Publications by authors named "Weining Wang"
Background: Stigma has been identified as a significant factor impacting the health of lung cancer patients. However, the relationship between stigma, medical coping modes, and quality of life (QoL) has not been thoroughly examined.
Objective: This study aimed to explore the associations between stigma, medical coping modes, and QoL in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery.
Nanoscale aluminosilicate minerals have wide ranging applications in areas including catalysis, environmental remediation, and medicine. This work reports a reactive laser ablation in liquid (RLAL) synthetic route to aluminosilicate nanominerals that enables facile tuning of their elemental composition, crystallinity, and morphology. Both the precursor solution pH and the choice of base used to adjust the pH were found to determine the properties of the nanominerals produced by laser ablation of a silicon target in aqueous solution of aluminum nitrate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComprehensive epidemiological assessment of trauma incidents at a level I trauma center.
World J Clin Cases
December 2024
Background: The continuous development of social and economic progress and ongoing enhancement of infrastructure construction has led to drastic changes in the occurrence of trauma.
Aim: To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of trauma in Lanzhou City to provide theoretical references for improving quality of trauma care.
Methods: A retrospective analysis of clinical data from 16585 trauma patients treated at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University Trauma Center from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2023 was conducted.
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- Geriatric trauma is increasingly recognized as a significant issue due to the aging global population, but there are limited studies in developing countries, highlighting the need for more research in this area.
- The study analyzed data from 2,106 trauma patients aged 60 and older, revealing that the majority of incidents occurred during warmer months and were primarily caused by falls.
- Notably, trauma in the elderly showed different patterns compared to younger age groups, with a higher incidence in women, emphasizing the importance of targeted prevention strategies and improvements in trauma care technology.
VALOR: Vision-Audio-Language Omni-Perception Pretraining Model and Dataset.
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell
October 2024
In this paper, we propose the Vision-Audio-Language Omni-peRception pretraining model (VALOR) for multimodal understanding and generation. Unlike widely-studied vision-language pretraining models, VALOR jointly models the relationships among vision, audio, and language in an end-to-end manner. It consists of three separate encoders for single modality representations and a decoder for multimodal conditional text generation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein 1 (LRG1) promotes colorectal cancer (CRC) growth, migration, and invasion. This study intended to investigate the association of plasma LRG1 with clinical characteristics, disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival (OS) in CRC patients who received tumor resection. This study retrospectively included 125 CRC patients who received tumor resection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLearnable Feature Augmentation Framework for Temporal Action Localization.
IEEE Trans Image Process
June 2024
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- Temporal action localization (TAL) is gaining attention, but existing methods struggle due to limited annotated untrimmed video data.
- The authors propose a feature augmentation approach using a learnable Mask-based Feature Augmentation Module (MFAM) that enhances video features while preserving essential action-related information.
- Extensive testing shows that this framework improves the robustness and performance of TAL models across four benchmark datasets, achieving state-of-the-art results without added computational costs during testing.
Learning Disentangled Representation for One-Shot Progressive Face Swapping.
IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell
December 2024
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- Face swapping is a complex challenge that often relies on extensive data samples, but existing methods neglect semantic information, resulting in fixed identity representation and ineffective swaps.
- The paper introduces FaceSwapper, an efficient one-shot face swapping technique utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), featuring a disentangled representation module for identity and attribute separation.
- FaceSwapper enhances the swapping process by incorporating semantic information through a semantic-guided fusion module, leading to superior accuracy in pose and expression while achieving state-of-the-art results with fewer training samples.
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- Researchers investigated the role of circular RNA (circSOD2) in the progression of ulcerative colitis (UC) by analyzing its impact on intestinal mucosal barrier function.
- * The study involved using LPS-induced Caco2 cell models and DSS-induced UC rat models to assess circSOD2 levels, cell viability, inflammatory cytokines, and markers related to intestinal barrier integrity.
- * Findings revealed that circSOD2 promotes UC damage by engaging with miR-378g to regulate Snail1 expression, ultimately impairing the intestinal mucosal barrier in both cell and animal models.
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- The pilot study aimed to assess how combined repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation affect upper limb function in patients recovering from a subacute stroke.
- Participants were divided into three groups: a central-associated peripheral stimulation group, a central-stimulation-only group, and a control group, with each receiving different stimulation types followed by physiotherapy for 20 days.
- Results indicated that the groups receiving real stimulation (CS and CPS) showed significant improvements in upper extremity function compared to the control group, but no strong correlation was found between the improvements and specific neurophysiological measures.
Bleeding is a serious complication following percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). This study establishes a predictive model based on machine learning algorithms to forecast the occurrence of postoperative bleeding complications in patients with renal and upper ureteral stones undergoing lateral decubitus PCNL. We retrospectively collected data from 356 patients with renal stones and upper ureteral stones who underwent lateral decubitus PCNL in the Department of Urology at Peking University First Hospital-Miyun Hospital, between January 2015 and August 2022.
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- Lysine-rich rice bran protein (RBP) underwent alkylation modification to enhance its self-assembly properties, with successful attachment of alkyl chains confirmed through various analyses.
- The modified protein, referred to as ARBP-2, exhibited increased hydrophobicity and a more porous structure, making it suitable for embedding curcumin.
