Ultrasensitive and population-scale cancer screening technologies are critical to reducing cancer mortality. However, the current qRT-PCR falls short in high-throughput screening of multiple cancers. Here, a rotavirus-inspired multicancer diagnosis system (RMDS) is developed via nanointerface engineering.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a common symptom of nerve compression and a leading cause of pain and hand dysfunction. However, the underlying biological mechanisms are not fully understood. The aim of this study was to reveal the causal effect of circulating metabolites on susceptibility to CTS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRadioactive safety in nuclear facilities is of utmost importance. Prior to workers entering these areas, a 3D radiation field is needed for accurately estimating their exposure. Due to the complex relationship between radiation measurements and radiation fields, implementing neural networks is a promising approach for reconstruction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are universally distributed in soils, including saline soils, and can form mycorrhizal symbiosis with the vast majority of higher plants. This symbiosis can reduce soil salinity and influence plant growth and development by improving nutrient uptake, increasing plant antioxidant enzyme activity, and regulating hormone levels. In this study, rhizosphere soil from eight plants in the Songnen saline-alkaline grassland was used to isolate, characterize, and screen the indigenous advantageous AMF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph
September 2024
In the biomedical domain, visualizing the document embeddings of an extensive corpus has been widely used in informationseeking tasks. However, three key challenges with existing visualizations make it difficult for clinicians to find information efficiently. First, the document embeddings used in these visualizations are generated statically by pretrained language models, which cannot adapt to the user's evolving interest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSwarming, as a special form of mating aggregation, is most noteworthy in insects of the orders Ephemeroptera, Diptera, and Trichoptera. Swarming in extant trichopterans is well understood in terms of sex composition, specific mating behaviors, and functional morphological specializations of adults, but an exploration of the evolution of such aggregative behaviors is hampered by the dearth of available examples from the fossil record as well as the ability to reliably distinguish the few gatherings as the result of swarming relative to other taphonomic or behavioral factors. Herein we describe five new fossil species of caddisflies preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, all preserved as large aggregations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: (Swingle) C. Jeffrey, is an edible and traditional medicine widely used in China. Mogroside V (MGV) and mogrol (MG) are its main active ingredients, which have been found to be effective in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases recently.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF. The rapid and accurate assessment of internal exposure dose is a crucial safeguard for personnel health and safety. This study aims to investigate a precise and efficient GPU Monte Carlo simulation approach for internal exposure dose calculation.
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December 2024
Clinical applications of FLASH radiotherapy require formulas to describe how the FLASH radiation features and other related factors determine the FLASH effect. Mathematical analysis of the models can connect the theoretical hypotheses with the radiobiological effect, which provides the foundation for establishing clinical application models. Moreover, experimental and clinical data can be used to explore the key factors through mathematical analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNight-time scene parsing aims to extract pixel-level semantic information in night images, aiding downstream tasks in understanding scene object distribution. Due to limited labeled night image datasets, unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has become the predominant method for studying night scenes. UDA typically relies on paired day-night image pairs to guide adaptation, but this approach hampers dataset construction and restricts generalization across night scenes in different datasets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVan der Waals (vdW) integration enables clean contacts for low-dimensional electronic devices. The limitation remains; however, that an additional tunneling contact resistance occurs owing to the inherent vdW gap between the metal and the semiconductor. Here, it is demonstrated from theoretical calculations that stronger non-covalent hydrogen-bonding interactions facilitate electron tunneling and significantly reduce the contact resistance; thus, promising to break the limitations of the vdW contact.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Impulsivity increases the risk for depression and anxiety. However, the granular pathways among them remain unknown. A network approach that moves from disorder-level analysis to symptom-level analysis can provide further understanding of psychopathological mechanisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWaxy maize ( L. sinensis Kulesh) is highly regarded for its high nutritional content and unique taste. Although the stalks and leaves contain high carbohydrate levels after ear harvesting, inadequate crude protein (CP) limits the utilization and promotion of waxy maize silage in animal husbandry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Sci Pollut Res Int
April 2024
Herein, novel catalysts of Fe-containing zeolite-A (Fe/zeolite-A) were synthesized by exchanging iron ions into zeolite-A framework, and short-chain organic acids (SCOAs) were employed as chelating agents. Reactive Brilliant Blue KN-R (KN-R) was used as a model pollutant to evaluate the performance of these catalysts based on the heterogeneous Fenton reaction. The results showed that Fe-OA/3A, which applied zeolite-3A as the supporter and oxalic as the chelating agent, presented the most prominent KN-R decolorization efficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to characterize the species complex (FSSC) population obtained from tobacco roots with root rot symptoms by morphological characteristics, molecular tests, and assessment of pathogenicity. Cultures isolated from roots were white to cream with sparse mycelium on potato dextrose agar, with colony growth of 21.5 ± 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFusarium oxysporum is a widespread plant pathogen that causes fusarium wilt and fusarium root rot in many economically significant crops. Here, a novel dsRNA virus tentatively named "Fusarium oxysporum virus 1" (FoV1) was identified in F. oxysporum strain 3S-18.
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April 2024
In Monte Carlo particle transport simulations, point flux tallying is a variance reduction technique that performs well with small detectors and finds broad application in source-detector problems and local point dose calculations. However, its use in large-scale point flux tallying computation adds substantial computational time. To address this issue, we propose a CPU-GPU-coupled acceleration method, which separates the complex logic and computationally intensive parts of particle transport calculation and assigns them to the CPU and GPU, respectively.
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October 2024
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a promising technology for obtaining energy in wastewater. Effective extracellular electron transfer is one of the key factors for its practical application. In this work, carbon dots (CDs) enriched with oxygen-containing groups on the surface were synthesized as an efficient anode modifier using a simple hydrothermal method and common reactants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF. Establishing realistic phantoms of human anatomy is a continuing concern within virtual clinical trials of breast x-ray imaging. However, little attention has been paid to glandular distribution within these phantoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The prevailing mobile phone use brought the problem of addiction, which might cause negative consequences. Effortful control and mind wandering were associated with addictive behavior. The present study aimed to investigate the dimension-level relationships between effortful control, mind wandering, and mobile phone addiction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Oxygen plays a crucial role in radiation biology. Antioxidants and peroxyl radicals affect the oxygen effect greatly. This study aims to establish a computational model of the oxygen effect and explore the effect attributed to antioxidants and peroxyl radicals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiodegradable polymers have recently become attractive and have been increasingly used as matrix materials to replace fossil plastics due to concerns about the environmental issue. However, their application areas are limited due to their high costs and natural properties. In this study, we fabricated ecofriendly and economical polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) composites loaded with various concentrations of wood flour (WF) to investigate the effects on the PBAT and WF interfaces as well as the physical properties of the WF/PBAT biocomposites.
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