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Open AccessClinical effectiveness of posterior-only approach using polyetheretherketone cage combined with single-segment instrumentation for lumbar tuberculosis in children
We sought to investigate the outcomes of posterior-only approach using polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cage combined with single-segment instrumentation (modified-approach) for mono-segment lumbar tuberculosis in ...
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Open AccessA 3,2-Hydroxypyridinone-based Decorporation Agent that Removes Uranium from Bones In Vivo
Searching for actinide decorporation agents with advantages of high decorporation efficiency, minimal biological toxicity, and high oral efficiency is crucial for nuclear safety and the sustainable development...
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Open Access99TcO4− remediation by a cationic polymeric network
Direct removal of 99TcO4− from the highly acidic solution of used nuclear fuel is highly beneficial for the recovery of uranium and plutonium and more importantly aids in the elimination of 99Tc discharge into th...
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Open AccessA mesoporous cationic thorium-organic framework that rapidly traps anionic persistent organic pollutants
Many environmental pollutants inherently exist in their anionic forms and are therefore highly mobile in natural water systems. Cationic framework materials that can capture those pollutants are highly desirab...
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Open AccessIntegrated optical waveguide-based fluorescent immunosensor for fast and sensitive detection of microcystin-LR in lakes: Optimization and Analysis
Nowadays, biosensor technologies which can detect various contaminants in water quickly and cost-effectively are in great demand. Herein, we report an integrated channel waveguide-based fluorescent immunosenso...
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Open AccessOvercoming the crystallization and designability issues in the ultrastable zirconium phosphonate framework system
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) based on zirconium phosphonates exhibit superior chemical stability suitable for applications under harsh conditions. These compounds mostly exist as poorly crystallized precipi...
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Open AccessRare earth separations by selective borate crystallization
Lanthanides possess similar chemical properties rendering their separation from one another a challenge of fundamental chemical and global importance given their incorporation into many advanced technologies. ...
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Open AccessChaoticons described by nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation
It is shown that the unstable evolutions of the Hermite-Gauss-type stationary solutions for the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the exponential-decay response function can evolve into chaotic stat...
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Open AccessA simplified computational memory model from information processing
This paper is intended to propose a computational model for memory from the view of information processing. The model, called simplified memory information retrieval network (SMIRN), is a bi-modular hierarchic...