is accomplished by periodic switching between operation mode of two collinear gyroscopes and subtracting the bias error which is estimated by the rate outputs from a consecutive period interval; then a novel filtering algorithm based on improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition (improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise-CEEMDAN) is applied to eliminate the noise in the calibrated signal. A set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) is obtained by the decomposition of the calibrated signal using improved CEEMDAN method, and the threshold denoising method is utilized; finally, the de-noised IMFs are reconstructed into the desired signal.
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