: Influenza poses a substantial health burden, especially among older adults in China. While vaccination is one of the most effective preventions, influenza vaccine uptake rates among Chinese older adults remain low. This study examines the individual and combined effects of behavioral interventions based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) model and economic incentives in promoting influenza vaccine uptake among older adults living in China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhat Is Already Known About This Topic?: The proportion of elderly living alone in China is approximately 10%. Living away from family poses enormous challenges for older adults.
What Is Added By This Report?: Compared to those living with family, elderly individuals living alone exhibit a lower registration rate with general practitioners and have less social support.
The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in reproductive function. Our previous study identified that angiotensin II type-1 receptor autoantibody (AT1-AA), an autoantibody that activates RAS, was closely associated with infertility. However, its distribution in different types of infertility remained unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pulmonary resection is an important part of comprehensive treatment of lung cancer. Despite the progress in recent thoracic surgery, reoperation is occasionally inevitable for managing severe perioperative complications. This study aimed to investigate the incidence and causes of perioperative reoperation in lung cancer patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell
December 2024
Gradient inversion attacks (GIAs) have posed significant challenges to the emerging paradigm of distributed learning, which aims to reconstruct the private training data of clients (participating parties in distributed training) through the shared parameters. For counteracting GIAs, a large number of privacy-preserving methods for distributed learning scenario have emerged. However, these methods have significant limitations, either compromising the usability of global model or consuming substantial additional computational resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is usually diagnosed at advanced stages. Hence, there is an urgent need to seek an effective biomarker to predict LUAD status. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play key roles in the development of tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Previous research examined the associations between social support and physical activity. However, little is known about the associations between social support change and trajectories of physical activity during the transition from late adolescence to young adulthood.
Methods: The current study sought to examine these issues among 434 Chinese college students (M = 19.
Background: Health behaviors developed in the college years tend to persist in adulthood. However, distinct changing patterns of food choices and physical activity (PA) and their predictors are still less clear among college students. The current study sought to explore changes of food choices and PA, as well as the effects of personal and interpersonal factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) have an increasing need for personalized and Precise management as medical technology advances. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on mobile devices are being developed gradually in a variety of healthcare fields. As an AI field, knowledge graph (KG) is being developed to extract and store structured knowledge from massive data sets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Beijing initiated the nation's most comprehensive tobacco control program that adheres to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This study aimed to identify a set of indicators for the scoping of an Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to assess this policy.
Methods: This study used a modified Delphi process.
Objective: A large number of patients with pulmonary ground-glass opacities (GGOs) have anxiety and depression. However, the contributing factors and effects of anxiety and depression on postoperative outcomes are still unclear.
Methods: Clinical data for patients undergoing surgical resection for pulmonary GGOs were collected.
The aim of this study was to analyse the policymaking process of Beijing tobacco control regulations based on a multiple streams framework to provide a reference for other cities, at the national level and for the international community to promote the development of tobacco control policy. Twenty-one documents related to tobacco control in Beijing were collected, nine informants were interviewed and the interview data were analysed by a thematic framework method. It was found that indicators, feedback and a focus event in the problem stream drew the attention of policymakers and the society for tobacco control.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLung cancer is the major cause of cancer-related deaths around the world. Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), the most common subtype of lung cancer, contributed to the majority of mortalities and showed different clinical outcomes in prognosis. Tumor-infiltrated immune cells at the tumor site are associated with better survival and immunotherapy response.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn many clustering scenes, data samples' attribute values change over time. For such data, we are often interested in obtaining a partition for each time step and tracking the dynamic change of partitions. Normally, a smooth change is assumed for data to have a temporal smooth nature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Self-management behavior (SMB) plays a significant role in glycemic control. This study aimed to explore the factors related to SMB among patients with type 2 diabetes and how these factors interacted with each other.
Patients And Methods: Patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were recruited from 18 community healthcare stations (CHSs) from six community healthcare centers (CHCs) in Beijing, China from April to May in 2017.
Trajectory data represent an essential source of information on travel behaviors and human mobility patterns, assuming a central role in a wide range of services related to transportation planning, personalized recommendation strategies, and resource management plans. The main issue when dealing with trajectory recordings, however, is characterized by temporary losses in the data collection, causing possible spatial-temporal gaps and missing trajectory segments. This is especially critical in those use cases based on non-repetitive individual motion traces, when the user's missing information cannot be directly reconstructed due to the absence of historical individual repetitive routes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContinuous chaos may collapse in the digital world. This study proposes a method of error compensation for a two-dimensional digital system based on the generalized mean value theorem of differentiation that can restore the fundamental performance of chaotic systems. Different from other methods, the compensation sequence of our method comes from the chaotic system itself and can be applied to higher-dimensional digital chaotic systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDynamical degradation occurs when chaotic systems are implemented on digital devices, which seriously threatens the security of chaos-based cryptosystems. The existing solutions mainly focus on the compensation of dynamical properties rather than on the elimination of the inherent biases of chaotic systems. In this paper, a unidirectional hybrid control method is proposed to improve the dynamical properties and to eliminate the biases of digital chaotic maps.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDynamic multiobjective optimization problems are challenging due to their fast convergence and diversity maintenance requirements. Prediction-based evolutionary algorithms currently gain much attention for meeting these requirements. However, it is not always the case that an elaborate predictor is suitable for different problems and the quality of historical solutions is sufficient to support prediction, which limits the availability of prediction-based methods over various problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: In order to carry out proper education and intervention of AIDS based on different features and demands of different majors, this study aimed to compare the difference of college students from six majors in China in the aspects of AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors.
Methods: A questionnaire survey was carried out among 18,644 students in 30 colleges/universities from 9 provinces of China, who were recruited through stratified cluster sampling. AIDS-related knowledge, attitude, condom-use intention, self-efficacy and sexual behavior of these students were investigated.
Environ Health Prev Med
September 2020
Background: From 2010 to 2015, there was a twofold growth of new HIV/AIDS infection in Beijing among young students aged 15-24. HIV/AIDS education was found effective in promoting positive behavior change related to HIV/AIDS prevention. However, little evidence was found on the evaluation of HIV/AIDS education policy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is the main cause of lower back pain (LBP), and puzzles massive individuals worldwide. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) transplantation has been demonstrated to potentially ameliorate IDD progression, while the underlying mechanism has not been fully explained. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) was used to induce nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs) injury.
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