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The issue of whether Wu 巫 and Xi 覡 mentioned in Guoyu, ‘Chuyu Xia’ 國語, 楚語下, can be categorised as shamans has been the subject of controversy for a long time. As there is no generally accep...

The Gobi Wall is a 321 km-long structure made of earth, stone, and wood, located in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia. It is the least understood section of the medieval wall system that extends from China into Mongolia. This study aims to determi...

Muon detection technology is an innovative type of geophysical exploration method that uses the penetrating ability of cosmic ray muons to detect and image the internal density structure of targets, offering the advantage of non-destructive detection...

Despite major advancements in the development of safer and more effective anticoagulant agents, bleeding complications remain a significant concern in the treatment of thromboembolic diseases. Improvements in our understanding of the coagulation path...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide, and is a staple of daily clinical practice. While we have seen significant advancements in therapeutics over the last 20 years, several questions...

Background: While current clinically administered anticoagulant medications have demonstrated effectiveness, they have also precipitated significant risks: severe bleeding complications including, but not limited to, gastrointestinal hemorrhaging and...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT), poses a significant risk during and after hospitalization, particularly for surgical patients. Among various patient groups, those undergoing major ortho...

The Four Heavenly Kings, Sida Tianwang 四大天王, are the guardians of the four quarters of the world in Buddhism. They are among the most frequently represented protective deities in Buddhist art across different traditions. I...

Turtles grow slowly and have a long lifespan. Ultrastructural studies of the pituitary gland in Reeves’ turtle (Chinemys reevesii) have revealed that the species possesses a higher nucleoplasmic ratio and fewer secretory granules in growth hormone (G...

Image segmentation plays an important role in the sensing systems of autonomous underwater vehicles for fishing. Via accurately perceiving the marine organisms and surrounding environment, the automatic catch of marine products can be implemented. Ho...

The humpback grouper (Cromileptes altivelis), an Epinephelidae species, is patchily distributed in the reef habitats of Western Pacific water. This grouper possesses a remarkably different body shape and notably low growth rate compared with closely...

Neurofilament light chain (NF-L) plays critical roles in synapses that are relevant to neuropsychiatric diseases. Despite postmortem evidence that NF-L is decreased in opiate abusers, its role and underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. We foun...

Incorporating wind energy on a large scale into power systems presents challenges for the operation and control of the grid. To enhance the safety of power grid operation, accurate short-term forecasting of wind power is necessary, as it minimizes th...

The emergence of mcr-1-mediated colistin resistance has become a critical global health concern, highlighting the urgent need for innovative approaches to restore colistin’s therapeutic potential. In this study, we evaluated the antibacterial a...

The objectives of this study were to design, synthesize, and evaluate the antibacterial activity of a series of novel aminoguanidine-tetralone derivatives. Thirty-four new compounds were effectively synthesized through nucleophilic substitution react...

Traditional gas pipeline leak detection methods require task offload decisions in the cloud, which has low real time performance. The emergence of edge computing provides a solution by enabling offload decisions directly at the edge server, improving...

In order to find new natural products with anti-inflammatory activity, chemical investigation of a 3000-meter deep-sea sediment derived bacteria Bacillus subtilis B5 was carried out. A new macrolactin derivative was isolated and identified as 7,13-ep...

Recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified 15q25.1 as a lung cancer susceptibility locus. Here, we sought to explore the direct carcinogenic effects of genetic variants in this region on the risk of developing lung adenocarcinoma...

The gut microbiome is expected to adapt to the varying energetic and nutritional pressures in females of different reproductive states. Changes in the gut microbiome may lead to varying nutrient utilizing efficiency in pregnant and lactating female p...

Carbon dots have emerged as promising nanocarriers for drug delivery due to their unique physicochemical properties and biocompatibilities. Here, the potential of leaf-derived carbon dots (named as SBL_CD), derived from Seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoi...

The anticoagulant activity of lignosulfonic acid sodium (LSAS), a non-saccharide heparin mimetic, was investigated in this study. LSAS is a relatively safe industrial byproduct with similar polyanionic characteristics to that of heparin. Human plasma...

The evolution of performance degradation has become a major obstacle to the long-life operation of the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) system. The feasibility of employing degradation resistance to assess the State of Health (SOH) is proposed and verifi...

This paper aims to examine the influence of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on environmental performance, as well as the moderating effect of social development and the political regimes in EPU’s influence on environmental performance. To inv...

The hot workability behavior of antibacterial Ti6Al4V-5Cu alloy was investigated using a hot compression experiment in the temperature range of 790–1040 °C and strain rate of 10⁻³–10 s⁻¹ with a strain of 0.4. The deformation behavior of the alloy was...

The Jiangnan orogenic belt is located between the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks in South China and is one of the largest W–Sn–Nb–Ta ore belts worldwide. Mineralization occurred from the Proterozoic to Mesozoic, but Caledonian Sn mine...

