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In this paper, we propose a nonconvex and nonsmooth image prior based on the hyperbolic tangent function and apply it as a regularization term for image restoration and reconstruction problems. Theoretically, ...
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Aging biomarkers are a combination of biological parameters to (i) assess age-related changes, (ii) track the physiological aging process, and (iii) predict the transition into a pathological status. Although ...
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Aberrant activation of cardiac fibroblasts is the main cause and character of cardiac fibrosis, and inhibition of cardiac fibrosis becomes a promising treatment for cardiac diseases. Platelet-activating factor...
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Investigation of degradation characteristics of complex petroleum hydrocarbons by Bacillus cereus LY-1
Bacillus cereus LY-1 is isolated from Indonesian oil sand with oil-sand oil as the only carbon source, and the surfactant secreted by bacteria is identified as lipopeptides. GC and GC–MS were used to study diesel...
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Recent technical advances regarding filamentous fungi have accelerated the engineering of fungal-based production and benefited basic science. However, challenges still remain and limit the speed of fungal app...
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The weighted nuclear norm minimization has been widely used in low-level vision tasks. To treat different singular values more flexibly, in this paper, we adopt the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) p...
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Acyclovir (ACV), an anti-virus drug, was widely detected in natural water at concentrations ranging from ng L−1 to μg L−1 due to inefficient biological treatments in sewage treatment plant. Photochemical experime...
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Magnetic compression anastomosis (magnamosis, MCA) has been verified safe and effective by us and others in animal bilioenteric anastomosis (BEA). The objective of the present study was to introduce clinical a...
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Fatigue, which is commonly observed in Parkinson’s disease (PD), can greatly reduce quality of life and is difficult to treat. We here aimed to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of fatigue among P...
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The least-square regression problems or inverse problems have been widely studied in many fields such as compressive sensing, signal processing, and image processing. To solve this kind of ill-posed problems, ...
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Alternating direction method for the high-order total variation-based Poisson noise removal problem
The restoration of blurred images corrupted by Poisson noise is an important task in various applications such as astronomical imaging, electronic microscopy, single particle emission computed tomography (SPEC...
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High-Order Total Variation-Based Image Restoration with Spatially Adapted Parameter Selection
In this paper, we propose a high-order total variation model to restore blurred and noisy images with spatially adapted regularization parameter selection. The proposed model can substantially reduce the stair...
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Ezrin-radixin-moesin-binding phosphoprotein 50 (EBP50) is a putative tumor suppressor that is correlated with many human cancers. However, the function of EBP50 in pancreatic cancer (PC) has not been described...
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Our previous studies showed that ginsenoside-Rd, a purified component from Panax notoginseng, inhibited cell proliferation and reversed basilar artery remodeling. The aim of this study was to investigate wheth...
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