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  1. Article ; Online: Sustainability assessment of small hydropower from an ESG perspective: A case study of the Qin-Ba Mountains, China.

    Zhu, Jiwei / Zhang, Jianmei / Wu, Haojun / Yi, Xihan / Liu, Yu

    Journal of environmental management

    2023  Volume 350, Page(s) 119523

    Abstract: Small hydropower (SHP) has made significant contributions to economic and social development in rural and remote mountainous regions. However, the adverse ecological-environmental impacts resulting from the SHP sector and challenges in hydropower ... ...

    Abstract Small hydropower (SHP) has made significant contributions to economic and social development in rural and remote mountainous regions. However, the adverse ecological-environmental impacts resulting from the SHP sector and challenges in hydropower management have become major areas of concern. From an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) perspective and using three SHP stations (GXD, WZL, and SJB) in the Qin-Ba Mountains as case studies, we constructed a sustainability assessment system comprising 18 indicators across three dimensions. The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) and cloud models were employed to determine the sustainability level of SHP by characterizing the hesitancy of the evaluator and the uncertainty of the evaluated data. (1) The ecological-environmental protection (E) dimension was assigned the greatest weight, followed by the dimensions of social responsibility contribution (S) and corporate governance management (G). The weights of certain indicators, including the water qualification rate, river morphology maintenance, guaranteed rate of instream flow, comprehensive utilization, and production safety standardization grade were relatively high, conforming to the current context of green development prioritization in which ecological-environmental protection is of the utmost importance. (2) The overall sustainability levels of all three SHP stations were "good", with the E-dimension contributing the most and the G-dimension contributing the least to the sustainability goal. (3) The GXD, WZL, and SJB stations were ranked first, second, and third, respectively, in terms of their sustainability scores. This study provides an innovative perspective for the sustainability assessment of SHP. The evaluation method can be generalized to encompass multi-attribute decision-making problems. The findings of this study can aid in addressing the shortcomings associated with SHP development and promote sustainability within the SHP industry.
    MeSH term(s) Conservation of Natural Resources ; Uncertainty ; Industry ; China ; Rivers
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-23
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 184882-3
    ISSN 1095-8630 ; 0301-4797
    ISSN (online) 1095-8630
    ISSN 0301-4797
    DOI 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119523
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  2. Article: Coupling coordination and spatiotemporal heterogeneity between urbanization and ecological environment in Shaanxi Province, China

    Zou, Chao / Zhu, Jiwei / Lou, Kailun / Yang, Liu

    Ecological indicators. 2022 Aug., v. 141

    2022  

    Abstract: Rapid urbanization destroys the structure and function of the ecosystem and causes severe ecological and environmental problems. Consequently, the deterioration of the ecological environment also hinders the quality of urban development and restricts the ...

    Abstract Rapid urbanization destroys the structure and function of the ecosystem and causes severe ecological and environmental problems. Consequently, the deterioration of the ecological environment also hinders the quality of urban development and restricts the sustainable development of cities. To deeply explore the coordination measurement and the temporal and spatial heterogeneity between urbanization and ecological environment, we used the statistical data of Shaanxi Province from 2005 to 2019 as an example, and applied the index system construction method to evaluate the comprehensive level of urbanization and ecological environment. Further, we used the coupling coordination degree model (CCDM), relative development degree model (RDDM), and geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) to explore the dynamic changes and spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the coupling relationship between urbanization and the ecological environment in the study area. The results show that: (1) the overall urbanization and ecological environment of Shaanxi Province show a steady upward trend. The level of urbanization remains stable, and the growth rate of the ecological environment is lower than that of urbanization. (2) The CCD of Shaanxi Province generally presents the evolution law of “basic disharmony-basic coordination-medium coordination-high coordination.” The spatial difference of coupling and coordination development state in different regions is significant, generally shown as “lagging urbanization-synchronous development-lagging ecological environment.” (3) During the study period, there was a significant interaction between urbanization and the influencing factors of the ecological environment, which regulate against each other. The contribution of the ecological environment to urbanization was suitable as a whole, while the construction of urbanization inhibited the ecological environment to varying degrees. This study provided a scientific basis for analyzing the coordination degree and the temporal and spatial differences between urbanization and the ecological environment, and offered practical guidance for formulating and implementing regional urbanization and sustainable environmental development countermeasures.
    Keywords ecosystems ; evolution ; models ; spatial variation ; sustainable development ; urbanization ; China
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-08
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2036774-0
    ISSN 1872-7034 ; 1470-160X
    ISSN (online) 1872-7034
    ISSN 1470-160X
    DOI 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109152
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  3. Article: Antitumor Effects of Pegylated Zinc Protoporphyrin-Mediated Sonodynamic Therapy in Ovarian Cancer.

