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  1. Article ; Online: A prefix and attention map discrimination fusion guided attention for biomedical named entity recognition.

    Guan, Zhengyi / Zhou, Xiaobing

    BMC bioinformatics

    2023  Volume 24, Issue 1, Page(s) 42

    Abstract: Background: The biomedical literature is growing rapidly, and it is increasingly important to extract meaningful information from the vast amount of literature. Biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) is one of the key and fundamental tasks in ... ...

    Abstract Background: The biomedical literature is growing rapidly, and it is increasingly important to extract meaningful information from the vast amount of literature. Biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) is one of the key and fundamental tasks in biomedical text mining. It also acts as a primitive step for many downstream applications such as relation extraction and knowledge base completion. Therefore, the accurate identification of entities in biomedical literature has certain research value. However, this task is challenging due to the insufficiency of sequence labeling and the lack of large-scale labeled training data and domain knowledge.
    Results: In this paper, we use a novel word-pair classification method, design a simple attention mechanism and propose a novel architecture to solve the research difficulties of BioNER more efficiently without leveraging any external knowledge. Specifically, we break down the limitations of sequence labeling-based approaches by predicting the relationship between word pairs. Based on this, we enhance the pre-trained model BioBERT, through the proposed prefix and attention map dscrimination fusion guided attention and propose the E-BioBERT. Our proposed attention differentiates the distribution of different heads in different layers in the BioBERT, which enriches the diversity of self-attention. Our model is superior to state-of-the-art compared models on five available datasets: BC4CHEMD, BC2GM, BC5CDR-Disease, BC5CDR-Chem, and NCBI-Disease, achieving F1-score of 92.55%, 85.45%, 87.53%, 94.16% and 90.55%, respectively.
    Conclusion: Compared with many previous various models, our method does not require additional training datasets, external knowledge, and complex training process. The experimental results on five BioNER benchmark datasets demonstrate that our model is better at mining semantic information, alleviating the problem of label inconsistency, and has higher entity recognition ability. More importantly, we analyze and demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed attention.
    MeSH term(s) Semantics ; Knowledge Bases ; Data Mining/methods ; Benchmarking
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2041484-5
    ISSN 1471-2105 ; 1471-2105
    ISSN (online) 1471-2105
    ISSN 1471-2105
    DOI 10.1186/s12859-023-05172-9
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  2. Article ; Online: Spatial patterns and drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in China: Arid vs. humid regions.

    Zhang, Shihang / Chen, Yusen / Zhou, Xiaobing / Zhu, Bo

    The Science of the total environment

    2024  Volume 920, Page(s) 170868

    Abstract: Ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) refers to an ecosystem's capacity to simultaneously uphold multiple ecological functions or services. In terrestrial ecosystems, the potential patterns and processes of EMF remain largely unexplored, limiting our ... ...

    Abstract Ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) refers to an ecosystem's capacity to simultaneously uphold multiple ecological functions or services. In terrestrial ecosystems, the potential patterns and processes of EMF remain largely unexplored, limiting our comprehension of how ecosystems react to various driving factors. We collected environmental, soil and plant nutrient data, investigate the spatial distribution characteristics of EMF in China's terrestrial ecosystems, differentiating between arid and humid regions and examining the underlying drivers. Our findings reveal substantial spatial heterogeneity in the distribution of EMF across China's terrestrial ecosystems, with pronounced variations between arid and humid regions. In arid regions, the EMF index predominantly falls within the range of -1 to 1, including approximately 66.8 % of the total area, while in humid regions, the EMF index primarily falls within the range of 0 to 2, covering around 55.2 % of the total area. Climate, soil, and vegetation factors account for 61.4 % and 51.9 % of the total EMF variation in arid and humid regions, respectively. Notably, climate emerges as the dominant factor governing EMF variation in arid regions, whereas soil physicochemical properties take precedence in humid regions. Specifically, mean annual temperature (MAT) emerges as the primary factor influencing EMF variation in arid regions, while the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and soil biodiversity index (SBI) play pivotal roles in regulating EMF variation in humid regions. Indeed, climate can exert both direct and indirect influences on EMF. In summary, our study not only compared the disparities in the spatial distribution of EMF in arid and humid regions but also unveiled the distinct controlling factors that govern EMF changes in these different regions. Our research has contributed novel insights for evaluating the drivers responsible for mediating EMF in diverse ecosystems, shedding light on the adaptability and response mechanisms of ecosystems under varying environmental conditions.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-15
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170868
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  3. Article ; Online: Soil organic carbon fractions in China: Spatial distribution, drivers, and future changes.

