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Starch and protein are two important components in food system. The interactions between starch and protein have important influence on the structure, physicochemical properties of starch and the texture and digestibility of starch-based food. In recent years, the effect of exogenous protein on starch-protein interaction in mixed system and its application have become a hot research topic in the field of food. This article reviews the interaction mode between starch and protein, the effect of protein on physicochemical properties （gelatinization properties, retrogradation properties, rheological properties, thermal properties and texture properties） and microstructure of starch-protein mixed system, summarizes the regulation effect of protein on digestibility of starch in mixed system and its mechanism, and presents the application of the mixed system in food processing, aiming to clarify the mechanism of interactions between starch and protein and provide theoretical reference for the research and development of starch-based food.

Objective To compare the perioperative efficacy and safety of da Vinci robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) for treatment of anterior mediastinal tumors through subxiphoid versus lateral thoracic approaches under the laryngeal mask anesthesia. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 102 patients with anterior-mediastinal tumors treated by RATS under laryngeal mask anesthesia completed by the same operator. Forty-five patients underwent the subxiphoid approach (subxiphoid group), and 57 patients were treated with the lateral thoracic approach (lateral thoracic group). The operating time, intraoperative bleeding, and total postoperative drainage volume in the two groups were compared and analyzed. Results All patients successfully completed resection of the anterior mediastinal tumor without the occurrence of perioperative death. In terms of total postoperative drainage volume, postoperative drainage time, postoperative hospital stay, and VAS pain on postoperative days 2 and 3, the subxiphoid group was more advantages (P < 0.05). No statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of operative time, docking time, total operative time, intraoperative bleeding volume, postoperative day 1 VAS pain score, or postoperative complications (P > 0.05). Conclusion The subxiphoid approach of RATS is safe and feasible for resection of anterior mediastinal tumors. Compared with the lateral thoracic approach, the subxiphoid approach has advantages in terms of rapid postoperative recovery and postoperative pain.

Color plays an indispensable role in the formation of movie style, and hue, as an important part of color, plays a pivotal role in the study of the quality of movie pictures. The study is based on the basic theory of the color and color space of the movie picture, equalizing the histogram of the movie picture, and then combining the HistoGAN network and Laplace algorithm of computer vision algorithms to realize the enhancement of the hue of the movie picture, and then adjusting and improving the quality of the movie picture automatically. Taking 10 comedy movies by Wes Anderson as an example, the movie tones are measured and counted. According to the results, the movie screen tones adjusted have a strong ability to convey image details and have better contrast and clarity enhancement effects while maintaining image fidelity. As the year progresses, the brightness of the adjacent period in Wes Anderson’s comedy movies becomes more frequent and larger after the movie screen hue is adjusted. The overall of his movies is the color matching law of warm tones with larger saturation with cooler tones with smaller saturation, and the hue adjustment gives the movie screen a more advanced sense of beauty.

With the emergence of movie art, many related art forms were born. Animation art has gained a large number of audiences due to its exaggerated expression. In order to improve the problems of character image overlapping and scene distortion that may occur in the original two-dimensional space, this paper constructs a semi-global stereo image matching algorithm based on the use of point cloud matching in the animation screen for the determination of the screen position and the morphology of the animated character. To compensate for the radiation difference in the stereo image matching algorithm, object-square geometric constraints are proposed to improve the matching cost calculation process. After calculating the matching cost, the original animation model is optimized or rebuilt by creating a depth space image. Taking Disney animation characters as an example, the number of joints required for the reconstruction of the “Snow White” character is 2.9 times more than that of the “Mickey” character, but the reconstruction time of the skeleton is only 12 times longer than that of the “Mickey” character. However, the skeleton reconstruction time is only 12.1 seconds longer than that of the “Mickey” character, which indicates that the algorithm proposed in this paper does not produce a large difference in reconstruction time due to the difference in characters. For the construction of animated indoor scenes, in the eight experimental scenes, the maximum number of grids can be divided into 42365412, and the processing time required is 276.413 seconds. It shows that the algorithm in this paper is capable of subregionally refining the indoor space of the animation. The proposed semi-global stereo image matching-based pan can quickly reconstruct animated character models and animated scenes, as can be seen.

