Innovative utilization of red mud through co-roasting with coal gangue for separation of iron and aluminum minerals

Jianping Jin,Xiao Liu,Shuai Yuan,Peng Gao,Yanjun Li,Hao Zhang,Xiangzhi Meng 한국공업화학회 2021 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.98 No.-

Red mud and coal gangue are industrial solid wastes discharged during alumina extraction and coalmining, respectively. As these are hazardous materials, their disposal leads to serious environmentalissues. In this study, an innovative utilization of red mud through co-roasting with coal gangue forseparation and recycling of iron and aluminum minerals is presented. Under optimum co-roastingconditions (550 C for 50 min), an iron concentrate containing 57.25% TFe (total iron content) with therecovery of 65.22%, and an aluminum-rich product containing 27.26% Al2O3 with the recovery of 71.37%were obtained after magnetic separation. The characteristics of mixed raw material and products allindicated that the goethite and hematite phases in the mixed raw material were transformed into amagnetite phase after co-roasting, although some of the magnetite generated during co-roasting wasoxidized to hematite again. This study demonstrates that co-roasting of coal gangue and red mud is apromising technology for the reduction of iron and activation of aluminum to realize resource recyclingwithout additional materials

The Development of Clinical Document Standards for Semantic Interoperability in China

Peng Yang,Feng Pan,Danhong Liu,Yongyong Xu,Yi Wan,Haibo Tu,Xuejun Tang,Jianping Hu 대한의료정보학회 2011 Healthcare Informatics Research Vol.17 No.4

Objectives: This study is aimed at developing a set of data groups (DGs) to be employed as reusable building blocks for the construction of the eight most common clinical documents used in China’s general hospitals in order to achieve their structural and semantic standardization. Methods: The Diagnostics knowledge framework, the related approaches taken from the Health Level Seven (HL7), the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), and the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) and 1,487 original clinical records were considered together to form the DG architecture and data sets. The internal structure, content, and semantics of each DG were then defined by mapping each DG data set to a corresponding Clinical Document Architecture data element and matching each DG data set to the metadata in the Chinese National Health Data Dictionary. By using the DGs as reusable building blocks, standardized structures and semantics regarding the clinical documents for semantic interoperability were able to be constructed. Results: Altogether, 5 header DGs, 48 section DGs, and 17 entry DGs were developed. Several issues regarding the DGs, including their internal structure, identifiers,data set names, definitions, length and format, data types, and value sets, were further defined. Standardized structures and semantics regarding the eight clinical documents were structured by the DGs. Conclusions: This approach of constructing clinical document standards using DGs is a feasible standard-driven solution useful in preparing documents possessing semantic interoperability among the disparate information systems in China. These standards need to be validated and refined through further study.

The influence of the extent of lymph node metastasis on the prognosis for patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Jianping Wang*,Man Shu*,Hong Peng,Shaoqiang Li,Dongming Li,Jingxian Shen,Ming Kuang,Ying Zhang,Zebin Chen 대한외과학회 2023 Annals of Surgical Treatment and Research(ASRT) Vol.104 No.5

Purpose: Reports showed that some of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) patients with lymph node metastasis (LNM) may also gain survival benefit undergone resection. However, the effect of the extent of LNM on prognosis and surgical indication is barely discussed. Methods: From September 1994 to November 2018, primary ICC patients undergone initial curable surgery were enrolled. Based on the extent of LNM, we divided these patients into 4 groups, including patients with no LNM (group N0), LNM to hepatoduodenal ligament or common hepatic artery (region A, group A), LNM to gastrohepatic lymph nodes for left liver ICC and periduodenal and peripancreatic lymph node for right liver ICC (region B, group B), or LNM beyond these regions (region C, group C). Multivariable Cox regression analysis was performed to identify the prognostic factors for recurrence- free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) in all groups. Results: A total of 133 patients were enrolled. There were 56, 21, 17, and 39 patients in groups N0, A, B, and C, respectively. There was significant difference between groups N0 and C in RFS (P < 0.001) and OS (P = 0.002). When we compared group N0 + A + B with group C, we also found that RFS (P < 0.001) and OS (P = 0.007) were significantly different. In multivariable analysis, the extent of LNM was an independent risk factor for RFS (P < 0.050). Conclusion: ICC patients with the LNM to regions A and B could still achieve good prognosis with resection. Surgery should be carefully considered when LNM to region C.

Anionic trash control in high-yield pulp (HYP) containing furnish by using a poly-DADMAC based commercial formulation

Yating Wang,Jianping Ni,Cui Chen,Jinyong Peng,Hongbin Liu 한국공업화학회 2014 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.20 No.6

High-yield pulp (HYP) is gaining increasing interest in papermaking, the presence of anionic trash hasbeen limiting its application in high-end paper products such as fine papers. In order to control the anionictrash ofHYP, the performances of three anionic trash catchers in terms of charge controland fiber fines andfiller retention enhancement were compared in a laboratory study. It was found that a poly-DADMACbased commercial product had the highest efficiency. The use of CPAM/Bentonite system resulted inhighest fiber fines and filler retention. The best anionic trash controlwas achieved when HYPwas treatedseparately.