    Zhang, Shihang / Zhou, Xiaobing / Chen, Yusen / Du, Fan / Zhu, Bo

    The Science of the total environment

    2024  Volume 919, Page(s) 170890

    Abstract: Soil is the world's largest terrestrial carbon pool and plays an important role in the global carbon cycle, which may be greatly affected by global change. Recently, research frameworks have indicated that division of soil organic carbon (SOC) into two ... ...

    Abstract Soil is the world's largest terrestrial carbon pool and plays an important role in the global carbon cycle, which may be greatly affected by global change. Recently, research frameworks have indicated that division of soil organic carbon (SOC) into two forms particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) can help us better understand SOC cycle. However, there is a lack of the use of meta-analysis combined with machine learning models to explore the spatial distribution of SOC fractions at large scales. Based on 356 studies conducted in Chinese terrestrial ecosystems, we performed a meta-analysis of extracted data and measured data combined with machine learning models to reveal the spatial distribution of soil POC density (POCD) and MAOC density (MAOCD) and the main drivers of variations in POCD and MAOCD. Our study demonstrated that POCD and MAOCD in China's soil were 3.24 and 2.61 kg m
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-10
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170890
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  4. Article ; Online: Torsion of pelvic wandering spleen with infarction.

    Zhou, Xiao-Bing / Li, Bing-Xin / Liu, Wei

    The American journal of the medical sciences

    2023  Volume 366, Issue 6, Page(s) e107–e108

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Wandering Spleen/complications ; Wandering Spleen/diagnostic imaging ; Wandering Spleen/surgery ; Infarction/complications ; Infarction/diagnostic imaging ; Splenectomy
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Letter ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 82078-7
    ISSN 1538-2990 ; 0002-9629
    ISSN (online) 1538-2990
    ISSN 0002-9629
    DOI 10.1016/j.amjms.2023.08.005
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  5. Article ; Online: Social vulnerability assessment under different extreme precipitation scenarios: A case study in Henan Province, China.

    Zhou, Xiaobing / Zhang, Yongling / Wang, Wei / Li, Xin / Yang, Huanhuan / Sun, Yiting

    PloS one

    2024  Volume 19, Issue 3, Page(s) e0299956

    Abstract: Extreme precipitation usually cause grievous losses&casualties, which varies greatly under different scenarios. This paper took Henan province as an example, it innovatively constructed three different extreme precipitation scenarios and built indicators ...

    Abstract Extreme precipitation usually cause grievous losses&casualties, which varies greatly under different scenarios. This paper took Henan province as an example, it innovatively constructed three different extreme precipitation scenarios and built indicators system of social vulnerability from exposure, sensitivity and resilience based on MOVE framework. Social Vulnerability Indexs(SoVI) were then calculated by mathematical models under three different reoccurrence intervals. The results show that SoVI was low in the west and high in the north. High SoVI areas expanded to the middle and south as recurrence intervals increased. SoVI in each area of Henan province increased along with the recurrence intervals at different growth rates. The larger the recurrence interval was, the faster the SoVI increased. The results indicate SoVI is greatly affected by disaster levels, which need to be incorporated into social vulnerability. This study provides not only a new thought for social vulnerability assessment, but also a reference for the policymakers to formulate related risk management policies.
    MeSH term(s) Social Vulnerability ; Disasters ; China ; Risk Assessment ; Risk Management
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0299956
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  6. Article ; Online: The association between serum glucose to potassium ratio on admission and short-term mortality in ischemic stroke patients.

