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Southern University of Science and Technology
Recent research
- Health & MedicineOpen access
The novel oxygenation index (NOI), which incorporates mean airway pressure (Pmean) as a key respiratory parameter, is increasingly being investigated for its enhanced ability to reflect patients’ pulmonary function compared to the traditional oxygenation index (OI). This study ai...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Satellite altimetry reveals heterogeneity in global flood peak timing and its shifts
Flood peak timing (FloPT) is a key indicator of hydrological responses to climate change. Yet global FloPT assessments is limited by sparse and uneven in-situ discharge observations. Here, we demonstrated the capability of satellite altimetry to estimate FloPT worldwide and prese...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Traffic congestion control for ARZ model with an arbitrarily large input delay
This paper addresses the stabilisation problem for Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) traffic model in the presence of an arbitrarily large input delay. The linearised ARZ model is a 2×2 hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) system with proximal reflection, which introduces significa...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Severe mpox virus (MPXV) infection causes immunopathological manifestations in patients. Here, we provide clinical evidence of MPXV-induced inflammation in a large patient cohort and demonstrate direct macrophage infection in skin tissues from an autopsied mpox patient. In human...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Spatial closed-loop and multi-loop mechanisms are common in kinematic analysis and mechanism design. However, tracing their multi-degree-of-freedom kinematic paths under intricate geometric constraints remains challenging. Traditional branch-and-prune methods suffer from exponent...
- Engineering & Technology
Abstract Widely used as hole transport layers (HTLs) for inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the functions of phosphonic acid-based self-assembly monolayer (SAM) molecules in the bulk of the perovskite film have been studied in a limited manner but are essential. In this work...
- Engineering & Technology
Abstract High-voltage operation of nickel-rich cathodes (>4.5 V) significantly boosts the energy density of lithium-ion batteries but triggers catastrophic oxidative decomposition of conventional ether electrolytes. Under high-potential electric fields, ether molecules in the ele...
- Health & Medicine
PURPOSE This trial evaluated whether the addition of sitagliptin to antithymocyte globulin (ATG)–based prophylaxis reduces the incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) after alternative donor hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. METHODS This prospective, multicent...
- Open access
High-quality Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are essential for accurately estimating lake storage variations, but the high cost of in-situ measurements limits their large-scale application. Reconstructing DEMs from remote sensing-derived lake contours is a promising low-cost alte...
- BiologyOpen access
Trade-off between flux efficiency and metabolic control shapes enzyme allocation
Efficient use of limited cellular resources is fundamental to metabolism. Although flux optimization is widely recognized as a central objective of metabolic networks, how flux efficiency influences the allocation of the metabolic proteome remains unclear and lacks direct validat...
- Materials & Energy
Abstract The electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol on platinum represents a model system for alcohol fuel-cell chemistry, yet the precise role of interfacial hydroxyl (OH*), a key oxidative species, remains contentious and is often viewed simplistically as either a co-reactant o...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Chronic coexposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and house dust mite (HDM) allergen worsens allergic asthma outcomes, yet the stromal cell mechanisms linking combined environmental and allergic risk factors remain incompletely defined. Airway fibroblasts are traditi...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) is driven by progressive loss of nucleus pulposus cell (NPC) homeostasis, yet the stress-responsive mechanisms governing this process remain incompletely defined. Here, we identify a mitochondrial stress-innate immune signalling axis in whi...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Checked-In Secret Detection: Strings Are All You Need
Hardcoded secrets in source code pose critical security vulnerabilities which can be easily exploited by malicious adversaries. Existing regex-based detection approaches suffer from fundamental limitations, as secrets often lack identifiable patterns, resulting in poor precision...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
ABSTRACT The functional quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHI), protected by time‐reversal symmetry against single‐particle backscattering, hold great promise for dissipationless quantum electronics. Realization of QSHI with gapped helical edge states, which would enable determinist...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Sex and Mortality Among Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer
Importance Unlike patient age, which has been a well-established and routinely used primary biological prognostic factor in the risk stratification of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), the prognostic value of patient sex remains controversial in this common endocrine malignant neop...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor in Nociceptors Mediates Postoperative Analgesia via ASIC3 Inhibition
ABSTRACT Peripherally restricted analgesics devoid of central side effects are urgently needed for postoperative pain management. The cannabinoid type‐1 receptor (CB 1 R) expressed on primary sensory neurons represents an attractive peripheral target, yet its specific role and me...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
ABSTRACT Wide‐bandgap (WBG) perovskites with a ∼1.78 eV bandgap are essential for monolithic all‐perovskite tandem cells, yet their efficiency and stability are limited by complex precursor chemistry, uncontrolled crystallization, defect formation, and photoinduced halide segrega...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Abstract Bicarbonate (HCO3–) electrolytes have significantly promoted photoelectrochemical water oxidation to H2O2 production over the competitive O2 evolution. However, the selectivity and efficiency are still fundamentally constrained by the limited solubility of the HCO3–, the...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract Phosphoinositides (PIPs) are central lipid signaling molecules, with PtdIns(3,4,5)P 3 acting as a key regulator of the PI3K-AKT pathway and a major driver of tumorigenesis. Together with p53 mutations or loss, this pathway represents one of the most frequently dysregulat...