Michael Hoffmann, Craig Hilton‐Taylor, Ariadne Angulo, Monika Böhm et al.
Assessing Biodiversity Declines Understanding human impact on biodiversity depends on sound quantitative projection. Pereira et al. (p. 1496 , published online 26 October) review quantitative scenarios that have been developed for four main areas of concern: species extinctions, species abundances a...
Shiv Kumar Sarin, Ashok Choudhury, Manoj K. Sharma, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
The first consensus report of the working party of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up in 2004 on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) was published in 2009. With international groups volunteering to join, the “APASL ACLF Research Consortium (AARC)” was formed in...
Taotao Li, Wei Guo, Liang Ma, Weisheng Li et al.
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, in particular transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have attracted great interest in extending Moore's law beyond silicon 1-3 . However, despite extensive efforts 4-25 , the growth of wafer-scale TMDC single crystals on scalable and industry-compatible substr...
Lei Liu, Taotao Li, Liang Ma, Weisheng Li et al.
Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are of interest for beyond-silicon electronics 1,2 . It has been suggested that bilayer TMDs, which combine good electrostatic control, smaller bandgap and higher mobility than monolayers, could potentially provide improvements in the energy-de...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Chen Ningsheng, Md Monirul Islam, Ashraf Dewan et al.
GBD 2017 Child and Adolescent Health Collaborators, Robert C. Reiner, Helen Elizabeth Olsen, Chad Ikeda et al.
Importance: Understanding causes and correlates of health loss among children and adolescents can identify areas of success, stagnation, and emerging threats and thereby facilitate effective improvement strategies. Objective: To estimate mortality and morbidity in children and adolescents from 1990 ...
APASL ACLF Working Party, Ashok Choudhury, Ankur Jindal, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
Background and aims Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a progressive disease associated with rapid clinical worsening and high mortality. Early prediction of mortality and intervention can improve patient outcomes. We aimed to develop a dynamic prognostic model and compare it with the existing...
Bojie Li, Kun Tan, Layong Luo, Yanqing Peng et al.
Highly flexible software network functions (NFs) are crucial components to enable multi-tenancy in the clouds. However, software packet processing on a commodity server has limited capacity and induces high latency. While software NFs could scale out using more servers, doing so adds significant cos...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Chen Ningsheng, Golam Iftekhar Mahmud, Md. Monirul Islam et al.
Bangladesh experiences frequent hydro-climatic disasters such as flooding. These disasters are believed to be associated with land use changes and climate variability. However, identifying the factors that lead to flooding is challenging. This study mapped flood susceptibility in the northeast regio...
Zhifa Wen, Hongxiang Liu, Rong Gao, Meng Zhou et al.
<h3>Background</h3> Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) facilitate tumor progression via establishment of an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). However, it is poorly understood how tumor cells could functionally modulate TAMs. Our previous work indicated that tumor cell-released autopha...
Kexin Zhang, Chengxia Kan, Fang Han, Jingwen Zhang et al.
Importance: Diabetes in children is a global epidemic that causes various medical conditions associated with an increased incidence of premature death. Objective: To investigate the trends in diabetes incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) in children, with risk factors for...
Jules Maurice Habumugisha, Ningsheng Chen, Mahfuzur Rahman, Md Monirul Islam et al.
Among natural hazards, landslides are devastating in China. However, little is known regarding potential landslide-prone areas in Maoxian County. The goal of this study was to apply four deep learning algorithms, the convolutional neural network (CNN), deep neural network (DNN), long short-term memo...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Ningsheng Chen, Ahmed Elbeltagi, Md Monirul Islam et al.
Floods are among the most devastating natural hazards in Bangladesh. The country experiences multi-type floods (i.e., fluvial, flash, pluvial, and surge floods) every year. However, areas prone to multi-type floods have not yet been assessed on a national scale. Here, we used locally weighted linear...
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...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Ningsheng Chen, Md Monirul Islam, Ashraf Dewan et al.
This work developed models to identify optimal spatial distribution of emergency evacuation centers (EECs) such as schools, colleges, hospitals, and fire stations to improve flood emergency planning in the Sylhet region of northeastern Bangladesh. The use of location-allocation models (LAMs) for eva...