Cervical cancer is a worldwide public health problem with a high rate of illness and mortality among women. In this study, we proposed a novel framework based on Faster RCNN-FPN architecture for the detection of abnormal cervical cells in cytology im...

The neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by intracellular aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau and extracellular accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ). Death-associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1), as a novel therapeutic...

The genus Ficus is an evergreen plant, the most numerous species in the family Moraceae, and is often used as a food and pharmacy source. The phylogenetic relationships of the genus Ficus have been debated for many years due to the overlapping phenot...

Flexible production is a typical representative of high-end manufacturing and is also a manifestation of a country’s national production capability. Compared with other production modes, the key distinction of flexible production is that all fo...

Interactions among society, water resources, and environment systems have become increasingly prominent with the progressively far-reaching impact of human activities. Therefore, this paper aims to construct a co-evolution model to establish the mutu...

The rapid development of urbanization in China in recent years has resulted in the production of large amounts of construction waste, which has placed certain constraints on the sustainable development of the construction industry. This study measure...

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), which creates jobs for 33 million people and contributes two trillion dollars’ tax annually, is one of the most important economic plants globally. However, tobacco is seriously threatened by numerous diseases du...

The development of secondary flow along a curved channel is a fundamental flow phenomenon occurring in a wide range of engineering applications, including turbomachinery, aerospace, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, etc. The underlying flow phy...

Re-emerging pseudorabies (PR) caused by pseudorabies virus (PRV) variant has been prevailing among immunized herds in China since 2011, indicating that commercially available PR vaccine strains couldn’t provide complete protection against novel...

Dihydromyricetin (DHM) has garnered attention due to its promising antitumor activity, but its low bioavailability restricts its clinical application. Thus, developing nano-drug delivery systems could enhance its antitumor activity. We prepared DHM@Z...

Streptococcus suis (S. suis) is an emerging zoonotic pathogen that can cause multiple diseases, including streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome (STSLS). The S. suis SC-19 strain could cause NOD-like receptor thermal protein domain-associated protei...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous damage to the social economy and people’s health. Some major issues fighting COVID-19 include early and accurate diagnosis and the shortage of ventilator machines for critical patients. In this...

The skin of amphibians is a tissue with biological functions, such as defense, respiration, and excretion. In recent years, researchers have discovered a large number of peptides in the skin secretions of amphibians, including antimicrobial peptides,...

Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus L.) originated from the South Asian subcontinent, and most of them are fragile to cold stress. In this study, we evaluated the cold tolerance of 115 cucumber accessions and screened out 10 accessions showing high resistance...

During a relatively long period of growth, immature individuals rely on their mothers to obtain nutrition, and a good environment for learning social skills needed to cope with complex environments in adulthood. In this study, we collected the behavi...

Introduction: We explored the association between clinical outcomes and the cleavage rate of day-3 cleavage slow-growing embryos after overnight culture. Methods: The data collected from 303 frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycles with 606 4-cell or 5-ce...

Migratory birds spend several months in their breeding grounds in sympatry with local resident birds and relatively shorter periods of time at stopover sites. During migration, parasites may be transmitted between migratory and resident birds. Howeve...

In this study, we first manufactured ultrathin g-C₃N₄ (CN) nanosheets by thermal etching and ultrasonic techniques. Then, EuVO₄ (EV) nanoparticles were loaded onto CN nanosheets to form EuVO₄/g-C₃N₄ heterojunctions (EVCs). The ultrathin and porous st...

Obesity has become an extensive threat to human health due to associated chronic inflammation and metabolic diseases. Apoptosis-associated speck-like protein (ASC) is a critical link between inflammasome and apoptosis-inducing proteins. In this study...

Loquats have drawn much attention due to their essential nutrients and unusual phenology, which fills a market gap in early spring. Fruit firmness (FF) is one of the most important quality attributes. Dynamic changes in FF, cell wall (CW) polysacchar...

We presented a case demonstrating ileocecal ulcers after liver transplantation for hepatitis B cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The patient presented 4 years post-transplant with paroxysmal right lower abdominal pain. Due to a mild increase in...

Pig growth performance is one of the criteria for judging pork production and is influenced by genotype and external environmental factors such as feeding conditions. The growth performance of miniature pigs, such as Bama minipigs, differs considerab...

MET inhibitors have shown promising efficacy for MET-dysregulated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, quite a few patients cannot benefit from it due to the lack of powerful biomarkers. This study aims to explore the potential role of plasma...

The urotensin receptor (UT receptor), a G-protein-coupled receptor mediating urotensin-II and urotensin-II-related peptide signaling in the urotensinergic system, has multiple pharmacological activities. However, there is no drug targeting the UT rec...

Quercus (oak) is an important economic and ecological tree species in the world, and it is the necessary feed for oak silkworm feeding. Chloroplasts play an important role in green plants but the codon usage of oak chloroplast genomes is not fully st...