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Hepatic angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 expression in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and in patients with fatal COVID-19

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World Journal of Gastroenterology 2024年第31期30卷 3705-3716页

作者： Angus K Jacobs Steven D Morley Kay Samuel Katie Morgan Lyndsey Boswell Timothy J Kendall David A Dorward Jonathan A Fallowfield Peter C Hayes John N Plevris Hepatology Laboratory University of EdinburghEdinburgh EH164SBUnited Kingdom Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service Jack Copland CentreEdinburgh EH144BEUnited Kingdom Institute for Regeneration and Repair University of EdinburghEdinburgh EH164UUUnited Kingdom edinburgh Pathology University of EdinburghEdinburgh EH164SBUnited Kingdom

BACKGROUND Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease(MASLD),characterised by hepatic lipid accumulation,causes inflammation and oxidative stress accompanied by cell damage and *** injury(LI)is also frequently reported in patients hospitalised with coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19),while preexisting MASLD increases the risk of LI and the development of COVID-19-associated *** of injury at the cellular level remain unclear,but it may be significant that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)which causes COVID-19,uses angiotensin-converting expression enzyme 2(ACE2),a key regulator of the‘anti-inflammatory’arm of the renin-angiotensin system,for viral attachment and host cell *** To determine if hepatic ACE2 levels are altered during progression of MASLD and in patients who died with severe *** ACE2 protein levels and localisation,and histological fibrosis and lipid droplet accumulation as markers of MASLD were determined in formalin-fixed liver tissue sections across the MASLD pathological spectrum(isolated hepatocellular steatosis,metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis(MASH)+/-fibrosis,end-stage cirrhosis)and in post-mortem tissues from patients who had died with severe COVID-19,using ACE2 immunohistochemistry and haematoxylin and eosin and picrosirius red staining of total collagen and lipid droplet areas,followed by quantification using machine learning-based image pixel *** ACE2 staining is primarily intracellular and concentrated in the cytoplasm of centrilobular hepatocytes and apical membranes of bile duct ***,ACE2 protein levels are elevated in non-fibrotic MASH compared to healthy controls but not in the progression to MASH with fibrosis and in ***2 protein levels and histological fibrosis are not associated,but ACE2 and liver lipid droplet content are significantly correlated across the MASLD *** A

关键词： Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 Immunohistochemistry COVID-19 COVID-19-associated cholangiopathy

A low-power Bluetooth-based wireless sensor network and its global confliction-solving impact localization method

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Chinese Journal of Aeronautics 2024年第1期37卷 153-161页

作者： Yuanjia WANG Lei QIU Qiyun XU Liming SHI College of Aerospace Engineering Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsNanjing 210016China Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of EdinburghEdinburgh EH89YLUK

During the whole service lifetime of aircraft structures with composite materials,impacts are inevitable and can usually cause severe but barely visible *** the occurrences of impact are random and unpredictable,it is a hotspot direction to develop an online impact monitoring system that can meet strict limitations of aerospace applications including small size,light weight,and low power ***(PZT)sensor,being able to generate impact response signals with no external power and cover a large-scale structure with only a small amount of them,is a promising ***,for real systems,networks with multiple nodes are normally required to monitor large-scale structures in a global way to identify any impact localization confliction,yet the existing studies are mostly evaluated with single nodes instead of ***,in this paper,based on a new low-power node designed,a Bluetooth-based digital impact monitoring PZT sensor network is proposed for the first time with its global confliction-solving impact localization *** of the system as a network are researched and analyzed on a complex real aircraft wing box for a global confliction-solving impact localization,showing a satisfying high accuracy.

关键词： Bluetooth-based low-power design Confliction-solving evaluation Complex composites Piezoelectric sensors Wireless impact monitoring network

Defense and anti-defense mechanisms of bacteria and bacteriophages

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Journal of Zhejiang university-Science B(Biomedicine & Biotechnology) 2024年第3期25卷 181-196页

作者： Xiaoqing WANG Sebastian LEPTIHN School of Medicine Lishui UniversityLishui 323000China university of edinburgh Medical School Biomedical SciencesCollege of Medicine&Veterinary MedicineThe University of EdinburghEdinburgh EH89JZUK HMU Health and Medical university Am Anger 64/73-99084 ErfurtGermany

In the post-antibiotic era,the overuse of antimicrobials has led to a massive increase in antimicrobial resistance,leaving medical doctors few or no treatment options to fight infections caused by *** use of bacteriophages is a promising alternative to treat infections,supplementing or possibly even replacing *** phages for therapy is possible,since these bacterial viruses can kill bacteria specifically,causing no harm to the normal ***,bacteria have developed a multitude of sophisticated and complex ways to resist infection by phages,including abortive infection and the clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats(CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated(Cas)*** also can evolve and acquire new anti-defense strategies to continue *** in-depth exploration of both defense and anti-defense mechanisms would contribute to optimizing phage therapy,while we would also gain novel insights into the microbial *** this paper,we summarize recent research on bacterial phage resistance and phage anti-defense mechanisms,as well as collaborative win-win systems involving both virus and host.

