Establishment of an immortalized cell line derived from the pupal ovary of Mythimna separata (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and identification of the cell source - Yan Tong; Lu-Qiang Cheng; Xuan Li; Xu-Peng Yu; Rui-Hao Shu; Ji-Hong Zhang; Qian Meng; Qi-Lian Qin; Kai Tang; Jian-Xiang Xu; Huan Zhang (Cell and Tissue Research, 2021)

Active earth pressure against inclined rigid retaining wall considering rotation of principal stresses under translation mode - Cai-Song Luo; Peng-Zhi Yang; Cheng Dong; Pei-Cheng Zhang; Yi-Tao Zhou (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Station‐based non‐linear regression downscaling approach: A new monthly precipitation downscaling technique - Zexi Shen; Qiang Zhang; Vijay P. Singh; Peng Sun; Chunyang He; Changxiu Cheng (International Journal of Climatology, 2021)
Statistical downscaling is an effective way to downscale General Circulation Model (GCM) outputs to a finer temporal and spatial scale. Here, we proposed and trained a new station‐based non‐linear regression downscaling (SNRD) approach, and quantitatively demonstrated its better performance than linear regression model. In addition, we also compared the SNRD method with the Bias Correction Spatial Disaggregation (BCSD) method, which has been widely applied on downscaling precipitation. Results indicated that RMSEs and residuals of the BCSD method are 4.6–31 times as ones of SNRD in each region of China during validation period (2004–2015). Besides, with historical in‐situ observed monthly mean precipitation as the benchmark, SNRD downscaled model modified the over‐estimation (1.25–2 times as observed precipitation) flaw of BCSD model in rainy season (June–August) of China, which could provide assistance on the further researches on drought events in rainy season in future. Further, we also surprisingly found that the 2,500 m was the threshold height for statistical downscaling models. Both BCSD and SNRD downscaled precipitation displayed more steadily and accurately above 2,500 m, since there are less intense human activities in China. Thus, we recommend further studies should fully consider the height element in downscaling models to improve the accuracies.

PGC-1ɑ Mediated-EXOG, a Specific Repair Enzyme for Mitochondrial DNA, Plays an Essential Role in the Rotenone-Induced Neurotoxicity of PC12 Cells - Jingsong Xiao; Xunhu Dong; Kaige Peng; Feng Ye; Jin Cheng; Guorong Dan; Zhongmin Zou; Jia Cao; Yan Sai (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2021)

Human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cell-exosomal miR-627-5p ameliorates non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by repressing FTO expression - Lidan Cheng; Peng Yu; Fangfang Li; Xueling Jiang; Xiaojuan Jiao; Yunfeng Shen; Xiaoyang Lai (Human Cell, 2021)

Understanding Interannual Variations of the Local Rainy Season over the Southwest Indian Ocean - Hanying Li; Peng Hu; Qiong Zhang; Ashish Sinha; Hai Cheng (Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2021)

Complete Coverage Path Planning of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle Based on a Complete Coverage Neural Network Algorithm - Peng-Fei Xu; Yan-Xu Ding; Jia-Cheng Luo (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021)
In practical applications, an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) generally employs a task of complete coverage path planning for exploration in a target area of interest. The biological inspired neural network (BINN) algorithm has been extensively employed in path planning of mobile robots, recently. In this paper, a complete coverage neural network (CCNN) algorithm for the path planning of a USV is proposed for the first time. By simplifying the calculation process of the neural activity, the CCNN algorithm can significantly reduce calculation time. To improve coverage efficiency and make the path more regular, the optimal next position decision formula combined with the covering direction term is established. The CCNN algorithm has increased moving directions of the path in grid maps, which in turn has further reduced turning-angles and makes the path smoother. Besides, an improved A* algorithm that can effectively decrease path turns is presented to escape the deadlock. Simulations are carried out in different environments in this work. The results show that the coverage path generated by the CCNN algorithm has less turning-angle accumulation, deadlocks, and calculation time. In addition, the CCNN algorithm is capable to maintain the covering direction and adapt to complex environments, while effectively escapes deadlocks. It is applicable for USVs to perform multiple engineering missions.

Reconciling the inconsistency of annual temperature cycles modelled from Landsat and MODIS LSTs through a percentile approach - Huyan Fu; Zhenfeng Shao; Peng Fu; Wenfeng Zhan; Yanhua Xie; Tao Cheng (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2021)

Two new sterol derivatives isolated from the endophytic fungus Aspergillus tubingensis YP-2 - Shui Yu; Yuan-Xing Zhu; Cheng Peng; Jiyang Li (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Aflatoxins from the endophytic fungus Aspergillus sp. Y-2 isolated from the critically endangered conifer Abies beshanzuensis - Yuan-Xing Zhu; Cheng Peng; Shui Yu; Jin-Feng Hu; Jiyang Li (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Implantation of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells into Small Intestinal Submucosa Improves Bile Duct Injury in Rabbits - Ying Li; Piao Wang; Xiao-dong Hu; Jing-da Zeng; Cheng Fang; Yu Gan; Fang-yi Peng; Xiao-li Yang; De Luo; Bo Li; Song Su (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2021)

The change of hydrological variables and its effects on vegetation in Central Asia - Qing Peng; Ranghui Wang; Yelin Jiang; Cheng Li; Wenhui Guo (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2021)
Water is an important factor that affects local ecological environments, especially in drylands. The hydrological cycle and vegetation dynamics in Central Asia (CA) have been severely affected by climate change. In this study, we employed data from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS), Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model, and Climate Research Unit to analyze the spatiotemporal changes in hydrological factors (terrestrial water storage (TWS), evapotranspiration, precipitation, and groundwater) in CA from 2003 to 2015. Additionally, the spatiotemporal changes in vegetation dynamics and the influence of hydrological variables on vegetation were analyzed. The results showed that the declining rates of precipitation, evapotranspiration, GRACE-TWS change, GLDAS-TWS change and GW change were 0.40 mm/year, 0.11 mm/year, 50.46 mm/year ( p < 0.05), 8.38 mm/year, and 41.18 mm/year ( p < 0.05), respectively. Human activity (e.g., groundwater pumping) was the dominant in determining the GW decline in CA. Precipitation dominated the changes in evapotranspiration, GRACE-TWS and GLDAS-TWS ( p < 0.05). The 2- to 3-month lagging signal has to do with the transportation from the ground surface to groundwater. The change in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from 2003 to 2015 indicated the slight vegetation degradation in CA. The results highlighted that precipitation, terrestrial water storage, and soil moisture make important contributions to the vegetation dynamics changes in CA. The effect of precipitation on vegetation growth in spring was significant ( p < 0.05), while the soil moisture effect on vegetation in summer and autumn was higher than that of precipitation.

Complement C3 Aggravates Post-epileptic Neuronal Injury Via Activation of TRPV1 - Guang-Tong Jiang; Lin Shao; Shuo Kong; Meng-Liu Zeng; Jing-Jing Cheng; Tao-Xiang Chen; Song Han; Jun Yin; Wan-Hong Liu; Xiao-Hua He; Yu-Min Liu; Lanzi Gongga; et al. (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2021)

Hyperspectral Bathymetry Retrieval using a Newly Developed Normalized Algorithm in Shallow Water - Hongga Li; Peng Cheng; Xiaoxia Huang (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2021)

Additive and Epistatic QTL on Cadmium (Cd) Tolerance Associated with Seed Germinating Ability in Rice - Changsheng Li; Peng Wang; Guangliang Wu; Yanning Wang; Qin Cheng; Yicong Cai; Dahu Zhou; Caijing Li; Xiangyu Zhang; Jingai Tan; Cuijuan Li; Haohua He; et al. (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2021)

Effect of mangrove restoration on sediment properties and bacterial community - Xiao-Xia Ma; Zhao-Yu Jiang; Peng Wu; Yong-Fei Wang; Hao Cheng; You-Shao Wang; Ji-Dong Gu (Ecotoxicology, 2021)

Combining geophysical methods, drilling, and monitoring techniques to investigate carbonaceous shale landslides along a railway line: a case study on Jiheng Railway, China - Maoxin Su; Kai Cheng; Yimin Liu; Yiguo Xue; Peng Wang; Kai Zhang; Congcong Li (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2021)

Development of a dual-labeled, hydrolysis probe-based, real-time quantitative PCR assay for detection of both genotypes of duck circovirus-1 (DuCV-1) and DuCV-2 - Lin Zhang; Wenming Jiang; Fuyou Zhang; Yang Li; Jinping Li; Shaobo Liang; Xiaohui Yu; Cheng Peng; Shuo Liu; Jingjing Wang; Shuhong Sun; Hualei Liu (Virus Genes, 2021)

Correlations between Dual-Pathway White Matter Alterations and Language Impairment in Patients with Aphasia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Jie Zhang; Shuchang Zhong; Liang Zhou; Yamei Yu; Xufei Tan; Min Wu; Peng Sun; Wei Zhang; Juebao Li; Ruidong Cheng; Yanfei Wu; Yanmei Yu; et al. (Neuropsychology Review, 2021)

Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) Techniques to Implement a Practical Smart Cage Aquaculture Management System - Chung-Cheng Chang; Jung-Hua Wang; Jenq-Lang Wu; Yi-Zeng Hsieh; Tzong-Dar Wu; Shyi-Chy Cheng; Chin-Chun Chang; Jih-Gau Juang; Chyng-Hwa Liou; Te-Hua Hsu; Yii-Shing Huang; Cheng-Ting Huang; et al. (Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2021)
Purpose This paper presents our team’s results to establish an AIoT smart cage culture management system. Methods According to the built system, the farmed field information is transmitted to the data platform of Ocean Cloud, and all collected data and analysis results can be applied to the cage culture field after the bigdata analysis. Results This management system successfully integrates AI and IoT technologies and is applied in cage culture. Using underwater biological analysis images and AI feeding as examples, this paper explains how the system integrates AI and IoT into a feasible framework that can constantly acquire information about the health status of fish, survival rate of fish, as well as the feed residuals. Conclusion The results of our research enable the aquaculture operators or owners to efficiently reduce the feed residual, monitor the growth of fish, and increase fish survival rate, thereby increasing the feed conversion rate.