Efficient Signature Schemes from R-LWE

( Ting Wang ),( Jianping Yu ),( Peng Zhang ),( Yong Zhang ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2016 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.10 No.8

Compared to the classical cryptography, lattice-based cryptography is more secure, flexible and simple, and it is believed to be secure against quantum computers. In this paper, an efficient signature scheme is proposed from the ring learning with errors (R-LWE), which avoids sampling from discrete Gaussians and has the characteristics of the much simpler description etc. Then, the scheme is implemented in C/C++ and makes a comparison with the RSA signature scheme in detail. Additionally, a linearly homomorphic signature scheme without trapdoor is proposed from the R-LWE assumption. The security of the above two schemes are reducible to the worst-case hardness of shortest vectors on ideal lattices. The security analyses indicate the proposed schemes are unforgeable under chosen message attack model, and the efficiency analyses also show that the above schemes are much more efficient than other correlative signature schemes.

Management of Primary Hepatic Tuberculosis: A Single Center Experience

( Xin Long ),( Lei Zhang ),( Jianping Zhao ),( Qi Cheng ),( Peng Zhu ),( Zhu Chen ),( Zhiyong Huang ),( Xiaoping Chen ) 대한간학회 2020 춘·추계 학술대회 (KASL) Vol.2020 No.1

Aims: Primary hepatic tuberculosis is a rare benign disease, without typical manifestation and specific test, which usually contribute to the misdiagnosis of the disease. Therefore, we reviewed eleven cases of primary hepatic tuberculosis in our medical center, in order to find the common features, which might be conductive to improve the diagnostic accuracy of the disease. Methods: Eleven cases of hepatic tuberculosis confirmed by histopathological examination from 2012 to 2017, were collected in our hospital. Clinical features and outcomes were retrospectively analyzed. Results: All the patients were in good condition at admission, including seven male and four female, aging from 18 to 66 years (average 42.7 years). They disclaimed history of pulmonary and any extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. Tumor markers including AFP, CA19-9 and CEA were within the normal range. All the patients, with liver function classified as Child Pugh A, showed no signs of infection. The lesions were presented as hypo-echoic, cystic or solid-cystic in ultrasonography, low density with periphery enhancement on CT scan, and mixed signals on MRI. Two patients were initially diagnosed as liver cancer, two as liver benign tumor, three as hilar tumor, two as liver abscess, and one as others. Five cases underwent partial hepatectomy, two received laparotomy and drainage of the abscess, two experienced laparotomy and liver biopsy, and two with percutaneous needle biopsy. All recovered well after the operation, subsequently received regular treatment of anti-tuberculosis, and completely cured for hepatic tuberculosis. Conclusions: Surgical intervention is an effective way to clarify the diagnosis of asymptomatic primary hepatic tuberculosis.

Mg(OH)2/Graphene Nanocomposites Prepared by Cathodic Electrodeposition for the Adsorption of Congo Red

Xinzhong Deng,Yao-wu Wang,Jianping Peng,Kejia Liu,Nai-xiang Feng,Yuezhong Di 성균관대학교(자연과학캠퍼스) 성균나노과학기술원 2017 NANO Vol.12 No.2

A facile cathodic electrodeposition process was developed to prepare Mg(OH)2/Graphene nanocomposites (MGN), which was used to remove Congo Red (CR), an anionic dye from aqueous solution. The morphology and phase structure were analyzed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The effects of experimental parameters, such as graphene content, adsorption time, initial concentrations of CR and pH values, on the adsorption capacity of CR were studied. The obtained MGN shows the good performance in CR, with an adsorption capacity of 1986.43 mg g-1. The equilibrium adsorption and kinetics data fit with Langmuir isotherm and the pseudo-second-order model, respectively. Thermodynamic data suggest that CR adsorption onto MGN is spontaneous (ΔG0 : –9.62 kJ mol-1 at 313 K, endothermic (ΔH0 : 36.261 kJ mol-1) and the degree of disorder increased (ΔS0 : 146.848 J moL-1 K-1) at the solidsolution interface. Moreover, the adsorption activation energy (Ea: 38.929 kJ mol-1) of CR evaluated from the Arrhenius equation illustrates that it is a physical process. This adsorbent exhibits efficient adsorption properties and high recycling efficiency, making it a promising adsorbent for removing anionic dyes.

