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Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jtr-10.1177_00472875221143479 for Sustainable Adaptation Planning for Cultural Heritage in Coastal Tourism Destinations Under Climate Change: A Mixed-Paradigm of Preservation and Conservation Optimization by Xiao Xiao, Peizhe Li and Erin Seekamp in Journal of Travel Research

A two-year field experiment was conducted to elucidate the adaptive growth mechanism of maize under strip-till (ST) compared with conventional-till (CT). The biomass accumulation of ST plants was significantly lower than CT until V14 (14th leaf), but restored thereafter with one below-ear-node leaf reduced. At silking, the accumulation of nitrogen (N) was reduced by 8.3–10.7% compared to CT. During post-silking, vegetative-N remobilization was reduced by 20.4%, post-silking N uptake increased by 33.9% in ST compared...

Serum creatinine level are influenced by many factors. Although accumulated data suggested that prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics supplements could affect serum creatinine level, the results remained controversial. The aim of the present paper was to evaluate the effects of prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics on serum creatinine in non-dialysis patients. PubMed, EMBASE (Excerpta Medica Database) and the Cochrane Library databases were searched for eligible randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) which were limited to English language studies until...

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is an effective solution to ensure the secure transmission of information. However, for the large-scale application of QKD, the interoperability and flexibility of transmitter and receiver is an urgent issue to be solved. Here, for the first time, we experimentally verify the feasibility of one continuous-variable (CV) QKD system to achieve multiple protocols and rates. The flexibility of the system comes from the modulator realizing multiple protocols and a broadband coherent...

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is an effective solution to ensure the secure transmission of information. However, for the large-scale application of QKD, the interoperability and flexibility of transmitter and receiver is an urgent issue to be solved. Here, for the first time, we experimentally verify the feasibility of one continuous-variable (CV) QKD system to achieve multiple protocols and rates. The flexibility of the system comes from the modulator realizing multiple protocols and a broadband coherent...

It has been well-documented that posttraumatic stress symptoms cause impairments in health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Until now we have little data on how DSM-5 PTSD symptom dimensions relate to different aspects of HRQoL. Clarifying this question would be informative to improve the quality of life of PTSD patients. This study aimed to investigate the effects of dimensions of a well-supported seven-factor model of DSM-5 PTSD symptoms on physical and psychosocial HRQoL. A total of...

Supplemental material, sj-jpg-3-tej-10.1177_20417314221147113 for Construction of a pancreatic cancer nerve invasion system using brain and pancreatic cancer organoids by Chenyun Song, Xinyu Chen, Jixin Ma, Hada Buhe, Yang Liu, Hexige Saiyin and Lixiang Ma in Journal of Tissue Engineering

Prostate cancer (PCa) is as a serious threat to male’s health around the world. Recent studies have indicated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) occupy an important position in various human cancers. However, the function and mechanism of lncRNA DNMBP antisense RNA 1 (DNMBP-AS1) in PCa is rarely investigated. RT-qPCR analysis was used to test gene expression. CCK-8, colony formation, EdU staining and transwell assays were conducted to assess the function of DNMBP-AS1 on PCa cell...

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605221147434 for The inflammatory cytokine profiles and ocular biometric characteristics of primary angle-closure glaucoma by Hong-Bo Zeng, Jun-Di Jiang, Rong Li, Jian Li, Wen-Juan Zeng, Xiong-Kai Li, Bin Hu, Fei Zhou, Hai-Ying Yu, Jian-Guo Xie, Zhi-Neng Ning and Xian Wang in Journal of International Medical Research

Manipulating the polarization state of terahertz waves is critical for terahertz communication systems. In this study, a terahertz band polarization conversion metasurface based on dislocation-induced anisotropy is proposed. Numerical simulation results revealed that the polarization conversion of orthogonal linearly polarized light, left and right circularly polarized light, linearly polarized light to circularly polarized light, and circularly polarized light to linearly polarized light can be realized. Furthermore, the simulation revealed that multifunctional polarization conversion can be...

Abstract Chemotherapy is the main treatment option for advanced osteosarcoma, which is the most common type of primary bone malignancy. However, patients develop resistance rapidly and many succumb to the disease. Niclosamide, an anthelmintic drug, has been recently identified to display potent and selective anti-cancer activity. In this work, we show that niclosamide at sub-micromolar concentrations inhibits proliferation and migration, and induces apoptosis in both parental and chemo-resistant osteosarcoma cells, with much less toxicity in...

Large-scale sheep farming has conventionally relied on barcodes and ear tags, devices that can be difficult to implement and maintain, for sheep identification and tracking. Biological data have also been used for tracking in recent years but have not been widely adopted due to the difficulty and high costs of data collection. To address these issues, a noncontact facial recognition technique is proposed in this study, in which training data were acquired in natural conditions...

