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Open AccessThe association between the workload of emergency physicians and the outcomes of acute myocardial infarction: a population-based study
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the second leading cause of mortality in Taiwan. The correlation between the workload of emergency physicians and the outcome of AMI remains unknown. To determine the effec...
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Open AccessHigh diet quality indices associated with lower risk of lipid profile abnormalities in Taiwanese kidney transplant recipients
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors seem to be linked with deteriorated graft function and persists as the major cause of mortality in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). Diet quality is associa...
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Open Access24-h PCI model does affect the outcome of STEMI patients: a population-based study
Acute myocardial infarction has been the second leading cause of death in Taiwan. It’s a novel issue to evaluate the relationship between the 24-h PCI service model and the outcome of STEMI patients. The objec...
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Open AccessStriatal cholinergic interneuron membrane voltage tracks locomotor rhythms in mice
Rhythmic neural network activity has been broadly linked to behavior. However, it is unclear how membrane potentials of individual neurons track behavioral rhythms, even though many neurons exhibit pace-making...
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Open AccessRisk analysis for patients with arterial thromboembolic events after intravitreal ranibizumab or aflibercept injections
Intravitreal anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) agents have been increasingly applied in the treatment of retinal neovascular diseases. Concerns have arisen that these intravitreal agents may ...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Federated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection
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Open AccessFederated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection
Although machine learning (ML) has shown promise across disciplines, out-of-sample generalizability is concerning. This is currently addressed by sharing multi-site data, but such centralization is challenging...
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Open AccessUsing deep learning to identify maturity and 3D distance in pineapple fields
Pineapples are an important agricultural economic crop in Taiwan. Considerable human resources are required to protect pineapples from excessive solar radiation, which could otherwise lead to overheating and s...
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Open AccessPrenatal antioxidant-enriched and pro-oxidant-contained food, IL4 and IL13 pathway genes, and cord blood IgE
Prenatal oxidative balance might influence cord blood IgE (cIgE) levels. We aimed to explore if certain prenatal dietary sources of antioxidants and pro-oxidants are associated with cIgE elevation and if they ...
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Open AccessChanges in metabolic syndrome affect the health-related quality of life of community-dwelling adults
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, chronic renal diseases, and all-cause mortality. Furthermore, MetS is associated with poor health-related quality of life ...
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Open AccessTumor distribution affects bladder recurrence but not survival outcome of multifocal upper tract urothelial carcinoma treated with radical nephroureterectomy
Tumor multifocality and location are prognostic factors for upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). However, confounding effects can appear when these two factors are analyzed together. Therefore, we aimed to...
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Open AccessHuman ribonuclease 1 serves as a secretory ligand of ephrin A4 receptor and induces breast tumor initiation
Human ribonuclease 1 (hRNase 1) is critical to extracellular RNA clearance and innate immunity to achieve homeostasis and host defense; however, whether it plays a role in cancer remains elusive. Here, we demo...
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Open AccessFibroblast-enriched endoplasmic reticulum protein TXNDC5 promotes pulmonary fibrosis by augmenting TGFβ signaling through TGFBR1 stabilization
Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a major public health problem with limited therapeutic options. There is a clear need to identify novel mediators of PF to develop effective therapeutics. Here we show that an ER pro...
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Open AccessImmunity of nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy to ionizing radiation
Spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) is a promising candidate for next generation memory as it is non-volatile, fast, and has unlimited endurance. Another important aspect of STT-MRAM ...
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Open AccessRisk of Corneal Ulcer in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Large-Scale Cohort Study
This nationwide, retrospective, matched cohort study was designed to investigate the risk of corneal ulcer in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). It included 238,701 patients with DM, recruited between 2003 ...
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Open AccessOutcome of liver cirrhosis patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation
Acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation is a major indicator of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions in cirrhotic patients and is an independent risk factor for ICU mortality. This retrospec...
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Open AccessEnhancing the ENSO Predictability beyond the Spring Barrier
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant interseasonal–interannual variability in the tropical Pacific and substantial efforts have been dedicated to predicting its occurrence and variability becaus...
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Population imaging of neural activity in awake behaving mice
A longstanding goal in neuroscience has been to image membrane voltage across a population of individual neurons in an awake, behaving mammal. Here we describe a genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicat...
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Open AccessA facile ionic-liquid pretreatment method for the examination of archaeological wood by scanning electron microscopy
Wood has been a crucial natural material for human civilization since prehistoric times. In archaeology, the examination of the wood microstructure is important for the study of architecture, musical instrumen...
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Open AccessOpsin gene expression regulated by testosterone level in a sexually dimorphic lizard
Expression of nuptial color is usually energetically costly, and is therefore regarded as an ‘honest signal’ to reflect mate quality. In order to choose a mate with high quality, both sexes may benefit from th...