Acute associations between air pollution on premature rupture of membranes in Hefei, China - Chao Zhang; Sha Li; Gan-lan Guo; Jing-wen Hao; Peng Cheng; Li-lin Xiong; Shu-ting Chen; Ji-yu Cao; Yu-wen Guo; Jia-hu Hao (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2021)

Experimental study of gas concentration and its thermal behavior in coal and gas outburst - Jiang Xu; Liang Cheng; Bin Zhou; Shoujian Peng; Xiaobo Yang; Wenjian Yang (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Modulation of the 5-HT 3 A receptor current by desacylbaldrinal - Li-Xia Wang; Hu-Lan Chen; Hong-Ling Yan; Fei Tang; Hai Zhang; Hong-Xiang Li; Qiang Ye; Cheng Peng; Yu-Zhu Tan (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Flocculant effects on fluidity and strength behavior of cemented dredged clay with high water content - Gui-Zhong Xu; Cheng-Chun Qiu; Miao-Miao Song; Yu-Peng Cao; Jie- Yin (Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 2021)

GPR40 receptor agonist TAK-875 improves cognitive deficits and reduces β-amyloid production in APPswe/PS1dE9 mice - Chao Liu; Zhao-Yan Cheng; Qing-Peng Xia; Yu-Hui Hu; Chen Wang; Ling He (Psychopharmacology, 2021)

Identification and function analysis of fasciclin-like arabinogalactan protein family genes in pear (Pyrus bretschneideri) - Xiaoqiang Li; Mengyu Cheng; Chao Tang; Xiaoxuan Zhu; Kaijie Qi; Shaoling Zhang; Juyou Wu; Peng Wang (Plant Systematics and Evolution, 2021)

The major photoprotective role of anthocyanins in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana under long-term high light treatment: antioxidant or light attenuator? - Xiao-Ting Zheng; Zheng-Chao Yu; Jun-Wei Tang; Min-Ling Cai; Yi-Lin Chen; Cheng-Wei Yang; Wah Soon Chow; Chang-Lian Peng (Photosynthesis Research, 2021)

The prograde-to-retrograde evolution of the Huangshaping skarn deposit (Nanling Range, South China) - Da-Peng Zhu; Huan Li; Thomas J. Algeo; Wei-Cheng Jiang; Chong Wang (Mineralium Deposita, 2021)

First report of chick peach (Prunus persica L.) leaf spot disease caused by Didymella glomerata in China - Yiping Cui; Aitian Peng; Xiaobing Song; Baoping Cheng; Jinfeng Ling; Xia Chen (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2021)

Experiment on the Effect of Freezing–Thawing Cyclic on Mechanical Properties of Solidified Sludge - Cheng Peng; Zongkun Tian; Hui Long; Yuqing Tan (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2021)

Long-term impact of ambient air pollution on preterm birth in Xuzhou, China: a time series study - Sha Li; Lei Peng; Xiaochang Wu; Geng Xu; Peng Cheng; Jingwen Hao; Zhaohui Huang; Meng Xu; Shuting Chen; Chao Zhang; Jiahu Hao (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Natural constituents from food sources as therapeutic agents for obesity and metabolic diseases targeting adipose tissue inflammation - Dan Li; Tian Zhang; Jinjian Lu; Cheng Peng; Ligen Lin (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2021)

Transcriptome analysis of differentially expressed genes in chrysanthemum MET1 RNA interference lines - Dong-ru Kang; Yi Zhu; Shuai-lei Li; Peng-hui Ai; Muhammad Ayoub Khan; Hong-xu Ding; Ying Wang; Zi-cheng Wang (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2021)

Identification of potential sex-related genes in Siniperca chuatsi - Qiaoying Zhu; Chong Han; Cheng Peng; Xingni Zhou; Chongwei Wang; Linqiang Han; Shuisheng Li; Guifeng Li; Haoran Lin; Yong Zhang (Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021)

Phosphorus fertilization rather than nitrogen fertilization, growing season and plant successional stage structures arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community in a subtropical forest - Pulak Maitra; Yong Zheng; Yong-Long Wang; Dipa Mandal; Peng-Peng Lü; Cheng Gao; Busayo Joshua Babalola; Niu-Niu Ji; Xing-Chun Li; Liang-Dong Guo (Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2021)

Using the Metabolome to Understand the Mechanisms Linking Chronic Arsenic Exposure to Microglia Activation, and Learning and Memory Impairment - Rui-Yuan Zhang; Jie-Bai Tu; Rui-Tu Ran; Wen-Xuan Zhang; Qiang Tan; Ping Tang; Tao Kuang; Shu-Qun Cheng; Cheng-Zhi Chen; Xue-Jun Jiang; Chang Chen; Ting-Li Han; et al. (Neurotoxicity Research, 2021)

Enhancement of IUdR Radiosensitization in Cancer Therapy by Low-Energy Transmission X Ray Irradiation - Chien-Chih Ke; Jia-Je Li; Hsueh-Peng Wu; Wen-Wang Kuo; Yi-An Chen; Cheng-Hsiu Lu; Hsin-Ell Wang; Shih-Ming Hsu; Ya-Ju Hsieh; Ren-Shyan Liu (Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2021)

Response of water quality to land use in hydrologic response unit and riparian buffer along the Dan River, China - Xiaojun Liu; Yi Zhang; Zhanbin Li; Peng Li; Guoce Xu; Yuting Cheng; Tiegang Zhang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

RDF for temporal data management – a survey - Fu Zhang; Zhiyin Li; Dunhong Peng; Jingwei Cheng (Earth Science Informatics, 2021)

Climate response to introduction of the ESA CCI land cover data to the NCAR CESM - Shu Liu; Xiaoxuan Liu; Le Yu; Yong Wang; Guang J. Zhang; Peng Gong; Wenyu Huang; Bin Wang; Mengmiao Yang; Yuqi Cheng (Climate Dynamics, 2021)

Detection of Abandoned Coal Mine Goaf in China’s Ordos Basin Using the Transient Electromagnetic Method - Peng Wang; Qing Wang; Yi Wang; Cheng Wang (Mine Water and the Environment, 2021)

Molecular characterization of a novel single-stranded RNA virus, ChRV1, isolated from the plant-pathogenic fungus Colletotrichum higginsianum - Hong Liu; Hui Wang; Xun Lu; Cheng Xiao; Bo Peng; Qian Zhou (Archives of Virology, 2021)

Influence of Maillard Reaction in Volatile Flavor Compounds of Blue Round Scad ( Decapterus maruadsi ) Enzymatic Hydrolysate - Rongbin Zhong; Xiaodan Lu; Ji Zhong; Lijiao Chen; Wenjian Cheng; Peng Liang (Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology, 2021)

What Are the Impacts of a Coastal Zone Protection Policy on Farmers’ Livelihood Capital? Empirical Analysis From the Perspective of Farmer Participation - Peng Cheng; Han Wang; Xin Nie; Siyang Zhu; Zhoupeng Chen; Xingyi Wu; Anlu Zhang; Jing Wang (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
To restore and protect the ecosystem service function of coastal zones, some farmers have changed their certain original production methods and lifestyles and some have even relinquished a portion of the economic benefits that could be obtained directly. What impacts do the coastal zone ecological protection policies bring to the livelihoods of coastal farmers? The strict coastline protection of Beibu Gulf, Hepu County, Beihai City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, is taken as an example. Combined with the sustainable livelihood framework (SLF), this paper set up an evaluation index system for the livelihood capital of farmers in the Beibu Gulf coastal zone, obtaining 568 valid questionnaires through a field survey, and use the propensity score matching and difference-in-difference (PSM-DID) method to study the impacts of a coastal ecological protection policy on the livelihood capital of coastal farmers from the perspective of farmer participation. The results show that (1) the coastal ecological protection policy had a significant impact on the natural capital and social capital of coastal farmers that actively participated in coastal ecological protection, which increased by 0.181 and 0.052, respectively. (2) However, it did not have a significant impact on the total livelihood capital, human capital, physical capital or financial capital. Therefore, this paper presents policy suggestions for constructing coastal ecological compensation mechanisms and for promoting active participation by coastal farmers in coastal ecological protection efforts.

Experimental study of energy dissipation characteristics and crack coalescence modes of cracked sandstone under different cyclic loading paths - Kang Peng; Yunqiang Wang; Quanle Zou; Yanying Cheng; Xiao Song (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2021)

PtP38 May Increase the Immune Ability of Portunus trituberculatus Stimulated by LPS Imitating a Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection - Cheng-Peng Lu; Chao-Guang Wei; Jun-Quan Zhu; Dao-Jun Tang; Chun-Lin Wang; Cong-Cong Hou (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021)
The P38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal transduction pathway is widespread in organisms and plays important roles in immune activities. The infection mechanism of environmental gram-negative bacteria on crustaceans is an important scientific problem. In this study, the cDNA full-length sequence of Portunus trituberculatus P38 (PtP38) was cloned and its structure was analyzed by bioinformatics methods. To study the function of the PtP38 gene after a Gram-negative bacterial infection, we injected P. trituberculatus with LPS to activate the immune response instead of directly infecting with Gram-negative bacteria. With LPS stimulation, the expression of the PtP38 gene in different tissues increased significantly. At the same time, the expression of immune-related genes (ALF and crustin) in the hepatopancreas, activities of antioxidant enzymes [superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) enzymes], and expression of apoptosis-related genes (caspase2 and caspase3) were increased significantly. To further conform the function of PtP38 in the immune response, we injected P. trituberculatus with P38 inhibitor and subsequently injected with LPS. The results showed that the expression of immune-related genes was inhibited, the activity of antioxidant enzymes was decreased, and the expression of apoptosis-related genes were inhibited. Thus, we speculated that PtP38 may increase the immune ability by improving the expression of antimicrobial peptides, increasing the activity of oxidative stress-related enzymes, and promoting cell apoptosis in infected P. trituberculatus . This study also laid the foundation for further study of the P38 MAPK signaling pathway and immune mechanism of P. trituberculatus .

