Publications by authors named "Qingyi Li"

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  • The study investigates how enhanced oil recovery using carbon dioxide (CO) alters the properties of crude oil, specifically focusing on wax characteristics and viscosity changes.
  • As the treatment pressure increases from atmospheric levels to higher pressures (up to 25 MPa), notable changes in the composition of crude oil occur, including decreases in light hydrocarbons and increases in paraffins and wax.
  • Treatment with supercritical CO (scCO) leads to smaller wax crystal sizes and increased viscosity, with significant enhancements in gelation characteristics and wax precipitation temperatures, especially notable between pressures of 5 to 15 MPa.
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Coordination polymers (CPs) are promising for direct X-ray detection and imaging owing to higher designability and outstanding stability, however, it remains a challenge to achieve highly X-ray detection performance, particularly both high sensitivity and low detection limit at the same operating voltage. Herein, we construct a new conjugated CP {[Co(BPTTz)(DIPA)] ⋅ DMA} (1, BPTTz=2,5-bis(pyridine-4-yl)thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole, HDIPA=2,5-diiodoterephthalic acid, DMA=N, N'-dimethylacetamide), with multi-channel charge transfer by regulating the linker mediated electronic-state, which reduces carrier losses resulting from recombination or quenching, enhances the efficiency of charge separation and transfer, thus further optimizes X-ray detection performance. The semiconductor prepared based on this strategy achieves record values including the highest mobility-lifetime product (μτ, 8.

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  • Researchers modified lupeol by adding thiazolidinedione to enhance its anti-cancer properties, creating new compounds for testing.
  • Most of these new compounds showed better effectiveness against various cancer cell lines, particularly against human hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2).
  • One specific compound demonstrated significant potency, inducing cell death through apoptosis by affecting critical proteins involved in the process, suggesting its potential as a cancer treatment candidate.
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  • - Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is closely linked to VHL gene mutations, which affect tumor metabolism and promote factors involved in cell death pathways, such as ferroptosis, potentially revealing new treatment options.
  • - Alterations in biological metabolites, particularly iron and lipids, play a crucial role in ferroptosis, and targeting these pathways with specific inhibitors could enhance the effectiveness of current treatments like immunotherapy and targeted therapy for ccRCC.
  • - While ferroptosis could be a promising therapeutic strategy due to its impact on tumor immunity, it also brings potential risks by possibly aiding cancer growth, suggesting a need for further research into its complex interactions in RCC treatment.
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Prostate cancer (PCa) and breast cancer (BC) present formidable challenges in global cancer-related mortality, necessitating effective management strategies. The present study explores non-canonical Wnt signaling in PCa and BC, aiming to identify biomarkers and assess their clinical and therapeutic implications. Co-expression analyses reveal distinct gene patterns, with five overlapping genes (SULF1, ALG3, IL16, PLXNA2 and RASGFR2) exhibiting divergent expression in both cancers.

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In this study, a novel electrochemiluminescent (ECL) sensor for highly sensitive detection of trilobatin (Tri) was developed based on silver metal-organic frameworks (AgMOFs) and nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots (N-CDs). N-CDs exhibited high ECL intensity but poor ECL stability, while AgMOFs had a large specific surface area, high porosity, and good adsorption properties. Compositing both of them not only improved the ECL stability of N-CDs, but also enhanced the ECL strength of materials, so AgMOF@N-CD composites were used as the luminophore of the sensor.

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Electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CORR) are greatly significant in renewable energy-related devices and carbon-neutral closed cycle, while the development of robust and highly efficient electrocatalysts has remained challenges. Herein, a hybrid electrocatalyst, featuring axial N-coordinated Fe single atom sites on hierarchically N, P-codoped porous carbon support and Fe nanoclusters as electron reservoir (Fe/Fe-NPC), is fabricated via in situ thermal transformation of the precursor of a supramolecular polymer initiated by intermolecular hydrogen bonds co-assembly. The Fe/Fe-NPC catalyst manifests superior oxygen reduction activity with a half-wave potential of 0.

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Background: Schizophrenia is a prevalent mental disorder, leading to severe disability. Currently, the absence of objective biomarkers hinders effective diagnosis. This study was conducted to explore the aberrant spontaneous brain activity and investigate the potential of abnormal brain indices as diagnostic biomarkers employing machine learning methods.

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Background: Anhedonia, a core symptom of major depressive disorder (MDD), manifests in two forms: anticipatory and consummatory, reflecting a diminished capacity to anticipate or enjoy pleasurable activities. Prior studies suggest that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and interleukin-10 (IL-10) may play key roles in the emergence of anhedonia in MDD. The specific relationships between these biomarkers and the two forms of anhedonia remain unclear.

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This study investigated whether emotion regulation mediates or modulates the relationship of SLEs with sleep quality and potential sex differences. A total of 1447 Chinese university students completed the Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. The results indicated that both cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression significantly mediated and moderated the negative association between SLEs and sleep quality.

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Derailment is the sense of being "off-course" in life. But what could this mean for adolescents, who are often establishing identity and self-direction for the first time? We examined the structure and correlates of the Derailment Scale and its short form, the Derailment Scale-6 (DS-6), among middle-to-late adolescents (N = 452). Both scales exhibited unidimensionality, but the DS-6 demonstrated superior fit and correlated with cross-sectional distress markers (e.

