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supplementary_figures – Supplemental material for The mid-Holocene decline of the East Asian summer monsoon indicated by a lake-to-wetland transition in the Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China
No full textSupplemental material, supplementary_figures for The mid-Holocene decline of the East Asian summer monsoon indicated by a lake-to-wetland transition in the Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China by Zhenqing Zhang, Kam-Biu Liu, Thomas A Bianchette and Guoping Wang in The Holocene</p
Relationship between speech recognition in noise and sparseness
No full textEstablished methods for predicting speech recognition in noise require knowledge of clean speech signals, placing limitations on their application. The study evaluates an alternative approach based on characteristics of noisy speech, specifically its sparseness as represented by the statistic kurtosis. Design: Experiments 1 and 2 involved acoustic analysis of vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV) syllables in babble noise, comparing kurtosis, glimpsing areas, and extended speech intelligibility index (ESII) of noisy speech signals with one another and with pre-existing speech recognition scores. Experiment 3 manipulated kurtosis of VCV syllables and investigated effects on speech recognition scores in normal-hearing listeners. Study sample: Pre-existing speech recognition data for Experiments 1 and 2; seven normal-hearing participants for Experiment 3. Results: Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that kurtosis calculated in the time-domain from noisy speech is highly correlated (r > 0.98) with established prediction models: glimpsing and ESII. All three measures predicted speech recognition scores well. The final experiment showed a clear monotonic relationship between speech recognition scores and kurtosis. Conclusions: Speech recognition performance in noise is closely related to the sparseness (kurtosis) of the noisy speech signal, at least for the types of speech and noise used here and for listeners with normal hearing<br/
A real decoupled method and free interface component mode synthesis methods for generally damped systems
No full textThis paper reports on the development of a new transformation method. In contrast to most existing mode transformation methods in which the first-order state-space equation of the damped vibration system is transformed into a decoupled form with complex coefficient matrices, using the decoupled method presented in this paper, the equation of the damped system can be decomposed into a decoupled equation with real coefficient matrices. Two new free interface component mode synthesis methods are also presented. The equivalent full-mode matrix of the damped structure is used to capture the effects of the higher-order modes. Additionally, this work modifies the compatibility conditions at the junctions that are employed in most of the previous component mode synthesis methods for generally damped systems. The first component mode synthesis method is performed in complex space, whereas the second method can be applied in real space. Because the coefficient matrices of the coupled equation constructed by the second component mode synthesis method are all real-valued, the solution of the eigenproblem for this coupled equation can be performed in real space as well. Additionally, numerical examples demonstrate the accuracy and validity of these two component mode synthesis methods. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd
sj-pdf-1-ict-10.1177_15347354221099539 – Supplemental material for Melatonin Reduces Apoptosis Resistance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells by Inhibiting BMAL1
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ict-10.1177_15347354221099539 for Melatonin Reduces Apoptosis Resistance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells by Inhibiting BMAL1 by Anqi Wang, Bei Zhou, Yue Zhu, Chaisheng Tan, Jing Xu, Jie Cui, Li Zhang and Guoping Sun in Integrative Cancer Therapies</p
sj-docx-2-ict-10.1177_15347354221099539 – Supplemental material for Melatonin Reduces Apoptosis Resistance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells by Inhibiting BMAL1
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-ict-10.1177_15347354221099539 for Melatonin Reduces Apoptosis Resistance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells by Inhibiting BMAL1 by Anqi Wang, Bei Zhou, Yue Zhu, Chaisheng Tan, Jing Xu, Jie Cui, Li Zhang and Guoping Sun in Integrative Cancer Therapies</p
Supplemental Material - Differential expression profile of microRNAs in the lung tissues of coal workers with pneumoconiosis and patients with silicosis
No full textSupplemental Material for Differential expression profile of microRNAs in the lung tissues of coal workers with pneumoconiosis and patients with silicosis by Yilin Tian, Xiuqing Cui, Xin Guan, Xiang Meng, Min Zheng, Xin Wang, Guoping Cheng, Ying Xia and Meng Ye in Toxicology and Industrial Health</p
