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Association between intravenous tirofiban and intracranial hemorrhage in acute large vessel occlusion stroke: insight from the RESCUE BT randomized placebo-controlled trial
The aim of this study is to investigate the association between intravenous tirofiban and symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (SICH) in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) secondary to large vessel occlu...
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Open AccessClinical characteristics of hospitalized mild/moderate COVID-19 patients with a prolonged negative conversion time of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid detection
The impact of COVID-19 has been devastating on a global scale. The negative conversion time (NCT) of SARS-CoV-2 RNA is closely related to clinical manifestation and disease progression in COVID-19 patients. Ou...
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Automatic Detection of Contracting Muscle Regions via the Deformation Field of Transverse Ultrasound Images: A Feasibility Study
Accurate identification of contracting muscles can help us to understand the muscle function in both physiological and pathological conditions. Conventional electromyography (EMG) have limited access to deep m...
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Enhance cathodic capacitance to eliminate power overshoot in microbial fuel cells
Power overshoot that presents in the power curves of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is one of the main reasons for the deterioration of MFC performance over the high current region. In this research, the mechanis...
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Correction to: Prediction of Individual Finger Forces Based on Decoded Motoneuron Activities
Due to an error in production, Figure 4 in the original paper shows the root mean squared error (RMSE) between the force and the neural drive estimation. The R2 heat map as a function of the number of motor units...
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Prediction of Individual Finger Forces Based on Decoded Motoneuron Activities
Accurate prediction of motor output based on neural signals is critical in human–machine interactions. The objective was to evaluate the performance of predicting individual finger forces through an estimation...
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Open AccessExploration of Hand Grasp Patterns Elicitable Through Non-Invasive Proximal Nerve Stimulation
Various neurological conditions, such as stroke or spinal cord injury, result in an impaired control of the hand. One method of restoring this impairment is through functional electrical stimulation (FES). How...
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Open AccessOrigins of Common Neural Inputs to Different Compartments of the Extensor Digitorum Communis Muscle
The extensor digitorum communis (EDC) is a multi-compartment muscle that allows dexterous extension of the four digits. However, the level of common input shared across different compartments of this muscle is...
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Monolayer g-C3N4 Fluorescent Sensor for Sensitive and Selective Colorimetric Detection of Silver ion from Aqueous Samples
Rapid and sensitive detection of heavy-metal ions in natural water environments worldwide is urgently needed because of their severe threats to human health. In the present work, monolayer graphite-like flake C3N
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Impact of Section Thickness on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Semi-Solid Castings
Slower cooling and solidification rates tend to increase both the grain size and dendrite arm spacings (DAS) of conventional castings. Both grain size and DAS impact strength and ductility, and so heavy sectio...
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Structural and Mechanical Properties of TiON Nanocomposite Films Deposited on Silicon by Pulsed Bias Arc Ion Plating
Nanocomposite TiON thin films were deposited on p-(100) silicon substrate using a pulsed bias arc ion plating technique with the substrate bias ranging from 0V to -700V. XRD and TEM were used to characterize t...
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Processing to the Commutation Failure in Multi-infeed Direct Current System
The commutation failure in multi-infeed DC system will result in serious consequences. Influence factors are analyzed in this paper including the principle of inverter and influence failure factors for single-...
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Open AccessRecovery of the 6-year signal in length of day and its long-term decreasing trend
There is a significant 6-year oscillation signal (called 6-year signal in this paper) existing in the interannual variations of length of day (LOD). It is unclear to understand its nature variation features. T...
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Permethylated-β-Cyclodextrin Capped CdTe Quantum Dot and its Sensitive Fluorescence Analysis of Malachite Green
In the present work, the CdTe quantum dots were covalently conjugated with permethylated-β-cyclodextrin (OMe-β-CD) using 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride as cross-linking reagent. The ...
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Constraining the focal mechanism of the Lushan earthquake with observations of the Earth’s free oscillations
The amplitudes of the Earth’s free oscillations have a close relationship to earthquake focal mechanisms. Focal mechanisms of large earthquakes can be well analyzed and constrained with observations of long pe...
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Introduction
Robust data classification or representation is a fundamental task and has a long history in computer vision. The algorithmic robustness, which is derived from the statistical definition of a breakdown point [...
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M-Estimators and Half-Quadratic Minimization
In robust statistics, there are several types of robust estimators, including M-estimator (maximum likelihood type estimator), L-estimator (linear combinations of order statistics), R-estimator (estimator base...
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Correntropy and Linear Representation
The nearest neighbor (NN) classifier is the most popular method for image-based object recognition. In NN classifier, the representational capacity of an image database and the recognition rate depend on how r...
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Correntropy with Nonnegative Constraint
Nonnegativity constraint is more consistent with the biological modeling of visual data and often leads to better performance for data representation and graph learning [66]. In this chapter, we present an ove...