    Lu, Yuzhao / Ma, Xin / Zhou, Xiaobing / Wang, Yang

    Scientific reports

    2022  Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) 8233

    Abstract: High serum glucose to potassium ratio (GPR) at admission is implicated for a poor outcome in acute brain injury, acute intracranial hemorrhage, and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. However, the relationship between GPR and the outcome of ischemic ... ...

    Abstract High serum glucose to potassium ratio (GPR) at admission is implicated for a poor outcome in acute brain injury, acute intracranial hemorrhage, and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. However, the relationship between GPR and the outcome of ischemic stroke (IS) remains unknown. In all, 784 IS patients from a large emergency Norwegian cohort were included for secondary analysis. The exposure and outcome were GPR at baseline and all-cause mortality within 30 days after the first admission. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to estimate the risk of 30-day mortality based on GPR levels. In addition, we examined whether there was a nonlinear relationship between admission GPR and 30-day mortality using two-piecewise linear regression with a smoothing function and threshold level analysis. The results of multivariable regression analysis showed that GPR at baseline was positively associated with the 30-day mortality (OR 2.01, 95% CI 1.12, 3.61) after adjusting for potential confounders (age, gender, department, serum sodium, serum albumin, serum-magnesium, hypertension, heart failure, chronic renal failure, and pneumonia). When GPR was translated to a categorical variable, the ORs and 95% CIs in the tertiles 2 to 3 versus the tertile 1 were 1.24 (0.60, 2.56) and 2.15 (1.09, 4.24), respectively (P for trend = 0.0188). Moreover, the results of the two-piecewise linear regression and curve fitting revealed a linear relationship between GPR and 30-day mortality. In IS patients, GPR is positively correlated with 30-day mortality, and the relationship between them is linear. The GPR at admission may be a promising predictor for the short-term outcome in IS patients.
    MeSH term(s) Glucose ; Humans ; Intracranial Hemorrhages ; Ischemic Stroke ; Potassium ; Prognosis ; Retrospective Studies ; Stroke ; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
    Chemical Substances Glucose (IY9XDZ35W2) ; Potassium (RWP5GA015D)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-17
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-12393-0
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  7. Article ; Online: BPI-MVQA: a bi-branch model for medical visual question answering.

    Liu, Shengyan / Zhang, Xuejie / Zhou, Xiaobing / Yang, Jian

    BMC medical imaging

    2022  Volume 22, Issue 1, Page(s) 79

    Abstract: Background: Visual question answering in medical domain (VQA-Med) exhibits great potential for enhancing confidence in diagnosing diseases and helping patients better understand their medical conditions. One of the challenges in VQA-Med is how to better ...

    Abstract Background: Visual question answering in medical domain (VQA-Med) exhibits great potential for enhancing confidence in diagnosing diseases and helping patients better understand their medical conditions. One of the challenges in VQA-Med is how to better understand and combine the semantic features of medical images (e.g., X-rays, Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)) and answer the corresponding questions accurately in unlabeled medical datasets.
    Method: We propose a novel Bi-branched model based on Parallel networks and Image retrieval for Medical Visual Question Answering (BPI-MVQA). The first branch of BPI-MVQA is a transformer structure based on a parallel network to achieve complementary advantages in image sequence feature and spatial feature extraction, and multi-modal features are implicitly fused by using the multi-head self-attention mechanism. The second branch is retrieving the similarity of image features generated by the VGG16 network to obtain similar text descriptions as labels.
    Result: The BPI-MVQA model achieves state-of-the-art results on three VQA-Med datasets, and the main metric scores exceed the best results so far by 0.2[Formula: see text], 1.4[Formula: see text], and 1.1[Formula: see text].
    Conclusion: The evaluation results support the effectiveness of the BPI-MVQA model in VQA-Med. The design of the bi-branch structure helps the model answer different types of visual questions. The parallel network allows for multi-angle image feature extraction, a unique feature extraction method that helps the model better understand the semantic information of the image and achieve greater accuracy in the multi-classification of VQA-Med. In addition, image retrieval helps the model answer irregular, open-ended type questions from the perspective of understanding the information provided by images. The comparison of our method with state-of-the-art methods on three datasets also shows that our method can bring substantial improvement to the VQA-Med system.
    MeSH term(s) Algorithms ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Radiography
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-29
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2061975-3
    ISSN 1471-2342 ; 1471-2342
    ISSN (online) 1471-2342
    ISSN 1471-2342
    DOI 10.1186/s12880-022-00800-x
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  8. Article ; Online: Moss crusts mitigate the negative impacts of shrub mortality on the nutrient multifunctionality of desert soils

