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  1. Article ; Online: Design of cationic surfactant reinforced carrageenan waterproof composite films and applied as water induced electricity generator.

    Sun, Aijing / Yang, Duoping

    International journal of biological macromolecules

    2023  Volume 253, Issue Pt 2, Page(s) 126713

    Abstract: Carrageenan (CR) is a renewable polysaccharide material for packaging application due to its good film-forming property, but its use can be limited by the water solubility. In this research, CR hydrogels were modified by quaternary ammonium surfactants ... ...

    Abstract Carrageenan (CR) is a renewable polysaccharide material for packaging application due to its good film-forming property, but its use can be limited by the water solubility. In this research, CR hydrogels were modified by quaternary ammonium surfactants with different length of hydrocarbon tails (n, 8≦n≦16) by adsorption method and waterproof films were obtained after drying. The composition and charge interaction of composite films was confirmed by FTIR. Both thermogravimetric analysis and energy dispersive spectrometer indicated that the surfactant ions replaced K
    MeSH term(s) Carrageenan/chemistry ; Permeability ; Tensile Strength ; Surface-Active Agents ; Ammonium Compounds ; Food Packaging
    Chemical Substances Carrageenan (9000-07-1) ; Surface-Active Agents ; Ammonium Compounds
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-07
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 282732-3
    ISSN 1879-0003 ; 0141-8130
    ISSN (online) 1879-0003
    ISSN 0141-8130
    DOI 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.126713
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  2. Article ; Online: Outcomes of pessary fitting trials for patients with stage IV pelvic organ prolapse: a prospective study.

    Zhou, Ying / Sun, Tianshu / Ju, Aijing / Zhu, Lan

    International urogynecology journal

    2023  Volume 35, Issue 1, Page(s) 59–67

    Abstract: Introduction and hypothesis: The objective was to evaluate the efficacy of pessaries in the treatment of stage IV pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and identify the influencing factors.: Methods: One hundred and fifty-seven patients with stage IV ... ...

    Abstract Introduction and hypothesis: The objective was to evaluate the efficacy of pessaries in the treatment of stage IV pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and identify the influencing factors.
    Methods: One hundred and fifty-seven patients with stage IV symptomatic POP were admitted to the hospital for pessary fitting. A successful pessary fitting was defined as a patient fitted with a pessary at the initial fitting in whom use continued 2 weeks later. The rates of successful pessary fitting, patient satisfaction, remission of prolapse and urinary symptoms, and the occurrence of factors associated with successful pessary fitting were calculated and predictors of appropriate pessary type selection were analyzed.
    Results: A total of 130 patients with stage IV POP had a successful pessary fitting (82.8%). The satisfaction rate associated with the two types of pessaries was more than 90%. The success rate among patients undergoing a ring pessary fitting trial was 44.6%, and 84.3% of the patients were self-managed. Prolapse symptoms significantly improved in 90% of cases, and urinary symptoms improved in 58-93% of cases from baseline. The number of vaginal deliveries, history of hysterectomy and vaginal introitus/total vaginal length (TVL) ratio were independent risk factors associated with unsuccessful pessary fitting.
    Conclusion: For patients with stage IV POP, the successful fitting rate is as high as 80% or more. More vaginal deliveries, a history of hysterectomy, and a larger vaginal introitus/TVL ratio (ratio  >0.6) were predictors of unsuccessful pessary fitting.
    MeSH term(s) Female ; Humans ; Pessaries ; Prospective Studies ; Pelvic Organ Prolapse/therapy ; Vagina ; Patient Satisfaction ; Treatment Outcome
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-05
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1050631-7
    ISSN 1433-3023 ; 0937-3462
    ISSN (online) 1433-3023
    ISSN 0937-3462
    DOI 10.1007/s00192-023-05594-2
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  3. Article ; Online: Integrated analyses reveal unexpected complex inversion and recombination in RH genes.

    Li, Minghao / Wang, Liping / Li, Aijing / Wang, Bo / Yang, Xiaohong / Zhang, Yue / Chen, Chaoqiong / Sun, Futing / Zhu, Ziyan / Ye, Luyi

    Blood advances

    2024  

    Abstract: Phenotype D-- is associated with severe hemolytic transfusion reactions and hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn. It is typically caused by defective RHCE genes. In this study, we identified a D-- phenotype proband and verified RH phenotypes of ... ...

