Yubo Zhang

Oct 22, 2024 | nature.com | Jialin Liu |Xue Bai |Yubo Zhang |Yan Bai |Rong Cai

In China, natural snowfall is insufficient, and ski resorts often require artificial snowmaking in winter and turf management in summer, which results in high overall water consumption and considered as one of the high water-consuming service industries, with an urgent need for theoretical foundations related to water management. Based on life cycle theory, we examined the characteristics of the water systems of ski resorts in winter and summer. A Monte Carlo simulation was used to construct a stochastic model to quantify the theoretical water consumption for snowmaking at ski resorts and to investigate the mechanisms by which various factors influence this consumption. We summarize the necessity of summer turf management and irrigation requirements at ski resorts, explore the interaction between ski resorts and agricultural irrigation. The results show that the theoretical water demand of ski resorts is basically consistent with the actual water consumption of ski resorts, that the constructed model is feasible, and that snowmaking water is the most important water use of ski resorts. Exploring the collection and reuse of meltwater or rainwater from ski resorts for agricultural irrigation in the spring and summer could provide more possibilities for the sustainable management of regional water resources. The research findings can provide a theoretical basis for scientifically and reasonably setting the norm of water intake for ski resorts and for developing comprehensive water resource management plans for ski resorts and agricultural irrigation.

Apr 24, 2024 | mdpi.com | Feng Lin |Meng Wang |Nan Zhao |Yubo Zhang

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Dec 19, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Yitao Yang |Yang Cui |Xin Zeng |Yubo Zhang

AbstractSpatial transcriptomics is an essential application for investigating cellular structures and interactions, requiring multi-modal information to precisely study the spatial domains. Here, we propose STAIG, a novel deep-leaning model that integrates gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological images using graph contrastive learning coupled with a high-performance feature extraction. STAIG can integrate tissue slices without pre-alignment along with removing batch effects.

Sep 12, 2023 | mdpi.com | Lin Li |Qi Li |Dongqing Wang |Yubo Zhang

1. IntroductionWith rapid population growth, water consumption by industry, agriculture, and households continues to increase [1], leading to water pollution as a global issue [2]. Synthetic dyes are among the most harmful chemical pollutants in water [3], and water contaminated by them can cause serious health problems [4,5], hence the need for wastewater treatment. Methods of treating water pollutants can be divided into physical, chemical, and biological methods [6].

May 9, 2023 | dovepress.com | Xueyao Su |Yanyan Huang |Wei Dai |Yubo Zhang

IntroductionThe increase of people’s awareness about the importance of physical examinations and the wide application of chest low-dose spiral computed tomography1 enables the increased detection, diagnosis, and treatment of early-stage lung cancers.