Prevalence and Risk Factors of Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Occupational Groups in Key Industries - China, 2018-2023.

What Is Already Known About This Topic?: Lower extremity musculoskeletal diseases (LE-MSDs) have emerged as a significant contributor to the global disease economic burden and worker absenteeism, becoming a global public health concern. However, the epidemic characteristics of LE-MSDs among occupational populations in China are unknown.

What Is Added By This Report?: This report finds that the LE-MSDs prevalence rate among key occupational groups in China is 17.

Association of dietary patterns with chronic respiratory health among U.S. adults.

Background: Respiratory health is closely related to immune system function, and diet can also influence immune homeostasis. Diet, an important part of a healthy lifestyle, is also linked to respiratory health. We aimed to explore the relationship between different dietary patterns and the risk of chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs), including chronic bronchitis (CB), emphysema, and asthma.

Epigenetic control of dental stem cells: progress and prospects in multidirectional differentiation.

Dental stem cells, with their exceptional proliferative capacity and multidirectional differentiation potential, hold significant promise for dental and oral tissue regeneration. Epigenetic inheritance, which involves stable and heritable changes in gene expression and function without alterations to the DNA sequence, plays a critical role in numerous biological processes. Environmental factors are particularly influential in epigenetic inheritance, as variations in exposure can lead to changes in epigenetic modifications that subsequently impact gene expression.

Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram for esophageal cancer patients based on SEER Asian population.

This study aims to develop and validate a nomogram for predicting overall survival (OS) in Asian patients with Esophageal Cancer (EC). Data from Asian EC patients were collected from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. The patients were randomly divided into training and validation cohorts in a 7:3 ratio.

Risk and Protective Factors of Recurrence after Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common disease and is effectively managed through catheter ablation (CA). However, post-ablation AF recurrence can compromise patient outcomes, making the identification of associated risk factors crucially important. Factors influencing poor clinical outcomes include age, female sex, body mass index (BMI), non-paroxysmal AF, and comorbidities including diabetes mellitus (DM) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

Direct air capture of CO using biochar prepared from sewage sludge: Adsorption capacity and kinetics.

As an emerging carbon-negative emission technology, carbon dioxide (CO) capture from the air is an essential safeguard for alleviating global warming. Sludge-activated carbon with excellent mesoporous structure is a potential material for CO capture. In this paper, the amino modified sewage sludge materials were used to prepare the porous CO adsorbent from air.

Analyzing the effect of blue-blocking lenses on color vision tests using the chromaticity coordinate method.

Significance: Blue light with wavelengths of 380-445 nm can harm the retina, leading to the development of blue-blocking lenses (BBLs). Understanding whether BBLs affect color vision test outcomes and color discrimination ability is crucial for people in color-associated jobs.

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of BBLs on color vision tests and analyze color discrimination using mathematical models of color spaces.

Predictive potential of preoperative Naples prognostic score-based nomogram model for the prognosis in surgical resected thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients: A retrospective cohort study.

The present study aimed to establish an effective prognostic nomogram model based on the Naples prognostic score (NPS) for resectable thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). A total of 277 patients with ESCC, who underwent standard curative esophagectomy and designated as study cohort, were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into different groups, including NPS 0, NPS 1, NPS 2, and NPS 3 or 4 groups, for further analysis, and the results were validated in an external cohort of 122 ESCC patients, who underwent surgery at another cancer center.

Numerical Optimization Study of Combustion and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators.

The efficient and clean utilization of urban waste can substitute for partial fossil fuels and reduce total carbon emissions. Fuel combustion is divided into three stages. Before the fire, the fuel is put into the furnace to reach the preparation stage of the fire temperature, the combustion stage takes place after the ignition temperature is reached, and finally, the combustion is completed.

Quantitative analysis of multi-components by single marker method combined with UPLC-PAD fingerprint analysis based on saikosaponin for discrimination of Bupleuri Radix according to geographical origin.

Saikosaponins are regarded as one of the most likely antipyretic constituents of Bupleuri Radix, establishing a comprehensive method that can reflect both the proportion of all constituents and the content of each saikosaponin is critical for its quality evaluation. In this study, the combination method of quantitative analysis of multiple components with a single marker (QAMS) and fingerprint was firstly established for simultaneous determination of 7 kinds of saikosaponins in Bupleuri Radix by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC). The results showed that saikosaponin d was identified as the optimum IR by evaluating the fluctuations and stability of the relative calibration factors (RCFs) under four different conditions.

Experimental Study on Gas-Solid Two-Phase Flow Characteristics of a Vertical Cyclone Combustor System.

According to the design and operational parameters of the cyclone liquid slag-discharging boiler, an experimental platform for the cyclone burner was designed and constructed in a cold state based on the principle of similarity. The experimental study investigated the effects of parameters, such as swirl-vane angles, coal concentration, operating parameters, and particle size, on the flow distribution and vertical riser resistance characteristics of the vertical cyclone burner. The results showed that there were differences in flow distribution among the cyclone burners, and the most uniform flow distribution was achieved when the swirl-vane angle of the primary air was 30°.

Biodegradation of Urethane Dimethacrylate-based materials (CAD/CAM resin-ceramic composites) and its effect on the adhesion and proliferation of Streptococcus mutans.

