34 research outputs found
A Systematic Reviews of Repurchase Intention in Live Streaming E-Commerce in China and Proposed Strategies
In China, many electronic business platforms are currently thriving. In recent years, one type of e-commerce has risen rapidly: live streaming e-commerce. In the context of live streaming e-commerce, a better understanding of customer attitudes and intentions is required. This study will look into the factors that influence repurchase intent in live streaming e-commerce in China. This study discusses the systematic review of live streaming ecommerce, the existing challenges, The PRISMA guidelines were used to report the findings of systematic reviews. There are a total of 301 articles identified. After searching, metadata is saved in bibtex for analysis. Out of the 132 articles screened, a total of 54 manuscripts were rejected for not meeting the requirement of English academic writing, peer-reviewed, or journal article requirements. Screening selected 78 articles for eligibility. After filtering, there are a total of 15 articles relevant to this study that have been reviewed in detail. Finally, this paper proposed some strategies for managing live streaming e-commerce in a Chinese context
Transcribing Latin Manuscripts in Respect to Linguistics
Current text detection software, although can transcribe modern languages with high accuracy, has flaws detecting texts and transcribing original Latin manuscripts sufficiently. This paper proposes a general approach for transcribing Latin manuscripts in respect to linguistics and develops a system to transcribe Latin manuscripts containing intricate abbreviations, which combines basic object detection algorithms with linguistics. We used methods from image processing and made changes based on the characteristics of Latin.This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]
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Hemoglobin A1c Levels and Aortic Arterial Stiffness: The Cardiometabolic Risk in Chinese (CRC) Study
Objective: The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recently published new clinical guidelines in which hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) was recommended as a diagnostic test for diabetes. The present study was to investigate the association between HbA1c and cardiovascular risk, and compare the associations with fasting glucose and 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (2 h OGTT). Research design and methods: The study samples are from a community-based health examination survey in central China. Carotid-to-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) and HbA1c were measured in 5,098 men and women. Results: After adjustment for age, sex, and BMI, the levels of HbA1c were significantly associated with an increasing trend of cfPWV in a dose-dependent fashion (P for trend 0.05). Conclusions: HbA1c was related to high cfPWV, independent of conventional cardiovascular risk factors. Senior age and high blood pressure might amplify the adverse effects of HbA1c on cardiovascular risk
Evaluating the Risk of Roof Fall in Phosphate Mines: Case Study of the Shanshuya Phosphate Mine in China
AbstractRoof fall in phosphate mines seriously endangers the safety of the mining activity. In this paper, the risk of roof fall occurring in phosphate mines is evaluated using the underground phosphate mine in Shanshuya, China, as an engineering background. The factors affecting roof fall in phosphate mines are analyzed, and an index system for evaluating the risk of roof fall in phosphate mine is established. Four evaluation models are employed to evaluate the risk of roof fall occurring: a set pair analysis model based on combination weights, a comprehensive fuzzy model based on hierarchical analysis, an approximately ideal ranking model based on entropy weight, and a gray relational analysis model. The evaluation results of the first two models are moderate risk with a bias toward intense risk. And the evaluation results of the last two models are slight risk with a bias toward moderate risk and moderate risk with a bias toward slight risk, respectively. The suitability of each of the evaluation models is analyzed which reveals that the evaluation results obtained using the different models are inconsistent. A combined evaluation method based on the four original evaluation models is subsequently proposed. Application of the combined evaluation method to the Shanshuya phosphate mine produces results that the roof fall risk is moderate with a bias toward slight risk. It is consistent with the actual situation in this phosphate mine. The results of the study can be used to provide technical support to engineers evaluating the risk of roof fall occurring in similar phosphate mines
MELD-XI Score Is Associated With Short-Term Adverse Events in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection
Aim: Accumulating evidence suggests that MELD-XI score holds the ability to predict the prognosis of congestive heart failure. However, most of the evidence is based on the end-stage heart failure population; thus, we aim to explore the association between the MELD-XI score and the prognosis in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).Methods: A total of 30,096 patients hospitalized for HFpEF in Fujian Provincial Hospital between January 1, 2014 and July 17, 2020 with available measures of creatinine and liver function were enrolled. The primary endpoint was 60-day in-hospital all-cause mortality. Secondary endpoints were 60-day in-hospital cardiovascular mortality and 30-day rehospitalization for heart failure.Results: A total of 222 patients died within 60 days after admission, among which 75 deaths were considered cardiogenic. And 73 patients were readmitted for heart failure within 30 days after discharge. Generally, patients with an elevated MELD-XI score tended to have more comorbidities, higher NYHA class, and higher inflammatory biomarkers levels. Meanwhile, the MELD-XI score was positively correlated with NT-pro BNP, left atrial diameter, E/e' and negatively correlated with LVEF. After adjusting for conventional risk factors, the MELD-XI score was independently associated with 60-day in-hospital all-cause mortality [hazard ratio(HR) = 1.052, 95% confidential interval (CI) 1.022–1.083, P = 0.001], 60-day in-hospital cardiovascular mortality (HR = 1.064, 95% CI 1.013–1.118, P = 0.014), and 30-day readmission for heart failure (HR = 1.061, 95% CI 1.015–1.108, P = 0.009). Furthermore, the MELD-XI score added an incremental discriminatory capacity to risk stratification models developed based on this cohort.Conclusion: The MELD-XI score was associated with short-term adverse events and provided additional discriminatory capacity to risk stratification models in patients hospitalized for HFpEF
