A5017882272- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Nonlinear Differential Equations Analysis
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Wound Healing and Treatments
- Arsenic contamination and mitigation
- Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
- Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research
- Burn Injury Management and Outcomes
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
- Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
- Silk-based biomaterials and applications
- Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Fractional Differential Equations Solutions
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
Zhejiang University
2024-2025
Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University
2024
Anhui Medical University
2021-2024
Hunan University of Finance and Economics
2024
Boston University
2014-2021
University of Michigan
2020
Xi'an Jiaotong University
2005-2009
Shaanxi Normal University
2005
Detailed understanding of longitudinal behavior, response to therapy, and applicable biomarkers for interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) is lacking. There a need large multicenter registry that provides researchers clinicians access well-characterized data not limited patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry (PFF-PR) database collects baseline demographic clinical information about ILDs in the United States. objective this study describe...
Detecting proteins in ultralow concentrations complex media is important for many applications but often relies on complicated techniques. Herein, a single-molecule protein analyzer with the potential high-throughput reported. Gold-coated magnetic nanoparticles DNA-labeled antibodies were used target recognition and separation. The immunocomplex was loaded into microdroplets generated centrifugation. Immuno-PCR amplification of DNA enabled quantification at level single molecules. As an...
Carbyne, a one-dimensional (1D) carbon allotrope with alternating triple and single bonds, has the highest known mechanical strength but is unstable to bending, limiting its synthesis short linear chains. Encapsulation within nanotubes (CNTs) stabilizes carbyne, forming confined carbyne (CC), thus enabling further research concerning attractive 1D physics materials properties of carbyne. While CC been synthesized in multi-walled CNTs using arc-discharge method double-walled via...
Two-dimensional (2D) Janus transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) layers with broken mirror symmetry exhibit giant Rashba splitting and unique excitonic behavior. For their one-dimensional (1D) counterparts, the nanotubes possess curvature, which introduces an additional degree of freedom to break structural symmetry. This can potentially enhance these effects or even give rise novel properties. Moreover, MSSe (M = W, Mo), diameters surpassing 40 Å Se positioned externally consistently...
This paper investigates the relationship between ageing, economic development, and healthcare expenditure in Japan, considering challenges posed by an ageing population. The study utilizes a VAR ARMAX modelling approach to analyse complex dynamics among these variables. empirical results reveal interesting findings that contrast with previous literature. While population is often assumed lead increased spending, this finds no significant correlation as percentage of GDP. analysis suggests...
Background Biomarkers of monocyte activation (soluble CD14 [sCD14]), inflammation (interleukin-6 [IL-6]), and altered coagulation (D-dimer) are associated with increased mortality risk in people HIV. The objective the Russia Alcohol Research Collaboration on HIV/AIDS (ARCH) study was to evaluate association between heavy alcohol use inflammatory biomarkers over time. Methods sought antiretroviral therapy naive participants HIV (n = 350) assessed them at baseline, 12 24 months. Linear mixed...
Globally, the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) disease is higher in males. This study examined effect sex and age on Mycobacterium (Mtb) infection. Demographic exposure data were collected household contacts sputum smear-positive pulmonary TB patients Brazil. Contacts with tuberculin skin test induration ⩾10 mm at baseline or 12 weeks considered Mtb infected. The enrolled 917 from 160 households; 508 (55.4%) female, median was 21.0 years (range 0.30-87.0) 609 (66.4%) had proportion infected...
Abstract Serial interval (SI), defined as the time between symptom onset in an infector and infectee pair, is commonly used to understand infectious diseases transmission. Slow progression active disease, well small percentage of individuals who will eventually develop complicate estimation SI for tuberculosis (TB). In this paper, we showed via simulation studies that when there credible information on those TB disease following infection, a cure model, first introduced by Boag 1949, should...
Background Undernutrition impairs immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a risk factor for disease (TB). We aim investigate if severe undernutrition affects the tuberculin skin test (TST) response among household contacts (HHCs) of pulmonary TB cases. Methods analyzed data from HHCs (> five years) cases in Southern India. was defined as per World Health Organization based on body mass index (BMI) adults (undernutrition 16–18.4 <16 kg/m 2 ) BMI relative mean children 2SD-3SD <...
Carbyne, a one-dimensional (1D) carbon allotrope with alternating triple and single bonds, has the highest known mechanical strength but is unstable to bending, limiting synthesis short linear chains. Encapsulation within nanotubes (CNTs) stabilizes carbyne, forming confined carbyne (CC), thus enabling further research concerning attractive 1D physics materials properties of carbyne. While CC been synthesized in multi-walled CNTs (MWCNTs) using arc-discharge method double-walled (DWCNTs) via...
2D Janus TMDC layers with broken mirror symmetry exhibit giant Rashba splitting and unique excitonic behavior. For their 1D counterparts, the nanotubes possess curvature, which introduce an additional degree of freedom to break structural symmetry. This could potentially enhance these effects or even give rise novel properties. In addition, MSSe (M=W, Mo), diameters surpassing 40 {\AA} Se positioned externally, consistently demonstrate lower energy states than monolayer counterparts....
Many geophysical applications require point sources that are characterized by a Dirac Delta distribution in space. Traditional finite difference schemes use continuous space function and meet this requirement hardly, especially with high dominant frequency. The arbitrary high‐order discontinuous Galerkin Finite‐Element (ADER‐DG FE) scheme combines (DG) method the ideas of ADER time integration approach using derivatives. This solves elastic wave equation on triangular meshes is able to deal...
Abstract The arsenic (As) methylation capacity is an important determinant of the susceptibility to arsenic-related diseases. Total As (TAs) or inorganic (iAs) was reported associate with individually, however, influencing trend and extent their combined exposure levels on remains poorly understood. We measured urinary concentrations iAs, monomethylarsonic (MMA), dimethylarsinic (DMA) acids using HPLC-HG-AFS, calculated primary (PMI: (MMA+DMA)/TAs) secondary (SMI: DMA/(MMA+DMA)) indexes in...