Improving the vitality of cities has long been considered an important goal of planning. However, people’s understanding of how complex and diverse built environment factors affect urban vitality is still limited. In recent years, the emergence of new data provides a new perspective for the study of urban vitality. In this article, the spatio-temporal variation of urban vitality was quantitatively measured by using Baidu heat map, and the influence of built environment factors on urban...

Developing a confidence interval for the ratio of two quantities is an important task in statistics because of its omnipresence in real world applications. For such a problem, the MOVER-R (method of variance recovery for the ratio) technique, which is based on the recovery of variance estimates from confidence limits of the numerator and the denominator separately, was proposed as a useful and efficient approach. However, this method implicitly assumes that the confidence interval for...

Talaromyces marneffei tends to induce systemic infection in immunocompromised individuals, which is one of the causes of the high mortality. The underlying molecular mechanisms of T.marneffei-induced abnormal liver function are still poorly understood. In this study, we found that T.marneffei-infected patients could develop abnormal liver function, evidenced by reduced albumin and increased levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and AST/alanine aminotransferase (ALT). T. marneffei-infected mice exhibited similar characteristics. In vitro investigations showed that T.marneffei induced the...

The emergence and worldwide spread of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pose a threat to human health. While bacteriophages are recognized as an effective alternative to treat infections caused by drug resistant pathogens, some bacteriophages in particular the temperate bacteriophage may also influence the virulence of the host bacteria in distinct ways. In this study, we isolated a bacteriophage vB_Saus_PHB21 from an epidermal sample of Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) using an MRSA strain SA14 as...

The performance of a mixture-based picosecond laser mirror (MPLM) coating, particularly the picosecond (ps) laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT), is investigated. Two types of 1053 nm ps laser mirror coatings are deposited using electron-beam evaporation: an MPLM coating consists of alternating layers of the HfO₂-Al₂O₃ mixture and SiO₂, and a traditional picosecond laser mirror (TPLM) coating consists of alternating layers of HfO₂ and SiO₂. Comparative studies on the optical, microstructural and mechanical properties, and LIDT are...

With doses simulating those received by spent nuclear fuel (SNF) facilities, gamma-ray (γ-ray) irradiation experiments were conducted on hexagonal zirconium. γ-ray irradiation–induced crystalline defects were observed in the hexagonal zirconium and characterized. Monte Carlo calculations combined with Transmission Electron Microscopy characterizations revealed that the energy of primary knock-on atoms could reach the threshold energy (Ed) of zirconium atoms and result in dislocation loops within the α-zirconium grains. The influence of γ dose on dislocation loop...

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One landmark application of evolutionary game theory is the study of social dilemmas. This literature explores why people cooperate even when there are strong incentives to defect. Much of this literature, however, assumes that interactions are symmetric. Individuals are assumed to have the same strategic options and the same potential payoffs. Yet many interesting questions arise once individuals are allowed to differ. Here, we study asymmetry in simple coordination games. In our set-up, human participants...

Background: Homologous repair deficiency (HRD) causes double-strand break repair to be impeded, which is a common driver of carcinogenesis. However, the therapeutic and prognostic potential of HRD in invasive breast cancer (BRCA) has not been fully explored using comprehensive bioinformatics analysis. Materials and Methods: HRD score was defined as the unweighted sum of LOH, TAI, and LST scores and obtained from the previous study according to Theo A et al. To characterize BRCA tumor microenvironment...

Primary pulmonary venous malformation is rare and usually presents as single or multiple round masses or nodules. Here, we present the first report of a case of venous malformation presenting as Mauritia arabica-like bronchial wall thickness that was initially misdiagnosed as bronchiectasis. A Chinese man in his late 20s presented complaining of hemoptysis for 10 days. Computed tomography demonstrated bronchiectasis and M. arabica-like bronchial wall thickening in the left lower lobe. He was unresponsive to...

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Driving Simulator, a powerful simulation tool, has already been used in safety evaluation of roadway geometric design during the pre-construction design stage. Conventional ways of estimating proper sample size include the empirical method, the resource equation, power analysis, and the Bayesian method. However, significant boundaries and prior distributions of operational indices are hard to identify in simulator studies, which makes it difficult to use conventional ways in choosing the acceptable sample size. This study proposes...

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Additional file 1: Table S1. Sequences of siRNAs for transfection.

Additional file 3: Table S3. Supplemental Table 3. The GSVA results of MSKCC (GSE21032) dataset.

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Additional file 3: Table S3. Supplemental Table 3. The GSVA results of MSKCC (GSE21032) dataset.

Additional file 7: Table S7. The results of univariate Cox regression analysis in the MSKCC cohort.

Supplemental Material for MiR-3612 targeting THBS1 suppresses nasopharyngeal carcinoma progression by PI3K/AKT signaling pathway by Wei Zhang, Qiu Zhang, Qianbo Cui and Yu Xu in Human and Experimental Toxicology