J Environ Manage
January 2025
River flood forecasting and assessment are crucial for reducing flood risks, as they offer early alerts and allow for proactive actions to safeguard individuals from possible flood-related damage. Effective modeling in this field often multiple interconnected aspects of the hydrologic cycle, such as precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and evaporation, requiring collaboration among hydrology experts. Such collaboration enables experts to handle and manage their specialized processes more effectively, thereby enhancing the efficiency of the development of integrated flood forecasting models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogs are important therapeutics for type 2 diabetes and obesity. Ecnoglutide (XW003) is a novel, long-acting GLP-1 analog. We conducted a Phase 2, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study enrolling 145 adults with T2DM.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Stomatol Oral Maxillofac Surg
October 2024
Purpose: Oral mucositis is a frequent adverse reaction in cancer treatment. Probiotics exhibit anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties that could prevent the occurrence of severe oral mucositis (SOM) induced by chemotherapy or radiation therapy in patients. This meta-analysis aimed to investigate the influence of probiotics on the incidence of SOM in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.
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December 2023
This paper aimed to assess the impact of the acetone wet-bonding (AWB) technique on dentin bonding and to investigate its potential underlying mechanisms. Caries-free third molars were sliced, ground, etched, water-rinsed. Then the specimens were randomly allocated to four groups according to the following pretreatments: 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper, we propose a new type of nonlinear strict distance and similarity measures for intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs). Our proposed methods not only have good properties, but also improve the drawbacks proposed by Mahanta and Panda (Int J Intell Syst 36(2):615-627, 2021) in which, for example, their distance value of [Formula: see text] is always equal to the maximum value 1 for any intuitionistic fuzzy number [Formula: see text]. To resolve these problems in Mahanta and Panda (Int J Intell Syst 36(2):615-627, 2021), we establish a nonlinear parametric distance measure for IFSs and prove that it satisfies the axiomatic definition of strict intuitionistic fuzzy distances and preserves all advantages of distance measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 is an incretin hormone that acts after food intake to stimulate insulin production, enhance satiety, and promote weight loss. Here we describe the discovery and characterization of ecnoglutide (XW003), a novel GLP-1 analog.
Methods: We engineered a series of GLP-1 peptide analogs with an alanine to valine substitution (Ala8Val) and a γGlu-2xAEEA linked C18 diacid fatty acid at various positions.
Few studies have assessed the overall nature and profiles of subjective sleep inertia (SI) within the general population. This study was designed to identify subjective SI profiles and examine the associations between profiles of subjective SI with sociodemographic and sleep-related characteristics. A total of 11 colleges and universities were surveyed from May 30 to June 17, 2021, by convenience sampling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Sci Pollut Res Int
January 2022
In the context of the continuous development of urbanization and global climate change, urban flooding risk has become a well-publicized research issue. The Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) performs very well in urban rain-runoff simulations and is widely used to build flood models in specific areas. Because of the complicated and tedious processing work for urban flood modeling and simulation, multifield participants' cooperation is becoming a trend.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused widespread panic due to its highly infectious and pandemic transmission. We aimed to evaluate the psychological impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on infected subjects in China.
Methods: This case-control, survey-based study assessed the psychological status of COVID-19 patients and non-infected controls from February 10 to March 18, 2020, in China.
This study aimed to evaluate the sleep-related problems and predictors of probable clinical insomnia among college students during the COVID-19 remission period in China. 146,102 college students from 22 colleges/universities in Guangdong province participated in this study from 1th to 15th June, 2020. Self-administered questionnaires were used to assess demographic characteristics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCasein phosphopeptide (CPP) has been widely used as micronutrient supplementation for certain populations. However, its solubility performance is far from satisfying. In this work, instant CPP powders with micropore structures were fabricated by supercritical fluid-assisted atomization (SAA) using supercritical CO fluid (SC-CO) as an atomizing agent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRegionality, comprehensiveness, and complexity are regarded as the basic characteristics of geography. The exploration of their core connotations is an essential way to achieve breakthroughs in geography in the new era. This paper focuses on the important method in geographic research: Geographic modeling and simulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe have recently shown that pharmacologic inhibition of PTEN significantly increases cardiac arrest survival in a mouse model, however, this protection required pretreatment 30 min before the arrest. To improve the onset of PTEN inhibition during cardiac arrest treatment, we have designed a TAT fused cell-permeable peptide (TAT-PTEN9c) based on the C-terminal PDZ binding motif of PTEN for rapid tissue delivery and protection. Western blot analysis demonstrated that TAT-PTEN9c peptide significantly enhanced Akt activation in mouse cardiomyocytes in a concentration- and time-dependent manner.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: As the COVID-19 pandemic has posed substantial impacts on individual's daily routine and psychological state. For the first time at great scale, Chinese college students had their educational activities moved online in spring 2020. Due to this unexpected isolation and unconventional learning method, their mental health following returning to school is worth investigating.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProstate cancer (PCa) is a destructive malignancy with a bad prognosis. LncRNA VPS9D1-AS1 has recently been delineated as an oncogene in some kinds of tumor, whereas, the function of VPS9D1-AS1 in PCa remains to be clarified. In this study, we researched its underlying role in PCa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProstate carcinoma may develop into metastatic castration-resistant prostate carcinoma (mCRPC) after endocrine therapy. Exosomal microRNAs play an important role in the regulation of tumor microenvironment. Our study aimed to investigate the effect of exosomal miR-26a on tumor phenotype of prostate carcinoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The underlying molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer (CaP) are largely unknown. We investigated the expression, prognostic value and functional role of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) brain-derived neurotrophin factor antisense (BDNF-AS) in CaP.
Methods: Clinical tumor samples were excised from patients with CaP.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun
January 2017
ASPP2 is a tumor suppressor that works, at least in part, through enhancing p53-dependent apoptosis. We now describe a new ASPP2 isoform, ΔN-ASPP2, generated from an internal transcription start site that encodes an N-terminally truncated protein missing a predicted 254 amino acids. ΔN-ASPP2 suppresses p53 target gene transactivation, promoter occupancy, and endogenous p53 target gene expression in response to DNA damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 8p11 myeloproliferative syndrome (EMS), also known as 8p11 myeloproliferative neoplasm (8p11 MPN), is a collection of rare hematologic malignancies that are associated with fusion genes involving the tyrosine kinase receptor gene FGFR1 in chromosome 8p11. The entity is an aggressive disease with a high rate of transformation to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and pathologically characterized by its associated eosinophilia. In this study, we reported a distinctive EMS case featuring an in-frame ZMYM2-FGFR1 fusion gene identified by next-generation sequencing technology (NGS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRNA interference (RNAi) to knockdown N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) function is being investigated to address disorders associated with pathological brain rhythms. A motivating finding has been that pharmacological block of NMDARs inhibited oscillations in neuronal membrane potential that entrain rhythmic bursts of action potentials. To determine whether transient effects of NMDAR antagonist drugs to inhibit neuronal rhythmicity can be stably induced with genetic specificity, we examined the effects of RNAi of GluN1 protein on the subthreshold oscillations (STOs) of neurons in the inferior olive (IO), a pacemaking nucleus necessary for motor and cognitive timing.
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