Search Results - Ping Yu

Background: This study employed a meta-analysis approach to investigate the incidence of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) and its impact on adverse outcomes in both pregnant and postpartum women, as well as neonates. Me...

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Johnsongrass is a warm-season perennial grass and one of the most persistent and troublesome weeds in the southern United States. This new 5-page publication of the UF/IFAS Environmental Horticulture Department was developed to help commercial nursery growers, landscapers, and other green industry...

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Taxes are a crucial consideration in a multinational enterprise’s (MNE)’s choice of overseas market to invest in. Taxes are affected by a variety of factors, and these factors are prioritized vis-à-vis each other in such investment decision-making. The present study thus developed a framework for e...

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In order to investigate the resistance of tea plant to tea aphid, the feeding behavior of tea aphids on six different tea cultivars was monitored by (EPG) technique. The result showed that the duration of E1, E2 as well as (E1+E2) which was feeding waveforms of Toxoptera aurantii (Boyer) in tea phlo...

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As transcription factors (TFs) play a major role in gene regulation, we studied their binding motifs (positional weight matrices, PWMs) and binding sites (TFBSs) in the human genome, and how TFs bind DNA motifs, including the involvement of binding co-factors. Using the chromatin immunoprecipitation...

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Objectives: In Taiwan, acute ischemic stroke (AIS) with large vessel occlusion (LVO) remains a significant health concern. Reperfusion therapy is more effective if the patient arrives at the medical center within the early time window, emphasizing the importance of prehospital stroke assessment to i...

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Water scarcity has led to the increased use of reclaimed water as a sustainable resource. However, reclaimed water generates byproducts like reverse osmosis brine, which can harm aquatic ecosystems if discharged directly. Effective monitoring and prediction of effluent quality are crucial. This stud...

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We present the results of a deep neutral hydrogen (H i ) observation of the early-type galaxy NGC 2768 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Leveraging the high sensitivity of FAST, we discover an extended gas envelope around NGC 2768. The total H i mass is measured...

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We demonstrate the design, fabrication, and characterization of a two-mode silicon add-drop filter, which is based on multimode grating-assisted contra-directional couplers. The mode conversions between two asymmetry strip waveguides are realized by using spatially periodic corrugations in one side...

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Weed detection is vital for agricultural productivity but faces challenges like target scale diversity and leaf shading-induced asymmetry. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a global feature fusion adaptive optimization method based on YOLOv8 to enhance detection accuracy and computati...

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Medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) are regarded as an important ingredient for functional foods and nutraceuticals. <i>Cinnamomum camphora</i> seed kernel oil (CCSKO) contains more than 95% medium chain fatty acids (MCFAs), which is a significantly higher level than palm kernel oil (62%)...

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Severe lithium dendrite growth and elevated thermal runaway risks pose significant hurdles for fast-charging lithium metal batteries (LMBs). This study reports a polydopamine-functionalized hydroxyapatite/aramid (PDA@HA) hybrid nanofibers separator to synchronously improve the fast-charging LMB'...

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Single silicon nanobeam photonic crystal cavity based sensors are systematically analyzed and designed. By using perturbation theory and numerical simulations, both dielectric-mode and air-mode cavities are extensively investigated in terms of sensitivity (<inline-formula><tex-math notation...

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It is currently unclear as to which patients with node-negative gastric cancer can benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. This study aimed to develop a prognostic model based on patient-, tumor-, and host-related factors to stratify high-risk patients eligible for adjuvant therapy. Correlations of clin...

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<b>Background/Objectives:</b> This study aimed to determine whether the expression levels of <i>GPAT4</i> and <i>SLC7A11</i> are associated with survival outcomes and platinum resistance in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) patients. <b>Methods:</b> We a...

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The lower seed setting is one of the major hindrances which face grain yield in rice. One of the main reasons to cause low spikelet fertility (seed setting) is male sterility or pollen abortion. Notably, pollen abortion has been frequently observed in advanced progenies of rice. In the present study...

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Grain size is a major determinant of grain weight, which is one of the components of rice yield. The objective o this study was to identify novel, and important quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for grain size and weight in rice. QTLs were mapped using a BC4F4 population including 192 backcross inbred...

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ObjectiveWe aimed to investigate the influence of Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) score trajectories on cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD).MethodsA total of 1,162 subjects from the Kailuan prospective cohort study were enrolled. The LE8 score trajectories were developed from 2006 to 2021 using trajectory...

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Background Recombinant protein vaccines are vital for broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants. This study assessed ReCOV as a booster in two Phase 2 trials.Research design and methods Study-1 involved subjects were randomized (1:1:1) to receive 20 μg ReCOV, 40 μg ReCOV, or an inactivated vaccin...

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