In differentiable search architecture search methods,a more efficient search space design can significantly improve the performance of the searched architecture,thus requiring people to carefully define the search spa...In differentiable search architecture search methods,a more efficient search space design can significantly improve the performance of the searched architecture,thus requiring people to carefully define the search space with different complexity according to various operations.Meanwhile rationalizing the search strategies to explore the well-defined search space will further improve the speed and efficiency of architecture search.With this in mind,we propose a faster and more efficient differentiable architecture search method,AllegroNAS.Firstly,we introduce a more efficient search space enriched by the introduction of two redefined convolution modules.Secondly,we utilize a more efficient architectural parameter regularization method,mitigating the overfitting problem during the search process and reducing the error brought about by gradient approximation.Meanwhile,we introduce a natural exponential cosine annealing method to make the learning rate of the neural network training process more suitable for the search procedure.Moreover,group convolution and data augmentation are employed to reduce the computational cost.Finally,through extensive experiments on several public datasets,we demonstrate that our method can more swiftly search for better-performing neural network architectures in a more efficient search space,thus validating the effectiveness of our approach.展开更多
The metaverse is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates a variety of new technologies,including artificial intelligence,digital twins,block chain,cloud computing,virtual reality,robots,with...The metaverse is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates a variety of new technologies,including artificial intelligence,digital twins,block chain,cloud computing,virtual reality,robots,with brain-computer interfaces,and 5G.Media convergence technology is a systematic and comprehensive discipline that applies the theories and methods of modern science and technology to the development of media innovation,mainly including multimedia creation,production,communication,service,consumption,reproduction and so on.The emergence of new technologies,such as deep learning,distributed computing,and extended reality has promoted the development of media integration in the metaverse,and these technologies are the key factors that promote the current transformation of the Internet to the metaverse.展开更多
Huaiyin Institute of Technology is taken as the research object.The content of horticulture curriculum system under the background of new agricultural science is constructed and elaborated,including theoretical curric...Huaiyin Institute of Technology is taken as the research object.The content of horticulture curriculum system under the background of new agricultural science is constructed and elaborated,including theoretical curriculum system of"three platforms and seven curriculum groups"and practice system of"two platforms,three levels and four modules".Moreover,the quality assurance strategy of the curriculum system is discussed from three angles of enhancing professional emotion,enhancing professional practice and strengthening innovation ability,to reach the training objective of outstanding applied horticultural talents under the background of new agricultural science.展开更多
A better understanding of previous accidents is an effective way to reduce the occurrence of similar accidents in the future. In this paper, a complex network approach is adopted to construct a directed weighted hazar...A better understanding of previous accidents is an effective way to reduce the occurrence of similar accidents in the future. In this paper, a complex network approach is adopted to construct a directed weighted hazard network(DWHN) to analyze topological features and evolution of accidents in the subway construction. The nodes are hazards and accidents, the edges are multiple relationships of these nodes and the weight of edges are occurrence times of repetitive relationships. The results indicate that the DWHN possesses the property of small-world with small average path length and large clustering coefficient, indicating that hazards have better connectivity and will spread widely and quickly in the network. Moreover,the DWHN has the property of scale-free network for the cumulative degree distribution follows a power-law distribution.It makes DWHN more vulnerable to target attacks. Controlling key nodes with higher degree, strength and betweenness centrality will destroy the connectivity of DWHN and mitigate the spreading of accidents in the network. This study is helpful for discovering inner relationships and evolutionary features of hazards and accidents in the subway construction.展开更多
This study proposes a new generation network based on transformers and guided by the music theory to produce high-quality music work.In this study,the decoding block of the transformer is used to learn the internal in...This study proposes a new generation network based on transformers and guided by the music theory to produce high-quality music work.In this study,the decoding block of the transformer is used to learn the internal information of single-track music,and cross-track transformers are used to learn the information amongst the tracks of different musical instruments.A reward network based on the music theory is proposed,which optimizes the global and local loss objective functions while training and discriminating the network so that the reward network can provide a reliable adjustment method for the generation of the network.The method of combining the reward network and cross entropy loss is used to guide the training of the generator and produce high-quality music work.Compared with other multi-track music generation models,the experimental results verify the validity of the model.展开更多
