Publications by authors named "Yu Hui Wang"

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  • Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning helps robots perform specific tasks by maximizing rewards, but it faces challenges due to sparse rewards that hinder the learning process.
  • The proposed method generates meaningful subgoals tailored to the context of tasks, allowing robots to learn more efficiently through better action value learning.
  • Compared to existing methods like Hindsight Experience Replay, this approach improves stability and performance in robotic tasks by creating subgoals that are contextually relevant and appropriately complex.
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Objective: To investigate the effect of flow cytometric minimal residual disease (MRD) detection at different time points during AML chemotherapy on prognosis.

Methods: 130 adult primary AML patients diagnosed and standardized with chemotherapy from March 2018 to March 2022 were retrospectively analyzed, MRD was detected by flow cytometry, Kaplan-Meier curves was used for survival analysis and log-rank test was used for variance analysis, and univariate and multifactor influencing patient survival with COX proportional risk regression model analysis. Cumulative incidence rate (CIR) analysis with competing risk model and variance analysis using Fine-Gray.

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Cis-13, 16-docosadienoic acid (DDA) is an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid with great potential for application in medicine and health. Using microbial cell factories for DDA production is considered a viable alternative to extracting DDA from plant seeds. In this study, using Yarrowia lipolytica Po1f (Δku70) as a chassis, firstly, the adaptation of three elongases in Po1f (Δku70) were explored.

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A formal [3 + 2] annulation of cyclohexadienone-tethered ynals is enabled by an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalyst, affording a tricyclo[6.2.1.

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The corn planthopper, Peregrinus maidis, is an economically important pest of corn and sorghum. Here we report the initial steps towards developing a CRISPR-based control method, precision guided sterile insect technique (pgSIT), for this hemipteran pest. Specifically, we evaluated the potential of transformer-2 (tra-2) as a target for sterilizing insects.

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The co-evolution between symbionts and their insect hosts has led to intricate functional interdependencies. Advances in DNA-sequencing technologies have not only reduced the cost of sequencing but, with the advent of highly accurate long-read methods, have also enabled facile genome assembly even using mixed genomic input, thereby allowing us to more easily assess the contribution of symbionts to their insect hosts. In this study, genomic data recently generated from was used to assemble the genome of a bacterial symbiont, sp.

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Known for its species abundance and evolutionary status complexity, family Roseobacteraceae is an important subject of many studies on the discovery, identification, taxonomic status, and ecological properties of marine bacteria. This study compared and analyzed the phylogenetic, genomic, biochemical, and chemo taxonomical properties of seven species from three genera (Psychromarinibacter, Lutimaribacter, and Maritimibacter) of the family Roseobacteraceae. Moreover, a novel strain, named C21-152 was isolated from solar saltern sediment in Weihai, China.

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In nature, cyclopropylcarbinyl cation is often involved in cationic cascade reactions catalyzed by natural enzymes to produce a great number of structurally diverse natural substances. However, mimicking this natural process with artificial organic catalysts remains a daunting challenge in synthetic chemistry. We report a small molecule-catalyzed asymmetric rearrangement of cyclopropylcarbinyl cations, leading to a series of chiral homoallylic sulfide products with good to excellent yields and enantioselectivities (up to 99% enantiomeric excess).

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Rationale: Renal allograft abscess is an infrequent complication in kidney transplant recipients. The mainstay of treatment is adequate drainage and optimal antibiotic administration.

Patient Concerns: A 25-year-old female who presented with dysuria, frequency, chills, fever, and allograft pain was initially diagnosed with a urinary tract infection complicated by septic shock 15 months after kidney transplantation.

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The corn planthopper, Peregrinus maidis, is an economically important pest of maize and sorghum. Its feeding behaviour and the viruses it transmits can significantly reduce crop yield. The control of P.

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Reported here is a highly enantioselective homoenolate Michael addition/esterification sequence of cyclohexadienone-tethered enals via N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalysis, affording the enantiopure -hydrobenzofurans, -hydroindoles, and -hydroindenes. The NHC catalyst bearing a nitro group greatly enhances the stereocontrol, and a bulky -aryl substituent of the triazolium salt in the catalyst is helpful for inhibiting the further aldol condensation after homoenolate Michael addition. The utility of this protocol is highlighted by a gram-scale experiment and versatile downstream transformations.

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Background: Adaptations by arthropod pests to host plant defenses of crops determine their impacts on agricultural production. The larval host range of western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), is restricted to maize and a few grasses. Resistance of D.

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Purpose: It is well known that inflammation plays a key role in complex pathological progressions of alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). To date, effective therapy for ALD is lacking. P2Y2 receptor (P2Y2R), a G protein-coupled P2Y purinergic receptor, represents a novel pharmacological target in many inflammations.

