Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced Cement Mortar Soil

Bo Ruan,Hui Ding,Jidong Teng,Wei Deng,Shilong Zheng,Chenxi Ruan 대한토목학회 2021 KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Vol.25 No.6

A series of unconfined compressive strength tests and flexural strength tests are carried out to evaluate the improved effect of polypropylene fiber on the defects of cement mortar soil. The following factors, including the fiber content, cement content, sand content and curing age, are studied to investigate the influences on the mechanical properties and microstructure of the samples. The results show that the unconfined compressive strength (UCS), residual strength and flexural strength of the fiber reinforced cement mortar soil (FRCMS) substantially increase with increasing fiber content. The peak strain and ratio of the flexural-compression strength (Rfcs) of the FRCMS first increase and then decrease with an increase in fiber content,and the optimal fiber content is 3.5%. The brittleness index of the FRCMS is found to be inversely proportional to fiber content. The results suggest that the addition of an appropriate amount of fibers can substantially improve the plasticity and lateral stress capacity of the FRCMS. The strength of the FRCMS improves with the increase in cement content, sand content and curing age within a certain range. The microstructure of the FRCMS are analyzedby scanning electron microscopy (SEM) tests.

Aberrant Expression of HOXA5 and HOXA9 in AML

Zhao, Peng,Tan, Li,Ruan, Jian,Wei, Xiao-Ping,Zheng, Yi,Zheng, Li-Xia,Jiang, Wei-Qin,Fang, Wei-Jia Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2015 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.16 No.9

Background: Aberrant expression of HOX gene expression has been observed in cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the alteration of HOXA5 and HOXA9 expression and their clinical significance in acute meloid leukemia (AML). Materials and Methods: The expression of HOXA5 and HOXA9 genes of bone marrow samples from 75 newly diagnosed AML patients and 22 healthy controls for comparison were examined by Real-time quantitative PCR (RQ-PCR) assay. Statistical analysis was conducted to evaluate HOXA5 and HOXA9 expression as possible biomarkers for AML. Results: The results showed that the complete remission rate (52.6%) of the patients who highly expressed HOXA5 and HOXA9 was significantly lower than that (88.9%) in patients who lowly express the genes (P=0.015). Spearmann correlation coefficients indicated that the expression levels for HOXA5 and HOXA9 genes were highly interrelated (r=0.657, P<0.001). Meanwhile, we detected significant correlations between HOXA9 expression and age in this limited set of patients (P=0.009). Conclusions: The results suggest a prognostic impact of increased expression of HOXA5 and HOXA9 in AML patients.

Effect of LiF addition on the sinterability, crystal structure and microwave dielectric properties of Li3Mg4NbO8 ceramics

Wei Jin,Jingjing Tan,Jiaxin Yan,Yao Tao,Ningning Yao,Xiaomeng Ruan,Cuijin Pei 한양대학교 세라믹연구소 2021 Journal of Ceramic Processing Research Vol.22 No.6

The normative solid-state reaction process was adopted to prepare Li3Mg4NbO8 ceramics with LiF addition. We investigatedthe impacts of LiF additive on the crystal structure, sinterabillity as well as dielectric performance at microwave region of theLi3Mg4NbO8-basic ceramics. XRD analysis confirmed that the addition of LiF to Li3Mg4NbO8 lead to the formation of newphase Li4Mg4NbO8F with cubic rock salt structure. The densified temperature of Li3Mg4NbO8-basic ceramics could beeffectively reduced from 1150 oC to 900 oC with LiF addition. Both the permitivity (εr) and quality factor (Qf) of presentceramics were is closely correlated with the bulk density and cell volume. The 900 oC-sintered Li3Mg4NbO8-basic ceramicsowned excellent chemical compatibility with silver and optimized microwave dielectric performance (εr ~13. 4, Qf ~ 32,400GHz at 9.4 GHz, and temperature coefficient of resonant frequency (τf) ~ -43.0 ppm/℃).

