Tongji University

Association of low parental mental health literacy with adolescent depression and anxiety: a large-scale cross-sectional study in Guangdong, China

Adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms are major health concerns, and the family environment plays a critical role. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between parental mental health literacy (PMHL) and adolescent depression and anxiety scores. Based on cross-sec...

Load distribution patterns and structural effects of IEA 15MW wind turbine under downburst wind field

Downbursts, which are intense, short-duration, highly non-stationary and non-synoptic outflows generated by severe thunderstorms, pose a significant threat to the structural safety of large-scale wind turbines, particularly in regions with abundant wind resources but frequent con...

Buckling behavior and interpretable machine-learning of CFRP-strengthened circular steel tubes under axial compression

This study develops a physics-informed and interpretable data-driven framework for predicting the axial buckling capacity of circular steel tubes strengthened with longitudinal CFRP strips. A validated finite element (FE) model against test results was used to generate 196 parame...

Diverse patterns of transcriptional regulation and epigenetic reprogramming within PMDs contribute to ESCC progression by regulating EMT and immunosuppression

Partially methylated domains (PMDs) represent extensive genome-wide hypomethylated regions that drive genomic instability and proto-oncogene activation. However, their complex regulatory influence on tumor-specific transcriptional networks remains largely elusive. In this study,...

Process-Inspired Latent Dynamics for Direct Multi-Step Regional Sea Surface Temperature Forecasting

Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts support marine environmental monitoring, hazard assessment, and operational ocean services. Regional multi-step prediction remains difficult because SST-only models must represent transport, spatial spreading, and local nonlinear variation...

Spending Operators and Weak Power-Port Decompositions for Path-Dependent Entropic Lagrangians

Path-dependent entropic Lagrangians formulate irreversible evolution through terminal variations of accumulated process power. This paper establishes a mathematical basis for calibrated terminal spending and weak diffusion power-port decompositions. Endpoint calibration and cocyc...

Evaluation of turbulent flux parameterizations over a continental glacier on the Tibetan Plateau

A lack of observations of turbulent fluxes over continental glaciers limits our understanding of the mechanisms that control glacier variations and associated water resource changes across the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Here, we present the first comprehensive analysis of turbulent fl...

Multimodal analysis of sleep disturbances and heart disease in older adults: a machine learning and exploratory path analysis approach

Sleep disturbances and heart disease are common among older adults, yet the psychological and functional pathways linking sleep symptoms to heart disease remain insufficiently characterized. This study examined the association between sleep disturbance indicators and heart diseas...

Next-generation natural killer cell therapy: bench to bedside and beyond

Natural killer (NK) cells have emerged as central players in cancer immunotherapy, progressing from basic discovery to clinically validated platforms over five decades. This review synthesizes the evolving understanding of NK cell biology, including subset heterogeneity, epigenet...

Rapid versus slow puncture in endoscopic ultrasound-guided liver biopsy: a multicenter randomized crossover trial

Abstract Endoscopic ultrasound-guided liver biopsy (EUS-LB) is increasingly used for hepatic histologic assessment; however, optimal technical approaches remain undefined. This prospective, multicenter clinical study aimed to compare tissue acquisition and safety between the rapi...

Heavy metal ion driven smart nanomaterials for multimodal sensing, biocomputing, and information security: a mini review

Heavy metal ions (HMIs) are widely recognized as persistent environmental pollutants. However, they are increasingly being employed as functional chemical inputs in intelligent molecular systems. This mini review summarizes smart nanomaterial-based platforms developed for HMI-dri...

A traffic safety resilience assessment incorporating conflict risk: application and comparison on two open roads with lateral interferences

Lateral interferences on open roads cause conflicts and delays that dissipate at varying rates, implying that open roads have different risk-absorption capacities. This study develops a traffic safety resilience (TSR) framework combining crossing time-to-collision (CTTC) with tim...

The Effect of Drainage Conditions on the Static Shear Characteristics of Calcareous Silt

Facing the global challenge of sea-level rise, the stability of land reclamation engineering is severely threatened by the weak calcareous silt interlayers formed during its construction process. This study investigated the mechanical behavior and particle breakage characteristic...

Finite-Size Accuracy and Engineering Applicability of Equivalent Continuum Models for BCC Lattice Structures

Equivalent continuum models provide an efficient alternative to explicitly resolving the internal architecture of lattice structures, but their accuracy in finite components depends strongly on structural scale, boundary effects, constitutive behavior, and numerical discretizatio...

Safety evaluation of large-scale floating wind turbines under extreme typhoon-wave conditions

Coupled extreme typhoon wind and wave loading poses severe challenges to the structural safety of large-scale floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs). However, a comprehensive framework that integrates typhoon-environment reconstruction, coupled dynamic analysis, and component-le...

From Spatial Improvement to Contested Justice: Post-Resettlement Equity in China’s Rural Land Capitalization

Land capitalization has become a key mechanism in China’s rural transformation, converting dispersed natural villages into centralized resettled communities for landless peasants and reshaping their everyday life through urbanized housing, infrastructure, and governance arrangeme...

Seismic upgrading of an RC frame building using double-stage yield buckling-restrained braces

Nowadays, a large number of existing reinforced concrete (RC) structures require strengthening to meet the new building functions and enhanced seismic demands. Double-stage yield buckling-restrained braces (DYBRBs), capable of yielding at different seismic intensities, offer a pr...

Metacognition and pathway dynamics in generative AI supported design thinking: A process-sensitive evaluation with network-based cognitive mapping

Generative AI (GenAI) is embedded in design education, yet little is known about how different tools reshape metacognition and the pathways linking ideas to outcomes. We compare three conditions, ChatGPT-4o, DeepSeek-R1, and a no-AI control, in a virtual reality cultural heritage...

Empowering Drivers as Collaborative Social Agents: Enhancing Pedestrian Interaction through Cooperative Interfaces in Autonomous Vehicle Systems

While autonomous driving technology reduces the operational burden on drivers, it may also diminish their sense of engagement, for example, by interrupting social interactions between drivers and other road users such as pedestrians. To address this, this article proposes a “Soci...

Fuel structure controls fire spread in managed urban vegetation patches: field characterisation and FDS simulations from Shanghai

Fire risk in urban green spaces is increasing as managed vegetation patches become more exposed to dry conditions, human ignition sources, and dense built environments. Their fuel structure is shaped by planting design and maintenance, yet community-level controls on fire spread...