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Open AccessDinitrogen emissions: an overlooked key component of the N balance of montane grasslands
While emissions of nitric oxide (NO), ammonia (NH3) and nitrous oxide (N2O) from grassland soils have been increasingly well constrained, soil dinitrogen (N2) emissions are poorly understood. However, N2 losses m...
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Evaluation of Serum Paired MicroRNA Ratios for Differential Diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Benign Pulmonary Diseases
To clarify whether there are different expressions between lung cancer and benign pulmonary diseases, we studied seven microRNAs (miRNAs) in serum from patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), benign ...
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Phase III study of dulanermin (recombinant human tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand/Apo2 ligand) combined with vinorelbine and cisplatin in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer
Background Dulanermin is a recombinant soluble human Apo2 ligand/tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) that activates apoptotic pathways by binding to proapoptotic death...
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Open AccessAsynchronous pulse responses of soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization to rewetting events at a short-term: Regulation by microbes
Rewetting after precipitation events plays an important role in regulating soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) turnover processes in arid and semiarid ecosystems. Here, we conducted a 48-h rewetting simulation ex...
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Behavior of chlorpyrifos and its major metabolite TCP (3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol) in agricultural soils amended with drinking water treatment residuals
Chlorpyrifos can be effectively adsorbed by drinking water treatment residuals (WTR), ubiquitous and non-hazardous by-products of potable water production. The major metabolite 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCP...
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Open AccessApplicability of drinking water treatment residue for lake restoration in relation to metal/metalloid risk assessment
Drinking water treatment residue (DWTR), a byproduct generated during potable water production, exhibits a high potential for recycling to control eutrophication. However, this beneficial recycling is hampered...
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Multi-view transition HMMs based view-invariant human action recognition method
View-invariant human action recognition is a challenging research topic in computer vision. Hidden Markov Models(HMM) and their extensions have been widely used for view-invariant action recognition. However t...
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Identification of serum miRNAs by nano-quantum dots microarray as diagnostic biomarkers for early detection of non-small cell lung cancer
Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) are potential noninvasive biomarkers for cancer detection. We used preoperative serum samples from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients and healthy controls to investigate...
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Risk factors for pulmonary embolism in patients preliminarily diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective cohort study
D-dimer levels are increased in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). However, D-dimer levels are also increased in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The aim of this prospective cohort s...
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Open AccessRETRACTED ARTICLE: Overexpression of miR-499-5p inhibits non-small cell lung cancer proliferation and metastasis by targeting VAV3
Dysregulation of miRNAs is reported to be involved in the invasion and metastasis of lung cancer. Previous studies showed that low serum miR-499 expression was associated with advanced TNM stage and poor progn...
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Effects of sediment dredging on nitrogen cycling in Lake Taihu, China: Insight from mass balance based on a 2-year field study
Sediment dredging can permanently remove pollutants from an aquatic ecosystem, which is considered an effective approach to aquatic ecosystem restoration. In this work, a 2-year field simulation test was carri...
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Variation of physicochemical properties of drinking water treatment residuals and Phoslock® induced by fulvic acid adsorption: Implication for lake restoration
The use of phosphorus (P) inactivating agents to reduce internal P loading from sediment for lake restoration has attracted increasing attention. Reasonably, the physicochemical properties of P inactivating ag...
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Role of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms in pancreatic cancer: a case–control study in China
The study was conducted to investigate the relationship between vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene rs2228570 and rs1544410 polymorphisms and pancreatic cancer (PC). Two hundred fifty-eight PC patients and 385 healt...
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells Alleviate Experimental Asthma by Inducing Polarization of Alveolar Macrophages
The reparative and immunoregulatory properties of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have made them attractive candidates for cellular therapy. However, the underlying mechanism of the effects of transplanted MS...
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A Simple Human Interaction Recognition Based on Global GIST Feature Model
The precision of human interaction recognition mainly relies on the discrimination of action feature descriptors. The descriptors contained global and local information usually can be applied to classify inter...
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Effect of operating conditions on wax deposition in a laboratory flow loop characterized with DSC technique
In this paper, an experimental study about the influence of operating conditions in a laboratory flow loop on wax deposition phenomena by using DSC technique is presented. The operating conditions studied were...
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Comparison of metals extractability from Al/Fe-based drinking water treatment residuals
Recycling of drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) as environment amendments has attracted substantial interest due to their productive reuse concomitant with waste minimization. In the present study, the ...
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Open AccessForest type affects the coupled relationships of soil C and N mineralization in the temperate forests of northern China
Decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) is sensitive to vegetation and climate change. Here, we investigated the influence of changes in forest types on the mineralization of soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N...
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Open AccessPreparation of a nano emodin transfersome and study on its anti-obesity mechanism in adipose tissue of diet-induced obese rats
To describe the preparation of nano emodin transfersome (NET) and investigate its effect on mRNA expression of adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) and G0/G1 switch gene 2 (G0S2) in adipose tissue of diet-induce...
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Effects of light, microbial activity, and sediment resuspension on the phosphorus immobilization capability of drinking water treatment residuals in lake sediment
Drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs), nonhazardous by-products generated in a drinking water treatment plant, can be reused to immobilize phosphorus (P) to control the internal P loading from lake sedimen...
