Publications by authors named "Zhi Hao Chen"

Land use changes are always patchy and widespread within a region, making it a challenge to identify the point-scale pressure of reducing carbon emissions from land use/cover change (LUCC). The carbon emission observation index (CEOI) was thus proposed to conduct the point-scale comparability analysis, which was based on the unique net C flux effects of conversions between two different land use types. Then, the spatial-temporal characteristics of land use changes and the resulting pressure of reducing carbon emissions were studied in the Weihe River Basin of China, which adopted the LUCC data from 2000 to 2020 and models of the Markov transition matrix (MTM), compound carbon emission coefficients (CEC) of various types of land use changes, and the CEOI-based classification method on point-scale pressure of reducing carbon emissions.

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  • Researchers are creating advanced biomimetic structures inspired by natural micro/nanostructures to enhance performance, especially for optical uses like high-transmission windows.
  • The review focuses on the mechanism and advantages of antireflective subwavelength structures (ARSSs) that reduce surface reflection.
  • It also covers recent advancements in fabrication using ultrafast lasers, discusses challenges faced in the laser processing technology, and suggests future directions for improvement.
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Purpose: Renal cysts are typically a benign condition, and parapelvic cysts are a type of renal cyst that occur adjacent to the renal pelvis or renal sinus. Parapelvic cysts can increase the risk for injury to adjacent organs or urine leakage during laparoscopic surgery. Flexible ureteroscopes with laser assistance were used to make internal incisions in cysts.

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Electrophilic addition reaction to alkynes is of fundamental importance in organic chemistry, yet the regiocontrol when reacting with unsymmetrical 1,2-dialkyl substituted alkynes is often problematic. Herein, it is demonstrated that the rarely recognized β-boron effect can confer a high level of site-selectivity in several alkyne electrophilic addition reactions. A broad range of highly functionalized and complex organoborons are thus formed under simple reaction conditions starting from propargylic MIDA (N-methyliminodiacetic acid) boronates.

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Basketball is a high-intensity sport, and sports injuries often occur. Therefore, how to monitor the sports status of basketball players in real time, discover and prevent the occurrence of sports injuries in time, has become an urgent problem for athletes and coaches. In this paper, a motion capture system based on CNN sensor is proposed.

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Reservoir operation is an important part of basin water resources management. The rational use of reservoir operation scheme can not only enhance the capacity of flood control and disaster reduction in the basin, but also improve the efficiency of water use and give full play to the comprehensive role the reservoir. The conventional decision-making method of reservoir operation scheme is computationally large, subjectivity and difficult to capture the nonlinear relationship.

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  • - Researchers investigated modifications to Combretastatin A-4 (CA-4) to enhance its low solubility and improve its effectiveness as a cancer treatment.
  • - They found that adding a piperazine ring significantly increased the solubility of CA-4 derivatives, with some compounds showing solubility improvements of 230 to 2494 times compared to the control.
  • - The new compounds demonstrated strong anticancer activity against various cancer cell lines, with one compound showing an IC50 value of 20 nM against HCT-116 cells, indicating potential for drug development due to its good plasma stability and moderate protein binding.
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The charge transfer between the donor and acceptor determines the photogenerated carrier density in organic solar cells. However, a fundamental understanding regarding the charge transfer at donor/acceptor interfaces with high-density traps has not been fully addressed. Herein, a general correlation between trap densities and charge transfer dynamics is established by adopting a series of high-efficiency organic photovoltaic blends.

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α-Boryl ketones are traditionally challenging targets in organic synthesis. Reported herein is a mild and metal-free synthesis of α-boryl ketones via the hydration or oxidation of -methyliminodiacetyl boronate (B(MIDA))-decorated alkynes. A new hydration system comprised of AcCl and HO in HFIP allows the hydration of arylethynyl B(MIDA)s at room temperature with decent functional group tolerance.

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Background: Assessing the prognosis preoperatively in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) remains a challenge for urologists. Gross hematuria (GH) and flank pain (FP) are the 2 most common and easily perceived symptoms of UTUC. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the prognostic values of GH and FP in patients with UTUC after undergoing radical nephroureterectomy (RNU).

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Background: Hoffa's fracture is a coronal-oriented fracture of the femoral condyle. It is rarely observed in pediatric patients that isolated coronal fracture of the medial femoral condyle accompanies an intact lateral femoral condyle. Only a few cases involving Hoffa's fracture of the medial femoral condyle have been reported in patients with undeveloped skeletons.

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Background: Gastrointestinal (GI) lipomas are benign submucosal tumors of mature adipocytes that arise mainly in the colon and stomach, sometimes in the ileum and jejunum, and rarely in the duodenum. Patients with symptomatic lipomas require endoscopic or surgical treatment. Spontaneous expulsion of lipomas after biopsy is a rare condition that has limited case reports.

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External-soil spray seeding (ESSS) is a method often used for the ecological restoration of bare rock slopes. However, the direct use of ESSS is normally less satisfactory due to the erosion of sprayed soil and low survival rate of the plants on rock slopes. This study proposes a novel approach to addressing this issue through the combined use of ESSS with polyvinyl acetate (PVA) based soil stabilization.

