Publications by authors named "Zhibin He"

Background: Planetary plastic pollution poses a major threat to ecosystems and human health in the Anthropocene, yet its impact on biogeochemical cycling remains poorly understood. Waterlogged rice paddies are globally important sources of CH. Given the widespread use of plastic mulching in soils, it is urgent to unravel whether low-density polyethylene (LDPE) will affect the methanogenic community in flooded paddy soils.

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Alpine grassland ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) provide critical services but face threats from human activity and climate change. Ensuring ecosystem health is vital for sustainability and preserving ecosystem services and processes, especially in delicate ecosystems such as the Gannan alpine grasslands. However, there is currently a lack of a comprehensive model that integrates ecosystem structure, function, processes, and socioeconomic factors.

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Irrigation has profound influences on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks in agricultural soil. However, the global-scale irrigation effects on C and N pools in farmland soils, as well as the C: N ratio (C/N), remain unclear. This study integrates existing studies on C and N in irrigated farmland worldwide and investigates the responses of soil C and N concentrations, stocks, and the C/N to irrigation by meta-analysis.

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Cortical folding is closely linked to brain functions, with gyri acting more like local functional "hubs" to integrate information than sulci do. However, understanding how anatomical constraints relate to complex functions remains fragmented. One possible reason is that the relationship is estimated on brain mosaics divided by brain functions and cortical folding patterns.

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Food safety and wastage caused by fruit deterioration is a serious global problem. Effective packaging systems for extending the freshness period of fruit play a key role in food safety. In this work, we constructed an eco-friendly and flexible polysaccharide-based packaging film based on hydroxypropyl guar (HPG), cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), deep eutectic solvents (DES) and anthocyanin (Anth).

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The intrinsic hydrophilicity of sustainable and environmentally friendly biobased materials like starch and its derivatives limits their potential as hydrophobic functional materials. This study presents an eco-friendly and non-toxic method to create coatings with exceptionally high hydrophobicity. Octadecyltrimethoxysilane (ODS) reacts with nano silica (SiO) through a silane coupling reaction to form superhydrophobic SiO.

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Key Points: Plasma cystatin C is decreased in participants with AKI requiring continuous KRT (CKRT) with early kidney function recovery. Despite being cleared by CKRT, plasma cystatin C in the first 3 days of CKRT may be a useful clinical tool to help predict the prognosis of AKI requiring CKRT.

Background: Plasma cystatin C is a reliable marker to estimate kidney function; however, it is unknown whether this remains true in patients receiving continuous KRT (CKRT).

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In autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) there is cyst growth in the kidneys that leads to chronic kidney disease often requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation. There is enhanced aerobic glycolysis (Warburg effect) in the cyst lining epithelial cells that contributes to cyst growth. The glucose mimetic, 2-Deoxy-d-glucose (2-DG) inhibits glycolysis.

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Land reclamation and subsequent management affect soil condition, which is critical for sustainable agricultural production. Soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) and base saturation (BS%) play an important role in the assessment of soil fertility and buffering capacity. However, the variation of these indicators in the evolution of oasis farmland in arid desert areas remains unclear.

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Drought is a critical factor constraining plant growth in arid regions. However, the performance and adaptive mechanism of () under drought stress remain unclear. Hence, a three-year experiment with three drought gradients was performed in a common garden, and the leaf functional traits, biomass and biomass partitioning patterns of were investigated.

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  • Electromagnetic hydrogels are special materials that are important for soft robotics, medical uses, and energy devices.
  • Scientists have a new method that uses papermaking ideas to create these hydrogels with cool properties, like being electrically conductive and able to heal themselves.
  • The process combines unique fibers and tiny magnetic particles, making these hydrogels useful for things like sensors, electronic toys, and flexible gadgets.
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  • Acute kidney injury (AKI) significantly impacts energy metabolism in various organs, particularly the liver, as shown in a study using murine models.
  • The study found that 24 hours post-AKI, the liver displayed unique metabolic changes, including increased glycolysis, depleted glutathione levels, and ATP depletion despite stable mitochondrial respiration.
  • These findings suggest a complex interplay between the liver and kidneys during AKI, highlighting the liver's role in systemic oxidative stress and metabolic adaptation.
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In an oil exploitation process, hydrogel plugging agents can effectively reduce the water-oil intermixing, decrease water extraction volume, and enhance oil recovery rate. The practical applications of traditional polyacrylamide (PAM) hydrogel plugging agents in oilfield are limited by their non-biodegradability, poor mechanical performance, and inferior temperature-resistance. This work developed a mechanically stable and high-temperature-resistant composite hydrogel (STP) by incorporating biodegradable scleroglucan (Slg) and TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofibers (TOCN) in the PAM hydrogel.

