Jianhui Wang

• Laboratory Assistant at Hebei Medical University

Background Multiple biomarkers have been identified by previous studies to diagnose acute kidney injury (AKI). The combination of biomarkers with conventional criteria to define AKI substages in order to identify high-risk patients and improve diagnostic accuracy was recommended. Our study aimed to explore the incidence of AKI substages defined by...

In this paper, a novel low-rank matrix recovery-based direction of arrival estimation algorithm is proposed for coherent signals with coprime arrays under nonuniform noise conditions. Firstly, we employ array interpolation techniques to transform the coprime array covariance matrix into a virtual uniform linear array covariance matrix. Subsequently...

Acute kidney injury related to cardiac surgery (CS-AKI) is a serious medical issue that creates significant social and economic challenges globally. Inflammatory responses and disruptions in water and salt balance are important contributors to CS-AKI. Earlier studies indicated that pre-surgery levels of NT-proBNP were a dependable indicator of CS-A...

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a significant complication in pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Iron metabolism-related indicators such as ferritin may predict AKI after adult cardiac surgery. However, it remains unclear whether ferritin can be used as a predictor of AKI after pediatric cardiac surgery. This study aims to inve...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is increasingly gaining attention in localization systems due to its flexibility and mobility. However, traditional localization techniques often fail in complex environments where line-of-sight paths are obstructed. To address this challenge, this paper presents an innovative UAV-assisted high-precision mul...

The disturbance of microcracks in three-dimensional elasticity affects the inherent properties and performance of free vibration, and traditional theoretical methods have difficulty obtaining analytical solutions for eigensolutions of free vibration of elasticity containing microcracks, making it challenging to conduct complex dynamic response anal...

BACKGROUND Intra-operative urine output (UO) has been shown to predict postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in adults; however, its significance in children undergoing cardiac surgery remains unknown. OBJECTIVE To explore the association between intra-operative UO and postoperative AKI in children with congenital heart disease. DESIGN A retros...

Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication after pediatric cardiac surgery and is associated with worse outcomes. Ibuprofen is widely used in the perioperative period and can affect kidney function in children. However, the association between ibuprofen exposure and AKI after pediatric cardiac surgery has not been determined yet....

Nowadays, sparse arrays have been a focus for direction‐of‐arrival (DOA). The existing arrays can achieve high degree of freedom (DOF) bigger than the number of sensors when using the spatial smoothing methods. However, the small inter‐element spacing degrades the DOA estimation accuracy when facing severe mutual coupling. In order to alleviate mut...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication after cardiac surgery and associated with adverse outcomes. The purpose of this study is to construct a nomogram to predict the probability of postoperative AKI in pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery. We conducted a single-center retrospective cohort study of 1137 children having cardiac...

Background To derive and validate a machine learning (ML) prediction model of acute kidney injury (AKI) that could be used for AKI surveillance and management to improve clinical outcomes. Methods This retrospective cohort study was conducted in Fuwai Hospital, including patients aged 18 years and above undergoing cardiac surgery admitted between...

Background Efforts to control and monitor transmissible infectious diseases rely on large-scale screening often impaired by logistically difficult or invasive sample collection. The use of saliva as a non-invasive sample type could alleviate bottlenecks encountered in mass testing strategies. Having extensively demonstrated saliva as a sensitive sa...

In this letter, a localization algorithm for mixed‐field sources based on fourth‐order cumulant matrix rank reduction is proposed. First, a cumulant matrix is constructed, and a spectral peak search function associated with the direction‐of‐arrival (DOA) of the sources only is constructed using the rank reduction principle to achieve DOA estimation...

In this article, an effective algorithm is proposed for direction‐of‐arrival (DOA) estimation of coherent signals using the l2‐norm with moving coprime arrays. The proposed algorithm exhibits high accuracy and robustness in decorrelation of coherent signals compared to existing methods. Firstly, the received signal is filtered on the moving coprime...

