Publications by authors named "Weihai Bu"

As a novel experiential approach, live streaming at tourist destinations has garnered significant attention and profoundly impacts tourists' travel decisions. This study aims to validate the effects of usefulness, authenticity, and interactivity of destination live streams on the decision-making process of tourists. Grounded in stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory, this research identifies the usefulness, authenticity, and interactivity of destination live streams as the "stimulus," while telepresence and trust as the "organism," with tourists' travel decisions as the "response.

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  • Sepsis, a severe condition causing many deaths worldwide, requires effective biomarkers for predicting its progression to septic shock, which current methods have struggled to provide.
  • Researchers developed a machine learning model named SepxFindeR using data from several transcriptomics datasets to better distinguish between sepsis and septic shock.
  • The model identified six key genes related to immune response, demonstrating high accuracy in predicting disease stages, and allows for effective patient identification using blood samples.
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  • Alloy-type materials show great potential as high energy density anodes for lithium-ion batteries but are limited by poor initial coulombic efficiency due to volume expansion and reaction reversibility issues.
  • The study introduces NiO/SnO multilayers that create Ni nanoparticles to enhance lithium reaction processes, resulting in a high initial coulombic efficiency of 92.3% and a capacity of 1247 mA h g with excellent retention after 800 cycles.
  • Additionally, this anode design performs well in Na/K-ion batteries and similar frameworks improve lithium storage properties, indicating a promising direction for future alloy-type anode advancements.
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Extremely high temperatures have become a major hurdle to tourists' experiences in various destinations. In this study, we present the first nationwide estimation of the temperature-tourism response function using a fine-grained panel dataset constructed by matching tourism data and daily meteorological datasets for 280 cities from 2005 to 2019 in China. Results show a non-linear relationship between temperature and tourism employing the temperature bins method, which is not sensitive to response equations.

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  • Tibetan sheep, introduced to the Qinghai Tibet plateau around 3,000 years ago, serve as a model to study genetic adaptations to high altitudes.
  • The study identifies structural variants (SVs) in Tibetan sheep that differ from low-altitude Hu sheep, particularly affecting genes linked to cardiac function and circulation.
  • Key findings reveal a high-frequency chromosomal inversion in Tibetan sheep, influencing gene expression related to heart protection and adaptation to high-altitude environments.
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Li-ion-based electric field control has been attracting significant attention, since it is able to penetrate deep into materials to exhibit diverse and controllable electrochemical processes, which offer more degrees of freedom to design multifunctional devices with low power consumption. As opposed to previous studies that mainly focused on single lithiation/delithiation mechanisms, we reveal three Li-ion modulation mechanisms in the same NiFeO spinel ferrite by magnetometry, ., intercalation, conversion, and space charge, which are respectively demonstrated in high, medium, and low voltage range.

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Batteries with intercalation-conversion-type electrodes tend to achieve high-capacity storage, but the complicated reaction process often suffers from confusing electrochemical mechanisms. Here, we reinterpreted the essential issue about the potential of the conversion reaction and whether there is an intercalation reaction in a lithium/sodium-ion battery (LIB/SIB) with the FeP anode based on the evolution of the magnetic phase. Especially, the ever-present intercalation process in a large voltage range followed by the conversion reaction with extremely low potential was confirmed in FeP LIB, while it is mainly the conversion reaction for the sodium storage mechanism in FeP SIB.

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Elastomeric polymers have gained significant attention in the field of flexible electronics. The investigation of the electro-mechanical response relationship between polymer structure and flexible electronics is in increasing demand. This study investigated the factors that affect the performance of flexible capacitive pressure sensors using the finite element method (FEM).

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Purpose: Patients with advanced cancer are usually willing to participate in shared decision-making (SDM), but in clinical practice, patient participation is easily ignored. This study aimed to analyze the current SDM status of advanced cancer patients and related factors.

Methods: In quantitative research, we administered a cross-sectional survey to 513 advanced cancer patients in 16 tertiary hospitals in China.

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The rapid development of flexible/wearable electronics requires novel fabricating strategies. Among the state-of-the-art techniques, inkjet printing has aroused considerable interest due to the possibility of large-scale fabricating flexible electronic devices with good reliability, high time efficiency, a low manufacturing cost, and so on. In this review, based on the working principle, recent advances in the inkjet printing technology in the field of flexible/wearable electronics are summarized, including flexible supercapacitors, transistors, sensors, thermoelectric generators, wearable fabric, and for radio frequency identification.

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Introduction: Respiratory viral infection in childhood is closely associated with asthmatic attacks. Of all predisposing factors, viral infection is the primary contributor to acute childhood asthma exacerbations. However, the mechanisms involved in viral asthma are unclear.

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Traditional antimicrobial methods, such as antibiotics and disinfectants, may cause adverse effects, such as bacterial resistance and allergic reactions. Photocatalysts based on titanium dioxide (TiO) have shown great potential in the field of antimicrobials because of their high efficiency, lack of pollution, and lack of side effects. This paper focuses on the antimicrobial activity of TiO under different light sources.

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To understand epidemiological characteristics of imported cases of malaria in Shandong province and provide scientific basis for timely adjustment of prevention and control measures. The incidence data of malaria, case investigation data and case review data by Shandong Provincial Reference Laboratory for Malaria Diagnosis from 2017 to 2018 were collected. Software SPSS 18.

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Objective: To understand the malaria epidemic situation and characteristics in Shandong Province in 2014, so as to provide evidences for taking targeted strategies and measures for malaria elimination.

Methods: The data of malaria epidemic and malaria cases of Shandong Province in 2014 were collected from Information Management System for Infectious Diseases Report and Information Management System for Parasitic Diseases Control and Prevention. The epidemiological characteristics of malaria situation and the diagnosis and treatment of malaria cases were analyzed by Microsoft Excel 2007.

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Objective: To understand the malaria situation of Shandong Province in 2013, so as to provide the evidence for formulating targeted prevention and control strategy and measures.

Methods: The data of malaria cases of Shandong Province in 2013 were collected from the Information Management System for Infectious Diseases Report and Information Management System for Parasitic Diseases Control and Prevention. The data of epidemiological characteristics of malaria situation and the diagnosis and treatment of malaria cases were analyzed by Microsoft Excel 2007.

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