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ObjectiveTo examine the prevalence and influencing factors of physician-diagnosed allergic rhinitis and parent-reported rhinitis-related symptoms among preschool children in Urumqi city, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for providing evidence to the prevention and control of the illness in the children. MethodsA self-administered survey was conducted among 10 000 children aged 2 – 7 years in 60 kindergartens selected with stratified random cluster sampling in Urumqi city during August – December 2019. A questionnaire was designed based on the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) and Dampness in Buildings and Health (DBH) and the questionnaire was answered by the children's parents or guardians. The data collected were analyzed using SPSS 26.0. ResultsOf the 8 153 preschool children with valid information, 7.6% were reported having been diagnosed as allergic rhinitis and 27.4% ever having experienced rhinitis-related symptoms. The results of unconditional multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the children with following characteristics were more likely to have allergic rhinitis: at elder age (5 – 7 year vs. 2 years: odds ratio[OR] = 1.36, 95% confidence interval [95%CI]: 1.04 – 1.80), being only child (OR = 1.24, 95%CI: 1.04 – 1.48), being born by cesarean section (versus vaginal delivery: OR = 1.21, 95%CI: 1.02 – 1.44), paternal history of rhinitis (OR = 2.50, 95% CI: 2.10 – 2.98), maternal history of rhinitis (OR = 3.29, 95%CI: 2.76 – 3.91), paternal history of asthma (OR = 1.95, 95%CI: 1.02 – 3.74), with larger living space ( ≥ 75 m2 vs. < 75 m2: OR = 1.25, 95%CI: 1.01 – 1.56), maternal exposure to new furniture at home during pregnancy (OR = 1.79, 95%CI:1.28 – 2.51), and having indoor decoration at home at the age of 0 – 1 year (OR = 1. 82, 95%CI: 1.19 – 2.79) ; while the children being girl (OR = 0.79, 95%CI: 0.67 – 0.94) and living in a house with lime/cement as wallcovering (versus wallpaper: OR = 0.39, 95%CI: 0.16 – 0.98) were less likely to have allergic rhinitis; the results also revealed significant influencing factors of rhinitis-related symptoms as following: being only child (OR = 1.22, 95%CI: 1.10 – 1.36), being born by cesarean section (versus vaginal delivery: OR = 1.14, 95%CI: 1.02 – 1.26), paternal history of rhinitis (OR = 2.16, 95% CI: 1.93 – 2.42), maternal history of rhinitis (OR = 2.38, 95%CI: 2.13 – 2.67), paternal history of asthma (OR = 2.22, 95%CI: 1.34 – 3.69), living in a house with the floor covered by composite material (versus wood: OR = 1.53, 95%CI: 1.28 – 1.84) or tile/stone/cement (versus wood: OR = 1.28, 95%CI: 1.11 – 1.49 ), maternal exposure to new furniture at home during pregnancy (OR = 1.28, 95%CI: 1.03 – 1.60), with beddings being aired in sunny day frequently (OR = 1.42, 95%CI: 1.18 – 1.71), and with indoor cultivation of flowering plant at home at the age of 0 – 1 year (OR = 1.27, 95%CI: 1.11 – 1.46) and protective factors including being girl (OR = 0.87, 95%CI: 0.78 – 0.96), longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding (≥ 6 months vs. < 6 months: OR = 0.86, 95%CI: 0.77 – 0.96), and living in a house with material other than water based paint/emulsion paint/oily paint/board/lime/cement/seaweed mud as wallcovering (versus wallpaper: OR = 0.43, 95%CI: 0.29 – 0.64). ConclusionAmong preschool children in Urumqi city, the prevalence of allergic rhinitis and rhinitis-related symptoms were relatively high and mainly influenced by genetic factors and residential indoor environment.