Background Prevention, screening, and early treatment are the aims of postoperative delirium management. The scoring system is an objective and effective tool to stratify potential delirium risk for patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Methods Patients who underwent cardiac surgery between January 1, 2012, and January 1, 2019, were enrolled in our...

Background Multiple biomarkers have been identified by previous studies to diagnose acute kidney injury (AKI). Moreover, combination of biomarkers with conventional criteria to define AKI substages so that we can identify high-risk patients and improve diagnostic accuracy were recommended. Our study aimed to explore the incidence of AKI substages d...

Introduction Dysmagnesemia has been demonstrated to be involved in the pathophysiology of kidney diseases and is common in cardiac surgical patients. It remains unknown whether changes of serum magnesium after cardiac surgery affect AKI. We aimed to investigate the association of early postoperative magnesium with cardiac surgery-associated AKI in...

Purpose This study sought to explore the effect of intraoperative mean blood glucose levels and variability on postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in children undergoing congenital cardiac surgery. Methods We conducted a prospective nested case-control study in children (age < 18 years) undergoing congenital heart surgery with cardiopulmonary...

Effectively monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2 mutants is essential to efforts to counter the ongoing pandemic. Predicting lineage abundance from wastewater, however, is technically challenging. We show that by sequencing SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater and applying algorithms initially used for transcriptome quantification, we can estimate lineage a...

Background: Aortic stenosis (AS) increases left ventricular afterload, leading to cardiac damage and heart failure (HF). Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is an effective therapy for AS. No inotropic agents including levosimendan have been evaluated in patients undergoing TAVR. Methods: A total of 285 patients underwent TAVR between 201...

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of mixed near‐field (NF) and far‐field (FF) signals is one of the key issues in the study of array signal processing. For more precise localisation performance, sparse arrays have drawn the attention of an increasing number of academics. Excitingly, sparse arrays enable larger array apertures and higher degrees...

Purpose Moderately thick circular cylindrical shells are widely used as supporting structures or storage cavities in structural engineering, rock engineering, and aerospace engineering. In practical engineering, shells often work with micro-cracks or defects. The existence of micro-crack damage may result in the disturbance of dynamic behaviours an...

Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common postoperative complication in pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery and associated with poor outcomes. Dexmedetomidine has the pharmacological features of organ protection in cardiac surgery patients. The aim of this meta-analysis is to investigate the effect of dexmedetomidine infusion on th...

Background: Patients with heart failure who undergo cardiac surgery have increased long-term mortality in which acute kidney injury (AKI) plays a role. However, little is known about whether the incidence of AKI differs according to stratified left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Objectives: To assess the risks of mild AKI and moderate to...

We study the ability of a quantum channel to generate quantum coherence when it applies to incoherent states. We define the measure of coherence generating power (CGP) for a generic quantum channel to be the average coherence generated by the quantum channel acting on a uniform ensemble of incoherent states based on the skew information-based coher...

We study the ability of a quantum channel to generate quantum coherence when it applies to incoherent states. We define the measure of coherence generating power (CGP) for a generic quantum channel to be the average coherence generated by the quantum channel acting on a uniform ensemble of incoherent states based on the skew information-based coher...

SARS-CoV-2 variants shaped the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the discourse around effective control measures. Evaluating the threat posed by a new variant is essential for adapting response efforts when community transmission is detected. In this study, we compare the dynamics of two variants, Alpha and Iota, by integrating genomic surve...

Amomum villosum (AMV), as a 1300-year-old medicine and food homology, has been lack of comprehensive quality evaluation for a long time. This study established the fingerprints of AMV by chromatographic, spectroscopic and thermal technologies and investigated the antioxidant activity to assess holistically the quality of 22 batches of AMV samples....

