Timely and accurate monitoring of above-ground biomass (AGB) is of great significance for indicating crop growth status, predicting yield, and assessing carbon dynamics. Compared with the traditional time-consuming and laborious method through destructive sampling, UAV remote sensing provides a timely and efficient strategy for estimating biomass. However, the universality of remote sensing retrieval models with multi-feature fusion under different management practices and cultivars are unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough immiscible displacement in porous media has been extensively studied, a more comprehensive analysis of the underlying dynamic behaviors is still necessary. In this work, we conducted experimental and theoretical analyses on the dynamic interplay among channels during immiscible displacement under varying flow rates. In a rock-structured microfluidic chip, we observed typical displacement patterns, including viscous fingering and capillary fingering, and analyzed their frontiers and efficiencies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale And Objectives: The management of complex renal cysts is guided by the Bosniak classification system, which may be inadequate for risk stratification of patients to determine the appropriate intervention. Radiomics models based on CT imaging may provide additional useful information.
Materials And Methods: A total of 322 patients with Bosniak II-IV cysts were included in the study from January 2010 to December 2019.
Objective: To investigate the effect of zedoarondiol on neovascularization of atherosclerotic (AS) plaque by exosomes experiment.
Methods: ApoE mice were fed with high-fat diet to establish AS model and treated with high- and low-dose (10, 5 mg/kg daily) of zedoarondiol, respectively. After 14 weeks, the expressions of anti-angiogenic protein thrombospondin 1 (THBS-1) and its receptor CD36 in plaques, as well as platelet activation rate and exosome-derived miR-let-7a were detected.
Background: This study aims to develop a hierarchical classification method to automatically assess the severity of knee osteoarthritis (KOA).
Methods: This retrospective study recruited 4074 patients. Clinical diagnostic indicators and clinical diagnostic processes were applied to develop a hierarchical classification method that involved four sub-task classifications.
Sintering is a common phenomenon, which often takes place during the oxidation roasting process of molybdenite concentrate in multiple-hearth furnaces. The occurrence of sintering phenomena has detrimental effects on the product quality and the service life of the furnace. In this work, the influence of two key factors (roasting temperature and K content) on the sintering behavior is investigated using molybdenite concentrate as the raw material.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive advanced gastric cancer have poor outcomes. Trastuzumab combined with chemotherapy is the first-line standard treatment for HER2-positive advanced gastric cancer. Inetetamab is a novel anti-HER2 drug, and its efficacy and safety in gastric cancer have not yet been reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a multifaceted injury that can cause a wide range of symptoms and impairments, leading to significant effects on brain function. Nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1), a versatile phosphoprotein located in the nucleolus, is being recognized as a possible controller of cellular stress reactions and could be important in reducing neuro dysfunction caused by TBI. However the critical roles of NPM1 in cellular stress in TBI remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPotato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is recognized globally as the most significant non-cereal staple crop. Leaf senescence, which significantly impacts tuber yield, serves as a critical indicator of potato maturity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZedoarondiol, a newly discovered compound derived from the roots of zedoary turmeric, a traditional Chinese herb, has demonstrated potential in reducing inflammation of the vascular endothelium and safeguarding it from harm. Nonetheless, the precise mechanism underlying these effects remains to be elucidated. In this study, we established a model of HUVEC injury induced by hydrogen peroxide.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is a lack of in-depth research on the impacts and changes in chronic psychological stress (CPS) on the cardiovascular system after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). This study aims to explore the comorbid mechanism and dynamic evolution of AMI exposed to CPS. 120 Wistar rats were randomly divided into Sham Operation group, Sham Operation + Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress (CUMS) group, AMI group and AMI + CUMS group, with each group further divided into subgroups at days 7, 14, and 28.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the efficacy of Qingda Granule (QDG) in ameliorating hypertension-induced cardiac damage and investigate the underlying mechanisms involved.
Methods: Twenty spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) were used to develope a hypertension-induced cardiac damage model. Another 10 Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats were used as normotension group.
Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) can visualize the concentration distribution of superparamagnetic iron-oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) in tissues with the advantages of high sensitivity and high temporal resolution. However, the low spatial resolution of MPI limits its application. Increasing the gradient strength of the selection field can improve the resolution of MPI, but also increase power consumption and noise.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Oxylipin metabolism plays an essential role in glioma progression and immune modulation in the tumor microenvironment. Lipid metabolic reprogramming has been linked to macrophage remodeling, while the understanding of oxylipins and their catalyzed enzymes lipoxygenases in the regulation of glioma-associated microglia/macrophages (GAMs) remains largely unexplored.
Methods: To explore the pathophysiological relevance of oxylipin in human glioma, we performed Ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-MS/MS (UHPLC-MS/MS) analysis in human glioma and non-tumor brain tissues.
Background: Surgery and radiotherapy are primary nonconservative treatments for prostate cancer (PCa). However, personalizing treatment options between these treatment modalities is challenging due to unclear criteria. We developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based model that can identify patients with localized PCa who would benefit more from either radiotherapy or surgery, thereby providing personalized clinical decision-making.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActive surveillance (AS) is the primary strategy for managing patients with low or favorable-intermediate risk prostate cancer (PCa). Identifying patients who may benefit from AS relies on unpleasant prostate biopsies, which entail the risk of bleeding and infection. In the current study, we aimed to develop a radiomics model based on prostate magnetic resonance images to identify AS candidates non-invasively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUser-generated content (UGC) is developing rapidly as an emerging platform form, however, the problem of indirect copyright infringement by algorithms is becoming more and more prominent, and infringement governance has become a key act in the development of UGC platforms. When infringement occurs, recommendation algorithms expand the scope and results of infringement, while platforms choose to conspire with direct infringers for their own interests, making it difficult for infringed persons to defend their rights. In order to analyse the influence of different factors in the platform ecosystem on the subject's behavioural strategies, a "platform-infringer" evolutionary game model is constructed, and numerical simulation is used to verify the correctness of the stable results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh temperatures delay tuberization and decrease potato ( L.) yields. However, the molecular mechanisms and regulatory networks underlying tuberization under high temperatures remain largely unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This exploratory analysis evaluated the tumor samples of the patients treated with doxorubicin (with or without olaratumab) in a negative phase III ANNOUNCE trial to better understand the complexity of advanced soft tissue sarcomas (STS) and to potentially identify its predictive markers.
Experimental Design: RNA sequencing was performed on pretreatment tumor samples (n = 273) from the ANNOUNCE trial to evaluate response patterns and identify potential predictive treatment markers for doxorubicin. A BOR-associated signature to doxorubicin (REDSARC) was created by evaluating tumors with radiographic response versus progression.
Objective: To discuss the influence of Sailuotong (, SLT) on the Neurovascular Unit (NVUs) of amyloid precursor protein (APP)/presenilin-1(PS1) mice and evaluate the role of gas supplementation in activating blood circulation during the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Methods: The mice were allocated into the following nine groups: (a) the C57 Black (C57BL) sham-operated group (control group), (b) ischaemic treatment in C57BL mice (the C57 ischaemic group), (c) the APP/PS1 sham surgery group (APP/PS1 model group), (d) ischaemic treatment in APP/PS1 mice (APP/PS1 ischaemic group), (e) C57BL mice treated with aspirin following ischaemic treatment (C57BL ischaemic + aspirin group), (f) C57BL mice treated with SLT following ischaemic treatment (C57BL ischaemic + SLT group), (g) APP/PS1 mice treated with SLT (APP/PS1 + SLT group), (h) APP/PS1 mice treated with donepezil hydrochloride following ischaemic treatment (APP/PS1 ischaemic + donepezil hydrochloride group) and (i) APP/PS1 mice treated with SLT following ischaemic treatment (APP/PS1 ischaemic + SLT group). The ischaemic model was established by operating on the bilateral common carotid arteries and creating a microembolism.
Organic solar cells (OSCs) are considered as a promising new generation of clean energy. Bulk heterojunction (BHJ) structure has been widely employed in the active layer of efficient OSCs. However, precise regulation of morphology in BHJ is still challenging due to the competitive coupling between crystallization and phase separation.
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