The patient, a male newborn, was admitted to the hospital 2 hours after birth duc to prematurity (gestational agc 27+5 weeks) and respiratory distress occurring 2 hours postnatally. After admission, the infant developed fever and elevated C-reactive protein levels. On the fourth day after birth, metagenomic next-generation sequencing of cerebrospinal fluid indicated a positive result for Mycoplasma hominis (9 898 reads). On the eighth day, a retest of cerebrospinal fluid metagenomics confirmed Mycoplasma hominis (56 806 reads). The diagnosis of purulent meningitis caused by Mycoplasma hominis was established, and the antibiotic treatment was switched to moxifloxacin [5 mg/(kg⋅day)] administered intravenously for a total of 4 weeks. After treatment, the patient's cerebrospinal fluid tests returned to normal, and he was discharged as cured on the 76th day after birth. This article focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of neonatal Mycoplasma hominis purulent meningitis, introducing the multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of the condition in extremely preterm infants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The integrated microbiome microbial agent ( referred to as integrated microbial agent) was a soil remediation agent produced by using the pig litter of microbial fermentation bed for raising pigs for about one year as the base material, which contained multiple functional microbiomes. The effects of different concentrations of the integrated microbial agent extract on the germination of watermelon seeds were studied by using the filter paper germination method. The results showed that: the extract solution of the integrated microbial agent had significant inhibitory effect on the germination of watermelon seeds. When the addition amount was 5%, the germination rate was 53. 33%, the germination index (7. 02) and seed vigor index (241. 05) were significantly lower than those of the two control groups (P <0.05). There was no significant difference in the radicle growth (34.54 mm) between the two control groups (34.56 mm and 0.20 mm) (P<0.05). With the increase of the addition amount, the germination rate, radicle length, germination index and seed vigor index showed a downward trend. Through the pot experiment, the control effects of different proportions of addition amount of the integrated microbial agents on the plant growth of watermelon and wilt disease were studied. The results showed that :The results showed that: when the addition amount of integrated microbial agent was 10%, the root length and plant height were increased by 40. 82% and 45. 34%, respectively. compared with the old substrate, and the growth promotion effect was the most significant (P<0. 05), and the control effect on watermelon fusarium wilt was 66. 67%. When the addition amount of integrated microbial agent was more than 20%, the root length and plant height decreased by 10. 21 % and 3. 97%, respectively, compared with the old substrate, and the inhibitory effect was significant (P<0. 05). According to the results of the experiment, it was suggested that the integrated microbial agent could be applied to the roots of watermelon during the planting process, and the addition amount should be controlled below 10%, Then, the ideal control effect on fusarium wilt could be achieved by combining with other measures such as the disease control agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to understand the research situation of Juncao in China, the bibliometric analysis method was used to search the research literatures on Juncao in CNKI database and VIP database from 2007 to 2021, in order to statistically analyze the information including the publication year of literature, citation amount of literature, disciplinary distribution of literature, research topics, research institutions, authors, and research hotspots. The results showed that a total of 441 valid literatures were retrieved from 2007 to 2021, including 402 journal papers, 37 master's theses and 2 doctoral theses. The number of journal articles increased year by year, with a total of 322 articles from 2015 to 2021, accounting for 80. 1%; there were 1849 citation quantity, of which 1 668 were the high-frequency citations during 2012 - 2020, accounting for 90. 2%. The publication of master's theses was concentrated in 2015-2019, with a total of 28 articles, accounting for 75.68%. A total of 17 disciplines were involved in the journal papers, and 10 disciplines such as agricultural science, biology and economic management were more distributed, with a total of 425 articles, of which 320 articles were related to agricultural science, accounting for 75.29%. Among them, 320 papers (times) were related to agricultural science, accounting for 75.29%. A total of 19 research topics were involved, with a cumulative frequency of 722 times. Among them, Juncao cultivation and edible fungus cultivation were the core, with a total of 569 times, accounting for 78. 81%. The leading research institution was Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, which had published 164 journal papers (accounting for 40. 