The assertion that a climate crisis is rapidly approaching due to excess carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is said to be based on science. This science is summarized in the statements of the major scientific soci...The assertion that a climate crisis is rapidly approaching due to excess carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is said to be based on science. This science is summarized in the statements of the major scientific societies. These statements, have motivated, governments, the media, and much of the public to commit to abandoning fossil, i.e. going to “net zero” at some time in the not-so-distant future, perhaps by 2050, 26 years from now. The claims of these scientific societies clearly have a profound impact on the government, the media and the public, and therefore the scientific basis for these claims needs to be frequently and rigorously reexamined by the societies, and scrutinized by the public. This paper illustrates some serious concerns regarding the claims of these societies. It is not difficult to question these claims by comparing them with actual data from well-established organizations such as NOAA and NASA. Furthermore, the claims seem to go against such well-established scientific laws as the Stefan Boltzman radiation law, and le Chatelier’s principle. If the statements of the societies overstate the danger, or are even incorrect, they may be motivating the United States, the western world, or even the whole world to make an enormously expensive and unnecessary transition to an energy infrastructure that is more expensive, less reliable, and more environmentally damaging than the one we have today. This article suggests that these scientific societies reexamine their climate statements with the goal of making them more moderate and more scientifically correct.展开更多
It is found from textbooks and literature that there are three different statements for the third law of thermodynamics,i.e., the Nernst theorem, the unattainability statement of absolute zero temperature, and the hea...It is found from textbooks and literature that there are three different statements for the third law of thermodynamics,i.e., the Nernst theorem, the unattainability statement of absolute zero temperature, and the heat capacity statement. It is pointed out that such three statements correspond to three thermodynamic parameters, which are, respectively, the entropy,temperature, and heat capacity, and can be obtained by extrapolating the experimental results of different parameters at ultralow temperatures to absolute zero. It is expounded that because there is no need for additional assumptions in the derivation of the Nernst equation, the Nernst theorem should be renamed as the Nernst statement. Moreover, it is proved that both the Nernst statement and the heat capacity statement are mutually deducible and equivalent, while the unattainability of absolute zero temperature is only a corollary of the Nernst statement or the heat capacity statement so that it is unsuitably referred to as one statement of the third law of thermodynamics. The conclusion is that the Nernst statement and the heat capacity statement are two equivalent statements of the third law of thermodynamics.展开更多
Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are inc...Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.展开更多
Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are inc...Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.展开更多
Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are inc...Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.展开更多
Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are inc...Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.展开更多
Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are inc...Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.展开更多
The publisher would like to draw the reader's attention to the following errors.Ethics approval statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of G...The publisher would like to draw the reader's attention to the following errors.Ethics approval statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Grain&Oil Science and Technology.The authors were contacted after publication to request ethical approval statements for the following articles.展开更多
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Declaration of Competing Interest statements were not included in published version of the articles that appeared in previous volumes of Journal of Otology Hence,the authors of the below articles were contacted after ...Declaration of Competing Interest statements were not included in published version of the articles that appeared in previous volumes of Journal of Otology Hence,the authors of the below articles were contacted after publication to request a Declaration of Interest statement.展开更多
Declaration of Competing Interest statements were not included in published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Virtual Reality&Intelligent Hardware.Hence,the authors of the below...Declaration of Competing Interest statements were not included in published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Virtual Reality&Intelligent Hardware.Hence,the authors of the below articles were contacted after publication to request a Declaration of Interest statement。展开更多