An Improved Decision-Making Model for Multimedia Teaching and College Students’ Physical Health : an Empirical Analysis of Wushu Education

Wei Dongyi,Zhang Yan,Ruan Xiaojuan 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Security and Its Applicat Vol.9 No.11

Multimedia teaching is a new kind of teaching mode, it makes multimedia computer as the core, and includes sound, images, text and animation. In multimedia teaching, teaching is always the main body, and multimedia is to cooperate with the teaching. In this paper, we make empirical analysis of performance evaluation of the multimedia teaching, the study subjects is martial arts courses in colleges. The result shows that after experiment, the students’ psychological quality and body movement quality have very significant increase, Body function and body form has improved. At the same time, college students give a better evaluation of the multimedia class, so multimedia teaching is worth promoting.

Expression of Arabidopsis HOMEODOMAIN GLABROUS 11 Enhances Tolerance to Drought Stress in Transgenic Sweet Potato Plants

Long Ruan,Lijuan Chen,Yihong Chen,Jinling He,Wei Zhang,Zhengliang Gao,Yunhua Zhang 한국식물학회 2012 Journal of Plant Biology Vol.55 No.2

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L. cv. Lizixiang)is a nutritious arable crop with a low drought tolerance during growth and maturation. The Arabidopsis HOMEODOMAIN GLABROUS 11 (HDG11) gene can increase drought tolerance in tobacco and tall fescue plants. To determine the effect of HDG11 in the sweet potato, transgenic plants that expressed the HDG11 gene were generated by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Expression of the transgene was confirmed using Southern blotting, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and DNA sequencing. Two independent HDG11 transgenic lines were evaluated and increased drought stress tolerance was observed in both lines, compared to wild-type (WT) plants. Under drought stress conditions, net photosynthesis rate (Pn), the efficiency of excitation energy captured by open PSII reaction centers (Fv/Fm) and water use efficiency (WUE) increased, and transpiration rate (Tr) decreased in HDG11 transgenic plants compared to WT. HDG11 transgenic plants also had decreased lipid membrane oxidative damage, reduced H2O2 accumulation and increased ROSscavenging enzyme activity during drought stress treatment. This study indicates that overexpression of the Arabidopsis HDG11 gene improved drought tolerance in the sweet potato.

Identification and Characterization of Two Novel Variants of the DUF1208 Protein FAM92A1

Xu Zhi Ruan,Fei Yan,Xin Yu Zhao,Chung Ting Wang,Ming Song,Han Suo Yang,Hong Xin Deng,Yu Quan Wei 한국분자세포생물학회 2007 Molecules and cells Vol.23 No.3

Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis: A Case Report

Minhua Chen,Wei Ruan,Lingling Zhang,Bangchuan Hu,Xianghong Yang 대한기생충학ㆍ열대의학회 2019 The Korean Journal of Parasitology Vol.57 No.3

Primary amebic encephalitis (PAM) is a devastating central nervous system infection caused by Naegleria fowl- eri, a free-living amoeba, which can survive in soil and warm fresh water. Here, a 43-year-old healthy male was exposed to warm freshwater 5 days before the symptom onset. He rapidly developed severe cerebral edema before the diagnosis of PAM and was treated with intravenous conventional amphotericin B while died of terminal cerebral hernia finally. Com- paring the patients with PAM who has similar clinical symptoms to those with other common types of meningoencephali- tis, this infection is probably curable if treated early and aggressively. PAM should be considered in the differential diagno- sis of purulent meningoencephalitis, especially in patients with recent freshwater-related activities during the hot season.

