Free-standing silicene, a silicon analogue of graphene, has a buckled honeycomb lattice 1
and, because of its Dirac bandstructure 2, 3 combined with its sensitive surface, offers the …

Hydrogen production through water electrolysis is of considerable interest for converting the
intermittent electricity generated by renewable energy sources into storable chemical energy…

Background/objectives To evaluate the prevalence of malnutrition and its related factors in
elderly patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Subjects/methods In a cross-sectional study, …

Background: Primary liver cancer, of which around 75–85% is hepatocellular carcinoma in
China, is the fourth most common malignancy and the second leading cause of tumor-related …

Communication data rate and energy constraints are important factors which have to be
considered when investigating distributed coordination of multi-agent networks. Although many …

The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index has been identified as a reliable alternative biomarker
of insulin resistance (IR). Recently, a considerable number of studies have provided robust …

Wheat, rice, maize, and soybean provide two-thirds of human caloric intake. Assessing the
impact of global temperature increase on production of these crops is therefore critical to …

Polygenic risk scores have shown great promise in predicting complex disease risk and will
become more accurate as training sample sizes increase. The standard approach for …

We present several new variations on the theme of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF).
Considering factorizations of the form X = FG T , we focus on algorithms in which G is …

We have produced a draft sequence of the rice genome for the most widely cultivated
subspecies in China, Oryza sativa L. ssp.indica, by whole-genome shotgun sequencing. The …