Water Qualities and Products Generated in Dechlorination Process Using Ultra-high Lime with Aluminum Method - Jiali Xu; Peng Chen; Chen Dou; Di Yin; GuangYuan Meng; Rui Cheng; Haifeng Liu; Lehua Zhang (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2021)

On the ~ 7 year periodic signal in length of day from a frequency domain stepwise regression method - Can-Can Hsu; Peng-Shuo Duan; Xue-Qing Xu; Yong-Hong Zhou; Cheng-Li Huang (Journal of Geodesy, 2021)
The intradecadal variations in length-of-day (LOD) and their time-varying characteristics still need to be further studied. Given that the corresponding signal periods on the intradecadal scales are quite close to each other and the span of currently observed ΔLOD data (i.e., 1962–2019, only 57 years) is not long enough, accurate detection of these signals depends on using effective mathematical method. On the basis of the traditional harmonic retrieval model, this work proposes a frequency domain stepwise regression method, which can well identify the periodic components with close periods and recognize the weaker signals to estimate the relevant harmonic parameters (i.e., amplitude, frequency and phase). Furthermore, we apply this method to detection of the actual LOD intradecadal variations, the result of which shows that there are three components (i.e., the ~ 5.9 years, ~ 8.3 years and ~ 7.3 years) existing in LOD intradecadal variations. Here, we firstly give the time-domain harmonic expression of the ~ 7.3 years signal, i.e., $$y\left(t\right)=Acos\left(\frac{2π }{T}\left(t-1962+ψ \right)\right)$$ y t = A cos 2 π T t - 1962 + ψ , where the period $$T=7.33$$ T = 7.33 years, amplitude $$A=0.0413(± 0.0099)$$ A = 0.0413 ( ± 0.0099 ) ms, phase $$ψ =-1.58(± 0.30)$$ ψ = - 1.58 ( ± 0.30 ) years. The mechanism of this ~ 7.3 years signal needs to be further studied.

Analysis of loess fracture on slope stability based on centrifugal model tests - Yuxiang Cheng; Aidi Huo; Zhixin Zhao; Jianbing Peng (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2021)

Cabbage defense response provoked by Trichoderma Th-LAAO - Chia-Min Liu; Shu-Ying Liu; Chuan-Kai Liao; Chaur-Tsuen Lo; Kuo-Chih Lin; Kou-Cheng Peng (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

Physical interactions facilitate sex change in the protogynous orange‐spotted grouper, Epinephelus coioides - Jiaxing Chen; Cheng Peng; Jingjun Huang; Herong Shi; Ling Xiao; Lin Tang; Haoran Lin; Shuisheng Li; Yong Zhang (Journal of Fish Biology, 2021)
Sex change in teleost fishes is commonly regulated by social factors. In species that exhibit protogynous sex change, such as the orange‐spotted grouper Epinephelus coioides , when the dominant males are removed from the social group, the most dominant female initiates sex change. The aim of this study was to determine the regulatory mechanisms of socially controlled sex change in E. coioides . We investigated the seasonal variation in social behaviours and sex change throughout the reproductive cycle of E. coioides , and defined the behaviour pattern of this fish during the establishment of a dominance hierarchy. The social behaviours and sex change in this fish were affected by season, and only occurred during the prebreeding season and breeding season. Therefore, a series of sensory isolation experiments was conducted during the breeding season to determine the role of physical, visual and olfactory cues in mediating socially controlled sex change. The results demonstrated that physical interactions between individuals in the social groups were crucial for the initiation and completion of sex change, whereas visual and olfactory cues alone were insufficient in stimulating sex change in dominant females. In addition, we propose that the steroid hormones 11‐ketotestosterone and cortisol are involved in regulating the initiation of socially controlled sex change.

Orbital-scale Asian summer monsoon variations: Paradox and exploration - Hai Cheng; Haiwei Zhang; Yanjun Cai; Zhengguo Shi; Liang Yi; Chenglong Deng; Qingzhen Hao; Youbing Peng; Ashish Sinha; Hanying Li; Jingyao Zhao; Ye Tian; et al. (Science China Earth Sciences, 2021)

Effects of oxytetracycline on plant growth, phosphorus uptake, and carboxylates in the rhizosheath of alfalfa - Zekun Zhang; Rui Su; Chao Chang; Xiao Cheng; Qi Peng; Hans Lambers; Honghua He (Plant and Soil, 2021)

Correlation of Phase Composition, Structure, and Mechanical Properties of Natural Basalt Continuous Fibers - S. I. Gutnikov; S. S. Popov; V. A. Efremov; Peng-Cheng Ma; B. I. Lazoryak (Natural Resources Research, 2021)

Physical Simulations of Gas Production Mechanism in Constant-Rate Co-production from Multiple Coal Reservoirs - Qixian Li; Jiang Xu; Shoujian Peng; Fazhi Yan; Bin Zhou; Ende Han; Cheng Jiang (Natural Resources Research, 2021)

Late Cretaceous granitic magmatism and Sn mineralization in the giant Yinyan porphyry tin deposit, South China: constraints from zircon and cassiterite U–Pb and molybdenite Re–Os geochronology - Peng-Cheng Hu; Wei-Guang Zhu; Hong Zhong; Rong-Qing Zhang; Xiao-Yu Zhao; Wei Mao (Mineralium Deposita, 2021)

Detection and significance of exosomal mRNA expression profiles in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with meningeal carcinomatosis - Peng Cheng; Feifei Feng; Hui Yang; Suqin Jin; Chao Lai; Yun Wang; Jianzhong Bi (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2021)

An Optimization Algorithm for Exponential Curve Model of Single Pile Bearing Capacity - Hongmei Ma; Cheng Peng; Jinying Gan; Yonghong Deng (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2021)
The ultimate bearing capacity of single pile is very important to engineering safety, so correctly predicting its value becomes an important part of engineering safety. Based on the traditional exponential curve model, a parameter optimization algorithm of the exponential curve model of single pile bearing capacity, which combines the golden section method and the linear least square method, is proposed. In order to verify the reliability of the proposed optimization algorithm, the measured data of the building engineering in the literature were optimized and calculated. Through comparison, it is found that the optimization algorithm is closer to the measured value than the traditional exponential curve model algorithm, which can better guide the engineering practice, and verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed parameter optimization method.

Drug screening and development from the affinity of S protein of new coronavirus with ACE2 - Yue-Peng Jiang; Xiao-Xuan Zhao; Hui-Qing Lv; Cheng-Ping Wen (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2021)

Carbon isotope variations of modern soils in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and their controlling factors - Lin Qi; Yan-song Qiao; Zong-xiu Liu; Sha-sha Peng; Yu Cheng; Yan Wang; Xu-jiao Zhang; Ming-zhong Tian; Shuai-bin Yang; Wen-bin Bai (Journal of Mountain Science, 2021)

Formation and driving factors of sulfate in PM2.5 at a high-level atmospheric SO2 city of Yangquan in China - Cheng Wang; Yulong Yan; Yueyuan Niu; Rumei Li; Yang Xu; Dongmei Hu; Jing Wu; Lin Peng (Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2021)

Short-term effects of ambient temperature on preterm birth: a time-series analysis in Xuzhou, China - Peng Cheng; Lei Peng; Jingwen Hao; Sha Li; Chao Zhang; Lianjie Dou; Weinan Fu; Fan Yang; Jiahu Hao (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Degradation stage effects on vegetation and soil properties interactions in alpine steppe - Cheng-yang Li; Fei Peng; Xian Xue; Chi-min Lai; Wen-juan Zhang; Quan-gang You; Xiao-jie Chen; Xue-qin Zhang; Tao Wang (Journal of Mountain Science, 2021)

Transcriptome analysis in Takifugu rubripes and Dicentrarchus labrax gills during Cryptocaryon irritans infection - Jian‐xin Cheng; Yu‐qing Xia; Ya‐fang Liu; Peng‐fei Liu; Ying Liu (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2021)
Takifugu rubripes and Dicentrarchus labrax are important commercial fish in China that are under serious threat from Cryptocaryon irritans . C. irritans is a ciliated obligate parasite that causes marine white spot disease and leads to heavy economic losses. We analysed the transcriptome in the gills of T. rubripes and D. labrax to compare differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and pathways during infection with C. irritans . In total, we identified 6,901 and 35,736 DEGs from T. rubripes and D. labrax , respectively. All DEGs were annotated into GO terms; 6,901 DEGs from T. rubripes were assigned into 991 sub‐categories, and 35,736 DEGs from D. labrax were assigned into 8,517 sub‐categories. We mapped DEGs to the KEGG database and obtained 153 and 350 KEGG signalling pathways from T. rubripes and D. labrax , respectively. Immune‐related categories included Toll‐like receptors, MAPK, lysosome, C‐type lectin receptor and NOD‐like receptor signalling pathways were significantly enriched pathways. In immune‐related signalling pathways, we found that AP‐1 , P38 , IL‐1β , HSP90 and PLA were significantly up‐regulated DEGs in T. rubripes , but P38 and PLA were significantly down‐regulated in D. labrax . In this study, transcriptome was used to analyse the difference between scaly and non‐scaly fish infection by C. irritans , which not only provided a theoretical basis for the infection mechanism of C. irritans , but also laid a foundation for effectively inhibiting the occurrence of this disease. Our work provides further insight into the immune response of host resistance to C. irritans .