This article proposes an exponential adjustment inertia weight immune particle swarm optimization(EAIW-IPSO)to enhance the accuracy and reliability regarding the selection of shield tunneling parameter values.Accordin...This article proposes an exponential adjustment inertia weight immune particle swarm optimization(EAIW-IPSO)to enhance the accuracy and reliability regarding the selection of shield tunneling parameter values.According to the iteration changes and the range of inertia weight in particle swarm optimization algorithm(PSO),the inertia weight is adjusted by the form of exponential function.Meanwhile,the self-regulation mechanism of the immune system is combined with the PSO.12 benchmark functions and the realistic cases of shield tunneling parameter value selection are utilized to demonstrate the feasibility and accuracy of the proposed EAIW-IPSO algorithm.Comparison with other improved PSO indicates that EAIW-IPSO has better performance to solve unimodal and multimodal optimization problems.When solving the selection of shield tunneling parameter values,EAIW-IPSO can provide more accurate and reliable references for the realistic engineering.展开更多
Triticum urartu,a diploid wild wheat and progenitor of the A genome of bread wheat,is an important resource for resistance to powdery mildew fungus caused by Blumeria graminis f.sp.tritici(Bgt).In the present study we...Triticum urartu,a diploid wild wheat and progenitor of the A genome of bread wheat,is an important resource for resistance to powdery mildew fungus caused by Blumeria graminis f.sp.tritici(Bgt).In the present study we systematically characterized the interaction between the Bgt fungus and T.urartu at the microscopic level.We also tested 227 T.urartu accessions for reaction to Bgt isolate E09 and discovered previously uncategorized powdery mildew resistance in this collection.Pm60 is a CC-NB-LRR type powdery mildew resistance gene that has at least three functional alleles,Pm60,Pm60a,and Pm60b.A marker-assisted screen targeting the Pm60 locus identified a non-functional allele of Pm60a,designated as Pm60a′.A sequence comparison of Pm60a′and Pm60a revealed that they differed by 58 SNPs and one 3-nucleotide deletion.Based on the sequence variations two molecular markers were developed to differentiate the functional Pm60a allele from the non-functional Pm60a′.Our screen revealed the presence of a previously uncharacterized powdery mildew resistance in T.urartu and provides new insights into the Pm60 locus.We believe that the two molecular markers developed here and new T.urartu resistant accessions will facilitate further identification of novel powdery mildew resistance genes and benefit breeding for powdery mildew resistance.展开更多
Artificial intelligence generated content(AIGC)has been a research hotspot in the field of artificial intelligence in recent years.It is expected to replace humans in performing some of the work of content generation ...Artificial intelligence generated content(AIGC)has been a research hotspot in the field of artificial intelligence in recent years.It is expected to replace humans in performing some of the work of content generation at a low cost and a high volume,such as music,painting,multimodal content generation,news articles,summary reports,stock commentary summaries,and even content and digital people generated in the meta-universe.AIGC provides a new technical path for the development and implementation of AI in the future.展开更多
Background:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)vaccine can induce a potent cellular and humoral immune response to protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection.However,it was unknown whether SARS-CoV-2 ...Background:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)vaccine can induce a potent cellular and humoral immune response to protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection.However,it was unknown whether SARS-CoV-2 vaccination can induce effective natural killer(NK)cell response in people living with human immunodeficiency virus(PLWH)and healthy individuals.Methods:Forty-seven PLWH and thirty healthy controls(HCs)inoculated with SARS-CoV-2 inactivated vaccine were enrolled from Beijing Youan Hospital in this study.The effect of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on NK cell frequency,phenotype,and function in PLWH and HCs was evaluated by flow cytometry,and the response of NK cells to SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Spike(SARS-2-OS)protein stimulation was also evaluated.Results:SARS-CoV-2 vaccine inoculation elicited activation and degranulation of NK cells in PLWH,which peaked at 2 weeks and then decreased to a minimum at 12 weeks after the third dose of vaccine.However,in vitro stimulation of the corresponding peripheral blood monocular cells from PLWH with SARS-2-OS protein did not upregulate the expression of the aforementioned markers.Additionally,the frequencies of NK cells expressing the