Functionalized large-pore mesoporous SBA-15 is utilized for the first time as a good substrate in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to separate biomolecules including peptides and proteins.

Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the factors associated with health status older Chinese people living in community, order inform strategies expand access healthcare. Methods Two-phase stratified cluster sampling applied; 2000 participated study. Face-to-face interviews were conducted Shanghai between June and August, 2011. Descriptive analysis used examine respondents’ characteristics. Based on Andersen’s healthcare utilization model, a chi-squared test multiple...

Stereo image super-resolution (SR) aims to simultaneously increase the resolution of stereo pairs, which benefits many downstream three-dimensional (3D) multimedia broadcasting and vision-related tasks, such as 3D television matching. A key insight in convolutional neural networks-based SR is enforce feature interactions between two views explore complementary cross-view features that can facilitate both views. To fully exploit features, this paper we propose a new multi-stage network,...

The study of the mechanism controlled adhesion geckos, which is important for design and fabrication bio-inspired dry reversible adhesive surfaces, widely discussed below setal level. In this work, role soft lamellar skin in gecko toe was experimentally revealed. acting as a spring sustains most normal deformation during preloading maintains wide range state rather than repulsive state. sequential engagement peeling off array are responsible reliable friction control. This supported pillar...

To examine the job satisfaction of nurses who are caring for older adults in healthcare settings Shanghai, and to explore underlying factors order explain predict nurses' satisfaction.China has largest elderly population world, its is aging rapidly. Studies on providing care China can help identify problem areas develop strategies improvement working conditions. However, date, this subject matter not been thoroughly studied Chinese context. Previous studies other countries show that many...

As the most populous nation in world, China has now becoming an emerging ageing society. Shanghai is first city facing challenge of demographics. Against this background, a study that employs self-rated health (SRH) assessment system was designed to explore status elders, and learn their attitudes toward issues; as well investigate determinants SRH among elders. Understanding crucial for finding appropriate solutions could effectively tackle increasing eldercare demand.This adopted...

Ultra-high-definition display technology is widely used in broadcasting, but there a huge contradiction between its ultra-high-resolution content and short storage. Super-Resolution (SR) can effectively alleviate this contradiction. Recently, State-of-the-art image SR approaches leveraging Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have demonstrated high-quality reconstruction performance. However, most of them suffer from large model parameters, which restricts their practical application....

Iterative inference approaches have shown promising success in the task of multi-view depth estimation. However, these methods put excessive emphasis on universal inter-view correspondences while neglecting correspondence ambiguity regions low texture and discontinuous areas. Thus, they are prone to produce inaccurate or even erroneous estimations, which is further exacerbated cumulative errors especially iterative pipeline, providing unreliable information many real-world scenarios. In this...

Despite successful fabrication of gecko-inspired fibrillar surfaces with strong adhesion forces, how to achieve an easy-removal property becomes a major concern that may restrict the wide applications these bio-inspired surfaces. Research on geckos detach rapidly has inspired design novel adhesive and reversible capabilities, which relies further fundamental understanding peeling mechanisms. Recent studies showed peel-zone plays important role in off tapes or In this study, numerical method...

According to the peel zone model proposed by Pesika et al. [8 , N. S. Tian Y. Zhao B. Rosenberg K. Zeng H. McGuiggan P. Autumn and Israelachvili J. Adhes. 83 383 – 401 ( 2007 ).[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar]], strength an adhesive tape is proportional length or bifurcation region at peeling front between backing substrate. In this study, effects angle velocity on shape are further investigated theoretically experimentally. The theoretical analysis edge zone,...

(Cell Reports 9, October 2014; 285–297) In the originally published version of this article, PCR gel panel in Figure 1A was accidentally duplicated 2A. The article has been updated with correct for These changes have no effect on paper’s conclusion. authors regret error. Retinal Injury, Growth Factors, and Cytokines Converge β-Catenin pStat3 Signaling to Stimulate Retina RegenerationWan et al.Cell ReportsSeptember 25, 2014In BriefMüller glia are responsible mediating retina regeneration...

Geckos can climb steadily and quickly on different surfaces under various environmental conditions. Extensive experiments have been conducted using gecko toe, setal array, single seta spatula to explore the physical principles of adhesion friction. This work focuses effect environment (i.e. substrate materials relative humidity [RH]) experimental conditions preload, sliding velocity, direction) friction through an isolated array. Experimental results show that when a array in gripping...

As mobile devices become more affordable, sustainable and portable, they have kinds of personal ecosystem to people in the 21st century, bring unprecedented educational opportunities students all socio-economic levels.This research explored potential use selected public senior high schools City Manila, Philippines.A total 152 from a couple participated this study.It was found that majority participants some form internet access as were used for variety learning activities outside classroom...

Oyster racks identification relies on manual in situ assessment and often leads to a compensation dispute aquacultural damage assessment. This study proposes an efficient classification method identify oyster using unmanned aerial vehiclesw (UAVs) images. After image preprocessed by the morphology-based opening operation mosaicing, Canny edge detection algorithm, line reparation multiresolution segmentation techniques are applied recognize boundary of number further obtained. In this study,...

Aiming to restore the original intensity of shadow regions in an image and make them compatible with remaining non-shadow without a trace, removal is very challenging problem that benefits many downstream image/video-related tasks. Recently, transformers have shown their strong capability various applications by capturing global pixel interactions this highly desirable removal. However, applying promote non-trivial for following two reasons: 1) The patchify operation not suitable due...

Gecko has remarkable ability to control its adhesion and friction during running realize a swift climbing or on vertical walls upside down ceilings.This received considerable interest of researchers.During the recent decade, significant progress been made in understanding mechanism biomimetic fabrication gecko-inspired dry adhesives.While people generally desire strong reversible property, this article described investigation properties gecko hierarchical structures, corresponding...

The load effect on the anisotropic friction property of gecko seta arrays have been experimentally investigated a homemade micro adhesive and force detect device with isolated arrays. result shows that when sliding against direction curvature to grip out, is proportional normal coefficient about 0.6. When along in, preload could be fully or partly transformed into adhesion repulsive while rapidly rose increment applied preload. Under same preload, lateral in more than twice out. These...