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Open AccessSleep disorder experienced by healthcare nurses after terminating Zero-COVID-19 policy
Medical staff, especially nurses, suffered great anxiety and stress from the COVID-19 pandemic, which negatively affected their sleep quality. In this study, we aimed to analyze the sleep quality of nursing st...
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Open AccessQuantitative urinary proteome analysis reveals potential biomarkers for disease activity of Behcet’s disease uveitis
Behçet’s disease-associated uveitis (BDU) is a severe, recurrent inflammatory condition affecting the eye and is part of a systemic vasculitis with unknown etiology, making biomarker discovery essential for di...
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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of a simple and practical model for early detection of diabetic macular edema in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus using easily accessible systemic variables
Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the leading cause of visual impairment in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The goal of early detection has not yet achieved due to a lack of fast and convenient methods. Th...
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Open AccessThe diabetes mellitus multimorbidity network in hospitalized patients over 50 years of age in China: data mining of medical records
Many diabetes mellitus (DM) patients suffer from multimorbidity. Understanding the DM multimorbidity network should be given priority. The purpose of this study is characterize the DM multimorbidity network in...
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Open AccessChina’s ecological footprint via biomass import and consumption is increasing
As China’s economic and population demands grow, the need for biomass imports rises, presenting challenges for sustainable development and global ecosystem protection. Here we examine China’s increasing influe...
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Open AccessAnalysis of clinicopathologic and imaging features of dual-phenotype hepatocellular carcinoma
Dual-phenotype hepatocellular carcinoma (DPHCC) is a new subtype of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the computerized tomography scan (CT) imaging and cl...
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Open AccessGender differences in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in obese children and adolescents: a large cross-sectional study
Previous studies have reported sex differences in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) among adults; however, little is known about its occurrence in children and adolescents. This study aims to examine t...
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Open AccessBroadband stripline Lenz lens achieves 11 × NMR signal enhancement
A Lenz lens is an electrically passive conductive element that, when placed in a time-varying magnetic field, acts as a magnetic flux concentrator or a magnetic lens. In the realm of nuclear magnetic resonance...
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Open AccessJoint scheduling optimization model for yard cranes and AGVs considering running routes
The escalation in global consumer demand has prompted the continual expansion of container throughput, which drives container terminals to bolster their production capacities. Globally, ports worldwide have be...
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Open AccessAmelioration of Atherosclerosis by lycopene is linked to the modulation of gut microbiota dysbiosis and related gut-heart axis activation in high-fat diet-fed ApoE−/− mice
Interplay between gut microbiota and heart, termed “gut-heart” axis, has a crucial role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Our previous study showed that lycopene possesses anti-inflammatory and anti-athe...
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Open AccessFlexible and broadband colloidal quantum dots photodiode array for pixel-level X-ray to near-infrared image fusion
Combining information from multispectral images into a fused image is informative and beneficial for human or machine perception. Currently, multiple photodetectors with different response bands are used, whic...
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Open AccessDeep learn-based computer-assisted transthoracic echocardiography: approach to the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis
Myocardial amyloidosis (CA) differs from other etiological pathologies of left ventricular hypertrophy in that transthoracic echocardiography is challenging to assess the texture features based on human visual...
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Open AccessMinimal-access video-assisted retroperitoneal and/or transperitoneal debridement (VARTD) in the management of infected walled-off pancreatic necrosis with deep extension: initial experience from a prospective single-arm study
The currently preferred minimally invasive approaches have substantially improved outcomes of infected walled-off pancreatic necrosis (iWON). However, iWON with deep extension (iWONde) still poses a tricky cha...
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A review of the design of load-carrying exoskeletons
The increasing necessity of load-carrying activities has led to greater human musculoskeletal damage and an increased metabolic cost. With the rise of exoskeleton technology, researchers have begun exploring d...
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Open AccessIncorporating fantasy into gamification promotes student learning and quality of online interaction
We used the design-based research approach to test and refine a theoretically grounded goal-access-feedback-challenge-collaboration gamification model. The testbed was a 10-week, university-level e-learning de...
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Open AccessA distinctive ligand recognition mechanism by the human vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor 2
Class B1 of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) comprises 15 members activated by physiologically important peptide hormones. Among them, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor 2 (VIP2R) is expressed in th...
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Open AccessStructural insights into multiplexed pharmacological actions of tirzepatide and peptide 20 at the GIP, GLP-1 or glucagon receptors
Glucose homeostasis, regulated by glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucagon (GCG) is critical to human health. Several multi-targeting agonists at GIPR, G...
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Open AccessDecrease of choriocapillary vascular density measured by optical coherence tomography angiography in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
Changes of choroidal circulation throughout the disease course of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease and the clinical significance remain unclear. Choriocapillary vascular density (CC VD) measured by optical c...
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Open AccessCountry-level land carbon sink and its causing components by the middle of the twenty-first century
Countries have long been making efforts by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to mitigate climate change. In the agreements of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, involved countries have ...
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Open AccessEffect of timing of surgical resection of primary hepatocellular carcinoma on survival outcomes in elderly patients and prediction of clinical models
The effect of time delay from diagnosis to surgery on the prognosis of elderly patients with liver cancer is not well known. We investigated the effect of surgical timing on the prognosis of elderly hepatocell...