- Curcumin had an encapsulation efficiency of 82.67% within the ARBP-2 matrix, demonstrating that the self-assembled particles effectively protected curcumin during the process.
Pazopanib elicits remarkable response in metastatic porocarcinoma: a functional precision medicine approach.
Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud
December 2023
Metastatic porocarcinomas (PCs) are vanishingly rare, highly aggressive skin adnexal tumors with mortality rates exceeding 70%. Their rarity has precluded the understanding of their disease pathogenesis, let alone the conduct of clinical trials to evaluate treatment strategies. There are no effective agents for unresectable PCs.
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- Excessive residual phosphorus in crude oil affects its quality, highlighting the need for efficient testing solutions in oil refining.
- This study developed a self-powered biosensor (SPB) using a specially designed ternary nanocomposite for better detection of phosphatidylcholine (PC) concentrations.
- The SPB showed excellent sensitivity, reproducibility, and stability, making it a viable alternative to traditional testing methods like High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
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- - The study explored how moderate electric field (MEF) treatment affects the aggregation of soybean 7S globulin, comparing it to conventional water bath methods.
- - Results showed that MEF treatment significantly improved solubility, turbidity, and particle size, indicating better aggregate properties than untreated globulin at an electric field strength of 8 V/cm.
- - Structural analysis revealed that MEF treatment altered the protein's spatial configuration, reducing β-sheet content and exposing buried Try residues, which enhanced surface hydrophobicity and improved foaming properties.
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- Archery exercise has shown potential rehabilitative effects for patients with Parkinson's disease, making it a viable complementary physiotherapy option.
- A study involving 31 patients with Parkinson's, divided into an experimental group practicing archery and a control group, assessed various physical and motor functions over a 12-week period.
- Results indicated significant improvements in hand mobility, muscular strength, and balance for those who participated in archery, though further research is needed with larger groups to confirm long-term benefits.
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- * A custom electrochemical reactor was used to modify RBP, revealing significant changes in protein structure and morphology, such as decreased α-helix and β-sheet content, and increased free sulfhydryl groups.
- * The modifications led to improved emulsification properties, including a decrease in particle size, enhanced emulsification capacity (65.82 m/g), and stability (36.34 min), indicating successful alkylation of RBP.
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- * Researchers used single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze cells from both cNF and pNF in the same patient, finding distinct transcriptional profiles for each type.
- * Their results showed that pNF has characteristics more akin to malignant tumors, including specific types of cells like Schwann cells and macrophages, while cNF contains more CD8 T cells, suggesting important differences in their cellular environments and behaviors.
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- The study investigates the impact of telerehabilitation on stroke patients' balance abilities, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when avoiding infection is critical for their health.
- Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials from 2020 to 2022, comparing telerehabilitation (TR) with conventional rehabilitation (CR) to evaluate improvements in balance function.
- Results showed that both groups experienced improvements over time, but telerehabilitation proved to be an effective alternative, enhancing balance in stroke patients while minimizing infection risks.
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- Globe artichoke is emerging as a potential crop in Florida, but it faces a significant threat from root-knot nematodes (RKN), which are a major issue in vegetable farming in the state.
- The study involved two experiments testing several artichoke cultivars planted on different dates and conditions to evaluate RKN damage, focusing on gall index and nematode population densities.
- Results showed all cultivars were highly susceptible to RKN, with high levels of root galling, emphasizing the importance of RKN management for successful commercial artichoke production in Florida's subtropical climate.
Using sunflower oil as the oil matrix, the antioxidant effects and types of interactions of three natural components, α-tocopherol, β-carotene and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), were investigated and the kinetic model of oxidation reaction was established. The results showed that the ability of the three antioxidants to scavenge DPPH radicals was ranked as EGCG > β-carotene > α-tocopherol in the concentration range of 0~100 mg/kg. 15 samples were obtained by combining two of three natural components.
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- The study aimed to create a new method (Bonwill-Hawley) for assessing dental crowding using CBCT images and compare its accuracy with traditional methods (brass wire and calipers).
- A total of 60 patients' dental casts were digitized, and different methods were used to measure dental crowding, with reliability evaluations conducted to ensure consistency between examiners.
- Results showed that while both old and new methods provided reliable measurements, discrepancies appeared in mild to severe crowding levels, with no significant differences found between brass wire and Bonwill-Hawley in severe crowding situations.
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- The study investigates respiratory function in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) across various stages and its impact on daily living and quality of life.
- Conducted at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, it involved 65 PD patients and 20 healthy individuals, assessing ventilatory function through spirometry and motor function using the UPDRS-III scale.
- Results showed significant respiratory decline in later stages of PD, particularly in forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume (FEV1), alongside notable negative correlations between respiratory measures and motor function scores, disease duration, and H&Y scale stages.
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- Aggressive fibromatosis is a rare condition characterized by a growth of fibroblasts that does not spread to other parts of the body; a unique case is reported in a young woman suffering from severe nausea and weight loss.
- A 23-year-old female patient was diagnosed with intra-abdominal aggressive fibromatosis based on imaging and tissue analysis after being admitted with hyperemesis (severe vomiting) issues.
- Following surgery, the patient showed no signs of the fibromatosis returning during a six-month follow-up, suggesting that the condition could be a factor in severe hyperemesis experienced by some pregnant women.