Advances in Mechanical Design
The Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Mechanical Design (ICMD 2023)
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Open AccessContact-electro-catalytic CO2 reduction from ambient air
Traditional catalytic techniques often encounter obstacles in the search for sustainable solutions for converting CO2 into value-added products because of their high energy consumption and expensive catalysts. He...
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Emerging single-photon detection technique for high-performance photodetector
Single-photon detections (SPDs) represent a highly sensitive light detection technique capable of detecting individual photons at extremely low light intensity levels. This technology mainly relies on the main...
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Giant in-plane vibrational and transport anisotropy in van der Waals Ta2Ni3Te5
Recently, layered van der Waals compounds of Ta2M3Te5 (M = Ni, Pd) have garnered revived interest due to their appealing potentials to host various exotic electronic states and exhibit nontrivial transport phenom...
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Hysteresis of Water Retention Curve of the Capillarimetric Diapason in Saline Soils
The hysteresis effect of water retention curve (WRC) has significant implications for comprehending soil water and salt transport, especially in areas with soil salinization. This study evaluates the hysteresi...
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Charge-depletion-enhanced WSe2 quantum emitters on gold nanogap arrays with near-unity quantum efficiency
Achieving unity quantum efficiency in single-photon emitters (SPEs) is a holy grail in quantum information science. Through plasmonic coupling it is possible to increase the quantum efficiency of SPEs by incre...
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A global survey on the use of the international classification of diseases codes for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease
With the implementation of the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and the publication of the metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) nomenclature in 2020...
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Diversity and influencing factors of microbial communities in rhizosphere and nonrhizosphere soils of tea plant
Soil quality is crucial for the growth and development of tea plants. Although the tea rhizosphere microbial composition and function have been extensively studied, few comparative studies have been performed ...
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Calycosin inhibited MIF-mediated inflammatory chemotaxis of macrophages to ameliorate ischemia reperfusion-induced acute kidney injury
Inflammatory macrophage infiltration plays a critical role in acute kidney disease induced by ischemia-reperfusion (IRI-AKI). Calycosin is a natural flavone with multiple bioactivities. This study aimed to inv...
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Cast versus Kirschner wire fixation in type II paediatric phalangeal neck fractures
To compare the outcomes of type II pediatric phalangeal neck fractures (PPNFs) treated with closed reduction and cast immobilization (CRCI) versus closed reduction percutaneous pinning (CRPP), and evaluated th...
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Open AccessActivation of lipophagy ameliorates cadmium-induced neural tube defects via reducing low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in mouse placentas
Neural tube defects (NTDs) represent a prevalent and severe category of congenital anomalies in humans. Cadmium (Cd) is an environmental teratogen known to cause fetal NTDs. However, its underlying mechanisms ...
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Open AccessIL-17a promotes hepatocellular carcinoma by increasing FAP expression in hepatic stellate cells via activation of the STAT3 signaling pathway
Studies have shown that hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) and interleukin-17a (IL-17a) play important roles in liver tumorigenesis. In addition, fibroblast activation protein-α (FAP) has been shown to be a key reg...
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Open AccessYoung osteocyte-derived extracellular vesicles facilitate osteogenesis by transferring tropomyosin-1
Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) can undergo inadequate osteogenesis or excessive adipogenesis as they age due to changes in the bone microenvironment, ultimately resulting in decreased bone density ...
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Open AccessThe CompactLight Design Study
CompactLight is a Design Study funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation funding programme, with Grant Agreement No. 777431. CompactLight was conducted by an International Col...
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Factor graph-based PPP-RTK for accurate and robust positioning in urban environments
The PPP-RTK system, which is capable of providing a centimeter-level real-time positioning service for an unlimited number of users, is becoming a promising tool in mass-market applications such as smartphones...
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High-performance broadband photodetector based on PtSe2/MoS2 heterojunction from visible to near-infrared region
Broadband photodetectors based on narrow bandgap 2D materials have garnered considerable interest for application in the field of optoelectronic devices. However, their large dark current hinders device perfor...
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Open AccessMultigenerational paternal obesity enhances the susceptibility to male subfertility in offspring via Wt1 N6-methyladenosine modification
There is strong evidence that obesity is a risk factor for poor semen quality. However, the effects of multigenerational paternal obesity on the susceptibility to cadmium (a reproductive toxicant)-induced sper...
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Open AccessTemporally-coordinated bivalent histone modifications of BCG1 enable fungal invasion and immune evasion
Bivalent histone modifications, including functionally opposite H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 marks simultaneously on the same nucleosome, control various cellular processes by fine-tuning the gene expression in eukary...
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Open AccessIntegrated analysis strategy of genome-wide functional gene mining reveals DKK2 gene underlying meat quality in Shaziling synthesized pigs
Shaziling pig is a well-known indigenous breed in China who has superior meat quality traits. However, the genetic mechanism and genomic evidence underlying meat quality characteristics of Shaziling pigs are s...
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