Effective thermal management is paramount for successfully deploying lithium-ion batteries in residential settings as storage systems for the exploitation of renewable...
This study investigates the impact of nanocellulose, derived from non-wood plants, and phosphorescent SrAl2O4:Eu,Dy oxide on the mechanical, dielectric, and optical...
This commentary explores the transformative findings surrounding glycoRNAs, emphasizing their unique roles in cancer progression and the therapeutic opportunities...
19–20 April 2025–Nanjing, China—The 2025 National Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) Surgery Conference was successfully held at the Nanjing International Expo Convention Center.The conference was...
We are pleased to announce that the internationally recognized journal, the Canadian Journal of Urology (CJU), has been officially indexed in EBSCO. This significant milestone enhances the journal’s...
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Response analysis of structures involving non-probabilistic uncertain parameters can be closely related to optimization. This paper provides a review...
The evaporation of micrometer and millimeter liquid drops, involving a liquid-to-vapor phase transition accompanied by mass and energy transfer through...
Resource allocation remains a challenging issue in communication networks, and its complexity is continuously increasing with the densification of the...
Accurate medical diagnosis, which involves identifying diseases based on patient symptoms, is often hindered by uncertainties in data interpretation and...
Customer segmentation according to load-shape profiles using smart meter data is an increasingly important application to vital the planning and operation...
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Legged robots have always been a focal point of research for scholars domestically and internationally. Compared to other types of robots, quadruped robots...
Response analysis of structures involving non-probabilistic uncertain parameters can be closely related to optimization. This paper provides a review...
The evaporation of micrometer and millimeter liquid drops, involving a liquid-to-vapor phase transition accompanied by mass and energy transfer through...
Resource allocation remains a challenging issue in communication networks, and its complexity is continuously increasing with the densification of the...
Accurate medical diagnosis, which involves identifying diseases based on patient symptoms, is often hindered by uncertainties in data interpretation and...
Customer segmentation according to load-shape profiles using smart meter data is an increasingly important application to vital the planning and operation...
Conventional fault diagnosis systems have constrained the automotive industry to damage vehicle maintenance and component longevity critically. Hence,...
Magneto-electro-elastic (MEE) materials are a specific class of advanced smart materials that simultaneously manifest the coupling behavior under electric,...
The emergence of various technologies such as terahertz communications, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), and AI-powered communication services...
As Natural Language Processing (NLP) continues to advance, driven by the emergence of sophisticated large language models such as ChatGPT, there has been...
Time series segmentation has attracted more interests in recent years, which aims to segment time series into different segments, each reflects a state...
The high performance of IoT technology in transportation networks has led to the increasing adoption of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology. The functional...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) represents a significant paradigm shift in network architecture, separating network logic from the underlying forwarding...
Since the 1950s, when the Turing Test was introduced, there has been notable progress in machine language intelligence. Language modeling, crucial for...
Steganography is a technique for hiding secret messages while sending and receiving communications through a cover item. From ancient times to the present,...
Image steganography is one of the prominent technologies in data hiding standards. Steganographic system performance mostly depends on the embedding strategy....
The tumor microenvironment encompasses not only the tumor cells themselves, but also the surrounding fibroblasts, immunological and inflammatory cells,...
Machine vision detection and intelligent recognition are important research areas in computer vision with wide-ranging applications in manufacturing,...
Object detection and tracking in videos has become an increasingly important area of research due to its potential applications in a variety of domains...
With the progress of science and technology, more and more complex engineering structures are serving in extreme environments. In the service life of...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are phospholipid bilayer vesicles released from tumor and non-tumor cells for intercellular communication. EVs contain...
The peridynamics proposed by Silling [1] is a non-local theory of solid mechanics. It redefines the problems by using integral equations rather than partial...
In modern time, experts started to use interdisciplinary properties with the developing of technology and science. Thus, these disciplines provide more...
More than half of the world population is living in cities. It requires extended infrastructure and various services to support the densely concentrated...