Reservoirs and dams often play critical roles in economics and politics. They are frequently considered as the primary targets during wartime or in terrorism attacks. In this study, the behaviors of concrete gravity dams subjected to underwater explosions are numerically investigated. Three-dimensional finite element models are developed according...

Introduction COVID-19 has been associated with several adverse pregnancy outcomes, including perinatal loss. Differential effects of COVID-19 in a twin pregnancy may provide unique insights into virus-placental interactions. We present a case of perinatal loss of a female fetus with survival of the male co-twin in a pregnancy complicated by COVID-1...

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic-caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)– has posed a global threat and presented with it a multitude of economic and public-health challenges. Establishing a reliable means of readily available, rapid diagnostic testing is of paramount importance in halting the spre...

For a long time, Donglingcao tablets (DLCT) have been considered as a valuable traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) preparation. The five‐wavelength fusion fingerprints (FWFFP) of 16 batches of DLCT, was established to analyze the fingerprints similarity by the ratio fingerprint quantitative method (RFQM). Furthermore, the electrochemical oscillation...

In this paper, the split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) equipment was adopted to investigate the dynamic compressive mechanical properties of C40 concrete under various loading speeds after freeze–thaw cycles. The range of freeze–thaw times was 0 to 125 times. The range of loading speed was 4 to 10 m/s, and the tested peak strain rate ranged from 39...

Background Hospital-acquired infection (HAI) after cardiac surgery is a common clinical concern associated with adverse prognosis and mortality. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of HAI and its associated risk factors in elderly patients following cardiac surgery and to build a nomogram as a predictive model. Methods We de...

Importance Early treatment of mild SARS-CoV-2 infection might lower the risk of clinical deterioration in COVID-19. Objective To determine whether oral camostat mesylate would reduce upper respiratory SARS-CoV-2 viral load in newly diagnosed outpatients with mild COVID-19, and would lead to improvement in COVID-19 symptoms. Design From June, 2020...

The proliferation of renewable energy (RE) brings tremendous challenges to integrated energy systems (IESs). Converting RE into hydrogen, one of the cleanest energy carriers, provides an appealing alternative for decarbonized IESs. Among the various hydrogen applications, blending hydrogen into natural gas systems is already applicable. However, th...

Significance We discovered that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) expresses a small viral noncoding RNA, named CoV2-miR-O7a (for SARS-CoV-2 miRNA-like ORF7a-derived small RNA). CoV2-miR-O7a associates with the cellular RNA interference machinery and has the potential to regulate host transcripts, likely via target slicing...

Purpose This study presents a novel hp-version adaptive finite element method (FEM) to investigate the high-precision eigensolutions of the free vibration of moderately thick circular cylindrical shells, involving the issues of variable geometrical factors, such as the thickness, circumferential wave number, radius and length. Design/methodology/a...

Background: Evidence for peritoneal dialysis catheter (PDC) usage in pediatric patients undergoing surgery for deteriorating cardiac dysfunction is lacking. This investigation explored factors associated with PDC usage and its effectiveness in children with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA). Methods:...

The prototype test of underwater explosion is restricted by many factors，such as site environment，etc. Centrifuge test of scale model provides a new idea of studying the damage of structures due to underwater explosion. In centrifuge test of scale model，the model is scaled by multiplying the acceleration with a certain magnification factor，and at t...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), continues to be a pressing health concern. In this study, we investigated the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on host microRNA (miRNA) populations in three human lung-derived cell lines, as well as in nasopharyngeal swabs from SARS-Co...

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common after cardiac surgery and is difficult to predict. N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is highly predictive for perioperative cardiovascular complications and may also predict renal injury. We therefore tested the hypothesis that preoperative NT-proBNP concentration is associated wi...

Distribution network reconfiguration is an effective method to face the problem of power fluctuation in a power system. Previous studies have focused on mathematical optimization techniques with complex modeling processes and heuristic algorithms with time-consuming solving processes to obtain the optimal reconfiguration strategy. In this paper, a...