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  • A 52-year-old male patient showed severe symptoms and was admitted to the hospital, where initial tests ruled out several potential infections but bacterial cultures revealed a highly lethal subspecies of an infective microorganism.
  • Despite treatment with carbapenem antibiotics, the patient's condition deteriorated rapidly leading to death just 72 hours after symptom onset due to septic shock.
  • This case study highlights the critical need for advanced genetic testing in diagnosing and managing infections, especially those caused by virulent subspecies, to improve patient outcomes.
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The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of hypercholesterolemia on cardioprotection of ischemic preconditioning and α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) agonist postconditioning and explore the potential mechanisms that hypercholesterolemia affected their cardioprotection. Hypercholesterolemic and normal rats were divided into the four groups that received the following treatments: i) Hypercholesterolemic control and normal control groups; ii) hypercholesterolemic ischemia/reperfusion (HI) and normal ischemia/reperfusion (NI) groups; iii) hypercholesterolemic ischemic preconditioning (HIPC) and normal ischemic preconditioning (NIPC) groups; and iv) hypercholesterolemic PNU282987 postconditioning (HPNU) and normal PNU282987 postconditioning (NPNU) groups. Serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine kinase isoenzyme MB (CK-MB), cardiac troponin I (cTnI), tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels after ischemia/reperfusion were assayed.

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The lesser grain borer, (F.) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae), is a major global pest of cereal grains. Infestations are difficult to control as larvae feed inside grain kernels, and many populations are resistant to both contact insecticides and fumigants.

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Cancer stem-like cells (CSLCs) acquire enhanced immune checkpoint responses to evade immune cell killing and promote tumor progression. Here we showed that signal regulatory protein γ (SIRPγ) determined CSLC properties and immune evasiveness in a small population of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) cancer cells. A SIRPγhi population displayed CSLC properties and transmitted the immune escape signal through sustaining CD47 expression in both SIRPγhi and SIRPγlo/- tumor cells.

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  • This study focuses on measuring the health impacts of air pollution by analyzing lung deposited surface area (LDSA) concentration and its relationship with traffic emissions at an urban roadside in northern Taiwan.
  • It was found that 57% of the LDSA was attributed to traffic, with the motorcycle contribution significantly increasing during rush hour, leading to peak LDSA and particle number concentrations (PNC).
  • The study concluded that traffic-related emissions pose a significant cancer risk, estimating an excess lifetime cancer risk of 15.6 cases per 100,000 people due to the elevated LDSA from traffic sources.
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Purpose: This study investigated the effectiveness of orofacial myofunctional therapy(OMT) in improving facial morphology of children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) after adenotonsillectomy (AT).

Methods: Ten children aged from 4-7 years with persistent oral breathing for more than 1 month after adenotonsillectomy were chosen to receive orofacial myofunctional therapy. The patients were required to take photos before and after orofacial myofunctional therapy.

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Exploration of the diastereodivergent synthesis of spirocyclic oxindoles has been challenging. Herein we report asymmetric [3 + 2] annulations of isatin-derived Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) carbonates and 5-alkenylthiazol-4(5)-ones. Interestingly, two different chiral catalysts, amide-phosphine and 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP)-thiourea, could lead to two kinds of diastereomeric dispiro oxindoles with three contiguous stereogenic centers.

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Periodontitis is initiated by serious and sustained bacterial infection and ultimately results in chronic immune-mediated inflammation, tissue destruction, and bone loss. The pathogenesis of periodontitis remains unclear. Host immunological responses to periodontal bacteria ultimately determine the severity and mechanisms governing periodontitis progression.

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Examining the spontaneous BOLD activity to understand the neural mechanism of Parkinson's disease (PD) with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a focus in resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) studies. This study aimed to investigate the alteration of brain functional connectivity in PD with MCI in a systematical way at two levels: functional connectivity analysis within resting state networks (RSNs) and functional network connectivity (FNC) analysis. Using group independent component analysis (ICA) on rs-fMRI data acquired from 30 participants (14 healthy controls and 16 PD patients with MCI), 16 RSNs were identified, and functional connectivity analysis within the RSNs and FNC analysis were carried out between groups.

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Cancer metastasis accounts for the major cause of cancer-related deaths. How disseminated cancer cells cope with hostile microenvironments in secondary site for full-blown metastasis is largely unknown. Here, we show that AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase), activated in mouse metastasis models, drives pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) activation to maintain TCA cycle (tricarboxylic acid cycle) and promotes cancer metastasis by adapting cancer cells to metabolic and oxidative stresses.

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  • Sleep disorders are prevalent in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), with 77.53% of those studied experiencing these issues, often in multiple forms.
  • The study indicates that having several sleep disorders negatively affects the quality of life for PD patients, significantly contributing to their overall well-being.
  • Motor complications are shown to partially mediate the relationship between sleep disorders and quality of life, suggesting that addressing these sleep issues could improve patient outcomes.
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