China has experienced rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, and urban industrial carbon reduction has become the key to green and sustainable development. Exploring urban industrial carbon emissions and its spatial correlation characteristics is of great importance for promoting collaborative cooperation between cities and achieving the "dual carbon" goal. Considering 49 cities in the Pearl River Basin as research objects, the super slacks-based measure model was used to measure the urban industrial carbon emission efficiency from 2010 to 2020, and exploratory spatiotemporal data analysis was used to explore its spatial pattern.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMelioidosis is a fatal infectious disease caused by . Its clinical manifestations are so varied that it has been called a great mimic. The primary melioidotic prostatic disease usually presents as an abscess of the prostate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study develops an observational model to assess kidney function recovery and xenogeneic immune responses in kidney xenotransplants, focusing on gene editing and immunosuppression. Two brain-dead patients undergo single kidney xenotransplantation, with kidneys donated by minipigs genetically modified to include triple-gene knockouts (GGTA1, β4GalNT2, CMAH) and human gene transfers (hCD55 or hCD55/hTBM). Renal xenograft functions are fully restored; however, immunosuppression without CD40-CD154 pathway blockade is ineffective in preventing acute rejection by day 12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Epithelioid angiomyolipoma (EAML), a subtype of angiomyolipoma, is distinct. It has a biologic behavior of borderline tumor, a malignant tendency, and a risk of metastasis and recurrence. Adrenal EAML is very rare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study developed a transcriptional regulation riboswitch biosensing analytical method based on the Ochratoxin A (OTA) DNA aptamer programming design. OTA DNA aptamer was used to develop artificial riboswitch, a strategy that relies on a simple combination of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) template with oligonucleotides that base pair only in the -17 to +1 region to define promoter elements. The OTA DNA aptamer sequence (1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CORR) presents a viable and cost-effective approach for the elimination of CO by transforming it into valuable products. Nevertheless, this process is impeded by the absence of exceptionally active and stable catalysts. Herein, a new type of electrocatalyst of transition metal (TM)-doped β-borophene (TM@β-BM) is investigated density functional theory (DFT) calculations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLife-threatening allergic reactions to food allergens, particularly peanut protein Ara h1, are a growing public health concern affecting millions of people worldwide. Thus, accurate and rapid detection is necessary for allergen labeling and dietary guidance and ultimately preventing allergic incidents. Herein, we present a novel ratiometric fluorescence aptasensor based on multivalent aptamer-encoded DNA flowers (Mul-DNFs) for the high-stability and sensitive detection of allergen Ara h1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhongguo Xiu Fu Chong Jian Wai Ke Za Zhi
April 2024
Objective: To explore the effectiveness of transverse double "8"-shaped tension band technique in the treatment of Lawrence zoneⅠfracture of the 5th metatarsal base.
Methods: Between February 2019 and October 2021, 15 patients with Lawrence zoneⅠfracture of the 5th metatarsal base were treated with transverse double "8"-shaped tension band technique. There were 8 males and 7 females, with a median age of 40 years (range, 23-59 years).
