Publications by authors named "Wang Yongkai"

As industrial technologies advance, climate change and environmental pollution increasingly pose threats to human health. This study examines the coupling coordination characteristics between ecological environmental civilization (EEC) and resident public health (RPH) to promote both higher public health standards and enhanced societal sustainability. Utilizing panel data from 31 provinces in China spanning from 2010 to 2022, this paper constructs evaluation indices for EEC and RPH.

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: Since 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been responsible for the global spread of respiratory illness. As of 1 September 2024, the cumulative number of infections worldwide exceeded 776 million. There are many structural proteins of the virus, among which the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein plays a pivotal role in the viral life cycle, participating in a multitude of essential activities following viral invasion.

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  • Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a serious illness in Eurasia with no specific treatments currently available, highlighting the need for safe and effective vaccines.
  • Researchers developed three types of nucleic acid vaccine candidates (mRNA, naked DNA, and DNA in lipid nanoparticles) targeting the Hantaan virus to assess their potential against HFRS.
  • All vaccine candidates successfully triggered strong immune responses similar to an existing inactivated vaccine, with the mRNA vaccine showing a robust T-helper 1 cell response and the DNA-LNP producing higher neutralizing antibodies, suggesting that combining these vaccines could enhance their effectiveness.
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Vaccines has long been the focus of antiviral immunotherapy research. Viral epitopes are thought to be useful biomarkers for immunotherapy (both antibody-based and cellular). In this study, we designed a novel vaccine molecule, the Hantaan virus (HTNV) glycoprotein (GP) tandem Th epitope molecule (named the Gnc molecule), in silico.

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Wound healing is a complicated obstacle, especially for chronic wounds. Mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes may be a promising cell-free approach for treating skin wound healing. Exosomes can accelerate wound healing by attenuating inflammation, promoting angiogenesis, cell proliferation, extracellular matrix production and remodeling.

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The study examines the digital finance (DF) and regional sustainable development (RSD) across 90 cities within six major city clusters in China over the period from 2011 to 2020. By constructing an evaluation index system for DF and RSD, we employed the entropy value method to assess their levels, and the coupling coordination degree (CCD) model to evaluate their interplay. Our analysis extended to temporal and spatial disparities, distribution dynamics, and the convergence of CCD through kernel density estimation, Markov chain analysis, -convergence, and -convergence techniques.

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  • The study aimed to create and validate a nomogram that predicts whether children with intussusception will need surgery after undergoing pneumatic reduction.* -
  • Researchers analyzed clinical data from 1,041 children across four hospitals in China, using logistic regression to identify key risk factors like age, duration of abdominal pain, and blood tests that indicate surgical needs.* -
  • The final nomogram, built on five independent risk factors, shows promise as a valuable tool for healthcare providers to assess the likelihood of surgical intervention in these pediatric cases.*
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In the study of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) processes, a simple and fast approach is needed to ensure the large-scale preparation of SERS substrates. This article uses anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) as a template to assemble gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) into an ordered array. By changing the pore size of AAO and silanizing the pores, the number and density of Au NPs entering the pores through liquid-liquid two-phase self-assembly (LLSA) can be effectively regulated.

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In the current global context, digital finance (DF) and sustainable economic development (SED) are important topics. The synergies between DF and SED have already been proven. However, the measurement and quantitative analysis of the coupling coordination degree (CCD) of DF and SED have not received sufficient attention to date.

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In the past few decades, especially since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the effects of atmospheric bioaerosols on human health, the environment, and climate have received great attention. To evaluate the impacts of bioaerosols quantitatively, it is crucial to determine the types of bioaerosols in the atmosphere and their spatial-temporal distribution. We provide a concise summary of the online and offline observation strategies employed by the global research community to sample and analyze atmospheric bioaerosols.

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  • Narrow-band circular dichroism (CD) is a cool technique used to find special molecules that are not the same on both sides (chiral molecules) and help in chemical reactions.
  • Scientists created a special layer and used a material called molybdenum disulfide with a specific shape (L-shaped chiral nanoholes) to make new technologies that can change CD signals easily.
  • Their experiments showed that they can produce three special CD signals by adjusting the temperature and other environmental factors, which could help in creating better devices for finding these unique chiral molecules.
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(1) Background and Purpose: Ebola virus (EBOV) is the causative agent of Ebola virus disease (EVD), which causes extremely high mortality and widespread epidemics. The only glycoprotein (GP) on the surface of EBOV particles is the key to mediating viral invasion into host cells. DNA vaccines for EBOV are in development, but their effectiveness is unclear.

