Burden of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in Asia from 1990 to 2021.

Objectives: The study aimed to investigate the disease burden of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in Asia.

Material And Methods: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 data evaluated NPC metrics by sex, and age in Asia. Estimated annual percentage changes (EAPCs) were calculated to assess the trends of NPC burden.

Molecular mechanism of interaction between SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE and APETALA1 in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Point mutations were introduced into specific leucine (L) amino acids within the K domain of SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP), and their effects on the SVP-AP1 interaction were assessed. Yeast two-hybrid experiments and β-galactosidase activity assays demonstrated that SVP maintained its capacity to interact with APETALA1 (AP1) despite point mutations at the 108th, 116th, 119th, and 127th leucine residues, where leucine was substituted with alanine (A). However, the mutation of the leucine residue at position 124 to alanine abolished the interaction between SVP and AP1 regardless of whether the mutation was singular or combined with others.

Precise Measurement of the e^{+}e^{-}→D_{s}^{+}D_{s}^{-} Cross Section at Center-of-Mass Energies from Threshold to 4.95 GeV.

Using the e^{+}e^{-} collision data collected with the BESIII detector operating at the BEPCII collider, at center-of-mass energies from the threshold to 4.95 GeV, we present precise measurements of the cross section for the process e^{+}e^{-}→D_{s}^{+}D_{s}^{-} using a single-tag method. The resulting cross section line shape exhibits several new structures, thereby offering an input for a future coupled-channel analysis and model tests, which are critical to understand vector charmonium-like states with masses between 4 and 5 GeV.

Performance characterization of x-ray crystal spectroscopy highly oriented pyrolytic graphite reflectors based on x-ray diffractometry experiments.

The use of Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG) reflectors is often proposed in the design of X-ray Crystal Spectroscopy (XCS) diagnostic systems for the next-generation tokamak devices, including the ITER project. This study introduces an experimental study based on the X-Ray Diffractometry (XRD) method to evaluate the performance of HOPG reflectors. The experimental method provides both the angular responses and the reflectivities of the HOPG reflectors.