ObjectiveTo investigate the measurement invariance and the score distribution characters of the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire （PHQ-9）， and to test its feasibility in comparing depression among adolescents of different sexes and ages.MethodsFrom September 2018 to May 2019， 12 241 adolescents aged 10 to 19 years old across 22 primary and secondary schools in Hangzhou were included based on cluster sampling method， and they were investigated by PHQ-9. The measurement invariance was tested by multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. Poisson regression analysis and Logistic regression analysis were adopted to explore the score distribution of PHQ-9 by sex and age.ResultsThe configural， metric， scalar and strict invariances （χ2=2 492.527， df=79， P

Objective To evaluate the short-term outcomes and postoperative inflammatory cytokine changes in patients with lung cancer treated with robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) versus video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Methods A total of 270 patients with lung cancer treated by minimally invasive surgery were selected for the study, and the surgical procedures were selected according to the patients' economic conditions and preferences. Among them, 132 patients completed the operation through RATS, and 138 patients completed the operation through VATS. The clinical data of the two groups were compared. Results All patients successfully completed radical lung cancer surgery, and no perioperative deaths were reported. Intraoperative bleeding, postoperative drainage time, postoperative hospital stay, number of lymph nodes dissected, and number of lymph nodes dissected groups were more advantageous in the RATS group compared with the VATS group (P < 0.05). In terms of operative time, total postoperative chest drainage, and hospitalization cost, the VATS group had an advantage (P < 0.05). The postoperative levels of CRP, PCT, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, and TNF-α increased in both groups, compared with preoperative levels, and the increases in the RATS group were lower than those in the VATS group. Conclusion RATS offers technical and short-term efficacy advantages for the treatment of lung cancer but comes with the disadvantage of high cost. Post-operative inflammatory cytokine elevation is lower in the RATS group, and inflammatory response to the organism is less severe.

Aiming at the problem that surface cracks occur in the service of 15Cr2Mo1 heat resistant steel welds, NiCrFe alloy which was similar to the usage scenarios of this steel was employed to repair welds with different groove depths simulating crack depths. The feasibility of repair process was verified by the microstructure and performance characterization of the welds. The results show that repair welding at different groove depths is well formed and has no obvious defects, the weld metal is composed of austenitic cell dendrites and second phase precipitates, and there are a small amount of eutectic ferrite near fusion area, however, there is no ferrite in the bright white strip between the type Ⅱ boundary and the melting boundary. The increase of repair welding filler mainly reduces the yield strength of the joint, especially when the groove depth increases from 6.5 mm to 13 mm, the yield strength at room and high temperature is both greatly reduced by about 15%, then the decline trend slows down. With the increase of filler amount, the impact toughness of the fusion line and the 2 mm area outside the fusion line is improved, while the hardness of the whole weld decreases first and then increases with the increase of filler amount, which is related to the restraint of the repairing weld and the increase of precipitates formed by alloy element segregation.

