Lan Li, Fei Yu, Dongquan Shi, Jianping Shi et al.
The present review discusses the application of virtual reality (VR) technology in clinical medicine, especially in surgical training, pain management and therapeutic treatment of mental illness. We introduce the common types of VR simulators and their operational principles in aforementioned fields...
Cindy Q. Tang, Tetsuya Matsui, Haruka Ohashi, Yi-Fei Dong et al.
Today East Asia harbors many "relict" plant species whose ranges were much larger during the Paleogene-Neogene and earlier. The ecological and climatic conditions suitable for these relict species have not been identified. Here, we map the abundance and distribution patterns of relict species, showi...
Shentan Liu, Hai–Liang Song, Size Wei, Fei Yang et al.
To optimize the performance of a vertical subsurface flow constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell (CW-MFC), studies of bio-cathode materials and reactor configurations were carried out. Three commonly used bio-cathode materials including stainless steel mesh (SSM), carbon cloth (CC) and granular act...
Md. Abdul Mazid, Carl Ward, Zhiwei Luo, Chuanyu Liu et al.
After fertilization, the quiescent zygote experiences a burst of genome activation that initiates a short-lived totipotent state. Understanding the process of totipotency in human cells would have broad applications. However, in contrast to in mice 1,2 , demonstration of the time of zygotic genome a...
Zhengsong Wu, Fei Xu, Chun Yang, Xiaoxuan Su et al.
Biochar is widely used in water treatment because of its porous structure, however, the effects of biochars on denitrification remain unclear. Here, we combined molecular biological and electrochemical techniques to investigate effects of biochars (formed at 300 °C, 500 °C and 800 °C) on denitrifica...
Wenjun Zhang, Fei‐Fei Jin, Malte F. Stuecker, Andrew T. Wittenberg et al.
Abstract Strong El Niño events are followed by massive summer monsoon flooding over the Yangtze River basin (YRB), home to about a third of the population in China. Although the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) provides the main source of seasonal climate predictability for many parts of the Eart...
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 ...
Yangyang Bian, Xiaohan Yan, Fei Chen, Qian Li et al.
Green indium phosphide (InP)-based quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) still suffer from low efficiency and short operational lifetime, posing a critical challenge to fully cadmium-free QD-LED displays and lighting 1-3 . Unfortunately, the factors that underlie these limitations remain uncle...
Hua Dong, Jun Xi, Lijian Zuo, Jingrui Li et al.
Abstract Interfacial ligand passivation engineering has recently been recognized as a promising avenue, contributing simultaneously to the optoelectronic characteristics and moisture/operation tolerance of perovskite solar cells. To further achieve a win‐win situation of both performance and stabili...
Chang‐Wei Bai, Lianlian Liu, Jie‐Jie Chen, Fei Chen et al.
Abstract Artificial photosynthesis using carbon nitride (g-C 3 N 4 ) holds a great promise for sustainable and cost-effective H 2 O 2 production, but the high carrier recombination rate impedes its efficiency. To tackle this challenge, we propose an innovative method involving multispecies iodine me...
Ming Li, Congjiao Sun, Naiyi Xu, Peipei Bian et al.
Abstract The gene numbers and evolutionary rates of birds were assumed to be much lower than those of mammals, which is in sharp contrast to the huge species number and morphological diversity of birds. It is, therefore, necessary to construct a complete avian genome and analyze its evolution. We co...
Zaozao Chen, Ning Ma, Xiaowei Sun, Qiwei Li et al.
Three-dimensional in vitro tumor models provide more physiologically relevant responses to drugs than 2D models, but the lack of proper evaluation indices and the laborious quantitation of tumor behavior in 3D have limited the use of 3D tumor models in large-scale preclinical drug screening. Here we...
Zhuoheng Bao, Chengjie Lu, Qiang Liu, Fei Ye et al.
Abstract Ammonium ion batteries are promising for energy storage with the merits of low cost, inherent security, environmental friendliness, and excellent electrochemical properties. Unfortunately, the lack of anode materials restricts their development. Herein, we utilized density functional theory...
Shengjuan Zhao, Junliang Chen, Peng Fei, Hongxia Feng et al.
This study was conducted to reveal the prevalence, molecular characterization, and antibiotic susceptibility of Bacillus cereus isolated from dairy products including powdered infant formula, raw milk, pasteurized milk, ultra-high-temperature milk, and cheese. Five hundred samples collected from 5 p...
Haixia Xiao, Feng Zhang, Qianshan He, Pu Liu et al.
Abstract Ice clouds are mostly composed of different ice crystal habits. It is of great importance to classify ice crystal habits seeing as they could greatly impact single‐scattering properties of ice crystal particles. The single‐scattering properties play an important role in the study of cloud r...
Kristine M. Peterson, Janice E. Buss, Rebecca Easley, Zhengyu Yang et al.
Background Undernutrition remains a significant problem worldwide, with environmental enteropathy implicated as a contributing factor. An understanding of the pathogenesis and identification of children at risk are critical to the design of more-effective interventions. Objective The stool regenerat...
Guofu Ma, Feitian Ran, Hui Peng, Kanjun Sun et al.
In this work, we present a facile approach to prepare nitrogen-doped porous carbon materials <italic>via</italic> one-step carbonizing biowaste soybean curd residue (SCR) as the biomass carbon precursor.
Hui Peng, Guofu Ma, Kanjun Sun, Zhiguo Zhang et al.
Highly crumpled nitrogen-doped graphene-like nanosheets (CN-GLSs) with a high specific surface area (1169 m<sup>2</sup> g<sup>−1</sup>) and large pore volume (2.58 cm<sup>3</sup> g<sup>−1</sup>) are prepared from a macroporous resin <italic>via</italic> simultaneous urea gasification expansion and C...
Baoqiang Xiang, Lucas Harris, Thomas L. Delworth, Bin Wang et al.
Abstract A subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction system was recently developed using the GFDL Seamless System for Prediction and Earth System Research (SPEAR) global coupled model. Based on 20-yr hindcast results (2000–19), the boreal wintertime (November–April) Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) pr...
Jian Yang, Mei Dong, Xiao Meng, Yu Zhao et al.
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that chronic infusion of angiotensin-(1-7) [Ang-(1-7)] may dose-dependently inhibit atherosclerotic lesion formation by targeting vascular smooth muscle cells and a large dose of Ang-(1-7) may stabilize mature plaque by targeting macrophages. APPROACH AND RESULTS: I...