Recently urodynamic and quality of life assessment in the non-menopausal women with cervical cancer after radical hysterectomy.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the pre- and postoperative changes in the recently urodynamic and quality of life (QoL) in nonmenopausal women diagnosed with cervical cancer and treated with radical hysterectomy (RH).

Patients And Methods: Twenty-eight nonmenopausal women (28-49 years) with cervical carcinoma (FIGO stage Ia2-IIa) underwent a radical hysterectomy. Urodynamic studies were performed 1 week before (U0) and 3-6 months (U1) after surgery.

Theoretical insight on the charge transport properties: The formation of "head-to-tail" and "head-to-head" stacking of asymmetric aryl anthracene derivatives.

Organic semiconductors (OSCs) are widely used in flexible display, renewable energy, and biosensors, owing to their unique solid-state physical and optoelectronic properties. Among the abundant crystal library of OSCs, asymmetric aryl anthracene derivatives have irreplaceable advantages due to the interplay between their distinct π-conjugated geometry and molecular stacking as well as efficient light emission and charge transport properties that can be simultaneously utilized. However, the poor crystal stacking patterns of most asymmetric molecules limit their utility as excellent OSCs.

Theoretical study of the tuning role of β-methylthio or β-methylselenyl on the charge-transport properties of acenedithiophenes derivatives.

To date, the manipulation of intermolecular nonconjugation interactions in organic crystals is still a great challenge due to the complexity of weak intermolecular interactions. Here we designed molecules substituted by β-methylselenyl on naphtho[1,2-:5,6-']dithiophene and anthra[2,3-:6,7-']dithiophene, respectively (anti-β-MS-NDT, anti-β-MS-ADT), which together with anti-β-MS-BDT synthesized experimentally all exhibited 2D brickwork π-stacking. Moreover, their maximum molecular carrier mobilities reached 3.

Observation of a massive phason in a charge-density-wave insulator.

The lowest-lying fundamental excitation of an incommensurate charge-density-wave material is believed to be a massless phason-a collective modulation of the phase of the charge-density-wave order parameter. However, long-range Coulomb interactions should push the phason energy up to the plasma energy of the charge-density-wave condensate, resulting in a massive phason and fully gapped spectrum. Using time-domain terahertz emission spectroscopy, we investigate this issue in (TaSe)I, a quasi-one-dimensional charge-density-wave insulator.

Higher rank chirality and non-Hermitian skin effect in a topolectrical circuit.

While chirality imbalances are forbidden in conventional lattice systems, non-Hermiticity can effectively avoid the chiral-doubling theorem to facilitate 1D chiral dynamics. Indeed, such systems support unbalanced unidirectional flows that can lead to the localization of an extensive number of states at the boundary, known as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). Recently, a generalized (rank-2) chirality describing a 2D robust gapless mode with dispersion ω = kk has been introduced in crystalline systems.

Effect of Guizhi Fuling Capsule on Apoptosis of Myeloma Cells Through Mitochondrial Apoptosis Pathway.

Objective: To observe the effects of Guizhi Fuling Capsule (GZFLC) on myeloma cells and explore the mechanisms.

Methods: MM1S and RPMI 8226 cells were co-cultured with different concentrations of serum and the cell experiments were divided into negative (10%, 20% and 40%) groups, GZFLC (10%, 20%, and 40%) groups and a control group. Cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8) assays and flow cytometry were used to detect the viability and apoptosis levels of myeloma cells.

Significant Biomarkers Identification Associated with Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Progression.

Background: This study aimed to identify significant genes associated with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) initiation and development.

Methods: The overlapped differential expressed genes (DEGs) between normal and CSCC samples were firstly screened out, followed by KEGG analysis. The top 10 hub genes were then detected from the whole protein-protein interaction (PPI) network.

Systemic Immune-Inflammatory Index as a Predictor of Lymph Node Metastasis in Endometrial Cancer.

Purpose: This study assessed the predictive value of the preoperative systemic immune-inflammatory index (SII) for lymph node metastasis (LNM) in endometrial cancer (EC) patients.

Methods: We retrospectively included 392 EC patients between January 2013 and January 2019. Data on clinical indicators including age, body mass index (BMI), menopause, serum inflammatory immune index, serum tumor markers, history of diabetes and hypertension, stage, histological type, and myometrial invasion (MI) were collected.

Dedifferentiated Central Chondrosarcoma: A Clinical, Histopathological, and Immunohistochemical Analysis of 57 Cases.

Dedifferentiated central chondrosarcoma (DCCS) is a rare cartilage tumor with invasive biological behavior and a poor prognosis. To better understand the morphological characteristics of this type of tumor and its internal mechanism of dedifferentiation, we retrospectively analyzed 57 cases of DCCS. A total of 29 female and 28 male patients were included, ranging in age from 20 to 76 years, with a median age of 54 years.

Update on the Role of Neuropeptide Y and Other Related Factors in Breast Cancer and Osteoporosis.

Breast cancer and osteoporosis are common diseases that affect the survival and quality of life in postmenopausal women. Women with breast cancer are more likely to develop osteoporosis than women without breast cancer due to certain factors that can affect both diseases simultaneously. For instance, estrogen and the receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL) play important roles in the occurrence and development of these two diseases.

Geometric Response and Disclination-Induced Skin Effects in Non-Hermitian Systems.

We study the geometric response of three-dimensional non-Hermitian crystalline systems with nontrivial point-gap topology. For systems with fourfold rotation symmetry, we show that in the presence of disclination lines with a total Frank angle, which is an integer multiple of 2π, there can be nontrivial one-dimensional point-gap topology along the direction of the disclination lines. This results in disclination-induced non-Hermitian skin effects.

Quantum Entanglement and Modulation Enhancement of Free-Electron-Bound-Electron Interaction.