We report a large tunnel electroresistance (TER) effect up to ~104% in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/BaTiO3/ Co (LSMO/BTO/Co) multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs), which couples with well-defined tunnel magnetoresistance. The large TER is related to (LaAlO3)0.3(LaSrTaO6)0.7 substrates which guarantee a high-quality LSMO/BTO interface and robust ferroelectricity in BTO. The insert of 0.5 nm-thick Pt between the Co electrode and BTO barrier further enhances the TER value to 105% and improves the endurance of the MFTJs, ascribed to the shortened screening length and reduced oxidation of BTO/Co interface. Their use would advance the process towards practical MFTJs with four resistance states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the nanostructure, formation mechanism, and magnetic properties of tetragonal L10-type Fe55Pd45 (at. %) nanocluster wires (NCWs) fabricated by thermal decomposition of metal nitrates and subsequent hydrogen reduction in nanoporous anodized aluminum oxide templates. The as-synthesized NCWs have diameters in the range of 80-300 nm, and lengths in the range of 0.5-10 μm. The NCWs are composed of roughly round-shaped nanoclusters in the range of 3-30 nm in size and a weighted average size of 10 nm with a mixture of single-crystal and poly-crystalline structures. The obtained intrinsic coercivity iHc of 3.32 kOe at room temperature for the tetragonal Fe55Pd45 NCWs is higher than those of electrodeposited Fe-Pd solid nanowires while among the highest values reported so far for L10-type FePd nanoparticles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ocean Acoustic Tomography (OAT) is an efficient and economical marine acoustic observation technique. Targeted observation is an appealing procedure to reduce the uncertainty of ocean environment prediction through additional observation. This study aimed to assess the validity of OAT as an observation method for targeted observation. OAT based on Niche Genetic Algorithm was employed to extract sound speed and temperature profiles from acoustic transmission time, utilizing data from the 2019 Yellow Sea experiment. The inversion results were compared with measurement data, which are found to be accurate and reliable. To further evaluate OAT as targeted observation method, the vertical bias structure of OAT was added on synchronous measurement data in the sensitive area of targeted observation to simulate OAT observation in sensitive area. This simulated data was then incorporated into a 3D-Var assimilation system to improve the short-term prediction of the target region. Comparing the predictions derived with the measurement data at the verification time, it shows that the simulated OAT observation improved the quality of target region prediction, indicating that OAT can be an effective observation method for targeted observation. An Observing System Simulation Experiment was conducted to assess the impact of OAT characteristics on prediction improvement. The results show that both adding observation nodes and extending the observation duration have positive effects, while extending the observation duration performs better.

Objective: This study aimed to control the degree of crosslinking and etherification in the preparation process of crosslinked hydroxypropyl starch and improve the product performance. Methods: Waxy corn starch was used as a raw material to prepare the composite modified starch （hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate, HDP） under alkaline conditions, during which process sodium trimetaphosphate （STMP） and propylene oxide （PO） was used as the cross-linker and etherifying agent, respectively. The effects of the addition level of STMP and PO on the properties of the Brabender viscosity behavior, transparency and freeze-thaw stability of waxy corn starch were investigated. Results: Combined with the preliminary laboratory exploration and the optimization of this study, a HDP with improved thermal stability, transparency and freeze-thaw stability and lowered gelatinization temperature was obtained. The preparation conditions of HDP were as follows: in the case that the amount of sodium trimetaphosphate was 0.30 g/100 g and cross-linking reaction time was 45 minutes, and the amount of propylene oxide added was 6 mL/100 g and the etherification time was 90 minutes. Conclusion: Compared to raw waxy corn starch, the cross-linked and etherified starches with decreased gelatinization temperature and improved freeze-thaw stability, thermal stability and gelling properties are observed.

Layered bimetallic hydroxide (LDHs) nanomaterials have shown excellent potential in the field of recovery of pollutants from wastewater through anion exchange and surface electrostatic interaction. In this paper, three new ternary ZnCrNi-LDHs with the different graded porous were successfully prepared by controlling the morphology of the layer stacking using triethanolamine as the soft-template, and characterized by SEM, TEM, XPS, TG, BET and XRD. The ZnCrNi-LDHs exhibited higher adsorption capacity for pollutants such as methyl orange, sunset yellow and their mixed solutions. The results showed that there was a good synergistic adsorption effect in the adsorption process of mixed solutions. The maximum adsorption amounts of single methyl orange, sunset yellow, and mixed solutions of methyl orange and sunset yellow were 1834.63 mg·g−1, 1259.79 mg·g−1, 3270.59 mg·g−1 and 3294.38 mg·g−1, which shows that the adsorption amounts about synergistic adsorption effect for mixed solutions is much higher than those of single methyl orange and sunset yellow; Meanwhile, the maximum adsorption capacity is higher than most adsorbents. The pseudo-second-order kinetic model fitted the kinetic data of adsorption, while the equilibrium adsorption isotherm data followed the Freundlich model. The adsorption process contains both surface adsorption and interlayer anion exchange as determined by SEM, XRD, IR and zeta potential analysis. The research not only demonstrates that three ZnCrNi-LDHs materials showed excellent adsorption performance and practical interest as an efficient adsorbent for the removal of methyl orange, sunset yellow, and mixed solutions but also provides a strategy for the removal of mixed dye solutions.

