Publications by authors named "Xiaosong Yu"

Background: The TyG index, or triglyceride-glucose index, is primarily used as a marker to assess insulin resistance and metabolic health. It increases mortality risk in patients with NAFLD, atherosclerosis, ischemic stroke, or heart failure. However, its association with Carotid Atherosclerosis (CAS) risk in NAFLD patients remains uncertain.

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  • Small secreted peptides (SSPs) play a crucial role in plant defense by acting as danger signals in response to microbial threats; however, not many SSP families are identified in the Solanaceae family due to outdated discovery methods.
  • This study introduces a new SSP family called SolP, identified through comparative genomics in important crops like tomato, tobacco, and pepper, indicating its role in initiating the plant's immune response.
  • The specific peptide SlSolP12, which has the same sequence across these plants, triggers various defense mechanisms and boosts overall resistance to infection, showing effectiveness in a range of plant species.
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Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides future-proof security for data communications over optical networks. Currently, sophisticated QKD systems are developed and the scale of QKD-secured optical networks (QKD-ONs) becomes larger. Given the complex network conditions and dynamic end-to-end security services in QKD-ONs, autonomic management and control becomes a promising paradigm to support end-to-end quality-of-service (QoS) assurance in an efficient and stable way without requiring human intervention.

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The CLE (CLAVATA3/Embryo Surrounding Region-related) family, a group of peptides with hormone-like features, plays a pivotal role in plant growth, development, and adaptation to stress. Through homology-based blast analysis of 32 CLE peptide sequences, we have identified 5, 14, and 10 CLE family members in , and , respectively. Chemical synthesis and functional assays of the peptides led to the discovery that NtCLE3 substantially enhances the drought resistance of these three Solanaceae crops.

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Background: The Chinese government has formulated a series of policies and strengthened training of general practitioners (GPs) to support their role as "gatekeepers" of residents' health. This study aimed to explore the core competencies of Chinese GPs and develop a competency framework in line with China's actual conditions, which can provide a more scientific basis for the education, training, and evaluation of GPs.

Methods: Literature analysis and behaviour event interviews were conducted to build the competency dictionary and the initial version of the competency model.

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Genetic engineering using negative regulators of plant immunity has the potential to provide a huge impetus in agricultural biotechnology to achieve a higher degree of disease resistance without reducing yield. Type 2C protein phosphatases (PP2Cs) represent the largest group of protein phosphatases in plants, with a high potential for negative regulatory functions by blocking the transmission of defence signals through dephosphorylation. Here, we established a PP2C functional protoplast screen using pFRK1::luciferase as a reporter and found that 14 of 56 PP2Cs significantly inhibited the immune response induced by flg22.

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PAMP-induced secreted peptide (PIP), one of the small post-translationally modified peptides (PTMPs), plays a crucial role in plant development and stress tolerance. However, little is known about functional divergence among this peptide family. Here, we studied the evolution of the PIP family in 23 plant species (10 monocotyledons and 13 dicotyledons from 7 families) and their functional divergence in Arabidopsis.

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Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a promising technique to resist the threat against quantum computers. However, the high loss of quantum signals over a long-distance optical fiber is an obstacle for QKD in the intercontinental domain. In this context, the quantum satellite network is preferred over the terrestrial quantum optical network.

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Many pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) and their corresponding ligands have been identified. However, it is largely unknown how similar and different these ligands are in inducing plant innate immunity and affecting plant development. In this study, we examined three well characterized ligands in Arabidopsis thaliana, namely flagellin 22 (flg22), plant elicitor peptide 1 (pep1) and a conserved 20-amino-acid fragment found in most necrosis and ethylene-inducing peptide 1-like proteins (nlp20).

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Unlabelled: Rhynchophylline (RIN) and isorhynchophylline (IRN), the main medicinal components in plant , have potential effects on Alzheimer's disease. Understanding the influence of environmental factors, especially light intensity, on the production of these active ingredients will help to improve cultivation techniques. Compared with the 100% light intensity (CK), the contents of RIN and IRN in leaves significantly increased at 20% light intensity (HS) after 7 and 21 days.

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Pine wilt disease (PWD) is a devastating disease affecting trees belonging to the genus Pinus. To control the spread of PWD in the Masson pine forest in China, PWD resistant Masson pine clones have been selected by the Anhui Academy of Forestry. However, because Masson pine is a difficult-to-root species, producing seedlings is challenging, especially from trees older than 5 years of age, which impedes the application of PWD resistant clones.