    Zhang, Qing / Yin, Benfeng / Zhang, Shujun / Li, Yonggang / Zang, Yongxin / Rong, Xiaoying / Zhou, Xiaobing / Tao, Ye / Zhang, Yuanming

    Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2024 , v. 88, no. 1 p.166-179

    2024  

    Abstract: The distribution of biological soil crusts (BSCs) and shrubs in temperate deserts often forms a common landscape surface feature. As climate change continues, desert shrubs experience varying rates of mortality, which can have severe negative impacts on ... ...

    Abstract The distribution of biological soil crusts (BSCs) and shrubs in temperate deserts often forms a common landscape surface feature. As climate change continues, desert shrubs experience varying rates of mortality, which can have severe negative impacts on soil structure and function. However, it remains uncertain whether moss crusts, prevalent beneath shrub canopies, can mitigate the effects of shrub mortality on soil nutrient environments. Therefore, this study focuses on the Gurbantunggut Desert, a typical temperate desert in northern China, with a primary focus on the dominant shrubs, Ephedra przewalskii, and the advanced stage of moss crust development within BSCs. We collected soil samples from bare sand and moss crusts under living shrubs and dead shrubs and analyzed them for their carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium contents. Additionally, we calculated soil nutrient multifunctionality, which measures a soil's ability to sustain multiple ecosystem services simultaneously, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of shrub mortality on soil nutrient function. Our results indicate that shrub mortality led to reductions in soil moisture, pH, electrical conductivity, and levels of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in exposed sand compared to the sand under living shrubs. However, the presence of moss crusts significantly alleviated the adverse effects of shrub mortality on soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium levels. The nutrient multifunctionality index of the moss crust only decreased by 4%, while bare sand experienced a 67% reduction following shrub mortality. Standard error of the mean analysis results revealed that when shrubs and crusts coexisted, the impact of shrubs on soil nutrient multifunctionality was much stronger than that of the moss crust. Specifically, total nutrient content was the most influential factor driving changes in soil nutrient multifunctionality. In conclusion, in desert ecosystems with declining shrubs, moss crusts can mitigate the reduction in soil nutrient contents caused by shrub degradation, thereby maintaining soil stability and nutrient multifunctionality as a viable substitute.
    Keywords Ephedra ; carbon ; climate change ; ecosystems ; electrical conductivity ; landscapes ; mortality ; mosses and liverworts ; nitrogen ; nutrient content ; pH ; phosphorus ; potassium ; sand ; shrubs ; soil carbon ; soil nutrients ; soil structure ; soil water ; China
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2024-01
    Size p. 166-179.
    Publishing place John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
    Note JOURNAL ARTICLE
    ZDB-ID 196788-5
    ISSN 0361-5995
    ISSN 0361-5995
    DOI 10.1002/saj2.20606
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  9. Article: Construction of a Fluxgate Magnetic Gradiometer for Integration with an Unmanned Aircraft System

    Luoma, Sierra / Zhou, Xiaobing

    Remote Sensing. 2020 Aug. 08, v. 12, no. 16

    2020  

    Abstract: The use of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) for geophysical exploration and environmental monitoring allows for flexible, quick, and effective surveys with high-resolution results. Developing and integrating a magnetic gradiometer with a UAS allows for ... ...