The modulation and engineering of the free-electron wave function bring new ingredients to the electron-matter interaction. We consider the dynamics of a free-electron passing by a two-level system fully quantum mechanically and study the enhancement of interaction from the modulation of the free-electron wave function. In the presence of resonant modulation of the free-electron wave function, we show that the electron energy loss and gain spectrum is greatly enhanced for a coherent initial state of the two-level system.

Theoretical investigations on the charge transport properties of anthracene derivatives with aryl substituents at the 2,6-position-thermally stable "herringbone" stacking motifs.

High-performance organic semiconductor materials based on the small aromatic anthracene-core and its derivatives develop comparatively slowly due to the lack of a profound understanding of the influence of chemical modifications on their charge-transfer properties. Herein, the electronic properties and the charge transport characteristics of several typical anthracene-based derivatives with aryl groups substituted at the 2,6-site are systematically investigated by multi-scale simulation methods including Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation and the full quantum nuclear tunneling model in the framework of density functional theory (DFT). To elucidate the origin of different charge transport properties of these anthracene-based materials, analysis of the molecular stacking and noncovalent intermolecular interaction caused by different substituents was carried out.

A Co-MOF-derived CoS@NS-C electrocatalyst for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction.

The exploitation of efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts has become increasingly urgent and imperative; however, it is also challenging for high-performance sustainable clean energy applications. Herein, novel CoS nanoparticles embedded in a porous N,S-dual doped carbon composite (abbr. CoS@NS-C-900) were fabricated by the pyrolysis of a single crystal Co-MOF assisted with thiourea.

The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of (Lesser Coucal).

We first reported the mitochondrial genome of . The mitogenome of contains 17,117 base pairs. The overall base composition of complete mitogenome is 28.

PT-Symmetric Topological Edge-Gain Effect.

We demonstrate a non-Hermitian topological effect that is characterized by having complex eigenvalues only in the edge states of a topological material, despite the fact that the material is completely uniform. Such an effect can be constructed in any topological structure formed by two gapped subsystems, e.g.

Enhanced Thermal Hall Effect in Nearly Ferroelectric Insulators.

In the context of recent experimental observations of an unexpectedly large thermal Hall conductivity, κ_{H}, in insulating La_{2}CuO_{4} (LCO) and SrTiO_{3} (STO), we theoretically explore conditions under which acoustic phonons can give rise to such a large κ_{H}. Both the intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to κ_{H} are large in proportion to the dielectric constant, ε, and the "flexoelectric" coupling, F. While the intrinsic contribution is still orders of magnitude smaller than the observed effect, an extrinsic contribution proportional to the phonon mean-free path appears likely to account for the observations, at least in STO.

[Reaserch Progress on Non-Coding RNA in Multiple Myeloma --Review].

It is found that non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) plays an important role in the development and treatment of multiple myeloma (MM). For example, some microRNAs (miRNAs) can regulate gene expression, affect autophagy, apoptosis and other physiological and pathological processes, affect synthesis of protein, etc., thus providing a basis for diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of MM evaluation.

Selective Th(iv) capture from a new metal-organic framework with O groups.

Herein we report a new 4-fold interpenetrated metal-organic framework (MOF) functionalized with O groups for selective Th(iv) capture, the activated samples 1a exhibited a high adsorption capacity for pure Th(iv) ions (K = 3.16 × 10 mL g) and the amount of metal ions adsorbed on the adsorbent was 165.61 mg g.

Effects of RNAi-induced Skp2 inhibition on cell cycle, apoptosis and proliferation of endometrial carcinoma cells.

The aim of the current study was to investigate the underlying mechanism of S-phase kinase associated protein 2 (Skp2) gene inhibition by lentivirus-mediated RNA interference (RNAi) on the cell cycle, apoptosis and proliferation of endometrial carcinoma HEC-1-A cells. A lentivirus shRNA vector targeting Skp2 was constructed and transfected into HEC-1-A cells. HEC-1-A cells transfected with a scramble sequence were used as negative controls.

Metallopolymers cross-linked with self-assembled LnL cages.

Herein, we fabricated a hybrid PDVB-LnL metallopolymer using a vinyl functionalized lanthanide-organic tetrahedral cage as the cross-linking agent. Such a covalent embedding strategy not only tunes the morphology and porosity of the metallopolymer, but also improves the luminescence property of the lanthanide organic polyhedron. Potential application in lanthanide separation has also been demonstrated.

Three-Dimensional Chiral Lattice Fermion in Floquet Systems.

We show that the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem still holds on a Floquet lattice: there is an equal number of right-handed and left-handed Weyl points in a three-dimensional Floquet lattice. However, in the adiabatic limit, where the time evolution of the low-energy subspace is decoupled from the high-energy subspace, we show that the bulk dynamics in the low-energy subspace can be described by Floquet bands with extra left- or right-handed Weyl points, despite the no-go theorem. Assuming adiabatic evolution of two bands, we show that the difference of the number of right-handed and left-handed Weyl points equals twice the winding number of the adiabatic Floquet operator over the Brillouin zone.

A three-dimensional photonic topological insulator using a two-dimensional ring resonator lattice with a synthetic frequency dimension.

In the development of topological photonics, achieving three-dimensional topological insulators is of notable interest since it enables the exploration of new topological physics with photons and promises novel photonic devices that are robust against disorders in three dimensions. Previous theoretical proposals toward three-dimensional topological insulators use complex geometries that are challenging to implement. On the basis of the concept of synthetic dimension, we show that a two-dimensional array of ring resonators, which was previously demonstrated to exhibit a two-dimensional topological insulator phase, automatically becomes a three-dimensional topological insulator when the frequency dimension is taken into account.