    Abstract Phenotype D-- is associated with severe hemolytic transfusion reactions and hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn. It is typically caused by defective RHCE genes. In this study, we identified a D-- phenotype proband and verified RH phenotypes of other six family members. However, inconsistent results between the phenotypic analysis and Sanger sequencing revealed intact RHCE exons with no mutations in the D-- proband, but the protein was not expressed. Subsequent Oxford Nanopore Technologies whole-genome sequencing of the proband revealed an inversion with ambiguous breakpoints in the intron 2 and intron 7 and copy number variation loss in the RHCE gene region. Given that the RHCE gene is highly homologous to the RHD gene, we conducted a comprehensive analysis using Pacific Biosciences long-read target sequencing, Bionano optical genome mapping, and targeted next-generation sequencing. Our findings revealed that the proband had two novel recombinant RHCE haplotypes, RHCE*Ce(1-2)-D(3-10) and RHCE*Ce(1-2)-D(3-10)-Ce(10-8)-Ce(3-10), with clear-cut breakpoints identified. Furthermore, the RH haplotypes of the family members were identified and verified. In summary, we made a novel discovery of hereditary large inversion and recombination events occurring between the RHD and RHCE genes, leading to lack of RhCE expression. This highlights the advantages of using integrated genetic analyses and also provides new insights into RH genotyping.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-29
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2915908-8
    ISSN 2473-9537 ; 2473-9529
    ISSN (online) 2473-9537
    ISSN 2473-9529
    DOI 10.1182/bloodadvances.2023012147
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  4. Article ; Online: An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian-early Albian) of Northwest China.

    Du, Baoxia / Zhang, Mingzhen / Sun, Bainian / Li, Aijing / Zhang, Jing / Yan, Defei / Xie, Sanping / Wu, Jingyu

    National science review

    2021  Volume 8, Issue 12, Page(s) nwab084

    Abstract: A fossil eudicot, ...

    Abstract A fossil eudicot,
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-04
    Publishing country China
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2745465-4
    ISSN 2053-714X ; 2053-714X
    ISSN (online) 2053-714X
    ISSN 2053-714X
    DOI 10.1093/nsr/nwab084
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  5. Article ; Online: Efficient and privacy-preserving certificateless data aggregation in Internet of things–enabled smart grid

    Aijing Sun / Axin Wu / Xiaokun Zheng / Fangyuan Ren

    International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol

    2019  Volume 15

    Abstract: As a typical and promising application of the Internet of things, smart grid will play an increasingly important role in the future power system. However, security and privacy issues in smart grids need to be addressed. If the user’s electricity ... ...

    Abstract As a typical and promising application of the Internet of things, smart grid will play an increasingly important role in the future power system. However, security and privacy issues in smart grids need to be addressed. If the user’s electricity consumption is transmitted in plaintext, the data may be used by some illegal users. At the same time, malicious users may send false data such that the control center makes a wrong power resource scheduling. In addition, efficiency issues should be taken into account in Internet of things applications. To overcome these challenges, an efficient and privacy-preserving certificateless data aggregation scheme is proposed for Internet of things–enabled smart grids. The confidentiality and integrity of data can be guaranteed, and the identity of users can be hidden in our scheme. In particular, if some users have malicious behaviors, they will be tracked. The proposed scheme can resist replay attacks, modification attacks, and impersonation attacks. In the process of collecting data, computation of encryption and signature generation do not need expensive bilinear pairings. Furthermore, batch verification is used to improve efficiency of verification. It is demonstrated that the security, privacy, and efficiency issues in smart grid are addressed based on security and performance analysis.
    Keywords Electronic computers. Computer science ; QA75.5-76.95
    Subject code 303
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher SAGE Publishing
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: Cost-Effective Optimization for Blockchain-Enabled NOMA-Based MEC Networks

    Jianbo Du / Yan Sun / Aijing Sun / Guangyue Lu / Zhixian Chang / Haotong Cao / Jie Feng

    Security and Communication Networks, Vol

    2021  Volume 2021

    Abstract: Blockchain technology has been widely used in many fields. However, the proof of work (PoW) problem in the mining process of mobile devices requires a large amount of computing resources and energy consumption, which brings huge challenges to mobile ... ...

