Characteristics of spring maize sap flow and its environmental influencing factors in typical mollisol area.

Clarifying the variations of sap flow rate of spring maize in the typical mollisol area and its main control factors is of great significance to explore water consumption from transpiration and regulate field water management. In this study, we installed the wrapped sap flow sensors and TDR probes to continuously monitor the sap flow rate of spring maize during filling-maturity stage and soil water and heat conditions of topsoil. In combination with meteorological data collecting from a nearby automatic weather station, we analyzed the correlation between the sap flow rate of spring maize and environmental factors at different time scales.

Evaluation of an e-Learning Breastfeeding Program for Postpartum Mothers of Moderately High-Risk Newborn Infants Admitted to the Special Care Nursery.

Because of a lack of proper breastfeeding education to mothers and the visitation policy in the special care nursery, breastfeeding initiation and maintenance can be very challenging for both the mother and her infant who is admitted to the neonatal special care nursery after birth. Difficulties associated with forming initial bonds may contribute to some mothers changing their mind about their initially chosen feeding method. The aim of this quasi-experimental study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an e-learning breastfeeding program on maternal breastfeeding outcomes.

Analysis of hospitalization costs related to fall injuries in elderly patients.

Background: With the aging world population, the incidence of falls has intensified and fall-related hospitalization costs are increasing. Falls are one type of event studied in the health economics of patient safety, and many developed countries have conducted such research on fall-related hospitalization costs. However, China, a developing country, still lacks large-scale studies in this area.

Proposal of Chiou . 2018 as a later heterotypic synonym of McFrederick . 2018, elevation of subsp. to the species level as sp. nov., and sp. nov., isolated from traditional Chinese pickle and the intestinal tract of a honey bee ().

Chiou . 2018 and McFrederick . 2018 are closely related, and they share 100 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, 99.

sp. nov., isolated from Chinese traditional pickle.

A Gram-stain-positive bacterial strain, 395-6.2, was isolated from traditional pickle in Heilongjiang Province, PR China. The bacterium was characterised by a polyphasic approach, including 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, gene sequence analysis, gene sequence analysis, fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) analysis, determination of DNA G+C content, average nucleotide identity (ANI) analysis, DNA-DNA hybridisation (DDH) and an analysis of phenotypic features.

[Anti-aging Effect of Urtica Polysaccharides in D-galactose Induced Aging Mice].

Objective: To investigate the anti-aging effect of polysaccharides from Urtica lobatifolia (Urtica polysaccharides) on subacute aging mice induced by D-galactose.

Methods: 90 mice were randomly divided into six groups: normal group, aging mice model group, V(E) group [100 mg/(kg x d), ig], high level of Urtica polysaccharides group [200 mg/(kg x d), ig], medium level of Urtica polysaccharides group [100 mg/(kg x d), ig] and low level of Urtica polysaccharides group [50 mg/(kg x d), ig]. The normal group was injected saline [10 mL/(kg x d), sc], while the other groups were injected D-galactose [150 mg/(kg x d), sc].