Detection of Shallow Buried Water-Filled Goafs Using the Fixed-Loop Transient Electromagnetic Method: A Case Study in Shaanxi, China - Peng Wang; Weihua Yao; Jianlei Guo; Chao Su; Qing Wang; Yi Wang; Buwen Zhang; Cheng Wang (Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2021)

Heat-Killed Lactobacillus reuteri GMNL-263 Inhibits Systemic Lupus Erythematosus–Induced Cardiomyopathy in NZB/W F1 Mice - Yu-Lan Yeh; Min-Chi Lu; Bruce Chi-Kang Tsai; Bor-Show Tzang; Shiu-Min Cheng; Xiaoyong Zhang; Liang-Yo Yang; B. Mahalakshmi; Wei-Wen Kuo; Peng Xiang; Chih-Yang Huang (Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 2021)

Fine mapping and characterization of two novel quantitative trait loci for early seedling growth in rice - Peng Cheng; Ling- Jie Cao; Chen Bai; Motoyuki Ashikari; Xian-Jun Song (Planta, 2021)

Aberrant methylation of the 16q23.1 tumor suppressor gene ADAMTS18 promotes tumorigenesis and progression of clear cell renal cell carcinoma - Ben Xu; Yi-ji Peng; Bing-lei Ma; Si-da Cheng (Genes & Genomics, 2021)

UAV-based gully retrogressive erosion status dynamic variability investigations in Chinese Loess Plateau - Huo Aidi; Chen Siming; Peng Jianbing; Cheng Yuxiang (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Construction and characterization of UAA-controlled recombinant Zika virus by genetic code expansion - Rong-Rong Zhang; Qing Ye; Xiao-Feng Li; Yong-Qiang Deng; Yan-Peng Xu; Xing-Yao Huang; Qing Xia; Cheng-Feng Qin (Science China Life Sciences, 2021)

HMGB1: an important regulator of myeloid differentiation and acute myeloid leukemia as well as a promising therapeutic target - Lulu Liu; Jingjing Zhang; Xianning Zhang; Panpan Cheng; Lei Liu; Qian Huang; Haihui Liu; Saisai Ren; Peng Wei; Cuiling Wang; Cuiyun Dou; Lulu Chen; et al. (Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2021)
High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is a non-histone nuclear protein which has been intensively studied in various physiological and pathological processes including leukemia. Here in this study, we further demonstrated that HMGB1 presents higher expression in the bone marrow mononuclear cells of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients compared with the normal controls and contributes to the AML pathogenesis and progression by inhibiting apoptosis, facilitating proliferation, and inducing myeloid differentiation blockade of AML cells. Mechanistic investigation revealed that transforming growth factor beta-induced (TGFBI) acts as a potential downstream target of HMGB1 and lentivirus-mediated knockdown of TGFBI expression impaired phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA) and all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)–induced myeloid differentiation of AML cell lines. On the other hand, chidamide, an orally histone deacetylase inhibitor, decreases HMGB1 expression significantly in AML cells with concomitant upregulation of TGFBI expression, and confers therapeutic effect on AML by inducing cell differentiation, apoptosis and inhibiting cell proliferation. In conclusion, our findings provide additional insights that HMGB1 is a promising therapeutic target of AML, and also present experimental evidence for the clinical application of chidamide as a novel agent in AML therapy by downregulating HMGB1 expression. Key messages HMGB1 induces cell proliferation and myeloid differentiation blockade and inhibits apoptosis of AML cells. TGFBI acts as a potential target of HMGB1. Chidamide, a selective HDAC inhibitor, confers promising therapeutic effect for AML via downregulating HMGB1 expression.

Progress and prospects of applied research on physical geography and the living environment in China over the past 70 years (1949–2019) - Fahu Chen; Shaohong Wu; Peng Cui; Yunlong Cai; Yili Zhang; Yunhe Yin; Guobin Liu; Zhu Ouyang; Wei Ma; Linsheng Yang; Duo Wu; Jiaqiang Lei; et al. (Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2021)

Nitrogen placement at sowing affects root growth, grain yield formation, N use efficiency in maize - Yi Cheng; Hui-Qin Wang; Peng Liu; Shu-Ting Dong; Ji-Wang Zhang; Bin Zhao; Bai-Zhao Ren (Plant and Soil, 2020)

Clinical characteristics and plasma antibody titer of patients with COVID-19 in Zhejiang, China - Wei-ling Xiang; Jing-jing Cheng; Lian-peng Wu; Bing-yu Chen; Wen-xin Li; Dan-ying Qiu; Wei Zhang; Fei-hang Ge; Dong Chen; Zhen Wang (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2020)

The Hemodynamic Effect of Flow Diverter Treatment of Intracranial Bifurcation Aneurysms - Linjing Peng; Jijie Chen; Yunzhang Cheng; Nan Lv; Hui Gao; Bin Bai (Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2020)

DNA replication and sister chromatid cohesion 1 promotes breast carcinoma progression by modulating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling and p53 protein - Guangchao Jin; Wensheng Wang; Peng Cheng; Yunqi Tian; Luxiao Zhang; Hu Niu (Journal of Biosciences, 2020)

The Effect of Atractylodes macrocephala Polysaccharides on Rabbit’s Host Defense Peptide (RSRAH) mRNA Expression - Guihua Fu; Yang Zhang; Yinglun Li; Xing He; Xiaofen Li; Peng Cheng; Hongwei Chen (International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2020)

Association of in-hospital intensive statins dosage and death in arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease with percutaneous coronary intervention: insights of multicentre cohort from China - Peng-yuan Chen; Yuan-hui Liu; Chong-yang Duan; Hua-lin Fan; Li-huan Zeng; Wei Guo; Lei Jiang; Xue-biao Wei; Wen-fei He; Sha Tao; Zhi-qiang Guo; Ji-yan Chen; et al. (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020)

The spillover effects of China’s regional environmental markets to local listed firms: a risk Granger causality approach - Shujin Zhu; Yiding Tang; Xingzhi Qiao; Cheng Peng; Dan Li (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Efficient degradation of ivermectin by newly isolated Aeromonas taiwanensis ZJB-18,044 - Yuanshan Wang; Meihua Gong; Xianlin Wang; Xiaolun Peng; Yuwei Wang; Jiahui Guan; Dongyuan Cheng; Chunyue Weng; Yuguo Zheng (Biodegradation, 2020)

Research on the bridge monitoring method of ground-based radar - Cheng Xing; Peng Wang; Wei Dong (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

An A 1 -type granite that borders A 2 -type: insights from the geochemical characteristics of the Zongyang A-type granite in the Lower Yangtze River Belt, China - Xiao-Yan Jiang; Kai Wu; Jin-Cheng Luo; Li-Peng Zhang; Wei Dong Sun; Xiao-Ping Xia (International Geology Review, 2020)

Populeuphrines A and B, two new cembrane diterpenoids from the resins of Populus euphratica - Kai-Xin Liu; Da-Peng Qin; Yan-Xia Zhu; Shao-Xiang Wang; Ya-Bin Jiao; Peng-Ling Ge; Yong-Xian Cheng (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Detection of wind corridors based on “Climatopes”: a study in central Ji’nan - Yonghong Liu; Pengfei Cheng; Peng Chen; Shuo Zhang (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2020)

Analysis of genetic architecture and favorable allele usage of agronomic traits in a large collection of Chinese rice accessions - Xiuxiu Li; Zhuo Chen; Guomin Zhang; Hongwei Lu; Peng Qin; Ming Qi; Ying Yu; Bingke Jiao; Xianfeng Zhao; Qiang Gao; Hao Wang; Yunyu Wu; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Influence of Geo-stress on Dynamic Response Characteristics of Coal and Gas Outburst - Bin Zhou; Jiang Xu; Shoujian Peng; Fazhi Yan; Wei Yang; Liang Cheng; Guanhua Ni (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2020)

A novel system to rapidly detect protein–protein interactions (PPIs) based on fluorescence co-localization - Nan Hu; Zhan-Qi Dong; Ting-Ting Chen; Ning Zheng; Qin Wu; Peng Chen; Cheng Lu; Min-Hui Pan (Biotechnology Letters, 2020)

Total alkaloids from the rhizomes of Ligusticum striatum: a review of chemical analysis and pharmacological activities - Zhong-Hui Pu; Min Dai; Liang Xiong; Cheng Peng (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Expression patterns and functional divergence of homologous genes accompanied by polyploidization in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) - Zhen Peng; Hua Cheng; Gaofei Sun; Zhaoe Pan; Xiao Wang; Xiaoli Geng; Shoupu He; Xiongming Du (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

A multiple-proxy stalagmite record reveals historical deforestation in central Shandong, northern China - Liangcheng Tan; Wen Liu; Tianli Wang; Peng Cheng; Jingjie Zang; Xiqian Wang; Le Ma; Dong Li; Jianghu Lan; R. Lawrence Edwards; Hai Cheng; Hai Xu; et al. (Science China Earth Sciences, 2020)

Thermal maturation as revealed by micro-Raman spectroscopy of mineral-organic aggregation (MOA) in marine shales with high and over maturities - Xianming Xiao; Qin Zhou; Peng Cheng; Jian Sun; Dehan Liu; Hui Tian (Science China Earth Sciences, 2020)

Spatial and seasonal variations and risk assessment for heavy metals in surface sediments of the largest river-embedded reservoir in China - Peng Yuan; Xuefei Wu; Yuqi Xia; Cheng Peng; Hong Tong; Jianshe Liu; Lei Jiang; Xianyun Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Stable isotopes reveal effects of natural drivers and anthropogenic pressures on isotopic niches of invertebrate communities in a large subtropical river of China - Sai Wang; Lin-Hui Su; Bang-Ke Luo; Ying-Jun Qin; Simon D. Stewart; Jin-Peng Tang; Tuan-Tuan Wang; Yang Yang; Gong Cheng (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

LncRNA MIAT Promotes Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Sepsis-Induced Cardiac Injury by Targeting miR-330-5p/TRAF6/NF-κB Axis - Peng-Cheng Xing; Peng An; Guo-Yong Hu; Dong-Lian Wang; Min-Jie Zhou (Biochemical Genetics, 2020)

Climate Variability Patterns and Their Ecological Effects on Ecosystems in the Northwestern North Pacific - Shuyang Ma; Yongjun Tian; Jianchao Li; Haiqing Yu; Jiahua Cheng; Peng Sun; Caihong Fu; Yang Liu; Yoshiro Watanabe (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

Annual 30-m land use/land cover maps of China for 1980–2015 from the integration of AVHRR, MODIS and Landsat data using the BFAST algorithm - Yidi Xu; Le Yu; Dailiang Peng; Jiyao Zhao; Yuqi Cheng; Xiaoxuan Liu; Wei Li; Ran Meng; Xinliang Xu; Peng Gong (Science China Earth Sciences, 2020)