    Abstract Blockchain technology has been widely used in many fields. However, the proof of work (PoW) problem in the mining process of mobile devices requires a large amount of computing resources and energy consumption, which brings huge challenges to mobile devices. Mobile edge computing (MEC) can effectively solve the above problems, allowing mobile devices to offload tasks to edge servers to relieve the pressure of limited computing resources on mobile devices. Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is good at improving spectrum efficiency, so that the system can accommodate more users. In this paper, we propose a new NOMA-based MEC-enabled blockchain framework. Under the conditions of a given task execution deadline, the decision of offloading, local computing resource allocation, user clustering and admission control, and transmit power control is jointly optimized to minimize the total cost of the system. Since the problem is hard to solve, we decouple it into subproblems for low-complexity solutions. First, we propose two heuristic algorithms to obtain the binary offloading decision and user association, and then closed-form solutions of local resource allocation and transmit power control are obtained under the required delay constraints. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithms perform good in cost reduction compared with other baseline algorithms.
    Keywords Technology (General) ; T1-995 ; Science (General) ; Q1-390
    Subject code 600
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Hindawi-Wiley
    Document type Article ; Online
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  7. Article ; Online: Rumination recognition method of dairy cows based on the change of noseband pressure

    Weizheng Shen / Aijing Zhang / Yu Zhang / Xiaoli Wei / Jian Sun

    Information Processing in Agriculture, Vol 7, Iss 4, Pp 479-

    2020  Volume 490

    Abstract: Rumination is closely related to ruminant's health and welfare, so it is very important to monitor rumination. Rumination monitoring equipment based on chewing and swallowing audio is easy to be affected by ambient noise, equipment based on acceleration ... ...

    Abstract Rumination is closely related to ruminant's health and welfare, so it is very important to monitor rumination. Rumination monitoring equipment based on chewing and swallowing audio is easy to be affected by ambient noise, equipment based on acceleration sensor is not easy to monitor number of cuds and other information, equipment based on video monitoring has high cost and is easy to be affected by weather and other cows, while equipment based on chewing pressure can accurately record the chewing pressure of dairy cows, and use related processing technology to obtain the number of cuds and other information. In the related research, the peak value and interval of masticatory pressure peak in time domain were used to identify rumination. In view of the problem that the standard of pressure peak was not well defined due to the different head size and masticatory strength of different age and different breed cows, this paper proposed a method to identify the number of rumination, duration of rumination and number of cuds of cows by using standard deviation and noseband pressure signal frequency spectrum. The accurate and stable frequency spectrum range of rumination noseband pressure signal was obtained by frequency spectrum analysis, and the interference of feeding noseband pressure signal to rumination noseband pressure signal was eliminated by using standard deviation. Compared with the direct observation, the results showed that the recognition accuracy of the method proposed in this paper were 100%, 94.2% and 94.45% for the number of rumination, duration of rumination and number of cuds respectively, and the average absolute errors were 0, 2.0029% and 2.5623% respectively, which showed that the method can accurately identify the rumination information of dairy cows.
    Keywords Rumination ; Noseband pressure ; Standard deviation ; Characteristic frequency ; Agriculture (General) ; S1-972 ; Information technology ; T58.5-58.64
    Subject code 621 ; 630
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
    Document type Article ; Online
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  8. Article: [Primary plasmablaslic lymphoma of the testis:report of a case].

    Wei, Jianguo / Sun, Aijing

    Zhonghua bing li xue za zhi = Chinese journal of pathology

    2014  Volume 43, Issue 9, Page(s) 635–636

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Lymphoma/pathology ; Male ; Testicular Neoplasms/pathology
    Language Chinese
    Publishing date 2014-09
    Publishing country China
    Document type Case Reports ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 784533-9
    ISSN 0529-5807
    ISSN 0529-5807
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  9. Article ; Online: Endothelin-1 depletion of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein modulates pulmonary artery superoxide and iron metabolism-associated mitochondrial heme biosynthesis.

