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Development of a continuum manipulator with variable bending length and piecewise stiffness for transoral laryngeal surgery
Continuum manipulators (CMs) show great potential in transoral laryngeal surgery due to their flexibility. However, CMs for transoral surgery face several issues: large size, which reduces practicality; inters...
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Design and navigation method of a soft robot for single-port transvesical radical prostatectomy
Currently, the rigid instruments used for laparoscopic radical resection of prostate cancer not only have the risk of damage to tissues, blood vessels, and nerves, but their limited freedom will also cause sur...
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Improved precise guidewire delivery of a cardiovascular interventional surgery robot based on admittance control
The development of cardiovascular interventional surgery robots can realize master–slave interventional operations, which will effectively solve the problem of surgeons being injured by X-ray radiation. The de...
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Open AccessPerturbing BEAMs: EEG adversarial attack to deep learning models for epilepsy diagnosing
Deep learning models have been widely used in electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis and obtained excellent performance. But the adversarial attack and defense for them should be thoroughly studied before putting...
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ADRC-Based Trajectory Tracking Control for a Planar Continuum Robot
Due to their inherent deformability, controlling continuum robots (CRs) comes with many challenges, including strong nonlinearity, uncertainty, and disturbance. In this paper, a planar CR is modeled as a gener...
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Design and path tracking control of a continuum robot for maxillary sinus surgery
Continuum robots (CRs) have been developed for maxillary sinus surgery (MSS) in recent years. However, due to the anatomically curved and narrow pathway of the maxillary sinus and the deformable characteristic...
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Open AccessMesoporous nanodrug delivery system: a powerful tool for a new paradigm of remodeling of the tumor microenvironment
Tumor microenvironment (TME) plays an important role in tumor progression, metastasis and therapy resistance. Remodeling the TME has recently been deemed an attractive tumor therapeutic strategy. Due to its co...
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Open AccessBranched-chain amino acid aminotransferase 2 regulates ferroptotic cell death in cancer cells
Ferroptosis, a form of iron-dependent cell death driven by cellular metabolism and iron-dependent lipid peroxidation, has been implicated as a tumor-suppressor function for cancer therapy. Recent advance revea...
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Numerical study on failure behavior of open-hole composite laminates based on LaRC criterion and extended finite element method
A new numerical model combining LaRC failure criterion and extended finite element method (XFEM) is created to describe the failure behavior in fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites. In this model, the ons...
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Factors affecting simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) in a moving bed sequencing batch reactor (MBSBR) system as revealed by microbial community structures
The effects of biological factors including dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, carbon/nitrogen (C/N) and hydraulic retention times (HRT) on the performance of simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) in a ...
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Open AccessSoft Mesoporous Organosilica Nanoplatforms Improve Blood Circulation, Tumor Accumulation/Penetration, and Photodynamic Efficacy
Soft mesoporous organosilica nanoplatforms modified with hyaluronic acid and cyanine 5.5 are constructed.
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Influence of Low-velocity Impact on Damage Behavior of Carbon Fiber-reinforced Composites
A combination of experimental measurements and numerical analysis was utilized to study the low-velocity impact damage of domestic carbon fiber-reinforced composites (CFRCs). The results indicated that the low...
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Semantic consistent adversarial cross-modal retrieval exploiting semantic similarity
Cross-modal retrieval aims to search the semantically similar instances from the other modalities given a query from one modality. However, the differences of the distributions and representations between diff...
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Semantics Consistent Adversarial Cross-Modal Retrieval
Cross-modal retrieval returns the relevant results from the other modalities given a query from one modality. The main challenge of cross-modal retrieval is the “heterogeneity gap” amongst modalities, because ...
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Open AccessPrediction of efficacy of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer: the value of texture analysis of magnetic resonance images
To explore the clinical feasibility of predicting the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) for rectal cancer on the basis of texture analysis (TA) of T2-weighted imaging (T2WI).
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Research progress and application prospect of anaerobic biological phosphorus removal
Anaerobic biological phosphorus removal has proposed a new direction for the removal of phosphorus from wastewater, and the discovery of phosphate reduction makes people have a more comprehensive understanding...
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Object tracking based on online representative sample selection via non-negative least square
In the most tracking approaches, a score function is utilized to determine which candidate is the optimal one by measuring the similarity between the candidate and the template. However, the representative sam...
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Open AccessRadiotherapy-induced cell death activates paracrine HMGB1-TLR2 signaling and accelerates pancreatic carcinoma metastasis
Dying cells after irradiation could promote the repopulation of surviving cancer cells leading to tumor recurrence. We aim to define the role of dying cells in promoting pancreatic cancer cells metastasis foll...
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Facile fabrication of CdSe/CdS quantum dots and their application on the screening of colorectal cancer
In this paper, a facile aqueous route to water-soluble CdSe/CdS quantum dots (QDs) under mild conditions has been developed. The samples were characterized by means of transmission electron microscopy, energy-...
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Protective Effects of Kaempferol on Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Mastitis in Mice
Kaempferol isolated from the root of Zingiberaceae plants galangal and other Chinese herbal medicines have been reported to have anti-inflammatory properties. However, the anti-inflammatory effects of kaempferol ...
