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Response to Comment on: Treatment patterns of ranibizumab intravitreal injection and dexamethasone intravitreal implant for retinal vein occlusion in the USA
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Open AccessTreatment patterns of ranibizumab intravitreal injection and dexamethasone intravitreal implant for retinal vein occlusion in the USA
Ranibizumab, an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor, and dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, have been shown to be effective in treating macular oedema secondary to retinal vein occlusion (RVO) (central RVO (...
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Effect of sustained PDGF nonviral gene delivery on repair of tooth-supporting bone defects
Recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor-BB (rhPDGF-BB) promotes soft tissue and bone healing, and is Food and Drug Administration-approved for treatment of diabetic ulcers and periodontal defects. The...
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Open AccessEvaluation of α-Amylase Activity and Falling Number around Maturity for Soft White and Soft Red Wheat Varieties in Michigan
White wheat is, categorically, more susceptible to pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) than red wheat. Physiological maturity (PM), defined as when the seeds reach their maximum dry weight, is a critical time before h...
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The Jatropha curcas KASIII gene alters fatty acid composition of seeds in Arabidopsis thaliana
Jatropha curcas L. is a perennial, drought-resistant, and non-food oilseed crop. The fatty acid composition of seed oil, especially the ratio of 16- to 18-carbon fatty acids, has ...
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SYK interaction with ITGβ4 suppressed by Epstein-Barr virus LMP2A modulates migration and invasion of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-encoded Latent Membrane Protein 2A (LMP2A) is an EBV latency-associated protein regularly expressed in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). In B cells, LMP2A activity resembles that of a co...
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Chicken domestication: an updated perspective based on mitochondrial genomes
Domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) fulfill various roles ranging from food and entertainment to religion and ornamentation. To survey its genetic diversity and trace the history of domestication, we inv...
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Odyssey: a solar system mission
The Solar System Odyssey mission uses modern-day high-precision experimental techniques to test the laws of fundamental physics which determine dynamics in the solar system. It could lead to major discoveries ...
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Matter wave explorer of gravity (MWXG)
In response to ESA’s Call for proposals of 5 March 2007 of the COSMIC VISION 2015–2025 plan of the ESA science programme, we propose a M-class satellite mission to test of the Equivalence Principle in the quantum...
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Prestin up-regulation in chronic salicylate (aspirin) administration: An implication of functional dependence of prestin expression
Salicylate (aspirin) can reversibly eliminate outer hair cell (OHC) electromotility to induce hearing loss. Prestin is the OHC electromotility motor protein. Here we report that, consistence with increase in d...
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Stability and magnetism of vacancy in NiO: A GGA+U study
Native vacancy defects in typical strongly correlated oxides NiO have been investigated using the GGA+U method. The defect formation energies under different conditions are determined and magnetisms induced by va...
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Elastic contact mechanics-based contact and flash temperature analysis of impact-induced head disk interface damage
Shock-induced impulsive slider-disk contact during operation poses a major challenge for modern hard disk drives (HDD). The high contact pressure and surface temperature that are usually associated with such i...
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Development of an atom-interferometer gravity gradiometer for gravity measurement from space
Recent progress in cold atom interferometry has lead to a new method of sensitive inertial sensing. Significant performance enhancement of cold atom interferometer-based sensors is anticipated when operated in...
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Improvement of edge effect of the wavelet time–frequency spectrum: application to the length-of-day series
The edge effect in the wavelet time–frequency spectrum of a time series is treated. The time series is first extended on both ends by applying a non-linear model, namely the leap-step time series analysis (LS...
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Contribution of new AAM data source to δLOD excitation
Data sets of the changes of the length of day (ΔLOD) measured by space geodetic techniques and of the atmospheric angular momentum (AAM) derived from global meteorological data by the National Meteorological ...
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Optimization of Ti and Co Self-Aligned Silicide RTP for 0.10 μm CMOS
As CMOS technologies are scaled to 0.10 μm and beyond, self-aligned silicide (salicide) processes find difficult challenges. As junction depths and linewidths are scaled, achieving both low sheet resistance an...
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Low Temperature Formation of C54 TiSi2 Bypassing the C49 Phase: Effect of Si Crystallinity, Metallic Impurities and Applications TO 0.10 μm CMOS
The mechanism and evolution from the early stages of the Ti/Si reaction by rapid thermal processing (RTP) at 650°C in the presence of Mo do** was studied and compared to the case without Mo do**; for amorp...
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Optimization of Ti and Co Self-Aligned Silicide RTP for 0.10 μm Cmos
As CMOS technologies are scaled to 0.10 μm and beyond, self-aligned silicide (salicide) processes find difficult challenges. As junction depths and linewidths are scaled, achieving both low sheet resistance an...
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Modeling the micromechanical aspects of composites
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In Situ Study of the Temperature Dependence of Irradiation-Induced Amorphization in A-Sic
Ion-beam-induced amorphization in single crystal α-SiC has been studied as a function of temperature. Specimens have been irradiated with 1.5 MeV Xe+ ions over the temperature range from 20 to 475 K using the HVE...