The robotic surgical system has been applied in liver surgery. However,controversies concerns exist regarding a variety of factors including the safety,feasibility, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of robotic surgery....The robotic surgical system has been applied in liver surgery. However,controversies concerns exist regarding a variety of factors including the safety,feasibility, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of robotic surgery. To promote the development of robotic hepatectomy, this study aimed to evaluate the current status of robotic hepatectomy and provide sixty experts' consensus and recommendations to promote its development. Based on the World Health Organization Handbook for Guideline Development, a Consensus Steering Group and a Consensus Development Group were established to determine the topics, prepare evidence-based documents, and generate recommendations. The GRADE Grid method and Delphi vote were used to formulate the recommendations. A total of 22 topics were prepared analyzed and widely discussed during the 4 meetings. Based on the published articles and expert panel opinion, 7 recommendations were generated by the GRADE method using an evidence-based method, which focused on the safety, feasibility, indication,techniques and cost-effectiveness of hepatectomy. Given that the current evidences were low to very low as evaluated by the GRADE method, further randomized-controlled trials are needed in the future to validate these recommendations.展开更多
Purpose： Our study proposes a bootstrapping-based method to automatically extract data- usage statements from academic texts. Design/methodology/approach： The method for data-usage statements extraction starts with ...Purpose： Our study proposes a bootstrapping-based method to automatically extract data- usage statements from academic texts. Design/methodology/approach： The method for data-usage statements extraction starts with seed entities and iteratively learns patterns and data-usage statements from unlabeled text. In each iteration, new patterns are constructed and added to the pattern list based on their calculated score. Three seed-selection strategies are also proposed in this paper. Findings： The performance of the method is verified by means of experiments on real data collected from computer science journals. The results show that the method can achieve satisfactory performance regarding precision of extraction and extensibility of obtained patterns. Research limitations： While the triple representation of sentences is effective and efficient for extracting data-usage statements, it is unable to handle complex sentences. Additional features that can address complex sentences should thus be explored in the future. Practical implications： Data-usage statements extraction is beneficial for data-repository construction and facilitates research on data-usage tracking, dataset-based scholar search, and dataset evaluation. Originality/value： To the best of our knowledge, this paper is among the first to address the important task of automatically extracting data-usage statements from real data.展开更多
The stabilization of the world population and the achievement of sustained development depend not only on the endeavours of governments of nations,but also on further strengthening and promotion of international coope...The stabilization of the world population and the achievement of sustained development depend not only on the endeavours of governments of nations,but also on further strengthening and promotion of international cooperation,The developed countries should make eforts to improve the international economic environment,increase funds for population and development programmes and transfer technology at preferable conditions.展开更多
The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19), which is caused by SARS-CoV-2, has become a worldwide public health crisis. Published clinical data from China and other countries have shown a much higher risk of developing CO...The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19), which is caused by SARS-CoV-2, has become a worldwide public health crisis. Published clinical data from China and other countries have shown a much higher risk of developing COVID-19 and dying from the disease among the elderly, especially among those who had preexisting hypertension, cardiovascular diseases(CVD) and diabetes mellitus[1].展开更多
Introduction Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials （CONSORT）, encompasses various initiatives developed by the CONSORT Group to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled ...Introduction Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials （CONSORT）, encompasses various initiatives developed by the CONSORT Group to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled trials （RCTs）.展开更多
On 16 March 2004, we received an appeal from Dr. Qing WANG of the United States’ Naval Postgraduate School questioning the legitimacy of the paper entitled, Modeling Marine Stratocumulus with a Detailed Micro physica...On 16 March 2004, we received an appeal from Dr. Qing WANG of the United States’ Naval Postgraduate School questioning the legitimacy of the paper entitled, Modeling Marine Stratocumulus with a Detailed Micro physical Scheme, that was published by ZHAO Chunsheng and Yutaka Ishizaka in the January 2004 issue of the Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS). She pointed out that the modei described in the paper was developed by her group in which the first author, Dr. Zhao, worked as a visiting scholar during February 1997-February 1998. The authors should not have claimed in the paper that they developed the modei. In particular, they should not have published her group’s work as their own. Thus, Dr. Wang requested that the paper be retracted from AAS.展开更多
