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Open AccessAchieving NPVR ≥ 80% as technical success of high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation for uterine fibroids: a cohort study
To report the long-term re-intervention of patients with uterine fibroids after ultrasound-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (USgHIFU) ablation and to analyse the influencing factors of re-intervention ...
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Self-training improves few-shot learning in legal artificial intelligence tasks
As the labeling costs in legal artificial intelligence tasks are expensive. Therefore, it becomes a challenge to utilize low cost to train a robust model. In this paper, we propose a LAIAugment approach, which...
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Open AccessDelayed gastric emptying after laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy: a single-center experience of 827 cases
Delayed gastric emptying (DGE) commonly occurs after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). Risk factors for DGE have been reported in open PD but are rarely reported in laparoscopic PD (LPD). This study was designed t...
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Open AccessMolecular weight control of poly-γ-glutamic acid reveals novel insights into extracellular polymeric substance synthesis in Bacillus licheniformis
The structural diversity of extracellular polymeric substances produced by microorganisms is attracting particular attention. Poly-gamma-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is a widely studied extracellular polymeric substa...
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Sixth-order quasi-compact difference scheme for the time-dependent diffusion equation
This paper focuses on develo** a numerical method with high-order accuracy for solving the time-dependent diffusion equation. We discrete time first, which results in a modified Helmholtz equation at each ti...
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Non-invasive imaging for predicting labial salivary gland biopsy outcomes in patients with suspected primary Sjögren syndrome
To identify the value of salivary gland ultrasound (SGUS) combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance sialography (MRS) in predicting the results of labial salivary gland biopsy (LSGB...
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Multiscale hydrodynamics in thrust bearing involving surface roughness
When the surface roughness is comparable to the surface separation in a hydrodynamic thrust bearing, the effect of the surface roughness should be considered. In the condition of low bearing clearances such as...
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Open AccessAsymmetric impact of climatic parameters on hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Shandong using a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) poses a major threat in Shandong. This study aimed to investigate the long- and short-term asymmetric effects of meteorological factors on HFRS and establish an ear...
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Ubiquitin specific peptidase 38 epigenetically regulates KLF transcription factor 5 to augment malignant progression of lung adenocarcinoma
Protein ubiquitination is a common post-translational modification and a critical mechanism for regulating protein stability. This study aimed to explore the role and potential molecular mechanism of ubiquitin...
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Open AccessSelf-Enhanced Attention for Image Captioning
Image captioning, which involves automatically generating textual descriptions based on the content of images, has garnered increasing attention from researchers. Recently, Transformers have emerged as the pre...
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Entity alignment based on informative neighbor sampling and multi-embedding graph matching
Entity alignment is an important and necessary step in the process of knowledge fusion, which aims to match entities with the same meaning in different knowledge graphs. In this paper, we propose a novel entit...
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Size-dependent thermal-electro-mechanical behaviors of a piezo-flexoelectric micro-beam based on nonlocal strain gradient theory and dual-phase-lagging heat model
With the rapid development and applications of micro/nano electromechanical systems in engineering fields, piezoelectric materials have been widely used in these systems due to their excellent physical and mec...
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Open AccessA lineage-resolved cartography of microRNA promoter activity in C. elegans empowers multidimensional developmental analysis
Elucidating the expression of microRNAs in develo** single cells is critical for functional discovery. Here, we construct scCAMERA (single-cell cartography of microRNA expression based on reporter assay), ut...
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Open AccessOncogenic circ-SLC16A1 promotes progression of non-small cell lung cancer via regulation of the miR-1287-5p/profilin 2 axis
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are single-stranded RNAs with covalently closed structures that have been implicated in cancer progression. However, the regulatory mechanisms remain largely unclear. So, the aim of th...
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Stress Field Evolution of Antifriction Wear-Resistant Sealing Coatings on GH4169 Superalloy Substrate under Thermal Shock
Finger sealing has potential application prospects in aerospace engines and gas turbines. An antifriction wear-resistant sealing coating (AWSC) is used on the rotor seal track to improve the service life of a ...
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Open AccessFirst-line camrelizumab (a PD-1 inhibitor) plus apatinib (an VEGFR-2 inhibitor) and chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer (SPACE): a phase 1 study
Patients with advanced gastric cancer typically face a grim prognosis. This phase 1a (dose escalation) and phase 1b (dose expansion) study investigated safety and efficacy of first-line camrelizumab plus apati...
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Open AccessThe development of a prediction model based on deep learning for prognosis prediction of gastrointestinal stromal tumor: a SEER-based study
Accurately predicting the prognosis of Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) patients is an important task. The goal of this study was to create and assess models for GIST patients' survival patients using the...
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Open AccessMacrophage-derived exosomal HMGB3 regulates silica-induced pulmonary inflammation by promoting M1 macrophage polarization and recruitment
Chronic inflammation and fibrosis are characteristics of silicosis, and the inflammatory mediators involved in silicosis have not been fully elucidated. Recently, macrophage-derived exosomes have been reported...
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Correction to: Digital economy, industrial structure upgrading and green innovation efficiency of family enterprises
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Stabilizing semi-transparent perovskite solar cells with a polymer composite hole transport layer
Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells (ST-PSCs) have broad applications in building integrated photovoltaics. However, the stability of ST-PSCs needs to be improved, especially in n-i-p ST-PSCs since the dop...