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The residue of lincomycin in water will not only aggravate the drug resistance of bacteria but also cause damage to the human body through biological accumulation. In this work, an electrochemiluminescence (ECL) aptasensor for the detection of lincomycin was constructed based on polydimethyldiallylammonium chloride (PDDA) functionalized Ce-doped TbPO nanowires (PDDA-TbPO:Ce NWs) and silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs). TbPO:Ce NWs were used as the luminophore, and PDDA was used to functionalize the luminophore to make the surface of the luminophore positively charged.

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Aerosols produced in the amine carbon capture process can lead to secondary environmental pollution. This study employs molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate cluster formation, amine behavior, and aerosol growth of amines, essential for reducing amine aerosol emissions. Results showed that the cluster evolution process can be divided into cluster formation and growth in terms of molecular content, and the nucleation rate for the present systems was estimated in the order of 10 cm s.

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Objective: Despite long-standing assumptions that a sense of purpose in life and goal pursuit are mutually supportive, empirical evidence of their reciprocity remains deficient. In the context of a unique out-of-school time program that empowers youth to pursue passions through self-driven learning, we examined whether purpose and one aspect of goal pursuit-perceptions of goal progress-work together to sustain themselves and each other over time.

Method: Adolescents (N = 321) completed daily surveys throughout program enrollment (M = 69.

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Accumulating evidence indicates positive associations between physical activity (PA) and cognitive control. Proactive control, the ability to maintain goal-relevant information in preparation of upcoming task demands, is a critical component of cognitive control. However, little research has examined the association between PA and proactive control.

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Trilobatin is a flavonoid that has wide application prospects due to its various pharmacological effects, such as anti-inflammation and anti-oxidation. In this work, a novel electrochemical sensor based on gold nanobipyramids (AuNBs) and L-cysteine (L-cys) was constructed for the sensitive and selective determination of trilobatin. The AuNBs, which were prepared by a seed-mediated growth method, had large specific surface areas and excellent electrical conductivity.

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As an important link in the complex system engineering project of open pit mining, the quality of the boundary determines the performance of the project to a large extent. However, changes in economic indicators may raise doubts about the optimality of mining boundaries. In this article, a coal price time series forecasting model that considers some amount of redundancy is proposed, which combines an improved sparrow search algorithm (ISSA) and a least squares support vector regression machine regression (LSSVR) algorithm.

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Introduction: Supportive adults are a critical component of effective out-of-school time (OST) youth programs, yet the short-term dynamics that underlie their role are poorly understood. Within GripTape, a US-wide self-driven learning program, we examined if interactions with program-assigned adults (i.e.

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Purpose: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates for children of immigrant parents are substantially lower than US peers. This study aimed (1) to assess the prevalence of immigrant parents' unwillingness to vaccinate their daughters, (2) to compare by race/ethnicity the prevalence of immigrant parents' unwillingness to vaccinate their daughters, and (3) to examine predictors of the unwillingness stratified by race/ethnicity.

Method: This study conducted a secondary analysis of data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS).

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Introduction: The visual design of environmentally friendly products has a strong influence on consumer decisions. The study offers a novel insight, suggesting that consumers' perceptions of environmentally friendly products may be affected by the visual density design.

Methods: Four experiments tested the effect of visual density on the perceived greenness of environmentally friendly products.

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Background: Racial disparities in psychological distress associated with COVID-19 remain unclear in the U.S. This study aims to investigate the associations between social determinants of health and COVID-19-related psychological distress across different racial/ethnic groups in the US (i.

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Kidney stones constitute a disease of the urinary system of high incidence that has only a few available stone dissolving drugs as treatment options. The mechanism of calcium oxalate stone formation is still largely unclear. Various aspects and theories for initiation and formation of the renal stones have been suggested, and the complex multistep formation process of the kidney stones includes supersaturation, nucleation, growth and aggregation of a crystal, and crystal retention in cells after adhesion.

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Background: Neuroinflammation and cytokines play critical roles in neuropathic pain and axon degeneration/regeneration. Cytokines of transforming growth factor-β superfamily have implications in pain and injured nerve repair processing. However, the transcriptional profiles of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily members in dorsal root ganglia under neuropathic pain and axon degeneration/regeneration conditions remain elusive.

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Mitochondrial porin, the voltage-dependent anion-selective channel (VDAC), is the most abundant protein in the outer membrane, and is critical for the exchange of metabolites and phospholipids in yeast and mammals. However, the functions of porin in phytopathogenic fungi are not known. In this study, we characterized a yeast porin orthologue, Fgporin, in .

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Age at first egg (AFE) and egg number (EN) are economically important traits related to egg production, as they directly influence the benefits of the poultry industry, but the molecular genetic research that affects those traits in laying ducks is still sparse. Our objective was to identify the genomic regions and candidate genes associated with AFE, egg production at 43 weeks (EP43w), and egg production at 66 weeks (EP66w) in a Shaoxing duck population using genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and haplotype-sharing analysis. Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based genetic parameter estimates showed that the heritability was 0.

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