Jianyin Zhou

Aug 11, 2024 | mdpi.com | Dechao Hu |Zhanfeng Cui |Xin Zeng |Jianyin Zhou

1. IntroductionThe Yangtze Estuary has three-level bifurcations (the North and the South Branches, the North and the South Channels, and the North and the South Passages) and four outlets into the sea (Figure 1). The North Branch and the South Branch of the Yangtze Estuary are, respectively, written as N-Branch and S-Branch for short. The Yangtze Estuary has a complex tidal flow, sediment transport, and morphological dynamics [1,2,3,4], and the horizontal shape of the N-Branch is weird.

Apr 8, 2023 | nature.com | Jianyin Zhou

Data sourcesWe retrieved data on PC patients with at least 18 years between 2010 and 2015 from the SEER database. The SEER database provides free access to cancer patient information from over a dozen registries in the United States collected for decades, including demographic information, tumor type, disease stage, treatment strategy, and survival prognosis12. We downloaded data from Incidence-SEER Research Plus Data from 18 Registries based on the November 2020 submission.