Nanoimprint lithography and ion milling were used to fabricate nanoscale NiFe/Cu/Co spin valves. The formation of a single domain was shown when the multilayer bar width was less than 200 nm. As the pattern width decreased, the switching fields for both the hard layer and the soft layer increased. The fluctuation of switching field in the spin-valve structures was observed. The spin valve patterned by lift off had a much smaller switching field than that patterned by ion milling.

In order to explore the influence mechanism of miners’ safety literacy on unsafe behavior, perceived behavior control was introduced as a mediating variable and time pressure as a moderating variable. Based on 341 valid sample data from 3 coal mining enterprises, the structural equation model and Bootstrapping method are used to empirically test the relevant hypotheses of the relationship between safety literacy and unsafe behavior. The results show that safety knowledge, safety awareness, safety psychology and safety physiology have a significant negative impact on miners’ intentional unsafe behavior and unintentional unsafe behavior; perceived behavioral control affects intentional and unintentional unsafe behaviors, and it mediates the relationship between safety literacy and intentional unsafe behavior; time pressure has a negative moderating effect on the relationship between safety literacy and perceived behavioral control.

When a gearbox transmission system fails, the multi-scale mean permutation entropy (MMPE) of different vibration signals corresponds to the fault state to a certain extent. However, the effect of multi-scale mean permutation entropy extraction fault features depends on the selection of parameters. Therefore, this paper proposes a gearbox fault identification method based on improved multi-scale mean permutation entropy and parameter optimization support vector machine. The particle swarm optimization (PSO) is referenced to optimize parameters of multi-scale mean permutation entropy; the multi-scale mean permutation entropy of the collected gear vibration signals wis calculated; the particle swarm optimization is used to optimize the support vector machine to identify the fault state of the gear. Experimental analysis results are conducted to validate the effectiveness of this proposed.

Objective To systematically evaluate the effect of sequence of pulmonary artery and vein transection in thoracoscopic lobectomy on the efficacy and safety of patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Methods PubMed, EMbase, Web of Science, The Cochrane Library, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP and CBM databases were searched for the researches on The post-operative efficacy of pulmonary arteriovenous and pulmonary vein resection sequence in thoracoscopic lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer. The retrieval time is from the database construction to May 2022. Meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.4 software. Results Eight articles were included, including 3 randomized controlled studies and 5 cohort studies, with a total of 1810 patients. Meta-analysis results showed that: The operative time (MD=13.34, 95%CI(7.36, 19.32), P < 0.0001) and intraoperative blood loss (MD=45.29, 95%CI(40.24, 50.35), P < 0.0001) in the group with priority pulmonary vein resection were significantly higher than those in the group with priority pulmonary vein resection. The difference was statistically significant. However, the benefits of OS (HR=1.34, 95%CI (1.12, 1.60), P=0.001) and DFS (HR=1.44, 95%CI(1.18, 1.76), P=0.0003) in the group of priority pulmonary vein transection were significantly better than those in the group of priority pulmonary artery transection, with statistically significant differences. Conclusion Priority pulmonary vein transection during thoracoscopic lobectomy effectively improved patients' OS and DFS, resulting in higher survival benefit for patients with non-small cell lung cancer, but intraoperative bleeding and operation time are more than those with priority pulmonary artery transection.

Objective: This study aimed to improve the utilization value of scallop processing by-products, by analyzing the antioxidant activity of its protein hydrolysates. Methods: The processing by-products of Argopecten irradians were used as raw materials, and the proteins were extracted by alkali extraction and acid precipitation, alkali extraction and ammonium sulfate precipitation and low temperature ethanol denaturation precipitation. Then the proteins were analyzed by SDS-PAGE. Pepsin, flavourzyme, dispase and alcalase were used to hydrolyze the protein, and the antioxidant activities of the hydrolysate products were analyzed. The molecular weight distribution, amino acid composition and hydroxyproline content of dispase hydrolysates were further analyzed. Results: The purity of protein obtained by alkaline ammonium sulfate precipitation method was the highest, reaching 91.16%, with the optima electrophoretic results. All the four hydrolysates had DPPH, ABTS, hydroxyl radical scavenging ability and reducing ability, and the dispase hydrolysate showed the highest antioxidant ability, especially hydroxyl radical scavenging rate, which reached （77.24±1.87）%. The hydrolysate of dispase contained 15 kinds of amino acids such as aspartic acid, with a total content of 84 g/100 g, and the content of hydroxyproline reached （11.82±0.09）%. Conclusion: The protein obtained from the by-products of scallop processing by alkaline extraction and ammonium sulfate precipitation, and its dispase hydrolysates have optimal antioxidant activity and high nutritional value, which can be further developed as antioxidant functional food.

