Does greater parental involvement lead to increased cooperation in their adolescent children? Are the effects of paternal and maternal involvement equivalent? In order to explore the above issues, this study conducted a questionnaire survey of 682 two-parent families to investigate the relationship between parental involvement and adolescents' cooperative tendencies and the mediating role of parent-child trust. The results show that paternal involvement directly predict adolescents' cooperative tendencies, while maternal involvement could not directly predict cooperative tendencies. In addition, parent-child trust mediates the relationship between parental involvement and adolescents' cooperative tendencies.
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January 2025
Magnetocaloric high-entropy alloys (HEAs) have recently garnered significant interest owing to their potential applications in magnetic refrigeration, offering a wide working temperature range and large refrigerant capacity. In this study, we thoroughly investigated the structural, magnetic, and magnetocaloric properties of equiatomic GdDyHoErTm HEAs. The as-cast alloy exhibits a single hexagonal phase, a randomly distributed grain orientation, and complex magnetism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAristolochic acid I (AAI) is strongly nephrotoxic and can cause "Aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN)". Aristolochic acid nephropathy is characterized by extensive renal interstitial fibrosis. However, the exact mechanism by which it occurs has not been fully elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAir-dried beef, a traditional dry fermented meat product in China, whose quality is largely influenced by processing conditions. In this study, contact ultrasound (CU) and infrared radiation (IR) were employed to enhance hot air drying (HAD), with an investigation into the mechanisms underlying improvements in quality and flavor. Samples subjected to CU and IR treatments during HAD (CU-IRD) demonstrated superior color (L* = 42.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrying, as a critical step in the production of air-dried beef, has a direct impact on the quality of the final product. Innovatively, a composite system incorporating contact ultrasound (CU) and infrared radiation (IR) as auxiliary measures within a hot air drying (HAD) framework was built in this research, and the effects of these techniques on the drying kinetics, protein denaturation, and moisture transformation of air-dried beef were investigated. In comparison to HAD treatment, the integrated CU and IR (CU-IRD) system displayed marked enhancements in heat and moisture transport efficiency, thereby saving 36.
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August 2024
Most airline pilots reported having suffered from sleep disorders and fatigue due to circadian disruption, a potential risk to flight safety. This study attempted to uncover the actual scenario of circadian disruption and working load status among airline pilots. In study 1, 21 pilots were invited to participate in a 14-d sleep monitoring and a dual 2-back test to monitor their sleep patterns and cognitive function level.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVinorelbine is a commonly used drug to treat various malignancies, such as breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, and metastatic pleural mesothelioma. Its side effects include severe neutropenia, local phlebitis, gastrointestinal reactions, and neurotoxicity. In view of the scarcity of research on vinorelbine's reproductive toxicity, this study evaluated the impact of vinorelbine ditartrate, a commonly used form of vinorelbine, on oocyte maturation in vitro.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this article, the method of dynamic performance monitoring and adaptive self-tuning of parameters for actual PID control systems of industrial processes in virtual reality scenes is proposed. This method combines the digital twin model of the PID control process based on system identification and adaptive deep learning and the PID tuning intelligent algorithm based on reinforcement learning with virtual reality and immersive interaction of industrial metaverse. An industrial metaverse-based intelligent PID tuning system is proposed by combining the above method with the end-edge-cloud collaboration technology of Industrial Internet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCharge, spin and Cooper-pair density waves have now been widely detected in exotic superconductors. Understanding how these density waves emerge - and become suppressed by external parameters - is a key research direction in condensed matter physics. Here we study the temperature and magnetic-field evolution of charge density waves in the rare spin-triplet superconductor candidate UTe using scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: 20(S)-ginsenoside Rh2(GRh2), an effective natural histone deacetylase inhibitor, can inhibit acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell proliferation. Lactate regulated histone lactylation, which has different temporal dynamics from acetylation. However, whether the high level of lactylation modification that we first detected in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is associated with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) resistance has not been reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-entropy alloys (HEAs) have gained significant attentions in recent years, due to their unique properties derived from the combination of multiple elements in equimolar or near-equimolar ratios. The mechanical properties of HEAs are influenced by microstructural characteristics. In this study, MnCrFeCoNi HEA ribbons were produced using a technique called melt spinning, for which the wheel speed was adjusted to control the undercooling levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe fusion gene is commonly reported in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia with eosinophilia, yet patients with presenting myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms successively have not been reported. Here, we report the first case of a 35-year-old man with myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms harboring an fusion gene who demonstrated poor response to imatinib. The patient was diagnosed with an fusion gene myeloid neoplasm on initial diagnosis at our hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVincristine (VCR) is a microtubule-destabilizing chemotherapeutic agent commonly administered for the treatment of cancers in patients, which can induce severe side effects including neurotoxicity. In context of the effects on female fertility, ovarian toxicity has been found in patients and mice model after VCR exposure. However, the influence of VCR exposure on oocyte quality has not been elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Various studies have highlighted the significance of miR-125b-5p in tumour chemotherapy resistance; However, whether miR-125b-5p is associated with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) resistance in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) has not been reported.
Methods: Drug-resistance-related factors in APL were predicted using the DRESIS database. The expression levels of miR-125b-5p in ATRA-sensitive and ATRA-resistant APL cells were determined using quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR).
Antibiotic contamination in drinking water has attracted widespread attention. The pollution condition of six macrolide antibiotics (erythromycin-H[KG-*2/5]O, clarithromycin, oleandomycin, roxithromycin, leucomycin, and tylosin) in two drinking water treatment plants was monitored, and the reaction mechanism of tylosin, a typical macrolide antibiotic, during chlorination disinfection treatment was investigated. The results showed that the six macrolide antibiotics can be widely detected in the drinking water treatment processes; however, their concentrations were generally very low.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCRISPR/Cas systems have found widespread applications in gene editing due to their high accuracy, high programmability, ease of use, and affordability. Benefiting from the cleavage properties ( or ) of Cas enzymes, the scope of CRISPR/Cas systems has expanded beyond gene editing and they have been utilized in various fields, particularly in live-cell imaging and bioanalysis. In this review, we summarize some fundamental working mechanisms and concepts of the CRISPR/Cas systems, describe the recent advances and design principles of CRISPR/Cas mediated techniques employed in live-cell imaging and bioanalysis, highlight the main applications in the imaging and biosensing of a wide range of molecular targets, and discuss the challenges and prospects of CRISPR/Cas systems in live-cell imaging and biosensing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNephrotoxicity induced by aristolochic acid I (AAI) is related to redox stress and apoptosis. Apurinic/apyrimidine endonuclease 1 (APE1) has antioxidant and anti-apoptotic effects. This study investigated the potential role of APE1 in AAI-induced nephrotoxicity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAristolochic acid I (AAI) can cause nephrotoxicity and is characterized by interstitial fibrosis. The C3a/C3aR axis of macrophages and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) play important roles in fibrosis, but whether they are involved in AAI-induced renal interstitial fibrosis and are related remains to be elucidated. In this study, we investigated whether C3a/C3aR axis of macrophages promotes renal interstitial fibrosis by regulating MMP-9 in aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN).
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August 2023
In situ liquid cell electron microscopy (LC-EM) is a powerful platform for real time nanoscale imaging of liquid systems. In situ liquid cell scanning electron microscopy (LC-SEM) as a relatively low cost and potentially more convenient characterization method, has not been as widely used as compared to in situ liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (LC-TEM). This paper reports a real time high resolution and comprehensive characterization of Au nanoparticles (NPs) and nanoparticle clusters (NPCs), which are surface-decorated with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), in an oleic acid (OA) emulsion system with LC-SEM.
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