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Degradation Performance of Estrogen During Anaerobic Digestion of Pig Manure
A large amount of estrogen is introduced into the feed to improve livestock growth, excessive residual estrogen would exist in the excrements. The accumulation of estrogen can cause the water and soil pollutio...
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Mixing enhancement of solid-liquid two-phase by coupling double-layer rigid impeller and non-constant chaotic rotating speed
Efficient mixing in stirred tanks could be achieved in the presence of isolated mixing regions using a controlled fluctuation of the impeller rotation rate. In this paper, nine rigid impellers with double-laye...
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Open AccessThe hierarchical organization of the precuneus captured by functional gradients
The precuneus shows considerable heterogeneity in multiple dimensions including anatomy, function, and involvement in brain disorders. Leveraging the state-of-the-art functional gradient approach, we aimed to ...
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Design of the Pneumatic Pressure Smart Shoes for an Ankle-Assisted Exoskeleton
Ankle injury is one of the most common joint diseases that people experience during exercise. Most people have suffered ankle injuries at least once in their lives. The studies have shown that the ankle joint ...
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Open AccessFunctional connectivity gradients of the cingulate cortex
Heterogeneity of the cingulate cortex is evident in multiple dimensions including anatomy, function, connectivity, and involvement in networks and diseases. Using the recently developed functional connectivity...
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Association of total body fat and fat distribution with bone mineral density among children and adolescents aged 6–17 years from Guangzhou, China
This study aimed to assess the associations of total body fat and fat distribution with bone mineral density (BMD) among children and adolescents in this cross-sectional study. A total of 1032 boys and 897 gir...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on the Coupling and Coordinated Development of the Digital Economy and Rural Revitalization
In the process of rural revitalization, the development elements in the digital economy are added, and the development advantages of the digital economy are used to drive the development of rural revitalizatio...
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Indoor Fabric as an Adsorptive Reservoir for Volatile Organic Compounds in Wildfire Smoke: A Preliminary Study
Indoor fabric surfaces (e.g., clothes, curtains, and bedding sheets) can adsorb volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in wildfire smoke penetrating indoors. Meanwhile, the VOCs can be desorbed from the surfaces an...
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Open AccessA multi-regression framework to improve diagnostic ability of optical coherence tomography retinal biomarkers to discriminate mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease
Diagnostic performance of optical coherence tomography (OCT) to detect Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) remains limited. We assessed whether compensating the circumpapillary retinal...
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Open AccessEvaluation of different OCT systems in quantitative imaging of human Schlemm's canal
We examined the performance of human Schlemm’s canal (SC) imaging using different OCT devices: CIRRUS 5000 (840 nm, spectral-domain (SD)-OCT), PLEX Elite 9000 (1060 nm, swept-source (SS)-OCT) and CASIA SS-1000...
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Golgi Protein Prediction with Deep Forest
Golgi proteins are encapsulated in membrane system. The main function of the Golgi is to process, sort, and transport proteins, synthesized by the endoplasmic reticulum, and then to be sorted into specific par...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prediction of Heart Disease Probability Based on Various Body Function
Heart disease is a kind of common circulatory system disease. It is a common disease in internal medicine, which can significantly affect the labor force of patients. The various indicators of the human body c...
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Open AccessEffect of vessel enhancement filters on the repeatability of measurements obtained from widefield swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography
We assessed the inter-visit repeatability of 15 × 9-mm2 swept-source OCTA (SS-OCTA; PLEX Elite 9000, Carl Zeiss Meditec) metrics in 14 healthy participants. We analysed the perfusion density (PD) of large vessels...
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Open AccessRetinal microvasculature dysfunction is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment
The retina and brain share many neuronal and vasculature characteristics. We investigated the retinal microvasculature in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) using optical coherence to...
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Open AccessAre choriocapillaris flow void features robust to diurnal variations? A swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) study
We evaluated the impact of diurnal variation on choroidal and retinal microvasculature and structural measurements using a swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography machine (SS-OCTA; PLEX Elite 9,0...
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Open AccessSingle-cell RNA-seq highlights heterogeneity in human primary Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem/stromal cells cultured in vitro
Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) are multipotent cells with a promising application potential in regenerative medicine and immunomodulation. However, MSCs cultured in vitro exhibit functional heterogeneit...
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Matrine inhibits mycelia growth of Botryosphaeria dothidea by affecting membrane permeability
Matrine is a promising botanical antifungal; however, the mechanism underlying the antifungal activity is yet limited. We studied the antifungal activity of matrine and the underlying mechanism in Botryosphaeria ...
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Novel Competitive Chemiluminescence DNA Assay Based on Fe3O4@SiO2@Au-Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles for Sensitive Detection of p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene
A simple, rapid response time and ultrahigh sensitive chemiluminescence (CL) DNA assay based on Fe3O4@SiO2@Au-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (Au-MNPs) was developed for detection of p53 tumor suppressor ge...
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Dielectric property and self-repairing capability of silicon and titanium co-doped amorphous alumina thin films prepared by sol–gel technology
In this article, (Al1−0.02−xSi0.02Tix)2Oy (x = 0.2, 0.9 and 2%) thin films were prepared on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates using sol–gel technique. The dielectric properties of undoped and Si–Ti co-doped Al2O3 thin fil...
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Microstructural transitions and dielectric properties of boron-doped amorphous alumina thin film
Dielectric Al2−x B x OY thin films were deposited onto Pt (100)/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates via sol–gel and spin-coating technology. The microstructural transit...
