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Heating and Water Transport Behavior of Sandstones Under Microwave Irradiation
Microwave treatment has become a promising method to improve the efficiency of mechanical excavators in hard rocks. This paper conducted microwave irradiation tests on three water-bearing sandstones and analyz...
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Reconciling grain production and environmental costs during rural livelihood transitions: a simulation-based approach in southern China
Tension is building up between the need to provide food for eight billion humans and the necessity to safeguard their environment. In many parts of the world, the ongoing transition of farmers’ livelihoods is ...
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Screening approach by a combination of computational and in vitro experiments: identification of fluvastatin sodium as a potential SIRT2 inhibitor
Sirtuins (SIRTs) are NAD+-dependent deacetylases that play various roles in numerous pathophysiological processes, holding promise as therapeutic targets worthy of further investigation. Among them, the SIRT2 sub...
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Decentralized Position/torque Control of Modular Robot Manipulators via Interaction Torque Estimation-based Human Motion Intention Identification
For the application background of physical human robot interaction (pHRI), a novel decentralized position/torque control scheme of modular robot manipulators (MRMs) is developed based on the human motion inten...
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) serve as typical metabolic byproducts of aerobic life and play a pivotal role in redox reactions and signal transduction pathways. Contingent upon their concentration, ROS product...
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Open AccessHypoxia treatment and resistance training alters microRNA profiling in rats skeletal muscle
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) may play a crucial regulatory role in the process of muscle atrophy induced by high-altitude hypoxia and its amelioration through resistance training. However, research in this aspect is sti...
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Open AccessAnalysis of m6A-regulated genes and subtype classification in lupus nephritis
Lupus nephritis (LN) is the most common and severe clinical manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a reversible RNA modification and has been implicated in various bio...
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Open AccessSpatiotemporal heterogeneity in meteorological and hydrological drought patterns and propagations influenced by climatic variability, LULC change, and human regulations
This study aims to quantify meteorological–hydrological drought propagations and examine the potential impacts by climatic variability, LULC change (LULC), and human regulations. An integrated observation-mode...
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Preparation of hydrophilic modified ZIF-8 and its application in the preparation of nanocomposite matrix reverse osmosis membrane with improved permeation performance
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are widely employed in designing nanocomposite membranes owing to their excellent performance and diversity. However, their inherent hydrophobicity limits their application in n...
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Open AccessRegulation of NCOA4-mediated iron recycling ameliorates paraquat-induced lung injury by inhibiting ferroptosis
Paraquat (PQ) is an irreplaceable insecticide in many countries for the advantage of fast-acting and broad-spectrum. However, PQ was classified as the most prevailing poisoning substance for suicide with no sp...
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Open AccessEpstein-Barr virus-positive inflammatory follicular dendritic cell sarcoma with significant granuloma: case report and literature review
Epstein-Barr virus-positive inflammatory follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (EBV+IFDCS) is a rare disease characterized by mild clinical symptoms and non-specific imaging findings. The diagnosis of the disease ...
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Open AccessCost-effectiveness of edaravone dexborneol versus dl-3-n-butylphthalide for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke: a Chinese health care perspective
Edaravone dexborneol and dl-3-n-butylphthalide are two innovative brain cytoprotective drugs from China that have been approved and widely prescribed for acute ischemic stroke, and the cost of the two drugs ar...
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Experimental and numerical studies on dynamic fracturing behavior of roughly jointed rock
The surface roughness is an important feature of rock joints. Its effect on the mechanical properties of joints is significant in characterizing dynamic failure of natural rock masses. Both laboratory experime...
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Origami-Inspired Vibration Isolation with Inherent Nonlinear Inerter
Origami-inspired structures have shown strong nonlinearity on their force-displacement response, which could be used for vibration isolation by appropriate selections of structural parameters. However, the inf...
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NH4HCO3 as additive for fabrication of thin film nanocomposite membrane with enhanced permeability
During interfacial polymerization, the in situ growth of nanobubbles can exist between the support layer and the separation layer of the membrane, which changes the microstructure of the membrane and improves ...
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Open AccessInhibition of PFKP in renal tubular epithelial cell restrains TGF-β induced glycolysis and renal fibrosis
Metabolic reprogramming to glycolysis is closely associated with the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although it has been reported that phosphofructokinase 1 (PFK) is a rate-limiting enzyme in gly...
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Open AccessPotentially inappropriate medications among older patients with Parkinson’s disease: a cross-sectional analysis of a national health insurance database in China
With the rapid aging trend of China's population, the issue of drug rational use in older adults has become more and more prominent. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the one of the most common age-related neurodege...
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Open Access17-year follow-up of association between telomere length and all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality in individuals with metabolic syndrome: results from the NHANES database prospective cohort study
The relationship between leukocyte telomere length (LTL) and mortality risk in individuals with metabolic syndrome (MetS) remains poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate the association between telo...
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Open AccessDecentralized fault-tolerant control of modular robot manipulators with actuator saturation: neural adaptive integral terminal sliding mode-based control approach
A novel neural adaptive integral terminal sliding mode control for decentralized fault-tolerant control strategy, including the integral terminal sliding mode surface, the nonlinear disturbance observer, the r...
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APR3 (Apoptosis-related protein 3) is a gene that has recently been identified to be associated with apoptosis. The gene is located on human chromosome 2p22.3 and contains both transmembrane and EGF (epidermal gr...