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Narrowband circular dichroism (CD) has attracted wide attention for its high sensitivity in detecting chiral molecules and catalysis. However, designing a chiral metasurface with excellent sensing performance that can be dynamically tuned still poses challenges. This paper introduces lithium niobate, an electrically tunable material, and a distributed Bragg reflector into chiral nanorod structures to form multilayer chiral nanorod arrays (MCNAs).

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Bioaerosols play a significant role in climate change and variation of ecological environment. To investigate characterization of atmospheric bioaerosols, we conducted lidar measurement for observing bioaerosols close to dust sources over northwest China in April, 2014. The developed lidar system can not only allowed us to measure the 32-channel fluorescent spectrum between 343 nm to 526 nm with a spectral resolution of 5.

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Polarization measurements have been widely used to detect aerosol properties by remote sensing in recent decades. To better understand the polarization characteristics of aerosols by lidar, the numerically exact T-matrix method was used to simulate the depolarization ratio (DR) of dust and smoke aerosols at typical laser wavelengths in this study. The results show that the DRs of dust and smoke aerosols have obviously different spectral dependences.

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  • * By using centrifugation to deposit alloy nanoparticles on the paper, the researchers optimized conditions for better Raman activity, achieving a significant enhancement factor and low detection limits for substances like rhodamine 6G.
  • * This paper-based SERS substrate proved effective for pesticide detection, notably thiram, offering a simple, cost-effective solution for quick field testing that benefits food and environmental safety.
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Narrowband circular dichroism (CD) has aroused wide concerns in high-sensitivity detections of chiral molecular and chiral catalysis. Nevertheless, the dynamical adjustment of ultra-narrowband (UNB) CD signals is hard to achieve. In this work, single-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS), vanadium dioxide (VO), and a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) are introduced into X-shaped chiral nanostructures (XCNs) for overcoming the above challenge.

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Induced circular dichroism (ICD) is widely used in miniature polarizers, molecular detection, and negative refractive index media. However, enhancing and the dynamic regulation of ICD signals of achiral nanostructures in the visible and near-infrared range remain the current challenges. Here, monolayer borophene (MB) with anisotropic conductance was incorporated into achiral nanostructures, which consisted of achiral dielectric elliptical hole arrays (DENAs) placed on a silver substrate.

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Chiral structures have a wide range of applications, such as biometric identification, chemical analysis, and chiral sensing. The simple fabrication process of chiral nanostructures that can produce a significant circular dichroism (CD) effect remains a challenge. Here, a three-dimensional (3D) cantilever-shaped nanostructure, which inherits the chiral advantages of 3D nanostructures and simplicity of 2D nanostructures, is proposed.

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Lanthanide (Ln)-doped upconversion luminescence (UCL) materials have attracted worldwide attention due to their unique photophysical characteristics. However, how to effectively improve their UCL efficiency has always been an important scientific issue. Here, we design and fabricate β-NaYF microtubes (MTs) with a natural hexagonal shape in the cross section and wedge shape on both top vertexes, which can be regarded as an optical waveguide.

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Excitation of surface plasmon resonance of metal nanostructures is a promising way to break the limit of optical diffraction and to achieve a great enhancement of the local electromagnetic field by the confinement of optical field at the nanoscale. Meanwhile, the relaxation of collective oscillation of electrons will promote the generation of hot carrier and localized thermal effects. The enhanced electromagnetic field, hot carriers and localized thermal effects play an important role in spectral enhancement, biomedicine and catalysis of chemical reactions.

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Different self-assembly methods not only directly change the arrangement of noble metal particles on the substrate but also indirectly affect the local electromagnetic field distribution and intensity of the substrate under specific optical excitation conditions, which leads to distinguished different enhancement effects of the structure on molecular Raman signals. In this paper, first, the gold species growth method was used to prepare the silver-coated gold nanocubes (Au@Ag NCs) with regular morphology and uniform size, and then the two-phase and three-phase liquid-liquid self-assembly and evaporation-induced self-assembly methods were used to obtain the substrate structure with different NC arrangement patterns. The optimal arrangement of NCs was found by transverse comparison of Raman signal detection of probe molecules with the same concentration.

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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is recognized as one of the most favored techniques for enhancing Raman signals. The morphology of the SERS substrate profoundly affects molecular Raman spectra. This study aimed to construct a ring-mounted nanostructured substrate via liquid-liquid two-phase self-assembly incorporated with anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane transfer techniques.

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