Shock wave and bubble pulsation caused by underwater explosion destroy the hydraulic structure. However, the realization of the underwater explosion prototype test is restricted by many factors, such as the site environment. Furthermore, the repeatability of the test scheme is not strong. The centrifuge scale test provides a new way of studying the...

Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants have shaped the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the public health discourse around effective control measures. Evaluating the public health threat posed by a new variant is essential for appropriately adapting response efforts when community transmission is detected. However, this assessment requires that a tru...

A local FE mesh refinement method for modal disturbance analysis of cylindrical shells with multiple circumferential cracks

With the emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants that may increase transmissibility and/or cause escape from immune responses, there is an urgent need for the targeted surveillance of circulating lineages. It was found that the B.1.1.7 (also 501Y.V1) variant, first detected in the United Kingdom, could be...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread rapidly worldwide. Given that this contagious viral outbreak is still unfolding, it is urgent to understand the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection and explore effective treatments to protect patients from developing a severe illn...

The emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7, first detected in the United Kingdom, has become a global public health concern because of its increased transmissibility. Over 2500 COVID-19 cases associated with this variant have been detected in the US since December 2020, but the extent of establishment is relatively unknown. Using travel...

Emergency control, typically such as under-voltage load shedding (UVLS), is broadly used to grapple with low voltage and voltage instability issues in practical power systems under contingencies. However, existing emergency control schemes are rule-based and cannot be adaptively applied to uncertain and floating operating conditions. This paper pro...

The emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7, first detected in the United Kingdom, has become a national public health concern in the United States because of its increased transmissibility. Over 500 COVID-19 cases associated with this variant have been detected since December 2020, but its local establishment and pathways of spread are...

With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants that may increase transmissibility and/or cause escape from immune responses1-3, there is an urgent need for the targeted surveillance of circulating lineages. It was found that the B.1.1.7 (also 501Y.V1) variant first detected in the UK4,5 could be serendipitously detected by the ThermoFisher TaqPath COVID...

In this study, we explored the quality consistent evaluation method of Yankening Tablets (YKNT) from different manufacturers by using multiple fingerprint profiles, including dual-wavelength ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) serial fingerprint and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) fingerprint, combined with quantitat...

Robot grasping has become a very hot research field so that the requirements for robot operation are getting higher and higher. In previous research studies, the use of traditional target detection algorithms for grasping is often very inefficient, and this article is dedicated to improving the deep reinforcement learning algorithm to improve the g...

Yankening Tablet (YKNT) is an anti-inflammatory Chinese medicine, which has the effect of heat-clearing and purging pathogenic fire. In this paper, a novel method for quality consistency evaluation of YKNT by multi-wavelength fusion profiling combined with multi-component quantification, overall components dissolution method and antioxidant activit...

Background Prevention, screening, and early treatment are the mainstays of postoperative delirium management. Score system is an objective and effective tool to stratify potential delirium risk for patients undergoing cardiac surgery Methods Patients undergoing cardiac surgery from January 1, 2012, to January 1, 2019, were enrolled in our retrospe...

Research on artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced significantly in recent years. A variety of AI algorithms have shown great promise in a large number of applications for power system operation and control. This article examines the potential of applying AI in microgrids (MGs). Specifically, as MGs commonly employ onsite generation including an...

A reasonable node selection criterion (NSC) is crucial for the network reduction in power systems. In contrast to the previous works that only consider structure property, this paper proposes a comprehensive and quantitative NSC considering both structural and electrical properties. The proposed NSC is developed by employing the evidential reasonin...

Background Scaling SARS-CoV-2 testing to meet demands of safe reopenings continues to be plagued by assay costs and supply chain shortages. In response, we developed SalivaDirect, which received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. FDA. Methods We simplified our saliva-based diagnostic test by (1) not requiring collection tubes with pre...

