AIM:To investigate the etiology of ocular pathogens and to establish the various pathogens present in human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis(CMVR).METHODS:A total of 17 HIV-infected p...
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AIM:To investigate the etiology of ocular pathogens and to establish the various pathogens present in human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis(CMVR).METHODS:A total of 17 HIV-infected patients with concomitant eye disorders were *** were divided into CMVR group(10 patients,18 eyes)and non-CMVR group(7 patients,9 eyes)based on clinical manifestations and the presence of cytomegalovirus(CMV)-DNA in ocular *** viral load of CMV was assessed using polymerase chain reaction in aqueous humor,vitreous fluid,and peripheral blood samples of patients in the CMVR ***,peripheral blood CD4+T cell counts were measured in both ***:In the CMVR group,the CMV-DNA load in the vitreous and aqueous humor samples was substantially higher than in the peripheral blood samples(P<0.01).CMVDNA load in the aqueous humor and vitreous samples of the two eyes in the CMVR group was determined to be statistically significant(10 patients,16 eyes,P=0.018,0.012).Peripheral blood CD4+T cell counts in the CMVR group were adversely linked with the CMV-DNA load in both the aqueous humor and peripheral blood(P=0.005,0.048).Compared with the non-CMVR group,the peripheral blood CD4+T cell count in the CMVR group decreased significantly(P=0.014).The peripheral blood CD4+T cell count exceeded 300 cells/μL in 85.71%of non-CMVR patients,whereas it was below 100 cells/μL in 90.00%of the CMVR *** intraocular specimens of the patients who underwent CMVR testing did not include any additional ***:In HIV-associated CMVR patients,there may exist alternative,yet unidentified,infection pathways for intraocular CMV in addition to the conventional *** substantial difference in CMV-DNA load between the eyes of most CMVR patients suggests that CMV may originate from different sources in each *** proportion of peripheral blood CD4+T cells in HIV patients is negatively correlated with the quantity of CMV viruses
Lowering the synthesis temperature of boron nitride nanotubes(BNNTs)is crucial for their *** primary reason for adopting a high temperature is to enable the effective activation of highmelting-point solid *** this stu...
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Lowering the synthesis temperature of boron nitride nanotubes(BNNTs)is crucial for their *** primary reason for adopting a high temperature is to enable the effective activation of highmelting-point solid *** this study,we developed a novel approach for efficiently activating boron by introducing alkali metal compounds into the conventional MgO–B *** approach can be adopted to form various low-melting-point AM–Mg–B–O growth *** growth systems have improved catalytic capability and reactivity even under low-temperature conditions,facilitating the synthesis of BNNTs at temperatures as low as 850℃.In addition,molecular dynamics simulations based on density functional theory theoretically demonstrate that the systems maintain a liquid state at low temperatures and interact with N atoms to form BN *** findings offer novel insights into the design of boron activation and are expected to facilitate research on the low-temperature synthesis of BNNTs.
Vision-based road detection is an important research topic in different areas of computer vision such as the autonomous navigation of mobile *** outdoor unstructured environments such as villages and deserts,the roads...
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Vision-based road detection is an important research topic in different areas of computer vision such as the autonomous navigation of mobile *** outdoor unstructured environments such as villages and deserts,the roads are usually not well-paved and have variant colors or texture *** region- or edge-based approaches,however,are effective only in specific environments,and most of them have weak adaptability to varying road types and *** this paper we describe a novel top-down based hybrid algorithm which properly combines both region and edge cues from the *** main difference between our proposed algorithm and previous ones is that,before road detection,an off-line scene classifier is efficiently learned by both low- and high-level image cues to predict the unstructured road *** scene classification can be considered a decision process which guides the selection of the optimal solution from region- or edge-based approaches to detect the ***,a temporal smoothing mechanism is incorporated,which further makes both model prediction and region classification more *** results demonstrate that compared with traditional region- and edge-based algorithms,our algorithm is more robust in detecting the road areas with diverse road types and varying appearances in unstructured conditions.
A new selective Zn^2+ fluorescent chemosensor, o-vanillin-4-ethoxybenzoylhydrazone (1), was designed and prepared. Free 1 mainly displayed very weak fluorescence at 480 nm upon excitation at 403 nm. It displayed hi...
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A new selective Zn^2+ fluorescent chemosensor, o-vanillin-4-ethoxybenzoylhydrazone (1), was designed and prepared. Free 1 mainly displayed very weak fluorescence at 480 nm upon excitation at 403 nm. It displayed high selectivity for Zn^2+ and had a 518- fold fluorescent enhancement upon binding of Zn^2+, while the other cation ions had only little influence on the fluorescence of 1. Mechanism of enhancement of l's fluorescence by Zn^2+ was briefly discussed.
Relations of equilibrium phases in the Al-Ca-Li system were calculated by means of the CALPHAD (calculation of phase diagram) method. The reported thermodynamic model parameters for all the constituent binary system...
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Relations of equilibrium phases in the Al-Ca-Li system were calculated by means of the CALPHAD (calculation of phase diagram) method. The reported thermodynamic model parameters for all the constituent binary systems were directly used in the present calculation. A novel thermodynamic description for the three ternary intermetallic compounds(τ1 τ2 and τ3) was made on the basis of experimental phase equilibria in the Al-Ca-Li system. Comparison between the calculated and experimental phase equilibria shows that we have successfully derived a set of self-consistent thermodynamic parameters for the Al-Ca-Li system. These parameters were then used for the prediction of the selected isothermal and isopleth sections and projected liquidus surface of this ternary system over the entire composition range.