activation markers CD25 and CD69 in PLWH were significantly lower than those in HCs at 0,4 and 12 weeks,but the percentage of CD16^(+)NK cells in PLWH was significantly higher than that in HCs at 2,4 and 12 weeks after the third dose of vaccine.Interestingly,the frequency of CD16^(+)NK cells was significantly negatively correlated with the proportion of CD107a^(+)NK cells in PLWH at each time point after the third dose.Similarly,this phenomenon was also observed in HCs at 0,2,and 4 weeks after the third dose.Finally,regardless of whether NK cells were stimulated with SARS-2-OS or not,we did not observe any differences in the expression of NK cell degranulation markers between PLWH and HCs.Conclusions:SARS-CoV-2 vaccine elicited activation and degranulation of NK cells,indicating that the inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine enhances NK cell immune response.展开更多
Summary What is already known about this topic?Research evidence is insufficient to suggest whether routine human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)screening in healthcare settings is effective in promoting greater awareness...Summary What is already known about this topic?Research evidence is insufficient to suggest whether routine human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)screening in healthcare settings is effective in promoting greater awareness of HIV-positive status.What is added by this report?This study found that,following the implementation of routine HIV screening in hospitals in Xishuangbanna Prefecture,Yunnan Province,there was a significant increase in the number of HIV screenings,positive results,and the positive rate of HIV screening in primary-level hospitals.What are the implications for public health practice?Routine hospital-based HIV screening is effective in identifying HIV infections in areas with concentrated epidemics.展开更多
This study investigates the feasibility of applying complex networks to fine-grained language classification and of employing word co-occurrence networks based on parallel texts as a substitute for syntactic dependenc...This study investigates the feasibility of applying complex networks to fine-grained language classification and of employing word co-occurrence networks based on parallel texts as a substitute for syntactic dependency networks in complex-network-based language classification.14 word co-occurrence networks were constructed based on parallel texts of 12 Slavic languages and 2 non-Slavic languages,respectively.With appropriate combinations of major parameters of these networks,cluster analysis was able to distinguish the Slavic languages from the non-Slavic and correctly group the Slavic languages into their respective sub-branches.Moreover,the clustering could also capture the genetic relationships of some of these Slavic languages within their sub-branches.The results have shown that word co-occurrence networks based on parallel texts are applicable to fine-grained language classification and they constitute a more convenient substitute for syntactic dependency networks in complex-network-based language classification.展开更多
The onsite next generation sequencing(NGS)of Ebola virus(EBOV)genomes during the 2013–2016 Ebola epidemic in Western Africa provides an opportunity to trace the origin,transmission,and evolution of this virus.Herein,...The onsite next generation sequencing(NGS)of Ebola virus(EBOV)genomes during the 2013–2016 Ebola epidemic in Western Africa provides an opportunity to trace the origin,transmission,and evolution of this virus.Herein,we have diagnosed a cohort of EBOV patients in Sierra Leone in 2015,during the late phase of the outbreak.The surviving EBOV patients had a recovery process characterized by decreasing viremia,fever,and biochemical parameters.EBOV genomes sequenced through the longitudinal blood samples of these patients showed dynamic intra-host substitutions of the virus during acute infection,including the previously described short stretches of 13 serial TNC mutations.Remarkably,within individual patients,samples collected during the early phase of infection possessed Ts at these nucleotide sites,whereas they were replaced by Cs in samples collected in the later phase,suggesting that these short stretches of TNC mutations could emerge independently.In addition,up to a total of 35 nucleotide sites spanning the EBOV genome were mutated coincidently.Our study showed the dynamic intra-host adaptation of EBOV during patient recovery and gave more insight into the complex EBOV-host interactions.展开更多
HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes(CTLs) and neutralizing antibodies(NAbs) are present during chronic infection, but the relative contributions of these effector mechanisms to viral containment remain unclear. Her...HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes(CTLs) and neutralizing antibodies(NAbs) are present during chronic infection, but the relative contributions of these effector mechanisms to viral containment remain unclear. Here, using an in vitro model involving autologous CD4+ T cells,primary HIV-1 isolates, HIV-1-specific CTLs, and neutralizing monoclonal antibodies, we show that b12, a potent and broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibody to HIV-1, was able to block viral infection when preincubated with virus prior to infection, but was much less effective than CTLs at limiting virus replication when added to infected cell cultures. However, the same neutralizing antibody was able to contain viruses by antibody-dependent cell-mediated virus inhibition in vitro,which was mediated by natural killer cells(NKs) and dependent on an Fc-Fc receptor interaction.Meanwhile, bulk CTLs from HIV-1 controllers were more effective in suppression of virus replication than those from progressors. These findings indicate that control of HIV-1 replication in activated CD4^+ T cells is ineffectively mediated by neutralizing antibodies alone, but that both CTLs and antibody-dependent NK-mediated immune mechanisms contribute to viral containment. Our study systemically compared three major players in controlling HIV-1 infection, CTLs, NAbs, and NKs, in an autologous system and highlighted the multifactorial mechanisms for viral containment and vaccine success.展开更多
