Wankai Tang, Ming Zheng Chen, Xiangyu Chen, Jun Yan Dai et al.
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) comprised of tunable unit cells have recently drawn significant attention due to their superior capability in manipulating electromagnetic waves. In particular, RIS-assisted wireless communications have the great potential to achieve significant performance...
Lei Zhang, Xiao Qing Chen, Shuo Liu, Qian Zhang et al.
The recently proposed digital coding metasurfaces make it possible to control electromagnetic (EM) waves in real time, and allow the implementation of many different functionalities in a programmable way. However, current configurations are only space-encoded, and do not exploit the temporal dimensi...
Yeru Liang, Chen‐Zi Zhao, Hong Yuan, Yuan Chen et al.
Abstract Portable electronic devices (PEDs) are promising information‐exchange platforms for real‐time responses. Their performance is becoming more and more sensitive to energy consumption. Rechargeable batteries are the primary energy source of PEDs and hold the key to guarantee their desired perf...
Mingshan Wang, Mukesh Thakur, Min‐Sheng Peng, Yu Jiang et al.
Despite the substantial role that chickens have played in human societies across the world, both the geographic and temporal origins of their domestication remain controversial. To address this issue, we analyzed 863 genomes from a worldwide sampling of chickens and representatives of all four speci...
Warish Ahmed, Stuart L. Simpson, Paul M. Bertsch, Kyle Bibby et al.
Wastewater surveillance for pathogens using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is an effective and resource-efficient tool for gathering community-level public health information, including the incidence of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Surveillance of Severe Acute Respira...
Hakan Erdem, Daniel R. Lucey
•Healthcare workers (HCW) are part of the frontline in the struggle against the pandemic.•Many HCWs have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and have ldied worldwide during the pandemic.•We performed an international survey and requested the total numbers of HCW deaths and infections.•Data were obtained f...
Gary L. Darmstadt, M Mao-Qiang, Emil Chi, SK Saha et al.
UNLABELLED: Topical therapy to enhance skin barrier function may be a simple, low-cost, effective strategy to improve outcome of preterm infants with a developmentally compromised epidermal barrier, as lipid constituents of topical products may act as a mechanical barrier and augment synthesis of ba...
Gary L. Darmstadt, M Mao‐Qiang, Emil Chi, SK Saha et al.
Topical therapy to enhance skin barrier function may be a simple, low‐cost, effective strategy to improve outcome of preterm infants with a developmentally compromised epidermal barrier, as lipid constituents of topical products may act as a mechanical barrier and augment synthesis of barrier lipids...
Graydon Snider, Crystal Weagle, Kalaivani K. Murdymootoo, Amanda Ring et al.
Abstract. The Surface PARTiculate mAtter Network (SPARTAN) is a long-term project that includes characterization of chemical and physical attributes of aerosols from filter samples collected worldwide. This paper discusses the ongoing efforts of SPARTAN to define and quantify major ions and trace me...
Weihua Xie, Pinyuan Dai, Yu Qin, Ming Wu et al.
BACKGROUND: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is now a global health problem. Poor blood glucose control during pregnancy may lead to maternal and neonatal/foetal complications. Recently, the development of information and communication technology has resulted in new technical support for the clin...
Neal Russell, Wolfgang Stöhr, Nishad Plakkal, Aislinn Cook et al.
BACKGROUND: There is limited data on antibiotic treatment in hospitalized neonates in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to describe patterns of antibiotic use, pathogens, and clinical outcomes, and to develop a severity score predicting mortality in neonatal sepsis to inform future ...
Wankai Tang, Jun Yan Dai, Mingzheng Chen, Xiang Li et al.
In this Letter, a wireless transmitter using the new architecture of programmable metasurface is presented. The proposed transmitter does not require any filter, nor wideband mixer or wideband power amplifier, thereby making it a promising hardware architecture for cost‐effective wireless communicat...
Song-Nian Yin, Richard B. Hayes, Martha S. Linet, Guilan Li et al.
A large cohort study of 74,828 benzene-exposed and 35,805 unexposed workers employed between 1972 and 1987 in 12 cities in China were followed to determine mortality from all causes and the incidence of lymphohematopoietic malignancies and other hematologic disorders. Benzene-exposed study subjects ...
Geng‐Bo Wu, Jun Yan Dai, Kam Man Shum, Ka Fai Chan et al.
Metasurfaces have promising potential to revolutionize a variety of photonic and electronic device technologies. However, metasurfaces that can simultaneously and independently control all electromagnetics (EM) waves' properties, including amplitude, phase, frequency, polarization, and momentum, wit...
Varsha Jain, Luis Rivera, Khalequ Zaman, Roberto A. Espos et al.
BACKGROUND: Commonly used trivalent vaccines contain one influenza B virus lineage and may be ineffective against viruses of the other B lineage. We evaluated the efficacy of a candidate inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) containing both B lineages. METHODS: In this multinational, phas...
Wolfgang Stroebe, Michelle R. vanDellen, Georgios Abakoumkin, Edward P. Lemay et al.
During the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. conservative politicians and the media downplayed the risk of both contracting COVID-19 and the effectiveness of recommended health behaviors. Health behavior theories suggest perceived vulnerability to a health threat and perceived effectivene...
Jun Yan Dai, Liu Yang, Jun Chen Ke, Ming Zheng Chen et al.
Abstract Space‐time modulated metasurfaces enable efficient manipulations of nonlinear harmonics with more degrees of freedom than conventional materials by simply controlling the element geometries and modulation signals. The theoretical analyses reveal that a group of harmonics in reflected waves ...
Jingcheng Dai, Aijun Dong, Guoxi Xiong, Yaqi Liu et al.
In this study, a series of bacteria capable of degrading starch and cellulose were isolated from the aging flue-cured tobacco leaves. Remarkably, there was a thermophilic bacterium Bacillus subtilis ZIM3 which can simultaneously degrade both starch and cellulose at a wide range of temperature and pH...
Qi Zhang, Yi Zhao, Milton Talukder, Yu Han et al.
Among ubiquitously found environmental contaminants in the ecosystem, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is an important environmental contaminant used as plasticizer in medical and consumer goods. The bioaccumulation and environmental persistence of DEHP cause serious global health effects in wildli...
Xufen Zeng, Krista A Varady, Xiangdong Wang, Giovanni Targher et al.
Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), has become the leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. Optimal dietary intervention strategies for MAFLD are not standardized. This study aimed to achieve conse...