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Southwest University
Education•Chongqing, China•
About: Southwest University is a education organization based out in Chongqing, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Bombyx mori. The organization has 29772 authors who have published 27755 publications receiving 409441 citations. The organization is also known as: Southwest University in Chongqing & SWU.
Topics: Population, Bombyx mori, Gene, Electrochemiluminescence, Biosensor
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TL;DR: A hitherto unexpected role for macrophages is revealed in mediating repair of cerebrovascular ruptures through direct physical adhesion and mechanical traction.
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TL;DR: It is found that the use of plastic mulch can indeed increase crop yields on average by 25%-42% in the immediate season due to the increase of soil temperature and moisture, but the unabated accumulation of film residues in the field negatively impacts its physicochemical properties linked to healthy soil and threatens food production in the long term.
Abstract: Plastic pollution is a global concern given its prevalence in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Studies have been conducted on the distribution and impact of plastic pollution in marine ecosystems, but little is known on terrestrial ecosystems. Plastic mulch has been widely used to increase crop yields worldwide, yet the impact of plastic residues in cropland soils to soil health and crop production in the long term remained unclear. In this paper, using a global meta-analysis, we found that the use of plastic mulch can indeed increase crop yields on average by 25%-42% in the immediate season due to the increase of soil temperature (+8%) and moisture (+17%). However, the unabated accumulation of film residues in the field negatively impacts its physicochemical properties linked to healthy soil and threatens food production in the long term. It has multiple negative impacts on plant growth including crop yield (at the mean rate of -3% for every additional 100 kg/ha of film residue), plant height (-2%) and root weight (-5%), and soil properties including soil water evaporation capacity (-2%), soil water infiltration rate (-8%), soil organic matter (-0.8%) and soil available phosphorus (-5%) based on meta-regression. Using a nationwide field survey of China, the largest user of plastic mulch worldwide, we found that plastic residue accumulation in cropland soils has reached 550,800 tonnes, with an estimated 6%-10% reduction in cotton yield in some polluted sites based on current level of plastic residue content. Immediate actions should be taken to ensure the recovery of plastic film mulch and limit further increase in film residue loading to maintain the sustainability of these croplands.
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TL;DR: Bl blended silk sericin (SS) with poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) to prepare a SS/PVA hydrogel through repetitive freeze-thawing showed great potential in wound dressing and showed excellent hydrophilicity and swelling behavior for its porous structure.
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TL;DR: A generalized Dempster–Shafer evidence theory is proposed, which provides a promising way to model and handle more uncertain information and an algorithm for decision-making is devised based on this theory.
Abstract: Dempster–Shafer evidence theory has been widely used in various fields of applications, because of the flexibility and effectiveness in modeling uncertainties without prior information. However, the existing evidence theory is insufficient to consider the situations where it has no capability to express the fluctuations of data at a given phase of time during their execution, and the uncertainty and imprecision which are inevitably involved in the data occur concurrently with changes to the phase or periodicity of the data. In this paper, therefore, a generalized Dempster–Shafer evidence theory is proposed. To be specific, a mass function in the generalized Dempster–Shafer evidence theory is modeled by a complex number, called as a complex basic belief assignment, which has more powerful ability to express uncertain information. Based on that, a generalized Dempster’s combination rule is exploited. In contrast to the classical Dempster’s combination rule, the condition in terms of the conflict coefficient between the evidences is released in the generalized Dempster’s combination rule. Hence, it is more general and applicable than the classical Dempster’s combination rule. When the complex mass function is degenerated from complex numbers to real numbers, the generalized Dempster’s combination rule degenerates to the classical evidence theory under the condition that the conflict coefficient between the evidences is less than 1. In a word, this generalized Dempster–Shafer evidence theory provides a promising way to model and handle more uncertain information. Thanks to this advantage, an algorithm for decision-making is devised based on the generalized Dempster–Shafer evidence theory. Finally, an application in a medical diagnosis illustrates the efficiency and practicability of the proposed algorithm.
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TL;DR: The mechanical stability test indicated that the resulting superhydrophobic surfaces have good mechanical stability, and the interface model for anticorrosion mechanism of superHydrophobic surface in corrosive medium was proposed.
Abstract: A novel method for controllable fabrication of a superhydrophobic CuO surface on AZ91D magnesium alloy is reported in this paper. Hierarchical structure composed of micro/nano-featherlike CuO was obtained by electrodeposition of Cu–Zn alloy coating and subsequently an electrochemical anodic treatment in alkaline solution. After modification with lauric acid, the surface became hydrophobicity/superhydrophobicity. The formation of featherlike CuO structures was controllable by varying the coating composition. By applying SEM, ICP-AES, and water contact angle analysis, the effects of coating composition on the surface morphology and hydrophobicity of the as-prepared surfaces were detailedly studied. The results indicated that at the optimal condition, the surface showed a good superhydrophobicity with a water contact angle as high as 155.5 ± 1.3° and a sliding angle as low as about 3°. Possible growth mechanism of featherlike CuO hierarchical structure was discussed. Additionally, the anticorrosion effect of...
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Frank B. Hu | 250 | 1675 | 253464 |
Hongjie Dai | 197 | 570 | 182579 |
Jing Wang | 184 | 4046 | 202769 |
Chao Zhang | 127 | 3119 | 84711 |
Jianjun Liu | 112 | 1040 | 71032 |
Miao Liu | 111 | 993 | 59811 |
Jun Yang | 107 | 2090 | 55257 |
Eric Westhof | 98 | 472 | 34825 |
En-Tang Kang | 97 | 763 | 38498 |
Chang Ming Li | 97 | 896 | 42888 |
Wei Zhou | 93 | 1640 | 39772 |
Li Zhang | 92 | 918 | 35648 |
Heinz Rennenberg | 87 | 527 | 26359 |
Tao Chen | 86 | 820 | 27714 |
Xun Wang | 84 | 606 | 32187 |