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...
Zhiwei Gao, Liang Yan, Tao Tang
.Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as an effective technique for solving PDEs in a wide range of domains. It is noticed, however, that the performance of PINNs can vary dramatically with different sampling procedures. For instance, a fixed set of (prior chosen) training points ma...
Ruya Lin, Zhijie Liang, Chun Yang, Zhiwei Zhao et al.
The treatment of organic pigments has gained significant attention worldwide owing to the large amounts of pollutants emitted during the process. The main purpose of this study is to prepare an environmentally friendly, low-cost adsorbent with high efficiency with selective adsorption for water puri...
Zhiwei Liu, Xiangyu Zhu, Guosheng Hu, Haiyun Guo et al.
Recently, deep learning based facial landmark detection has achieved great success. Despite this, we notice that the semantic ambiguity greatly degrades the detection performance. Specifically, the semantic ambiguity means that some landmarks (e.g. those evenly distributed along the face contour) do...
Zhiwei Xu, James Crooks, Janet M. Davies, Md Alfazal Khan et al.
The objectives of this study are to review available information on the association between ambient temperature and childhood asthma, and to elucidate the possible underlying mechanisms of this relationship. A systematic review was conducted based on the papers retrieved from four databases, includi...
Jialiang Liang, Wei Zhang, Zhiwei Zhao, Wen Liu et al.
This study reports the different degradation mechanisms of carbamazepine (CBZ) and diclofenac (DCF) by single-atom Barium (Ba) embedded g-C3N4. Single-atom Ba is anchored onto g-C3N4 by forming ionic bond with triazine ring, thus greatly enhances the photocatalytic activity with an atom ratio of 1.7...
Junya Wang, Xuetao Zhang, Yue Zhang, Asim Abas et al.
Highly stable and interconnected VO<sub>2</sub> nanoflowers were uniformly grown on flexible three dimensional graphene networks, which directly served as a lightweight and high conductivity supercapacitor electrode (VO<sub>2</sub> NF@3DG).
Zhiwei Zhao, Wei Zhang, Wen Liu, Yunyi Li et al.
In this work, a novel strategy for building single-atom silver-induced amorphous graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) with a hollow tubular morphology is developed. By forming a tubular supramolecular gel, silver is successfully isolated by the nitrogen atoms in both melamine and nitrate anions, impedi...
Keyu Wu, Hung Chak Ho, Hong Su, Cunrui Huang et al.
BACKGROUND: A growing number of studies have reported an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and respiratory disease (RD) within hours after exposure to ambient air pollution or temperature. We assemble published evidence on the sub-daily associations of CVD and RD with ambient air pollut...
Xiaoyong Deng, Rui Chen, Chuang Wang, Zhijie Liang et al.
Zhiwei Zhu, Rui Lü, Bin Yu, Tim Li et al.
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago consists of important international trade routes, and local surface air temperatures (SAT) greatly control sea ice melting in situ during boreal summer (June-July-August-September). However, the drivers of the Arctic Archipelago summer SAT variability have not yet bee...
Pei Gao, Chun Yang, Zhijie Liang, Wenhao Wang et al.
To achieve an enhanced and selective adsorption of steroid estrogens, the n-propyl functionalization was applied to the mesoporous silica material (MCM-41) according to the physico-chemical property analysis of steroid estrogens. Adsorption behaviour and water chemistry effects were evaluated with t...
Xu Guan, Zheng Liu, Amjad Parvaiz, Antonio Longo et al.
At present, natural orifice specimen extraction surgery (NOSES) has attracted more and more attention worldwide, because of its great advantages including minimal cutaneous trauma and post-operative pain, fast post-operative recovery, short hospital stay, and positive psychological impact. However, ...
Xuefeng Liu, Zhiwei Zhu, Rui Lü, Zishu Miao et al.
Abstract Record‐breaking July‐mean precipitation hit North China in 2021, resulting in huge economic losses and human casualties. The prevailing easterlies over the southern flank of a remarkable anomalous anticyclone centered over the Kuril Islands transported sufficient water vapor into North Chin...
Pei Gao, Zhijie Liang, Zhiwei Zhao, Wenhao Wang et al.
In this study, the phenyl-modified mesoporous materials were successfully synthesized using phenyl-organosilanes (trimethoxyphenylsilane and triethoxyphenylsilanea) by one-pot co-condensation method for the removal of estrone (E1), 17β-estradiol (E2), and 17α-ethinyl estradiol (EE2). Both the trieth...
Li Li, Ruoning Guo, Jie Gao, Jie Liu et al.
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a representative persistent organic pollutant and its disposal by mechanochemical (MC) technology emerges in recent years. However, degradation mechanism of PFOA especially rupture of C-F bonds during MC process is still unclear. Therefore, we innovatively employed b...
Junwen Tao, Yongming Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Min Yang et al.
Short-term exposure to ambient high temperature (heat) could increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, available evidence on the burden of daytime and nighttime heat on CVD is limited and vulnerable populations remain unknown so far. We aimed to examine and differentiate the impact...
Ruoning Guo, Li Li, Zhiwei Zhao, Sai Zhang
Mechanochemical (MC) destruction of pollutants is effective; however, the emerging electron transfer mechanism is ambiguous owing to a lack of systematic evaluation. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the contribution of electrons to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) defluorination during MC process...
Juan Li, Zhiwei Zhu, Wenjie Dong
ABSTRACT Climate change affects mean and extreme temperature and precipitation, increasing the risk of related disasters. Assessing the performance of current models in simulating these aspects is therefore crucial to future projection and policymaking. Based on a large ensemble ( LE ; 30 members) o...
Junwen Tao, Hao Zheng, Hung Chak Ho, Xiling Wang et al.
Diabetics are sensitive to high ambient temperature due to impaired thermoregulation. However, available evidence on the impact of prolonged high temperature (i.e., heatwave) on diabetes deaths is limited and whether urban and rural areas differ in heatwave vulnerability remains unknown so far. A ti...