Modified Orbicularis-tarsus Fixation in Double Eyelid Blepharoplasty: A New Approach Using Conjoined Fascia Readhesion.

Traditional fixation methods for double eyelid blepharoplasty, such as orbicularis-levator and orbicularis-tarsus techniques, have achieved satisfactory results but face challenges like shallow or disappearance of supratarsal folds. To address these limitations, the authors introduced a modified orbicularis-tarsus fixation approach incorporating conjoined fascia readhesion. This technique involves dissecting the orbicularis oculi muscle from the conjoined fascia, allowing for scar-based readhesion between these structures, resulting in enhanced stability of the supratarsal fold.

Morphologic Analysis of Nasal Airway in 137 Patients With Operated Cleft Lip Nasal Deformity.

Objective: The authors aim to clarify the morphology of the nasal airway in patients with cleft lip nose deformities and to analyze the causes of increased nasal resistance.

Methods: One hundred thirty-seven patients with unilateral cleft lip nasal deformities and 30 non-cleft controls were enrolled in this study. These participants were classified into subgroups based on the severity of cleft lip at birth: occult, incomplete, and complete cleft lip.

Influence of Preoperative Inflammatory Status on Outcomes of Alveolar Bone Grafting in Patients With Cleft Lip.

After secondary alveolar bone grafting, the outcome of bone formation is always a problem that leads to repeat surgery. Bone formation is closely related to the inflammatory and immune status of patients. To achieve better bone formation results, this study aimed to investigate the influence of preoperative inflammatory indicators on the bone survival ratio (BSR) of secondary alveolar bone grafting.

Nasal airway resistance in patients with different degrees of operated unilateral cleft lip: Evaluation of ventilation in 112 patients.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the nasal airway resistance between the cleft and non-cleft sides in operated unilateral cleft lip (UCL) patients with varying severities at birth, as well as to assess the differences in nasal airway resistance between UCL patients and healthy individuals.

Methods: This retrospective study was conducted on 112 UCL patients who have undergone primary lip reconstructions but not advanced surgeries as the study group and 20 healthy participants as the control group between February 2023 to March 2024. The study group patients were grouped based on the severity of their cleft lip at birth, divided into occult cleft lip group, incomplete cleft lip group, and complete cleft lip group.

Self-Supervised Learning for Real-World Super-Resolution from Dual and Multiple Zoomed Observations.

In this paper, we consider two challenging issues in reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) for smartphone, (i) how to choose a proper reference image, and (ii) how to learn RefSR in a self-supervised manner. Particularly, we propose a novel self-supervised learning approach for real-world RefSR from observations at dual and multiple camera zooms. Firstly, considering the popularity of multiple cameras in modern smartphones, the more zoomed (telephoto) image can be naturally leveraged as the reference to guide the super-resolution (SR) of the lesser zoomed (ultra-wide) image, which gives us a chance to learn a deep network that performs SR from the dual zoomed observations (DZSR).

Correction of Asymmetry of Palpebral Folds by Adopting Interrupted and Continuous Buried Suture Techniques Respectively on Different Eyelid.

People with an obvious palpebral fold on 1 eye and a narrow or no palpebral fold on the other eye are usually more satisfied with the shape of the obvious palpebral fold and want to acquire symmetry by minimally invasive surgical methods that preserve the shape of the original folds they are more satisfied with. This study introduced a minimally invasive approach using 2 different buried suture techniques on different eyelids to acquire symmetry. The continuous suture method aimed to build palpebral folds, whereas the 3-point interrupted suture method aimed to enhance naturally formed palpebral folds.

From plant survival to thriving: exploring the miracle of brassinosteroids for boosting abiotic stress resilience in horticultural crops.

Abiotic stresses pose significant threat to horticultural crop production worldwide. These stresses adversely affect plant growth, development, and ultimately declined crop growth, yield and quality. In recent years, plant scientists have been actively investigating innovative strategies to enhance abiotic stress resilience in crops, and one promising avenue of research focuses on the use of brassinosteroids (BRs).

Machine learning can aid in prediction of IDH mutation from H&E-stained histology slides in infiltrating gliomas.

While Machine Learning (ML) models have been increasingly applied to a range of histopathology tasks, there has been little emphasis on characterizing these models and contrasting them with human experts. We present a detailed empirical analysis comparing expert neuropathologists and ML models at predicting IDH mutation status in H&E-stained histology slides of infiltrating gliomas, both independently and synergistically. We find that errors made by neuropathologists and ML models trained using the TCGA dataset are distinct, representing modest agreement between predictions (human-vs.

Endohedral σ-Diradical Nitrogen-Vacancy Diamond Nanoclusters with a Confined Magnetic Space and Strong Electronic Spin Couplings.

The electronic properties and their modulations for the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in various nanoscale diamonds are of profound current interest because of their potential applications. However, although the NV centers as chromophores in diamond are the most widely studied, surprisingly, little is known about their magnetic spin coupling properties up to now. Here, we for the first time show, using the spin-polarized DFT calculations, that the NV centers can act as unique endohedral σ-diradical magnets in diamond nanoclusters and exhibit quite strong ferromagnetic (FM) or antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin coupling characteristics due to their unique endotetrahedral structures with favorable radical-radical contacts.

Intriguing strain-governed magnetic phase transitions in 2D vanadium porphyrin sheets.

