Publications by authors named "Zheng Da"

Traditional hydrometallurgy methods for recycling the spent lithium-ion battery materials face some challenges, including the complex processes, and difficulties in separating Ni/Co/Mn. To address these issues, this work proposes a simple one-pot method to achieve a high Li leaching efficiency (99.2%) and simultaneously transform the majority of Ni (99.

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Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), which is rich in astaxanthin, has been widely utilized as a dietary supplement in fish aquaculture. Our study was to feed juvenile leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus) a diet containing 50 % Antarctic krill, revealing significant body color differentiation between a reddened group (BKR) and a non-reddened group (BKB), followed by comparative analysis with the control group (BCon) without krill supplementation. Histological analysis and carotenoid content in the liver and intestine were differentially regulated in color-differentiated individuals.

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The computational complexity of quantum chemistry methods has prompted the development of reactive force fields, facilitating practical applications of molecular dynamics simulations for large-scale reactive systems. Current reactive force fields typically employ intricate corrections based on prior chemical knowledge, which severely impedes their further advancement. This study presents a new atomic multipole-based reactive model with bond free (OPERATOR).

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Morphology of right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) is potentially related to cardiovascular outcomes. However, this relationship still remains to be verified with direct evidence. We retrospectively reviewed cases from the autopsy specimen library in the Center of Forensic Medicine in Sun Yat-sen University from 2017 to 2023.

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  • Sudden cardiac death poses significant challenges for forensic pathologists, particularly when linked to inherited arrhythmia syndromes or cardiomyopathies caused by genetic defects.
  • The study focused on a family with a history of sudden cardiac death, employing a comprehensive forensic examination alongside advanced genetic analyses to identify the underlying causes.
  • Findings revealed a novel mutation in the SCN5A gene associated with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and long QT syndrome, highlighting the role of molecular autopsies in understanding sudden deaths linked to genetic disorders.
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Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a prominent cause of neonatal mortality and neurodevelopmental disorders; however, effective therapeutic interventions remain limited. During neonatal hypoxic-ischemic injury events, increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and decreased antioxidant levels lead to the induction of oxidative stress, which plays a pivotal role in the pathological process of neonatal HIE. Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a key endogenous antioxidant transcription factor that protects against oxidative stress by promoting the transcription of various antioxidant genes.

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Indigo is a natural dye extensively used in the global textile industry. However, the conventional synthesis of indigo using toxic compounds like aniline, formaldehyde, and hydrogen cyanide has led to environmental pollution and health risks for workers. This method also faces growing economic, sustainability, and environmental challenges.

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Lysophosphoglycerides (LPLs) have been reported to accumulate in myocardium and serve as a cause of arrhythmias in acute myocardial ischemia. However, in this study we found that LPLs level in the ventricular myocardium was decreased by the onset of acute myocardial ischemia in vivo in rats. Decreasing of LPLs level in left ventricular myocardium, but not right, was observed within 26 min of left myocardial ischemia, regardless of whether arrhythmias were triggered.

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Purpose: Thoracic aortic dissection (TAD) is a life-threatening cardiovascular disease that often results in sudden cardiac death (SCD). However, the genetic characteristics of individuals with TAD confirmed at autopsy have been rarely studied. Our objective was to determine the prevalence of pathogenic variants in TAD-associated genes in a cohort of sporadic deaths resulting from spontaneous rupture of TAD and identify relevant genotype-phenotype relationships in Han Chinese population.

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Model pre-training on large text corpora has been demonstrated effective for various downstream applications in the NLP domain. In the graph mining domain, a similar analogy can be drawn for pre-training graph models on large graphs in the hope of benefiting downstream graph applications, which has also been explored by several recent studies. However, no existing study has ever investigated the pre-training of text plus graph models on large heterogeneous graphs with abundant textual information (a.

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Background: Studies have shown that sleep disorders are closely related to anxiety and depression, and the quality of life (QoL) of patients with sleep disorders is generally poor.

Aim: To examine the occurrence of sleep disorders in people with coronary heart disease (CHD) and their relationships with QoL, depression, and anxiety.

Methods: As per the sleep condition, 240 CHD individuals were separated into two groups: non-sleep disorder group ( = 128) and sleep disorder group ( = 112).

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Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a multifaceted chronic joint disease characterized by complex mechanisms. It has a detrimental impact on the quality of life for individuals in the middle-aged and elderly population while also imposing a significant socioeconomic burden. At present, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding regarding the pathophysiology of OA.

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Red skin color in Plectropomus leopardus is important to its ornamental and economic value. However, the color of P. leopardus can change during the rearing process, darkening and turning black due to the influence of environmental background color.