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With its information-theoretic security, quantum-key-distribution-enabled optical networks (QKD-ON) have become a promising candidate for future optical networks. The concept of quantum key pool (QKP) was introduced to offer an effective strategy for storing quantum keys. However, with the loss on its theoretical security due to storing these keys, balancing the storage of quantum keys and the security requirements of QKD-ONs poses a major challenge in their practical deployments.

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Quantum cryptography (QC) is currently under investigation to build highly secure optical communication networks. QC requires distribution of quantum keys (also called "secret" keys) on separate wavelength channels than those used to transmit the encrypted data. Hence, we propose a quantum-secured passive optical network (QS-PON) that supports both i) the traditional wavelength channels for secured data transmission, and ii) a quantum key distribution network (QKDN) running on separate dedicated wavelengths.

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Purpose: Cancer diagnosis and treatment are long-term traumatic stressors. Depression and anxiety are known to be prevalent in patients with cancer, but post-traumatic disorder (PTSD) has been overlooked frequently in this population. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of PTSD and examined the mediating role of hope in the relationship between perceived stress and PTSD symptoms in Chinese patients with oral cancer.

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Nowadays, critical sectors in government, finance, and military are facing increasingly high security challenges. However, traditional public-key crypto-systems based on computational complexity are likely to suffer from upgrade computational power. Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a promising technology to effectively address the challenge by providing secret keys due to the laws of quantum physics.

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Background: Plenty of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play vital roles in the progression of atherosclerosis. Small nucleolar RNA host gene 6 (SNHG6) is a well known lncRNA that is aberrantly high expressed in atherosclerosis patients. However, its function and basic mechanism in atherosclerosis events have not been well clarified.

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Aims: Vps15 is an important regulator on the activity of class III PI3K in autophagy induction. AngII plays a positive role of autophagy in the early protection of endothelial cells. In this study, the expression of Vps15 was knocked down using the specific shRNA to investigate the effects of Vps15 on cell autophagy, senescence and apoptosis in HUVECs stimulated by AngII.

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With network functions decoupled from specific hardware, network function virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology to accelerate service provisioning in datacenter (DC) networks. In inter-datacenter elastic optical networks, each virtualized network function (VNF) is usually deployed in multiple DCs for the sake of survivability. In service provisioning, different VNF selections greatly affect IT resources in DCs as well as spectrum resources in optical networks.

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Machine-learning-based solutions are showing promising results for several critical issues in large-scale optical networks. Alarm (caused by failure, disaster, etc.) prediction is an important use-case, where machine learning can assist in predicting events, ahead of time.

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Quantum key distribution (QKD) holds the potential of providing long-term integrity and confidentiality for data and communications. Currently, many fiber-based QKD systems have been commercialized and several QKD networks have been deployed. Given the high cost and complexity of QKD network deployment, QKD as a service (QaaS) becomes a promising pattern for future QKD networks.

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Space division multiplexing enabled elastic optical networks (SDM-EONs) with multi-core fiber (MCF) have become a promising candidate for future optical transport networks, due to their high capacity and flexibility. Meanwhile, driven by the development of cloud computing and data centers, more types of requests are allowed in the networks, i.e.

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Quantum key distribution (QKD) networks are promising to progress towards widespread practical deployment over existing fiber infrastructures in the near future. Given the high cost and difficulty of deploying QKD networks, multi-tenancy becomes promising to improve cost efficiency for future QKD networks. In a multi-tenant QKD network, multiple QKD tenants can share the same QKD network infrastructure to obtain secret keys for securing their data transfer.

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Objectives: The aims of this study were to develop the Chinese version of the Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS-Ch) in order to test the psychometric properties of the modified instrument.

Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted in September 2016 to evaluate the attitudes of Chinese medical students towards communication skills learning using CSAS at China Medical University.

Participants: The study recruited 510 fifth-year medical students by cluster sampling.

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Introduction And Aims: The association between thyroid function and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) remained controversial. A large cross-sectional study aimed to explore the relationship in euthyroid population.

Material And Methods: A total of 1773 euthyroid subjects who underwent health check-up during one-year period were enrolled.

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