Current bottlenecks for improving accessibility and scalability of SARS-CoV-2 testing include diagnostic assay costs, complexity, and supply chain shortages. To resolve these issues, we developed SalivaDirect. The critical component of our approach is to use saliva instead of respiratory swabs, which enables non-invasive frequent sampling and reduc...

Distributed energy resources (DERs) bring about challenges related to the participation of an increasing number of prosumers with strong social attributes in peer-to-peer (P2P) energy sharing markets, resulting in the increased complexity of socio-technical systems. Previous research has focused on energy sharing analysis based on rational games wi...

Recently, programing by demonstration (PbD) becomes a white-hot research area with increasing demands in the robot manipulation area, especially in industrial applications. However, the key challenges of PbD, to date, has been the recognition of demonstrator's fine hand motions and the uncertainty of manipulation environments, which limit the effic...

Uncertainty relation is a core issue in quantum mechanics and quantum information theory. We introduce modified generalized Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (MGWYD) skew information and modified weighted generalizedWigner-Yanase-Dyson (MWGWYD) skew information, and establish new uncertainty relations in terms of the MGWYD skew information and MWGWYD skew inform...

Uncertainty relation is a core issue in quantum mechanics and quantum information theory. We introduce modified generalized Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (MGWYD) skew information and modified weighted generalized Wigner-Yanase-Dyson (MWGWYD) skew information, and establish new uncertainty relations in terms of the MGWYD skew information and MWGWYD skew infor...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy sharing in the distribution networks (DN) is an emerging issue with the large-scale development of photo-voltaic (PV) prosumers. The DN can be classified into energy shared regions (ESR) to enable the zonal energy trading. A Stackelberg game-based energy sharing framework is recommended for DN with multi-ESR, where the ene...

Because of the mesh-less nature of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, it has been widely used to simulate surface erosion by impact(s) of angular particles. However, previous SPH models usually adopted uniform resolution for the whole computing domain, which is not conductive to achieve a balance between computational efficiency and...

Objectives: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a prevalent complication after the surgical repair of paediatric cardiac defects and is associated with poor outcomes. Insufficient renal perfusion secondary to severe myocardial dysfunction in neonates is most likely an independent risk factor in patients undergoing repair for anomalous origin of the left...

Objective: To investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and clinical outcomes associated with early fluid overload (FO) in a special group of pediatric patients undergoing repair of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA). Design: It was a retrospective study performed with multiple variable regression ana...

The excessive consumption of coal and petroleum products not only causes potential shortage of energy resources in the foreseeable future, but also creates various negative impacts on the environment, causing growing concerns on reducing the dependency on fossil fuels and diversifying the energy supply. Transportation and electricity production act...

Heating and electricity are two major forms of energy demands in urban areas. Combined heat and power production shows clear benefits due to the enhanced usage of waste heat. More importantly, thermal demands can also serve as flexible loads that foster energy storage in form of heat, and therefore facilitate integration of renewable energies. In t...

During the past decades, the environmental policy, public awareness of sustainable development, as well as technology breakthroughs in shale gas production have led to the upsurge of natural gas usage in electricity industry. The growing reliance of natural gas in electricity generation has brought the increasing level of interdependence between tw...

During the past decades, the advantages of renewable generation as clean and low-cost energy resources have inspired the dramatic integration of wind and solar energy into power systems. Unlike conventional units whose generation capacity is constant, the maximum output of wind turbines and PV panels is affected by the wind speed and solar irradian...

With the development of robotics technology, new human-robot interaction technology has gradually received more and more attention. Bioelectric-based gesture recognition, which is to be studied in this article, has become a frontier subject of new human-robot interaction because of its natural and intuitive information representation function and i...

Discussions about the future decentralized electricity market include concepts such as transactive energy, energy hub, transmission & distribution coordination, and distributional market pricing. As the advent of the smart grid approaches, the design of a realizable market paradigm that can integrate the wholesale market with the retail market and...