    Li, Jia / Hu, Zheng / Zhu, Jiwei / Lin, Xin / Gao, Xu / Lv, Guixiang

    Pharmaceutics

    2023  Volume 15, Issue 9

    Abstract: Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) induces reactive oxygen species (ROS) to kill tumor cells. Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), as an important antioxidant enzyme, resists killing by scavenging ROS. Zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) not only effectively inhibits HO-1 activity, ... ...

    Abstract Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) induces reactive oxygen species (ROS) to kill tumor cells. Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), as an important antioxidant enzyme, resists killing by scavenging ROS. Zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) not only effectively inhibits HO-1 activity, but also becomes a potential sonosensitizer. However, its poor water solubility limits its applications. Herein, we developed an improved water-soluble method. It was proved that pegylated zinc protoporphyrin-mediated SDT (PEG-ZnPP-SDT) could significantly enhance ROS production by destroying the HO-1 antioxidant system in ovarian cancer. Increased ROS could cause mitochondrial membrane potential collapse, release cytochrome c from mitochondria to the cytoplasm, and trigger the mitochondrial-caspase apoptotic pathway. In conclusion, our results demonstrated that PEG-ZnPP-SDT, as a novel sonosensitizer, could improve the antitumor effects by destroying the HO-1 antioxidant system. It provided a new therapeutic strategy for SDT to treat cancers, especially those with higher HO-1 expression.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-04
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2527217-2
    ISSN 1999-4923
    ISSN 1999-4923
    DOI 10.3390/pharmaceutics15092275
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  4. Article: Bias correction, historical evaluations, and future projections of climate simulations in the Wei River Basin using CORDEX-EA

    Wang, Yinping / Jiang, Rengui / Xie, Jiancang / Zhu, Jiwei / Zhao, Yong / Lu, Xixi / Li, Fawen

    Theoretical and applied climatology. 2022 Oct., v. 150, no. 1-2

    2022  

    Abstract: The utilization of regional climate methods (RCMs) to predict future climate is an important study under the changing environment. The primary objective of the paper is to correct the temperature and precipitation simulations for the period of 1980–2005 ... ...

    Abstract The utilization of regional climate methods (RCMs) to predict future climate is an important study under the changing environment. The primary objective of the paper is to correct the temperature and precipitation simulations for the period of 1980–2005 and 2026–2098 in the Wei River Basin (WRB), to evaluate the performance of RCMs for the period of 1980–2005, and further, to analyze the future changes of projected temperature and precipitation during 2026–2098. In this paper, the linear scaling method was used to correct the temperature simulations. Quantile mapping, local intensity scaling method, and hybrid method were used to correct the precipitation simulations. The future changes of projected temperature and precipitation for the near term (2026–2050), mid-term (2051–2075), and far term (2076–2098), relative to the period of 1980–2005, were investigated under RCP 2.6 and RCP 8.5. Results indicate that (1) the temperature biases were either warm or cold in the spatial scale, and the precipitation wet biases were detected. After correction, HadGEM2-ES driven by RegCM4-4 had the best temperature reproducibility, and NCC-NorESM1-M driven by RegCM4-4 had the best precipitation reproducibility. (2) Under RCP 2.6, the projected annual, winter, and spring temperature showed decreasing trends. The temperature was higher than that for the period of 1980–2005 except for the spring temperature decreases in the Beiluo River Basin. Under RCP 8.5, the temperature showed significantly increasing trends. The temperature for the near term was similar to that of the period of 1980–2005, while the temperature increased significantly for the mid-term and far term. (3) Under RCP 2.6, the precipitation had decreasing trends. Under RCP 8.5, precipitation trends were also spatially distributed. The relative deviation of winter precipitation was the largest. Relative to the period of 1980–2005, the light- and moderate-rain days showed little change for the period of 2026–2098, while the extreme-rain days showed significantly increasing trends.
    Keywords climate ; climatology ; cold ; spring ; temperature ; watersheds ; winter
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-10
    Size p. 135-153.
    Publishing place Springer Vienna
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 1463177-5
    ISSN 1434-4483 ; 0177-798X
    ISSN (online) 1434-4483
    ISSN 0177-798X
    DOI 10.1007/s00704-022-04157-7
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  5. Article: The Economic Impact of Payments for Water-related Ecosystem Services on Protected Areas: a Synthetic Control Analysis

