Publications by authors named "Wu Biao"

Background: Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (RAAA) is a fatal disease. This study aimed to assess the prognostic value of the preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in patients with RAAA undergoing endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR).

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study included patients with RAAA who underwent EVAR from 2012 to 2022.

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  • - The study addresses the lack of suitable brain templates for cynomolgus monkeys in neuroscience research, highlighting the need for better tools to analyze neuroimaging data due to age-related changes in brain structure and function.
  • - To improve data analysis accuracy, a comprehensive set of stereotaxic brain templates has been developed, which includes various MRI and PET templates for different stages of development in cynomolgus monkeys.
  • - These new templates allow for precise localization and segmentation of brain structures, enabling more reliable studies of brain anatomy and metabolic function in non-human primates.
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  • The goal of creating specific molecules in synthetic chemistry highlights the importance of cyclobutanes (CBs), known for their potential in pharmaceuticals and materials science.* -
  • The paper discusses a new method for synthesizing unique, fully substituted cyclobutanes using stiff-stilbene precursors, overcoming challenges posed by steric hindrance.* -
  • The synthesized cyclobutanes exhibit high ring-strain energies and can reversibly convert back to their precursors, suggesting potential uses in responsive and energy storage applications.*
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Bivalve mollusks, comprising animals enclosed in two shell valves, are well-adapted to benthic life in many intertidal zones. Clams have evolved the buried lifestyle, which depends on their unique soft tissue structure and their wedge-shaped muscular foot and long extendible siphons. However, molecular mechanisms of adaptative phenotype evolution remain largely unknown.

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Studies show that movement observation (MO), movement imagery (MI), or movement execution (ME) based brain-computer interface systems are promising in promoting the rehabilitation and reorganization of damaged motor function. This study was aimed to explore and compare the motor function rehabilitation mechanism among MO, MI, and ME. 64-channel electroencephalogram and 4-channel electromyogram data were collected from 39 healthy participants (25 males, 14 females; 18-23 years old) during MO, ME, and MI.

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  • - Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) is a serious health and environmental hazard, particularly in industrial areas, and this study explores the use of modified graphene oxide (GO) as an effective adsorbent to tackle this issue.
  • - The synthesized adsorbent, GO/ATA, significantly improves adsorptive properties due to the attachment of a Schiff base, showcasing a high capacity of 243.3 mg/g for Cr(VI) removal at 298 K through electrostatic interactions and reduction reactions.
  • - GO/ATA demonstrates excellent recyclability, maintaining around 72.7% of its initial adsorption capacity after five cycles, confirming its practical use for remediating Cr(VI)-contaminated water and its potential
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Background: Glaucoma, characterized by a high incidence and significant ocular harm, has been elucidated through various mechanisms. Excessive autophagy leading to the loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) is suggested as one potential cause for visual impairment in glaucoma.

Methods: A glaucoma model was established through anterior chamber injection of silicone oil in mice.

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Background: Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are an important tool for assessing pulmonary diseases, although clinicians often find it challenging to accurately evaluate the pulmonary function of children.

Methods: We intend to investigate the association between serum albumin (SA) and lung function among U.S.

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Symmetry engineering is explicitly effective to manipulate and even create phases and orderings in strongly correlated materials. Flexural stress is universally practical to break the space-inversion or time-reversal symmetry. Here, by introducing strain gradient in a centrosymmetric antiferromagnet Sr_{2}IrO_{4}, the space-inversion symmetry is broken accompanying a nonequivalent O p-Ir d orbital hybridization along the z axis.

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  • A new wildlife target detection algorithm is introduced, based on the improved YOLOX-s network, aimed at enhancing detection accuracy in challenging rainy and nighttime conditions.
  • The algorithm integrates three key components: the MobileViT-Pooling module for efficient feature extraction, the Dynamic Head module for improved task-specific detection, and the Focal-IoU module for better loss function handling.
  • Experimental results show significant improvements in detection performance, with mAP scores increasing by 7.9% and 5.3%, demonstrating enhanced accuracy and reduced false detections for wildlife.
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  • * Exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), which are becoming more common in medical research, was shown to speed up leukemia progression in mice and increase levels of inflammatory cytokines.
  • * Using PEG-modified MWCNTs and studying immunodeficient mice reduced the harmful effects, highlighting the need to assess the safety of MWCNTs, especially for individuals with blood cancers.
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  • Eleusine indica is a problematic weed in global agriculture, particularly affecting citrus orchards in China, where glufosinate herbicide is typically used for control.
  • A resistant population of E. indica was identified, showing three times greater resistance to glufosinate, but no mutations in the glutamine synthetase gene linked to this resistance.
  • The study found that the resistant plants exhibit increased activity of glutathione S-transferase (GST), suggesting that metabolic resistance involving GST is key to their survival against glufosinate.
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Studies on niche and interspecific association can reveal plant interspecific relationship in the community, and provide theoretical support for promoting the transformation and development of plantation to natural forest. Based on investigation data of permanent plots of plantation in Jianfengling area of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, we analyzed niche and interspecific association of the top 20 woody species in the community according to their importance values. The results showed that there were 163 species of woody species belonging to 101 genera and 55 families in the plantation community, with complex species composition.

