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Associations Between Exposure to Metal Mixtures and Insufficient Bone Strength: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Children Aged 2–6 Years
Studies have shown that exposure to heavy metals increases the risk of osteoporosis in the elderly population and leads to fractures. However, epidemiologic studies focus on combined effects of multiple metals...
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Open AccessRetinal organoids with X-linked retinoschisis RS1 (E72K) mutation exhibit a photoreceptor developmental delay and are rescued by gene augmentation therapy
X-linked juvenile retinoschisis (XLRS) is an inherited disease caused by RS1 gene mutation, which leads to retinal splitting and visual impairment. The mechanism of RS1-associated retinal degeneration is not full...
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Interaction effect of nocturnal sleep duration and physical activity on bone strength: a cross-sectional study of Chinese preschoolers
Optimizing bone strength and bone density in childhood can greatly reduce the occurrence of osteoporosis in adulthood. We aimed to investigate the influence and interaction of sleep duration and physical activ...
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Long-Term and Multipoint Observations of Atmospheric Heavy Metal (Cu and Cd) Deposition and Accumulation in Soil–Crop System and Human Health Risk Evaluation Around a Large Smelter
The atmospheric deposition of copper (Cu) and cadmium (Cd) was monitored over 79 months to investigate the fluxes and influencing factors and to partition the possible health risk between new deposition and le...
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Effect of UV pretreatment on the source control of floR during subsequent biotreatment of florfenicol wastewater
UV photolysis has been recommended as an alternative pretreatment method for the elimination of antibacterial activity of antibiotics against the indicator strain, but the pretreated antibiotic intermediates m...
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Study of glutathione S-transferase (CqGSTs) gene expression patterns, the response of basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH) transcription factor and genome-wide identification gene family in quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) and its mechanisms of salt stress tolerance
Quinoa grains are nutritionally rich and balanced, rich in protein, starch, VB1, folic acid, minerals (Ca, Zn, Fe) and other nutrients and grow at high altitude (> 3500 m above sea level) all year round; it is...
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Open AccessExtending on-surface synthesis from 2D to 3D by cycloaddition with C60
As an efficient molecular engineering approach, on-surface synthesis (OSS) defines a special opportunity to investigate intermolecular coupling at the sub-molecular level and has delivered many appealing polym...
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Ubiquitin E3 ligase AtCHYR2 functions in glucose regulation of germination and post-germinative growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
Cytoplasm-localized RING ubiquitin E3 ligase AtCHYR2 involved in plant glucose responses during germination and post-germinative growth.
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Open AccessThe Value of MRI in the Diagnosis of Placenta Previa
Objective To analyze the diagnostic value of MRI in placenta previa. Methods 100 pregnant women with placenta previa admitted to our hospital from January 2017 to January 2020 were selected as the research obj...
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Synthesis and Characterization of Semi-Aliphatic Polyimide Films with Excellent Comprehensive Performance
Transparent polyimide films with excellent comprehensive properties may be indispensable to next-generation optoelectronic and flexible display applications. To date, the most studied transparent polyimide fil...
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Distribution of organophosphate ester fractions in sediment of the Eastern China Marginal Seas and the influencing factors
Organic pollutant fractions should be closely investigated because of their different ecological risks. In this study, we examined the distribution of organophosphate ester (OPE) fractions (labile, stable-adso...
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Methods for RPE Sheet Construction Using iPS-CM in Conjunction with Natural Scaffold of Corneal Lenticule Derived from SMILE
In vitro generation of a functional retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) monolayer sheet is useful and promising for RPE cell therapy. Here, we outline a method to construct engineered RPE sheets treated by induce...
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A Product Design Scheme Based on Knowledge Graph of Material Properties
Materials are the material basis of product design. In addition to considering the function and structure of the product, the product design of contemporary enterprises should also fully consider the material ...
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Enhancement analysis of turbulent flow and heat transfer of supercritical CO2 in a static mixer with three helical blades
Supercritical CO2 has excellent flow and heat transfer characteristics, but studies are lacking on the heat transfer characteristics of static mixers using it as a working medium. To obtain the heat transfer enha...
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Nitrogen-doped carbon aerogels derived from polyimide for high-performance supercapacitor
Carbon aerogels have attracted increasing interest as electrode material and conductive template for supercapacitors due to their unique porous structure and strong electrical conductivity. However, the satisf...
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Open AccessAre microplastics the ‘technofossils’ of the Anthropocene?
Microplastics are ubiquitous in the environment, eventually becoming part of the geological record as ‘technofossils’. However, research on the chronological characteristics of microplastics remains limited. T...
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Open AccessVisProDom: an interactive Shiny/R application for displaying protein domains with transcriptional features
Both the protein domains and transcript structures influence protein functional variation. The genomic location of both protein domains and transcript structural features can be described using the genomic coo...
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Synthesis of porous polyimide films with low dielectric constant and excellent mechanical properties by ambient pressure drying
Polyimide aerogels are high-performance polymer materials, but they have been restricted by costly drying and low mechanical strength in practical applications. Here, we report a family of porous polyimide (PI...
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Experimentally realizing efficient quantum control with reinforcement learning
We experimentally investigate deep reinforcement learning (DRL) as an artificial intelligence approach to control a quantum system. We verify that DRL explores fast and robust digital quantum controls with ope...
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Optimizing the Wheat Seeding Rate for Wide-Space Sowing to Improve Yield and Water and Nitrogen Utilization
Coordinated uptake and utilization of water and nitrogen (N) is important for high-yield and high-efficiency cultivation of winter wheat. The relationship between soil water consumption and N uptake and utiliz...