Land subsidence monitoring in sinking coastal areas using distributed fiber optic sensing: a case study - Su-Ping Liu; Bin Shi; Kai Gu; Cheng-Cheng Zhang; Ji-Long Yang; Song Zhang; Peng Yang (Natural Hazards, 2020)

Water and salt stresses do not trigger bottom-up effects on plant-mediated indirect interactions between a leaf chewer and a sap-feeder - Yong-Cheng Dong; Zhi-Jian Wang; Rong-Yan Bu; Hui-Jie Dai; Li-Jun Zhou; Peng Han; Edwige Amiens-Desneux; Philippe Bearez; Nicolas Desneux (Journal of Pest Science, 2020)

Using the most similar case method to automatically select environmental covariates for predictive mapping - Peng Liang; Cheng-Zhi Qin; A-Xing Zhu; Tong-Xin Zhu; Nai-Qing Fan; Zhi-Wei Hou (Earth Science Informatics, 2020)

Lacustrine record from the eastern Tibetan Plateau associated with Asian summer monsoon changes over the past ~ 6 ka and its links with solar and ENSO activity - Guodong Ming; Weijian Zhou; Peng Cheng; Hong Wang; Feng Xian; Yunchong Fu; Shugang Wu; Hua Du (Climate Dynamics, 2020)

Natural sex change in mature protogynous orange‐spotted grouper ( Epinephelus coioides ): gonadal restructuring, sex hormone shifts and gene profiles - Cheng Peng; Qing Wang; Herong Shi; Jiaxing Chen; Shuisheng Li; Huihong Zhao; Haoran Lin; Jianchun Yang; Yong Zhang (Journal of Fish Biology, 2020)
Sexual patterns of teleosts are extremely diverse and include both gonochorism and hermaphroditism. As a protogynous hermaphroditic fish, all orange‐spotted groupers ( Epinephelus coioides ) develop directly into females, and some individuals change sex to become functional males later in life. This study investigated gonadal restructuring, shifts in sex hormone levels and gene profiles of cultured mature female groupers during the first (main) breeding season of 2019 in Huizhou, China (22° 42′ 02.6″ N, 114° 32′ 10.1″ E). Analysis of gonadal restructuring revealed that females with pre‐vitellogenic ovaries underwent vitellogenesis, spawning and regression and then returned to the pre‐vitellogenic stage in the late breeding season, at which point some changed sex to become males via the intersex gonad stage. A significant decrease in the level of serum 17 β ‐estradiol (E2) was observed during ovary regression but not during sex change, whereas serum 11‐ketotestosterone (11‐KT) concentrations increased significantly during sex change with the highest concentration in newly developed males. Consistent with serum hormone changes, a significant decrease in cyp19a1a expression was observed during ovary regression but not during sex change, whereas the expression of cyp11c1 and hsd11b2 increased significantly during sex change. Interestingly, hsd11b2 but not cyp11c1 was significantly upregulated from the pre‐vitellogenic ovary stage to the early intersex gonad stage. These results suggest that a decrease in serum E2 concentration and downregulation of cyp19a1a expression are not necessary to trigger the female‐to‐male transformation, whereas increased 11‐KT concentration and upregulation of hsd11b2 expression may be key events for the initiation of sex change in the orange‐spotted grouper.

Five new ent -kaurane diterpenes from Annona squamosa L. pericarps - Ya-Yun Chen; Cheng-Yao Ma; Mao-Lin Wang; Jia-Hui Lu; Peng Hu; Jian-Wei Chen; Xiang Li; Yong Chen (Natural Product Research, 2020)

Isolation and expression analysis of a CBF transcriptional factor gene from the mangrove Bruguiera gymnorrhiza - Ya-Lan Peng; You-Shao Wang; Jiao Fei; Hao Cheng; Cui-Ci Sun (Ecotoxicology, 2020)

Bacomics: a comprehensive cross area originating in the studies of various brain–apparatus conversations - Dezhong Yao; Yangsong Zhang; Tiejun Liu; Peng Xu; Diankun Gong; Jing Lu; Yang Xia; Cheng Luo; Daqing Guo; Li Dong; Yongxiu Lai; Ke Chen; et al. (Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2020)

Genetic analysis of germinating ability under alkaline and neutral salt stress by a high-density bin genetic map in rice - Xin Luo; Haodong Deng; Peng Wang; Xiangyu Zhang; Caijing Li; Cuijuan Li; Jingai Tan; Guangliang Wu; Yanning Wang; Qin Cheng; Haohua He; Jianmin Bian (Euphytica, 2020)

Field observation and simulation experiments on nutrient transformation during phytoplankton-derived particulate matter deposition - Ming Kong; Cheng Liu; Jianying Chao; Longmian Wang; Yuexiang Gao; Fuquang Peng; Xueting Xu; Tianlun Han; Peifang Wang; Chao Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Pollution characteristics and chronic health risk assessment of metals and metalloids in ambient PM2.5 in Licheng District, Jinan, China - Shaofeng Sui; Jack Ng; Yanxin Gao; Cheng Peng; Chang He; Guoling Wang; Zhiyan Liu (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2020)

Improved Production of Pyrroloquinoline Quinone by Simultaneous Augmentation of Its Synthesis Gene Expression and Glucose Metabolism in Klebsiella pneumoniae - Zhiwei Mi; Jingchao Cheng; Peng Zhao; Pingfang Tian; Tianwei Tan (Current Microbiology, 2020)

Whole genome analysis calls for a taxonomic rearrangement of the genus Colwellia - Ang Liu; Yan-Jiao Zhang; Peng Cheng; Ya-Jie Peng; Jochen Blom; Qing-Jie Xue (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2020)

Heavy Metals, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in Sediments from the First Drinking Water Reservoir Supplied by Yangtze River in Shanghai, China: Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Pollution Risk Assessment - Cheng Peng; Yihao Shen; Xuefei Wu; Peng Yuan; Lei Jiang; Si Chen; Siwen Ze; Xianyun Wang; Xinshan Song (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2020)

Pleiotropic QTL influencing spikelet number and heading date in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Zhaoyan Chen; Xuejiao Cheng; Lingling Chai; Zihao Wang; Dejie Du; Zhihui Wang; Ruolin Bian; Aiju Zhao; Mingming Xin; Weilong Guo; Zhaorong Hu; Huiru Peng; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

Outflow sediment concentration forecasting by integrating machine learning approaches and time series analysis in reservoir desilting operation - Ming-Jui Chang; Gwo-Fong Lin; Fong-Zuo Lee; Yi-Cheng Wang; Peng-An Chen; Ming-Chang Wu; Jihn-Sung Lai (Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 2020)

Mapping and characterization of major QTL for spike traits in common wheat - Cheng-Hao Kuang; Xiao-Fang Zhao; Ke Yang; Zhi-Peng Zhang; Li Ding; Zhi-En Pu; Jian Ma; Qian-Tao Jiang; Guo-Yue Chen; Ji-Rui Wang; Yu-Ming Wei; You-Liang Zheng; et al. (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2020)

Non-uniform Distributions of Gas Pressure and Coal Permeability in Coalbed Methane Reservoirs Induced by the Loess Plateau Geomorphology: A Case Study in Ordos Basin, China - Qingquan Liu; Peng Chu; Congmeng Hao; Yuanping Cheng; Haifeng Wang; Liang Wang (Natural Resources Research, 2020)

Experimental Analysis of the Dynamic Effects of Coal–Gas Outburst and a Protean Contraction and Expansion Flow Model - Bin Zhou; Jiang Xu; Shoujian Peng; Fazhi Yan; Wei Yang; Liang Cheng; Guanhua Ni (Natural Resources Research, 2020)

Short-term associations between ambient fine particulate matter pollution and hospital visits for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Yinzhou District, China - Cheng-yi Lin; Die Li; Jie-ming Lu; Zhe-bin Yu; Yao Zhu; Peng Shen; Meng-ling Tang; Ming-juan Jin; Hong-bo Lin; Li-ming Shui; Kun Chen; Jian-bing Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Numerical Investigation of NOx Emission Reduction in Non-Premixed Lean Reverse-Flow Combustor in a Micro Gas Turbine Engine - Jesline Joy; Peng Cheng Wang; Jeggathishwaran Panisilvam; Simon Ching Man Yu (Emission Control Science and Technology, 2020)

Effects of land use and cultivation time on soil organic and inorganic carbon storage in deep soils - Xia Yu; Weijian Zhou; Yunqiang Wang; Peng Cheng; Yaoyao Hou; Xiaohu Xiong; Hua Du; Ling Yang; Ya Wang (Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2020)

The maize B chromosome is capable of expressing microRNAs and altering the expression of microRNAs derived from A chromosomes - Yen-Hua Huang; Shu-Fen Peng; Yao-Pin Lin; Ya-Ming Cheng (Chromosome Research, 2020)

Two-Year Observation of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Spatial Distribution in Xi’an City - Xiaohu Xiong; Weijian Zhou; Shugang Wu; Peng Cheng; Hua Du; Yaoyao Hou; Zhenchuan Niu; Peng Wang; Xuefeng Lu; Yunchong Fu (Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2020)

Plastic pollution in croplands threatens long‐term food security - Dan Zhang; Ee Ling Ng; Wanli Hu; Hongyuan Wang; Pablo Galaviz; Hude Yang; Wentao Sun; Chongxiao Li; Xingwang Ma; Bin Fu; Peiyi Zhao; Fulin Zhang; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2020)
Plastic pollution is a global concern given its prevalence in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Studies have been conducted on the distribution and impact of plastic pollution in marine ecosystems, but little is known on terrestrial ecosystems. Plastic mulch has been widely used to increase crop yields worldwide, yet the impact of plastic residues in cropland soils to soil health and crop production in the long term remained unclear. In this paper, using a global meta‐analysis, we found that the use of plastic mulch can indeed increase crop yields on average by 25%–42% in the immediate season due to the increase of soil temperature (+8%) and moisture (+17%). However, the unabated accumulation of film residues in the field negatively impacts its physicochemical properties linked to healthy soil and threatens food production in the long term. It has multiple negative impacts on plant growth including crop yield (at the mean rate of −3% for every additional 100 kg/ha of film residue), plant height (−2%) and root weight (−5%), and soil properties including soil water evaporation capacity (−2%), soil water infiltration rate (−8%), soil organic matter (−0.8%) and soil available phosphorus (−5%) based on meta‐regression. Using a nationwide field survey of China, the largest user of plastic mulch worldwide, we found that plastic residue accumulation in cropland soils has reached 550,800 tonnes, with an estimated 6%–10% reduction in cotton yield in some polluted sites based on current level of plastic residue content. Immediate actions should be taken to ensure the recovery of plastic film mulch and limit further increase in film residue loading to maintain the sustainability of these croplands.