Non-reciprocal optical components such as isolators and circulators are crucial for preventing catastrophic back-reflection and controlling optical crosstalk in photonic systems. While non-reciprocal devices based on Brillouin intermodal transitions have been experimentally demonstrated in chip-scale platforms, harnessing such interactions has required a suspended waveguide structure, which is challenging to fabricate and is potentially less robust than a non-suspended structure, thereby limiting the design flexibility. In this paper, we numerically investigate the performance of a Brillouin-based...

Non-reciprocal optical components such as isolators and circulators are crucial for preventing catastrophic back-reflection and controlling optical crosstalk in photonic systems. While non-reciprocal devices based on Brillouin intermodal transitions have been experimentally demonstrated in chip-scale platforms, harnessing such interactions has required a suspended waveguide structure, which is challenging to fabricate and is potentially less robust than a non-suspended structure, thereby limiting the design flexibility. In this paper, we numerically investigate the performance of a Brillouin-based...

To evaluate and compare the blood lipid profile in retinal artery occlusion (RAO) and retinal vein occlusion (RVO). We included 82 RAO patients and 95 RVO patients in this retrospective case–control study. Controls were matched to RAO or RVO patients at a 1:1 ratio, respectively. Associated lipid variates were analyzed in multivariable logistic regression models. LDL-C (OR = 1.69), non-HDL-C (OR = 1.87), and ApoB (OR = 11.72) individually significantly increased the risk of RAO....

Crotonyanes A (1) and B (2), two new cembranoids were isolated from the leaves and twigs of Croton yanhuii Y. T. Chang. Their structures were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analyses and quantum chemical calculations. Bioassays verified that compound 1 exhibited an inhibitory effect on nitric oxide (NO) production in RAW 264.7 cells, with an IC50 value of 30.6 ± 4.3 µM.

Low meat performance is the defect of Small Tail Han sheep. Intramuscular fat affects meat quality and largely determined by adipogenesis. In previous study, miR136 was showed one of differentially expressed microRNAs between preadipocytes and mature adipocytes of Small Tail Han sheep but its role in adipogenesis is still not elucidated. Here, we investigated the effect of miR136 on adipogenesis and the underlying mechanism. qPCR data showed that miR136 level increased with preadipocytes proliferation while...

Supplemental material, sj-png-1-aim-10.1177_09645284221107685 for Effect of trigger point acupuncture on pain and functional activity in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain: a randomised controlled trial by Hong Liu, Ya-Ping Li, Mei-Jin Hou, Wu-Jie Huang, Xiao-Lin Chen, Zhen Gao and Zheng Jiang in Acupuncture in Medicine

Background:Trigger point (TrP) acupuncture is commonly used to treat chronic non-specific low back pain (CNLBP). Evidence for the efficacy of most TrP acupuncture modalities is weak or lacking.Objective:To assess the effect of TrP acupuncture on pain, disability, gait and muscle activation in patients with CNLBP.Methods:From May 2019 to February 2020, a randomised, single-blind clinical trial was carried out involving 33 participants with CNLBP, divided into one of two intervention groups or a control group (n...

Supplemental material, sj-pptx-1-cpa-10.1177_07067437231154993 for A Meta-Research of Randomized Controlled Trials in the Field of Mental Health: Comparing Pharmacological to Non-Pharmacological Interventions from 1955 to 2020 by Sheng Chen, PhD, Alina Lee, MSc, and Wei Wang, PhD in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-tct-10.1177_15330338231154092 for Genetic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Philadelphia-Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Carrying Concurrent Mutations in JAK2V617F, CALR, and MPL by Yan Wang, Fei Ran, Jin Lin, Jing Zhang and Dan Ma in Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment

Bundling has become an important operational tool for online retail platforms to attract consumers. Nevertheless, published empirical results on consumer behavior show that a bundle discount negatively influences the consumers’ perceived value of individual component products. We investigate how valuation discounts like these influence the online retail platforms’ decision optimization in bundling. Optimization models for mixed-joint and mixed-leader bundling are developed to analyze this effect. Based on the benchmark model of no-bundling, insightful implications are...

Bundling has become an important operational tool for online retail platforms to attract consumers. Nevertheless, published empirical results on consumer behavior show that a bundle discount negatively influences the consumers’ perceived value of individual component products. We investigate how valuation discounts like these influence the online retail platforms’ decision optimization in bundling. Optimization models for mixed-joint and mixed-leader bundling are developed to analyze this effect. Based on the benchmark model of no-bundling, insightful implications are...

In order to understand the research status of the relationship between health communication and doctor-patient relationship, and to explore a new path of the impact of health communication on doctor-patient relationship, this paper adopted qualitative methods to quantize the literature over the past 10 years in the Web of Science database and carried out Co-Authorship Analysis, Co-Citation Analysis and Co-Occurrence Analysis based on CiteSpace. In addition, according to the results of bibliometric research, self-designed questionnaires...