Publications by authors named "Jiong Yang"

Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is a debilitating condition characterized by the death of bone cells in the hip joint, resulting in profound disability. This condition has a significant global prevalence. Glucocorticoid (GC)-induced apoptosis of bone cells serves as a crucial cellular mechanism underlying ONFH.

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Background: Tuberculous pericarditis begins with fibrinous and hemorrhagic pericarditis, followed by pericardial effusion, then pericardial hypertrophy, which may turn into subacute or chronic stage, and partly develop into pericarditis. Early diagnosis and treatment have very important clinical significance.

Case Summary: We present a case of an 82-year-old man with a known history of hypertension who was admitted for pleural effusion.

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Background: Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a refractory disease characterized by inflammation and fibrosis. Shensiqigui Tablets (SSQGT), a combination of Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus, and Angelica, is a traditional Chinese medicine with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Therefore, SSQGT may be a potential therapeutic agent for managing PF.

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Diamagnetic metal sulfonates have been widely reported, while paramagnetic species are very rare, especially those that exhibit interesting magnetic and/or proton conduction properties. Herein, we report the synthesis, structure, magnetic, and proton-conducting properties of a hydrogen-bonded cobalt(II) organosulfonate complex. The coordination self-assembly of Co salts and 8-quinolinesulfonic acid ligands affords a mononuclear Co sulfonate featuring both coordinated and noncoordinated sulfonic acid O atoms and axial coordinated water molecules.

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In ordered magnets, the elementary excitations are spin waves (magnons), which obey Bose-Einstein statistics. Similarly to Cooper pairs in superconductors, magnons can be paired into bound states under attractive interactions. The Zeeman coupling to a magnetic field is able to tune the particle density through a quantum critical point, beyond which a 'hidden order' is predicted to exist.

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Lattice thermal conductivity ( ) is of great importance in basic sciences and in energy conversion applications. However, low- crystalline materials have only been obtained from heavy elements, which typically exhibit poor stability and possible toxicity. Thus, low- materials composed of light elements should be explored.

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Objective: To investigate serum TL1A levels and their correlation with Th17 cells, IL-17, and IL-21 in children with Graves' disease (GD).

Methods: Thirty-seven children (12 males and 25 females) aged 9-14 years with newly diagnosed and untreated GD were enrolled in this study. Serum TL1A, IL-17, and IL-21 levels were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

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  • Intelligent medical devices are rapidly advancing due to the integration of AI and information technologies, but their testing methods remain underdeveloped and require further research to improve quality control.
  • Various types of intelligent medical devices, including AI software and medical robots, are categorized, with the Internet of Things (IoT) systems being relevant for smart hospitals.
  • The paper emphasizes the need for specific testing rules and evaluation methods for different devices, advocating for the use of real-world data to enhance the performance assessment of these complex systems.
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Interlayer excitons (IX), spatially separated electron-hole pair quasiparticles, can form in type-II van der Waals heterostructures (vdWH). To date, the most widely studied IX in hetero- and homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides feature momentum-indirect and visible interlayer recombinations. However, momentum-direct IX emissions and interlayer absorptions, especially in the infrared, are crucial for excitonic devices but remain underexplored.

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Background And Aim: Phoenixin (PNX), a newly discovered neuropeptide associated with reproduction, has been speculated to be involved in precocious puberty. Therefore, we assessed serum PNX levels in girls with precocious puberty.

Methods: Serum phoenixin-14 (PNX-14) and phoenixin-20 (PNX-20) levels were determined in girls with central precocious puberty (CPP) and premature thelarche (PT) and in healthy controls (n = 58 per group).

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  • * The study reveals that the dynamic rotation of halogen atoms affecting thermal transport is primarily driven by p-band electrons rather than just the electrostatic repulsion of lone pairs around halogens.
  • * Key findings include the presence of soft optical phonons in the layered perovskite CsBiICl, contributing to its low κ and suggesting new pathways for designing efficient materials in energy applications.
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Metalo hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (MHOFs) have received growing interest in designing crystalline functional materials. However, reports on bifunctional MHOFs showing magnetic and proton-conductive properties are extremely limited and their design is challenging. Herein, we investigated the magnetic and proton-conductive properties of two sulfonated and , {M(HO)(abs)} (M = Co and Mn, Habs = 4-aminoazobenzene-4'-sulfonic anion), constructed by coordination chains.

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Stacking two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials in a layered bulk structure provides an appealing platform for the emergence of exotic physical properties. As a vdW crystal with exceptional plasticity, InSe offers the opportunity to explore various effects arising from the coupling of its peculiar mechanical behaviors and other physical properties. Here, we employ neutron scattering techniques to investigate the correlations of plastic interlayer slip, lattice anharmonicity, and thermal transport in InSe crystals.

