Metal/Semiconductor Hybrid Nanocrystals and Synergistic Photocatalysis Applications

This review focuses on recent research efforts to synthesize metal/semiconductor hybrid nanocrystals, understand and control the photocatalytic applications. First, we summarize the synthesis methods and recent presented metal/seminconductor morphologies, including heterodimer, core/shell, and yolk/shell etc. The metal clusters and nanocrystals deposition on semiconductor micro/nano substrates with well-defined crystal face exposure will be clarified into heterodimer part. The outline of this synthesis part will be the large lattice mismatch directed interface, contact and morphologies evolution. For detailed instructions on each synthesis, the readers are referred to the corresponding literature. Secondly, the recent upcoming photocatalysis applications and research progress of these hybrid nanocrystals will be reviewed, including the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution (water splitting), photo-reduction of CO2 and other newly emerging potential photosynthesis applications of metal/semiconductor hybrid nanocrystals. Finally, we summarize and outlook the future of this topic. From this review, we try to facilitate the understanding and further improvement of current and practical metal/semiconductor hybrid nanocrystals and photocatalysis applications

Dynamically tunable electromagnetically induced transparency-like metamaterial structure based on polarization sensitivity

In this paper, we propose a plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) metamaterial structure composed of Ag nanomaterials with polarization sensitivity. The metamaterial model consists of three bright modes with different resonant frequencies. The optical properties of the structure are further investigated using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The results show that the conversion between single-band PIT and dual-band PIT effects can be achieved by changing the polarization degree of the incident light, the number of transparent windows can be changed from one to two, and the process is accompanied by the conversion of bright and dark modes and the change of the resonance wavelength of the transmission peak. In addition, When the light is polarized in the Y-direction, the two transparency windows have different refractive index sensitivities, with FOM values of 5.94/RIU and 5.65/RIU, respectively

Design of temperature insurance index and risk zonation for single-season rice in response to high-temperature and low-temperature damage: a case study of Jiangsu Province, China.

Disaster insurance is an important tool for achieving sustainable development in modern agriculture. However, in China, the design of such insurance indexes is far from sufficient. In this paper, the single-season rice in Jiangsu Province of China is taken as an example to design the high-temperature damage index in summer and the low-temperature damage index in autumn to constructtheformulacalculatingtheweatheroutputandsingle-seasonriceyieldreduction. Thedaily highest, lowest and average temperatures between 1999 and 2015 are selected as main variables for the temperature disaster index to quantitatively analyze the relationship between the temperature indexandtheyieldreductionrateofthesingle-seasonrice. Thetemperaturedisasterindexcanbeput into the relevant model to obtain the yield reduction rate of the year and determine whether to pay the indemnity. Then, the burn analysis is used to determine the insurance premium rate for all cities in Jiangsu Province under four-level deductibles, and the insurance premium rate can be used for the risk division of the Province. The research provides some insights for the design of agricultural weather insurance products, and the empirical results provide a reference for the design of similar single-season rice temperature index insurance products

Clinical Study of Venetoclax with Chemotherapy for Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia

BackgroundAdults with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have poor prognosis, very low long-term survival rate and cure rate, and limited chemotherapy regimens.ObjectiveTo investigate the safety and efficacy of venetoclax (VEN) with HAAG 〔homoharringtonine (HHT) , Cytarabine (Ara-C) , aclacinomycin (Acla) , granulocyte stimulating factor (G-CSF) 〕 in relapsed/refractory AML.MethodsThe clinical data of 10 adult patients with relapsed/refractory AML treated in the First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College were analyzed retrospectively, including: clinical characteristics (sex, age, diagnosis, chromosome, gene mutation, prognosis) , peripheral blood and bone marrow cytology, and the effect of Ven+Aza+HAAG regimen.ResultsAmong the 10 patients, there were 7 men and 3 women, with an average age of (47.9±11.3) years; 4 cases of M2 and 6 cases of M5 by FAB classification; 3 cases of good prognosis, 2 cases of fair and 5 cases of poor. The median levels of WBC count, hemoglobin content, and platelet count, as well as median percentage of bone marrow blast cells before chemotherapy of the patients were 4.10×109/L, 87.5 g/L, 66.00×109/L, and 63.5%, respectively, and after chemotherapy, the values of these four indicators were 3.28×109/L, 107.0 g/L, 78.00×109/L and 5.5%, respectively. Before VEN+Aza+HAAG regimen combined chemotherapy, the median number of chemotherapy used by the patients was 5. And after the combined therapy, there were 1 case of complete remission (CR) and 4 cases of CR with incomplete count recovery (CRi) , 3 cases of partial remission (PR) , and 2 cases of non-remission (NR) . The objective response rate of 10 patients was 80%, and median survival time was 〔6.5 (3.0, 8.5) 〕months. The toxic and side effects were mainly bone marrow suppression and infection. No patients died of treatment-related complications and other toxic and side effects.ConclusionCompared with traditional chemotherapy regimen, the use of Ven + Aza + HAAG with chemotherapy could significantly improve the objective response rate and remission degree, and prolong the survival in patients with relapsed/refractory AML, which is worthy of further study and has a prospect of clinical application

Efficacy of a 6-Week Home-Based Online Supervised Exercise Program Conducted During COVID-19 in Patients With Post Percutaneous Coronary Intervention:A Single-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of a 6-week cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program designed for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) that involved an online supervised exercise program that they could access during COVID-19. METHODS: One hundred patients were randomly allocated into control group (CG) and supervision group (SG). CG accepted conventional health education with a home exercise program booklet delivered before discharge, SG had an additional home-based online supervised exercise program (HOSEP). Questionnaires, motor function and lipid profile were administered at baseline. Questionnaires included the Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity questionnaire (GSLTPAQ) and Bandura's Exercise Self-efficacy (ESE). Motor function included: 6-min walk test (6 MWT), timed up and go test (TUG), 30-s sit to stand (30-s STS), and Hand Grip Strength (HG). Lipid profile included: low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), total cholesterol (TC) and triglycerides (TG). The questionnaires were re-administered after 2-weeks, all tests were re-evaluated after 6-weeks. RESULTS: the questionnaire results showed that scores on GSLTPAQ and ESE were significantly improved in the SG. The changes in GSLTPAQ scores from baseline to 2- and 6-weeks in the SG were significantly higher than in the CG (2-week: 6.9 ± 13.0 for SG and 0.2 ± 10.2 for CG, p = 0.005; 6-week: 9.4 ± 18.1 for SG and 0.2 ± 11.8 for CG, p = 0.003). in terms of motor function, both the CG and SG improved TUG and 6 MWT performance, with the 6 MWT improvement being significantly greater in the SG than CG (43.7 ± 39.2 m for SG and 16.6 ± 39.1 m for CG, p = 0.001). Improvement in the 30-s STS was significantly greater in the SG than CG (2.4 ± 3.6 repetitions for SG and 0.4 ± 3.5 repetitions for CG, p = 0.007). the lipid profile level significantly improved over baseline in both SG and CG after 6-week intervention, and these changes were not statistically different between groups. CONCLUSION: This pilot randomized control study demonstrated that a 6-week HOSEP, when added to education delivered pre-hospital discharge for CAD patients following PCI, was beneficial with respect to exercise self-efficacy, exercise behavior, motor function and lipid profile. Supervised exercise programs delivered online in addition to education providing effective and accessible CR during COVID-19

Course Control of Underactuated Ship Based on Nonlinear Robust Neural Network Backstepping Method

The problem of course control for underactuated surface ship is addressed in this paper. Firstly, neural networks are adopted to determine the parameters of the unknown part of ideal virtual backstepping control, even the weight values of neural network are updated by adaptive technique. Then uniform stability for the convergence of course tracking errors has been proven through Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, simulation experiments are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of proposed control method