Biosafety hazards can trigger a host immune response after infection,invasion,or contact with the host.Whether infection with a microorganism results in disease or biosafety concerns depends to a large extent on the i...Biosafety hazards can trigger a host immune response after infection,invasion,or contact with the host.Whether infection with a microorganism results in disease or biosafety concerns depends to a large extent on the immune status of the population.Therefore,it is essential to investigate the immunological character-istics of the host and the mechanisms of biological threats and agents to protect the host more effectively.Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases,such as the current coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pan-demic,have raised concerns regarding both biosafety and immunology worldwide.Interdisciplinary studies involved in biosafety and immunology are relevant in many fields,including the development of vaccines and other immune interventions such as monoclonal antibodies and T-cells,herd immunity(or population-level barrier immunity),immunopathology,and multispecies immunity,i.e.,animals and even plants.Meanwhile,advances in immunological science and technology are occurring rapidly,resulting in important research achievements that may contribute to the recognition of emerging biosafety hazards,as well as early warning,prevention,and defense systems.This review provides an overview of the interdisciplinary field of biosafety and immunology.Close collaboration and innovative application of immunology in the field of bio-safety is becoming essential for human health.展开更多
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61305001the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China under Grant F201222.
文摘In differentiable search architecture search methods,a more efficient search space design can significantly improve the performance of the searched architecture,thus requiring people to carefully define the search space with different complexity according to various operations.Meanwhile rationalizing the search strategies to explore the well-defined search space will further improve the speed and efficiency of architecture search.With this in mind,we propose a faster and more efficient differentiable architecture search method,AllegroNAS.Firstly,we introduce a more efficient search space enriched by the introduction of two redefined convolution modules.Secondly,we utilize a more efficient architectural parameter regularization method,mitigating the overfitting problem during the search process and reducing the error brought about by gradient approximation.Meanwhile,we introduce a natural exponential cosine annealing method to make the learning rate of the neural network training process more suitable for the search procedure.Moreover,group convolution and data augmentation are employed to reduce the computational cost.Finally,through extensive experiments on several public datasets,we demonstrate that our method can more swiftly search for better-performing neural network architectures in a more efficient search space,thus validating the effectiveness of our approach.
文摘The metaverse is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates a variety of new technologies,including artificial intelligence,digital twins,block chain,cloud computing,virtual reality,robots,with brain-computer interfaces,and 5G.Media convergence technology is a systematic and comprehensive discipline that applies the theories and methods of modern science and technology to the development of media innovation,mainly including multimedia creation,production,communication,service,consumption,reproduction and so on.The emergence of new technologies,such as deep learning,distributed computing,and extended reality has promoted the development of media integration in the metaverse,and these technologies are the key factors that promote the current transformation of the Internet to the metaverse.
基金Supported by Higher Education Research Project of Huaiyin Institute of Technology(2019GJ12).
文摘Huaiyin Institute of Technology is taken as the research object.The content of horticulture curriculum system under the background of new agricultural science is constructed and elaborated,including theoretical curriculum system of"three platforms and seven curriculum groups"and practice system of"two platforms,three levels and four modules".Moreover,the quality assurance strategy of the curriculum system is discussed from three angles of enhancing professional emotion,enhancing professional practice and strengthening innovation ability,to reach the training objective of outstanding applied horticultural talents under the background of new agricultural science.