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For internal alkenes possessing two or more sets of electronically and sterically similar allylic protons, the site-selectivity for allylic C-H functionalization is fundamentally challenging. Previously, the negative inductive effect from an electronegative atom has been demonstrated to be effective for several inspiring regioselective C-H functionalization reactions. Yet, the use of an electropositive atom for a similar purpose remains to be developed.

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  • A new species of Blumea, called Blumea chishangensis, has been identified in Taiwan, adding to the understanding of this plant genus, which is under-studied in taxonomy.
  • The species is characterized by unique leaf features and capitula, which distinguish it from the related species, Blumea hieraciifolia.
  • Phylogenetic analysis indicates its close relation to other Blumea species and reveals new evolutionary insights, highlighting the importance of ongoing research in this area.
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  • Staghorn stones require surgical intervention due to the risk of complications, and two methods compared are multitract percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL) and one-stage endoscopic combined intrarenal surgery (ECIRS).
  • A study assessed 34 patients with staghorn stones, evaluating the effectiveness and safety of both techniques; results showed similar stone size, burden, and operative time.
  • ECIRS led to significantly lower postoperative pain levels than multitract PNL, though both methods resulted in comparable stone-free rates, complications, and length of hospital stays.
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Osteoporosis, characterized by the destruction of bone resorption and bone formation, is a serious disease that endangers human health. Osteoporosis prevention and treatment has become one of the important research contents in the field of medicine. Acacetin, a natural flavonoid compound, could promote osteoblast differentiation, and inhibit osteoclast formation .

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Liquid crystals (LCs) have been a vital component of modern communication and photonic technologies. However, traditional LC alignment on polyimide (PI) requires mechanically rubbing treatment to control LC orientation, suffering from dust particles, surface damage, and electrostatic charges. In this paper, LC alignment on organic single-crystal rubrene (SCR) has been studied and used to fabricate rubbing-free LC devices.

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Bladder cancer is the second-most common malignancy in the urogenital system and the most common in men. However, our understanding of the driving mechanisms of bladder cancer remains incomplete. The forkhead box (FOX) family of transcription factors is implicated in urogenital development and bladder malignancies.

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We investigated the effects of tea plantation age on soil microbial community structure and diversity with surface and subsurface soil samples (0-20 and 20-40 cm) from tea plantation at different ages (0, 20, 25, 38 and 48 years). We analyzed soil bacterial and fungal communities by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) and real-time quantitative PCR techniques. The results showed that soil physicochemical properties changed significantly after planting tea.

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A novel strategy for asymmetric Shono-type oxidative cross-coupling has been developed by merging copper catalysis and electrochemistry, affording C1-alkynylated tetrahydroisoquinolines with good to excellent enantioselectivity. The use of TEMPO as a co-catalytic redox mediator is crucial not only for oxidizing a tetrahydroisoquinoline to an iminium ion species but also for decreasing the oxidation potential of the reaction. A novel bisoxazoline ligand is also reported.

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To explore the rate variation and contribution to N loss of denitrification and anaerobic ammonia oxidation (ANAMMOX) in the nitrogen migration process of farmland soils in southern China, we assess the physicochemical characteristics soil samples of different soil layers from farmland and different land use types (farmland, river channel, riparian zone, and lake sediment) in a wheat-rice rotation area of Wanshandang Lake. Illumina MiSeq sequencing and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) are used to investigate the microbial community composition and functional gene abundances of the samples. The potential denitrification and ANAMMOX rate (calculated by N) of each sample was determined by an isotope culture experiment.

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Anaerobic ammonium oxidation mediated by MnO (termed Mn-ANAMMOX) is a newly discovered microbial nitrogen removal pathway. However, few studies have reported on the Mn-ANAMMOX process and related microbial communities in agricultural drainage ditches. In this study, Mn(Ⅳ)-reducing bacteria (MnBR) enrichment cultivation was carried out for 340 days and an isotope tracing technique and high-throughput sequencing technology were used to provide convincing evidence of the occurrence of Mn-ANAMMOX.

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Microhelices with unique three-dimensional (3D) helical structures have attracted great attention due to applications in various fields, especially magnetic microhelices can be applied as microrobots for removal of clogging substance in microchannels, cargo transport, cell manipulation, and so on. Here, a facile and flexible strategy is developed to controllably fabricate microhelices with droplet microfluidics. On-flow fabrication of microhelices is simply achieved by generating monodisperse droplets first, transforming the spherical droplets into helical templates subsequently due to the liquid rope coiling effect, followed by polymerizing monomers in the templates via on-line UV irradiation and then degrading the shells of helical fibers.

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Microtubule actin cross-linking factor 1 (Macf1) is a spectraplakin family member known to regulate cytoskeletal dynamics, cell migration, neuronal growth and cell signal transduction. We previously demonstrated that knockdown of Macf1 inhibited the differentiation of MC3T3-E1 cell line. However, whether Macf1 could regulate bone formation in vivo is unclear.

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