1.Introduction Sudden cardiac death(SCD)refers to sudden death due to a variety of cardiac causes.It is manifested as a sudden loss of consciousness,cardiac arrest,and respiratory arrest and generally shows early symp...1.Introduction Sudden cardiac death(SCD)refers to sudden death due to a variety of cardiac causes.It is manifested as a sudden loss of consciousness,cardiac arrest,and respiratory arrest and generally shows early symptoms that are atypical and not easily detected[1].According to a recent study,nearly 544?000 patients suffer from SCD every year in China[2].Rescue of SCD patients in the shortest time is important as the survival rate will decrease by 7%-10%if the rescue is delayed for one minute[3].However,SCD mostly occurs in public places outside the hospital,including public sports places,transportation hubs(such as airports,railway stations,and subway stations),shopping centers,factories,and so on.Therefore,out-of-hospital cardiac arrest(OHCA)is a huge threat to people's lives."Chain of survival"proposed by the American Heart Association in 2015 emphasized the importance of early call for help,rapid implementation of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR),and immediate use of an automated external defibrillator(AED)in improving the survival rate of OHCA patients.Studies have shown that conducting CPR within 1 min and AEDs defibrillation within 3 to 5 min can achieve a 50%to 70%survival rate for cardiac arrest patients[4].Therefore,early defibrillation of OHCA patients will markedly increase the survival rate.展开更多
As the corresponding author of a paper appearing in J Huazhong Univ Sci Technolog [Med Sci], here I retract the articletitled "Effect of Inhalational Anesthetics on Cytotoxicity and Intracellular Calcium Differen...As the corresponding author of a paper appearing in J Huazhong Univ Sci Technolog [Med Sci], here I retract the articletitled "Effect of Inhalational Anesthetics on Cytotoxicity and Intracellular Calcium Differently in Rat Pheochromocytoma Cells(PC12)"展开更多
文摘The assertion that a climate crisis is rapidly approaching due to excess carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is said to be based on science. This science is summarized in the statements of the major scientific societies. These statements, have motivated, governments, the media, and much of the public to commit to abandoning fossil, i.e. going to “net zero” at some time in the not-so-distant future, perhaps by 2050, 26 years from now. The claims of these scientific societies clearly have a profound impact on the government, the media and the public, and therefore the scientific basis for these claims needs to be frequently and rigorously reexamined by the societies, and scrutinized by the public. This paper illustrates some serious concerns regarding the claims of these societies. It is not difficult to question these claims by comparing them with actual data from well-established organizations such as NOAA and NASA. Furthermore, the claims seem to go against such well-established scientific laws as the Stefan Boltzman radiation law, and le Chatelier’s principle. If the statements of the societies overstate the danger, or are even incorrect, they may be motivating the United States, the western world, or even the whole world to make an enormously expensive and unnecessary transition to an energy infrastructure that is more expensive, less reliable, and more environmentally damaging than the one we have today. This article suggests that these scientific societies reexamine their climate statements with the goal of making them more moderate and more scientifically correct.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12075197)the Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities of China (Grant No. 20720210020)。
文摘It is found from textbooks and literature that there are three different statements for the third law of thermodynamics,i.e., the Nernst theorem, the unattainability statement of absolute zero temperature, and the heat capacity statement. It is pointed out that such three statements correspond to three thermodynamic parameters, which are, respectively, the entropy,temperature, and heat capacity, and can be obtained by extrapolating the experimental results of different parameters at ultralow temperatures to absolute zero. It is expounded that because there is no need for additional assumptions in the derivation of the Nernst equation, the Nernst theorem should be renamed as the Nernst statement. Moreover, it is proved that both the Nernst statement and the heat capacity statement are mutually deducible and equivalent, while the unattainability of absolute zero temperature is only a corollary of the Nernst statement or the heat capacity statement so that it is unsuitably referred to as one statement of the third law of thermodynamics. The conclusion is that the Nernst statement and the heat capacity statement are two equivalent statements of the third law of thermodynamics.
文摘Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.
文摘Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.
文摘Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.
文摘Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.
文摘Ethical statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Journal of Integrative Agriculture.The appropriate statements provided by the Authors are included below.
文摘The publisher would like to draw the reader's attention to the following errors.Ethics approval statements were not included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Grain&Oil Science and Technology.The authors were contacted after publication to request ethical approval statements for the following articles.
文摘Declaration of Competing Interest statements were incorrectly included in the published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Materials Reports:Energy.The appropriate Declaration of Competing Interest statements,provided by the authors,are included below.
文摘Declaration of Competing Interest statements were not included in published version of the articles that appeared in previous volumes of Journal of Otology Hence,the authors of the below articles were contacted after publication to request a Declaration of Interest statement.
