Zhejiang A & F University

Living Arrangements and the Digital Divide Among Older Adults: Evidence from a Survey of Smartphone Use

Population aging has increased the demand for digital support in later-life care, yet many older adults remain excluded from smartphone-based services. Using a questionnaire survey and interviews with 4,236 older adults conducted in 2018 in Jiangxi Province, China, this study exa...

Review of Current Techniques for Tracking as Behavior Across Micro-Interfaces in Paddy

Arsenic (As) in rice poses health risks, and the soil micro-interface is the key zone controlling As transformation and migration in the soil-water-rice system. Sharp redox transitions along the soil-water interface and rhizosphere cause simultaneous millimeter-scale changes in r...

Proteomics insight into phosphate limitation response in Burkholderia phytopathogens

Inorganic phosphate (Pi) limitation is a pervasive environmental constraint that shapes microbial behaviour in soil and plant-associated niches. To determine how Pi scarcity influences the pathogenic potential of rice-infecting Burkholderia species, we performed comparative prote...

Effects of Bacillus licheniformis Supplementation on Laying Performance, Antioxidant Capacity, and Cecal Microbiota in Post-Peak Laying Hens

Bacillus licheniformis, a multifunctional probiotic, improves performance in peak laying hens, but its effects during post-peak laying—characterized by declining ovarian function, impaired intestinal barrier, and oxidative stress—remain unclear. This study evaluated the effects o...

Comparative lipidomic and transcriptomic analyses reveal distinct regulatory effects of tree nut oils on hepatic lipid metabolism in high-fat diet-fed mice

Tree nut oils from the Juglandaceae family are rich in unsaturated fatty acids and bioactive components, yet their metabolic effects under high-fat diet (HFD) conditions remain incompletely understood. This study compared the effects of walnut, pecan, hickory, and soybean oils in...

Carex ensiformis (C. subg. Siderosticta), a new species from southern China based on morphological and molecular evidence

BACKGROUND: Carex subg. Siderosticta is one of the six subgenera recognized in the recently revised infrageneric classification of Carex based on phylogenetic studies. It represents the earliest-diverging lineage within Carex and it is sister to all remaining species in the genus...

Overtime work and marital stability: evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Against the backdrop of intensifying labor market competition and declining marital stability in China, this study examines the impact of overtime work on marital stability. Using longitudinal panel data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) covering 2014 to 2022, we systema...

Convergent innovation of (crypto)vivipary via asymmetric dismantling of seed desiccation and dormancy machinery

Cryptovivipary and vivipary, referred to as (crypto)vivipary, occur across multiple angiosperm lineages and enable embryos to continue developing before dispersal. Yet, this trait raises a fundamental question: how are seed-specific abscisic acid (ABA) responses modulated to supp...

EaMIC3 inhibits cell apoptosis and facilitates Eimeria acervulina infection through interacting with EpCAM

Coccidiosis, caused by Eimeria acervulina, is a pathogenic protozoan disease, leading to huge economic losses to the global poultry industry. At the early stage of E. acervulina infection, microneme protein 3 (EaMIC3) is involved in the inhibition of infected host cell apoptosis,...

Phenomenological Record of Taoist Somatic Cultivation: Preliminary Stages on the Path Toward Primordial Origin and Immortality

Human epistemology has long struggled to account for humanity’s origin and ultimate ontological destination. Drawing on first‑person phenomenological auto‑ethnography of Chinese Taoist internal‑cultivation, this manuscript documents sequential subjective psychosomatic and transce...

Phenomenological Record of Taoist Somatic Cultivation: Preliminary Stages on the Path Toward Primordial Origin and Immortality

Human epistemology has long struggled to account for humanity’s origin and ultimate ontological destination. Drawing on first‑person phenomenological auto‑ethnography of Chinese Taoist internal‑cultivation, this manuscript documents sequential subjective psychosomatic and transce...

Cardiovascular Classification in Middle‐Aged and Elderly CKD Patients: A Machine Learning Approach in China and the United States

ABSTRACT Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) drives mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Conventional risk tools underperform in CKD, and few machine learning (ML) models undergo cross‐national validation. We developed interpretable ML models for classifying CV...

DNA barcoding of the genus Dichopygina, with a new species from China (Diptera: Sciaridae)

Leng, Ruixin, Heller, Kai, Huang, Junhao, Ye, Lan, Wu, Hong (2018): DNA barcoding of the genus Dichopygina, with a new species from China (Diptera: Sciaridae). Zoological Systematics 43 (1): 18-26, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201802

Six newly recorded species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from China

Wang, Jirui, Du, Yuzhou, Xu, Zhihong (2016): Six newly recorded species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from China. Zoological Systematics 41 (4): 427-438, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201647, URL: http://zoobank.org/e5980ac9-2fa0-49bd-a7be-7e0b48841fc0

New species of gallwasps inducing in Quercus fabri and its inquiline (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in China

Pujade-Villar, Juli, Wang, Yi-Ping, Guo, Rui, Chen, Xue-Xin (2014): New species of gallwasps inducing in Quercus fabri and its inquiline (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in China. Zoological Systematics 39 (3): 417-423, DOI: 10.11865/zs20140308, URL: http://zoobank.org/7629cd81-d26f-49bc...

VSF: A Multimodal Few-Shot Plant Disease Recognition Method in Agricultural Scenarios

Identifying plant diseases presents challenges like small sample sizes, imbalanced classes, and intricate background noise, which constrain the generalizability and resilience of conventional deep learning methods that rely on single-modal images. To overcome these limitations, t...

Restructuring alkaline floodplain soils: Straw-derived artificial humic acid enhances aggregate stability, carbon sequestration, and crop yield

Compacted alkaline soils in the historical Yellow River floodplain constrain hydraulic regulation, carbon stabilization, and crop productivity. We evaluated a nitrogen-enriched artificial humic acid (A-HA) synthesized from crop residues by supercritical ammonification in a two-ye...

From habitat prediction to cost-effective intervention: A spatial modelling and connectivity framework for firefly conservation planning

Firefly habitats are increasingly threatened by rapid urbanisation, while encounters with wild fireflies have become ever rarer, fuelling growing interest in firefly watching and increasing pressure on vulnerable populations. Existing conservation research has largely focused on...

SVPG: a pangenome-based structural variant detection approach and rapid augmentation of pangenome graphs with new samples

Abstract Breakthrough advances in long-read sequencing have opened unprecedented opportunities to study genetic variations through pangenome analysis, yet tools that effectively leverage such frameworks for structural variant (SV) detection remain limited. In addition, efficient...

Real-Time Precise Positioning Performance of BDS-3 PPP-B2b: Evaluation and Marine Buoy Application

This study decodes the BDS-3 PPP-B2b binary data broadcast by BDS satellites using a self-developed software decoder, RT-B2b (Real-Time PPP-B2b). The orbit, clock corrections, and differential code biases (DCB)—collectively referred to as State Space Representation (SSR) correcti...