The matrix material used in this paper was low-density polyethene (LDPE), and the added particles selected were silicon oxide (SiO) particles and montmorillonite (MMT) particles. The sizes of the SiO particles were 1 µm, 30 nm, and 100 nm, respectively; three kinds of SiO/MMT/LDPE multi-component composites were prepared based on MMT/LDPE composites doped with MMT particles. The effect of the SiO particle size on the crystallization behavior and space charge properties of SiO/MMT/LDPE composites was studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe urban competitiveness (UC) evaluation system is multidimensional and complex. This paper takes the simulated annealing (SA) model as the projection pursuit (PP) optimization to achieve a comprehensive assessment of competitiveness of 277 Chinese cities from 2011 to 2019, accompanied by energy saving and carbon-emission reduction (ESCER) as environmental measurements, to explore whether the two can meet the Porter hypothesis through coupling coordination degree (CCD). Further using spatiotemporal autocorrelation and obstacle degree model to uncover spatiotemporal features and interfering factors of coordinated development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinically, programmed death-1 (PD-1) blockades have demonstrated promising therapeutic outcomes for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The present study aimed to examine the impact of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) polymorphism on clinical outcomes of patients with advanced NSCLC who were treated with PD-1 blockades therapy. The present study was designed as a retrospective analysis, where a consecutive screening of 89 patients with advanced NSCLC who received PD-1 blockades monotherapy were screened.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) have become a global health concern, which can lead to diabetic foot infection (DFI), lower leg amputation, and even mortality. Though the standard of care (SOC) practices have been recognized as the "gold standard" for DFU care, SOC alone may not be adequate to heal all DFUs and prevent their recurrence. The use of dermal matrix has emerged as an adjuvant treatment to enhance DFU healing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Sci Pollut Res Int
December 2023
It is an important way for mining the characteristics of regional carbon emission efficiency and exploring regional similarity to learn from intergovernmental learning mechanisms and regional industrial low-carbon development experiences. This study proposes a regional learning mechanism of industrial carbon emission efficiency (ICEE) prediction and regional similarity analysis to explore strategies for carbon emission reduction. We first calculated the industrial carbon emission efficiency of 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2021 using the super-SBM model.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs carbon emission continue to rise and climate issues grow increasingly severe, countries worldwide have taken measures to reduce carbon emission. However, carbon dioxide is continuously flowing in the atmosphere and is easily influenced by neighboring cities' policies. Therefore, how to solve the problem of carbon emission spillover effect has become the key to improve policy efficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExploring the coupling coordination between China's digital economy (DE) and industrial carbon emission efficiency (ICEE) is of great significance for achieving sustainable development goals. In the study, a multidimensional indicator system was established to evaluate DE, and spatiotemporal analysis and network analysis methods were used to reveal the dynamic evolution characteristics of DE and ICEE. The coupling coordination model and convergence model were adopted to explore the development trend of coupling coordination between DE and ICEE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAgainst the backdrop of global climate change, industrial carbon emission reduction has become an important pathway to for global low-carbon development. This study constructs a framework of geographic spatial constraints regionalization and multi-objective machine learning to predict future industrial carbon emission efficiency (ICEE) and explore strategies for carbon emission reduction. Firstly, the ICEE of 285 Chinese cities were calculated by the super-efficiency slacks-based measure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Sci Pollut Res Int
October 2023
Global climate continues to warm; by reducing carbon emission (CE) to cope with climate warming has become a global consensus. The influencing factors of CE exhibit diversification and spatial characteristics, and the complexity of the CE system poses challenges to green and low-carbon development and the realization of China's dual-carbon goals. Taking the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration as an example, this study explored the influencing factors of CE and designed emission reduction schemes with the help of multi-scale geographically weighted regression (MGWR).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a natural ecological fragile region, the vast desert steppe in the Inner Mongolia has a developed animal husbandry, and thus posed great impacts on soil quality. In order to accurately evaluate the current situation of soil quality in the desert steppe, it is therefore imperative to adopt a suitable method to effectively assess the soil quality in the region. In this study, the minimum data set (MDS) was established with the help of principal component analysis, Norm value calculation, and correlation analysis, and four indicators, including organic matter, sand grains, soil erosion degree, and pH, were established to evaluate the soil quality of the desert steppe in the Siziwang Banner, a county in the Inner Mongolia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Xenoantigens other than Gal, Neu5Gc, and Sda may be playing a role in pig graft rejection. We investigated the incidence of antibodies to unknown pig xenoantigen in different human groups.
Methods: We collected blood from TKO/hCD55 pigs (n = 3), and isolated PBMCs and RBCs.
Front Cell Infect Microbiol
February 2023
We reported a 31-year-old man who received renal transplantation for more than 2 years. He was admitted to our hospital on 9 March 2022 due to intermittent diarrhea accompanied by leukopenia for more than 1 month. The patient successively developed high fever, cough, anemia, weight loss, gastrointestinal bleeding, and liver function impairment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Plant-specific Class III peroxidases (PRXs) play a crucial role in lignification, cell elongation, seed germination, and biotic and abiotic stresses.
Methods: The class III peroxidase gene family in sugarcane were identified by bioinformatics methods and realtime fluorescence quantitative PCR.
Results: Eighty-two PRX proteins were characterized with a conserved PRX domain as members of the class III PRX gene family in R570 STP.