Anti-phytopathogenic Bacterial Metabolites From the Seaweed-Derived Fungus Aspergillus sp. D40 - Rui-Huan Huang; Wei Lin; Peng Zhang; Jian-Yang Liu; Dan Wang; Yi-Qiang Li; Xiao-Qiang Wang; Cheng-Sheng Zhang; Wei Li; Dong-Lin Zhao (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

Zn(II)-Based Coordination Polymer for Detection of Picric Acid in Aqueous Media and Treatment Effect against Deep Vein Thrombosis by Reducing P-ERK2 and p53 Expression - Shasha Song; Weiwei Song; Peng Li; Yinhua Cheng (Journal of Fluorescence, 2020)

Multiple genetic factors affecting the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes of tacrolimus in Chinese myasthenia gravis patients - Huan-Yu Meng; Xi Li; Wan-Lin Jin; Cheng-Kai Yan; Xiao-Hua Dong; Qiu Xu; Yu-Yao Peng; Zhi-Bin Li; Yi Li; Zhao-Hui Luo; Li-Qun Xu; Huan Yang (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020)

On residual velocities in sigma coordinates in narrow tidal channels - Peng Cheng (Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020)

Nanochemoprevention with therapeutic benefits: An updated review focused on epigallocatechin gallate delivery - Qiong-Qiong Yang; Xin-Lin Wei; Ya-Peng Fang; Ren-You Gan; Min Wang; Ying-Ying Ge; Dan Zhang; Li-Zeng Cheng; Harold Corke (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2020)

Effect of Thermal Treatment on the Basic Friction Angle of Rock Joint - Zhi Cheng Tang; Qing Zhao Zhang; Jun Peng (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2020)

Metabolomic abnormalities of purine and lipids implicated olfactory bulb dysfunction of CUMS depressive rats - Yong He; Yue Wang; Zhonghao Wu; Tianlan Lan; Yu Tian; Xi Chen; Yan Li; Ruozhi Dang; Mengge Bai; Ke Cheng; Peng Xie (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2020)

Mechanisms behind soil N dynamics following cover restoration in degraded land in subtropical China - Xiangzhou Zheng; Cheng Lin; Baoling Guo; Juhua Yu; Hong Ding; Shaoyun Peng; Jinbo Zhang; Eric Ireland; Deli Chen; Christoph Müller; Yushu Zhang (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2020)

Appropriate Dynamically-Reinforced Supporting Time Determination in Relation to the Time Effect of Stress Field Evolution: A Case Study on the Deep Soft-Rock Roadway in China - Li Cong; Ying-ming Li; Xiang-rui Meng; Chun-liang Dong; Guang-ming Zhao; Rui Peng; Ji-cheng Xu (Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 2020)

Dynamic change of vegetation and its response to climate and topographic factors in the Xijiang River basin, China - Lu Jia; Zhan-bin Li; Guo-ce Xu; Zong-ping Ren; Peng Li; Yu-ting Cheng; Yi-xin Zhang; Bin Wang; Jia-xin Zhang; Shu Yu (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Estimating non‐native plant richness with a species‐accumulation model along roads - Huixuan Liao; Huijie Wang; Qiaohong Dong; Feihong Cheng; Ting Zhou; Shaolin Peng (Conservation Biology, 2020)
Monitoring non‐native plant richness is important for biodiversity conservation and scientific research. The species‐area model (SA model) has been used frequently to estimate the total species richness within a region. However, the conventional SA model may not provide robust estimations of non‐native plant richness because the ecological processes associated with the accumulation of exotic and native plants may differ. Because roads strongly dictate the distributions of exotic plants, we propose a species‐accumulation model along roads (SR model), rather than an SA model, to estimate the non‐native plant richness within a region. Using 270 simulated data sets, we compared the differences in performance between the SR and SA models. A decision tree based on prediction accuracy was created to guide model application, which was validated using field data from 3 national nature reserves in 3 different provinces in China. The SR model significantly outperformed the SA model when non‐native species were restricted to the roadsides and the proportion of uncommon exotic species was small. More importantly, the SR model accurately estimated the non‐native plant richness in all field sites with an error of

Clinical and biochemical indexes from 2019-nCoV infected patients linked to viral loads and lung injury - Yingxia Liu; Yang Yang; Cong Zhang; Fengming Huang; Fuxiang Wang; Jing Yuan; Zhaoqin Wang; Jinxiu Li; Jianming Li; Cheng Feng; Zheng Zhang; Lifei Wang; et al. (Science China Life Sciences, 2020)

Effects of Dietary Supplementation of Recombinant Plectasin on Growth Performance, Intestinal Health and Innate Immunity Response in Broilers - Jing Lin Ma; Li Hua Zhao; Dan Dan Sun; Jing Zhang; Yong Peng Guo; Zhi Qiang Zhang; Qiu Gang Ma; Cheng Ji; Li Hong Zhao (Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 2020)

Novel B-chromosome-specific transcriptionally active sequences are present throughout the maize B chromosome - Zi-Jie Hong; Jun-Xiang Xiao; Shu-Fen Peng; Yao-Pin Lin; Ya-Ming Cheng (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2020)

Spray dedusting scheme under hybrid ventilation at a fully mechanized excavation face - Haiming Yu; Weimin Cheng; Yao Xie; Huitian Peng (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Research on the influence of land use change to habitat of cranes in Shengjin Lake wetland - Lei Fang; Bin Dong; Cheng Wang; Fei Yang; Yanglin Cui; Wenrui Xu; Liang Peng; Yuting Wang; Haoran Li (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Landslide mapping with remote sensing: challenges and opportunities - Cheng Zhong; Yue Liu; Peng Gao; Wenlong Chen; Hui Li; Yong Hou; Tuohuti Nuremanguli; Haijian Ma (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2020)

A restrictive polymorphic ant colony algorithm for the optimal band selection of hyperspectral remote sensing images - Xiaohui Ding; Shuqing Zhang; Huapeng Li; Peng Wu; Patricia Dale; Lingjia Liu; Shuai Cheng (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2020)

Algal Growth Enhances Light-Mediated Limitation of Bacterial Nitrification in an Aquaculture System - Dingxin Wu; Minling Cheng; Shumiao Zhao; Nan Peng; Ronggui Hu; Jinlong Hu; Yunxiang Liang (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2020)

Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Contributes to Lysophosphatidylcholine-Induced Intracellular Calcium Regulation and THP-1-Derived Macrophage Activation - Chao Tian; Rongqi Huang; Feng Tang; Zuoxian Lin; Na Cheng; Xiaobo Han; Shuai Li; Peng Zhou; Sihao Deng; Hualin Huang; Huifang Zhao; Junjie Xu; et al. (The Journal of Membrane Biology, 2020)

Exploration of targets regulated by miR-125b in porcine adipocytes - Xiao Cheng; Xingping Chen; Peng Wang; Ting Chen; Jiajie Sun; Qianyun Xi; Yongliang Zhang (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal, 2020)

Relationships amongst sex ratio of progeny in Anastatus disparis (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae), sperm depletion and decreased fecundity - Peng-Cheng Liu; Hai-Xiang Wei; Dan-Dan Cao; Jian-Rong Wei (Applied Entomology and Zoology, 2020)

Dissection of genetic factors underlying grain size and fine mapping of QTgw.cau-7D in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Zhaoyan Chen; Xuejiao Cheng; Lingling Chai; Zhihui Wang; Ruolin Bian; Jiang Li; Aiju Zhao; Mingming Xin; Weilong Guo; Zhaorong Hu; Huiru Peng; Yingyin Yao; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020)

Modified stepwise mini-incision microdissection testicular sperm extraction: a useful technique for patients with a history of orchidopexy affected by non-obstructive azoospermia - Peng Li; Chen-cheng Yao; Er-lei Zhi; Yuan Xu; Zhong Wan; Ying-chuan Jiang; Yu-hua Huang; Yue-hua Gong; Hui-xing Chen; Ru-hui Tian; Chao Yang; Liang-yu Zhao; et al. (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2020)

Association between long-term occupational manganese exposure and bone quality among retired workers - Defu Li; Xiaoting Ge; Zhenfang Liu; Lulu Huang; Yanting Zhou; Peng Liu; Lian Qin; Suzhen Lin; Chaoqun Liu; Qingzhi Hou; Longman Li; Hong Cheng; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Glutathione is Involved in Detoxification of Peroxide and Root Nodule Symbiosis of Mesorhizobium huakuii - Sha Luo; Jie Yin; Yang Peng; Jing Xie; Hetao Wu; Donglan He; Xiaohua Li; Guojun Cheng (Current Microbiology, 2020)

Transformation and toxicity of environmental contaminants as influenced by Fe containing clay minerals: a review - Yi Wang; Xin Jin; Anping Peng; Cheng Gu (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2020)

Characterization and genome sequencing of a novel T7-like lytic phage, kpssk3, infecting carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae - Yunlong Shi; Yu Chen; Zichen Yang; Yulong Zhang; Bo You; Xinzhu Liu; Ping Chen; Meixi Liu; Cheng Zhang; Xiaoqiang Luo; Yajie Chen; Zhiqiang Yuan; et al. (Archives of Virology, 2020)

