Jiangsu University

Toward Sustainable Mechanized Production of Processing Tomatoes: Crop–Machine Interactions, Operational Trade-Offs, and Pathways for Intelligent Control

Mechanized production of processing tomatoes depends on coordinated operations, but crop variability and successive material transfers make performance strongly condition-dependent. This narrative review used structured, non-systematic literature identification across multidiscip...

Number of natural teeth and incident cognitive impairment in older Chinese adults

This study aimed to examine the longitudinal association between baseline number of natural teeth and incident cognitive impairment among older Chinese adults in the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey and explore whether dietary diversity partially mediated this associ...

Exploring hydrogen production from plastic waste for urban transportation in Hong Kong and its environmental impact mitigation: integrating dynamic material flow analysis and life cycle assessment

Plastic waste to hydrogen technology offers a sustainable clean energy pathway while reducing landfill and incineration burdens. However, its feasibility as a feedstock for urban mobility decarbonization at the city scale remains largely unexplored. Hong Kong, as a densely popula...

Multimodal Transformer Integrating CT and Pathology for Postoperative Risk Stratification in Stage I Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

A biologically interpretable multimodal artificial intelligence framework outperformed guideline-based postoperative risk stratification for stage I non–small cell lung cancer and identified patients who would benefit from adjuvant therapy.

High-Performance Self-Powered PbSe/Ag2Se Heterojunction Photodetector Enabled by Annealing-Induced in Situ Electrode Phase Conversion

Lead selenide (PbSe) thin films are attractive for room-temperature infrared photodetection, yet efficient self-powered operation relies on the construction of a high-quality heterojunction. Herein, an asymmetric Ag/PbSe/Ni electrode structure was fabricated and subsequently anne...

Modeling and Analysis of Slope-Dependent Response Properties of Gas-Insulated Transmission Line System Under Vehicle-Induced Loads

When a gas-insulated transmission line (GIL) is suspended beneath a bridge with a slope, moving vehicle loads generate both normal and tangential components acting on the supporting system, inducing coupled vibrations among the enclosure, conductors, and insulators. This paper es...

Multimodal Sensing and Machine Learning for Nondestructive Quality and Safety Assessment of Agricultural Products

The demand for non-destructive evaluation of agricultural products has stimulated the emergence of multimodal sensing technologies capable of integrating diverse quality- and safety-related information. Recent advances in multimodal sensing and machine learning (ML) have enabled...

CFD–DEM Analysis and Field Evaluation of a Dual-Roller Fresh-Safflower Filament Harvester with Pneumatic-Assisted Separation

To achieve the efficient mechanized harvesting of fresh safflower filaments, this paper proposes a harvesting device using dual-roller gripping and pneumatic-assisted separation. According to the mechanical properties of fresh filaments, the meta-particle method is employed to co...

Electron‑Sponge S‑Scheme Heterojunctions via Mo–N Bridging Enable Highly Selective Photocatalytic CO 2 Methanation

ABSTRACT The kinetic limitations of multi‐electron transfer present a fundamental challenge to achieve selective CO 2 photoreduction to CH 4 . This work pioneers an interface electron‐flux intensification strategy by constructing a Mo–N‐bridged S‐scheme phosphomolybdic acid (PMA)...

Extracellular vesicle-derived circ6853 drives vascular remodeling and serves as a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for gastric cancer

Gastric cancer (GC), a leading global malignancy, urgently requires the discovery of novel diagnostic and therapeutic targets. The roles of extracellular vesicle (EV)- derived circular RNAs (circRNAs) as diagnostic biomarkers and functional regulators, particularly in vascular re...

Federated Distillation: A Survey

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing clients’ raw data, but parameter exchange can impose substantial communication costs and usually requires compatible model architectures. Federated distillation (FD) instead transfers predictive or...

Fully coupled large-strain consolidation and contaminant transport model for PVD-treated dredged sludge under vacuum-surcharge preloading

Installing prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) combined with vacuum-surcharge preloading promotes contaminant transport and leads to solute redistribution. This process is governed by complex interactions among soil deformation, water flow and solute transport. Simplified uncoup...

Pathways to sustainable business model transformation: corporate governance, strategic leadership and business strategy

Purpose In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, firms face increasing pressure to adopt sustainable practices, with the circular economy (CE) model emerging as a transformative pathway toward environmental and economic resilience. This study aims to investigate the role...

Sustainable syngas production by photothermal dry reforming of bio-ethanol over a Ni/Mn0.1Ce0.9O2 catalyst

Syngas production via the dry reforming of ethanol (EDR) offers a sustainable pathway for carbon capture and bio-energy valorization, yet traditional thermal catalysis is plagued by severe coking and metal sintering. In this study, a Ni/Mn 0.1 Ce 0.9 O 2 catalyst was designed to...

Antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of Zataria multiflora essential oil and its delivery systems in food

Zataria multiflora , known as Avishane Shirazi (Shirazi thyme) or Persian thyme, is one of the most popular aromatic and medicinal plants in Iran. Zataria multiflora essential oil (ZEO) has been reported to have various biological activities. The studies showed that ZEO had signi...

Enhancing the Performance of Aqueous Lithium‐Ion Batteries via N‐Methylpyrrolidone Additive

ABSTRACT Aqueous lithium‐ion batteries (ALIBs) have garnered significant attention in the field of energy storage due to their inherent safety. However, their practical application is severely constrained by a narrow electrochemical window and electrolyte crystallization at low t...

Beyond the food tray: linking school nutrition and feeding programmes to student health and academic outcomes through health literacy and mental health

School nutrition and feeding programmes are pivotal in addressing both public health and educational challenges, yet their multidimensional impacts remain underexplored in resource-constrained settings. Guided by the Health-Promoting Schools (HPS) framework, this study examined t...

Visual Perception and Autonomous Navigation Control for Orchard Robots: From Scene Understanding to Closed-Loop Motion Execution

Autonomous navigation is essential for orchard robots performing spraying, weeding, inspection, harvesting, and transport, yet semi-structured orchards combine repeatable tree-row geometry with canopy occlusion, uneven illumination, weak road boundaries, terrain variation, and in...

Zero-Shot Water Monitoring from Fixed Drainage Surveillance Imagery Across Day/Night and Rain/No-Rain Conditions: A SAM 3 Benchmark at 25 Urban Sites

Urban drainage systems rely on fixed surveillance cameras that operate continuously under daytime, nighttime-infrared, rainy, and non-rainy conditions, yet most vision-based water-monitoring methods are validated only on daytime imagery and require costly pixel-level annotation....

IRP1 affects the long-term survival and function of iTregs by regulating ferroptosis and apoptosis

As an important classification of Tregs, iTregs play a critical role in inducing transplant immune tolerance. Iron metabolism is closely linked to iTreg function, and IRP1 serves as a central regulator of cellular iron homeostasis. However, the relationship between IRP1 and iTreg...