Fabrication of carbon dots-embedded luminescent transparent wood with ultraviolet blocking and thermal insulating capacities towards smart window application.

To expand functions of transparent wood (TW) including fluorescence, ultraviolet blocking, heat preservation and insulation, we adopted carbon quantum dots (CQDs) to prepare luminescent transparent wood. CQDs with yellow/red fluorescence (YCD/RCD) were prepared by chitosan and o-phenylenediamine. Afterwards, Balsa woods were pretreated to obtain wood frameworks (DW/LW), which were further combined with epoxy resin for achieving transparent woods (DW-TW/LW-TW).

Traditional Chinese acupoint massage, acupuncture, and moxibustion for people with diabetic gastroparesis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Traditional Chinese acupoint therapy has been used for thousands of years on gastrointestinal diseases. In this work, we evaluated the efficiency and safety of traditional Chinese acupoint therapies versus standard therapies, nursing or recovery treatments in the treatment of diabetic gastroparesis.e expect that traditional Chinese medicine acupoint therapy can be noticed by more people, so as to provide more high-quality clinical evidence.

The transition to adult income supports for youth that received special education in British Columbia, Canada: A cohort study.

Youth in special education have complex needs that are supported across multiple systems. Our research investigates the use of adult income assistance, as one structure that supports youth as they transition to adulthood. We created a cohort of youth (5-22 years old) using linked administrative data from British Columbia government ministries from 1996 to 2018.

Mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes: a promising vector in treatment for diabetes and its microvascular complications.

Mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes (MSC-exos) are phospholipid bimolecular vesicles containing various materials, and they mediate crosstalk among cells. MSC-exos can maintain glucose homeostasis and delay the progression of diabetes and its microvascular complications through multiple mechanisms, such as by improving β-cell viability and insulin resistance as well as through multiple signal transduction pathways. However, related knowledge has not yet been systematically summarized.

Cross-ministry data on service use and limitations faced by children in special education.

Background: Children with disabilities often face limitations that cross support sectors.

Objective: Our aim was to measure cross-ministry service use, outcomes, and functional limitations faced by children who qualified for special education.

Methods: We used longitudinal British Columbia ministry data linked to children (0-18y) registered in K-12 education.

Characterizations of heavy metal contamination, microbial community, and resistance genes in a tailing of the largest copper mine in China.

Copper mine tailings are causing great environmental concern nowadays due to their high contents of heavy metals. These hazards may release to air, water, and soil, posing great threat to the living organisms in the surroundings. In the present work, we profiled the heavy metal contents, microbiome and resistome of a mine tailing in Dexing Copper Mine, which is the largest open-pit copper mine in China.

Co-Existence of and in an Strain Isolated from the Pharmaceutical Industry, WWTP.

Abstract: The emergence of the plasmid-borne colistin-resistant gene () poses a great threat to human health. What is worse, the recent observations of the co-existence of with other antimicrobial resistance genes in some bacteria cause further concern. Here, we present the first report of a wild strain that co-carries an encoding phage-like IncY plasmid (pR15_MCR-1) and a encoding IncX3 plasmid (pR15_NDM-5) from a pharmaceutical industry, wastewater treatment plant, in China.

Use of family disability service by families with young children with disabilities.

Aim: To investigate which families with young children with disabilities used disability services and when they used services to inform policy on service delivery.

Method: We used linked administrative data from different ministries in Alberta to describe families' use of disability services when their children were between the ages of 3 and 8 years old. Disability was investigated on the basis of the presence of a severe special education code for children, and level of special education code.

Genetic characterization of a novel sequence type of multidrug-resistant strain recovered from wastewater treatment plant.

A multidrug-resistant strain R17 was isolated from a wastewater treatment plant in China. Whole-genome sequencing of strain R17 revealed a new sequence type (ST412) chromosome (length 5,124,258 bp) and an Inc FII (Yp) group plasmid pCFR17_1 (length 206,820 bp). A total of 13 antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs) that confer resistance to eight different antibiotic groups were encoded by strain R17 and 12 of them were carried by plasmid pCFR17_1.

Whole Genome Sequencing of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL)-Producing Isolated From a Wastewater Treatment Plant in China.

Background And Objectives: Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are one of the major reservoirs for antimicrobial resistant bacteria (ARB) and antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment. Thus, the investigation on ARB and ARGs from WWTPs has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In order to uncover the resistome in a WWTP treating effluents from a pharmaceutical industry in China, the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing strains were isolated and their whole genome sequences were obtained and analyzed.

The Experience of Establishing Data Sharing & Linkage Platforms for Administrative, Research and Community-Service Data.

Introduction: Innovative data platforms (e.g. biobanks, repositories) continually emerge to facilitate data sharing.

A performance degradation evaluation method for a turbocharger in a diesel engine.