Geochemical characteristics and Sr‐Nd‐Hf isotope compositions of Late Triassic post‐collisional A‐type granites in Sarudik, SW Sumatra, Indonesia - Haikun Zhang; Peng Hu; Liang Cao; Armin Tampubolon; Asui Liu; Xiang Cheng; Mingguo Zhan; Luozhong Pan; Yu Dai; Beihong Pan (Island Arc, 2020)
Late Triassic A‐type granites are identified in this study in Sarudik, SW Sumatra. We present new data on zircon U–Pb geochronology, whole‐rock major and trace elements and Sr‐Nd‐Hf isotope geochemistry, aiming to study their petrogenesis and tectonic implications. LA‐ICP‐MS U–Pb dating of zircon separated from one biotite monzogranite sample yields a concordia age of 222.6 ±1.0 Ma, indicating a Late Triassic magmatic event. The studied granites are classified as weakly peralumious, high‐K calc‐alkaline granites. They exhibit high SiO 2 , K 2 O + Na 2 O, FeO/(FeO + MgO) and Ga/Al ratios and low Al 2 O 3 , CaO, MgO, P 2 O 5 and TiO 2 contents, with enrichment of Rb, Th and U and depletion of Ba, Sr, P and Eu, showing the features of A‐type granites. The granites have zircon ε Hf ( t ) values from −4.6 to −0.4 and whole‐rock ε Nd ( t ) values from −5.51 to −4.98, with Mesoproterozoic T DM2 ages (1278–1544 Ma) for both Hf and Nd isotopes. Geochemical and isotopic data suggest that the source of these A‐type granites is the Mesoproterozoic continental crust, without significant incorporation of mantle‐derived component, and their formation is controlled by subsequent fractional crystallization. The Sarudik A‐type granites are further assigned to A2‐type formed in post‐collisional environment. Combined with previous knowledge on the western SE Asia tectonic evolution, we conclude that the formation of the Late Triassic A‐type granites is related to the post‐collisional extension induced by the crustal thickening, gravitational collapse, and asthenosphere upwelling following the collision between the Sibumasu and the East Malaya Block.

Correction to: Recombination between homoeologous chromosomes induced in durum wheat by the Aegilops speltoides Su1-Ph1 suppressor - Hao Li; Le Wang; Ming-Cheng Luo; Fang Nie; Yun Zhou; Patrick E. McGuire; Assaf Distelfeld; Xiongtao Dai; Chun-Peng Song; Jan Dvorak (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019)

Recombination between homoeologous chromosomes induced in durum wheat by the Aegilops speltoides Su1-Ph1 suppressor - Hao Li; Le Wang; Ming-Cheng Luo; Fang Nie; Yun Zhou; Patrick E. McGuire; Assaf Distelfeld; Xiongtao Dai; Chun-Peng Song; Jan Dvorak (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019)

Metabolomics and physiological analyses reveal β-sitosterol as an important plant growth regulator inducing tolerance to water stress in white clover - Zhou Li; Bizhen Cheng; Bin Yong; Ting Liu; Yan Peng; Xinquan Zhang; Xiao Ma; Linkai Huang; Wei Liu; Gang Nie (Planta, 2019)

A maize NAC transcription factor, ZmNAC34, negatively regulates starch synthesis in rice - Xiaojian Peng; Qianqian Wang; Yu Wang; Beijiu Cheng; Yang Zhao; Suwen Zhu (Plant Cell Reports, 2019)

A Molecular Cytogenetic Map of Scallop (Patinopecten yessoensis) - Zujing Yang; Xuan Li; Huan Liao; Liping Hu; Cheng Peng; Shenhai Wang; Xiaoting Huang; Zhenmin Bao (Marine Biotechnology, 2019)

Composition and change in the microbiome of Diaphorina citri infected with Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus in China - Xiao-bing Song; Ai-tian Peng; Jin-feng Ling; Yi-ping Cui; Bao-ping Cheng; Lian-hui Zhang (International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 2019)

The effect of plastic fines on the shear modulus and damping ratio of silty sands - Ke Cheng; Jun Zhang; Yu Miao; Bin Ruan; Tao Peng (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2019)

Selenium Deficiency Affects Uterine Smooth Muscle Contraction Through Regulation of the RhoA/ROCK Signalling Pathway in Mice - Cheng-Jie Chen; Peng Xiao; Yu Chen; Rui Fang (Biological Trace Element Research, 2019)

Correction to: Dissection of two quantitative trait loci with pleiotropic effects on plant height and spike length linked in coupling phase on the short arm of chromosome 2D of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Lingling Chai; Zhaoyan Chen; Ruolin Bian; Huijie Zhai; Xuejiao Cheng; Huiru Peng; Yingyin Yao; Zhaorong Hu; Mingming Xin; Weilong Guo; Qixin Sun; Aiju Zhao; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019)

Correction to: Dissection of two quantitative trait loci with pleiotropic effects on plant height and spike length linked in coupling phase on the short arm of chromosome 2D of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Lingling Chai; Zhaoyan Chen; Ruolin Bian; Huijie Zhai; Xuejiao Cheng; Huiru Peng; Yingyin Yao; Zhaorong Hu; Mingming Xin; Weilong Guo; Qixin Sun; Aiju Zhao; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019)

Dynamic modifications of biomacromolecules: mechanism and chemical interventions - Chu Wang; Peng Zou; Caiguang Yang; Lei Liu; Liang Cheng; Xiaopeng He; Liang Zhang; Yan Zhang; Hualiang Jiang; Peng R. Chen (Science China Life Sciences, 2019)

FadP affects the virulence of Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum by altering nitrogen metabolism processes and reducing motility, cellulase, and extracellular polysaccharide production - Jia-chun Wu; Min Zhong; Xing-wei Li; Cheng-peng Yu; Qiong-guang Liu (Journal of Plant Pathology, 2019)

Identification of Potential Biomarkers with Diagnostic Value in Pituitary Adenomas Using Prediction Analysis for Microarrays Method - Hu Peng; Yue Deng; Longhao Wang; Yin Cheng; Yaping Xu; Jianchun Liao; Hao Wu (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2019)

An indole diterpenoid isolated from the fungus Drechmeria sp. and its antimicrobial activity - Jia-Hao Liang; Xiao-Kui Huo; Zhong-Bin Cheng; Cheng-Peng Sun; Jian-Chao Zhao; Xiao-Hui Kang; Tian-Yuan Zhang; Zhong-Jian Chen; Tian-Mei Yang; Ying-Ying Wu; Xiao-Peng Deng; Yi-Xuan Zhang (Natural Product Research, 2019)

Mapping oil palm plantation expansion in Malaysia over the past decade (2007–2016) using ALOS-1/2 PALSAR-1/2 data - Yuqi Cheng; Le Yu; Yidi Xu; Hui Lu; Arthur P. Cracknell; Kasturi Kanniah; Peng Gong (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019)

Three new Coccomyces species from Shennongjia National Nature Reserve in China - Tu Lv; Wan-Peng Tang; Shu-Rui Cai; Cheng-Lin Hou (Mycological Progress, 2019)

Investigation into the triggering mechanism of loess landslides in the south Jingyang platform, Shaanxi province - Zhao Duan; Wen-Chieh Cheng; Jiang-Bing Peng; Qi-Yao Wang; Wei Chen (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2019)

Discrete element simulation on failure mechanical behavior of transversely isotropic rocks under different confining pressures - Peng-Fei Yin; Sheng-Qi Yang; Wen-Ling Tian; Jian-Long Cheng (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2019)

Occurrence of Bryde's whales, Balaenoptera edeni , in the northern Beibu Gulf, China - Mo Chen; Shiang‐Lin Huang; Haiping Wu; Zhigang Mei; Yiwen Chen; Jingsong Zheng; Wen Cheng; Keshun Deng; Chengteng Yang; Mao Chen; Chun‐Chieh Wang; Derun Lin; et al. (Marine Mammal Science, 2019)

African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC): status of developing genomic resources for African orphan crops - Prasad S. Hendre; Samuel Muthemba; Robert Kariba; Alice Muchugi; Yuan Fu; Yue Chang; Bo Song; Huan Liu; Min Liu; Xuezhu Liao; Sunil Kumar Sahu; Sibo Wang; et al. (Planta, 2019)

The realization and evaluation of mixed GPS/BDS PPP ambiguity resolution - Yibin Yao; Wenjie Peng; Chaoqian Xu; Junbo Shi; Shuyang Cheng; Chenhao Ouyang (Journal of Geodesy, 2019)

Canned food intake and urinary bisphenol a concentrations: a randomized crossover intervention study - Chiung-Yu Peng; Eing-Mei Tsai; Tzu-Hsiung Kao; Tai-Cheng Lai; Shih-Shin Liang; Chien-Chih Chiu; Tsu-Nai Wang (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Risk Causal Analysis of Traffic-Intensive Waters Based on Infectious Disease Dynamics - Yong-jun Chen; Qing Liu; Cheng-peng Wan (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019)
Accidents occur frequently in traffic-intensive waters, which restrict the safe and rapid development of the shipping industry. Due to the suddenness, randomness, and uncertainty of accidents in traffic-intensive waters, the probability of the risk factors causing traffic accidents is usually high. Thus, properly analyzing those key risk factors is of great significance to improve the safety of shipping. Based on the analysis of influencing factors of ship navigational risks in traffic-intensive waters, this paper proposes a cloud model to excavate the factors affecting navigational risk, which could accurately screen out the key risk factors. Furthermore, the risk causal model of ship navigation in traffic-intensive waters is constructed by using the infectious disease dynamics method in order to model the key risk causal transmission process. Moreover, an empirical study of the Yangtze River estuary is conducted to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed models. The research results show that the cloud model is useful in screening the key risk factors, and the constructed causal model of ship navigational risks in traffic-intensive waters is able to provide accurate analysis of the transmission process of key risk factors, which can be used to reduce the navigational risk of ships in traffic-intensive waters. This research provides both theoretical basis and practical reference for regulators in the risk management and control of ships in traffic-intensive waters.