Completely inverted hysteresis loops (IHL) are obtained by the superconducting quantum interference device with large cooling fields (>10 kOe) in (La,Sr)MnO3 films with self-assembled LaSrMnO4, an antiferromagnetic interface. Although the behaviours of measured loops show many features characteristic to the IHL, its origin, however, is not due to the exchange coupling between (La,Sr)MnO3/LaSrMnO4, an often accepted view on IHL. Instead, we demonstrate that the negative remanence arises from the hysteresis of superconducting coils, which drops abruptly when lower cooling fields are utilized. Hence the completely inverted hysteresis loops are experimental artifacts rather than previously proposed inhomogeneity effects in complicated materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

OBJECTIVE: Given that FK506 binding protein 51 (FKBP51) is upregulated in multiple cancers, we designed the present study to characterize its role as well as underlying regulatory mechanisms in glioma in the presence and absence of the chemotherapeutic carmustine (BCNU). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Through lentiviral overexpression and shRNA knockdown of FKBP51, we examined the effects on BT325 glioma cell proliferation, migration and invasion using quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR), CCK-8 assay, flow cytometry, and transwell assay. RESULTS: The upregulation of FKBP51 resulted in significantly decreased BT325 cell proliferation and cell viability, cell cycle arrest, reduced BCNU chemosensitivity and AKT pathway inactivation. However, FKBP51-overexpressed BT325 cells showed enhanced migration and invasion, which was supported by corresponding increase in phosphorylated IKKα (p-IKKα), MMP-2, and MMP-9 levels, as well as increased NF-κB p65 nuclear translocation. By contrast, FKBP51-suppressed BT325 cells showed excessive proliferation and BCNU resistance due to increased p-AKT activation and attenuated migration and invasion. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrated that the effects of FKBP51 on BT325 glioma cell proliferation, migration, invasion and BCNU chemosensitization are modulated via the AKT and NF-κB pathways. Furthermore, our findings suggest the potential of FKBP51 as a prognostic glioma biomarker and an indicator of patient response to chemotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The effects of the growth temperature and thickness of AlN layer on the electroluminescence (EL) performance of n-ZnO/AlN/p-GaN devices have been systematically investigated. It is found that the higher growth temperature of AlN layer (TAlN) may facilitate the improvement of EL performance of the device, which is attributed to that the crystalline quality of AlN layer improves with increasing growth temperatures TAlN. Besides the crystallinity of AlN layer, the thickness of AlN barrier layer plays an important role on the performance of the device. The thinner AlN layer is not enough to cover the whole surface of GaN, while the thicker AlN layer is unfavorable to the tunneling of carriers and many of electrons will be captured and recombined nonradiatively via the deep donors within the thick AlN layer. We have demonstrated that the AlN layer at the growth temperature of 700 °C with an optimized thickness of around 10 nm could effectively confine the injected carriers and suppress the formation of interfacial layer, thus, the EL performance of n-ZnO/AlN/p-GaN device could be significantly improved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The electrical and structural properties of AlN/GaN heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy on sapphire are compared with those of AlGaN/GaN heterostructures. The structural characteristics as assessed by x-ray diffraction show little difference but the electron density in the two-dimensional electron gas is about twice higher for AlN/GaN structures with only slightly lower mobility than in AlGaN/GaN. By proper choice of the Fe doping in GaN(Fe) and the thickness of unintentionally doped GaN layers, the composite buffer of the structure can be made semi-insulating. The current through the AlN/GaN structures is determined by tunneling through the AlN barrier and is much higher than that for AlGaN/GaN films due to the lower thickness of AlN compared to AlGaN. Increasing the thickness of AlN from 3 to 4 nm decreases the leakage current by about an order of magnitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]