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Even applied protected Li anodes in Li-O2 batteries, its superiority can still be maintained, making the cell achieve stable cycling performance (180 cycles).Two wide-bandgap (WBG) conjugated polymers (PBPD-p and PBPD-m) based on phenyl-substituted benzodithiophene (BDT) with the different substitution position of the alkyl side chain and benzodithiophene-4,8-dione (BDD) units are designed and synthesized to investigate the influence of alkyl substitution position on the photovoltaic performance of polymers in polymer solar cells (PSCs). The thermogravimetric analysis, absorption spectroscopy, molecular energy level, X-ray diffraction, charge transport and photovoltaic performance of the polymers are systematically studied. Compared with PBPD-p, PBPD-m exhibits a slight blue-shift but a deeper highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level, a tighter alkyl chain packing and a higher hole mobility. The PBPD-m-based PSCs blended with acceptor IT-4F shows a higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 11.95% with a high open-circuit voltage (Voc ) of 0.88 V, a short-circuit current density (Jsc ) of 19.76 mA cm-2 and a fill factor (FF) of 68.7% when compared with the PCE of 6.97% with a Voc of 0.81 V, a Jsc of 15.97 mA cm-2 and an FF of 53.9% for PBPD-p. These results suggest that it is a feasible and effective strategy to optimize photovoltaic properties of WBG polymers by changing the substitution position of alkyl side chain in PSCs.High-altitude pulmonary hypertension (HAPH) is an altitude-related illness associated with hypoxaemia that may promote sympathetic excitation and prolongation of the QT interval. The present case-control study tests whether QT intervals, markers of malignant cardiac arrhythmias, are prolonged in highlanders with HAPH (HAPH+) compared to healthy highlanders (HH) and healthy lowlanders (LL). The mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) was measured by echocardiography in 18 HAPH+ (mPAP, 34 mmHg) and 18 HH (mPAP, 23 mmHg) at 3,250 m, and 18 LL (mPAP, 18 mmHg) at 760 m, Kyrgyzstan (p 440 ms was longer in HAPH+ (median 144 min) than HH and LL (46 and 14 min, p less then .05, respectively). HAPH+ had higher night-time heart rate (median 78 beats/min) than HH and LL (66 and 65 beats/min, p less then .05, respectively), lower mean nocturnal oxygen saturation than LL (88% versus 95%, p less then .05) and more cyclic oxygen desaturations (median 24/hr) than HH and LL (13 and 3/hr, p less then .05, respectively). GDC-0980 In conclusion, HAPH was associated with higher night-time heart rate, hypoxaemia and longer QTc versus HH and LL, and may represent a substrate for increased risk of malignant cardiac arrhythmias.

Preoperative discrimination between malignant and benign sinonasal tumors is important for treatment plan selection.

To build and validate a radiomic nomogram for preoperative discrimination between malignant and benign sinonasal tumors.

Retrospective.

In all, 197 patients with histopathologically confirmed 84 benign and 113 malignant sinonasal tumors.

Fast-spin-echo (FSE) T

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-weighted imaging on a 1.5T and 3.0T MRI.

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and fat-suppressed T

-weighted images were selected for feature extraction. The least absolute shrinkage selection operator (LASSO) algorithm was applied to establish a radiomic score. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was applied to determine independent risk factors, and the radiomic score was combined to build a radiomic nomogram. The nomogram was assessed in a training dataset (n = 138/3.0T MRI) and tested in a validation dataset (n = 59/1.5T MRI).

Independent t-test or Wilcoxon's test, chi-square-test, or Fisher's-test, univar

4 TECHNICAL EFFICACY STAGE 2.PR domain zinc finger protein 14 (PRDM14) plays an essential role in the development of primordial germ cells (PGCs) in mice. However, its functions in avian species remain unclear. In the present study, we used CRISPR/Cas9 to edit the PRDM14 locus in chickens in order to demonstrate its importance in development. The eGFP gene was introduced into the PRDM14 locus of cultured chicken PGCs to knockout PRDM14 and label PGCs. Chimeric chickens were established by a direct injection of eGFP knocked-in (gene-trapped) PGCs into the blood vessels of Hamburger-Hamilton stages (HH-stages) 13-16 chicken embryos. Gene-trapped chickens were established by crossing a chimeric chicken with a wild-type hen with very high efficiency. Heterozygous gene-trapped chickens grew normally and SSEA-1-positive cells expressed eGFP during HH-stages 13-30. These results indicated the specific expression of eGFP within circulating PGCs and gonadal PGCs. At the blastodermal stage, the ratio of homozygous gene-trapped embryos obtained by crossing heterozygous gene-trapped roosters and hens was almost normal; however, all embryos died soon afterward, suggesting the important roles of PRDM14 in chicken early development.

Distant metastasis is the primary cause of treatment failure in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (LANPC).

To develop a model to evaluate distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) in LANPC and to explore the value of additional chemotherapy to concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for different risk groups.

Retrospective.

In all, 233 patients with biopsy-confirmed nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) from two hospitals.

1.5T and 3T.

Axial T

-weighted (T

-w) and contrast-enhanced T

-weighted (CET

-w) images.

Deep learning was used to build a model based on MRI images (including axial T

-w and CET

-w images) and clinical variables. Hospital 1 patients were randomly divided into training (n = 169) and validation (n = 19) cohorts; Hospital 2 patients were assigned to a testing cohort (n = 45). LANPC patients were divided into low- and high-risk groups according to their DMFS (P < 0.05). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was performed to compare the DMFS of different risk groups and subgroup analysis was performed to compare patients treated with CCRT alone and treated with additional chemotherapy to CCRT in different risk groups, respectively.

Univariate analysis was performed to identify significant clinical variables. The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) was used to assess the model performance.

Our deep-learning model integrating the deep-learning signature, node (N) stage (from TNM staging), plasma Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-DNA, and treatment regimens yielded an AUC of 0.796 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.729-0.863), 0.795 (95% CI 0.540-1.000), and 0.808 (95% CI 0.654-0.962) in the training, internal validation, and external testing cohorts, respectively. Low-risk patients treated with CCRT alone had longer DMFS than patients treated with additional chemotherapy to CCRT (P < 0.05).

The proposed deep-learning model, based on MRI features and clinical variates, facilitated the prediction of DMFS in LANPC patients.

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