Search Results - Wei LU

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Objectives: This study aims to analyse global trends in the burden of oral diseases, including dental caries and noncarious oral diseases (NCODs), in individuals aged 10 to 24 from 1990 to 2021 and project future trends up to 2050. Methods: Using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 20...

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Transit-oriented development (TOD) is increasingly recognized as a key strategy for enhancing transportation efficiency, environmental sustainability, and economic vitality while fostering inclusive communities in dense, multifunctional urban areas. However, the relationship between TOD's econo...

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Epidemiological studies have highlighted a strong association between hyperlipidemia and an increased risk of cancer in the gut. Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) have been demonstrated as the cells of origin for tumorigenesis in the gut. However, the impact of hyperlipidemia on ISC homeostasis remains u...

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<h4>Objective</h4>Many studies have addressed the diagnostic performance of echocardiography to evaluate acute cardiac allograft rejection compared with endomyocardial biopsy. But the existence of heterogeneity limited its clinical application. Thus, we conducted a comprehensive, systema...

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Objective This study investigates optimal resource allocation strategies in a multichannel healthcare system that integrates telemedicine and offline services. It compares hospital-led and physician-led decision-making models under varying market coverage conditions. Methods A game-theoretical model...

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Purpose – Science and technology fiscal expenditure (STFE) is critical in advancing technological breakthroughs and fostering talent, thus driving green innovation forward. Moreover, Chinese-style environmental decentralization (ED) operates within the framework of “political centralization and econ...

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Carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are the primary gases generated during the low-temperature oxidation (LTO) of coal. This study explores their generation mechanisms in low-rank coal through a combination of LTO experiments, in-situ Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, and den...

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We, the Editors and Publisher of the journal Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, have retracted the following article:Wei Lu, Chao Yang, Peng Du, Jun-Li Zhang & Jia-Cheng Zhang (2019) Expression tendency and prognostic value of TCF21 in hepatocellular carcinoma. Artificial Cells,...

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Chemically peculiar (CP) stars, particularly CP1 (metallic-line) and CP2 (magnetic Ap/Bp) stars, are crucial for studying microscopic processes in stellar atmospheres, such as atomic diffusion and magnetic interactions. In this study, we present ODCNNnet, a deep learning-based classification model d...

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An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of different initial pH on the storage characteristics and shelf life of liquid diet. 45 polypropylene bags were allotted to treatments 1, 2 and 3 on average, 100 g diet and 200 g water were placed into each polypropylene bag, food-grade DL-lacti...

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Mode division multiplexing (MDM) silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have been widely developed for achieving high-speed optical interconnects and communications. As an excellent nonlinear optical platform, silicon PICs also receive great attention in applications of optical parametric devic...

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The anti-Müllerian hormone (<i>amh</i>) and its receptor, <i>amhr2</i>, along with the downstream bone morphogenetic protein receptors (<i>bmpr</i>s), have been recognized as the central regulators in teleost sex determination (SD) and differentiation. However, th...

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A yield gap analysis for rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is critical to meeting the oil demand by identifying yield potential and yield constraints. In this study, potential yield (Yp), attainable yield (Yatt), and actual yield (Yact) for winter rapeseed were determined in five different zones of China...

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Abstract Introduction Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), anti-angiogenic drugs (AADs), and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are common therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite proven benefits of combined regimens, optimal sequencing remains unclear. This network meta-analysis ev...

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Highlights It is found that the reconstruction of the electronic environment and the optimization of the electromagnetic attenuation mechanism are achieved by constructing a model of metal–support interaction regulated electron localization. An excellent RLmin of − 54 dB and an ultra-wide effective...

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<h4>Background</h4>There are urgent needs for rapid and accurate drug susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis. GenoType MTBDRsl is a new molecular kit designed for rapid identification of the resistance to the second-line antituberculosis drugs with a single strip. In recent years, it...

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Abstract This study evaluated the benefits of a commercial probiotic, Aqua Fortuna probiotic (AFPB), containing multiple bacterial strains isolated from fish gut microbiota, on the physiological performance of white‐leg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei). Juvenile shrimp were fed varying doses of AFPB (0...

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