Improved Genetic Algorithm based 3-D deployment of UAVs

Xiting Wen,Yuhan Ruan,Yongzhao Li,Hongxing Xia,Rui Zhang,Chao Wang,Wei Liu,Xiaoyu Jiang 한국통신학회 2022 Journal of communications and networks Vol.24 No.2

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely usedas aerial base stations (BSs) to provide flexible connectivity andcoverage for ground users in various scenarios such as disasterrelief, traffic offloading, and so on. Especially, UAV deployment isan important issue that directly affects the coverage performanceof the UAV network. In this paper, we propose a novel heuristic algorithmbased three-dimensional (3-D) UAV deployment schemewhile guaranteeing the connectivity of the UAV network in bothstatic and dynamic user scenarios. For the static user scenario, weaim to deploy the minimum number of UAVs to provide coveragefor the users from the perspective of deployment cost. To reducethe deployment complexity, we decouple the 3-D UAV deploymentproblem from the vertical and horizontal dimensions. Specifically,we firstly determine the optimal vertical height of UAVs based onthe air-to-ground (A2G) model. Then, to alleviate the prematureconvergence of standard genetic algorithm (SGA), we designan improved genetic algorithm (IGA) to obtain the optimalhorizontal locations of UAVs. On this basis, when the users moveor increase, i.e., the dynamic user scenario, the already deployedUAVs cannot provide effective coverage. For this scenario, wepropose a UAV redeployment scheme to maximize the numberof covered users without increasing the number of UAVs. Tofurther reduce the cost of redeployment, we firstly modify theproposed IGA to obtain a feasible set of two-dimensional (2-D)redeployed locations of the UAVs. Then, we design a backtrackingalgorithm (BA) based UAV movement strategy to minimize thetotal flying distance of the UAVs. The simulation results showthat the effectiveness and convergence of our proposed schemes.

Atrial fibrillation in critically ill patients who received prolonged mechanical ventilation: a nationwide inpatient report

( Zhen Lin ),( Hedong Han ),( Wei Guo ),( Xin Wei ),( Zhijian Guo ),( Shujie Zhai ),( Shuai Li ),( Yiming Ruan ),( Fangyuan Hu ),( Dongdong Li ),( Jia He ) 대한내과학회 2021 The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine Vol.36 No.6

Background/Aims: To evaluate temporal trends of atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence in critically ill patients who received prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) in the United States. Methods: We used the 2008 to 2014 National Inpatient Sample to compute the weighted prevalence of AF among hospitalized adult patients on prolonged MV. We used multivariable-adjusted models to evaluate the association of AF with clinical factors, in-hospital mortality, hospitalization cost, and length of stay (LOS). Results: We identified 2,578,165 patients who received prolonged MV (21.27% of AF patients). The prevalence of AF increased from 14.63% in 2008 to 24.43% in 2014 (p for trend < 0.0001). Amongst different phenotypes of critically ill patients, the prevalence of AF increased in patients with severe sepsis, asthma exacerbation, congestive heart failure exacerbation, acute stroke, and cardiac arrest. Older age, male sex, white race, medicare access, higher income, urban teaching hospital setting, and Western region were associated with a higher prevalence of AF. AF in critical illness was a risk factor for in-hospital death (odds ratio, 1.13; 95% confidence interval, 1.11 to 1.15), but in-hospital mortality in critically ill patients with AF decreased from 11.6% to 8.3%. AF was linked to prolonged LOS (2%, p < 0.0001) and high hospitalization cost (4%, p < 0.0001). LOS (-1%, p < 0.0001) and hospitalization cost (-4%, p < 0.0001) decreased yearly. Conclusions: The prevalence of comorbid AF is increasing, particularly in older patients. AF may lead to poorer prognosis, and high-quality intensive care is imperative for this population.

Lycorine: A Potential Broad-Spectrum Agent Against Crop Pathogenic Fungi

( Jin Wen Shen ),( Yuan Ruan ),( Wei Ren ),( Bing Ji Ma ),( Xiao Long Wang ),( Chun Feng Zheng ) 한국미생물 · 생명공학회 2014 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.24 No.3

A screening test showed that lycorine exhibited significant antifungal activity against 24 pathogenic crop fungi at concentrations of 500μg/ml and 100μg/ml, respectively. Fusarium graminearum was selected for antifungal mechanism studies by observing its mycelial morphology and investigating the variations in its conductivity. In addition, the substance absorption and metabolism of F. graminearum were explored. The mechanism was revealed as being one by which lycorine destroyed the cellular membrane and further influenced substance absorption and cell metabolism.