    Abstract The use of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) for geophysical exploration and environmental monitoring allows for flexible, quick, and effective surveys with high-resolution results. Developing and integrating a magnetic gradiometer with a UAS allows for geophysical exploration of magnetic subsurface features such as geologic structures, metal detection, or locating unexploded ordinances (UXOs). This paper presents the development of a magnetic gradiometer for integration with a UAS. The magnetic gradiometer is composed of two fluxgate magnetometers, two GPS receivers, and a microcontroller-based controlling and data-logging system. The components of the magnetic gradiometer system are lightweight and inexpensive, ideal for use with a UAS. Initial field tests for the magnetic gradiometer are discussed. The initial results demonstrate the magnetic gradiometer’s data coherency along with future improvements that will improve the design of the instrument.
    Keywords design ; detection ; environmental monitoring ; geophysics ; magnetism ; paper ; remote sensing ; surveys ; testing ; unmanned aerial vehicles
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2020-0808
    Publishing place Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Document type Article
    Note NAL-light
    ZDB-ID 2513863-7
    ISSN 2072-4292
    ISSN 2072-4292
    DOI 10.3390/rs12162551
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  10. Article ; Online: Plants alter their aboveground and belowground biomass allocation and affect community-level resistance in response to snow cover change in Central Asia, Northwest China

    Ai, Lin / Yin, Jinfei / Zhang, Yuanming / Wang, Pi / Zhou, Xiaobing / Guo, Hao

    Science of the Total Environment. 2023 Aug. 04, p.166059-

    2023  , Page(s) 166059–

    Abstract: It is important to elucidate the changing distribution pattern of net primary productivity (NPP) to mechanistically understand the changes in aboveground and belowground ecosystem functions. In water-scarce desert environments, snow provides a crucial ... ...

    Abstract It is important to elucidate the changing distribution pattern of net primary productivity (NPP) to mechanistically understand the changes in aboveground and belowground ecosystem functions. In water-scarce desert environments, snow provides a crucial supply of water for plant development and the spread of herbaceous species. Yet uncertainty persists regarding how herbaceous plants' NPP allocation responds to variation in snow cover. The goal of this study was to investigate how variation in snow cover in a temperate desert influenced the NPP allocation dynamics of herbaceous species and their resistance to environmental change in terms aboveground and belowground productivity. In the Gurbantunggut Desert, wintertime snow cover depth was adjusted in plots by applying four treatments: snow removal (−S), ambient snow, double snow (+S), and triple snow (+2S). We examined their species richness, aboveground NPP (ANPP), belowground NPP (BNPP), and the resistance of ANPP and BNPP. We found that species diversity of the aboveground community increased significantly with increasing snow cover and decreased significantly Pielou evenness in plots. This resulted in greater ANPP with increasing snow cover; meanwhile, BNPP first increased and then decreased with increasing snow cover. However, this productivity in different soil layers responded differently to changed snow cover. In the 0–10 cm soil layer, productivity first rose and then declined, while it declined linearly in both the 10–20 cm and 20–30 cm soil layers, whereas in the 30–40 cm soil layer it showed an increasing trend. Belowground resistance would increase given that greater snow cover improved the BNPP in deeper soil and maintained the resource provisioning for plant growth, thus improving overall belowground stability. These results can serve as a promising research foundation for future work on how the functioning of desert ecosystems becomes altered due to changes in plant community expansion and, in particular, changes in snow cover driven by global climate change.
    Keywords belowground biomass ; dry matter partitioning ; ecosystems ; environment ; herbaceous plants ; net primary productivity ; plant development ; plant growth ; snow ; snowpack ; soil ; species richness ; uncertainty ; winter ; Central Asia ; China ; Snow cover ; Plant diversity ; Net primary productivity allocation ; Resistance ; Temperate desert
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2023-0804
    Publishing place Elsevier B.V.
    Document type Article ; Online
    Note Pre-press version
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166059
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