Hunan Normal University

Intensive Care Unit Patients' Perspectives and Experiences in Using Virtual Reality Technology: A Qualitative Meta‐Synthesis

BACKGROUND: As Intensive Care Unit (ICU) survival improves, attention has shifted towards patients' psychological well-being and recovery. Although Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly used in critical care, patients' experiences of VR interventions have not been comprehensively...

Safety and Short-Term Clinical Outcomes of Robot-Assisted Lobectomy Based on the Tubeless Concept for Early-Stage Lung Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study

AIM: The Tubeless comprehensive management model minimizes iatrogenic trauma by avoiding endotracheal intubation, chest tube placement, and urinary catheterization, while the robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery system offers precise surgical manipulation and high-definition visu...

Manganese Dioxide Modified Low-Temperature Pyrolytic Carbon Rich in Oxygen-Containing Functional Groups for Efficient Vanadium Ion Adsorption

Vanadium-bearing wastewater threatens aquatic ecosystems and human health, calling for efficient, low-cost adsorbents. In this study, low-temperature pyrolytic carbon rich in oxygen-containing functional groups is prepared from Camellia oleifera fruit shells (COS) and modified wi...

Resident Medical Insurance Contribution Schemes and Fiscal Burden in China: An Actuarial Projection Under Demographic Dynamics

Deepening population aging is increasing the long-term financing pressure on China’s resident medical insurance fund. This paper constructs an actuarial model for the medical insurance fund that accounts for dynamic population structure changes by integrating the BayesTFR model a...

Group-Aware Spectral Perturbation Consistency Network for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Hyperspectral Image Classification

Cross-domain few-shot hyperspectral image classification is challenged by scarce target-domain annotations, sensor-induced domain shifts, and spectral abnormalities, including band loss, noise, and spectral misalignment. To address these issues, we propose a Group-aware Spectral...

Phase separation of PHLDB2 promotes lung adenocarcinoma progression through FLNA stabilization and ERK activation

Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is the most common histological subtype of lung cancer, but the phase separation-related mechanisms that support its progression remain poorly defined. By integrating phase separation-related gene profiling with prognostic modeling, we identified PHLDB2...

From Liberal to Punitive: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Multilevel Health Needs Among MSM Engaged in Chemsex

Chemsex among men who have sex with men (MSM) is a complex health issue shaped by individual, interpersonal, community, and structural factors. This systematic review aimed to synthesize the lived experiences and healthcare needs of MSM engaging in chemsex across diverse sociocul...

Goal Orientations and Engagement in Chinese University EFL Learning: Evidence from SEM and LPA

Sustaining engagement is a central challenge in university EFL learning, especially in contexts where English study is closely tied to assessment, peer comparison, and career opportunities. Drawing on achievement goal theory, this study examined how four second-language achieveme...

Life history strategy and the Dark Triad: A meta-analysis of trait-specific associations

Life History (LH) Theory has been increasingly employed as an evolutionary framework for understanding individual differences in the Dark Triad. However, findings remain inconsistent regarding trait-specific associations between LH strategy and the Dark Triad. This meta-analysis...

Breaking the vicarious trap: two buffers against close others’ environmental influence

Abstract Background Close others' pro-environmental or anti-environmental behaviors can create a vicarious trap: good deeds trigger licensing (reducing one's own effort), and bad deeds induce identification (justifying inaction). However, how this trap can be mitigated remains un...

How incentive mechanisms affect the dynamic internalization of low-carbon behavior? A perspective from carbon inclusion platforms

The carbon inclusion platform, as an important digital tool for promoting public low-carbon lifestyles, guides individuals to engage in low-carbon behavior through mechanisms such as point incentives, behavioral feedback, and social interaction, and plays an increasingly importan...

Spatial responses of ecosystem services to future climate change across China in the mid-21st century

Accurately identifying ecosystem-service (ES) responses to future climate change is essential for improving ecological conservation and restoration and for developing targeted adaptation strategies. However, coherent future response zones across multiple regulating services and t...

Global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for the MHD equations with large L3-initial values

This paper is concerned with the weak solution theory for the MHD system with large 𝐿 3 -initial data. Due to the fact that the natural boundary condition on the magnetic field H is the slip boundary condition, the Leray-Schauder fixed-point theorem, which have used to investigat...

Extracellular Vesicle‐Encapsulated Small RNAs From Clostridium Butyricum Modulate Host Intestinal Lipid Metabolism

ABSTRACT The gut microbiota plays a critical role in regulating intestinal lipid metabolism, yet the mechanisms governing microbiota–host interactions during lipid uptake remain unclear. Here, we examined the relationship between fat digestibility and gut microbial composition, a...

Dioscin attenuates D‑galactose‑induced retinal pigment epithelium senescence and epithelial–mesenchymal transition via the TGF‑β2/PI3K/Akt/β‑catenin pathway

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the protective effects of Dioscin in an age-related macular degeneration (AMD) -like model and to explore its potential therapeutic mechanisms. Methods The therapeutic potential of Dioscin for AMD was investigated using D-galactose-induced sen...

Customized Itinerant Frequency Combs by Cascaded Nonlinear Effects

ABSTRACT Frequency combs are pivotal in nonlinear optics, with extensive applications in modern optics and precision measurement. Precise control over their critical parameters is essential to enhance performance and expand the range of applications. In this work, we develop a ca...

Thinking on maps: how foundation model agents explore, remember, and reason in map environments

Map environments provide a fundamental medium for representing spatial structure. Understanding how foundation model (FM) agents understand and act in such environments is therefore critical for enabling reliable map-based reasoning and applications. However, most existing evalua...

Preschoolers' peer preferences for observable empathy‐related responses to others' emotions

Abstract Empathy supports early peer relationships, yet whether preschoolers use unfamiliar peers' observable empathy‐related responses when making initial peer choices remains unclear. Guided by a functionalist perspective, the present research examined whether preschoolers' pee...

A new species of Denisiphantes Tu, Li & Rollard, 2005 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Yunnan, China

(Schenkel, 1963) (♂♀) are presented. A distribution map is also provided.

Targeting the m6A reader YTHDF1 for overcoming cancer therapeutic resistance and enhancing tumor immunotherapy

N6-methyladenosine (m⁶A) is a major post-transcriptional RNA modification that regulates RNA stability, translation, degradation, and immune-related gene expression. As a key m⁶A reader, YTHDF1 mainly promotes the translation of m⁶A-modified transcripts and has emerged as an impo...