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Open AccessCantonese natural language processing in the transformers era: a survey and current challenges
Despite being spoken by a large population of speakers worldwide, Cantonese is under-resourced in terms of the data scale and diversity compared to other major languages. This limitation has excluded it from t...
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Open AccessFlash healing of laser-induced graphene
The advancement of laser-induced graphene (LIG) technology has streamlined the fabrications of flexible graphene devices. However, the ultrafast kinetics triggered by laser irradiation generates intrinsic amor...
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Soil Geobacteraceae are the key predictors of neurotoxic methylmercury bioaccumulation in rice
Contamination of rice by the potent neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) originates from microbe-mediated Hg methylation in soils. However, the high diversity of Hg methylating microorganisms in soils hinders the p...
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Vertical two-dimensional WS2 flakes grown on flexible CNT film for excellent electrochemical performance
Soft electrochemical actuators that can generate mechanical motions in response to electrical stimuli can be used as artificial muscles in microscale robots. The electrode materials are the key component of th...
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Enhancing lithium-ion and electric conductive Li2FeSiO4 cathode through in situ boron-do** and carbon-coating strategy
The extremely low electrical conductivity and ion-diffusion coefficient of Li2FeSiO4 limits its application as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries. Therefore, in situ boron-doped Li2FeSi1−xBxO4−δ/C (x = 0...
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Entropy–enthalpy interactions and optical properties of non-equiatomic multicomponent rare-earth oxides
The multicomponent oxides (Ce1/2Zr1/2)1−x(La1/3Y1/3Gd1/3)xO2−σ with different elements ratio (x = 0.3, 0.45, 0.6, 0.75, 0.9; abbreviated as CZLYGx) were prepared by co-precipitation method. XRD patterns shows tha...
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Stabilization of Sb nanoparticles using metal–organic frameworks to obtain stable performance of anode material for sodium-ion batteries
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Open AccessReinfection in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review
With the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, some COVID-19 patients have become reinfected with the virus. Viral gene sequencing has found that some of these patients were reinfected by the different and ot...
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Phosphorus-do** and oxygen vacancy endowing anatase TiO2 with excellent sodium storage performance
Titanium dioxide is considered to be promising anode for sodium-ion batteries due to stable structure during the charge/discharge process. However, its practical application is hindered by the slow electron/io...
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Correction to: Phosphorus-do** and oxygen vacancy endowing anatase TiO2 with excellent sodium storage performance
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Open AccessPrevalence and associated factors of sexually transmitted infections among methamphetamine users in Eastern China: a cross-sectional study
The reported incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in China has been increasing over the last decades, especially among drug users, which has become one of the main burdens of public health in Ch...
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Open AccessComparative studies on the mechanical properties and microstructures of outerwood and corewood in Pinus radiata D. Don
Twenty-year-old Pinus radiata trees imported from New Zealand were investigated, and a comparison was made between the outerwood (rings 16–20) and corewood (rings 4–6) in terms of mechanical properties, anatomica...
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Millimeter-wave wireless communications for home network in fiber-to-the-room scenario
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology has been well studied for both outdoor long-distance transmission and indoor short-range communication. In the recently emerging fiber-to-the-room (FTTR) architecture in the...
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Clinical features of severe pediatric patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan: a single center’s observational study
An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei, China. People of all ages are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection. No information on severe pediatric...
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Open AccessSimulation on hydrodynamics of non-spherical particulate system using a drag coefficient correlation based on artificial neural network
Fluidization of non-spherical particles is very common in petroleum engineering. Understanding the complex phenomenon of non-spherical particle flow is of great significance. In this paper, coupled with two-fl...
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Open AccessNon-spherical particle mixing behaviors by spherical inert particles assisted in a fluidized bed
Fluidized beds are widely used in many industrial fields such as petroleum, chemical and energy. In actual industrial processes, spherical inert particles are typically added to the fluidized bed to promote fl...
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Open AccessRVG-modified exosomes derived from mesenchymal stem cells rescue memory deficits by regulating inflammatory responses in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Exosomes are lipid-bilayer enclosed nano-sized vesicles that transfer functional cellular proteins, mRNA and miRNAs. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived exosomes have been demonstrated to prevent memory defi...
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Review and prospect of Li2ZnTi3O8-based anode materials for Li-ion battery
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are considered as one of the most promising power sources for energy storage system for a wide variety of applications such as personal electronic devices and large-fo...
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Validation of 5-item and 2-item questionnaires in Chinese version of Dizziness Handicap Inventory for screening objective benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
As possible candidate screening instruments for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), studies to validate the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) sub-scale (5-item and 2-item) and total scores are rare i...
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Keyword Query over Error-Tolerant Knowledge Bases
With more and more knowledge provided by WWW, querying and mining the knowledge bases have attracted much research attention. Among all the queries over knowledge bases, which are usually modelled as graphs, a...