Objective: To investigate whether urethane dimethacrylate (UDMA) -based dental restorative materials biodegrade in the presence of Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) and whether the monomers affect the adhesion and proliferation of S. mutans in turn.

High-Performance and Low-Power -Channel Transistors Based on Monolayer BeC.

The advantages of 2D materials in alleviating the issues of short-channel effect and power dissipation in field-effect transistors (FETs) are well recognized. However, the progress of complementary integrated circuits has been stymied by the absence of high-performance (HP) and low-power (LP) -channel transistors. Therefore, we conducted an investigation into the electronic and ballistic transport characteristics of monolayer BeC, which features quasi-planar hexacoordinate carbons, by employing nonequilibrium Green's function combined with density functional theory.

Full stage networks with auxiliary focal loss and multi-attention module for submarine garbage object detection.

Submarine garbage is constantly destroying the marine ecological environment and polluting the ocean. It is critical to use detection methods to quickly locate and identify submarine garbage. The background of submarine garbage images is much more complex than that of natural scene images, with object deformation and missing contours putting higher demands on the detection network.

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy approach to the emotional regulation effect of drawing: Venting versus distraction.

Background: Drawing can regulate emotions through venting or distraction. Distraction is more helpful for short-term emotion recovery; however, the sustainability of this difference is yet to be clarified. This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to explore potential differences between venting and distraction.

The germicidal effect, biosafety and mechanical properties of antibacterial resin composite in cavity filling.

In recent years, dental resin materials have become increasingly popular for cavity filling. However, these materials can shrink during polymerization, leading to microleakages that enable bacteria to erode tooth tissue and cause secondary caries. As a result, there is great clinical demand for the development of antibacterial resins.

Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram for predicting cancer-specific survival in lymph node-negative elderly esophageal cancer patients: A SEER-based study.

In this study, we explored the prognostic risk factors of elderly patients (≥65 years old) with lymph node-negative esophageal cancer (EC) and established a nomogram to evaluate the cancer-specific survival of patients. The surveillance, epidemiology, and end results database was used to collect data on patients diagnosed with EC. Univariate and multivariate Cox analyses were used to determine independent prognostic factors, and the nomogram for predicting cancer-specific survival of EC patients was constructed based on the independent prognostic factors obtained from the multivariate Cox analysis.

LiteGaze: Neural architecture search for efficient gaze estimation.

Gaze estimation plays a critical role in human-centered vision applications such as human-computer interaction and virtual reality. Although significant progress has been made in automatic gaze estimation by deep convolutional neural networks, it is still difficult to directly deploy deep learning based gaze estimation models across different edge devices, due to the high computational cost and various resource constraints. This work proposes LiteGaze, a deep learning framework to learn architectures for efficient gaze estimation via neural architecture search (NAS).

A miRNA-205-based model for prediction of the recurrence of endometrioid endometrial cancer.

Aim: To develop a miRNA-205 based model for prediction of the recurrence of endometrial cancer.

Methods: The FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) stage, grading, myometrial infiltration, lymph node status and miRNA-205 expression levels were extracted from 90 endometrioid endometrial cancer patients, recurrence related risk factors were analyzed by Cox regression analysis. A risk model was then developed.

The effect of color vision resolution on intra-oral shade-selection accuracy.

Background: Dentists must be able to identify subtle color changes as shade-matching is crucial in aesthetic dentistry.

Objective: To determine whether color discrimination ability is related to shade-matching accuracy among dentists.

Methods: The sensitivity of the normal-color vision population to different colors was investigated using Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue (FM-100) test results.

Bupleurum chinense exerts a mild antipyretic effect on LPS-induced pyrexia rats involving inhibition of peripheral TNF-α production.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Bupleuri Radix, the dried roots of Bupleurum chinense DC. (BC) or Bupleurum scorzonerifolium Willd., is one of the most frequently used traditional Chinese medicines.

A three-dimensional actively spreading bone repair material based on cell spheroids can facilitate the preservation of tooth extraction sockets.

Achieving a successful reconstruction of alveolar bone morphology still remains a challenge because of the irregularity and complex microenvironment of tooth sockets. Biological materials including hydroxyapatite and collagen, are used for alveolar ridge preservation. However, the healing effect is often unsatisfactory.

A comprehensive review on traditional and modern research of the genus Bupleurum (Bupleurum L., Apiaceae) in recent 10 years.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: The genus Bupleurum (family Apiaceae), comprising approximately 248 accepted species, is widely distributed and used in China, Japan, India, Central Asia, North Africa and some European countries as traditional herbal medicines. Certain species have been reported to have significant therapeutic effects in fever, inflammatory disorders, cancer, gastric ulcer, virus infection and other diseases.

Aim Of The Review: we performed a comprehensive review of the ten-year research progress in phytochemistry, pharmacology, toxicity, along with bibliometrics research of the genus Bupleurum, aiming to identify knowledge gaps for future research.

Liangxue Jiedu Runzhi ointment in the treatment of mild and moderate psoriasis with blood-heat syndrome: A double-blind randomized controlled trial.

Introduction: Psoriasis is a kind of chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by erythema, skin hyperplasia, scales and keratinocyte hyperproliferation. Psoriasis Vulgaris, the most common kind of psoriasis, severely deteriorates the life quality of patients. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a good choice for the treatment of psoriasis, which has been proved to be safe and effective, and may reduce the recurrence rate.