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  • Plectropomus leopardus, a marine fish, shows significant skin color variation influenced by the surrounding background, but the mechanisms behind this adaptation are not well understood.
  • A study utilizing transcriptome analysis revealed that different background colors led to morphological changes in eye structures and significant differences in gene expression related to color adaptation.
  • Key findings identified specific signaling pathways and genes, such as JAK-STAT and ndufb7, indicating that stress proteins and metabolic processes play essential roles in the fish's ability to adapt its skin color to its environment.
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Herringbone wells are of great significance in tapping the potential of remaining reservoirs, improving recovery efficiency, and reducing development costs and have been widely used in oilfields, especially offshore oilfields. Due to the complex structure of herringbone wells, there is mutual interference between wellbores during seepage, resulting in complex seepage problems, and it is difficult to analyze the productivity and evaluate the perforating effect. In this paper, considering the mutual interference between branches and perforations, a prediction model of transient productivity of perforated herringbone wells was derived based on the theory of transient seepage, and the complex structure with any number of branches, arbitrary configurations, and orientations in three-dimensional space could be considered in this model.

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Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is considered a major cause of death and long-term neurological injury in newborns. Studies have demonstrated that oxidative stress and apoptosis play a major role in the progression of neonatal HIE. Echinocystic acid (EA), a natural plant extract, shows great antioxidant and antiapoptotic activities in various diseases.

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Regular nanogels have been demonstrated their inefficiency for subterranean oil recovery due to their intrinsic drawbacks of fast swelling within minutes, thermal instability, and salinity vulnerability. Prior deployment of swelling delayed nanogels mainly depended on the reservoirs at a relatively higher temperature. To address the issues encountered during engineering deployment, hereinwe devised an integrative approach to form swelling delayed robust nanogels by introducing radically active monomers with thermally sensitive moieties.

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Fish skin color is usually strongly affected by the background color of their environment. The study investigated the effects of five different background colors on the skin color of leopard coral groupers (Plectropomus leopardus). More than 450 juveniles were reared in Blue, Red, Black, White, and Transparent background tanks for 56 days.

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Thoracic aortic dissection (TAD) is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death associated with aortic diseases. The age of TAD victims in forensic studies is significantly younger than hospitalized patients with TAD, while only a few studies have been conducted on autopsy-diagnosed TAD deceased. A retrospective study was conducted at the Medicolegal Center of Sun Yat-sen University from 1999 to 2019 to address the characteristics of TAD victims.

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Fish skin color is often strongly affected by background color. We hypothesized that the regulatory mechanism of variations in skin color in is linked to the background color. In this study, we conducted transcriptome analysis of cultured under different background colors to compare gene expression levels and the important signaling pathways.

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Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a distinctive type of endogenous non-coding RNAs, and their regulatory roles in neurological disorders have received immense attention. CircRNAs significantly contribute to the regulation of gene expression and progression of neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease (AD). The current study aimed to identify circRNAs as prognostic and potential biomarkers in AD.

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This article aims to unify spatial dependency and temporal dependency in a non-Euclidean space while capturing the inner spatial-temporal dependencies for traffic data. For spatial-temporal attribute entities with topological structure, the space-time is consecutive and unified while each node's current status is influenced by its neighbors' past states over variant periods of each neighbor. Most spatial-temporal neural networks for traffic forecasting study spatial dependency and temporal correlation separately in processing, gravely impaired the spatial-temporal integrity, and ignore the fact that the neighbors' temporal dependency period for a node can be delayed and dynamic.

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Since the beginning of this century, three types of coronavirus have widely transmitted and caused severe diseases and deaths, which strongly indicates that severe infectious diseases caused by coronavirus infection are not accidental events. Coronavirus-infected diseases are mainly manifested by respiratory symptoms, with multiple organ dysfunctions. Precisely investigating the pathological process, characteristics and pathogenesis of coronavirus-infected diseases will be beneficial for us to understand clinical manifestations and provide targeted suggestions on prophylaxis and treatment.

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Controversies have been raised regarding the prevalence and potential clinical significance of mitral annular disjunction (MAD). We aim to address the anatomic characteristics of MAD and their association, if any, on survival. We retrospectively reviewed 1373 consecutive dissected hearts (1017 men, mean age at death 44.

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To solve key biomedical problems, experimentalists now routinely measure millions or billions of features (dimensions) per sample, with the hope that data science techniques will be able to build accurate data-driven inferences. Because sample sizes are typically orders of magnitude smaller than the dimensionality of these data, valid inferences require finding a low-dimensional representation that preserves the discriminating information (e.g.

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