This paper proposes an optimal design algorithm for distributed secondary voltage control in islanded microgrids (MGs), including communication topology and controller gains. First, upon the consensus-based secondary voltage control, the sufficient condition for network connectivity of communication topology is revealed by the reachability matrix....

Objectives: Our aim was to retrospectively evaluate the benefit of levosimendan in certain complicated congenital heart procedures such as the pediatric anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) with moderate or severe cardiac dysfunction and its repair. Study Design: We enrolled 40 pediatric patients with ALCA...

An increased number of microgrids (MGs) will exist in future active distribution systems (ADSs); however, these MGs belong to multiple operators and cannot simply be controlled as a public grid in the electricity market environment. For multimicrogrids (MMGs) which have multiple coexisting beneficiaries, it will be unfeasible to realize a cooperati...

The existing localization algorithms for coherently distributed (CD) sources fail to achieve the best localization performance because of position information loss and error accumulation. To solve this problem, this study proposed a novel direct position determination (DPD) algorithm that profits from the characteristics of noncircular signals. Bas...

A generalized hierarchical structure is proposed for inverter-interfaced distributed generation (DG) in a microgrid (MG) that enables both grid-connected and islanding modes with no need of forced switching between district controllers. The proposed control scheme consists of a fixed voltage reference generation algorithm and a modified voltage-cur...

The localization of a stationary transmitter using moving receivers is considered. The original Direct Position Determination (DPD) methods, with combined Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and Frequency Difference of Arrival (FDOA), do not perform well under low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), and worse still, the computation cost is difficult to acce...

Compared with conventional two-step localization algorithms which are implemented by initially estimating localization parameters and then calculating the target position, the performance of direct position determination (DPD) algorithm is superior in terms of high estimation accuracy and strong resolution capability. DPD algorithms can make full u...

In multipath environment, the computation complexity of single snapshot maximum likelihood for time delay estimation is huge. In particular, the computational complexity of grid search method increases exponentially with the increase of dimension. For this reason, this paper presents a maximum likelihood estimation algorithm based on Monte Carlo im...

The Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) error is the key issue for mobile user location in cellular wireless communication system. In this paper, we propose a robust and accurate approach using biased Kalman filter based on third-order cumulant to mitigate the NLOS error. The simulation results indicate that with less prior information about communication env...

The tension between unitarity and wave-packet collapse is an annoying problem in quantum mechanics, while a breakthrough was made by Zurek recently from the point of view of information transfer. In this paper, we reconsider Zurek's derivation in the setting of generalized probabilistic theories (GPT), and establish that actionable information abou...

For weak global positioning system signal, long coherent integration can improve the acquisition performance effectively, but the unknown data bits restrict the coherent integration interval within a data bit. Data bits estimation can extend coherent integration interval over multiple data bits with more Doppler frequency search bins. To lighten th...

In this paper, the tracking threshold of a kind of FLL based on kalman filter related to integral time are discussed. The analyse and simulation result indicates that integral time can not be too long for the sake of reducing the tracking threshold. Shorter integral time can produce wider pulling in frequency range when entering tracking state from...

The study suggests a new non-line of sight (NLOS) error mitigation algorithm based on Kalman filter and neural network. According to the construction features of the former and the statistic characteristics of the latter, the study theoretically deduces the condition to obtain the unbiased estimation of the true value of TOA, and then the study fix...

In high dynamic and weak GNSS signal environments, long coherent integration is necessary to enhance the acquisition sensitivity. High dynamic results in large Doppler frequency range, and long integration time results in small Doppler frequency bin. The above two reasons induce high calculation complexity. To improve the flexibility of acquisition...

Voltage step-stress tests on GaN-on-SiC HEMT showed that electric field is a driving factor for degradation. The position of localized damage is corresponding to the high electric field region. A degradation mode different from previous reports is observed, which led to an increase of drain current after stress in certain conditions. We attribute t...