    Zhang, Jianmei / Zhu, Jiwei / Liu, Yu / Lu, Nan / Fang, Wenxing

    Water resources management. 2022 Mar., v. 36, no. 5

    2022  

    Abstract: Payments for Water-Related Ecosystem Services (PWES) are increasingly popular for promoting water ecological conservation, and their impact on development is of considerable interest. This study estimates the economic impact of PWES on protected areas ... ...

    Abstract Payments for Water-Related Ecosystem Services (PWES) are increasingly popular for promoting water ecological conservation, and their impact on development is of considerable interest. This study estimates the economic impact of PWES on protected areas using the synthetic control method. Taking the Middle Route of the South to North Water Diversion Project in China as a case study, we find that the per capita GDP in protected areas increased markedly relative to synthetic control regions, and PWES had a positive economic impact. Additionally, we conducted many placebo tests to verify the validity and robustness of the results. We believe that the main factor responsible for the positive effect lies in developing the ecological-economic industrial system. This study provides a baseline for synthetic control analysis of PWES to compare regions of interest with their counterfactuals. The case study findings provide reference for the economic development of protected areas.
    Keywords administrative management ; case studies ; control methods ; economic impact ; ecosystems ; placebos ; water ; China
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-03
    Size p. 1535-1551.
    Publishing place Springer Netherlands
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 59924-4
    ISSN 1573-1650 ; 0920-4741
    ISSN (online) 1573-1650
    ISSN 0920-4741
    DOI 10.1007/s11269-022-03099-z
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  6. Article ; Online: Insomnia among coronavirus disease 2019 survivors: A single-center cross-sectional study.

    Lu, Man-Lu / Zhu, Ji-Wei / Wu, Jing-Lin / Lv, Liang-Yan / Liu, Lu / Kong, Gui-Qing / Ding, Chang-Ling / Yu, Yan / Pan, Lei

    Medicine

    2024  Volume 103, Issue 7, Page(s) e37311

    Abstract: Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic, insomnia has become one of the longer COVID-19 symptoms. This study aimed to investigate insomnia among COVID-19 survivors and explore the occurrence and influencing factors of insomnia. A cross- ... ...

    Abstract Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic, insomnia has become one of the longer COVID-19 symptoms. This study aimed to investigate insomnia among COVID-19 survivors and explore the occurrence and influencing factors of insomnia. A cross-sectional study was performed from December 2022 to February 2023 through an online questionnaire star survey with 8 questions. The insomnia severity index scale (ISI) was used to assess the severity of insomnia. Univariate analysis was used to analyze the factors related to COVID-19 infection. A total of 564 participants (183 males and 381 females) were surveyed in the present study. The prevalence of insomnia was 63.12%. Among these insomnia patients, there were 202 (35.82%) with sub-threshold symptoms, 116 (20.57%) with moderate symptoms, and 38 (6.74%) with severe symptoms. Univariate analysis indicated that there were statistically significant differences in the prevalence of insomnia among COVID-19 survivors of different ages, occupations, and educational levels (P < .05). Of the 356 insomnia patients, 185 (51.97%) did not take any measures against insomnia, while those who took drugs only, physical exercise only, drugs and physical exercise, and other measures were 90 (25.28%), 42 (11.80%), 17 (4.78%), and 22 (6.18%), respectively. Additionally, of the 107 insomnia patients with drug therapy, 17 (15.89%) took estazolam, 16 (14.95%) took alprazolam, 39 (36.45%) took zopiclone, and 35 (32.71%) took other drugs to improve insomnia symptoms. The prevalence of insomnia symptoms remains high among COVID-19 survivors in China. Education level and occupation may be the influencing factors. Unfortunately, most patients with insomnia do not take corresponding treatment measures.
    MeSH term(s) Male ; Female ; Humans ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders/epidemiology ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Anxiety/epidemiology ; Depression/epidemiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-16
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 80184-7
    ISSN 1536-5964 ; 0025-7974
    ISSN (online) 1536-5964
    ISSN 0025-7974
    DOI 10.1097/MD.0000000000037311
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  7. Article ; Online: Impact of Caterpillar Increased Feeding Rates on Reduction of Bt Susceptibility.

