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Open AccessHybrid teaching after COVID-19: advantages, challenges and optimization strategies
In the post-pandemic era of higher education, hybrid teaching has emerged as a prevalent approach and is anticipated to persist as a defining trend in the future teaching reforms worldwide. However, despite it...
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Correction to: Association Between a Failed Prominence Eruption and the Drainage of Mass from Another Prominence
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Open AccessEffectiveness of risk-based caries management among Chinese preschool children: a randomized controlled single-blind trial
Early childhood caries (ECC) remain a serious oral health problem on a global scale. Risk-based caries management (RBCM) implemented in some parts of the world has been effective in preventing ECC. However, th...
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Open AccessCinnamaldehyde inhibits the NLRP3 inflammasome by preserving mitochondrial integrity and augmenting autophagy in Shigella sonnei-infected macrophages
Worldwide, more than 125 million people are infected with Shigella each year and develop shigellosis. In our previous study, we provided evidence that Shigella sonnei infection triggers activation of the NACHT, L...
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Open AccessHousekee** protein-coding genes interrogated with tissue and individual variations
Housekee** protein-coding genes are stably expressed genes in cells and tissues that are thought to be engaged in fundamental cellular biological functions. They are often utilized as normalization reference...
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Open AccessEarly cartilage lesion and 5-year incident joint surgery in knee osteoarthritis patients: a retrospective cohort study
to investigate the association between cartilage lesion-related features observed in knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients’ first MRI examination and incident knee surgery within 5 years. Additionally, to assess t...
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Open AccessPulse shape discrimination technique for diffuse supernova neutrino background search with JUNO
Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is widely used in particle and nuclear physics. Specifically in liquid scintillator detectors, PSD facilitates the classification of different particle types based on their ene...
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Open AccessEstablishment of an automatic diagnosis system for corneal endothelium diseases using artificial intelligence
To use artificial intelligence to establish an automatic diagnosis system for corneal endothelium diseases (CEDs).
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Open AccessRisk factors for renal outcomes in children with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis: a nationwide retrospective study in China
Pediatric antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a life-threatening systemic vasculitis featured by liability to renal involvement. However, there are few studies on the risk factor...
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Open AccessRadical innovation breakthroughs of biodegradation of plastics by insects: history, present and future perspectives
Insects damaging and penetrating plastic packaged materials has been reported since the 1950s. Radical innovation breakthroughs of plastic biodegradation have been initiated since the discovery of biodegradati...
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Open AccessAssociations between trans fatty acids and systemic immune-inflammation index: a cross-sectional study
Previous studies have demonstrated that trans fatty acids (TFAs) intake was linked to an increased risk of chronic diseases. As a novel systemic inflammatory biomarker, the clinical value and efficacy of the s...
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Open AccessVisualizing a single wavefront dislocation induced by orbital angular momentum in graphene
Phase singularities are phase-indeterminate points where wave amplitudes are zero, which manifest as phase vertices or wavefront dislocations. In the realm of optical and electron beams, the phase singularity ...
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Open AccessPharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic evaluation of gamithromycin against rabbit pasteurellosis
Gamithromycin is an effective therapy for bovine and swine respiratory diseases but not utilized for rabbits. Given its potent activity against respiratory pathogens, we sought to determine the pharmacokinetic...
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Open AccessDownregulation of GPX8 in hepatocellular carcinoma: impact on tumor stemness and migration
GPX8, which is found in the endoplasmic reticulum lumen, is a member of the Glutathione Peroxidases (GPXs) family. Its role in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is unknown.
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Open AccessEffect of RARC-ERAS nursing program on clinical outcomes in patients undergoing RARC surgery: a retrospective, propensity matching study
Currently, there is no specific perioperative nursing standard for RARC based on the ERAS concept. This retrospective study investigates to analyze the effect of RARC-ERAS nursing program on VTE and other clin...
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Open AccessDNA methylation remodeling and the functional implication during male gametogenesis in rice
Epigenetic marks are reprogrammed during sexual reproduction. In flowering plants, DNA methylation is only partially remodeled in the gametes and the zygote. However, the timing and functional significance of ...
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Open AccessEffect of endoscopic therapy and drug therapy on prognosis and rebleeding in patients with esophagogastric variceal bleeding
Esophagogastric variceal bleeding (EVB) is one of the common digestive system emergencies with poor prognosis and high rate of rebleeding after treatment. To explore the effects of endoscopic therapy and drug ...
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Open AccessCausal effects of glycemic traits and endometriosis: a bidirectional and multivariate mendelian randomization study
Observational studies have suggested an association between endometriosis and glycemic traits, but causality remains unclear. We used bidirectional and multivariate Mendelian randomization (MR) to examine the ...
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Open AccessPhylogenomics resolves the higher-level phylogeny of herbivorous eriophyoid mites (Acariformes: Eriophyoidea)
Eriophyoid mites (Eriophyoidea) are among the largest groups in the Acariformes; they are strictly phytophagous. The higher-level phylogeny of eriophyoid mites, however, remains unresolved due to the limited n...
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Open AccessMating harassment may boost the effectiveness of the sterile insect technique for Aedes mosquitoes
The sterile insect technique is based on the overflooding of a target population with released sterile males inducing sterility in the wild female population. It has proven to be effective against several inse...
