This study explored the association of exposure to air pollutants during gestational and the first year of life with physical growth in preschoolers. The linear and logistic regression models were used to estimate the associations between air pollution and childhood growth. After adjusting for confounders, z-scores of body mass index (zBMI, and 95% confidence intervals, 95%CI) increased by 1.164(1.054,1.285), 1.136(1.050,1.228) and 1.165(1.041,1.303), associated with per interquartile range (IQR) increase in NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), PM2.5 and...

Kiruna-type or IOA deposits are characterized by magnetite-apatite-actinolite associations and may contain considerable amounts of rare earth elements (REEs) that can be exploited as by-products. REEs in the Kiruna-type deposit, heterogeneously distributed, are mainly hosted in phosphates (e.g. apatite). Published data of apatite, together with other evidence, can be used to decipher the source, enrichment mechanism, and post-ore modification of REEs in the Kiruna-type deposits. Sr isotopes and melt inclusions compositions of apatite, together with...

The antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a systematic of relatively rare autoimmune diseases with unknown cause. Kidney involvement is one of the most common clinical manifestations, and the degree of renal damage is closely associated with the development and prognosis of AAV. In this study, we utilized the Robust Rank Aggreg (RRA) method in R to integrate GSE104948, GSE104954, GSE108109, GSE108112, and GSE108113 profile datasets loaded from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database and...

Additional file 1. Protocol for scoping review.

Additional file 2: Table 3. Self-assessment questions (modified from Lee et al., 2012 [33]).

Additional file 1. The IMP2 protein sequences.

Additional file 4. Fig. S3. Airn effected the fibrotic progress independent of TGF-β/smads signaling pathway in HG-treated CFs.

Additional file 1: Figure S1. The flow chart of Clip-Seq.

Additional file 1. Supplementary table 1. Search string conducted on Pubmed/Medline. Supplementary table 2. Data extraction tool. Supplementary table 3. Adapted version of Newcastle-Ottawa score. Supplementary table 4. Data extraction summary of selected studies. Supplementary table 5. Meta-aggregation results of initial symptoms by subtypes of IIM. Factors identified in case studies as related to diagnostic delay. Supplementary table 6. Factors identified in case studies as related to diagnostic delay. Supplementary table 7. Factors of diagnostic...

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Testing the equality of the means in two samples is a fundamental statistical inferential problem. Most of the existing methods are based on the sum-of-squares or supremum statistics. They are possibly powerful in some situations, but not in others, and they do not work in a unified way. Using random integration of the difference, we develop a framework that includes and extends many existing methods, especially in high-dimensional settings, without restricting the same covariance matrices...

The analysis of hierarchical interactions has long been a challenging problem due to the large number of candidate main effects and interaction effects, and the need for accommodating the “main effects, interactions” hierarchy. The two-stage analysis methods enjoy simplicity and low computational cost, but contradict the fact that the outcome of interest is attributable to the joint effects of multiple main factors and their interactions. The existing joint analysis methods can accurately describe the underlying...

The effective electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in alkaline aqueous is critical point to reduce energy losses for water electrolysis. Here, a highly active and stable electrochemical catalyst of platinum (Pt) nanoparticles loaded on three-dimensional Ti3C2Tx-reduced graphite oxide (rGO) hybrid support (Pt/Ti3C2Tx-rGO3D) has been developed for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The large surface of 3 D support provides an adequate site for deposition of Pt nanoparticles, leading to superior HER activity with low overpotential...

Supplementary Materials

Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Phylogenetic depiction of MAG distributions across Caribbean Ircinia species and redundancy in primary metabolic modes. The heatmap immediately to the right of the tree indicates the ln-transformed relative abundances of each MAG by host specimen. Species abbreviations accompanying specimen labels at the bottom of the heatmap are as follows: ICam (I. campana), IcfR (I. cf. reteplana), IRad (I. radix), ILae (I. laeviconulosa), IBoc (I. bocatorensis B), ILow (I. lowi), IVan...

Additional file 2: Fig. S2. Plots depicting prevalence of MAGs associated with Caribbean Ircinia by source and region, inferred using the relative abundance matrix produced by CoverM. A. Bar chart depicting the percent of MAGs that are found across multiple host species. B. Bar chart depicting the regional specificity of MAGs. C. PCA of taxonomic community compositions of each host species’ microbiome.

Detecting forest disturbances and attributing their contributing agents with Landsat time series (LTS) images has advanced substantially in recent years; however, whether different forest types require individual disturbance indices or specific disturbance thresholds to accurately map forest disturbances and their causes over a vast region remains limited known. This study investigated the effectiveness of six spectral indices (SIs) and two threshold methods (a forest-specific threshold and a common threshold) for detecting forest disturbances among four...

As per the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) requirements, the quality and efficacy of generic drugs must be consistent with those of the innovator drug. We aimed to evaluate the bioequivalence and safety of generic metformin hydrochloride sustained-release (MH-SR) tablets (Boke®) developed by Beijing Wanhui Double-crane Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., China and the innovator product metformin hydrochloride extended-release tablets (Glucophage®-XR) manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, New York, NY, in healthy Chinese volunteers. We performed a bioequivalence...

Additional file 7: Table S1. Growth rate of strain expressing various related genes in different medium.

Additional file 1: Supplementary results. Fig. S1. Flow chartof inclusion/exclusion of participants in this study. Fig. S2. Cumulative incidence of overall early-onset kidneydiseases later in life among children by age of diagnosis of type 1 diabetesmellitus (0-5, 6-12, and 13-17 years). Fig. S3. Cumulative incidence of overall early-onset kidney diseases later inlife among children by age of diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (0-5, 6-12,and 13-17 years). Table S1. International Classification of Diseases codes for...

Additional file 1: Fig. S1. 11C-UCB-J activity curves in putamen (closed circles) with model fits (solid curves). a and b Displacement (LEV, 1500 mg at 60 min) and post-dose scans, c and d displacement (BRV, 200 mg at 60 min) and post-dose scans. CND(t) and CS(t) was displayed in the dotted curves and break curves, respectively. Fig. S2. 11C-UCB-J activity curves in cerebellum (closed circles) with model fits (solid curves). a and b displacement (LEV,...

Additional file 2: Table S1. Clinical characteristics of the fetal cases. Table S2. Fetuses with diagnostic or VUS results obtained additional new phenotypes during prenatal and/or postnatal period. Table S3. Fetuses with positive diagnostic results detected by ES. Table S4. Diagnostic rates in different malformation subgroups. Table S5. Diagnostic rates in relation to NT measurement range. Table S6. Number of variants analyzed in step 1 and 2- case by case. Table S7. Number of variants...

Supplemental Material for Conductive, self-healing, and antibacterial Ag/MXene-PVA hydrogel as wearable skin-like sensors by Lumin Li, Xiaofeng Ji and Kai Chen in Journal of Biomaterials Applications

Additional file 6: Table S3. Acceptance of WeChat among intervention group and control group.

Additional file 7: Table S4. Theeffectiveness of primary and secondary outcome within each group.