    Dhammi, Anirudh / van Krestchmar, Jaap B / Zhu, Jiwei / Ponnusamy, Loganathan / Gould, Fred / Reisig, Dominic / Kurtz, Ryan W / Roe, R Michael

    International journal of molecular sciences

    2022  Volume 23, Issue 23

    Abstract: The use of insect-resistant transgenic crops ... ...

    Abstract The use of insect-resistant transgenic crops producing
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-11-28
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2019364-6
    ISSN 1422-0067 ; 1422-0067 ; 1661-6596
    ISSN (online) 1422-0067
    ISSN 1422-0067 ; 1661-6596
    DOI 10.3390/ijms232314856
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  8. Book ; Online: Efficient universal shuffle attack for visual object tracking

    Liu, Siao / Chen, Zhaoyu / Li, Wei / Zhu, Jiwei / Wang, Jiafeng / Zhang, Wenqiang / Gan, Zhongxue

    2022  

    Abstract: Recently, adversarial attacks have been applied in visual object tracking to deceive deep trackers by injecting imperceptible perturbations into video frames. However, previous work only generates the video-specific perturbations, which restricts its ... ...

    Abstract Recently, adversarial attacks have been applied in visual object tracking to deceive deep trackers by injecting imperceptible perturbations into video frames. However, previous work only generates the video-specific perturbations, which restricts its application scenarios. In addition, existing attacks are difficult to implement in reality due to the real-time of tracking and the re-initialization mechanism. To address these issues, we propose an offline universal adversarial attack called Efficient Universal Shuffle Attack. It takes only one perturbation to cause the tracker malfunction on all videos. To improve the computational efficiency and attack performance, we propose a greedy gradient strategy and a triple loss to efficiently capture and attack model-specific feature representations through the gradients. Experimental results show that EUSA can significantly reduce the performance of state-of-the-art trackers on OTB2015 and VOT2018.

    Comment: accepted for ICASSP 2022
    Keywords Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Publishing date 2022-03-14
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
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  9. Article ; Online: Control of Filth Flies, Cochliomyia macellaria (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae), and Sarcophaga bullata (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Using Novel Plant-Derived Methyl Ketones.

    Deguenon, Jean M / Zhu, Jiwei / Denning, Steven / Reiskind, Michael H / Watson, David W / Roe, R Michael

    Journal of medical entomology

    2019  Volume 56, Issue 6, Page(s) 1704–1714

    Abstract: Filth flies live in close proximity to humans and livestock and transmit pathogens. Current control relies on chemical insecticides, and flies can develop resistance to these insecticides. The public is also interested in natural and safer insecticides. ... ...