基金supported by the Co-Funding of National Natural Science Foundation of China and Shenhua Group Corporation Ltd(Grant No.U1261212)the Program of Major Achievements Transformation and Industrialization of Beijing Education Commission,China(Grant No.ZDZH20141141301)
文摘A better understanding of previous accidents is an effective way to reduce the occurrence of similar accidents in the future. In this paper, a complex network approach is adopted to construct a directed weighted hazard network(DWHN) to analyze topological features and evolution of accidents in the subway construction. The nodes are hazards and accidents, the edges are multiple relationships of these nodes and the weight of edges are occurrence times of repetitive relationships. The results indicate that the DWHN possesses the property of small-world with small average path length and large clustering coefficient, indicating that hazards have better connectivity and will spread widely and quickly in the network. Moreover,the DWHN has the property of scale-free network for the cumulative degree distribution follows a power-law distribution.It makes DWHN more vulnerable to target attacks. Controlling key nodes with higher degree, strength and betweenness centrality will destroy the connectivity of DWHN and mitigate the spreading of accidents in the network. This study is helpful for discovering inner relationships and evolutionary features of hazards and accidents in the subway construction.
基金the research project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61631016 and 61901421)the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2018YFB1403903)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.CUC210B011).
文摘This study proposes a new generation network based on transformers and guided by the music theory to produce high-quality music work.In this study,the decoding block of the transformer is used to learn the internal information of single-track music,and cross-track transformers are used to learn the information amongst the tracks of different musical instruments.A reward network based on the music theory is proposed,which optimizes the global and local loss objective functions while training and discriminating the network so that the reward network can provide a reliable adjustment method for the generation of the network.The method of combining the reward network and cross entropy loss is used to guide the training of the generator and produce high-quality music work.Compared with other multi-track music generation models,the experimental results verify the validity of the model.
基金The authors are grateful for the support provided by the Co-fundingof National Natural Science Foundation of China and Shenhua Group Corporation Ltd(Grant No. U1261212) and the Program of Major Achievements Transformation andIndustrialization of Beijing Education Commission (Grant No. ZDZH20141141301).
文摘This article proposes an exponential adjustment inertia weight immune particle swarm optimization(EAIW-IPSO)to enhance the accuracy and reliability regarding the selection of shield tunneling parameter values.According to the iteration changes and the range of inertia weight in particle swarm optimization algorithm(PSO),the inertia weight is adjusted by the form of exponential function.Meanwhile,the self-regulation mechanism of the immune system is combined with the PSO.12 benchmark functions and the realistic cases of shield tunneling parameter value selection are utilized to demonstrate the feasibility and accuracy of the proposed EAIW-IPSO algorithm.Comparison with other improved PSO indicates that EAIW-IPSO has better performance to solve unimodal and multimodal optimization problems.When solving the selection of shield tunneling parameter values,EAIW-IPSO can provide more accurate and reliable references for the realistic engineering.
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFD0100602)National Natural Science Foundation of China(31530061)+1 种基金the Ministry of Agriculture of China,the National GMO project(2016ZX08009-003-001)the Innovation Fund for Graduate Students of Jiangxi Province of China(YJS2017057).We thank Chaojie Xie,China Agricultural University,for providing seeds of wheat cultivar Xuezao.
文摘Triticum urartu,a diploid wild wheat and progenitor of the A genome of bread wheat,is an important resource for resistance to powdery mildew fungus caused by Blumeria graminis f.sp.tritici(Bgt).In the present study we systematically characterized the interaction between the Bgt fungus and T.urartu at the microscopic level.We also tested 227 T.urartu accessions for reaction to Bgt isolate E09 and discovered previously uncategorized powdery mildew resistance in this collection.Pm60 is a CC-NB-LRR type powdery mildew resistance gene that has at least three functional alleles,Pm60,Pm60a,and Pm60b.A marker-assisted screen targeting the Pm60 locus identified a non-functional allele of Pm60a,designated as Pm60a′.A sequence comparison of Pm60a′and Pm60a revealed that they differed by 58 SNPs and one 3-nucleotide deletion.Based on the sequence variations two molecular markers were developed to differentiate the functional Pm60a allele from the non-functional Pm60a′.Our screen revealed the presence of a previously uncharacterized powdery mildew resistance in T.urartu and provides new insights into the Pm60 locus.We believe that the two molecular markers developed here and new T.urartu resistant accessions will facilitate further identification of novel powdery mildew resistance genes and benefit breeding for powdery mildew resistance.