Explicit Dynamic Coordination Reinforcement Learning Based on Utility

Huaiwei Si,Guozhen Tan,Yifu Yuan,Yanfei peng,Jianping Li 한국인터넷정보학회 2022 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.16 No.3

Multi-agent systems often need to achieve the goal of learning more effectively for a task through coordination. Although the introduction of deep learning has addressed the state space problems, multi-agent learning remains infeasible because of the joint action spaces. Large-scale joint action spaces can be sparse according to implicit or explicit coordination structure, which can ensure reasonable coordination action through the coordination structure. In general, the multi-agent system is dynamic, which makes the relations among agents and the coordination structure are dynamic. Therefore, the explicit coordination structure can better represent the coordinative relationship among agents and achieve better coordination between agents. Inspired by the maximization of social group utility, we dynamically construct a factor graph as an explicit coordination structure to express the coordinative relationship according to the utility among agents and estimate the joint action values based on the local utility transfer among factor graphs. We present the application of such techniques in the scenario of multiple intelligent vehicle systems, where state space and action space are a problem and have too many interactions among agents. The results on the multiple intelligent vehicle systems demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed methods.

Dietary phosphorus deficiency impaired growth, intestinal digestion and absorption function of meat ducks

Huimin Xu,Shujun Dai,Keying Zhang,Xuemei Ding,Shiping Bai,Jianping Wang,Huanwei Peng,Qiufeng Zeng 아세아·태평양축산학회 2019 Animal Bioscience Vol.32 No.12

Objective: An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary non-phytate phosphorus (nPP) deficiency on intestinal pH value, digestive enzyme activity, morphology, nutrient utilization, and gene expression of NaPi-IIb in meat ducks from 1 to 21 d of age. Methods: A total of 525 one-d-old Cherry Valley ducklings were fed diets (with 7 pens of 15 ducklings, or 105 total ducklings, on each diet) with five levels of nPP (0.22%, 0.34%, 0.40%, 0.46%, or 0.58%) for 21 d in a completely randomized design. Five experimental diets contained a constant calcium (Ca) content of approximately 0.9%. Body weight (BW), body weight gain (BWG), feed intake (FI), and feed to gain ratio (F:G) were measured at 14 and 21 d of age. Ducks were sampled for duodenum and jejunum digestion and absorption function on 14 and 21 d. Nutrient utilization was assessed using 25- to 27-d-old ducks. Results: The results showed ducks fed 0.22% nPP had lower (p<0.05) growth performance and nutrient utilization and higher (p<0.05) serum Ca content and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity. When dietary nPP levels were increased, BW (d 14 and 21), BWG and FI (all intervals), and the serum phosphorus (P) content linearly and quadratically increased (p<0.05); and the jejunal pH value (d 14), duodenal muscle layer thickness (d 14), excreta dry matter, crude protein, energy, Ca and total P utilization linearly increased (p<0.05); however, the serum ALP activity, jejunal Na+-K+-ATPase activity, and duodenal NaPi-IIb mRNA level (d 21) linearly decreased (p<0.05). Conclusion: The results indicated that ducks aged from 1 to 21 d fed diets with 0.22% nPP had poor growth performance related to poor intestinal digestion and absorption ability; but when fed diets with 0.40%, 0.46%, and 0.58% nPP, ducks presented a better growth performance, intestinal digestion and absorption function.

piRNA-1742 promotes renal cell carcinoma malignancy by regulating USP8 stability through binding to hnRNPU and thereby inhibiting MUC12 ubiquitination

Zhang Wentao,Zheng Zongtai,Wang Keyi,Mao Weipu,Li Xue,Wang Guangchun,Zhang Yuanyuan,Huang Jianhua,Zhang Ning,Wu Pengfei,Liu Ji,Zhang Haimin,Che Jianping,Peng Bo,Zheng Junhua,Li Wei,Yao Xudong 생화학분자생물학회 2023 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.55 No.-

Accumulating studies have confirmed that PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are considered epigenetic effectors in cancer. We performed piRNA microarray expression analysis on renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tumor tissues and paired normal tissues and performed a series of in vivo and in vitro experiments to explore piRNAs associated with RCC progression and investigate their functional mechanisms. We found that piR-1742 was highly expressed in RCC tumors and that patients with high piR-1742 expression had a poor prognosis. Inhibition of piR-1742 significantly reduced tumor growth in RCC xenograft and organoid models. Mechanistically, piRNA-1742 regulates the stability of USP8 mRNA by binding directly to hnRNPU, which acts as a deubiquitinating enzyme that inhibits the ubiquitination of MUC12 and promotes the development of malignant RCC. Subsequently, nanotherapeutic systems loaded with piRNA-1742 inhibitors were found to effectively inhibit the metastasis and growth of RCC in vivo. Therefore, this study highlights the functional importance of piRNA-related ubiquitination in RCC and demonstrates the development of a related nanotherapeutic system, possibly contributing to the development of therapeutic approaches for RCC.