David M. Geiser, Abdullah M. S. Al‐Hatmi, Takayuki Aoki, Tsutomu Arie et al.
Scientific communication is facilitated by a data-driven, scientifically sound taxonomy that considers the end-user’s needs and established successful practice. In 2013, the Fusarium community voiced near unanimous support for a concept of Fusarium that represented a clade comprising all agricultura...
Anna Bowen, Huilai Ma, Jianming Ou, Ward Billhimer et al.
Intensive handwashing promotion can reduce diarrheal and respiratory disease incidence. To determine whether less intensive, more scalable interventions can improve health, we evaluated a school-based handwashing program. We randomized 87 Chinese schools to usual practices: standard intervention (ha...
Ting Liu, Jiang Xue Dong, Shi Gang Liu, Na Li et al.
A stable silver nanoparticles/carbon quantum dots (Ag/CQDs) composite was prepared by using CQDs as reducing and stabilizing agent. The CQDs synthesized with polyethyleneimine (PEI) showed an extraordinary reducibility. When Hg 2+ was presented in the Ag/CQDs composite solution, a color change from ...
Eric Wikramanayake, Eric Dinerstein, John Seidensticker, Susan Lumpkin et al.
Abstract In an unprecedented response to the rapid decline in wild tiger populations, the Heads of Government of the 13 tiger range countries endorsed the St. Petersburg Declaration in November 2010, pledging to double the wild tiger population. We conducted a landscape analysis of tiger habitat to ...
Jianquan Lu, Jie Zhong, Daniel W. C. Ho, Yang Tang et al.
This paper is devoted to studying the trajectory and state controllability of Boolean control networks (BCNs) with time delay. In contrast to BCNs without time delay, the dynamics of delayed BCNs are determined by a sequence of initial states, named here trajectories. Trajectory controllability mean...
Longwei Xiang, Hansheng Wang, Holger Steffen, Patrick Wu et al.
Understanding groundwater storage (GWS) changes is vital to the utilization and control of water resources in the Tibetan Plateau. However, well level observations are rare in this big area, and reliable hydrology models including GWS are not available. We use hydro-geodesy to quantitate GWS changes...
Yunus Ahmed, Ji Lu, Zhiguo Yuan, Philip L. Bond et al.
Antibiotic resistance has been recognized as a major threat to public health worldwide. Inactivation of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and degradation of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are critical to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment. Conventional disinfection ...
Md Lutfor Rahman, Wenzhu Jiang, Sang‐Ho Chu, Yongli Qiao et al.
Brown planthopper (BPH) is one of the most destructive insect pests of rice. Wild species of rice are a valuable source of resistance genes for developing resistant cultivars. A molecular marker-based genetic analysis of BPH resistance was conducted using an F(2) population derived from a cross betw...
Xiaodong Zhou, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, Virend K. Somers et al.
Background Fatty liver disease in the absence of excessive alcohol consumption is an increasingly common condition with a global prevalence of ~ 25–30% and is also associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Since systemic metabolic dysfunction underlies its pathogenesis, the term metabolic (dysfu...
Gang Xu, Chengwei Li, Chen Chi, Luyan Wu et al.
Abstract Effective photosensitizers are of particular importance for the widespread clinical utilization of phototherapy. However, conventional photosensitizers are usually plagued by short-wavelength absorption, inadequate photostability, low reactive oxygen species (ROS) quantum yields, and aggreg...
Charles Sheppard, Mebrahtu Ateweberhan, Brian W. Bowen, Peter Carr et al.
shallow limestone platform and reefs. This has doubled the global cover of such MPAs.It contains 25-50% of the Indian Ocean reef area remaining in excellent condition, as well as the world's largest contiguous undamaged reef area. It has suffered from warming episodes, but after the most severe mort...
Elizabeth K. Ruzzo, José‐Mario Capo‐Chichi, Bruria Ben‐Zeev, David Chitayat et al.
We analyzed four families that presented with a similar condition characterized by congenital microcephaly, intellectual disability, progressive cerebral atrophy, and intractable seizures. We show that recessive mutations in the ASNS gene are responsible for this syndrome. Two of the identified miss...
Huajie Huang, Lulu Ma, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, Quanguo Jiang et al.
Although direct methanol fuel cell offers high energy use efficiency and low pollution emission, the lack of suitable electrode materials poses a great challenge to its commercial application. Herein, a facile and scalable approach is developed to fabricate a hybrid electrocatalyst consisting of str...
Zhenhua Zhou, Jianfei Lu, Wen-Wu Liu, Anatol Manaenko et al.
Stroke occurs when a cerebral blood vessel is blocked or ruptured, and it is the major cause of death and adult disability worldwide. Various pharmacological agents have been developed for the treatment of stroke either through interrupting the molecular pathways leading to neuronal death or enhanci...
Lei Han, Shi Gang Liu, Jiang Xue Dong, Jia Yu Liang et al.
Yellow, green, and blue photoluminescent polymer carbon dots were prepared by a hydrothermal method and the multicolor photoluminescence mechanism was discussed.