Associations between Preschoolers’ Engagement and Teacher-Child Interaction, and the Role of Gender

Zhao Hongxia,Trivette Carol,Morales Humberto The Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Ass 2023 Asia-Pacific journal of research in early childhoo Vol.17 No.1

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between teacher-child interaction and preschoolers’ engagement, and to explore the role of gender in this association. One hundred and thirty-five preschoolers and their classroom teachers in East Tennessee of the U.S. participated in this study. The parents provided children’s demographic information, and classroom teachers completed the questionnaires on preschoolers’ engagement and the quality of teachers’ interaction with each child. The results showed that boys had lower levels of classroom engagement, and a lower quality of interactions with teachers compared to girls. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that the quality of teachers’ interactions with girls largely accounted for the gender differences in preschoolers’ engagement levels. However, the gender as a moderator between teacher-child one-on-one interaction and preschoolers’ engagement was not found. Compared to other confounders, preschoolers whose mothers having higher educational degrees were more likely to be engaged in the classroom activities.

Knee-driven many-objective sine-cosine algorithm

Hongxia Zhao,Yongjie Wang,Maolin Li 한국인터넷정보학회 2023 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.17 No.2

When solving multi-objective optimization problems, the blindness of the evolution direction of the population gradually emerges with the increase in the number of objectives, and there are also problems of convergence and diversity that are difficult to balance. The many-objective optimization problem makes some classic multi-objective optimization algorithms face challenges due to the huge objective space. The sine cosine algorithm is a new type of natural simulation optimization algorithm, which uses the sine and cosine mathematical model to solve the optimization problem. In this paper, a knee-driven many-objective sine-cosine algorithm (MaSCA-KD) is proposed. First, the Latin hypercube population initialization strategy is used to generate the initial population, in order to ensure that the population is evenly distributed in the decision space. Secondly, special points in the population, such as nadir point and knee points, are adopted to increase selection pressure and guide population evolution. In the process of environmental selection, the diversity of the population is promoted through diversity criteria. Through the above strategies, the balance of population convergence and diversity is achieved. Experimental research on the WFG series of benchmark problems shows that the MaSCA-KD algorithm has a certain degree of competitiveness compared with the existing algorithms. The algorithm has good performance and can be used as an alternative tool for many-objective optimization problems.

A Speech Homomorphic Encryption Scheme with Less Data Expansion in Cloud Computing

( Canghong Shi ),( Hongxia Wang ),( Yi Hu ),( Qing Qian ),( Hong Zhao ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2019 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.13 No.5

Speech homomorphic encryption has become one of the key components in secure speech storing in the public cloud computing. The major problem of speech homomorphic encryption is the huge data expansion of speech cipher-text. To address the issue, this paper presents a speech homomorphic encryption scheme with less data expansion, which is a probabilistic statistics and addition homomorphic cryptosystem. In the proposed scheme, the original digital speech with some random numbers selected is firstly grouped to form a series of speech matrix. Then, a proposed matrix encryption method is employed to encrypt that speech matrix. After that, mutual information in sample speech cipher-texts is reduced to limit the data expansion. Performance analysis and experimental results show that the proposed scheme is addition homomorphic, and it not only resists statistical analysis attacks but also eliminates some signal characteristics of original speech. In addition, comparing with Paillier homomorphic cryptosystem, the proposed scheme has less data expansion and lower computational complexity. Furthermore, the time consumption of the proposed scheme is almost the same on the smartphone and the PC. Thus, the proposed scheme is extremely suitable for secure speech storing in public cloud computing.

VOx-MoOy single molecular layer modified graphic carbon nitride polymer for enhanced selective styrene oxidation

Xinrui Jing,Hongxia Wang,Songnan Li,Bin Lu,Jingxiang Zhao,Qinghai Cai 한국공업화학회 2022 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.105 No.-

Graphic carbon nitride polymer was modified with transition bimetals compounds by impregnation ofpre-prepared g-C3N4 in aqueous solution of ammonium molybdate and vanadate. The prepared hybridmaterial was characterized by XRD, SEM, TEM, FT-IR, XPS and N2 adsorption–desorption techniques todetermine its surface morphology, composition and structure. The results revealed that VOx-MoOy singlemolecular layer incorporated into g-C3N4 molecule framework by interaction between host and guestwas fabricated. The hybrid composite was employed as catalyst for styrene oxidation to benzaldehydeusing molecular oxygen as oxidant. The results indicated that the composite was highly active and selectivefor styrene oxidation, giving TON 458.8 mol/mol(Mo+V) and 96.7% selectivity to benzaldehyde. Thecorrelation between high activity and surface properties the catalyst was explored.

