Publications by authors named "Yang Sizhe"
[Growth characteristic of statolith of in the East China Sea in the La Niña year].
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao
June 2024
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- The study investigates the morphological growth patterns of statoliths in the East China Sea during normal and La Niña years using samples collected in 2020 and 2021.
- Key parameters measured include total statolith length, lateral dome length, wing length, and maximum width, which showed significant differences between climate years and genders.
- Results indicate that statolith growth was generally greater in normal years compared to La Niña years, with males exhibiting faster growth rates than females in both years, although females had a larger overall size.
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- Phenols are common contaminants in water, and their breakdown can be influenced by pyrogenic carbon (PyC), but how PyC properties affect this process is not well understood.
- The study examined how different types of PyC remove various phenols in water, focusing on a short-term test that measured adsorption and degradation rates using a two-compartment kinetics model.
- Findings showed that adsorption of phenols was significantly faster than their degradation, with strong correlations between electron transfer rates in PyC and phenol degradation kinetics, underlining the importance of chemical properties in pollutant removal strategies.
The Han Chinese history is shaped by substantial demographic activities and sociocultural transmissions. However, it remains challenging to assess the contributions of demic and cultural diffusion to Han culture and language, primarily due to the lack of rigorous examination of genetic-linguistic congruence. Here we digitized a large-scale linguistic inventory comprising 1,018 lexical traits across 926 dialect varieties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReconstructing the spatial evolution of languages can deepen our understanding of the demic diffusion and cultural spread. However, the phylogeographic approach that is frequently used to infer language dispersal patterns has limitations, primarily because the phylogenetic tree cannot fully explain the language evolution induced by the horizontal contact among languages, such as borrowing and areal diffusion. Here, we introduce the language velocity field estimation, which does not rely on the phylogenetic tree, to infer language dispersal trajectories and centre.
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- Scientists studied how anxiety from tumors in mice affects their cancer growth!
- They found that certain brain cells (CRH neurons) get super active when there's a tumor, which makes the mice more anxious!
- Using special techniques, they showed that reducing this brain activity can help lower both anxiety and tumor growth, and they even found that an antianxiety medicine might help slow down cancer!
The Omicron family of SARS-CoV-2 variants are currently driving the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we analyzed the clinical laboratory test results of 9911 Omicron BA.2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: For a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of changing plant photosynthetic capacity during plant evolutionary history, knowledge of leaf gas exchange and optical properties are essential, both of which relate strongly to mesophyll anatomy. Although ferns are suitable for investigating the evolutionary history of photosynthetic capacity, comprehensive research of fern species has yet to be undertaken in this regard.
Methods: We investigated leaf optical properties, gas exchange and mesophyll anatomy of fern species with a wide range of divergence time, using 66 ferns from natural habitats and eight glasshouse-grown ferns.
To improve the capacity for phosphorus removal and to reduce the cost of treatment, alum sludge from a water supply plant was obtained to prepare modified zeolite coated with layered double hydroxide (LDHs), which was synthesized using an acidified extraction liquid. The surface characteristics and chemical composition of raw zeolites, Al-Zn modified zeolites, and alum sludge modified zeolites were determined, and the isothermal adsorption and adsorption kinetics were analyzed. The performance and mechanism of phosphorus removal by the alum sludge modified zeolites were evaluated.
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