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In situ cultivation of deep-sea water with bicarbonate fueled a different microbial community
Some deep-sea microbes may incorporate inorganic carbon to reduce CO2 emission to upper layer and atmosphere. How the microbial inhabitants can be affected under addition of bicarbonate has not been studied using...
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Influence of Autonomous Sailboat Dual-Wing Sail Interaction on Lift Coefficients
To analyze the influence of the chord length ratio and angle of attack on lift coefficients and explore the interaction mechanism between the two, we established a calculation model of the pressure distributio...
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Modeling and Control of Hybrid-driven Gliding Motion for an Underwater Gliding Snake-like Robot
An underwater gliding snake-like robot (UGSR) combines the advantages of an underwater glider (UG) and an underwater snake-like robot (USR) to achieve both long endurance and high maneuverability. This paper i...
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Research on Escape Strategy of Local Optimal Solution for Underwater Hexapod Robot Based on Energy Consumption Optimization
Aiming at the local optimal solution problem of artificial potential field method, this paper takes energy consumption as the optimization objective to plan the escape strategy of underwater hexapod robot. The...
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Unscented Kalman-filter-based sliding mode control for an underwater gliding snake-like robot
With its strong endurance and high maneuverability, an underwater gliding snake-like robot (UGSR) is a strong potential candidate for aquatic exploration and monitoring. The major feature of the UGSR, which di...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Efficient Generation of Mice with Consistent Transgene Expression by FEEST
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Identification of urine protein biomarkers with the potential for early detection of lung cancer
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Open AccessPerioperative and long-term outcomes of liver resection for hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma without versus with hepatic inflow occlusion: study protocol for a prospective randomized controlled trial
The high prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) imposes a huge burden of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Asia. Surgical resection remains an important therapeutic strategy for HCC. Hepatic inflow occlusion, k...
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Open AccessEfficient Generation of Mice with Consistent Transgene Expression by FEEST
Transgenic mouse models are widely used in biomedical research; however, current techniques for producing transgenic mice are limited due to the unpredictable nature of transgene expression. Here, we report a ...
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Open AccessIdentification of urine protein biomarkers with the potential for early detection of lung cancer
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths and has an overall 5-year survival rate lower than 15%. Large-scale clinical trials have demonstrated a significant relative reduction in mortality in ...
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Open AccessSimultaneous bile duct and portal vein ligation induces faster atrophy/hypertrophy complex than portal vein ligation: role of bile acids
Portal vein ligation (PVL) induces atrophy/hypertrophy complex (AHC). We hypothesised that simultaneous bile duct and portal vein ligation (BPL) might induce proper bile acid (BA) retention to enhance AHC by a...
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Association analysis between the c.1804C>A genetic polymorphism of XRCC1 gene and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in Chinese population
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common liver malignancy in the world. The X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 gene (XRCC1) is one of the most important candidate genes for influencing HCC risk. The purpo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Knowledge Construction from the Perspective of Symbolic Learning
Symbol-learning is not just the study of symbol itself to learners. It is important for them to get increasing experience in the learning process and to reconstruct their knowledge. Symbol-learning can promote...
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Optimal Sensors Deployment for Tracking Level Curve Based on Posterior Cramér-Rao Lower Bound in Scalar Field
This paper focuses on discussing the space distance of gliders in a group for level curve tracking task. A developed adaptive space distance algorithm for glider formation based on Posterior Cramér-Rao Lower B...
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Precise Reconstruction of Veins and Bile Ducts in Rat Liver Transplantation
Rat orthotopic liver transplantation (ROLT) remains a technically demanding procedure, especially regarding the reconstruction of the suprahepatic vena cava (SHVC). In this study, a new microsuture technique w...
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One-stage Resection for Bismuth Type IV Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma with High Hilar Resection and Parenchyma-preserving Strategies: A Cohort Study
Bismuth type IV hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HC) tumors are usually considered unresectable. The strategies of high hilar resection while preserving liver parenchyma can achieve potentially one-stage curative res...
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Changes of brain activity in the aged SAMP mouse
This study investigates characteristics of aging in the central nervous system of the senescence accelerated prone mice (SAMP8). We examined 3 and 10-months old senescence-accelerated-prone mice (SAMP8) for fu...
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Distribution of Neuropeptide Y-Immunoreactive Neurons in the Human Brainstem, Cerebellum, and Cortex During Development
1. Neuropeptide Y is found throughout the central nervous system where it appears to play a wide range of often poorly understood functions. In this study, the distribution of neuropeptide Y immunoreactive (NP...
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Early Postnatal Sound Exposure Induces Lasting Neuronal Changes in the Inferior Colliculus of Senescence Accelerated Mice (SAMP8): A Morphometric Study on GABAergic Neurons and NMDA Expression
Senescence-acceleration-prone mice (SAMP8) provide a model to study the influence of early postnatal sound exposure upon the aging auditory midbrain. SAMP8 were exposed to a 9-kHz monotone of either 53- or 65-...