Study on the Kinetic Characteristics of Microbubbles in Cross-Shaped Flow Focusing Microchannels

Ding Weibing,Yang Qianwen,Zhao Yaohui,Wang Zhaohui,Chen Jie,Wang Hongxia 한국화학공학회 2024 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.41 No.1

To study the mechanism of microbubbles generation in cross-shaped microchannels, numerical simulations of gas–liquid two-phase fl ow in microchannels are carried out in this paper using the volume of fl uid method (VOF). By varying the twophase fl ow rate, three diff erent fl ow regimes were obtained, including dripping regime, slugging regime and threading regime, and the relationship between the two-phase fl ow rate and the fl ow state was plotted. Meanwhile, the phase interface, pressure and velocity of microbubbles in three diff erent fl ow regimes were studied, and the evolution of the gas–liquid interface in microbubbles formation was analyzed. It is found that the microbubbles diameter decreases and the frequency increases as the viscosity of the continuous phase gradually increases. As the wall contact angle decreases, the adhesion of the liquid phase to the wall at the channel interaction increases and the microbubbles diameter increases. The increase in interfacial tension greatly increases the cohesion between molecules on the surface of the gas fl ow, making it diffi cult to achieve force equilibrium, which leads to a reduction in the shear stress required to dominate the interface to break the tip of the gas fl ow and slower bubbles formation, resulting in a larger microbubbles diameter.

Association of MMP-9 C-1562T polymorphism with risk of Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis in children of southeast China

Jinwen Xu,Liping Zhao,Hongxia Zhou,Tingting Ge,Lin Zhang 한국유전학회 2017 Genes & Genomics Vol.39 No.4

Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis (HSPN) is the most prevalent vasculitis in childhood worldwide. Although the etiology of HSPN is not yet fully elucidated, it is believed to be closely related with infections and genetic predispositions. In this study, a cohort of children from southeast China, including 108 healthy controls and 184 patients were involved in. We scanned the promoter region and the whole gene for genetic variations. A C/T transition located in the promoter region of MMP-9 gene, C-1562T was identified. Subjects were genotyped by using SNaPshot sequencing and the frequencies of CC, CT and TT genotypes were 43, 33 and 24% in patients and 53, 37 and 10% in healthy controls. Allele distribution was found to be in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (P = 0.17). Association analysis revealed that the polymorphism was significantly related with HSPN risk (P < 0.05) and T allele was shown to be a risk factor (P = 0.003, odds ratio (OR) 1.63, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.13–2.34). Additionally, we measured the serum MMP-9 concentration and quantified the mRNA expression. Results showed that an elevated protein level was observed in patients compared with controls in both ELISA (P = 0.0029, 136.5 μg/L vs. 103.9 μg/L) and Western blot assays. Furthermore, we also detected 1.93-fold increase in the mRNA transcription in patients carrying homozygous TT genotype, indicating enhanced promoter activity caused by the polymorphism. Based on the incidence risk, a cut-off value of serum MMP-9 served as HSPN diagnosis was suggested at 155 μg/L. Conclusively, our findings suggested that MMP-9 polymorphism was significantly associated with HSPN susceptibility, and C-1562T T allele contributed to HSPN development.

De novo transcriptomic analysis to reveal insecticide action and detoxification-related genes of the predatory bug, Cyrtorhinus lividipennis

Siyi Liu,David R. Nelson,Jing Zhao,Hongxia Hua,Yueping He 한국응용곤충학회 2017 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.20 No.2

The mirid bug, Cyrtorhinus lividipennis Reuter, an important predatory natural enemy of rice planthoppers, is widely distributed in rice fields. However, genetic information on C. lividipennis is lacking. Especially, limited data about mechanisms of insecticide selectivity between this piercing-sucking predator (C. lividipennis) and piercing-sucking preys (rice planthoppers), inhibits development of selective insecticides and the integration of chemical and biological control systems to control insect pests of rice. Hence, we performed de novo assembly of a transcriptome from adult and nymph whole bodies of C. lividipennis. A total of> 29 million of reads were generated, and 34,752 transcripts matched known proteins. Then, the genes related to insecticide action and detoxification were manually identified, including 26 carboxylesterases (containing 2 acetylcholinesterases), 57 cytochrome P450s, 19 glutathione S-transferases, 15 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, 3 GABA-gated ion channels, and 1 glutamate receptor. Comparisons of sequence differences in these genes between C. lividipennis and rice planthoppers, revealed that quite a lot of diversity was found among genes related to insecticide action and detoxification, while a few of these genes share much higher identities between this predator and prey. The present study provides useful information for our understanding of insecticide selectivity between rice planthoppers and the predator mirid bug.

