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Diagnostic value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the activity of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis: a retrospective study
To explore the diagnostic value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the disease activity of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (IRPF).
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Factor analysis of hydrologic services in water-controlled grassland ecosystems by InVEST model and geodetector
Water conservation is highly important for a successful desert grassland ecosystem, but there was no comprehensive view on how to assess influencing factors in managing and addressing water yield and water con...
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A decomposition-based many-objective evolutionary algorithm with weight grou** and adaptive adjustment
Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms based on decomposition (MOEA/D) have attracted tremendous interest and have been thoroughly developed because of their excellent performance in multi/many-objective optim...
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Optimization of Engine Block Casting Process Based on New Aluminum Alloy Material of Al–Si–Cu System
This study conducted molding process research on castings of complex engine blocks with a new Al–Si–Cu aluminum alloy material. Numerical simulation and experimental validation were used to investigate the eff...
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Identification of Hub Genes and Prediction of Targeted Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
There is a potential link between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The aim of this study is to investigate the molecular processes that underlie the development of these two c...
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Follow-up strategy of radiofrequency ablation for papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: defining a response-to-ablation system
To define a response-to-ablation system based on dynamic risk stratification proposed by the 2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines for predicting clinical outcomes and guiding follow-up strategies for p...
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Investigation of Entrainment and its Effect on Flame Stabilization in a Turbulent High Karlovitz Number Premixed Jet Flame using Direct Numerical Simulation
The stabilization of high Karlovitz number (Ka) jet flames is challenging due to the strong mean shear, and the role of entrainment on high Ka flame stabilization is not well understood. In the present work, a...
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Open AccessTwisted-layer boron nitride ceramic with high deformability and strength
Moiré superlattices formed by twisted stacking in van der Waals materials have emerged as a new platform for exploring the physics of strongly correlated materials and other emergent phenomena1–5. However, there ...
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Structural transition and migration of incoherent twin boundary in diamond
Grain boundaries (GBs), with their diversity in both structure and structural transitions, play an essential role in tailoring the properties of polycrystalline materials1–5. As a unique GB subset, {112} incohere...
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Open AccessImmune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer: the increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events and progression of coronary artery calcium
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have contributed to a significant advancement in the treatment of cancer, leading to improved clinical outcomes in many individuals with advanced disease. Both preclinical a...
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Open AccessCancer-associated fibroblast-derived extracellular vesicles promote lymph node metastases in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma by encapsulating ITGB1 and BMI1
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been revealed to facilitate the development of oral squamous cavity cell carcinoma (OCSCC), while its supporting role in lymph node metastases is under continuous investigatio...
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Open AccessValue of high frame rate contrast enhanced ultrasound in gallbladder wall thickening in non-acute setting
Ultrasound (US) has been widely used in screening and differential diagnosis of gallbladder wall thickening (GWT). However, the sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing wall-thickening type gallbladder cance...
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Correction: Comparative efficacy of sequential treatment and open abdomen approaches for corrosive abdominal hemorrhage due to inadequate drainage of duodenal leakage: a cohort study
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A Simultaneous Multi Transmit Beam Pattern Measurement Approach for Full Digital Aperture
Full digital aperture has the advantages of flexible beam number, precise beam pointing angle, and strong anti-interference ability. It outperforms analog phased array aperture in terms of simultaneous multipl...
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A fast nondominated sorting-based MOEA with convergence and diversity adjusted adaptively
In the past few decades, to solve the multi-objective optimization problems, many multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have been proposed. However, MOEAs have a common difficulty: because the divers...
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Application of Multivariate Statistical Techniques and Water Quality Index to Assess Surface Water Quality: A Case Study of Zhaojiaxi River, China
The water quality in Zhaojiaxi River basin (China) was investigated in terms of water quality index (WQI) and multivariate statistical techniques including factor analysis (FA) and cluster analysis (CA). The m...
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Comparative efficacy of sequential treatment and open abdomen approaches for corrosive abdominal hemorrhage due to inadequate drainage of duodenal leakage: a cohort study
Intra-abdominal bleeding resulting from inadequate drainage of duodenal leakage (DL) is typically caused by the corrosiveness of duodenal fluid. Open abdomen (OA) treatment addresses both the drainage and blee...
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Guiding Trojan light beams via Lagrange points
The guided transmission of optical waves is critical for light-based applications in modern communication, information processing and energy generation systems. Traditionally, the guiding of light waves in str...
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Discriminative Noise Robust Sparse Orthogonal Label Regression-Based Domain Adaptation
Domain adaptation (DA) aims to enable a learning model trained from a source domain to generalize well on a target domain, despite the mismatch of data distributions between the two domains. State-of-the-art DA m...
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Dynamic compressive behavior of impact-damaged and water-soaked sandstone with different length-to-diameter ratios
In backfill mining, surrounding rock damaged by impact loading (e.g. blasting) is immersed in backfill water after backfilling, and the instability of the impact-damaged and water-soaked (IDWS) surrounding roc...