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Magnetoresistance, the change in resistance with applied magnetic fields, is crucial to the magnetic sensor technology. Linear magnetoresistance has been intensively studied in semimetals and semiconductors. However, the air-stable oxides with a large linear magnetoresistance are highly desirable but remain to be fully explored.

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Earth's Critical Zone exhibits remarkable heterogeneity and complexity. Hence, further investigation is required to examine the composition of Earth's Critical Zone as well as the diverse eco-hydrological patterns they exhibit under varying climatic and geological circumstances. This exploration should primarily be conducted through the investigation and experiments of the hillslope unit, where the topography and weathered bedrock are representative, with particular emphasis on semi-arid regions where water resources serve as the primary limiting factor.

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Background: Brain functional connectivity under the naturalistic paradigm has been shown to be better at predicting individual behaviors than other brain states, such as rest and doing tasks. Nevertheless, the state-of-the-art methods have found it difficult to achieve desirable results from movie-watching paradigm functional magnetic resonance imaging (mfMRI) -induced brain functional connectivity, especially when there are fewer datasets. Incorporating other physical measurements into the prediction method may enhance accuracy.

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Cortical folding is an important feature of primate brains that plays a crucial role in various cognitive and behavioral processes. Extensive research has revealed both similarities and differences in folding morphology and brain function among primates including macaque and human. The folding morphology is the basis of brain function, making cross-species studies on folding morphology important for understanding brain function and species evolution.

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Humans are predisposed to gout because they lack uricase that converts uric acid to allantoin. Rodents have uricase, resulting in low basal serum uric acid. A uricase inhibitor raises serum uric acid in rodents.

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Motor imagery has been commonly studied as a means of motor rehabilitation but, the individual differences limit its practical application. Visually evoked motor imagery has been widely highlighted by researchers because of its vivid stimulus. However, this modality is still not applicable to all persons.

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Disparities in socioeconomic status (SES) may affect individuals' risk preferences, which have important developmental consequences across the lifespan. Yet, previous research has shown inconsistent associations between SES and risky decision-making, and little is known about how this link develops from a young age. The current research is among the first to examine how SES influences preschoolers' risky decisions in both gain and loss frames.

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Climate change has caused asynchronous phenological shifts between most plants and their pollinators, resulting in an earlier or later appearance of peak flowering relative to peak pollinator abundance. The fitness impact of these two mismatch patterns may not be simply equivalent, but the information has so far been limited. To explore how differently plant fitness responds to the distinct mismatch patterns, we conducted a seed-setting comparative study at the individual level in an alpine grassland community in the Qilian Mountains of China.

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The rational use of bamboo to make dissolving pulp can offer up new opportunities for cellulose production, alleviating wood scarcity. Bamboo contains a high content of non-fiber cells, which presents technical challenges in dissolving pulp production by the conventional process. In this study, a process concept of separating hemicelluloses is presented by fiber fractionation and purification for cleaner production of bamboo dissolving pulp: bamboo kraft pulp was fractionated into long-fiber and short-fiber fractions.

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Preterm birth is the leading cause of death in children under five years old, and is associated with a wide sequence of complications in both short and long term. In view of rapid neurodevelopment during the neonatal period, preterm neonates may exhibit considerable functional alterations compared to term ones. However, the identified functional alterations in previous studies merely achieve moderate classification performance, while more accurate functional characteristics with satisfying discrimination ability for better diagnosis and therapeutic treatment is underexplored.

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Tree stem radial growth could be used to estimate forest productivity, which plays a dominant role in the carbon sink of terrestrial ecosystems. However, it is still obscure how intra-annual stem radial growth is regulated by environmental variables. Here, we monitored Qinghai spruce stem radial growth over seven years and analyzed the environmental drivers of the intra-annual stem radial changes in the Qilian Mountains at low (2700 m) and high altitudes (3200 m).

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  • Tree line areas are undergoing significant changes due to climate change, including upward migration of higher tree lines.
  • A study in the Qilian Mountains of China assessed eight lower tree line plots over 50 years and found the lower tree line descended by an average of 9.82 meters until 2008, after which it stabilized.
  • The downward movement of the lower tree line is linked to factors like annual temperature and precipitation, and may also be influenced by human activities, highlighting its importance in understanding forest distribution in arid regions.
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