8%), following by Yan'an University with 20 journal papers (accounting for 4.98%) and Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences with 17 journal papers (accounting for 4.23%). Among them, 145 journal articles were published on the platform (or jointly) of the National Engineering Technology Research Center of Juncao (accounting for 30.07%) and 26 master's dissertations were published (accounting for 70.27%). There were 12 authors who published more than 10 journal papers, moreover, they published 120 papers as the senior authors or corresponding authors, accounting for 29. 85%. In general, the current research hot topics were the cultivation technology and resource utilization of Juncao, and the core force of research was still the National Engineering Technology Research Center of Juncao. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through his analysis, Badiou discovers that the "heteronymy" thoughts in Pessoa's poems reflect his anti-Platonic tendency. Despite this, Badiou also notices the entangled connections between Pessoa's poems and Platonism. In fact, the modernity of Pessoa lies in his ambivalent position between Platonism and anti-Platonism; the task for contemplation poetry is not to pledge loyalty to Platonism or anti-Platonism. Instead, we should follow the poetic path opened up by Pessoa and create a philosophy about heterogeneity, void and infinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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To design a time delay auxiliary analysis system for array signal time delay estimation, a data acquisition system with eight channels is designed and signal acquisition experiment is carried out, A virtual instrument is selected as development tool for the analysis system design. The models included in the analysis system are waveform playback, spectrum analysis, filtering analysis and time delay analysis. Spectrum analysis and time delay estimation of the signal have been carried out with the system, and curve of the time delay vs. time is given. Research result reveals that the system is helpful in the research of time delay estimation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Solidification of microbial oil rich in 46% arachidonic acid at low temperatures ( ≤10°C ) makes it difficult to use. In this paper, the microbial oil was used as the experimental material to optimize the best conditions of surfactant fractionation process. In addition, a number of physiochemical indexes about liquid and solid fat obtained by fractionation process were evaluated, and their compositions of fatty acid and triglycerols were also analyzed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The result shows that the yield of liquid oil was 57.0%, the melting point drops to 9°C, the iodine value increased, the viscosity decreased, the content of arachidonic acid increased and its main type of triglycerols was tri - unsaturated triglycerol. The melting point of solid fat increased to 27°C, the main type of triglycerols was di - unsaturated triglycerol. Other indexes all display opposite trends com-pared to liquid oil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A distributed refinement algorithm was proposed based on the error analyzing of range-based WSN localization.In each iteration,the proposed algorithm identified “error nodes” and “effective nodes” according to the idea of“magnetic pole”at first; then,it choosed two nodes with the minimum relative deviations in the 1-hop neighbors set of error node,and getted the intersection points of two circles whose centers were the positions of above two nodes and radiuses are the range distances from above two nodes to the error node respectively; at last,it choosed the position with minimum error,from its current position and above two intersection points as refinement position of error node after this iteration.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the localization error of multilateral positioning model and improve the localization accuracy efficiently.

The patient, a male newborn, was admitted to the hospital 2 hours after birth due to prematurity (gestational age 27 +5 weeks) and respiratory distress occurring 2 hours postnatally. After admission, the infant developed fever and elevated C-reactive protein levels. On the fourth day after birth, metagenomic next-generation sequencing of cerebrospinal fluid indicated a positive result for Mycoplasma hominis (9 898 reads). On the eighth day, a retest of cerebrospinal fluid metagenomics confirmed Mycoplasma hominis (56 806 reads). The diagnosis of purulent meningitis caused by Mycoplasma hominis was established, and the antibiotic treatment was switched to moxifloxacin [5 mg/(kg·day)] administered intravenously for a total of 4 weeks. After treatment, the patient's cerebrospinal fluid tests returned to normal, and he was discharged as cured on the 76th day after birth. This article focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of neonatal Mycoplasma hominis purulent meningitis, introducing the multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of the condition in extremely preterm infants.