BACKGROUND At the end of 2019,a new epidemic of viral pneumonia emerged in China and was determined to be caused by a novel coronavirus,which was named coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)by the World Health *** epidemi...
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BACKGROUND At the end of 2019,a new epidemic of viral pneumonia emerged in China and was determined to be caused by a novel coronavirus,which was named coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)by the World Health *** epidemic quickly spread,causing a worldwide *** and clinicians across the globe have shifted their research efforts towards understanding the virus itself and its *** SUMMARY In mid-January 2020,a Chinese family made a visit to a local city,and within the next 2 wk one after another fell ill with *** the beginning of their first illness onset,the family had eaten in a restaurant,which led to the subsequent illness onset in another two *** cases were diagnosed as COVID-19 by real-time fluorescent reverse transcription-polymerase chain *** investigation showed that the transmission chain was *** This chain of social exposure highlights the danger of group aggregative behavior for spread of COVID-19.
BACKGROUND The complex anatomy of the maxillary first molars has always been a major challenge for complete root canal treatment in endodontic therapy. Here, we present two cases of maxillary first molars, each with o...
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BACKGROUND The complex anatomy of the maxillary first molars has always been a major challenge for complete root canal treatment in endodontic therapy. Here, we present two cases of maxillary first molars, each with only two root canals, which have been rarely reported. We also perform a literature review of maxillary first molar *** SUMMARY The two patients were referred to the hospital after 1) finding a cavity in their tooth with a color change and, 2) a toothache during mastication, *** of these cases were diagnosed as apical periodontitis by X-ray imaging and cone beam computed tomography(CBCT). Non-surgical endodontic therapy was performed with the assistance of a dental operating microscope(DOM). CBCT showed rare but accurate images of both patients, each with two root canals and two roots in their maxillary first molars. Both roots were located in the buccal in the palatal direction, and each root had only one clear root canal. In addition,each maxillary first molar in both patients was symmetrical to that on the opposing side with only two separate root canals. Non-surgical endodontic therapy was performed with the assistance of a DOM. Finally, the teeth were restored using composite resin and the patients were satisfied with the *** Making full use of CBCT and DOM would contribute to helping dentists make correct diagnoses and successfully treat teeth with rare root canal morphologies.
With the increasing exploration and development of typical hydrocarbon-rich depressions,such as the Dongpu Depression,the exploitation difficulty of shallow formations is *** is an urgent need to clarify the hydrocarb...
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With the increasing exploration and development of typical hydrocarbon-rich depressions,such as the Dongpu Depression,the exploitation difficulty of shallow formations is *** is an urgent need to clarify the hydrocarbon generation mode and hydrocarbon generation histories in deep *** this study,a gold tube-autoclave closed system was used to simulate the hydrocarbon generation processes and establish the hydrocarbon generation mode of different types of ***,constrained by the thermal history and hydrocarbon generation kinetics,hydrocarbon generation histories were *** results show that hydrocarbon generation evolution can be divided into five stages,and the maturity of each stage is *** hydrocarbon generation history of the source rocks of the Shahejie 3 Formation mainly dates from the early depositional period of the Shahejie 1 Formation to the middle depositional period of the Dongying *** generation history constrained by thermal history and hydrocarbon generation kinetics is more in line with actual geological ***,this research can provide important hydrocarbon generation parameters for deep oil and gas exploration and exploitation of the Shahejie 3 Formation in the Dongpu Depression.
Common-image gathers are extensively used in amplitude versus angle(AVA)and migration velocity analysis(MVA).The current state of methods for anisotropic angle gathers extraction use slant-stack,local Fourier transfor...
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Common-image gathers are extensively used in amplitude versus angle(AVA)and migration velocity analysis(MVA).The current state of methods for anisotropic angle gathers extraction use slant-stack,local Fourier transform or low-rank approximation,which requires much *** on an anisotropic-Helmholtz P/S wave-mode decomposition method,we propose a novel and efficient approach to produce angle-domain common-image gathers(ADCIGs)in the elastic reverse time migration(ERTM)of VTI *** start with,we derive an anisotropic-Helmholtz decomposition operator from the Christoffel equation in VTI media,and use this operator to derive the decomposed formulations for anisotropic P/S ***,we employ the first-order Taylor expansion to calculate the normalized term of decomposed formulations and obtain the anisotropic-Helmholtz decomposition method,which generates the separated P/S wavefields with correct amplitudes and ***,we develop a novel way that uses the anisotropic-Helmholtz decomposition operator to define the polari-zation angles for anisotropic P/S waves and substitute these angles to decomposing *** polarization angles are then calculated directly from the separated vector P-and S-wavefields and converted to the phase *** ADCIGs are thusly produced by applying the phase angles to VTI *** addition,we develop a concise approximate expression of residual moveout(RMO)for PP-reflections of flat reflectors in VTI media,which avoids the complex transformations between the group angles and the phase *** approximate RMO curves show a good agreement with the exact solution and can be used as a tool to assess the migration velocity *** demonstrated by two selected examples,our ADCIGs not only produce the correct kinematic responses with regards to different velocity pertubatation,but also generate the reliable amplitude responses versus different *** final stacking images of ADCIGs data exhibit the identical im
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