    Yu, Hang / Alruwaili, Norah / Kelly, Melissa R / Zhang, Bin / Liu, Aijing / Wang, Yingqi / Sun, Dong / Wolin, Michael S

    American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology

    2022  Volume 323, Issue 4, Page(s) L400–L409

    Abstract: This study examines if heme biosynthesis-associated iron metabolism is regulated in pulmonary arteries by endothelin-1 (ET1) potentially through modulating cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) availability. Our studies in organoid-cultured ... ...

    Abstract This study examines if heme biosynthesis-associated iron metabolism is regulated in pulmonary arteries by endothelin-1 (ET1) potentially through modulating cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) availability. Our studies in organoid-cultured endothelium-rubbed bovine pulmonary arteries (BPAs) observed COMP depletion by siRNA or hypoxia increases NOX2 and superoxide and depletes mitochondrial SOD2. ET1 also increases superoxide in a manner that potentially impairs mitochondrial heme biosynthesis. In this study, organoid culture of BPA with ET1 (10 nM) increases superoxide in the mitochondrial matrix and extramitochondrial regions associated with COMP depletion, and COMP (0.5 μM) inhibited these superoxide increases. As mitochondrial matrix superoxide could impair heme biosynthesis from protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) by decreasing Fe
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Cartilage Oligomeric Matrix Protein/genetics ; Cattle ; Endothelin-1/metabolism ; Ferrochelatase/metabolism ; Ferrochelatase/pharmacology ; Heme/metabolism ; Iron/metabolism ; Nitric Oxide/metabolism ; Pulmonary Artery/metabolism ; RNA, Small Interfering/metabolism ; Receptors, Transferrin/metabolism ; Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase/metabolism ; Superoxides/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Cartilage Oligomeric Matrix Protein ; Endothelin-1 ; RNA, Small Interfering ; Receptors, Transferrin ; Superoxides (11062-77-4) ; Nitric Oxide (31C4KY9ESH) ; Heme (42VZT0U6YR) ; Iron (E1UOL152H7) ; Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase (EC 4.6.1.2) ; Ferrochelatase (EC 4.99.1.1)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-08-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 1013184-x
    ISSN 1522-1504 ; 1040-0605
    ISSN (online) 1522-1504
    ISSN 1040-0605
    DOI 10.1152/ajplung.00534.2020
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  10. Article ; Online: Chronological changes of viral shedding in adult inpatients with Omicron infection in Shanghai, China.

    Zhou, Xinru / Huang, Xiaochun / Sun, Tingting / Jin, Xiaolan / Tian, Zhaofeng / Xue, Miao / Kang, Jinsong / Gao, Bai / Xu, Aijing / Chen, Yi / Jia, Yin / Liu, Shanrong

    Frontiers in immunology

    2023  Volume 14, Page(s) 1090498

    Abstract: Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the Omicron variant occurred in Shanghai, China, but its clinical characteristics and virology have not been comprehensively described.: Methods: This retrospective cohort study included adult ...

    Abstract Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the Omicron variant occurred in Shanghai, China, but its clinical characteristics and virology have not been comprehensively described.
    Methods: This retrospective cohort study included adult inpatients (≥18 years) diagnosed with COVID-19 at Changhai Hospital. Laboratory and clinical data were obtained from electronic medical records to investigate the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 and the variations in the patients' laboratory indexes were examined.
    Results: The symptoms of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant were relatively mild. Upper respiratory tract specimens yielded higher positive detection rates than lower respiratory tract and intestinal specimens. Peak COVID-19 viral load was reached at the time of admission; quantification cycle (Cq) values increased to approximately 35 after 8.54 days.
    Conclusions: Virus replication and shedding are rapid in Omicron-positive patients; COVID-19 in these patients is characterized by acute onset, mild symptoms, and fast recovery. Older patients and those with more severe disease demonstrate prolonged virus shedding. Routine hematological indexes can reveal disease severity and help clinically evaluate the patient's condition.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Adult ; COVID-19 ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Virus Shedding ; Retrospective Studies ; Inpatients ; China
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-01
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2606827-8
    ISSN 1664-3224 ; 1664-3224
    ISSN (online) 1664-3224
    ISSN 1664-3224
    DOI 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1090498
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