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Open AccessA clinical and biomechanical comparison of INFIX plus single versus double sacroiliac screw fixation for unstable pelvic ring injury
The aim of this study is to compare the clinical and biomechanical outcome of INFIX plus single with two sacroiliac screw fixation for unstable pelvic fractures of Type C.
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Open AccessA myxozoan genome reveals mosaic evolution in a parasitic cnidarian
Parasite evolution has been conceptualized as a process of genetic loss and simplification. Contrary to this model, there is evidence of expansion and conservation of gene families related to essential functio...
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Open AccessCombination therapy for pancreatic cancer: anti-PD-(L)1-based strategy
Mortality associated with pancreatic cancer is among the highest of all malignancies, with a 5-year overall survival of 5–10%. Immunotherapy, represented by the blocking antibodies against programmed cell deat...
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Open AccessNEK2 inhibition triggers anti-pancreatic cancer immunity by targeting PD-L1
Despite the substantial impact of post-translational modifications on programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1), its importance in therapeutic resistance in pancreatic cancer remains poorly defined. Here, we de...
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Open AccessRegulator of calcineurin 1 gene isoform 4 in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma regulates the progression of tumor cells
Therapeutic strategies to treat pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remain unsatisfying and limited. Therefore, it is imperative to fully determine the mechanisms underlying PDAC progression. In the presen...
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Comprehensive evaluation and prediction of tourism ecological security in droughty area national parks—a case study of Qilian Mountain of Zhangye section, China
Tourism activities have brought overexploitation of natural ecotourism resources and ecological pressure challenge though it exactly contributes to the economic prosperity of a region. Research on tourism ecol...
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Open AccessA preoperative nomogram predicts prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation: a multicenter retrospective study
Although criteria for liver transplantation, such as the Milan criteria and Hangzhou experiences, have become popular, criteria to guide adjuvant therapy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after liver ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy for Non-invasive Detection of Microbial Growth
This paper reports the use of tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) to measure the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the culture vials. The accumulated CO2 concentration in the headspace is linked with the gr...
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An Off-line Handwritten Numeral Recognition Method
Off-line handwritten numeral recognition is a pattern recognition problem of the images of ten numbers. To improve the recognition efficiency, the number’s image’s character dimension should be decreased. In o...
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Under-ice ambient noise in the Arctic Ocean: observations at the long-term ice station
Under-ice ambient noise in the Arctic Ocean is studied using the data recorded by autonomous hydrophones at the long-term ice station during the 9th Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition. Time-frequency ...
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Open AccessThe AKT-independent MET–V-ATPase–MTOR axis suppresses liver cancer vaccination
Despite recent progress in hepatitis treatment, there have been no significant advances in the development of liver cancer vaccines in recent years. In this study, we investigated the regulatory effect and pot...
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A low failure rate quantum algorithm for searching maximum or minimum
Although Durr and Hoyer have proposed state-of-the-art quantum algorithm (DHA) for searching minimum value, the lower limit of DHA’s successful probability is 1/2 . Also, DHA requires approximately ...
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Impact of Urban 3D Morphology on Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) Concentrations: Case Study of Bei**g, China
Urban particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) pollution and public health are closely related, and concerns regarding PM2.5 are widespread. Of the underlying factors, the urban morphology is the most manageable. Therefore...
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Multi-scale Dense Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery Based on Keypoints
Object detection is a popular topic of computer vision and has attracted increasing attention in the field of remote sensing. However, object detection in remote sensing imagery is a very challenging task. Man...
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Machine Learning Assisted Optical Network Resource Scheduling in Data Center Networks
Parallel computing allows us to process incredible amounts of data in a timely manner by distributing the workload across multiple nodes and executing computation simultaneously. However, the performance of t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on Attention Capacity Measurement for Drivers’ Visual Space Information
In this paper, drivers’ visual space attention capacity was researched, and a way of measuring this attention capacity by driving simulation experiments has been proposed. Firstly, based on static and dynamic ...
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Open AccessClassification, Synthesis, and Application of Luminescent Silica Nanoparticles: a Review
Luminescent materials are of worldwide interest because of their unique optical properties. Silica, which is transparent to light, is an ideal matrix for luminescent materials. Luminescent silica nanoparticles...
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Transcriptomic changes in Nicotiana tabacum leaves during mosaic virus infection
To provide a detailed insight into the early biological process of tobacco mosaic disease, transcriptomic changes in tobacco leaves were surveyed at 1, 3 and 5 days after mono-infected by Tobacco mosaic virus (TM...
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Description of Myxobolus xiantaoensis n. sp. from the fins of yellow catfish in China: a species previously attributed to Myxobolus physophilus Reuss, 1906 in Chinese records
Myxozoans are economically important cnidarian endoparasites. Members of this group have been traditionally characterized by a morphology-based taxonomic system. Because myxozoans possess few morphological cha...
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Open AccessMorphological plasticity in Myxobolus Bütschli, 1882: a taxonomic dilemma case and renaming of a parasite species of the common carp
Myxozoans are a group of cnidarian parasites, the present taxonomy of which favors a more comprehensive characterization strategy combining spore morphology, biological traits (host/organ specificity, tissue t...
