Publications by authors named "Niu A"

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), particularly spp., are pivotal in enhancing plant defense mechanisms against pathogens. This study aims to investigate the metabolic reprogramming of pine needles induced by csuftcsp75 in response to the pathogen P9, evaluating its potential as a sustainable biocontrol agent.

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  • Natural seawater electrolysis is a promising method for producing hydrogen, but it faces challenges with long-term instability due to chloride corrosion.
  • A new material, Zr doped CoO, shows strong performance, requiring a low overpotential of 570 mV and demonstrating minimal decay (0.78%) over 500 hours of operation.
  • A novel membrane electrode setup with a self-developed anion exchange membrane converts the produced hydrogen into ammonia for easier storage, while theoretical calculations reveal how Zr enhances the material's stability and protects it from chloride damage.
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Despite a vast amount of research examining the antecedent variables of carbon prices, the impact of climate change risk on carbon prices has been rarely explored. This study adopted a complex system perspective and applied NCA and fsQCA models to analyze regional climate physical risk (CPR) and climate transition risk (CTR) from a complex system perspective. The results suggested that the primary factors affecting the Hubei carbon price included coal prices, market regulation, and national carbon market prices, and carbon prices could be higher in response to higher levels of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) combined with other factors.

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Background: Hypothermic Oxygenated machine PErfusion (HOPE) can reduce ischemic reperfusion injury and improve outcomes for liver transplant recipients. However, the effect of HOPE on high-risk extended criteria donor (ECD) and donation after circulatory death determination (DCDD) grafts is incomplete, despite the expectation that this cohort benefit maximally from HOPE. Accordingly, this paper aims to characterize the effect of HOPE on ECD and DCDD grafts.

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Determining the contaminants reduction rate by dissolved ferrous iron (Fe(II)) bound to iron oxides is curial for evaluating the abiotic attenuation of contaminants in aquifers. However, few studies have assessed the contaminants reduction rate controlled by thermodynamic parameters in heterogeneous systems with different iron oxides. In this study, a linear free energy relationship (LFER) was established between the nitrobenzene reduction rate and the thermodynamic driving force (reduction potential (E) and pH) in Fe(II)-goethite-hematite co-existing systems.

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Ion-selective separators, are crucial and in high demand for maximizing the performance of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, which can conduct lithium ions while efficiently blocking polysulfides. However, commercial separators cannot effectively block the shuttle of polysulfides after multiple cycles due to their large porosity and easy dissolution, resulting in a reduced battery life. Herein, a covalent organic framework nanosheets (CON) ion-coated separator is prepared on the commercial separator.

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Background: Although past research has highlighted the importance of digital technology in clinical education among undergraduate nursing programs, facilitators and barriers to application still need to be systematically understood.

Aim: The objective of this systematic review is to synthesize existing literature reporting on nursing students' experiences with digital technology in clinical education among undergraduate programs to identify gaps and design future educational programs.

Methods: We conducted a qualitative systematic review and reported the following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines.

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Introduction: Home residency programs can provide medical students with opportunities for networking, mentorship, research, and exposure to surgeries. The goal of this project was to understand the potential impact of home surgical residencies on student match rates into specific surgical specialties.

Methods: This 5-year retrospective study (2019-2023) analyzed 12,916 matched applicants from 155 United States MD programs through publicly available match lists.

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Background: Most sows will experience negative energy balance during lactation resulting in impaired follicular development. This study aimed to treat 28-day lactating sows with altrenogest (ALT) to suppress follicle enlargement during lactation, and to assess the estrus and reproductive performance post-weaning.

Methods: In this study, we conducted two trials.

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Background: As of 2022, patient adherence to postoperative guidelines can reduce the risk of complications by up to 52.4% following laparoscopic abdominal surgery. With the availability of various preoperative education interventions (POEIs), understanding which POEI results in improvement in patient outcomes across the procedures is imperative.

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  • * In a study of 226 older patients, the therapy achieved an 86% objective response rate and 62% complete response rate, with a median progression-free survival of 6.9 months.
  • * Results indicate that age does not significantly affect the safety and efficacy of CAR-T therapy, suggesting that older patients should not be excluded from treatment based solely on age.
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Healthy behavioral patterns could modulate organ functions to enhance the body's immunity. However, how exercise regulates antiviral innate immunity remains elusive. Here, we found that exercise promotes type I interferon (IFN-I) production in the liver and enhances IFN-I immune activity of the body.