文摘Artificial intelligence generated content(AIGC)has been a research hotspot in the field of artificial intelligence in recent years.It is expected to replace humans in performing some of the work of content generation at a low cost and a high volume,such as music,painting,multimodal content generation,news articles,summary reports,stock commentary summaries,and even content and digital people generated in the meta-universe.AIGC provides a new technical path for the development and implementation of AI in the future.
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.82272319 and 82072271)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(No.L222068)+4 种基金the High-Level Public Health Specialized Talents Project of Beijing Municipal Health Commission(Nos.2022-2-018 and 2022-1-007)the Climbing the peak(Dengfeng)Talent Training Program of Beijing Hospitals Authority(No.DFL20191701)the Beijing Health Technologies Promotion Program(No.BHTPP202002)Scientific Research Project of Beijing Youan Hospital-CCMU 2022(No.BJYAYY-YN-2022-18)Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research(No.BZ0089)
文摘Background:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)vaccine can induce a potent cellular and humoral immune response to protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection.However,it was unknown whether SARS-CoV-2 vaccination can induce effective natural killer(NK)cell response in people living with human immunodeficiency virus(PLWH)and healthy individuals.Methods:Forty-seven PLWH and thirty healthy controls(HCs)inoculated with SARS-CoV-2 inactivated vaccine were enrolled from Beijing Youan Hospital in this study.The effect of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on NK cell frequency,phenotype,and function in PLWH and HCs was evaluated by flow cytometry,and the response of NK cells to SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Spike(SARS-2-OS)protein stimulation was also evaluated.Results:SARS-CoV-2 vaccine inoculation elicited activation and degranulation of NK cells in PLWH,which peaked at 2 weeks and then decreased to a minimum at 12 weeks after the third dose of vaccine.However,in vitro stimulation of the corresponding peripheral blood monocular cells from PLWH with SARS-2-OS protein did not upregulate the expression of the aforementioned markers.Additionally,the frequencies of NK cells expressing the activation markers CD25 and CD69 in PLWH were significantly lower than those in HCs at 0,4 and 12 weeks,but the percentage of CD16^(+)NK cells in PLWH was significantly higher than that in HCs at 2,4 and 12 weeks after the third dose of vaccine.Interestingly,the frequency of CD16^(+)NK cells was significantly negatively correlated with the proportion of CD107a^(+)NK cells in PLWH at each time point after the third dose.Similarly,this phenomenon was also observed in HCs at 0,2,and 4 weeks after the third dose.Finally,regardless of whether NK cells were stimulated with SARS-2-OS or not,we did not observe any differences in the expression of NK cell degranulation markers between PLWH and HCs.Conclusions:SARS-CoV-2 vaccine elicited activation and degranulation of NK cells,indicating that the inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine enhances NK cell immune response.
基金Supported by the China National Science and Technology Major Projects in Infectious Disease from the Ministry of Science and Technology[Grant no.2017ZX10201101-002-003].
文摘Summary What is already known about this topic?Research evidence is insufficient to suggest whether routine human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)screening in healthcare settings is effective in promoting greater awareness of HIV-positive status.What is added by this report?This study found that,following the implementation of routine HIV screening in hospitals in Xishuangbanna Prefecture,Yunnan Province,there was a significant increase in the number of HIV screenings,positive results,and the positive rate of HIV screening in primary-level hospitals.What are the implications for public health practice?Routine hospital-based HIV screening is effective in identifying HIV infections in areas with concentrated epidemics.
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (09BYY024 and 11&ZD188)
文摘This study investigates the feasibility of applying complex networks to fine-grained language classification and of employing word co-occurrence networks based on parallel texts as a substitute for syntactic dependency networks in complex-network-based language classification.14 word co-occurrence networks were constructed based on parallel texts of 12 Slavic languages and 2 non-Slavic languages,respectively.With appropriate combinations of major parameters of these networks,cluster analysis was able to distinguish the Slavic languages from the non-Slavic and correctly group the Slavic languages into their respective sub-branches.Moreover,the clustering could also capture the genetic relationships of some of these Slavic languages within their sub-branches.The results have shown that word co-occurrence networks based on parallel texts are applicable to fine-grained language classification and they constitute a more convenient substitute for syntactic dependency networks in complex-network-based language classification.
