Publications by authors named "Renhong Wang"

Conducting biodiversity surveys using a fully randomised design can be difficult due to budgetary constraints (, the cost of labour), site accessibility, and other constraints. To this end, ecologists usually select representative line transects or quadrats from a studied area to collect individuals of a given species and use this information to estimate the levels of biodiversity over an entire region. However, commonly used biodiversity estimators such as Rao's quadratic diversity index (and especially the Gini-Simpson index) were developed based on the assumption of independent sampling of individuals.

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The correlation between cuff inflatable hypertension and the difference in interarm diastolic pressure induced by single arm ischemia is investigated. A total of 126 patients undergoing coronary angiography in our hospital from January 2020 to January 2021 are selected and divided into the non-pseudohypertension (non-PHT) group (64 cases) and the PHT group (62 cases) according to the difference between systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure measured directly and indirectly. The patients are subjected to the beam arm ischemia test and blood pressure measurement.

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The use of red phosphors with low light-scattering loss could improve the luminous efficacy and color rendering of white-light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Thus, the discovery of such phosphors is highly desired. In this work, high-efficiency two-dimensional red-emitting KTiF:Mn (KTFM) were synthesized via an alcohol-assisted coprecipitation route.

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Objective: Anxiety/depression is common among patients with head and neck cancer (HNC), and can negatively affect treatment compliance and outcome. The aim of this study was to assess the association between hyperlipidemia and the risk of new-onset anxiety/depression after the diagnosis of HNC and the influence of administering statins.

Methods: A matched longitudinal cohort study of 1632 subjects (408 HNC patients with preexisting hyperlipidemia and 1224 age- and sex-matched HNC patients without hyperlipidemia) was included and analyzed by using data from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database from January 1996 to December 2012.

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Objective: To investigate the interactive effects of different temperatures and ambient PM2.5 on the rat alveolar macrophages.

Methods: The rat alveolar macrophages were collected.

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The potential energy surfaces for the chemical reactions of cationic six-membered group 14 heavy carbene species have been studied using density functional theory (B3LYP/LANL2DZ) and CCSD (CCSD/LANL2DZ//B3LYP/LANL2DZ) methods. Five six-membered group 14 cationic heavy carbene species, [HC(CMeNPh)2E:](+), where E = C, Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb, have been chosen as model reactants in this work. Also, four kinds of chemical reaction, C-H bond insertion, multiple bond cycloaddition, dimerization, and O-H bond insertion, have been used to study the chemical reactivities of these group 14 cationic carbene species.

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