Effect of heat treatment on the crystallization toughening of tailing-derived glass-ceramics

Du Yongsheng,Yang Xiaowei,Zhang Hongxia,Zhang Xuefeng,Zhao Ming,Chen Hua,Ouyang Shunli,Li Baowei 한양대학교 세라믹연구소 2016 Journal of Ceramic Processing Research Vol.17 No.12

The effect of heat treatment to a parent glass of the composition CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 (CMAS) on the course ofcrystallization and properties of the Bayan Obo east mine tailing glass-ceramics is examined. The crystallization behavior,phase composition, morphology and structure of glass-ceramics are characterized. The results indicate that the phases formedin the glass-ceramics are augite and the initial nucleation phases are magnetite, which can be proved by differential scanningcalorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). Heat treatment plays asignificant role in improving the crystallization process, fracture characteristics, modulus and bending strength. All of theseproperties reach a maximum for the fully crystallized glass-ceramic. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and atomic forcemicroscope (AFM) are used to reveal the topography of the fracture surfaces. The intergranular fracture can be observed onthe fracture surface.

Cloning and Expression Analysis of Gonadogenesis-associated Gene SPATA4 from Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Liu, Bowen,Liu, Shangfeng,He, Shan,Zhao, Ying,Hu, Hongxia,Wang, Zhao Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biol 2005 Journal of biochemistry and molecular biology Vol.38 No.2

Gonadogenesis is a complicated process which involves multi-gene interactions. A rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) gene spermatogenesis associated 4 (SPATA4) was cloned and characterized from adult rainbow trout testis. The cDNA sequence of rainbow trout SPATA4 contains an open reading frame of 1, 081 nucleatides encoding a putative protein of 259 amino acids. The putative protein from rainbow trout shares a 76.8% homology with zebrafish SPATA4. No trans-membrane regions or signal peptide were detected using bioinformatics methods. Subcellular localization analysis revealed that rainbow trout SPATA4 was a nuclear protein with highest possibility (39.1%). Multi-tissue reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) was performed to examine the distribution of rainbow trout SPATA4 in eleven organs of adult rainbow trout. The result demonstrated that this gene express specifically in testis and slight amount of expression was detected in ovary. Further analysis of SPATA4 characterization and function in rainbow trout may provide insight into the understanding of gonadogenesis process.

Combined effect of Fe2O3 and Cr2O3 on the structure and properties of glass-ceramics prepared from Baotou steel blast furnace slag

Guangyu Wang,Yongsheng Du,Jie Ma,Hongxia Zhang,Shunli Ouyang,Leibo Deng,Hua Chen,Ming Zhao 한양대학교 세라믹연구소 2021 Journal of Ceramic Processing Research Vol.22 No.6

CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 glass-ceramics were successfully prepared using Baotou Steel BFS as the raw materials, choosing Fe2O3and Cr2O3 as nucleating agents. This paper focused on analyzing the combined effect of Fe2O3 and Cr2O3 on the structure andproperties of the glass-ceramics. Experimental results showed that the crystallization mechanism of glass-ceramics convertedsurface crystallization into bulk crystallization and the main crystalline phase of glass-ceramics changed gradually from augiteto diopside with the decrease of Fe2O3/Cr2O3 ratios. Therefore, an appropriate ratio of Fe2O3/Cr2O3 can act as nuclei forcrystallization of augite with integrated interlocking crystal structure and the physicochemical properties of glass-ceramic canbe improved. Consequently, the fracture mode of glass-ceramic was changed from intercrystalline to mixed transcrystalline/intercrystalline and therefore the average crack length can be shortened. Glass-ceramic with Fe2O3/Cr2O3 ratio of 1 had a highbending strength of 138.93 MPa, Vickers hardness of 7.51 GPa and acid resistance of 97.75%.