Norihiro Kato, CARDIo GRAMplusCD, LifeLines Cohort Study, Marie Loh et al.
We carried out a trans-ancestry genome-wide association and replication study of blood pressure phenotypes among up to 320,251 individuals of East Asian, European and South Asian ancestry. We find genetic variants at 12 new loci to be associated with blood pressure (P = 3.9 × 10−11 to 5.0 × 10−21). ...
Yi Luo, Chongdan Ren, Yujing Xu, Jin Yu et al.
Recently, a new two-dimensional allotrope of carbon (biphenylene) was experimentally synthesized. Using first-principles calculations, we systematically investigated the structural, mechanical, electronic, and HER properties of biphenylene. A large cohesive energy, absence of imaginary phonon freque...
Zhuzi Zhao, Junji Cao, Zhenxing Shen, Baiqing Xu et al.
Abstract Bulk aerosol samples were collected from 16 July 2008 to 26 July 2009 at Lulang, a high‐altitude (>3300m above sea level) site on the southeast Tibetan Plateau (TP); objectives were to determine chemical characteristics of the aerosol and identify its major sources. We report aerosol (to...
Chongyang Zhu, Feng Xu, Ling Zhang, Minli Li et al.
Black phosphorus quantum dots (BPQDs) have been prepared by a high turbulent shear rate generated from a household kitchen blender. A layer-by-layer disintegration mechanism of bulk BP crystals is suggested. As-synthesized BPQDs have shown excellent humidity sensing and photothermal converting prope...
Yasong Zhao, Jiawei Wan, Chongyi Ling, Yanlei Wang et al.
Developing highly active and durable electrocatalysts for cost-effective proton-exchange membrane fuel cells is challenging 1-3 . Fe/N-C catalysts are among the most promising alternatives to the platinum group metal catalysts, but their activity and durability still cannot meet the performance crit...
Xiang Li, Hong Wang, Jian Chen, Yong Tian et al.
Abstract Photoswitchable fluorescent polymers (PFPs) are emerging as a class of promising systems for photowritable pattern, optical anti‐counterfeiting, and information encryption. They typically use harmful UV light as the stimulus, which often leads to inevitable photobleaching and poor reversibi...
Taofeek O. Muraina, Chong Xu, Qiang Yu, Yadong Yang et al.
Abstract Biodiversity can stabilise productivity through different mechanisms, such as asynchronous species responses to environmental variability and species stability. Global changes, like intensified drought, could negatively affect species richness, species asynchrony and species stability, but ...
Naila Zaman Khan, Lilia Albores‐Gallo, Aurora Arghir, Bogdan Budişteanu et al.
There is increasing recognition of the global burden related to mental and neurological conditions greatly surpassing many health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. Recently, partnership among leading funders and academics has given rise to the grand challenges in global mental he...
Md. Mokhlesur Rahman, G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali, Xue Jun Li, Jim Samuel et al.
Investigating and classifying sentiments of social media users (e.g., positive, negative) towards an item, situation, and system are very popular among researchers. However, they rarely discuss the underlying socioeconomic factor associations for such sentiments. This study attempts to explore the f...
Chongyang Zhu, Feng Xu, Huihua Min, Yuan Huang et al.
For alkali metal ion batteries, probing the ion storage mechanism (intercalation‐ or conversion‐type) and concomitant phase evolution during sodiation–desodiation cycling is critical to gain insights into understanding how the electrode functions and thus how it can be improved. Here, by using in si...
Zengying Ma, Yao Luo, Peng Wu, Junwen Zhong et al.
Abstract Developing high‐performance electrocatalysts for urea production using CO 2 and N 2 holds great potential to mitigate environmental pollution and energy crisis. In this study, 26 kinds of quadruple TM 2 B 2 ensembles supported on porous C 2 N monolayer are designed as the potential electro...
Yunyan Jia, Steve Rowlinson, Martin Loosemore, Mengnan Xu et al.
We employed a Glaserian grounded theory approach to explore the gap between behavioural safety and its unsatisfactory outcomes. Data were collected through ethnographic studies on the practice of managing heat stress on thirty-six construction sites in Hong Kong and Chonqing in mainland China. Two c...
Wenxuan Li, Chongyu Qu, Xiaoxi Chen, Pedro R. A. S. Bassi et al.
We introduce the largest abdominal CT dataset (termed AbdomenAtlas) of 20,460 three-dimensional CT volumes sourced from 112 hospitals across diverse populations, geographies, and facilities. AbdomenAtlas provides 673 K high-quality masks of anatomical structures in the abdominal region annotated by ...
Juan Huang, Rui Li, Yixuan Ma, Chong Cao et al.
Macrophytes play the important roles in purifying pollutants of constructed wetlands (CWs), while their effects on CWs exposed to micro/nano plastics are not clear. Therefore, planted and unplanted CWs were established to reveal the impacts of macrophytes ( Iris pseudacorus ) on the overall performa...
Le Wang, Hongsheng Wang, Liangbin Yan, Meiwen Yu et al.
BACKGROUND: than rifampin in murine models of leprosy, but data regarding its effectiveness in preventing leprosy are lacking. METHODS: We conducted a cluster-randomized, controlled trial to investigate whether single-dose rifapentine is effective in preventing leprosy in household contacts of patie...