关键词： Bacteriophage Phage resistance Abortive infection Phage therapy

Fabrication of surface passivated two-dimensional MFI zeolite for alkylation between toluene with methanol

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Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering 2024年第4期18卷 115-124页

作者： Zhenyuan Zou Shengzhi Gan Ting Pu Xingxing Zeng Yi Huang Baoyu Liu School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry Guangdong University of TechnologyGuangzhou 510006China School of Engineering Institute for Materials&Processesthe University of EdinburghEdinburgh EH93FBUnited Kingdom

The fabrication of suitable MFI zeolites to effectively produce para-xylene through the alkylation between toluene and methanol is highly ***,the two-dimensional pillared MFI zeolite was modified by silicalite-1,and its morphology and structure were systematically investigated by tuning the concentration of Si species during the secondary crystallization *** MFI zeolites were characterized by X-ray diffraction,transmission electron microscopy,pyridine-infrared and N_(2) adsorption-desorption *** characterization results showed that the external Brønsted acid sites of surface passivated P-MFI-x samples have been successfully ***,the P-MFI-23 showed long lifetime and high selectivity of para-xylene(about 35%)based on the cooperation between opened interlamellar structure and passivated silicalite-1 *** was found that the accumulated hard coke in the interior of MFI zeolites not only blocked the channels of zeolites but also covered the acidic sites,resulting in the deactivation of ***,the highest selectivity of para-xylene(about 48%)can be achieved for P-MFI-30 under harsh reaction condition,which also exhibited excellent regeneration property in the alkylation reaction between toluene and *** strategy described in present research may open a window for the design of other advanced materials.

关键词： alkylation MFI nanosheets catalysis

Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization

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Tsinghua Science and Technology 2024年第3期29卷 806-817页

作者： Lei Zeng Qi Liu Shigen Shen Xiaodong Liu School of Computer Science Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyNanjing 210044China School of Software Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyNanjing 210044China School of Information Engineering Huzhou UniversityHuzhou 313000China School of Computing Edinburgh Napier UniversityEdinburghEH105DTUK

Edge computing nodes undertake an increasing number of tasks with the rise of business ***,how to efficiently allocate large-scale and dynamic workloads to edge computing resources has become a critical *** study proposes an edge task scheduling approach based on an improved Double Deep Q Network(DQN),which is adopted to separate the calculations of target Q values and the selection of the action in two networks.A new reward function is designed,and a control unit is added to the experience replay unit of the *** management of experience data are also modified to fully utilize its value and improve learning *** learning agents usually learn from an ignorant state,which is *** such,this study proposes a novel particle swarm optimization algorithm with an improved fitness function,which can generate optimal solutions for task *** optimized solutions are provided for the agent to pre-train network parameters to obtain a better cognition *** proposed algorithm is compared with six other methods in simulation *** show that the proposed algorithm outperforms other benchmark methods regarding makespan.

关键词： edge computing task scheduling reinforcement learning makespan Double Deep Q Network(DQN)

Improving the hydrostability of zeolitic imidazolate framework coatings using a facile silk fibroin protein modification method

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Nano Research 2024年第7期17卷 6247-6257页

作者： Xiuming Wei Ting Chen Siyu Chen Qian Jia Nurul Ain Mazlan Allana Lewis Norbert Radacsi Yi Huang School of Engineering Institute for Materials&ProcessesThe University of EdinburghRobert Stevenson RoadEdinburghEH93FBUK EASTCHEM School of Chemistry The University of St AndrewsPurdie BuildingNorth HaughSt AndrewsKY169STUK

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks(ZIFs)are an important subclass of metal-organic frameworks(MOFs)with zeolite-type topology,which can be fabricated under ambient synthesis ***,the applications of ZIFs are commonly limited due to the weak hydrostability of their metal–ligand coordination bonds,particularly under humid and aqueous *** this work,as an example,the hydrolysis behaviours of ZIF-L with a special focus on ZIF-L coatings were tested at aqueous conditions with a wide range of pHs to systematically study and fundamentally understand their structural stability and degradation *** ZIF-L powder and ZIF-L coatings were severely damaged after only 24 h in aqueous ***,the ZIF-L coatings showed two distinct hydrolyzation pathways regardless of pH conditions,exhibiting either a ring-shaped etching or unfolding *** the ZIF-L powders were hydrolyzed almost identically across all pH *** this new understanding,a facile silk fibroin(SF)protein modification method was developed to enhance the hydrostability of ZIF-L coatings in aqueous *** effect of protein concentration on surface coating was systemically ***-L coating retained its surface morphology after soaking in water and demonstrated switchable super wetting properties and superior separation performance for oil/water *** a result,the quick SF protein modification significantly enhanced the stability of ZIF-L coatings under various pHs,while retaining their switchable wetting property and excellent separation performance.