    Abstract Filth flies live in close proximity to humans and livestock and transmit pathogens. Current control relies on chemical insecticides, and flies can develop resistance to these insecticides. The public is also interested in natural and safer insecticides. Therefore, alternative pesticides compatible with the synanthropic nature of flies are needed. Four plant aliphatic methyl ketones were evaluated for control of adult house flies, Musca domestica L., blow flies, Cochliomyia macellaria (F.), and gray flesh flies, Sarcophaga bullata (Parker). In sealed petri dish assays, 2-heptanone, 2-octanone, 2-nonanone, and 2-undecanone exhibited fumigant activity against house flies with 24-h LC50s of 6.9, 7.5, 8.0, and 9.2 µg/cm3, respectively. Further research focused on undecanone (a U.S. EPA-registered biopesticide). When tested in larger enclosures at 1.7, 2.3, and 2.8 µg/cm3, undecanone provided 60.4, 82.2, and 94.4% house fly mortality; 56.9, 75.6, and 92.5% flesh fly mortality; and 62.1, 84.5, and 97.9% blow fly mortality, respectively, after a 2-h exposure. In a two-choice behavioral assay with 194.6 µg/cm2 of the test compound on the treatment versus an untreated surface of the same area, the overall mean repellencies for blow flies were 84.7% for undecanone versus 87.6% for N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET). For house flies, mean repellencies were 80.7% for undecanone and 84.9% for DEET. The house fly topical LD50 for undecanone was 58.1 µg per fly. Undecanone was far less expensive for filth fly control than the gold standard for insect fumigation, methyl bromide.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Diptera ; Female ; Houseflies ; Insect Control ; Insecticides ; Ketones ; Male ; Phytochemicals ; Sarcophagidae
    Chemical Substances Insecticides ; Ketones ; Phytochemicals
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-07-26
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 410635-0
    ISSN 1938-2928 ; 0022-2585
    ISSN (online) 1938-2928
    ISSN 0022-2585
    DOI 10.1093/jme/tjz107
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  10. Article: Control of Filth Flies, Cochliomyia macellaria (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae), and Sarcophaga bullata (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Using Novel Plant-Derived Methyl Ketones

    Deguenon, Jean M / Zhu, Jiwei / Denning, Steven / Reiskind, Michael H / Watson, David W / Roe, R. Michael

    Journal of medical entomology. 2019 June 26, v. 56, no. 6

    2019  

    Abstract: Filth flies live in close proximity to humans and livestock and transmit pathogens. Current control relies on chemical insecticides, and flies can develop resistance to these insecticides. The public is also interested in natural and safer insecticides. ... ...

    Abstract Filth flies live in close proximity to humans and livestock and transmit pathogens. Current control relies on chemical insecticides, and flies can develop resistance to these insecticides. The public is also interested in natural and safer insecticides. Therefore, alternative pesticides compatible with the synanthropic nature of flies are needed. Four plant aliphatic methyl ketones were evaluated for control of adult house flies, Musca domestica L., blow flies, Cochliomyia macellaria (F.), and gray flesh flies, Sarcophaga bullata (Parker). In sealed petri dish assays, 2-heptanone, 2-octanone, 2-nonanone, and 2-undecanone exhibited fumigant activity against house flies with 24-h LC₅₀s of 6.9, 7.5, 8.0, and 9.2 µg/cm³, respectively. Further research focused on undecanone (a U.S. EPA-registered biopesticide). When tested in larger enclosures at 1.7, 2.3, and 2.8 µg/cm³, undecanone provided 60.4, 82.2, and 94.4% house fly mortality; 56.9, 75.6, and 92.5% flesh fly mortality; and 62.1, 84.5, and 97.9% blow fly mortality, respectively, after a 2-h exposure. In a two-choice behavioral assay with 194.6 µg/ cm² of the test compound on the treatment versus an untreated surface of the same area, the overall mean repellencies for blow flies were 84.7% for undecanone versus 87.6% for N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET). For house flies, mean repellencies were 80.7% for undecanone and 84.9% for DEET. The house fly topical LD₅₀ for undecanone was 58.1 µg per fly. Undecanone was far less expensive for filth fly control than the gold standard for insect fumigation, methyl bromide.
    Keywords 2-heptanone ; Cochliomyia macellaria ; Musca domestica ; Sarcophaga bullata ; biopesticides ; deet ; fumigants ; fumigation ; insects ; livestock ; medical entomology ; methyl bromide ; mortality ; synanthropes
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2019-0626
    Size p. 1704-1714.
    Publishing place Entomological Society of America
    Document type Article
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    ZDB-ID 410635-0
    ISSN 0022-2585
    ISSN 0022-2585
    DOI 10.1093/jme/tjz107
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