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Chapter and Conference Paper
Level-Set Curve Particles
In many applications it is necessary to track a moving and deforming boundary on the plane from infrequent, sparse measurements. For instance, each of a set of mobile observers may be able to tell the position...
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Open AccessInfluence of liver cancer on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism
Liver plays a key role in the metabolism of plasma apolipoproteins, endogenous lipids and lipoproteins. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common fatal malignant tumors in China and in other Sou...
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Determination of volatile residual solvents in pharmaceutical products by headspace liquid-phase microextraction gas chromatography-flame ionization detector
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Chinese kindergartners’ automatic processing of numerical magnitude in Stroop-like tasks
Using Stroop-like tasks, this study examined whether Chinese kindergartners showed automatic processing of numerical magnitude. A total of 36 children (mean age 5 5 years 10 months) were asked to perform physi...
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Open AccessIncreased plasma apoM levels in the patients suffered from hepatocellular carcinoma and other chronic liver diseases
To determine plasma apolipoprotein M (apoM) levels and other lipid profiles in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients compared to other chronic liver diseases and normal subjects.
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Open AccessAn Energy Consumption Optimized Clustering Algorithm for Radar Sensor Networks Based on an Ant Colony Algorithm
We optimize the cluster structure to solve problems such as the uneven energy consumption of the radar sensor nodes and random cluster head selection in the traditional clustering routing algorithm. According ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on Synthetic Evaluation of Human Performance in Manually Controlled Spacecraft Rendezvous and Docking Tasks
Manual-Control Rendezvous and Docking (MCRVD) is a complex and demanding task which requires astronauts to control the direction of six-freedom of the spacecraft accurately by hand. Its performance has a close...
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Open AccessMeasurement of fine particles and smoking activity in a statewide survey of 36 California Indian casinos
Despite California's 1994 statewide smoking ban, exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) continues in California's Indian casinos. Few data are available on exposure to airborne fine particles (PM2.5) in casinos, espe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quality Estimation for H.264/SVC Inter-layer Residual Prediction in Spatial Scalability
Scalable Video Coding (SVC) provides an efficient compression for the video bitstream equipped with various scalable configurations. H.264 scalable extension (H.264/SVC) is the most recent scalable coding stan...
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Open AccessA novel single nucleotide polymorphism within the NOD2 gene is associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in the Chinese Han, Uygur and Kazak populations
The present study aimed to investigate the genetic polymorphisms in exon 4 of the NOD2 gene in tuberculosis patients and healthy controls, in order to clarify whether polymorphisms in the NOD2 gene is associated ...
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Open AccessPARALIND-based identifiability results for parameter estimation via uniform linear array
This article applies PARAllel profiles with LINear Dependencies (PARALIND) model to analyze identifiability of parameter estimation in the presence of incoherent multipath via uniform linear array (ULA). New i...
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Open AccessComputed tomography-guided permanent brachytherapy for locoregional recurrent gastric cancer
Locoregional recurrence is the typical pattern of recurrence in gastric cancer, and cannot be removed by surgery in most of the patients. We aimed to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of computed tomograph...
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Open AccessThe oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation
The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas belongs to one of the most species-rich but genomically poorly explored phyla, the Mollusca. Here we report the sequencing and assembly of the oyster genome using short reads ...
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Open AccessThe sequence and analysis of a Chinese pig genome
The pig is an economically important food source, amounting to approximately 40% of all meat consumed worldwide. Pigs also serve as an important model organism because of their similarity to humans at the anat...
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Open AccessNovel Y chromosome breakpoint in an infertile male with a de novo translocation t(Y;16): a case report
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Open AccessEfficacy of adjuvant immunotherapy with cytokine-induced killer cells in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer
To determine the long-term efficacy of adjuvant immunotherapy with autologous cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells for locally advanced gastric cancer patients.
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Open AccessImpact of chromosomal heteromorphisms on reproductive failure and analysis of 38 heteromorphic pedigrees in Northeast China
To compare the frequency of chromosomal heteromorphisms in reproductive failure and fertile control individuals in Northeast China, and investigate the impact on reproductive failure
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Open AccessGenome of the Chinese tree shrew
Chinese tree shrews (Tupaia belangeri chinensis) possess many features valuable in animals used as experimental models in biomedical research. Currently, there are numerous attempts to employ tree shrews as model...
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Open AccessCytokine-induced killer cells promote antitumor immunity
The number of immune cells, especially dendritic cells and cytotoxic tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL), particularly Th1 cells, CD8 T cells, and NK cells is associated with increased survival of cancer pati...
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Open AccessSerum microRNAs profile from genome-wide serves as a fingerprint for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction and angina pectoris
In order to identify miRNAs expression profiling from genome-wide screen for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and angina pectoris (AP), we investigated the altered profile of serum microRNAs in A...
