Nantong University

Renewable energy clusters and local economic development in China: Innovation and employment effects

This paper examines whether renewable energy clusters generate measurable innovation spillovers and employment gains across Chinese prefectural-level cities. China has emerged as the world's largest producer and installer of renewable energy capacity, yet evidence on the local ec...

A physics-regularized reliability-aware learning framework for non-contact blink monitoring using millimeter-wave radar

Continuous monitoring of eye-blink activity provides a non-contact behavioral indicator relevant to fatigue-related applications and human-state monitoring. Reliable radar-based sensing remains difficult under the tested single-user office-like desktop conditions because blink-in...

Network meta-analysis of intrathyroidal injection of combined dexamethasone with lidocaine for subacute thyroiditis

Background: Intrathyroidal injection of dexamethasone (Dex) alone (monotherapy) or combined Dex with lidocaine (combination therapy) has been used for treating subacute thyroiditis (SAT). We performed this study to simultaneously determine whether intrathyroidal injection of Dex...

Inhibition of neuronal DICER–miR-34a/346 signaling attenuates amyloid pathology in 5×FAD mice

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators of genes underlying Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis, yet the role of neuronal DICER, a key ribonuclease essential for miRNA maturation, remains unclear. While biochemical analysis of human postmortem cortical tissues revealed upreg...

Lightweight Gait-Based Person Identification via Transmit-Channel Differential Encoding with MIMO Millimeter-Wave Radar

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar enables non-contact human identification by exploiting gait micro-Doppler signatures without capturing visual imagery. Nevertheless, practical deployment encounters several critical challenges: strong torso echoes that obscure faint limb-motion feat...

Divergence measures for T-spherical fuzzy sets with applications to multi-criteria decision making and pattern classification

T-spherical fuzzy sets are a powerful extension of fuzzy, intuitionistic, and picture fuzzy frameworks, providing greater flexibility in modeling uncertainty through three independent membership degrees: positive, neutral, and negative. Despite their growing applications in decis...

miR-205-3p induces pyroptosis in triple-negative breast cancer by targeting HSP90AB1 and antagonizing MELK

Pyroptosis, a form of inflammatory programmed cell death, has emerged as a significant pathway in cancer biology, yet its regulatory mechanisms in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remain incompletely understood. Integrated bioinformatics analysis of GEO datasets identified ke...

Protonation-associated regulation of buried PEDOT:PSS interfaces enables improved performance in inverted perovskite solar cells

The buried poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS)/perovskite interface strongly influences inverted perovskite solar cells, whereas the acidic and hydrophilic PSS-rich surface can adversely affect perovskite film formation and interfacial stability. He...

Yield-stress evolution of cement-stabilised soil under constant and variable curing-stress paths

Yield stress is important for evaluating the compression behaviour of cement-stabilised soil in deep mixing, jet grouting and ground improvement with preloading. Previous studies have shown that constant curing stress can increase yield stress, but whether this increase is mainly...

Electronic origin of catalytic methane pyrolysis on NiMoM-Bi alloys: a bader charge descriptor

Methane pyrolysis can produce hydrogen without direct CO 2 emissions, but catalyst deactivation by solid carbon remains a central barrier. Molten alloys provide dynamically renewed catalytic interfaces, but promoter effects on methane activation remain poorly resolved. Here we ex...

Axillary nerve risk mapping and arm-length-based prediction in percutaneous proximal humeral fracture fixation

Detailed knowledge of axillary nerve anatomy and its relationship to a proximal humeral locking plate is important for reducing iatrogenic nerve injury during percutaneous minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO) for proximal humeral fractures. Twelve adult upper-limb cadav...

Core–Shell PtIr Nanocubes with Lewis Acidic Ir Sites for Enhanced Ammonia Electrooxidation in Direct Ammonia Fuel Cells

Abstract Direct ammonia fuel cells (DAFCs) represent a promising carbon-neutral energy technology, yet their practical application is severely hindered by the sluggish kinetics of the anodic ammonia oxidation reaction on traditional platinum-based catalysts. Herein, high-crystall...

Correlation analysis between cerebrovascular intervention therapy and perioperative blood pressure variability and cerebral blood flow reserve in elderly patients with intracranial artery stenosis

To explore the correlation between neurological function prognosis, perioperative blood pressure variability (BPV), and the change rate of cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) in elderly patients with intracranial arterial stenosis (ICAS) undergoing cerebrovascular intervention th...

Driver gene-based prognostic model benchmarked against machine learning survival models is associated with a CAF–TGFβ–EMT-like phenotype in hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is molecularly heterogeneous, limiting conventional prognostic tools. Whole-genome resequencing of six HCC cases was used only to filter candidates. Somatically mutated genes were intersected with HCC-annotated entries from five predefined driver re...

Macrophage-mimetic liposomal nanovesicles deliver CXCR2 antagonists to suppress CXCL2-driven breast cancer and atherosclerotic progression

The coexistence of breast cancer (BC) and atherosclerosis (AS) is increasingly recognized as an inflammation-driven comorbidity. This study identifies the CXCL2–CXCR2 signaling axis as a pivotal mechanistic link underlying both diseases and introduces a macrophage-mimetic nanopla...

Association between pericoronary CT fat attenuation index and coronary artery spasm

Fat attenuation index (FAI) is currently used in research on coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, but there are no reports on FAI applications in coronary artery spasm (CAS). In this study, we explored the association between pericoronary FAI and CAS. Patients who had chest pa...

Phase-change-storage dual-heat-source thermoelectric system for photovoltaic-diesel waste-heat complementation

Photovoltaic (PV) modules suffer from efficiency losses of 0.4–0.5% per °C temperature rise, while diesel engines discharge approximately 30% of fuel energy as exhaust waste heat, both issues remaining largely unaddressed in standalone systems. This study designed a dual-heat-sou...

Hypertension knowledge, medication adherence, and BP control in community-dwelling hypertensive older adults: a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Hypertension affects 31.6% of Chinese adults, yet medication nonadherence (30-50%) remains a critical barrier to control. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between hypertension knowledge, medication adherence, and lifestyle factors, and...

lfspin: light-front spin dynamics, exact benchmarks and physics-informed neural network solver

Code and data for the Letter N. S. Akintsov, A. P. Nevecheria, S. N. Andreev, Qing-Hua Qin, Rapidity-Coupled Spin Dynamics in Pulsed Laser Fields from Physics-Informed Neural Networks, submitted to Physical Review A. An electron crosses a plane-wave laser pulse with a cos² envelo...

Noncanonical function of Claudin-1 mitigates lethal endoplasmic reticulum stress to drive prostate cancer lineage plasticity and chemoresistance

Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is a lethal subtype of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) driven by therapy-induced lineage plasticity. While endoplasmic reticulum (ER) homeostasis is critical for cell fate determination and therapeutic response, the molecular mech...