Search Results - Ling-an KONG

BackgroundTransition shock experienced by nursing students during the middle and later stages of their clinical internships can significantly influence their post-graduation career decisions. Compassion fatigue, prevalent among interns, may exacerbate this transition shock. This study aims to invest...

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ObjectiveTo explore the association between types of surgery and outcomes in patients with early differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) by a real-world study.MethodsAll the data were from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER). Types of surgery included Surgery 1 (lobectomy, isthmectomy,...

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Expression profiles of ten pathogenesis-related (PR) genes during plant defense against Fusarium, Yellow dwarf virus (YDV) aphid-transmitted and Hessian fly (Hf) were compared temporally in both resistant and susceptible genotypes following pathogen infection or insect infestation. Quantitative real...

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Soybean cyst nematode (SCN, Heterodera glycines Ichinohe) is one of the most important pests causing considerable damage to soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) around the world. Biocontrol provides a strategy for sustainable nematode control. Previously, Aspergillus niger NBC001 was isolated from the c...

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Stunt nematodes (Tylenchorhynchus spp.) are obligate migratory root ecto-parasitic nematodes found in the fields of many cultivated crops. These nematodes, with phyto-sanitary potential, are frequently ignored or misdiagnosed as pests, and this may pose a threat to food security. The accuracy of its...

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The yield of wheat in wheat–rice rotation cropping systems in the Yangtze River Plain, China, is adversely impacted by waterlogging. A raised bed planting (RBP) pattern may reduce waterlogging and increase the wheat yield after rice cultivation by improving the grain number per spike. However, the p...

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Soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines is one of the most serious soil-borne pathogens in soybean production. However, the researches were limited in China due to lack of an effective pathosystem. In this study, we screened 21 legume Medicago plants in both Medicago truncatula and Medicago sativa...

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In the regions where crops were mostly produced by smallholder farmers, the analysis of yield gap is difficult due to diverse cultivars, crop managements and yield levels. In order to find an effective method that can reasonably verify the yield gap and the limiting cultivation factors in narrowing...

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Seven important grain traits, including grain length (GL), grain width (GW), grain perimeter (GP), grain area (GA), grain length/width ratio (GLW), roundness (GR), and thousand-grain weight (TGW), were analyzed using a set of 139 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers in 130 hexaploid wheat varieties...

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Heterodera filipjevi continues to be a major threat to wheat production worldwide. Rapid detection and quantification of cyst nematodes are essential for more effective control against this nematode disease. In the present study, a TaqMan-minor groove binder (TaqMan-MGB) probe-based fluorescence qua...

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Introduction Prefrailty is common among community-dwelling older adults with diabetes and can lead to adverse health outcomes. With effective exercise interventions, prefrailty is reversible. However, there is a paucity of evidence regarding the effects of exercise interventions for prefrail older a...

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The sugar beet cyst nematode (Heterodera schachtii) is one of the most destructive pathogens in sugar beet production, which causes serious economic losses every year. Few molecular details of effectors of H. schachtii parasitism are known. We analyzed the genome and transcriptome data of H. schacht...

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Imaging photoplethysmography (IPPG) enables contactless physiological parameters monitoring using a regular video camera, which led to an increasing interest in video health monitoring. However, classical IPPG is unable to accurately measure heart rate over a long-distance motion. In this paper, an...

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This study was conducted with two soybean cultivars, Liaodou 13 (L13, phosphorus (P)-efficient) and Tiefeng 3 (T3, P-inefficient), to investigate the effects of biochar on soybean yield and photosynthetic physiological parameters, at four biochar application rates (0, 1, 5, and 10%, w/w), and two fe...

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Fusarium is usually thought to cause soybean root rot, which results in a large quantity of annual yield loss in soybean production, by its secretions including Fusarium toxins and cell wall degrading enzymes, but not by the conidia themselves that do not underlie any virulence so far. Here we repor...

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The upper earshoots with higher superiority usually have higher yield potential and higher efficiency. To determine the key period for the asynchronous differentiation of superior and inferior earshoots and how hormones are involved in this process, a two-year experiment was designed using two maize...

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The root-knot nematode Meloidogyne graminicola is considered one of the most devastating pests in rice-producing areas, and nematicides are neither ecofriendly nor cost effective. More acceptable biological agents are required for controlling this destructive pathogen. In this study, the biocontrol...

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Heterodera avenae (cereal cyst nematode, CCN) infects many cereal crops and causes serious yield losses worldwide. Interaction studies investigating H. avenae and its hosts are still in their infancy. In this study, a barley model plant, the Hordeum vulgare cultivar Golden Promise, was investigated...

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Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) showed several advantages to identify gene functions such as short experimental cycle, more broad hosts, etc. In this study, the feasibility and efficiency of employing Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV)-based VIGS system to evaluate Fusarium head blight (FHB) resi...

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