sj-docx-1-wso-10.1177_17474930221077164 – Supplemental material for Endovascular treatment for acute basilar artery occlusion: A multicenter randomized controlled trial (ATTENTION)
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-wso-10.1177_17474930221077164 for Endovascular treatment for acute basilar artery occlusion: A multicenter randomized controlled trial (ATTENTION) by Chunrong Tao, Rui Li, Yuyou Zhu, Sen Qun, Pengfei Xu, Li Wang, Chao Zhang, Tianlong Liu, Jianlong Song, Wen Sun, Guoping Wang, Blaise Baxter, Adnan Qureshi, Xinfeng Liu, Raul G Nogueira and Wei Hu in International Journal of Stroke</p
Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analysis revealed genetic characteristics related to solvent formation and xylose utilization in <it>Clostridium acetobutylicum </it>EA 2018
No full textAbstract Background Clostridium acetobutylicum, a gram-positive and spore-forming anaerobe, is a major strain for the fermentative production of acetone, butanol and ethanol. But a previously isolated hyper-butanol producing strain C. acetobutylicum EA 2018 does not produce spores and has greater capability of solvent production, especially for butanol, than the type strain C. acetobutylicum ATCC 824. Results Complete genome of C. acetobutylicum EA 2018 was sequenced using Roche 454 pyrosequencing. Genomic comparison with ATCC 824 identified many variations which may contribute to the hyper-butanol producing characteristics in the EA 2018 strain, including a total of 46 deletion sites and 26 insertion sites. In addition, transcriptomic profiling of gene expression in EA 2018 relative to that of ATCC824 revealed expression-level changes of several key genes related to solvent formation. For example, spo0A and adhEII have higher expression level, and most of the acid formation related genes have lower expression level in EA 2018. Interestingly, the results also showed that the variation in CEA_G2622 (CAC2613 in ATCC 824), a putative transcriptional regulator involved in xylose utilization, might accelerate utilization of substrate xylose. Conclusions Comparative analysis of C. acetobutylicum hyper-butanol producing strain EA 2018 and type strain ATCC 824 at both genomic and transcriptomic levels, for the first time, provides molecular-level understanding of non-sporulation, higher solvent production and enhanced xylose utilization in the mutant EA 2018. The information could be valuable for further genetic modification of C. acetobutylicum for more effective butanol production.</p
sj-pdf-1-wso-10.1177_17474930211047337 - Supplemental material for Impact of renal impairment on short-term outcomes following endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-wso-10.1177_17474930211047337 for Impact of renal impairment on short-term outcomes following endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Jin Pyeong Jeon, Chih-Hao Chen, Fon-Yih Tsuang, Jianmin Liu, Michael D Hill, Lei Zhang, Pengfei Yang, Guoping Wang, Bang-Hoon Cho, Joon-Tae Kim, Mayank Goyal, Yong Jun Cho and Chung Liang Chai in International Journal of Stroke</p
Expanding social, psychological, and physical indicators of urbanites' life satisfaction toward residential community: a structural equation modeling analysis
No full textAttention on, and interest in, life satisfaction has increased worldwide. However, research on life satisfaction focused toward the urban dwellers' residential community is mainly from western countries, and the limited research from China is solely focused on the geriatric population via a narrowly constrained research perspective. This study, therefore, aimed to investigate urbanites' life satisfaction toward their community, combining the psychological (behavioral community engagement, mental state of flow, and cognitive community identity), physical (PREQIs-perceived residential environment quality indicators: e.g., green area), and social perspectives (social capital). The proposed conceptual model was tested on a regionally representative sample of 508 urban community residents in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. Data were analyzed via a structure equation modelling approach in AMOS software. Findings suggested that all of the psychological, physical and social factors contributed to a prediction of life satisfaction. Specifically, social capital mediated the path from community engagement and flow to life satisfaction, and community identity mediated the path from flow experience and green area to life satisfaction. Additionally, social capital contributed to predict life satisfaction through its influence on community identity. Findings provide suggestions for urban designers and policymakers to focus on creating an urban community equipped with green area, which helps to promote physical activities that are flow-productive, to enhance residents' identification to their residential community and, therefore, increase life satisfaction
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