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2 months ago | 
academic.oup.com | Beijing Normal |Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool
Wood density indicates important plant functions and plays a key role in carbon cycling of forest ecosystems by affecting wood decomposition. However, how wood density varies globally and how it evolved through the evolutionary history of angiosperms remain unclear. Here, by integrating data of wood density, phylogeny, and distributions for angiosperms worldwide, we estimated global spatiotemporal patterns of wood density and their relationships with modern climate and paleoclimate.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
biorxiv.org | Zheng Li |De Chen |Lu Dong |Beijing Normal
AbstractSexual dichromatism is generally thought to arise from sexual selection favouring elaborately coloured males, as proposed in Darwin's model. Wallace offers an expanded perspective, emphasising that the evolution of cryptic and dim female colouration to evade nest predation significantly contributed to the origin of sexual dichromatism. However, previous studies on the evolutionary forces of sexual dichromatism examining Darwin's and Wallace's models have produced mixed results.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
academic.oup.com | Ca’ Foscari |Beijing Normal
Model purposeIt uses monitored concentration in various environmental media (in soil, dust, water, and a set of predefined food types) to simulate blood lead in children from 6 months through 7 years. It provides a platform for the combination of different environmental models with a human PBPK model to simulate a variety of exposure scenarios.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
ajet.org.au | Qiong Wang |Guoqing Zhao |Beijing Normal
Wang, Q., Zhao, G., & Zeng, J. . (2024). Examining the mediating role of digital competence and the moderating role of technostress in the effects of facilitating conditions on higher education students’ digital informal learning. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology , 40 (5), 47–64. https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.9324This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
actaneurocomms.biomedcentral.com | Beijing Normal
All of the patient protocols, which were authorized by the Ethics Committee of Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, conformed to the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and written informed consent was acquired from all of the human subjects (number: [2021]068). Refractory epilepsy patients were examined at Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com | Beijing Normal |Nanjing Normal
In this study, we evaluated the association between functional network topography and individual differences in three SES factors, including family income measured by income-to-needs ratio (INR), parental education, and neighborhood disadvantage measured by area deprivation index (ADI). We first delineated personalized functional networks for each child using resting-state fMRI data.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com | Beijing Normal
In this randomized controlled trial, we recruited participants with cognitive impairment who were hospitalized or outpatient at Beijing Anding Hospital affiliated with Capital Medical University from May 2021 to April 2023. After completing the baseline assessments, patients were randomized to the intervention group or Control group at a 1:1 ratio. The trial compared two adjunct group programs (NCAT-D vs. Control group) as add-on interventions to SSRIs treatment.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
alzres.biomedcentral.com | Beijing Normal
A total of 5126 participants (1052 participants were mild cognitive impairment and the rest were normal cognition) aged 55 and older were from the Beijing Aging Brain Rejuvenation Initiative (BABRI) database, which is an ongoing community-based prospective cohort study in China [25].
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
link.springer.com | Beijing Normal
AbstractCognitive decline with age has heterogeneous, which might be related to the accumulation of protective factors called cognitive reserve, especially intellectual engagement factors over the life course. However, how lifetime intellectual cognitive reserve (LICR) protects cognitive function in the elderly remains unclear. We aimed to examine the relationship between LICR and cognition and the mild cognitive impairment (MCI) risk, as well as the neural mechanism of LICR on cognition.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
link.springer.com | Beijing Normal
AbstractLysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a lipid mediator with diverse biological functions through its receptors on the cell membrane. As one of the six LPA receptors, LPA receptor 3 (LPAR3) is highly expressed in mouse kidneys, but its physiological function in the kidney has been poorly explored. Wild-type (WT) and Lpar3−/− mice were used to investigate the renal physiological function of LPAR3 under hypoxia.
