North China University of Science and Technology

XGBoost–SHAP-based interpretable predictive website for postoperative in-hospital mortality in patients with acute aortic dissection

Developing a convenient and accurate prognostic model for patients with acute aortic dissection (AAD) using routine demographic and clinical data is challenging. This study aimed to develop an interpretable web-based prediction model using extreme gradient boosting with Shapley a...

Prognostic Evaluation of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients After Mechanical Thrombectomy Incorporating Imaging, Inflammatory, and Rehabilitation Aspects

AIM: We aimed to perform a prognostic evaluation for patients with acute ischemic stroke after mechanical thrombectomy (MT) incorporating imaging, inflammatory, and rehabilitation aspects.METHODS: A retrospective cohort analysis of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) after...

Meta-Analysis of Green Manure Incorporation Effects on Soil Aggregates and Organic Carbon

Green manure incorporation is widely used to improve soil structure and enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation; however, the overall effects on soil aggregate distribution and carbon allocation among different aggregate fractions remain uncertain across diverse field cond...

Moral courage in nursing students before internship: A network analysis

Background Moral courage helps nursing students respond to ethically difficult situations, yet little is known about how its dimensions relate to ethical sensitivity, professional identity, and emotional intelligence at the dimension level. Research objective This study examined...

Plasma Glutamine and Glutamate in Relation to Clinical Outcomes After Ischemic Stroke: A Multicenter Prospective Study

Background Glutamine (Gln) and glutamate (Glu) have been suggested to play a pivotal role in neuronal homeostasis and metabolic regulation, showing potential as prognostic biomarkers for stroke. This study aimed to evaluate the associations of plasma Gln, Glu, and glutamine‐to‐gl...

Research on the Influence of Limestone Particle Size on the Smelting Effect of Converter Injection Smelting Process

This study investigates the influence of limestone particle size on slag dephosphorization performance during converter injection smelting. High‐temperature calcination and slag dephosphorization experiments were conducted at 1673 K using limestone particles with average sizes of...

Effects of synergistic ultrasonic–NaClO treatment on coal microstructure at different liquid saturations

Efficient coalbed methane (CBM) extraction is important for safe coal mining and for utilizing this gas as a relatively clean energy resource. Low–permeability coal is generally characterized by a compact matrix and poorly connected pore–fracture networks, which restrict methane...

Attention-Mamba cooperative prediction and regulation model for blast furnace hot metal output based on time-lag features

The blast furnace is a high-temperature closed black-box reaction vessel. Its internal physical and chemical processes are characterized by strong coupling, large time delay, and multivariable heterogeneous time lags, which severely restrict the accurate prediction and closed-loo...

Tracking vegetation disturbance, recovery, and sustainability in open-pit mining areas of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region from 2000 to 2024

Evaluating the overarching efficacy of environmental rehabilitation initiatives and driving sustainable progress within open-pit mining areas heavily depends on the precise, sustained tracking of both vegetative degradation and its subsequent regenerative phases. Overcoming the b...

Effects of metallic components in ambient PM₂.₅ on pediatric respiratory diseases in Shijiazhuang

Considerable attention has been paid to the short-term association between ambient PM 2.5 exposure and children’s respiratory health, yet evidence on individual and combined exposure to its metal components remains limited, especially in typical industrial cities. Based on daily...

CNN-BiLSTM-transformer-PINN-based dual-channel loss decoupling for ultra-high sensitivity dual-core PCF-SPR sensor

In response to the problems of channel crosstalk, insufficient sensitivity, and the loss of full spectral information and inability to separate superimposed losses in the dual-parameter photonic crystal fiber surface plasmon resonance (PCF-SPR) sensor, this paper designs a dual-c...

Shift work and TyG-metabolic obesity indices on hypertension incidence among male steelworkers: a prospective cohort study

Male steelworkers face elevated hypertension risk due to shift work and occupational exposures. However, the impact of TyG-related metabolic obesity indices on steelworkers remains unclear. This study focused on five TyG metabolic obesity indices (TyG-WWI, TyG-WHtR, TyG-BMI, TyG-...

A novel framework for distributed multi-output prediction tasks in rolling processes: A case study on cold rolling strip flatness

Strip flatness in tandem cold rolling is a distributed quality attribute characterized by a widthwise profile, whereas most data-driven predictors use only discrete process parameters and cannot accurately capture this spatially distributed target. Mechanism-based models can desc...

Thermofluid Behavior During Post‐VD Soft Argon Stirring of X80 Pipeline Steel: Coupled Modeling and Industrial Validation

Postvacuum degassing (VD) soft argon stirring controls temperature homogenization and interfacial stability during clean steel refining. A 3D transient coupled flow and heat‐transfer model was developed for a 210 t ladle during post‐VD soft stirring of X80 pipeline steel. Four qu...

Recent advances of digital PCR technology

Purpose Testing is increasingly vital in fields such as disease diagnosis, food safety and public health monitoring. This review provides an in-depth analysis of the principles, main platforms and applications of digital PCR (dPCR), with the aim of facilitating its further optimi...

Tuning the Photophysical Properties of Corannulene-Based D–A–A Emitters via Steric Isolation and Conformational Flexibility

Abstract We report an asymmetric donor–acceptor–acceptor (D–A–A) strategy to investigate the photophysical properties of corannulene luminogens through the integration of phenylene bridges. Comparison of bridge-free, single-bridged, and double-bridged architectures reveals distin...

Research Progress and Prospect of Ultralow Phosphorus Steel Smelting Technology

Ultralow phosphorus steel (phosphorus content ≤ 0.005%) is a key material for high‐end equipment manufacturing in fields such as nuclear power, marine engineering, and high‐pressure vessels, where phosphorus content control is the core technology. Molten steel dephosphorization i...

Evaluation of bone fracture risk among men with prostate cancer treated with androgen receptor pathway inhibitor-containing therapies: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) are widely used across multiple prostate cancer disease states, but fracture outcomes are inconsistently reported across randomized trials. We aimed to quantify the risks of all-grade and grade ≥ 3 trial-reported fracture-related adver...

Research progress in the preparation of lactic acid from biomass by chemical catalytic process

Abstract Lactic acid (LA) is a versatile platform chemical widely used in food, pharmaceutical, and biodegradable plastic industries. While industrial LA production predominantly relies on fermentation, the chemo-catalytic conversion of renewable biomass-especially non-edible lig...

Ensemble fire probability prediction by integrating meteorological AI models with lightweight prediction networks

Wildfires pose persistent threats to ecosystems and human safety, making timely fire-risk assessment essential for disaster prevention and resource management. However, conventional wildfire early-warning approaches are often constrained by static fire-weather indices or machine-...