A Microseismicity-Based Method of Rockburst Intensity Warning in Deep Tunnels in the Initial Period of Microseismic Monitoring
Rockburst disasters in deep tunnels cause serious casualties and economic losses. It is a great challenge to make a warning for rockbursts in geotechnical engineering. In this work, a microseismicity-based rockburst intensity warning method is proposed that is suitable for use in deep tunnels in the initial period of microseismic (MS) monitoring. The method first involves collecting information on a sample of no more than five cases. Then, the event to be analyzed is combined with the sample events and subjected to cluster analysis. Finally, a rockburst intensity warning is generated according to the results of the cluster analysis or after a second cluster analysis. It is a comprehensive, multi-parameter rockburst intensity warning method that only needs a few rockburst cases for input which makes it suitable in the initial period of MS monitoring. The method also incorporates the novel idea of a second cluster analysis. An engineering application based on deep tunnels in the Jinping II hydropower station in Sichuan Province, China, shows that the rockburst intensity warning results based on the proposed method agree well with the actual situations in four tests carried out. The method will enrich the techniques used to warn of rockbursts based on microseismicity
Anticancer potential of Bacillus coagulans MZY531 on mouse H22 hepatocellular carcinoma cells via anti-proliferation and apoptosis induction
Abstract Bacillus coagulans have recently revealed its anticancer effects, but few investigations are available on their effects on liver cancer proliferation, and the precise mechanism to mark its impact on apoptosis-related signaling pathways has yet to be elucidated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the anti-proliferative effect of B. coagulans MZY531 and apoptosis induction in the mouse H22 hepatocellular carcinoma cell line. The anti-proliferative activity of B. coagulans MZY531 was evaluated by Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) assay, and cell apoptosis was revealed with Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase (TDT)-mediated dUTP Nick-End Labeling (TUNEL) staining and flow cytometric analysis. The expressions of apoptosis-related protein were determined by western blot analysis. The CCK-8 assay revealed that B. coagulans MZY531 inhibited the H22 cells proliferation in a concentration-dependent manner. TUNEL staining revealed an increased apoptosis rate in H22 cells following intervention with B. coagulans MZY531. Furthermore, flow cytometric analysis showed that B. coagulans MZY531 treatment (MOI = 50 and 100) significantly alleviated the H22 cells apoptosis compared with the control group. Western blot analysis found B. coagulans MZY531 significantly decreased level of phospho-PI3K (p-PI3K), phospho-AKT (p-AKT), and phospho-mTOR (p-mTOR) compared with the control group. Furthermore, H22 cells treatment with B. coagulans MZY531 enhanced the expression of caspase-3 and Bax and jeopardized the expression of Bcl-2. Taken together, apoptosis induction and cell proliferation inhibition via PI3K/AKT/mTOR and Bax/Bcl-2/Caspase-3 pathway are promising evidence to support B. coagulans MZY531 as a potential therapeutic agent for cancer
Study on the linkage between macro policy and market effectiveness in China's stock market: Based on run test of China's stock market index.
The macro policy of the stock market is an important market information. The implementation goal of the macro policy of the stock market is mainly to improve the effectiveness of the stock market. However, whether this effectiveness has achieved the goal is worth verifying through empirical data. The exertion of this information utility is closely related to the effectiveness of the stock market. Use the run test method in statistics to collect and sort out the daily data of stock price index in recent 30 years, the linkage between 75 macro policy events and 35 trading days of market efficiencies before and after the macro event are tested since 1992 to 2022. The results show that 50.66% of the macro policies are positively linked to the effectiveness of the stock market, while 49.34% of the macro policies have reduced the effectiveness of the market operation. This shows that the effectiveness of China's stock market is not high, and the nonlinear characteristics are obvious, so the policy formulation of the stock market needs further improvement
Epidemiological and transcriptome data identify potential key genes involved in iron overload for type 2 diabetes
Abstract Background Many previous studies have reported the association between iron overload (IO) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the underlying molecular mechanism is not clear. Methods Epidemiological data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017–2018 (NHANES) was used to systematically explore the association between IO and diabetes. Furthermore, transcriptome data from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) were analyzed using bioinformatics methods to explore the underlying functional mechanisms at the molecular level. Results Data from NHANES showed a “W” shape relationship between serum iron (frozen) and the risk of diabetes (P < 0.001) as well as a “∧” shape correlation between serum unsaturated iron binding capacity (UIBC) and the risk of diabetes (P = 0.007). Furthermore, the serum iron (frozen) was positively associated with fasting plasma glucose and HOMAB (P < 0.05), and UIBC was positively associated with fasting insulin (P < 0.05). Transcriptome data showed that two IO-related genes [Transferrin receptor (TFRC) and Solute carrier family-11 member-2 (SLC11A2)] were down-regulated in T2DM. The correlation analysis showed that expression levels of TFRC and SLC11A2 were significantly and positively correlated with genes involved in insulin secretion (P < 0.05). Protein–protein interaction network analysis showed that TFRC and SLC11A2 interacted with four key genes, including VAMP2, HIF1A, SLC2A1, and RAB11FIP2. Conclusion We found that IO status was associated with increased FPG and aggravated HOMAB, and two IO-related genes (TFRC and SLC11A2) might induce the occurrence of T2DM by influencing insulin secretion, which provides potential therapeutic targets for T2DM patients