Paecilomyces hepiali is a new species of fungus isolated from a field collection of Ophiocordyceps sinensis from Baima snow mountain, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province by the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. The specimen was identified and named as Paecilomyces hepiali by Qing-Tao Chen, the professor of the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Paecilomyces hepiali) (2008), who identified a dried culture of living strain 82-2 as the holotype. Until now, the holotype (the voucher specimen) was deposited in the Herbarium of the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica (HICMM), China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing. The P. hepiali neotype designated by the paper "Neotypification of P. hepiali (Hypocreales)" published in TAXON 64 (1) by Yao Yi-Jian et al. in February 2015 is untenable., Competing Interests: The authors of this article and the planning committee members and staff have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose., (Copyright© by the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association.)

Objective: To investigate the mechanism of methamphetamine (METH)-induced toxicity in PC12 cells., Methods: PC12 cells were treated with METH for 24 h at the doses of 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, or 2.5 mmol/L. The morphological changes of the cells were observed under inverted microscope after the treatment. MTT assay and flow cytometry were used to assess the cell viability and apoptotic rates, respectively, and the level of nitric oxide (NO) was measured by enzyme reduction method., Results: The PC12 cells exposed to METH were morphologically featured by cell shrinkage, dendrite disruption and disappearance of cell reticular formation. METH exposure caused a dose-dependent reduction in the cell viability (P<0.01), resulting in also increased cell apoptotic rate and significant elevation of NO in the cell culture supernatant (P<0.05)., Conclusion: METH exposure induces cytotoxicity and injury of differentiated PC12 cells, leading to decreased cell viability and increased cell apoptosis and NO level. Cell apoptosis and excessive NO production are involved in METH-induced cytotoxicity.

Objective: To investigate the inhibition effects of Tianshen Yizhi Recipe (TSYZR), a compound traditional Chinese herbal medicine, on decreased expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) and the neurotoxicity as well as lipid peroxidation induced by beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) in human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells., Methods: The SH-SY5Y cells were treated by a certain concentration of TSYZR, and then exposed to Abeta(25-35). Methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium reduction assay was carried out to understand the influences of the drugs on cellular viability. Expressions of nAChR subunits (alpha3 and alpha7) at protein and mRNA levels were detected by Western-blotting and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, respectively. Lipid peroxidation was measured by thiobarbituric acid to observe the capacity of antioxidant of the drugs., Results: TSYZR at a safe concentration could increase alpha7 protein in the cells, inhibit decreased expressions of alpha3 and alpha7 nAChR subunit proteins, prevent lower expression of alpha7 mRNA in SH-SY5Y cells induced by Abeta, reduce the neurotoxicity and lipid peroxidation resulting from Abeta, but had no significant effect on the lower expression of alpha3 mRNA., Conclusions: TSYZR can up-regulate the expression of alpha7 nAChR subunit protein and prevent decreased expressions of nAChRs and neurotoxicity as well as lipid peroxidation induced by Abeta. This drug may play an important therapeutic role in treatment of Alzheimer disease.

Objective: To Study the association between the level of serum uric acid and triglyceride in a Chinese population., Methods: In 1999, a cross-sectional study was carried out in a natural population of Beijing, using stratified-random sampling method. Serum uric acid and triglyceride were measured in 1239 subjects., Results: The prevalence of hypertriglyceridemia significantly increased with increased level of serum uric acid among both the men and women. After adjusting BMI, HOMA index and alcohol consumption level with stratified methods, the incidence of hypertriglyceridemia increased with increasing level of basal serum uric acid in different levels of BMI, HOMA index and alcohol consumption. After adjusting gender, age, BMI, HOMA index, total cholesterol, smoking and alcohol consumption, the results of multivariate logistic regression analyses indicated that the odds ratio for hypertriglyceridemia as compared with the lowest quartile of serum uric acid was 1.26 (P = 0.28) for the second quartile, 1.88 (P = 0.002) for the third quartile, and 3.36 (P < 0.001) for the highest quartile., Conclusions: Serum uric acid level was strongly associated with triglyceride independent of age, genders, smoking, alcohol consumption, obesity and insulin resistance.