Electrically Responsive Photonic Crystals with Enhanced Suspension Stability and Color Saturation for Electrophoretic Displays and Smart Windows.

Electrophoretic displays (EPDs) based on photonic crystals show great potential due to their reduced eye fatigue and low power consumption. However, the current image quality and service life of this system still face great challenges. In this work, we fabricated a new kind of electrically responsive photonic crystal (ERPC) device based on PSMA@SiO liquid colloidal crystals (LCCs) for EPDs.

Prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a hospitalized lung cancer population: a single center study.

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often coexists with lung cancer (LC) and has a detrimental effect on the prognosis of LC patients. Presently, there is a lack of adequate assessment regarding the management of COPD in LC patients. This study assessed the screening, prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of COPD in hospitalized LC patients and compared the management practices between two departments at our hospital.

Immobilization of Multivalent Titanium Cations on Magnetic Composite Microspheres for Highly Efficient DNA Extraction and Amplification.

Magnetic-assisted DNA testing technology has attracted much attention in genetics, clinical diagnostics, environmental microbiology, and molecular biology. However, achieving satisfying DNA adsorption and desorption efficiency in real samples is still a big challenge. In this paper, a new kind of high-quality magnetic composite microsphere of MM@PGMA-PA-Ti was designed and prepared for DNA extraction and detection based on the strong interaction of Ti and phosphate groups.

Improved U-net-based leukocyte segmentation method.

Significance: Leukocytes are mainly composed of neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, monocytes, and lymphocytes. The number and proportion of different types of leukocytes correspond to different diseases, so an accurate segmentation of each type of leukocyte is important for the diagnosis of disease. However, the acquisition of blood cell images can be affected by external environmental factors, which can lead to variable light and darkness, complex backgrounds, and poorly characterized leukocytes.

Artemin Promotes the Migration and Invasion of Cervical Cancer Cells through AKT/mTORC1 Signaling.

Background: The neurotrophic factor Artemin (ARTN) is involved in tumor proliferation and metastasis. Nonetheless, ARTN's significance in cervical cancer (CC) has not been studied. In our study, we propose to investigate the biological function of ARTN in CC as well as its particular regulatory mechanism.

Leukocyte Segmentation Method Based on Adaptive Retinex Correction and U-Net.

To address the issues of uneven illumination and inconspicuous leukocyte properties in the gathered cell pictures, a leukocyte segmentation method based on adaptive retinex correction and U-net was proposed. The procedure begins by processing a peripheral blood image to clearly distinguish leukocytes from other components in the image. The adaptive retinex correction, which is based on multiscale retinex with colour replication (MSRCR), redefines the colour recovery function by introducing Michelson contrast.

Robust Large-Sized Photochromic Photonic Crystal Film for Smart Decoration and Anti-Counterfeiting.

Photochromic materials are widely investigated due to their vivid color transformation for many real applications. In this work, a new kind of multiangle photochromic photonic crystal (PC) material with high robustness and long durability for smart phone decoration and anticounterfeiting features is fabricated. After thermal mixing of spiropyran powder and monodisperse core-interlayer-shell (CIS) particles, a large-area and high-quality photochromic PC film has been prepared by the self-designed bending-induced ordering technique (BIOT).

Efficient Synthesis of α-FeOOH from Pickling Wastewater in Falling Film Tower and Its Kinetics.

An efficient way to synthesize α-FeOOH from pickling wastewater in a falling film tower was proposed for the first time. This method overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional air oxidation method, and its production efficiency is increased by 16 times. The purity of α-FeOOH synthesized from pickling wastewater can reach 96.

MTA1, a Target of Resveratrol, Promotes Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition of Endometriosis via ZEB2.

Endometriosis is a benign disease that shares some malignant features. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is involved in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. Metastasis-associated protein 1 (MTA1) plays an important role in various cancers by promoting EMT, yet there are no studies on its function in endometriosis.

Metastasis-associated protein 1, modulated by miR-30c, promotes endometrial cancer progression through AKT/mTOR/4E-BP1 pathway.

Objective: Though metastasis-associated protein 1 (MTA1) is widely overexpressed in human cancers and is associated with advanced clinicopathological characteristics and survival in related diseases, the association between MTA1 and endometrial cancer (EC) is little known and needs to be studied.

Methods: Western blot and immunohistochemistry were used to analyze protein expression level of cells and tissues, while real-time PCR was used for RNA detection. Bioinformatics tool analysis revealed the relationship between MTA1 and clinicopathological characteristics and survival.