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Recent evidence indicates that reward value encoding in humans is highly context dependent, leading to suboptimal decisions in some cases, but whether this computational constraint on valuation is a shared feature of human cognition remains unknown. Here we studied the behaviour of n = 561 individuals from 11 countries of markedly different socioeconomic and cultural makeup. Our findings show that context sensitivity was present in all 11 countries.

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The integration of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided process planning (CAPP), and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems is significantly enhanced by employing deep learning-based automatic feature recognition (AFR) methods. These methods outperform traditional, rule-based approaches, particularly in handling the complexities of intersecting features. However, existing deep learning-based AFR methods face two major challenges.

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Topological electronic transition is the very promising strategy for achieving high band degeneracy (N) and for optimizing thermoelectric performance. Herein, this work verifies in p-type MgSb Bi that topological electronic transition could be the key mechanism responsible for elevating the N of valence band edge from 1 to 6, leading to much improved thermoelectric performance. Through comprehensive spectroscopy characterizations and theoretical calculations of electronic structures, the topological electronic transition from trivial semiconductor is unambiguously demonstrated to topological semimetal of MgSb Bi with increasing the Bi content, due to the strong spin-orbit coupling of Bi and the band inversion.

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The micropore, a mysterious structure found in apicomplexan species, was recently shown to be essential for nutrient acquisition in Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii. However, the differences between the micropores of these two parasites questions the nature of a general apicomplexan micropore structure and whether the formation process model from Plasmodium can be applied to other apicomplexans. We analyzed the literature on different apicomplexan micropores and found that T.

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  • This study investigates the genetic links between dietary habits and the average age at menarche (AAM) using genetic data from the UK Biobank and ReproGen Consortium.
  • Researchers found genetic correlations for 29 dietary habits with AAM, demonstrating that certain food choices, like milk type, can influence menarche timing.
  • The Mendelian randomization analysis revealed that 19 dietary habits, such as the type of bread consumed and vegetable intake, are statistically associated with AAM, suggesting that diet may play a significant role in its timing.
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The graph representation of complex materials plays a crucial role in the field of inorganic and organic materials investigations for developing data-centric materials science, such as those using graph neural networks (GNNs). However, the currently prevalent GNN models are primarily employed for investigating periodic crystals and organic small molecule data, yet they still encounter challenges in terms of interpretability and computational efficiency when applied to polymer monomers and organic macromolecules data. There is still a lack of graph representation of organic polymers and macromolecules specifically tailored for GNN models to explore the structural characteristics.

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The apicoplast is a four-membrane plastid found in the apicomplexans, which harbors biosynthesis and organelle housekeeping activities in the matrix. However, the mechanism driving the flux of metabolites, in and out, remains unknown. Here, we used TurboID and genome engineering to identify apicoplast transporters in .

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Flexible thermoelectric devices hold significant promise in wearable electronics owing to their capacity for green energy generation, temperature sensing, and comfortable wear. However, the simultaneous achievement of excellent multifunctional sensing and power generation poses a challenge in these devices. Here, ordered tellurium-based hetero-nanowire films are designed for flexible and multifunctional thermoelectric devices by optimizing the Seebeck coefficient and power factor.

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Searching for new high-performance thermoelectric (TE) materials that are economical and environmentally friendly is an urgent task for TE society, but the advancements are greatly limited by the time-consuming and high cost of the traditional trial-and-error method. The significant progress achieved in the computing hardware, efficient computing methods, advance artificial intelligence algorithms, and rapidly growing material data have brought a paradigm shift in the investigation of TE materials. Many electrical and thermal performance descriptors are proposed and efficient high-throughput (HTP) calculation methods are developed with the purpose to quickly screen new potential TE materials from the material databases.

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Layered compounds characterized by van der Waals gaps are often associated with relatively weak interlayer particle interactions. However, in specific scenarios, these seemingly feeble forces can exert an impact on interlayer interactions through subtle energy fluctuations, which can give rise to a diverse range of physical and chemical properties, particularly intriguing in the context of thermal transport. In this study, taking a natural superlattice composed of alternately stacked PbS and SnS sublayers as a model, we proposed that in a superlattice, there is strong hybridization between acoustic phonons of heavy sublayers and optical phonons of light sublayers.

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Interleukin-27 receptor (IL-27R) is expressed in a variety of immune cells and structural cells, including dendritic cells. The mechanism of IL-27 in asthma has not been fully elucidated. This study aimed to examine whether IL-27 regulated the CD39/ATP axis of dendritic cells in asthma.

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