Bo Shu

3 weeks ago | mdpi.com | Hao Zhang |Bo Shu |Yang Liu |Yang Wei

1. IntroductionCultural heritage is not only an important part of human civilization, but also carries profound historical significance and cultural value, which is related to the historical memory and identity of the nation. However, with the acceleration of modernization, cultural heritage is facing multiple threats from nature, society and the environment. Natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, fires, etc. [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8], anthropogenic factors such as urbanization, overtourism, etc.

Oct 2, 2024 | mdpi.com | Yuan Wang |Bo Shu |Qianling Jiang |Norazmawati Md. Sani

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Jan 5, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Bo Shu |Malania M Wilson |Matthew Keller |Ha Tran

1 BACKGROUND During the 2016–2017 influenza season, the influenza B (Inf B/Victoria (B/VIC) lineage variant viruses emerged with two or three amino acid (AA) deletions within the K162N163D164 region of the hemagglutinin (HA) protein and rapidly spread worldwide.1 These deletion variant viruses are antigenically distinct from each other and from the progenitor B/VIC virus that lacked the deletions, resulting in four co-circulating subclades that were genetically and antigenically distinct...