The strain effect on the magnetic response of 2D materials as spintronic devices is always important in actual applications. Due to the intriguing electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional (2D) vanadium porphyrin (V-PP) sheets, we studied the strain-induced magnetic coupling changes in 2D V-PP sheets by using the density functional theory method and found intriguing magnetic variation characters. The calculated results indicate that biaxial strain can modulate the magnetic moments of the central transition metal vanadium atoms and more importantly can induce phase transitions among three magnetic modes with four magnetic states (ferromagnetic (FM), ferrimagnetic (FIM), and two antiferromagnetic (AFM: AFM1 featuring a parallel spin lattice AFM2 featuring a crossing spin lattice)) with unique conversion pathways due to their different responses to the strain.

Effects of early low temperature exposure on the growth, glycolipid metabolism and growth hormone (gh) gene methylation in the late stage of Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi).

Temperature is an important factor affecting the early development, growth and physiology of fish, as well as on aspects of feeding and metabolism. Here, we investigated the impact of low temperature on the growth, glycolipid metabolism and growth hormone (gh) gene methylation in the late stage of Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi). Chinese perch larvae were exposed to temperatures with 21 °C (low temperature group (LT)) and 25 °C (control group) for 7 days, and then the LT group was slowly heated to 25 °C and raised at this temperature for two months.

Adaptation of AMPK-mTOR-signal pathways and lipid metabolism in response to low- and high-level rapeseed meal diet in Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi).

It is well known that carnivorous fish cannot use plant-proteins efficiently. They affect lipid metabolism of fish and cause serious problems to fish health. The reasons for this deficiency of fish metabolism are not known well.

Correlation of serum CA199 levels with glycemic control and microvascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the correlation between glycemic control, microvascular complications and serum glycogen antigen (CA199) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Methods: 519 patients with T2DM admitted to our hospital were included. All patients had CA199 levels measured.

A facile strategy for synthesis of porous CuO nanospheres and application as nanozymes in colorimetric biosensing.

Due to the unique advantages, developing a rapid, simple and economical synthetic strategy for porous nanomaterials is of great interest. In this work, for the first time, using sodium hypochlorite as a green oxidant, urea was oxidized to CO2 as a carbon source to prepare the fine-particle crosslinked Cu-precursors, which could be further reduced by sodium ascorbate into pure Cu2O nanospheres (NPs) with a porous morphology at room temperature. Interestingly, our study reveals that introduction of an appropriate amount of MgCl2 into the raw materials can tune the pore sizes and surface area, but has no influence on the phase purity of the resulting Cu2O NPs.

Transcriptome sequencing and metabolome analysis of food habits domestication from live prey fish to artificial diets in mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi).

Background: As economical traits, food habits domestication can reduce production cost in aquaculture. However, the molecular mechanism underlying food habits domestication has remained elusive. Mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi) only feed on live prey fish and refuse artificial diets.

Utilization of Iron Tailings Sand as an Environmentally Friendly Alternative to Natural River Sand in High-Strength Concrete: Shrinkage Characterization and Mitigation Strategies.

The increasing annual emissions of iron ore tailings have proved a great threat to the natural environment, and the shortage of natural river sand, as well as the pursuit of sustainable development materials, provides motivation to reuse iron ore tailings as a fine aggregate in concrete. Due to the significantly different properties of iron tailings sand compared with natural river sand-such as the higher density, higher content of limestone particles smaller than 75 μm and its rough and angular shape-concretes prepared with iron tailings sand show remarkably higher shrinkage. This study presents the shrinkage characterization and shrinkage-reducing efficiency of three different methods on iron tailings, sand concrete and river sand concrete.

Research on dual-wheel-independent-drive control of electric forklift based on optimal slip ratio.

Introduction: As an important transportation, the research on the control strategy of forklift has not been widely carried out.

Objectives: This article proposes a turning slip regulation control strategy, which includes the improved electronic differential velocity control and turning slip regulation control, to track the optimal slip ratio.

Methods: First, combined with the basic structure and characteristics of dual-wheel-independent-drive electric forklift, the vehicle model, Ackermann-Jeantand steering model, tire-ground model, and tire model of the driving wheel are established respectively.

Effect of long-chain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids on hypothalamic fatty acid sensing in Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi).

In order to evaluate fatty acid (FA) sensing systems based on binding to FAT/CD36 in hypothalamus of Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi) and its sensitivity to FAs with the same chain length and different unsaturation levels. The effects of Stearate (SA; C18:0), oleate (OA; C18:1 n-9), linoleic acid (LA; C18:2 n-6), and α-linolenic acid (ALA; C18:3 n-3) on hypothalamic FA sensing were evaluated by intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration. Food intake was assessed after 2, 4, 6, 8 and 12 h.

Protective Role of Leaf Variegation in under Low Temperature: Insights into the Physio-Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms.

Leaf variegation has been demonstrated to have adaptive functions such as cold tolerance. is an ornamental plant with natural leaf variegated cultivars grown in temperate regions. Herein, we investigated the role of leaf variegation in low temperature responses by comparing variegated "Variegatum" and non-variegated "Green Pittosporum" cultivars.

Adenovirus type 36 regulates adipose stem cell differentiation and glucolipid metabolism through the PI3K/Akt/FoxO1/PPARγ signaling pathway.

Background: This study aims to investigate the molecular mechanism of Adenovirus type 36 (Ad36) in adipocyte differentiation and glucolipid metabolism.

Methods: Rat obesity model was established by Ad36 infection and high-fat diet, respectively. Comparison of the body weight, clinical biochemical indicators, insulin sensitivity and lipid heterotopic deposition between these two models was performed.

Genes associated with sodium fluoride-induced human osteoblast apoptosis.

This study aims to explore the potential pathways and molecular characteristics of fluorine-induced osteoblast apoptosis. In vitro fluorine-induced model was established with an osteogenesis sarcoma cell line Saos-2. Then flow cytometry was used to determine the mitochondrial membrane potential at 24 h after the intervention.