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  • Myostatin (MSTN) is crucial for muscle development in animals, but its regulation in marine invertebrates, like bivalves, is not well understood.
  • The study involved cloning the MSTN promoter sequence from the Yesso scallop, discovering multiple transcription start sites and binding sites for transcription factors like MEF2.
  • The research showed that MEF2 significantly enhances MSTN transcriptional activity, which implies its role in regulating muscle growth in the Yesso scallop.
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Background: Portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT) is a major risk factor of recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after hepatectomy. Whether postoperative adjuvant immunotherapy and molecular targeted therapy (I-O and MTT) is effective in reducing the risk of recurrence of HCC with minimal portal invasion after hepatectomy and improving prognosis is unknown.

Methods: We collected the data of HCC with Vp1 or Vp2 PVTT patients who underwent hepatectomy at our center between January 2019 and June 2022 from the hospital database.

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Antiferromagnets (AFMs) are ideal materials to boost neuromorphic computing toward the ultrahigh speed and ultracompact integration regime. However, developing a suitable AFM neuromorphic memory remains an aspirational but challenging goal. In this work, we construct such a memory based on the CoO/Pt heterostructure, in which the collinear insulating AFM CoO shows a strong perpendicular anisotropy facilitating its electrical readout and writing.

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Object detector based on fully convolutional network achieves excellent performance. However, existing detection algorithms still face challenges such as low detection accuracy in dense scenes and issues with occlusion of dense targets. To address these two challenges, we propose an Global Remote Feature Modulation End-to-End (GRFME2E) detection algorithm.

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Herbicides are essential for farmers to control weed. However, prolonged use of herbicides has caused the development of herbicide resistance in weeds. Here, the resistant Echinochloa crus-galli (RL5) was obtained by continuous treatment with metamifop for five generations in paddy fields.

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Background: The growing consensus links exposure to fine particulate matter (PM) with an increased risk of respiratory diseases. However, little is known about the additional effects of particulate matter on brainstem function in allergic rhinitis (AR). Furthermore, it is unknown to what extent the PM-induced effects in the brainstem affect the inflammatory response in AR.

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  • The study explores how light interacts with moiré superlattices, which could improve technologies in photonics, optoelectronics, and valleytronics.
  • Researchers developed twisted WSe/WSe/SiP structures to show that these superlattices can exhibit a high degree of optical anisotropy, with a polarization degree of about 70% due to uneven charge distribution.
  • They also revealed that applying a magnetic field can modify the polarization state, resulting in changes to the polarization angle and degree, highlighting a new way to manipulate optical properties in moiré superlattices through engineering.
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Asymmetric nickel oxyhydroxide (NiOOH) possesses multi-OH and O active sites on different surfaces, (001) and (001̄), which possibly causes a complicated catalytic process. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the unconventional dual-site mechanism (UDSM) of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) on NiOOH (001) and (001̄) exhibits significantly lower overpotentials of 0.80 and 0.

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We discover that quantum dynamical tunneling, occurring between phase space regions in a classically forbidden way, can break conserved quantities. We rigorously prove that a conserved quantity in a class of typical pseudointegrable systems can be broken quantum mechanically. We then numerically compute the uncertainties of this broken conserved quantity, which remain nonzero for up to 10^{5} eigenstates and exhibit universal distributions similar to energy level statistics.

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  • IV-V two-dimensional materials are key for polarization-sensitive and angle-resolved devices due to their unique directional properties.
  • Researchers used a diamond anvil cell and various measurements to explore the effects of pressure on phonon behavior in SiP flakes, discovering an unusual phonon hardening within a broader softening region.
  • The study showed that applying pressure significantly enhances the degree of polarization in SiP flakes, providing insights into high-pressure phonon changes and methods to optimize the performance of anisotropic 2D materials.
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