Owing to the critical roles it plays for both structure and functionality, hydrogen bonding has high hopes for the orientated applications in hydrogen‐bonded organic frameworks (HOFs). Here in this ...work, a hydrogen‐bonding strategy is performed for adjusting the structure and functionality of a heme‐like ligand meso‐tetra(carboxy‐phenyl)‐porphyrin (TCPP) with co‐former 1,3‐di(4‐pyridyl) propane (1,3‐DPP). A 3D dynamic HOF TCPP‐1,3–DPP, with permanent porosity is obtained. For this HOF, the two components form novel robust 1D porous stripes, with the 1,3‐DPP molecules acting as the lining for the pores that are confined within the region between adjacent carboxyphenyl moieties of TCPP. This confinement has tuned the affinities of TCPP from hydrophobic into hydrophilic. Interestingly, the 1D stripes are further stacked by weak π…π interactions into a 3D framework, the latter is highly dynamic with 1D stripes sliding back and forth, upon pressurized and water adsorption in the solid‐state under ambient conditions, respectively. The activated TCPP‐1,3–DPP has a Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area of 258 m2 g−1, and shows a maximum adsorption capacity about 9.8% for water during the adsorption–desorption cycles, demonstrating a promising candidate for the real‐world application in effective dehydration of industrial gases under ambient conditions.
A 3D dynamic hydrogen‐bonded organic framework TCPP‐1,3–DPP, which is composed of 1D porous stripes, shows permanent porosity and highly affinity to water. The activated species exhibit a maximum adsorption capacity about 9.8% for water during the adsorption–desorption cycles, demonstrating a promise for the real‐world application in effective dehydration of industrial gas under ambient condition.
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The rapid outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a matter of international concern as the disease is spreading fast 1, 2. Considering that the contagious disease has led to an ...enormous impact globally, there is an urgent need to identify the risk populations with poor prognosis. Ageing is associated with certain changes in pulmonary physiology, pathology and function, during the period of lung infection. Therefore, age-related differences in responsiveness and tolerance become obvious and lead to worse clinical outcomes in elderly individuals 3. Previous studies have mentioned that older COVID-19 patients are at an increased risk of death 4–7. However, the age-related clinical characteristics, disease courses and outcomes other than death in COVID-19 patients remain unclear.
Age significantly determined the clinical features and prognosis of COVID-19. The prognosis was worse in patients older than 60 years, calling for clinicians to pay more attention to patients of this age.
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In this paper, without transforming the quaternion-valued neural networks into two equivalent complex-valued systems or four equivalent real-valued systems, a novel class of fractional-order ...quaternion-valued neural networks with leakage and discrete delays is investigated. To this end, two novel inequalities are established with the aid of properties of quaternion and Caputo fractional derivative. By exploiting Lyapunov method, our established inequalities, fractional-order Razumikhin theorem and some analysis techniques, some criteria ensuring the global asymptotical synchronization and the global Mittag-Leffler synchronization of the considered networks are obtained through designing suitable controllers. Finally, two numerical examples are utilized to show the derived theoretical results.
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An extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event occurred in 2019 boreal autumn, which has induced severe climate impacts around the Indian Ocean basin. In this study, the cause for 2019 IOD event ...and the related mechanism are explored. We find that the remarkable strengthening of Australian high and weakening of sea level pressure over South China Sea/Philippine Sea have been evidently visible since May 2019. Such a record‐breaking interhemispheric pressure gradient (IHPG) induced northward cross‐equatorial flow over the western Maritime Continent, which triggered strong wind‐evaporation‐SST and thermocline feedbacks in 2019. In addition to 2019 case, historical IOD events are highly correlated with IHPG from boreal late spring to summer. We show that skillful IHPG prediction can be made in March by European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts seasonal forecast system, which makes it quite possible for the early warning of extreme IOD events by two to three seasons ahead.
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During 2019 fall, an extreme Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event occurred. In this paper, the possible cause and mechanism of this event are investigated. We find that Australian high was strengthened, and Philippine Sea Anticyclone was weakened since May 2019. This interhemispheric sea level pressure gradient (IHPG) anomaly generates the northward cross equator over the Maritime Continent, which is crucial for the IOD growth. Not only for 2019 IOD, IHPG is a good indicator for almost all the IOD events in history. Since IHPG is predictable in March, the early warning of IOD events and resultant climate disasters could be possible.
Key Points
An extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event occurred in 2019
The interhemispheric sea level pressure gradient (IHPG) across the Maritime Continent is suggested to be the cause of this IOD event
The skillful prediction of IHPG could give rise to the successful IOD prediction by two to three seasons ahead
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How mass is accumulated from cloud-scale down to individual stars is a key open question in understanding high-mass star formation. Here, we present the mass accumulation process in a hub-filament ...cloud G22 that is composed of four supercritical filaments. Velocity gradients detected along three filaments indicate that they are collapsing with a total mass infall rate of about 440 M Myr−1, suggesting the hub mass would be doubled in six free-fall times, adding up to ∼2 Myr. A fraction of the masses in the central clumps C1 and C2 can be accounted for through large-scale filamentary collapse. Ubiquitous blue profiles in HCO+ (3-2) and 13CO (3-2) spectra suggest a clump-scale collapse scenario in the most massive and densest clump C1. The estimated infall velocity and mass infall rate are 0.31 km s−1 and 7.2 × 10−4 M yr−1, respectively. In clump C1, a hot molecular core (SMA1) is revealed by the Submillimeter Array observations and an outflow-driving high-mass protostar is located at the center of SMA1. The mass of the protostar is estimated to be 11-15 M and it is still growing with an accretion rate of 7 × 10−5 M yr−1. The coexistent infall in filaments, clump C1, and the central hot core in G22 suggests that pre-assembled mass reservoirs (i.e., high-mass starless cores) may not be required to form high-mass stars. In the course of high-mass star formation, the central protostar, the core, and the clump can simultaneously grow in mass via core-fed/disk accretion, clump-fed accretion, and filamentary/cloud collapse.