基金supported by the Megaproject for Infectious Disease Research of China(2016ZX10004222-003)the research of Ebola pathogen from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,81590763)+4 种基金National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC1200200 to Y.Shu)the Distinguished Young Scientist Program of the NSFC(81525017 to Y.Shu)the Excellent Young Scientist Program of the NSFC(81822040 to W.J.Liu)the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province(ts201511056 to W.Shi)G.F.Gao is a primary principal investigator of the NSFC Innovative Research Group(81621091).
文摘The onsite next generation sequencing(NGS)of Ebola virus(EBOV)genomes during the 2013–2016 Ebola epidemic in Western Africa provides an opportunity to trace the origin,transmission,and evolution of this virus.Herein,we have diagnosed a cohort of EBOV patients in Sierra Leone in 2015,during the late phase of the outbreak.The surviving EBOV patients had a recovery process characterized by decreasing viremia,fever,and biochemical parameters.EBOV genomes sequenced through the longitudinal blood samples of these patients showed dynamic intra-host substitutions of the virus during acute infection,including the previously described short stretches of 13 serial TNC mutations.Remarkably,within individual patients,samples collected during the early phase of infection possessed Ts at these nucleotide sites,whereas they were replaced by Cs in samples collected in the later phase,suggesting that these short stretches of TNC mutations could emerge independently.In addition,up to a total of 35 nucleotide sites spanning the EBOV genome were mutated coincidently.Our study showed the dynamic intra-host adaptation of EBOV during patient recovery and gave more insight into the complex EBOV-host interactions.
基金supported by the Fund for Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professor(2014JSTPJS-53)the Innovation Fund from National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention,China CDC,Capital Medical University Key Laboratory Project(2-03-02-BJYAH 2016006)China’s 12th Five-Year Major Project on the Prevention and Treatment of AIDS
文摘HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes(CTLs) and neutralizing antibodies(NAbs) are present during chronic infection, but the relative contributions of these effector mechanisms to viral containment remain unclear. Here, using an in vitro model involving autologous CD4+ T cells,primary HIV-1 isolates, HIV-1-specific CTLs, and neutralizing monoclonal antibodies, we show that b12, a potent and broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibody to HIV-1, was able to block viral infection when preincubated with virus prior to infection, but was much less effective than CTLs at limiting virus replication when added to infected cell cultures. However, the same neutralizing antibody was able to contain viruses by antibody-dependent cell-mediated virus inhibition in vitro,which was mediated by natural killer cells(NKs) and dependent on an Fc-Fc receptor interaction.Meanwhile, bulk CTLs from HIV-1 controllers were more effective in suppression of virus replication than those from progressors. These findings indicate that control of HIV-1 replication in activated CD4^+ T cells is ineffectively mediated by neutralizing antibodies alone, but that both CTLs and antibody-dependent NK-mediated immune mechanisms contribute to viral containment. Our study systemically compared three major players in controlling HIV-1 infection, CTLs, NAbs, and NKs, in an autologous system and highlighted the multifactorial mechanisms for viral containment and vaccine success.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFC2604100)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82241072).
文摘Biosafety hazards can trigger a host immune response after infection,invasion,or contact with the host.Whether infection with a microorganism results in disease or biosafety concerns depends to a large extent on the immune status of the population.Therefore,it is essential to investigate the immunological character-istics of the host and the mechanisms of biological threats and agents to protect the host more effectively.Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases,such as the current coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pan-demic,have raised concerns regarding both biosafety and immunology worldwide.Interdisciplinary studies involved in biosafety and immunology are relevant in many fields,including the development of vaccines and other immune interventions such as monoclonal antibodies and T-cells,herd immunity(or population-level barrier immunity),immunopathology,and multispecies immunity,i.e.,animals and even plants.Meanwhile,advances in immunological science and technology are occurring rapidly,resulting in important research achievements that may contribute to the recognition of emerging biosafety hazards,as well as early warning,prevention,and defense systems.This review provides an overview of the interdisciplinary field of biosafety and immunology.Close collaboration and innovative application of immunology in the field of bio-safety is becoming essential for human health.