Mixed methods examination of risk perception on vaccination intentions: The perspective of doctor-patient communication.

Aim: From the perspective of doctor-patient communication, this research used multiple methods combined natural language processing (NLP), a cross-sectional survey and an online experiment to investigated how risk perception influenced people's vaccination intention.

Methods: In Study 1, we used Python to crawl 335,045 comments about COVID-19 vaccine published in a social media platform Sina Weibo (equivalent of Twitter in China) from 31 December 2020 to 31 December 2021. Text analysis and sentiment analysis was used to examine how vaccination intention, as measured by linguistic features from the LIWC dictionary, changed with individuals' perceptions of pandemic risk.

Synthesis and Characterization of Cry2Ab-AVM Bioconjugate: Enhanced Affinity to Binding Proteins and Insecticidal Activity.

insecticidal proteins (Bt toxins) have been widely used in crops for agricultural pest management and to reduce the use of chemical insecticides. Here, we have engineered Bt toxin Cry2Ab30 and bioconjugated it with 4"-O-succinyl avermectin (AVM) to synthesize Cry2Ab-AVM bioconjugate. It was found that Cry2Ab-AVM showed higher insecticidal activity against , up to 154.

Orbital angular momentum and paraxial propagation characteristics of non-coaxial Laguerre-Gaussian beams.

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) and paraxial propagation characteristics of non-coaxial Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams are discussed. In the initial plane, the amplitudes of non-coaxial LG modes are the product of a Laguerre polynomial, a vortex phase factor, and a non-coaxial Gaussian window function. Because of displacement between the centroid and vortex center of the beams, the non-coaxial LG beams demonstrate a non-zero extrinsic OAM, which causes the propagation of beam centroid to have a small tilt angle relative to the z axis.

Noncoaxial Bessel-Gauss beams.

We proposed a new family of noncoaxial Gauss-truncated Bessel beams through multiplying conventional symmetrical Bessel beams by a noncoaxial Gauss function. These beams can also be regarded as the exponential-truncated version of Bessel-Gauss beams since they can be transformed into the product of Bessel-Gauss beams and an exponential window function along a certain Cartesian axis. The closed-form solutions of the angular spectra and paraxial propagation of these beams were derived.