As one of the key systems of the marine power plant diesel engine, the turbocharger directly affects whether the diesel engine can continuously and stably provide the power required for the ship. Owing to a number of uncontrollable factors, such as harsh working conditions and complex structures, the turbocharger may have various failures, causing it to lose its intended function. At present, the fault diagnosis of the marine turbocharger has not been paid enough attention yet and in most cases, the method of 'ex post diagnosis' is still adopted.

Sharing longitudinal, non-biological birth cohort data: a cross-sectional analysis of parent consent preferences.

Background: Mandates abound to share publicly-funded research data for reuse, while data platforms continue to emerge to facilitate such reuse. Birth cohorts (BC) involve longitudinal designs, significant sample sizes and rich and deep datasets. Data sharing benefits include more analyses, greater research complexity, increased opportunities for collaboration, amplification of public contributions, and reduced respondent burdens.

Improving rolling bearing online fault diagnostic performance based on multi-dimensional characteristics.

As the main cause of failure and damage to rotating machinery, rolling bearing failure can result in huge economic losses. As the rolling bearing vibration signal is nonlinear and has non-stationary characteristics, the health status information distributed in the rolling bearing vibration signal is complex. Using common time-domain or frequency-domain approaches cannot easily enable an accurate assessment of rolling bearing health.

A Position Statement on Population Data Science: The Science of Data about People.

Information is increasingly digital, creating opportunities to respond to pressing issues about human populations using linked datasets that are large, complex, and diverse. The potential social and individual benefits that can come from data-intensive science are large, but raise challenges of balancing individual privacy and the public good, building appropriate socio-technical systems to support data-intensive science, and determining whether defining a new field of inquiry might help move those collective interests and activities forward. A combination of expert engagement, literature review, and iterative conversations led to our conclusion that defining the field of Population Data Science (challenge 3) will help address the other two challenges as well.

Biochemical and genetic characterization of a novel metallo-β-lactamase from marine bacterium Erythrobacter litoralis HTCC 2594.

Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) are a group of enzymes that can inactivate most commonly used β-lactam-based antibiotics. Among MBLs, New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) constitutes an urgent threat to public health as evidenced by its success in rapidly disseminating worldwide since its first discovery. Here we report the biochemical and genetic characteristics of a novel MBL, ElBla2, from the marine bacterium Erythrobacter litoralis HTCC 2594.

Parental perspectives on consent for participation in large-scale, non-biological data repositories.

Background: Data sharing presents several challenges to the informed consent process. Unique challenges emerge when sharing pediatric or pregnancy-related data. Here, parent preferences for sharing non-biological data are examined.

Parent perspectives on privacy and governance for a pediatric repository of non-biological, research data.

Research data repositories (RDRs) are data storage entities where data can be submitted, stored, and subsequently accessed for purposes beyond the original intent. There is little information relating to non-biological RDRs, nor considerations regarding pediatric data storage and re-use. We examined parent perspectives on pediatric, non-biological RDRs.

Staphylococcus aureus induces apoptosis in primary bovine mammary epithelial cells through Fas-FADD death receptor-linked caspase-8 signaling.

Infections with Staphylococcus aureus, a common inducer of mastitis, often result in mammary gland damage and death of various cell types. Although S. aureus was suggested to induce apoptosis in a bovine mammary epithelial cell (BMEC) line, MAC-T, it is unknown whether primary BMECs (pBMECs) apoptosis is triggered by S.

Deep sequencing-based transcriptional analysis of bovine mammary epithelial cells gene expression in response to in vitro infection with Staphylococcus aureus stains.

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is an important etiological organism in chronic and subclinical mastitis in lactating cows. Given the fundamental role the primary bovine mammary epithelial cells (pBMECs) play as a major first line of defense against invading pathogens, their interactions with S.

[DNA prime followed by protein boost enhances the protective efficacy against Schistosoma japonicum infection in mice].

Schistosomiasis japonica is an endemic, zoonotic disease of major public health importance in China. Vaccination is needed as a complementary approach to the ongoing control programs. In the present study, we determined if the efficacies of DNA vaccine encoding the SjGST and Sj32 asparaginyl endopeptidase protein could be enhanced by boosting with SjGST-32 protein vaccines.

Increasing the quality of life from womb to grave: the importance of pregnancy and birth cohorts.

Epigenetics is revealing how "nature is nurtured", with environmental factors such as nutrition, environmental neurotoxicants, and psychological stress influencing DNA expression. In this current opinion paper, we argue that understanding the dynamic interplay between the genome acquired at conception and environmental exposures throughout life requires pregnancy and birth cohorts, and that greater Canadian national commitment to the infrastructure needed for sustaining such cohorts is warranted. We present a framework that is now being implemented in Alberta.