Search Results - Hong Zhou

To measure the international scholarly impact of researchers and institutions and develop effective predictive models, this study assesses the impact of English-language scholarly exchanges (English-language publication opportunities, international collaborations, and international tenure) on academ...

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The Internet is believed to bring more technological dividends to vulnerable farmers during the green agriculture transformation. However, this is different from the theory of skill-biased technological change, which emphasizes that individuals with higher levels of human capital and more technologi...

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Food safety issues constitute an international topic discussed by many scholars. Although there is an extensive body of literature on comparisons of food safety control practices across different governance structures, these studies have been conducted mainly in terms of qualitative and descriptive...

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ABSTRACT Plant diversity is important in enhancing an ecosystem's drought resistance. However, the relationship between plant diversity and drought resistance has historically aroused much controversy. Given that most previous studies on the relationship were conducted with in situ data at a sm...

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Climate extremes, characterized by droughts and floods, have become one of the major constraints to sustainable improvement of rice productivity. Variety choice, considered as one of the main adaptation measures, could help farmers reduce yield loss resulting from these extremes. Based on a three-ye...

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In recent years, the Chinese government has highlighted the importance of adopting hog safety/quality traceability, and a growing amount of research continues to entice firms to adopt traceability systems. In this study, a survey was conducted on a sample of pig slaughtering and processing firms in...

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Suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was performed with virulent strain ATCC35246 and avirulent strain ST171 to identify novel genes associated with virulence in Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus (SEZ). There were fourteen genomic regions that only presented in virulent strain ATCC35246....

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In this paper, we propose a multiple pulse position modulation (MPPM) aided reverse polarity optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme that aims to enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) for dimmable visible light communication (VLC) systems. In this scheme, we exploit the MPPM pattern...

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The COVID-19 pandemic had an enormous impact on the vegetable supply chain in China. Effective evaluation of the pandemic's influences on vegetable production is vital for policy settings to enhance the security of vegetable supply. Based on first-hand data from 526 households, we explored regi...

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The basic leucine zipper (bZIP) gene family constitutes one of the most abundant and conserved transcription factor families in plants, which participates in diverse physiological processes including response to abiotic stress, anthocyanin accumulation, and the regulation of plant growth and develop...

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Traceability system has received wide attention in solving food safety issues, via which food information could be tracked back to producer/farmers. Consumers need to obtain this information from producers or social networks, trust in the information, and consequently assess perceived risks, especia...

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Pale, soft, exudative-like (PSE-like) broiler muscle is a growing problem for meat industry all over the world. However, limited studies have been made to assess broiler meat quality in China. The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics and incidence of PSE-like broiler muscle comme...

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Supply chain traceability is key to reduce food safety risks, since it allows problems to be traced to their sources. Moreover, it allows regulatory agencies to understand where risk is introduced into the supply chain, and offers a major disincentive for upstream agricultural businesses engaging in...

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Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus (SEZ) is an important zoonotic agent. Here, a virulence-attenuated strain M35246 derived from natural variation of wild-type SEZ ATCC35246 was found. M35246 showed a deletion of 25 contiguous genes as well as a loss-of-function mutation in covS. Subsequently,...

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Sepsis acts as the leading cause of mortality in intensive care units, characterized by life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection. Vitamin D (VD) pleiotropic functions were demonstrated in different biological processes, including inflammation and immunity....

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In order to determine the prevalent serotypes and virulence factors of pathogenic Escherichia coli isolates from piglets with post-weaning diarrhea (PWD) in intensive pig farms of Zhejiang Province, rectum swabs from piglets with PWD in intensive pig farms were collected for isolations of pathogenic...

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Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus (SEZ) is a pathogen associated with a wild range of animal species. Frequent outbreaks have occurred in recent years in pigs, horses, goats and dogs which is liable to infect humans. There is a lack of efficient vaccines against this disease and the occurrence o...

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Abstract Graphitic carbon nitride (g‐C3N4), a prominent metal‐free semiconductor photocatalyst, faces limitations due to its high exciton binding energy. While significant efforts have been focused on optimizing charge‐carrier processes, the interplay of exciton and free carrier in this system have...

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ABSTRACT The secondary metabolites produced by the gut microbiota serve as crucial signaling molecules and substrates for gastrointestinal metabolic reactions, thereby playing a pivotal role in human physiological and pathological processes. In this study, we explore the complex symbiotic relationsh...

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