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  • Adhesions are common complications after abdominal surgery, and numerous adhesion barriers have been developed to prevent them, but there's been no recent comprehensive review of their effectiveness.
  • A systematic analysis included 20 studies with 171,792 patients, showing that most adhesion barriers provided unclear benefits, with bioresorbable types showing the most promise in colorectal surgeries.
  • While some barriers can reduce complications like bowel obstructions, there are significant risks, such as abscesses and leaks, suggesting that their use should be tailored to individual cases rather than applied universally.
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Unlabelled: Malignant central airway stenosis is treated with airway stent placement, but post-placement microbial characteristics remain unclear. We studied microbial features in 60 patients post-stent placement, focusing on changes during granulation tissue proliferation. Samples were collected before stent ( = 29), after stent on day 3 ( = 20), and after granulation tissue formation (AS-GTF, = 43).

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Transition-metal carbides with metallic properties have been extensively used as electrocatalysts due to their excellent conductivity and unique electronic structures. Herein, NbC nanoparticles decorated carbon nanofibers (NbC@CNFs) are proposed as an efficient and robust catalyst for electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from nitrate/nitrite reduction, which achieves a high Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 94.4 % and a large ammonia yield of 30.

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The increasing concentration of Antimony (Sb) in ecological environments has raised serious concerns about its potential biotoxicological impact. This study investigated the toxicokinetics, Global DNA Methylation (GDM), biomarker expression, and Integrated Biological Response (IBR) of Sb at different concentrations in zebrafish. The toxic mechanism of Sb exposure was simulated using molecular dynamics (MD).

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  • The study aims to identify essential competencies for nurses in emergency medical rescue teams during public health events to enhance training and preparedness.
  • Conducted through semi-structured interviews with 15 experts from Chongqing, China, the research focused on their experiences and insights in emergency relief work.
  • Results highlighted four key competency areas: theoretical knowledge, practical skills, comprehensive abilities, and personal traits, alongside 22 subthemes relevant for effective nursing roles in emergency situations.
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Hypothermic Oxygenated machine PErfusion (HOPE) has recently emerged as a preservation technique which can reduce ischemic injury and improve clinical outcomes following liver transplantation. First developed with the advent solid organ transplantation techniques, hypothermic machine perfusion largely fell out of favour following the development of preservation solutions which can satisfactorily preserve grafts using the cheap and simple method, static cold storage (SCS). However, with an increasing need to develop techniques to reduce graft injury and better utilise marginal and donation after circulatory death (DCD) grafts, HOPE has emerged as a relatively simple and safe technique to optimise clinical outcomes following liver transplantation.

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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a high-throughput experimental technique for studying gene expression at the single-cell level. As a key component of single-cell data analysis, differential expression analysis (DEA) serves as the foundation for all subsequent secondary studies. Despite the fact that biological replicates are of vital importance in DEA process, small biological replication is still common in sequencing experiment now, which may impose problems to current DEA methods.

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Antimony (Sb) pollution seriously endangers ecological environment and human health. Microbial induced mineralization can effectively convert metal ions into more stable and less soluble crystalline minerals by extracellular polymeric substance (EPS). In this study, an efficient Sb-resistant Rhodotorula mucilaginosa (R.

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Age is a predominant risk factor for acute kidney injury (AKI), yet the biological mechanisms underlying this risk are largely unknown. Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) confers increased risk for several chronic diseases associated with aging. Here we sought to test whether CHIP increases the risk of AKI.

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Pyoverdine (PVD) plays an important role in reducing cadmium (Cd) accumulation in plants. Some Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) species can produce PVD under Cd(Π) stress.

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Cinnamaldehyde (CA), a natural plant extract, possesses notable antimicrobial properties and the ability to inhibit mycotoxin synthesis. This study investigated the effects of different concentrations of gaseous CA on and found that higher concentrations exhibited fungicidal effects, while lower concentrations exerted fungistatic effects. Although all strains exhibited similar responses to CA vapor, the degree of response varied among them.

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The Thomson parabola ion spectrometer is vulnerable to intense electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) generated by a high-power laser interacting with solid targets. A metal shielding cage with a circular aperture of 1 mm diameter is designed to mitigate EMPs induced by a picosecond laser irradiating a copper target in an experiment where additionally an 8-ns delayed nanosecond laser is incident into an aluminum target at the XG-III laser facility. The implementation of the shielding cage reduces the maximum EMP amplitude inside the cage to 5.

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Abel, a woody oil plant, that is endemic to China. Tea oil, also referred to as "oriental olive oil," is a superior quality plant-based cooking oil. The production of tea oil accounts for 8% of the total edible vegetable oil production in the country.

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