Two-dimensional materials provide extraordinary opportunities for exploring phenomena arising in atomically thin crystals. Beginning with the first isolation of graphene, mechanical exfoliation has ...been a key to provide high-quality two-dimensional materials, but despite improvements it is still limited in yield, lateral size and contamination. Here we introduce a contamination-free, one-step and universal Au-assisted mechanical exfoliation method and demonstrate its effectiveness by isolating 40 types of single-crystalline monolayers, including elemental two-dimensional crystals, metal-dichalcogenides, magnets and superconductors. Most of them are of millimeter-size and high-quality, as shown by transfer-free measurements of electron microscopy, photo spectroscopies and electrical transport. Large suspended two-dimensional crystals and heterojunctions were also prepared with high-yield. Enhanced adhesion between the crystals and the substrates enables such efficient exfoliation, for which we identify a gold-assisted exfoliation method that underpins a universal route for producing large-area monolayers and thus supports studies of fundamental properties and potential application of two-dimensional materials.
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Gut dysbiosis and dysregulation of the gut‐brain‐axis contributes to the pathogenesis of hypertension. Vitamin C (VC) is a common dietary supplement that shows the ability to lower the elevated ...blood pressure in hypertensive animals. Thus, the hypothesis that the gut microbiota is involved in the anti‐hypertensive effect of VC is proposed.
Methods and Results
The changes of the gut microbiota and pathology in a spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) model after daily oral intake of VC in dosage of 200 or 1000 mg kg−1 are examined. After 4 weeks, the elevated blood pressure of SHRs in both VC‐treated groups is attenuated. Sequencing of the gut microbiota shows improvement in its diversity and abundance. Bioinformatic analysis suggests restored metabolism and biosynthesis‐related functions of the gut, which are confirmed by the improvement of gut pathology and integrity. Analysis of the hypothalamus paraventricular nucleus (PVN), the central pivot of blood pressure regulation, also shows reduced inflammatory responses and oxidative stress.
Conclusions
The reduced blood pressure, enriched gut microbiota, improved gut pathology and integrity, and reduced inflammatory responses and oxidative stress in the PVN together suggest that the anti‐hypertensive effects of VC involve reshaping of gut microbiota composition and function.
Daily vitamin C (VC) oral intake for 4 weeks reduces the blood pressure in hypertensive rats. Analysis of their gut microbiota reveals significant improvement in diversity and abundance, which indicates restored metabolism and biosynthesis‐related functions. Pathological analysis of intestine and hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus also shows improvements. In conclusion, VC influences the gut microbiota in achievement of its anti‐hypertensive effects.
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This paper is concerned with complete synchronization for discrete-time fractional-order fuzzy neural networks (DFFNNs) with time-varying delays. First, three original equalities and two Caputo ...σ-difference inequalities are established based on theory of discrete-time fractional Calculus. Next, a novel discrete-time adaptive controller with time-varying delay is designed, by virtue of 1-norm Lyapunov function and newly established lemmas herein as well as inequality techniques and contradiction method, some judgement conditions are derived to guarantee complete synchronization for the explored DFFNNs. Benefitting from discrete-time adaptive control strategy and our analysis method, the conservatism of the derived synchronization criteria is reduced. Ultimately, the effectiveness of our theoretical results and secure communication scheme are demonstrated through two numerical examples.
•We establish three original equalities, which enrich theory of discrete-time fractional Calculus.•Two Caputo σ-difference inequalities are introduced and proved herein. The first one is bc∇σμ(f(t)−ϱ)2⩽2(f(t)−ϱ)bc∇σμf(t), which can be applied to adaptive control-based asymptotic synchronization of nonlinear systems depicted by Caputo σ -difference equations. The second inequality is bc∇σμ|f(t)|⩽sign(f(t))bc∇σμf(t), which plays a central role in building the relationship between 1-norm Lyapunov function and Caputo σ-difference of state variable.•A universal theoretical framework analyzing adaptive control-based complete synchronization for DFNNs is developed for the first time.•Our results are more general, which can be extended to DFNNs without fuzzy logic or DFNNs without delay.•A secure communication scheme for DFFNNTDs is proposed based on complete synchronization method.
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Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease that accumulated excess body fat leads to negative effects on health. Obesity continues to accelerate resulting in an unprecedented epidemic that shows no ...significant signs of slowing down any time soon. Raised body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and musculoskeletal disorders, resulting in dramatic decrease of life quality and expectancy. The main cause of obesity is long-term energy imbalance between consumed calories and expended calories. Here, we explore the biological mechanisms of obesity with the aim of providing actionable treatment strategies to achieve a healthy body weight from nature to nurture. This review summarizes the global trends in obesity with a special focus on the pathogenesis of obesity from genetic factors to epigenetic factors, from social environmental factors to microenvironment factors. Against this background, we discuss several possible intervention strategies to minimize BMI.
The issues of complete synchronization (CS) and finite-time synchronization (F-TS) for a class of fractional-order fuzzy neural networks are addressed based on nonlinear feedback control in this ...paper. First, a fractional-order finite-time convergence principle is established by virtue of fractional calculus basic theory and reduction to absurdity. Next, two novel nonlinear controllers, namely the adaptive nonlinear controller and discontinuous nonlinear controller, are designed. Then some easily validated criteria to guarantee CS and F-TS are derived with the help of some useful analysis techniques and our newly established convergence principle. Moreover, the settling time of F-TS is effectively estimated. Finally, some numerical results are presented to show the validity of derived theoretical results.
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