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Additional file 2: Supplementary Figure 1. Flow diagram for the study groups. The enrollment of participants for the periodontitis group (A) and the periodontal healthy group (B) were presented respectively. Supplementary Figure 2. Uncropped images of western blot in Figure 3, including bolts of VNN1 (A), VNN2 (B), and GAPDH (C). P, periodontitis group; H, periodontal healthy group.

Additional file 1: Supplementary File 1. STROBE checklist. The study has followed the STROBE guidelines and added the STROBE checklist.

Lexical entrainment is a phenomenon in which people tend to re-use the words used by conversational partners (Brennan & Clark, 1996). It is explained as either an automatic reaction caused by priming (Pickering & Garrod, 2004), or a strategic behavior where two interlocutors achieve conceptual agreements for communicative purposes (Brennan & Clark, 1996). Past studies suggest that speakers tend to entrain more when interacting with listeners with lower language competence, such as computers (Branigan, Pickering, Pearson, McLean, & Brown, 2011), children (Cai, Sun, & Zhao, 2021), and non-native partners (Cai et al., 2021; Suffill, Kutasi, Pickering, & Branigan, 2021). However, few studies have explored how the features of speakers themselves determine the pattern of entrainment, and the studies that do exist suggest that speaker proficiency (as opposed to listener proficiency) may not affect entrainment behavior. In this study, we target bilingual groups and explore individual differences in lexical entrainment by looking at their entrainment behavior with picture matching and naming tasks. Over the course of two experiments, we investigate English entrainment in English-speaking bilinguals, as well as Mandarin entrainment in Mandarin-English bilinguals. Unlike the previous literature, our results suggest that a speaker’s language dominance/proficiency may have an effect on that speaker’s entrainment: bilinguals who are less dominant/proficient in English tend to entrain more in English, although the effect in Mandarin did not reach significance.

Polymer/garnet solid oxide composite electrolyte has been regarded as a promising solution for solid-state lithium metal battery. It has many advantages such as higher flexibility, lower density, relatively higher ionic conductivity and better contact with electrodes as compared to pure oxide electrolytes and pure polymer electrolytes. In this work, we report a poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) / Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 (LLZTO) composite electrolyte with a facile synthesis route and all commercially available raw materials. This hybrid electrolyte exhibits overall outstanding properties, including wide electrochemical stability window (~5 V), superior mechanical properties with tensile strength over 13 MPa and Young's Modulus >50 MPa, relatively good room temperature ionic conductivity (3.2 × 10−4 S.cm−1) and good electrochemical performance (~150 mAh g−1 at 0.1C and 99% coulombic efficiency after 50 cycles).

Abundant tuna resources have important economic and political significance for Pacific island countries, and obtaining more benefits from tuna resources is the consistent pursuit of Pacific island countries. This article selects Kiribati as an example, mainly for consideration of its national conditions. Kiribati is a maritime country, it’s the world’s largest coral atoll, and it is famous for the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). Kiribati’s water area is larger than land, its citizens mainly rely on fishing for their livelihoods and commercial activities. Kiribati declared its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in 1978, it currently has 3.55 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to the area of India. Besides, no other resources can make a huge economic contribution to Kiribati. Therefore, obtaining economic and political gains from abundant tuna resources is an urgent need for Kiribati. The EU has a huge tuna consumer market in the world, and there is a huge demand for tuna. The Atlantic fisheries are affected by overfishing, which has led the EU to seek new fisheries around the world. In addition to that, participating in the tuna affairs of Pacific island countries will also have a positive effect on enhancing the EU’s influence in the Pacific island countries. The two sides immediately started cooperation on tuna affairs. This article takes Kiribati’s tuna diplomacy with the European Union as an example and take the fishery partnership agreement signed by the two sides as the starting point to discuss the cooperation between them in tuna fishery and some frictions in the cooperation. In the end of this article, the authors briefly summarize the way Kiribati can further benefit from tuna resources in the future.