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Open AccessEffect of esketamine combined with dexmedetomidine on delirium in sedation for mechanically ventilated ICU patients: protocol for a nested substudy within a randomized controlled trial
Use of sedatives and analgesics is associated with the occurrence of delirium in critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation. Dexmedetomidine reduces the occurrence of delirium but may cause hypot...
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Open AccessIndirect non-linear effects of landscape patterns on vegetation growth in Kunming City
Urban greening is becoming an important strategy in improving urban ecosystem services and sustainability. Identifying the response of vegetation to urbanization and urban landscape patterns can help in planni...
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Comparing the accuracy of intraocular lens power calculation formulas using artificial intelligence and traditional formulas in highly myopic patients: a meta-analysis
The accuracy of intraocular lens (IOL) calculations is one of the key indicators for determining the success of cataract surgery. However, in highly myopic patients, the calculation errors are relatively large...
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Priming effects of maize growth and photosynthetic substrate supply on soil N mineralization-immobilization turnover
Soil nitrogen (N) mineralization-immobilization turnover (MIT) regulates the inorganic N supply in terrestrial ecosystems. Much research has been done to understand the factors that control the MIT in soils, b...
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Open AccessMarginal cord insertion in the first trimester is associated with furcate cord insertion
To evaluate the potential connections between marginal cord insertion during the first trimester and furcate cord insertion later in pregnancy.
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Open AccessCorrection: Classical swine fever virus triggers RIG-I and MDA5-dependent signaling pathway to IRF-3 and NF-κB activation to promote secretion of interferon and inflammatory cytokines in porcine alveolar macrophages
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Secured Data Sharing Method for Wireless Communication Network Based on Digital Twin and Merkle Hash Tree
Data protection shares sensitive data with authorized users over a wireless communication network (WCN). To protect the data, a secured sharing method for WCNs is required, which is studied using digital twin ...
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Unraveling Magnesium Alloy Corrosion Patterns Through Unsupervised Machine Learning: Exploring Clustering Techniques for Enhanced Insight
This research investigates the interpretation of corrosion patterns using unsupervised machine learning techniques. The use of machine learning techniques using unsupervised approaches has emerged as an import...
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Roles of extracellular vesicles on macrophages in inflammatory bone diseases
Inflammatory bone disease is a general term for a series of diseases caused by chronic inflammation, which leads to the destruction of bone homeostasis, that is, the osteolytic activity of osteoclasts increase...
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Open AccessBicontinuous RuO2 nanoreactors for acidic water oxidation
Improving activity and stability of Ruthenium (Ru)-based catalysts in acidic environments is eager to replace more expensive Iridium (Ir)-based materials as practical anode catalyst for proton-exchange membran...
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Reductive soil disinfestation promotes vegetable N uptake by regulating soil gross N transformation and improving the quality of degraded soil
Reductive soil disinfestation (RSD) has been widely applied to improve soil degradation, enhancing vegetable N uptake and productivity. However, its effects on interactions between vegetable N uptake and soil ...
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Open AccessUrban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective
A growing number of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has been advocated for urban flood risk management (FRM). However, whether NbS for FRM (NbS-FRM) achieves both social and ecological co-benefits remains largely...
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Toward fast belief propagation for distributed constraint optimization problems via heuristic search
Belief propagation (BP) approaches, such as Max-sum and its variants, are important methods to solve large-scale Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems. However, these algorithms face a huge challenge si...
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Open AccessImprinted gene detection effectively improves the diagnostic accuracy for papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most frequent histological type of thyroid carcinoma. Although an increasing number of diagnostic methods have recently been developed, the diagnosis of a few nodules i...
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Al-enabled properties distribution prediction for high-pressure die casting Al-Si alloy
High-pressure die casting (HPDC) is one of the most popular mass production processes in the automotive industry owing to its capability for part consolidation. However, the nonuniform distribution of mechanic...
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Effect of ferrotitanium slag on microstructure and properties of Al2O3–SiC–C castables for iron runner
Ferrotitanium slag (FS) is a waste slag produced during the smelting of ferrotitanium alloys by thermite reduction. Its alumina content is high and can be used as alumina raw material. Iron runner castables co...
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Soft Label Guided Unsupervised Discriminative Sparse Subspace Feature Selection
Feature selection and subspace learning are two primary methods to achieve data dimensionality reduction and discriminability enhancement. However, data label information is unavailable in unsupervised learnin...
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Open AccessSecretory IgA reduced the ergosterol contents of Candida albicans to repress its hyphal growth and virulence
Candida albicans, one of the most prevalent conditional pathogenic fungi, can cause local superficial infections and lethal systemic infections, especially in the immunocompromised population. Secretory immunoglo...
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Open AccessHuman extreme heat protective behaviours: the effects of physical risks, psychological perception, and public measures
Individual actions can mitigate the consequences of extreme heat. Therefore, understanding the mechanism of protective behaviours against extreme heat is critical. Although extreme heat protective behaviours h...
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A study of overtop** breach process with soil–water erosion using improved smoothed particle hydrodynamics
The overtop** breach of embankment is a kind of serious geological disaster which involves complex soil–water coupling and interaction mechanisms. To investigate the coupling mechanical behavior in the overt...
