Comparative study between unilateral and bilateral extrapedicular approaches for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: A retrospective study.

Objective: Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) is a primary treatment for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCF). Historically, surgeons preferred a bilateral approach for PVP; however, this approach may impose greater financial strain on patients. This retrospective study examines the efficacy of the unilateral approach compared to the bilateral approach.

Molecular Phylogeny and Morphology Reveal Four New Species of (Bolbitiaceae, Agaricales) from the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China.

The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, known for its high altitude, geological history of plate collision, crustal uplift, and special ecology factors, provides an ideal environment for studying fungal biodiversity in extreme environmental conditions. Some species within the , containing secondary metabolites such as psilocybin, phallotoxins, and amatoxins, have potential medicinal value for treating psychiatric disorders and for use in drug development. This study investigates (Bolbitiaceae, Agaricales) on the Plateau, based on specimens collected over the past decade, using morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses.

A rice rhizosphere plant growth-promoting Streptomyces corchorusii isolate antagonizes Magnaporthe oryzae and elicits defense responses in rice.

Aims: Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most devastating diseases of rice (Oryza sativa L.). The aim of this study was to investigate the biocontrol potential of rice rhizosphere actinomycetes against M.

Inflammatory index is a promising biomarker for maintenance hemodialysis patients with cardiovascular disease.

Background And Objectives: Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients are at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), a common complication and leading cause of death. Persistent micro-inflammation is a unique feature of MHD. Given the established role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, this study aims to explore whether novel inflammatory markers (inflammation index) can serve as independent risk factors for CVD in MHD patients.

A Taxonomic Study of Specimens from China Revealed Seven New Species.

Based on phylogenetic analysis, (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) was established with as the type species. The basidiomes range from small to large and are typically terrestrial, lignicolous, and rarely fimicolous. We analysed the species collected during five years in China, and based on morphological and molecular data (nrITS, nrLSU, and ), we propose seven new species viz.

Using a smartphone-based self-management platform to study sex differences in Parkinson's disease: multicenter, cross-sectional pilot study.

Background: Patient-reported outcome (PRO) is a distinct and indispensable dimension of clinical characteristics and recent advances have made remote PRO measurement possible. Sex difference in PRO of Parkinson's disease (PD) is hardly extensively researched.

Methods: A smartphone-based self-management platform, offering remote PRO measurement for PD patients, has been developed.

Defect identification of bare printed circuit boards based on Bayesian fusion of multi-scale features.

The aim of this article is to propose a defect identification method for bare printed circuit boards (PCB) based on multi-feature fusion. This article establishes a description method for various features of grayscale, texture, and deep semantics of bare PCB images. First, the multi-scale directional projection feature, the multi-scale grey scale co-occurrence matrix feature, and the multi-scale gradient directional information entropy feature of PCB were extracted to build the shallow features of defect images.

Triglycerides Mediate the Influence of Body Mass Index on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a Non-Obese Chinese Population with Normal Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels.

Introduction: Over 25% of the world's population has non-obese or lean non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and the prevalence is higher than average in Asia. The present study focused on the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and non-obese NAFLD in non-overweight people in China, particularly the influence of triglycerides (TG) in the pathogenesis of non-obese NAFLD. The findings suggest new treatments for NAFLD patients with normal BMI, as well as provide an early warning system for the understanding and prevention of NAFLD in non-obese patients.

PCAP-1a, an exopolysaccharide from Pectobacterium actinidiae, exerts the dual role of immunogenicity and virulence in plants.

Plant defense mechanisms begin with the recognition of microbe-associated molecular patterns or pathogen-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs/PAMPs). Several carbohydrates, such as chitin, were reported to induce plant defenses, acting as elicitors. Regrettably, the structures of polysaccharide elicitors have rarely been characterized, and their recognition receptors in plants remain unknown.

Research on the control strategy of LCL grid-connected inverters based on improved auto disturbance rejection.

The grid-connected inverter is the key to ensure stable, reliable, safe, and efficient operation of the power generation system; the quality of the grid-connected output current waveform directly affects the performance of the entire power generation system. To improve the anti-interference performance and reduce the output current harmonic content of the grid-connected inverter, an improved control strategy that combined repetitive control (RC) and auto disturbance rejection control (ADRC) is designed in this paper. Firstly, decoupled the ADRC to realize the individual adaptation between tracking performance parameters and anti-interference performance parameters of the controller, through which the difficulty of adjusting parameters is reduced.

The Carbonic Anhydrase βCA1 Functions in PopW-Mediated Plant Defense Responses in Tomato.

β-Carbonic anhydrase (βCA) is very important for plant growth and development, but its function in immunity has also been examined. In this study, we found that the expression level of () was significantly upregulated in plants treated with 85-10. The protein was localized in the nucleus, cell membrane and chloroplast.

Macrofungal Diversity and Distribution Patterns in the Primary Forests of the Shaluli Mountains.

The Shaluli Mountains are located in the southeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau at an elevation of 2500-5000 m. They are characterized by a typical vertical distribution of climate and vegetation and are considered a global biodiversity hotspot. We selected ten vegetation types at different elevation gradients representing distinct forests in the Shaluli Mountains to assess the macrofungal diversity, including subalpine shrub, spp.

Color- and Dimension-Tunable Light-Harvesting Organic Charge-Transfer Alloys for Controllable Photon-Transport Photonics.

An electron donor/acceptor pair comprising perylene (Pe) and 9,10-dicyanoanthracene (DCA) was specifically designed to construct organic charge-transfer (CT) alloys via weak CT interaction through a solution co-assembly route. By adjusting the molar ratio between Pe and DCA, we achieve color- and dimension-tunable CT alloy assemblies involving one-dimensional (1D) (DCA) (Pe) (0 ≤ x ≤10 %) microribbons and two-dimensional (2D) (Pe) (DCA) (0 ≤ y ≤5 %) nanosheets as a consequence of energy transfer from DCA or α-Pe to Pe-DCA CT complex. Importantly, dimension-related optical waveguiding performances are also revealed: continuously adjustable optical loss in 1D (DCA) (Pe) microribbons and successive conversion from isotropic waveguide to anisotropic waveguide in 2D (Pe) (DCA) nanosheets.