Background: Patients with Fontan physiology are predisposed to congestive hepatopathy, progressive liver fibrosis, and end-stage liver disease. Ultrasound-based shear wave elastography (SWE) is a non-invasive tool to diagnose and monitor liver fibrosis. We sought to determine whether the degree of hemodynamic derangement prior to and after the Fontan operation is associated with increased liver stiffness measured by SWE. Methods: A single-center retrospective study of patients with Fontan circulation who underwent ultrasound elastography between 2008 and 2024…
Background: Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), the predominant cyanotic congenital heart defect, arises from multifactorial gene-environment interactions disrupting cardiac developmental networks. This study investigated TOF-specific transcriptional alterations and identified high-confidence candidate genes. Methods: Based on GSE36761 transcriptome data, a weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) and protein-protein interaction (PPI) network were conducted to identify TOF-related sub-network and Hub genes. The potential biological functions among these genes were revealed by enrichment analysis. Genetic, epigenetic and transcriptional alteration in…
Objective: Many children with fully corrected congenital heart disease (CHD) avoid physical activity (PA). This descriptive study sought to determine child and parental factors that could predict PA levels in Thai children after corrective surgery. Methods: Ninety school-aged children with fully corrected CHD were recruited from a cardiology clinic at a university hospital in northern Thailand. Data collection involved five validated questionnaires: (1) the Modified Thai Adolescent’s Physical Activity Questionnaire, (2) the Child Health Status Questionnaire-Forms…
Pediatric heart valve replacement (PHVR) remains a challenging procedure due to the unique anatomical and physiological characteristics of children, including growth and development, as well as the long-term need for durable valve function. This review provides an overview of both surgical and transcatheter options for aortic, mitral, pulmonary, and tricuspid valve replacements in pediatric patients, highlighting the indications, outcomes, and advancements in technology and technique. Surgical valve replacement traditionally involves the implantation of biological or…
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect, with 34% of cases attributed to genetic variants. NOTCH1, a multi-domain transmembrane protein, regulates heart development by controlling the differentiation and migration of myocardial mesoderm cells, and different variants are present in different types of CHD. In this review, we aim to provide a detailed description of NOTCH1 structural domains and their functions, highlighting NOTCH1 variants in CHD and the molecular mechanisms through which…
Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) occurs in 9 out of 100 births and is the leading cause of birth defects, with acyanotic CHD being more common. The incidence of adult CHD is rising faster than pediatric CHD. Pulmonary hypertension is the most common complication in untreated CHD patients. Methods: This study is retrospective descriptive research based on medical record data and the results of right heart catheterization examinations in adult acyanotic CHD aged ≥18 years…
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Congenital atrial septal defect (ASD) with severe scoliosis is a rare compound malformation in children. Severe scoliosis should be corrected as soon as possible. The growth rod is suitable for patients with early scoliosis and obvious scoliosis under 10 years old. However, the fluoroscopic radiopaque of titanium alloy plate will inevitably partly make the operative field of interventional occlusion blind. We present a 7-year-old Chinese girl with ASD and scoliosis who underwent spinal correction with
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of a novel transcatheter suture closure system (HaloStitch®) for patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure in a swine model. Methods: Thirteen swine underwent experimental PFO model creation. All animals received implantation of the transcatheter suture closure system to evaluate procedural success. Comprehensive follow-up over six months included serial ultrasound imaging, histopathological analysis, and gross anatomical examination of cardiac specimens. Results: Successful HaloStitch® device implantation was achieved in 11…
Background: The role of cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) from the chest radiograph for assessment of ventricular enlargement and function in repaired tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is conflicting. This study aimed to determine the associations between CTR and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR)-derived ventricular volumes and indices of ventricular function in adolescents and young adults with repaired TOF. Methods: The CTR and CMR findings, performed within 12 months of each other, were reviewed in 76 patients aged 22.1 ±…
Nitrogen (N) assimilation is crucial for the growth and development of C3 plants, as it converts inorganic N into organic forms, important for protein synthesis, nucleic acids and other vital biomolecules. However, abiotic stressors such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures and others significantly impact N uptake and utilization, thereby hindering plant growth and development. Recent advances in molecular biology have illuminated the complex networks that govern N assimilation under these stressful conditions, emphasizing the role of…
The search for environmentally friendly approaches in viticulture is increasing, driven by the need to minimize the ecological footprint of conventional methods while ensuring high grape quality and stable yields. Among the various alternatives explored, essential oils (EOs) have drawn attention due to their natural origin and bioactive properties, including antimicrobial, antifungal, and insect-repellent effects. They are characterized by numerous utilisations, from managing diseases and pests in vineyards to post-harvest applications to preserve and prolong…
Heavy metal (HM) accumulation in soil poses a major hazard to both ecological health and plant growth progressions. Cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), copper (Cu), chromium (Cr), arsenic (As), zinc (Zn), and nickel (Ni) are examples of HMs that negatively impact the growth and development of plants, resulting in lower agricultural output and food safety concerns. Biochar (BC), a substance rich in carbon that is formed by pyrolyzing natural biomass, has demonstrated remarkable promise in reducing…
Taxus cuspidata, a rare species of the Taxus genus, and its wild resources are under severe threat. The development of cultivated species has become an important strategy to replace wild species. The objective of this work was to elucidate the differences in secondary metabolite accumulation, particularly in the paclitaxel biosynthesis pathway, between wild and cultivated species. This study employed liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) technologies to conduct integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of…
Receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases (RLCKs) play a crucial role in the physiological processes of plant growth and development and stress response. To elucidate the characteristics and functions of the PBL gene family in tree peonies, the whole genome identification of PBL family members in tree peonies was conducted using a bioinformatics approach based on the published Arabidopsis thaliana PBL protein sequence. A total of 51 PoPBL members were identified, which were distributed unevenly on five chromosomes in the…
Global warming is making plants more susceptible to heat stress. Hence, adjustments to crop production systems are required for global food security. Heat stress (HS) poses a threat to the quality of ecosystems and global food security due to its adverse effects on plant development. The degree to which HS affects physiological disruptions, physical harm, and biochemical changes at various growth stages directly correlates with its effects on physiological functions, plant growth, and crop production.…
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