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Open AccessObservation of Replacement of Carbon in Benzene with Nitrogen in a Low-Temperature Plasma
Selective activation of benzene has been mainly limited to the C-H activation. Simple replacement of one carbon in benzene with another atom remains unresolved due to the high dissociation energy. Herein, we d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Method of Polarity Computation of Chinese Sentiment Words Based on Gaussian Distribution
Internet has become an excellent source for gathering consumer reviews, while opinion of consumer reviews expressed in sentiment words. However, due to the fuzziness of Chinese word itself, the sentiment judgm...
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Open AccessAssociation of dietary pattern and body weight with blood pressure in Jiangsu Province, China
To identify risk factors, associations between dietary patterns, body mass index (BMI), and hypertension in a Chinese population.
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Open AccessVitamin D levels in an Australian population
Levels of vitamin D in the population have come under increasing scrutiny, however there are only a few studies in Australia which measure levels in the general population. The aim of this study was to measure...
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Open AccessTea consumption is inversely related to 5-year blood pressure change among adults in Jiangsu, China: a cross-sectional study
Data relating to the association between tea consumption and blood pressure change are inconsistent. The aim of this analysis was to investigate the association between tea consumption and the change in blood ...
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Open AccessTen-year trends in major lifestyle risk factors using an ongoing population surveillance system in Australia
Understanding how risk factors (tobacco, alcohol, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol) change over time is a critical aim of public health. The associations across th...
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Lipase member H is a novel secreted protein associated with a poor prognosis for breast cancer patients
The objective of this study is to identify the expression status and clinical implications of lipase member H (LIPH) in breast cancer in order to develop strategies for breast cancer management. LIPH expressio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Chinese Text Analysis Based on Minimal Recursion Semantics
Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) is a framework for computational semantics that is suitable for parsing and generation. To represent Chinese texts using MRS, we built a lexicon with the rich semantic knowled...
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Open AccessEffect of social mobility in family financial situation and housing tenure on mental health conditions among South Australian adults: results from a population health surveillance system, 2009 to 2011
To assess the association of socioeconomic position (SEP), measured by family financial situation and housing tenure in childhood and adulthood, with mental health conditions in adulthood.
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Open AccessPrevalence and factors associated with stunting and thinness among adolescent students in Northern Ethiopia: a comparison to World Health Organization standards
Adolescence is last chance for curbing the consequences of malnutrition and breaking the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition and poor health. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and the factors assoc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identifying Suspected Cybermob on Tieba
This paper describes an approach to identify suspected cybermob on social media. Many researches involve making predictions of group emotion on Internet (such as quantifying sentiment polarity), but this paper...
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Open AccessPredictive value of serum testosterone for type 2 diabetes risk assessment in men
Effective prevention of type 2 diabetes (T2D) requires early identification of high-risk individuals who might benefit from intervention. We sought to determine whether low serum testosterone, a novel risk fac...
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Open AccessDietary pattern transitions, and the associations with BMI, waist circumference, weight and hypertension in a 7-year follow-up among the older Chinese population: a longitudinal study
Few studies explored the effects of nutritional changes on body mass index (BMI), weight (Wt), waist circumference (WC) and hypertension, especially for the older Chinese population.
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Association of impaired fasting glucose, diabetes and dietary patterns with mortality: a 10-year follow-up cohort in Eastern China
To examine the association between impaired fasting glucose (IFG)/type 2 diabetes and mortality as well as to explore any interactions with dietary intake patterns in a Chinese population.
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Open AccessAnalysis of Microarray Data on Gene Expression and Methylation to Identify Long Non-coding RNAs in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
To identify what long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), we analyzed microarray data on gene expression and methylation. Gene expression chip and HumanMethylation450B...
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Open AccessThe impact of dietary risk factors on the burden of non-communicable diseases in Ethiopia: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013
The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has increased in sub-Saharan countries, including Ethiopia. The contribution of dietary behaviours to the NCD burden in Ethiopia has not been evaluated. This stud...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Assembling Chinese-Mongolian Speech Corpus via Crowdsourcing
Chinese-Mongolian Speech Corpus (CMSC) is utilized in many practical applications in recent years, and it is a kind of low-resource corpus due to its high-cost construction. We describe a crowdsourcing method...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tibetan Syllable-Based Functional Chunk Boundary Identification
Tibetan syntactic functional chunk parsing is aimed at identifying syntactic constituents of Tibetan sentences. In this paper, based on the Tibetan syntactic functional chunk description system, we propose a m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Utilizing Crowdsourcing for the Construction of Chinese-Mongolian Speech Corpus with Evaluation Mechanism
Crowdsourcing has been used recently as an alternative to traditional costly annotation by many natural language processing groups. In this paper, we explore the use of Wechat Official Account Platform (WOAP) ...
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Prostate cancer outcomes and delays in care
To examine the survival effect of treatment delays from the time of confirmed diagnosis of prostate cancer to first treatment in an Australian population.