Late Holocene hydroclimatic variations and possible forcing mechanisms over the eastern Central Asia - Jianghu Lan; Hai Xu; Keke Yu; Enguo Sheng; Kangen Zhou; Tianli Wang; Yuanda Ye; Dongna Yan; Huixian Wu; Peng Cheng; Waili Abuliezi; Liangcheng Tan (Science China Earth Sciences, 2019)

Adult sacrococcygeal teratoma: a retrospective study over eight years at a single institution - Xiang-ming Xu; Feng Zhao; Xiao-fei Cheng; Wei-xiang Zhong; Jing-peng Liu; Wei-qin Jiang; Xiao-kai Yu; Jian-jiang Lin (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2019)

Quaternary ammonium-functionalized rice straw hydrochar as efficient adsorbents for methyl orange removal from aqueous solution - Xiong Peng; Zongcheng Yan; Xi Cheng; Yu Li; Aili Wang; Li Chen (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2019)

Population Genetics of Calotropis gigantea, a Medicinal and Fiber Resource Plant, as Inferred from Microsatellite Marker Variation in two Native Countries - Md. Rabiul Islam; Zhi-Zhong Li; Andrew W. Gichira; Mohammad Nur Alam; Peng-Cheng Fu; Guang-Wan Hu; Qing-Feng Wang; Ling-Yun Chen (Biochemical Genetics, 2019)

The Kinetics of Aging and Reducing Processes of Cr(VI) in Two Soils - Yang Yang; Yemian Peng; Zesheng Yang; Pengfei Cheng; Fangbai Li; Meng Wang; Tongxu Liu (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2019)

Identifying the Pollution Characteristics of Atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Associated with Functional Districts in Ningbo, China - Lei Tong; Cheng-Hui Peng; Zhong-Wen Huang; Jing-Jing Zhang; Xiao-Rong Dai; Hang Xiao; Neng-Bin Xu; Jun He (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2019)

A new coumarin from Juglans mandshurica Maxim induce apoptosis in hepatocarcinoma cells - Li-Li Lou; Peng Zhao; Zhuo-Yang Cheng; Rui Guo; Guo-Dong Yao; Xiao-Bo Wang; Xiao-Xiao Huang; Shao-Jiang Song (Natural Product Research, 2019)

Identification and Analysis of Vulnerability in Traffic-Intensive Areas of Water Transportation Systems - Yong-jun Chen; Qing Liu; Cheng-peng Wan; Qin Li; Peng-wei Yuan (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019)
Water transportation accidents have occurred frequently in recent years. In order to improve the emergency response capability of water transportation systems under traffic-intensive conditions, this paper identifies and analyzes the vulnerability in traffic-intensive areas of water transportation systems. Firstly, the vulnerability identification model was constructed based on the analysis of characteristics and the vulnerability-influencing factors of water transportation systems. The newly proposed model is composed of three parts including the DEMATEL (Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) method, ISM (interpretative structural modeling) model, and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process)–entropy weight method. Finally, a case study of the Yangtze River was conducted to test the logicality and feasibility of the proposed model. The research results reveal that traffic flow density, ship traffic, tides, fog, and bad weather are the key factors affecting the vulnerability of water transportation in traffic-intensive areas of the Yangtze River estuary. However, the influence of navigation aid configuration, berth, anchorage, and obstruction on the system vulnerability is relatively lower. The findings of this study can provide helpful references for maritime administration authorities on the management of water transportation safety.

Dissection of two quantitative trait loci with pleiotropic effects on plant height and spike length linked in coupling phase on the short arm of chromosome 2D of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Lingling Chai; Zhaoyan Chen; Ruolin Bian; Huijie Zhai; Xuejiao Cheng; Huiru Peng; Yingyin Yao; Zhaorong Hu; Mingming Xin; Weilong Guo; Qixin Sun; Aiju Zhao; et al. (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019)

Mesoscopic Crack Initiation, Propagation, and Coalescence Mechanisms of Coal Under Shear Loading - Lichao Cheng; Jiang Xu; Shoujian Peng; Yixin Liu; Gang Chen; Xinwang Li; Yiling Qin (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2019)

The effect of caffeine on cerebral metabolism during alpha-chloralose anesthesia differs from isoflurane anesthesia in the rat brain - Shin-Lei Peng; Han Chiu; Chun-Yi Wu; Chiun-Wei Huang; Yi-Hsiu Chung; Cheng-Ting Shih; Wu-Chung Shen (Psychopharmacology, 2019)

Identification of five genes in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress–apoptosis pathways in yellow catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco and their transcriptional responses to dietary lipid levels - Dian-Guang Zhang; Jie Cheng; Zhi-Peng Tai; Zhi Luo (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2019)

Effect and threshold of PM2.5 on population mortality in a highly polluted area: a study on applicability of standards - Runze Ye; Liangliang Cui; Xiumiao Peng; Kunkun Yu; Fang Cheng; Yakun Zhu; Chongqi Jia (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019)

Isolation and characterization of a novel H7N8 avian influenza virus from domestic ducks in Central China in 2017 - Cheng Peng; Guangyu Hou; Jinping Li; Shanju Cheng; Suchun Wang; Ying Yi; Jiming Chen; Wenming Jiang (Virus Genes, 2019)

Permanent displacement models of earthquake-induced landslides considering near-fault pulse-like ground motions - Ying-bin Zhang; Chen-lin Xiang; Yan-long Chen; Qian-gong Cheng; Li Xiao; Peng-cheng Yu; Zhi-wang Chang (Journal of Mountain Science, 2019)

Characterization and genome annotation of a newly detected bacteriophage infecting multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii - Zichen Yang; Xinzhu Liu; Yunlong Shi; Supeng Yin; Wei Shen; Jing Chen; Yu Chen; Yajie Chen; Bo You; Yali Gong; Xiaoqiang Luo; Cheng Zhang; et al. (Archives of Virology, 2019)

Genome-wide identification of Ziziphus jujuba TCP transcription factors and their expression in response to infection with jujube witches’ broom phytoplasma - Peng Chen; Jidong Li; Xia Ye; Bin Tan; Xianbo Zheng; Jun Cheng; Wei Wang; Huiyu Wang; Liyuan Gu; Jiancan Feng (Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2019)

Nucleoside alkaloids with anti-platelet aggregation activity from the rhizomes of Ligusticum striatum - Zhong-Hui Pu; Juan Liu; Cheng Peng; Min Luo; Qin-Mei Zhou; Xiao-Fang Xie; Ming-Hua Chen; Liang Xiong (Natural Product Research, 2019)

Spatial and temporal stability of temperature in the first-level basins of China during 1951–2013 - Yuting Cheng; Peng Li; Guoce Xu; Zhanbin Li; Shengdong Cheng; Bin Wang; Binhua Zhao (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2019)

Overexpression and VIGS system for functional gene validation in oriental melon (Cucumis melo var. makuwa Makino) - Jing Jing Liao; Cheng Hui Wang; Qiao Juan Xing; Yue Peng Li; Xian Feng Liu; Hong Yan Qi (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2019)

Correction to: Past Millennium Contrasting Hydroclimate Patterns Between Monsoonal Northern China and Arid Central Asia: a Modeling Study - Youbing Peng; Hai Cheng; Caiming Shen; Ying Xu; Naifang Bei (Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 2019)

Epidemiological trends and virological traits of hepatitis B virus infection in pregnant women and neonates - Ting-Ting Peng; Qiu-E Cai; Min Yang; Shao-Ping Chen; Feng Chen; Miao Wang; Ling Peng; Gary Wong; Chen-Guang Shen; Wen-Bing Cheng; Sai-Yun Liu; Ya-Bai Peng; et al. (Archives of Virology, 2019)

Development of Upwelling during the Sedimentary Period of the Organic-Rich Shales in the Wufeng and Longmaxi Formations of the Upper Yangtze Region and Its Impact on Organic Matter Enrichment - Shao-Ze Zhao; Yong Li; Hua-Jun Min; Tong Wang; Zhou Nie; Zhan-Zhao Zhao; Jia-Zhen Qi; Jin-Cheng Wang; Jia-Peng Wu (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019)
This study uses logging data, mineral component content, total organic carbon (TOC) content, and microscopic characteristics of the organic-rich shales in the Wufeng and Longmaxi Formations, as well as data reported by other researchers, to demonstrate that upwelling has played an important role in the organic matter enrichment. The results show that (1) the organic-rich shales of Well N211 in the Upper Yangtze region are located in the Wufeng Formation and the lower Longmaxi Formation, with a burial depth between 2308–2357 m. (2) The organic-rich shales are enriched in biogenic silica. (3) Based on paleogeographic location and characteristics of organisms, this study determines that upwelling occurred during the deposition of the organic-rich shales in the Wufeng and Longmaxi Formations, promoting the enrichment of organic matter in the shales. (4) The upwelling intensity gradually increased from the sedimentary period of the organic-rich shales in the mid-lower Wufeng Formation to the sedimentary period of the Guanyinqiao Member, and then decreased gradually from the sedimentary period of the Guanyinqiao Member to the sedimentary period of the organic-rich shales in the Longmaxi Formation, and leads to the different enrichment of organic matter in the vertical direction. The different developments of upwelling led to the coexistence of both high and low TOC contents in the Guanyinqiao Member along the vertical direction.

Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas Exhibit Cell Biological and Molecular Signatures of Fetal Hindbrain-Derived Neural Progenitor Cells - Yu Sun; Cheng Xu; Changcun Pan; Xin Chen; Yibo Geng; Yuliang Wu; Peng Zhang; Wenhao Wu; Yu Wang; Deling Li; Zhen Wu; Junting Zhang; et al. (Neuroscience Bulletin, 2019)

Cyclic loading–unloading creep behavior of composite layered specimens - Bo Hu; Sheng-Qi Yang; Peng Xu; Jian-Long Cheng (Acta Geophysica, 2019)

A bioactive new protostane-type triterpenoid from Alisma plantago - aquatica subsp. orientale (Sam.) Sam. - Ya-Li Wang; Jian-Chao Zhao; Jia-Hao Liang; Xiang-Ge Tian; Xiao-Kui Huo; Lei Feng; Jing Ning; Chao Wang; Bao-Jing Zhang; Gang Chen; Ning Li; Cheng-Peng Sun (Natural Product Research, 2019)

Episodic normal faulting and magmatism during the syn-spreading stage of the Baiyun sag in Pearl River Mouth Basin: response to the multi-phase seafloor spreading of the South China Sea - Peng Deng; Lianfu Mei; Jun Liu; Jinyun Zheng; Minghui Liu; Zijie Cheng; Fengtai Guo (Marine Geophysical Research, 2019)