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...
Xu Wang, Zhiwei Xu, Hong Su, Hung Chak Ho et al.
BACKGROUND Smaller sizes of ambient particulate matter (PM) can be more toxic and can be breathed into lower lobes of a lung. Children are particularly vulnerable to PM air pollution because of their adverse effects on both lung functions and lung development. However, it remains unknown whether a s...
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...
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).
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...
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...
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...
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...
Qiyue Wu, Min Yang, Keyu Wu, Hong Su et al.
BACKGROUND There is growing evidence in support of a short-term association between ambient temperature and cardiac arrest attacks that is a serious manifestation of cardiovascular disease and has a high incidence and low survival rate. However, it remains unrecognized about the hazardous temperatur...
Xiang Li, Zhiwei Wang, Hongcan Sun, Fuquan Bai et al.
Since traditional fluorescent materials are too easily observed by the eyes just under the UV light, off-on fluorescent materials are explored as the new generation of fluorescent labels. In the "off" state, such off-on fluorescent labels cannot be observed by naked eyes under either natural light o...
Jian Cheng, Hung Chak Ho, Hong Su, Cunrui Huang et al.
Ambient temperature is an important contributor to mortality burden worldwide, most of which is from cold exposure. However, little is known about the cold impact on life expectancy loss. This paper aimed to estimate cold-related life expectancy loss from cause-, age-, and gender-specific cardiovasc...
Xin Wang, Yuzhu Pan, Yubing Xu, Jingda Zhao et al.
Abstract Narrowband photodetection provides important information in a specific wavelength range. Specially, the use of nonoptical‐filter narrowband photodetectors based on MAPbX 3 (MA = CH 3 NH 3 ; X = Cl, Br, I) perovskites is reported of great potential. However, current MAPbX 3 ‐based narrowband...
Feng Shi, Hugues Goosse, Jianping Li, Qiuzhen Yin et al.
Abstract The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) plays a crucial role for ecosystems and societies in East Asia past, present, and future. However, substantial uncertainties remain regarding EASM variability on interdecadal to multidecadal timescales because of the short length of instrumental data in ...
Fanjia Sun, Jianbing Zang, Zhiwei Hou, Xueqing Tian et al.
The design of low-cost, highly active, and stable electrocatalysts is pivotal for advancing water electrolysis technologies. In this study, carbonyl iron powder (CIP) was anchored within the pores of nickel foam (NF) by electroplating nickel, creating nickel iron foam-like (NFF-L) substrates. Subseq...
Zhiwei Li, Yin‐Guang Fan, Hong Su, Zhiwei Xu et al.
INTRODUCTION: Heatwave is a major global health concern. Many countries including China suffered a record-breaking heatwave during the summer of 2022, which may have a significant effect on population health or health information-seeking behaviours but is yet to be examined. METHODS: We derived heal...
Hao Zheng, Weizhuo Yi, Zhen Ding, Zhiwei Xu et al.
Particulate matters with an aerodynamic diameter ≤1 μm (PM 1 ) significantly increased mortality risk, and the effect of PM 1 was even greater than that of PM 2.5 (aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm). But the quantitative impact of PM 1 on life expectancy was unknown. We aim to examine the extent to which...
Jian Cheng, Hao Zheng, Jing Wei, Cunrui Huang et al.
Abstract Air pollution remains a major threat to cardiovascular health and most acute myocardial infarction (AMI) deaths occur at home. However, currently established knowledge on the deleterious effect of air pollution on AMI has been limited to routinely monitored air pollutants and overlooked the...
Min Yang, Keyu Wu, Qiyue Wu, Cunrui Huang et al.
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of global epidemiological studies of air pollution and angina pectoris, aiming to explore the deleterious air pollutant(s) and vulnerable sub-populations. PubMed and Web of Science databases were searched for eligible articles published between data...
Rubing Pan, Hao Zheng, Zhen Ding, Zhiwei Xu et al.
Ambient high temperature is a worldwide trigger for hypertension events. However, the effects of heat exposure on hypertension and years of life lost (YLL) due to heat remain largely unknown. We conducted a multicenter study in 13 cities in Jiangsu Province, China, to investigate 9727 individuals wh...