文摘Declaration of Competing Interest statements were not included in published version of the following articles that appeared in previous issues of Virtual Reality&Intelligent Hardware.Hence,the authors of the below articles were contacted after publication to request a Declaration of Interest statement。
基金Supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China,No.2017YFC0110405National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81500499
文摘The robotic surgical system has been applied in liver surgery. However,controversies concerns exist regarding a variety of factors including the safety,feasibility, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of robotic surgery. To promote the development of robotic hepatectomy, this study aimed to evaluate the current status of robotic hepatectomy and provide sixty experts' consensus and recommendations to promote its development. Based on the World Health Organization Handbook for Guideline Development, a Consensus Steering Group and a Consensus Development Group were established to determine the topics, prepare evidence-based documents, and generate recommendations. The GRADE Grid method and Delphi vote were used to formulate the recommendations. A total of 22 topics were prepared analyzed and widely discussed during the 4 meetings. Based on the published articles and expert panel opinion, 7 recommendations were generated by the GRADE method using an evidence-based method, which focused on the safety, feasibility, indication,techniques and cost-effectiveness of hepatectomy. Given that the current evidences were low to very low as evaluated by the GRADE method, further randomized-controlled trials are needed in the future to validate these recommendations.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.:71473183)
文摘Purpose： Our study proposes a bootstrapping-based method to automatically extract data- usage statements from academic texts. Design/methodology/approach： The method for data-usage statements extraction starts with seed entities and iteratively learns patterns and data-usage statements from unlabeled text. In each iteration, new patterns are constructed and added to the pattern list based on their calculated score. Three seed-selection strategies are also proposed in this paper. Findings： The performance of the method is verified by means of experiments on real data collected from computer science journals. The results show that the method can achieve satisfactory performance regarding precision of extraction and extensibility of obtained patterns. Research limitations： While the triple representation of sentences is effective and efficient for extracting data-usage statements, it is unable to handle complex sentences. Additional features that can address complex sentences should thus be explored in the future. Practical implications： Data-usage statements extraction is beneficial for data-repository construction and facilitates research on data-usage tracking, dataset-based scholar search, and dataset evaluation. Originality/value： To the best of our knowledge, this paper is among the first to address the important task of automatically extracting data-usage statements from real data.
文摘The stabilization of the world population and the achievement of sustained development depend not only on the endeavours of governments of nations,but also on further strengthening and promotion of international cooperation,The developed countries should make eforts to improve the international economic environment,increase funds for population and development programmes and transfer technology at preferable conditions.
文摘The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19), which is caused by SARS-CoV-2, has become a worldwide public health crisis. Published clinical data from China and other countries have shown a much higher risk of developing COVID-19 and dying from the disease among the elderly, especially among those who had preexisting hypertension, cardiovascular diseases(CVD) and diabetes mellitus[1].
文摘Introduction Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials （CONSORT）, encompasses various initiatives developed by the CONSORT Group to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled trials （RCTs）.
文摘On 16 March 2004, we received an appeal from Dr. Qing WANG of the United States’ Naval Postgraduate School questioning the legitimacy of the paper entitled, Modeling Marine Stratocumulus with a Detailed Micro physical Scheme, that was published by ZHAO Chunsheng and Yutaka Ishizaka in the January 2004 issue of the Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS). She pointed out that the modei described in the paper was developed by her group in which the first author, Dr. Zhao, worked as a visiting scholar during February 1997-February 1998. The authors should not have claimed in the paper that they developed the modei. In particular, they should not have published her group’s work as their own. Thus, Dr. Wang requested that the paper be retracted from AAS.
基金This study was supported by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2019-I2M-5-023)Hainan Provincial Science and Technology Major Project(ZDKJ201804)+2 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(81871611)National Natural Science Foundation of China(81760352)Project of Hainan Provincial Department of Education(Hnjg2019ZD-16).
文摘1.Introduction Sudden cardiac death(SCD)refers to sudden death due to a variety of cardiac causes.It is manifested as a sudden loss of consciousness,cardiac arrest,and respiratory arrest and generally shows early symptoms that are atypical and not easily detected[1].According to a recent study,nearly 544?000 patients suffer from SCD every year in China[2].Rescue of SCD patients in the shortest time is important as the survival rate will decrease by 7%-10%if the rescue is delayed for one minute[3].However,SCD mostly occurs in public places outside the hospital,including public sports places,transportation hubs(such as airports,railway stations,and subway stations),shopping centers,factories,and so on.Therefore,out-of-hospital cardiac arrest(OHCA)is a huge threat to people's lives."Chain of survival"proposed by the American Heart Association in 2015 emphasized the importance of early call for help,rapid implementation of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR),and immediate use of an automated external defibrillator(AED)in improving the survival rate of OHCA patients.Studies have shown that conducting CPR within 1 min and AEDs defibrillation within 3 to 5 min can achieve a 50%to 70%survival rate for cardiac arrest patients[4].Therefore,early defibrillation of OHCA patients will markedly increase the survival rate.
文摘As the corresponding author of a paper appearing in J Huazhong Univ Sci Technolog [Med Sci], here I retract the articletitled "Effect of Inhalational Anesthetics on Cytotoxicity and Intracellular Calcium Differently in Rat Pheochromocytoma Cells(PC12)"