关键词： zeolitic imidazole framework-L(ZIF-L) ZIF-L coatings silk fibroin protein hydrostability enhancement oil/water separation

New insights into nitric oxide biosynthesis underpin lateral root development

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Molecular Plant 2024年第5期17卷 691-693页

作者： Kapuganti Jagadis Gupta Nidhi Yadav Aprajita Kumari Gary J.Loake National Institute for Plant Genome Research Aruna Asaf Ali MargNew Delhi 110070India Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences School of Biological SciencesUniversity of EdinburghEH93BF EdinburghUK Centre for Engineering Biology School of Biological SciencesUniversity of EdinburghEH93BF EdinburghUK

In recent years,nitric oxide(NO)has emerged as a key redox signaling molecule in plants functioning in the regulation of key developmental programs and the orchestration of responses to a plethora of environmental cues(Kolbert et al.,2019).The predominant route for the transfer of NO bioactivity is through S-nitrosylation,the addition of an NO moiety to a protein cysteine thiol to form an S-nitrosothiol(Yun et al.,2011).Specificity for this process is established by the structural constraints imposed by tertiary protein structure in gating access to given cysteine redox switches and associated proteins that can either facilitate the addition or removal of the NO moiety at these residues(Umbreen et al.,2018).

关键词： moiety addition redox

Heterogeneous bimetallic oxides/phosphides nanorod with upshifted d band center for efficient overall water splitting

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Chinese Chemical Letters 2024年第9期35卷 414-420页

作者： Ji Chen Yifan Zhao Shuwen Zhao Hua Zhang Youyu Long Lingfeng Yang Min Xi Zitao Ni Yao Zhou Anran Chen School of Materials and Energy Yunnan UniversityKunming 650091China School of Engineering The University of EdinburghSouth BridgeEdinburgh EH89YLUnited Kingdom Electron Microscopy Center Yunnan UniversityKunming 650091China School of Internet of Things Engineering Jiangnan UniversityWuxi 214122China

Electrocatalytic water splitting is the most directly available route to generate renewable and sustainable ***,we report the design of a composite material in which arrays of square pillar-like NiMoO4nanorods coated with N,P-doped carbon layers are uniformly contained in numerous nested nanoparticle *** catalysts have superior catalytic activity,requiring only 59 mV and 187 mV for HER and OER to attain a current density of 10 mA/cm^(2),*** assembled two-electrode electrolytic cell required a voltage of 1.48 V to reach 10 mA/cm^(2),along with excellent long-term *** calculations reveal that electrons aggregate and redistribute at the heterogeneous interface,with the d-band centers of the Ni and Fe atoms being positively shifted compared to the Fermi level,effectively optimizing the adsorption of intermediates and reducing the Gibbs free energy,thus accelerating the catalytic ***,an integrated solar-driven water-splitting system demonstrated a high and stable solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 18.20%.This work provides new possibilities for developing non-precious metal-based bifunctional electrocatalysts for large-scale water splitting applications.

关键词： Hydrogen evolution reaction Bimetallic oxides Bimetallic phosphides Overall water splitting Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

Dual-blockchain based multi-layer grouping federated learning scheme for heterogeneous data in industrial IoT

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Blockchain(Research and Applications) 2024年第3期5卷 11-21页

作者： Xin Wang Haoji Zhang Haoyu Wu Hongnian Yu School of Electronic Information and Artificial Intelligence Shaanxi University of Science&TechnologyXi’an710021China School of Engineering and the Built Environment Edinburgh Napier UniversityEdinburghEH105DTUnited Kingdom

Federated learning(FL)allows data owners to train neural networks together without sharing local data,allowing the industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)to share a variety of ***,traditional FL frameworks suffer from data heterogeneity and outdated *** address these issues,this paper proposes a dualblockchain based multi-layer grouping federated learning(BMFL)*** divides the participant groups based on the training tasks,then realizes the model training by combining synchronous and asynchronous FL through the multi-layer grouping structure,and uses the model blockchain to record the characteristic tags of the global model,allowing group-manners to extract the model based on the feature requirements and solving the problem of data *** addition,to protect the privacy of the model gradient parameters and manage the key,the global model is stored in ciphertext,and the chameleon hash algorithm is used to perform the modification and management of the encrypted key on the key blockchain while keeping the block header hash ***,we evaluate the performance of BMFL on different public datasets and verify the practicality of the scheme with real fault *** experimental results show that the proposed BMFL exhibits more stable and accurate convergence behavior than the classic FL algorithm,and the key revocation overhead time is reasonable.

关键词： Federal learning Multi-level grouping Editable blockchain Data heterogeneity Industrial Internet of Things(IIOT)