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Open AccessReturners and explorers dichotomy in the face of natural hazards
Understanding human mobility patterns amid natural hazards is crucial for enhancing urban emergency responses and rescue operations. Existing research on human mobility has delineated two primary types of indi...
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Open AccessSome convergently three-term trust region conjugate gradient algorithms under gradient function non-Lipschitz continuity
This paper introduces two three-term trust region conjugate gradient algorithms, TT-TR-WP and TT-TR-CG, which are capable of converging under non-Lipschitz continuous gradient functions without any additional ...
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Retraction Note: How digitalization works in promoting corporate sustainable development performance? The mediating role of green technology innovation
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Open AccessReduced sulfur compounds and carboxylic acid groups in dissolved PFRs of iron-biochar enhance Cr(VI) reduction in anaerobic conditions
In addition to the adsorption and immobilization capacities of iron-modified biochars, these materials produce persistent free radicals (PFRs) that can carry out metal [i.e., Cr(VI)] redox transformations, but...
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Open AccessShort-term and long-term efficacy of accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis
In recent years, accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation (aTMS) has been developed, which has a shortened treatment period. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and long-term maintenance ef...
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Open AccessConvergence of resistance and evolutionary responses in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica co-inhabiting chicken farms in China
Sharing of genetic elements among different pathogens and commensals inhabiting same hosts and environments has significant implications for antimicrobial resistance (AMR), especially in settings with high ant...
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Assessing Urban Resource Consumption and Carbon Emissions from a Food–Energy–Water Nexus Perspective
This chapter aims to analyze the carbon emissions in the food–energy–water (FEW) nexus from an urban supply-and-demand perspective by quantifying resource consumption flows in FEW supply chains so that carbon ...
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Open AccessMachine learning and metagenomics reveal shared antimicrobial resistance profiles across multiple chicken farms and abattoirs in China
China is the largest global consumer of antimicrobials and improving surveillance methods could help to reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR) spread. Here we report the surveillance of ten large-scale chicken ...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: How digitalization works in promoting corporate sustainable development performance? The mediating role of green technology innovation
How does organizational digitalization enable enterprises to achieve sustainable development? To explore this question, in this paper, sustainable development performance is characterized by the corporate’s fi...
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Long Short-Term Conditional Probability Matrix Prediction in Energy Efficient Ethernet
Recently, much research on Energy Efficient Ethernet(EEE) have been carried out. For example, the recently proposed Frame Coalescing with Dynamic Threshold(FC-DT) strategy takes account of users’ target delay ...
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Formation Control of Multi-robots Using Backstep** Sliding Mode Control
Due to the wide application of robots, multi-robot formation plays an increasingly important role in autonomous transportation and service. This paper studies a formation control problem of a multi-robot syste...
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Characteristics of PVC pyrolysis products under electric field
This paper studied the effect of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) on pyrolysis product characteristics of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) through experimentation, exploring PVC pyrolysis treatment with a new idea....
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Open AccessNeuronal Death Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategy in Ischemic Stroke
Ischemic stroke caused by intracranial vascular occlusion has become increasingly prevalent with considerable mortality and disability, which gravely burdens the global economy. Current relatively effective cl...
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Open AccessEnhanced metabolic flux of methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway by overexpression of Ginkgo biloba 1-Hydroxy-2-methyl-2-(E)-butenyl 4-diphosphate Reductase 1 (GbHDR1) gene in poplar
Terpenoids are of great interests in a broad range of health-beneficial biological activities and various industrial applications. In plants, terpenoids are synthesized by two distinct pathways, methylerythrit...
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Based on the rupture accident of the stator blade of a high-pressure steam turbine diaphragm, the strength of the crack at the connection between the blade and the outer ring was calculated by using finite ele...
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Few-layer boron nitride nanosheets/poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorofluoroethylene) dielectric nanocomposite functionalized with grafting POSS copolymer
The development of advanced film capacitors for the energy storage and conversion has attracted tremendous attentions to fulfill the applications of electrical power supplies. The polymer-based composite with ...
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Analytical loss model of series-resonant indirect-matrix-type power electronics transformers using MOSFETs
A MOSFET-based series-resonant indirect-matrix-type power electronic transformer (PET) consists of line-frequency-switching folding–unfolding bridges and series-resonant dc–dc converters (SRCs), which is an at...
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Multi-object Tracking Based on Nearest Optimal Template Library
Noisy detection and similar appearance lead to deteriorated mis-identification and id-switch in Multi-Object Tracking (MOT). To address these problems, we propose a novel Nearest Optimal Template Library (NOTL...
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Mask-Ranking Network for Semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation
Video object segmentation is the fundamental problem of video analysis and many methods based on mask propagation and matching have been proposed in recent years. However, the two strategies are highly depende...
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Develo** a versatile electrochemical platform with optimized electrode configuration through screen-printing technology toward glucose detection
Rapid on-site detection of glucose has been attracting considerable attention nowadays. Screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) were assessed as ideal detection platforms due to their advantages such as, disposabilit...
