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Open AccessStabilized ε-Fe2C catalyst with Mn tuning to suppress C1 byproduct selectivity for high-temperature olefin synthesis
Accurately controlling the product selectivity in syngas conversion, especially increasing the olefin selectivity while minimizing C1 byproducts, remains a significant challenge. Epsilon Fe2C is deemed a promisin...
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Open AccessEnantioselective functionalization of unactivated C(sp3)–H bonds through copper-catalyzed diyne cyclization by kinetic resolution
Site- and stereoselective C–H functionalization is highly challenging in the synthetic chemistry community. Although the chemistry of vinyl cations has been vigorously studied in C(sp3)–H functionalization reacti...
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Open AccessAsymmetric formal C–C bond insertion into aldehydes via copper-catalyzed diyne cyclization
The formal C–C bond insertion into aldehydes is an attractive methodology for the assembly of homologated carbonyl compounds. However, the homologation of aldehydes has been limited to diazo approach and the e...
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Open AccessPrevalence of comorbidities and their impact on survival among older adults with the five most common cancers in Taiwan: a population study
Because of the cancer incidence increase and population aging in Taiwan, we aimed to assess the cancer prevalence, to summarize the comorbidities of older patients with the five most common cancers (i.e., brea...
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Open AccessEffects of strip crop** with reducing row spacing and super absorbent polymer on yield and water productivity of oat (Avena sativa L.) under drip irrigation in Inner Mongolia, China
With the serious shortage of water resources and the development of water-saving agriculture, the application of drip irrigation has been paid more and more attention. But there was lack of oat planting method...
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Open AccessSwitching magnon chirality in artificial ferrimagnet
Chirality, an intrinsic degree of freedom, has been barely exploited as the information carriers in data transmission, processing, computing, etc. Recently the magnons in antiferromagnets were proposed to carr...
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Open AccessSurvival outcomes of management in metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma patients
Chemotherapy is generally considered as the main treatment for metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma. The role of gastrectomy for metastatic gastric cancer without obvious symptoms is controversial. The objective ...
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Open AccessCompromised balance control in older people with bilateral medial knee osteoarthritis during level walking
About half of the elderly population has knee osteoarthritis (OA), showing altered gait patterns with increased fall risk. The current study aimed to identify the effects of severe bilateral medial knee osteoa...
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Open AccessDual blockade of CD47 and HER2 eliminates radioresistant breast cancer cells
Although the efficacy of cancer radiotherapy (RT) can be enhanced by targeted immunotherapy, the immunosuppressive factors induced by radiation on tumor cells remain to be identified. Here, we report that CD47...
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Open AccessFermion–boson many-body interplay in a frustrated kagome paramagnet
Kagome-nets, appearing in electronic, photonic and cold-atom systems, host frustrated fermionic and bosonic excitations. However, it is rare to find a system to study their fermion–boson many-body interplay. H...
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Open AccessImpacts of Intralipid on Nanodrug Abraxane Therapy and on the Innate Immune System
A major obstacle to nanodrugs-mediated cancer therapy is their rapid uptake by the reticuloendothelial system that decreases the systemic exposure of the nanodrugs to tumors and also increases toxicities. Intr...
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Open AccessA protein complex required for polar growth of rhizobial infection threads
During root nodule symbiosis, intracellular accommodation of rhizobia by legumes is a prerequisite for nitrogen fixation. For many legumes, rhizobial colonization initiates in root hairs through transcellular ...
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Open AccessProteostasis by STUB1/HSP70 complex controls sensitivity to androgen receptor targeted therapy in advanced prostate cancer
Protein homeostasis (proteostasis) is a potential mechanism that contributes to cancer cell survival and drug resistance. Constitutively active androgen receptor (AR) variants confer anti-androgen resistance i...
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Open AccessHuman Plasma Metabolomics Implicates Modified 9-cis-Retinoic Acid in the Phenotype of Left Main Artery Lesions in Acute ST-Segment Elevated Myocardial Infarction
The detection of left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) is crucial before ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) or sudden cardiac death. The aim of this study was to identify characteristic meta...
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Open AccessDivergent synthesis of N-heterocycles via controllable cyclization of azido-diynes catalyzed by copper and gold
Gold-catalyzed intermolecular alkyne oxidation by an N–O bond oxidant has proven to be a powerful method in organic synthesis during the past decade, because this approach would enable readily available alkyne...
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Open AccessSuper-strong dislocation-structured high-carbon martensite steel
High-carbon martensite steels (with C > 0.5 wt.%) are very hard but at the same time as brittle as glass in as-quenched or low-temperature-tempered state. Such extreme brittleness, originating from a twin micr...
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Open AccessThe Efficacy of Prophylactic Antibiotics on Post-Stroke Infections: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Post-stroke infections are common complications in acute stroke patients and are associated with an unfavorable functional outcome. However, reports on the effects of prophylactic antibiotics treatment on post...
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Open AccessReplication of a pathogenic non-coding RNA increases DNA methylation in plants associated with a bromodomain-containing viroid-binding protein
Viroids are plant-pathogenic molecules made up of single-stranded circular non-coding RNAs. How replicating viroids interfere with host silencing remains largely unknown. In this study, we investigated the eff...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Redox potential driven aeration during very-high-gravity ethanol fermentation by using flocculating yeast
Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 25763; published online: 10 May 2016; updated: 25 August 2016 In the original version of this Article, Affiliation 1 was incomplete. The correct affiliation is listed belo...
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Open AccessMössbauer Spectroscopy of Iron Carbides: From Prediction to Experimental Confirmation
The Mössbauer spectroscopy of iron carbides (α-Fe, γ'-FeC, η-Fe2C, ζ-Fe2C, χ-Fe5C2, h-Fe7C3, θ-Fe3C, o-Fe7C3, γ'-Fe4C, γ''-Fe4C, and α'-Fe16C2) is predicted utilizing the all electron full-potential linearized au...
