Wenju Cai, Lixin Wu, Matthieu Lengaigne, Tim Li et al.
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which originates in the Pacific, is the strongest and most well-known mode of tropical climate variability. Its reach is global, and it can force climate variations of the tropical Atlantic and Indian Oceans by perturbing the global atmospheric circulation. L...
Jing Meng, Zhifu Mi, Dabo Guan, Jiashuo Li et al.
Abstract Economic globalization and concomitant growth in international trade since the late 1990s have profoundly reorganized global production activities and related CO 2 emissions. Here we show trade among developing nations (i.e., South–South trade) has more than doubled between 2004 and 2011, w...
Qing Li, Yong Ni, Liren Zhang, Runqiu Jiang et al.
N6-methyladenosine (m6A), and its reader protein YTHDF1, play a pivotal role in human tumorigenesis by affecting nearly every stage of RNA metabolism. Autophagy activation is one of the ways by which cancer cells survive hypoxia. However, the possible involvement of m6A modification of mRNA in hypox...
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). ...
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...
Amare Aregahegn Dubale, Yuanyuan Zheng, Honglei Wang, René Hübner et al.
Abstract Low‐cost, non‐noble‐metal electrocatalysts are required for direct methanol fuel cells, but their development has been hindered by limited activity, high onset potential, low conductivity, and poor durability. A surface electronic structure tuning strategy is presented, which involves dopin...
Donald S. Gaydon, Balwinder Singh, Enli Wang, Perry Poulton et al.
Resource shortages, driven by climatic, institutional and social changes in many regions of Asia, combined with growing imperatives to increase food production whilst ensuring environmental sustainability, are driving research into modified agricultural practices. Well-tested cropping systems models...
Jingshu Guo, Jiang Li, Chaoyue Liu, Yanlong Yin et al.
Graphene has attracted much attention for the realization of high-speed photodetection for silicon photonics over a wide wavelength range. However, the reported fast graphene photodetectors mainly operate in the 1.55 μm wavelength band. In this work, we propose and realize high-performance waveguide...
Hai‐Xia Zhang, Qin‐Long Hong, Jing Li, Fei Wang et al.
Abstract Photocatalytic reduction of CO 2 to value‐added fuel has been considered to be a promising strategy to reduce global warming and shortage of energy. Rational design and synthesis of catalysts to maximumly expose the active sites is the key to activate CO 2 molecules and determine the reacti...
Jingyan Zhang, Xiaowan Bai, Tongtong Wang, Wen Xiao et al.
Abstract The development of efficient earth-abundant electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction, oxygen evolution, and hydrogen evolution reactions (ORR, OER, and HER) is important for future energy conversion and energy storage devices, for which both rechargeable Zn–air batteries and water splitting ha...
Jingru Guo, Liping Wang, Xiao Wei, Zeid A. ALOthman et al.
The construction of direct Z-scheme heterojunctions with high photocatalytic degradation ability is a theme of importance in both environmental and materials sciences, but still retains many unresolved challenges. In this article, we report the construction of Z-scheme CuInS2/Bi2MoO6 heterostructure...
Yue Yu, Changlei Wang, Corey R. Grice, Niraj Shrestha et al.
Abstract Formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI 3 ) is considered as an alternative to methylammonium lead triiodide (MAPbI 3 ) because of its lower band gap and better thermal stability. However, owing to the large size of FA cations, it is difficult to synthesize high‐quality FAPbI 3 thin films witho...
Lei Qiao, Jing Ma, Zihao Zhang, Wenhai Sui et al.
Rationale: The NLRP3 (NLR [NOD-like receptor] family, pyrin domain containing 3) inflammasome is an important driver of atherosclerosis. Our previous study shows that chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), one of the main lysosomal degradative process, has a regulatory role in lipid metabolism of macro...
Jae Jeong Yang, Danxia Yu, Wanqing Wen, Eiko Saito et al.
Importance: Asia is home to the largest diabetic populations in the world. However, limited studies have quantified the association of diabetes with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Asian populations. Objectives: To evaluate the association of diabetes with all-cause and cause-specific mort...
Mami Taniuchi, Shihab U. Sobuz, Sharmin Begum, James A Platts-Mills et al.
BACKGROUND: Diarrhea causes enormous morbidity and mortality in developing countries, yet the relative importance of multiple potential enteropathogens has been difficult to ascertain. METHODS: We performed a longitudinal cohort study from birth to 1 year of age in 147 infants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. ...
Yuanjun Song, Mingliang Wang, Xiao‐Yang Zhang, Jing‐Yuan Wu et al.
Serving as shape control agent, polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) has been widely used in chemical synthesis of metal nanoparticles. However, the role of molecular weight (MW) of PVP has been rarely concerned. In this study, we show a facile method to control the shapes of silver nanocrystals using PVP wi...
Xiuling Tian, Weie Wen, Li Xie, Luping Fu et al.
Height is an important trait related to plant architecture and yield potential in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). We previously identified a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) QPH.caas-6A flanked by simple sequence repeat markers Xbarc103 and Xwmc256 that reduced height by 8.0–10.4%. Here QPH....
Jingfeng Yuan, Chao Wang, Mirosław J. Skibniewski, Qiming Li
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasing in popularity. Major challenges in the development of PPPs have resulted from the global financial crisis. However, with respect to their monetary value, PPPs are still an attractive option for public sector projects. Performance management and measu...
Zhengyuan Cheng, Manoj Hang Limbu, Zhi Wang, Jing Liu et al.
Gelatinases are members of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs) family; they play an important role in the degradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM). This effect is also crucial in the development and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Its expression, as well as its activity regulation ...
Shencun Fang, Huifang Guo, Yusi Cheng, Zewei Zhou et al.
Abstract Excessive proliferation and migration of fibroblasts contribute to pulmonary fibrosis in silicosis, and both epithelial cells and endothelial cells participate in the accumulation of fibroblasts via the epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and the endothelial–mesenchymal transition (EndM...