228 Result(s)

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Hybrid ant colony-based inter-cluster routing protocol for FANET

This study addresses the challenges in large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) clusters, specifically the scalability issues and limitations of using reactive routing protocols for inter-cluster routing. The...

Siwei Yang, Shu Wang, Tingli Li, Tao Hu, Ziliang Xu, Renze He… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Study on compaction characteristics and mechanical model of dry crushing filling material under lateral confinement condition

The compaction characteristics and bearing capacity of dry filling materials in goaf have a significant influence on stope control and surface stability. Through acoustic emission monitoring and mechanical mod...

Youlin Xu, Shaokang Wu, Zhisong Chen, Xukun Wu, Jitao Zhang… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Observation of heat pum** effect by radiative shuttling

Heat shuttling phenomenon is characterized by the presence of a non-zero heat flow between two bodies without net thermal bias on average. It was initially predicted in the context of nonlinear heat conduction...

Yuxuan Li, Yongdi Dang, Sen Zhang, **nran Li, Tianle Chen… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the cold-water species Ophiura sarsii

The cold-water species Ophiura sarsii, a brittle star, is a key echinoderm in the Arctic continental shelf region, highly sensitive to climate change. However, the absence of a high-quality genome has hindered a ...

Chen Han, Qian Zhang, Yixuan Li, Yuyao Sun, Yue Dong, Meiling Ge… in Scientific Data (2024)

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A Prolonged Artificial Nighttime-light Dataset of China (1984-2020)

Nighttime light remote sensing has been an increasingly important proxy for human activities. Despite an urgent need for long-term products and pilot explorations in synthesizing them, the publicly available l...

Lixian Zhang, Zhehao Ren, Bin Chen, Peng Gong, Bing Xu, Haohuan Fu in Scientific Data (2024)

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Reciprocating RNA Polymerase batters through roadblocks

RNA polymerases must transit through protein roadblocks to produce full-length transcripts. Here we report real-time measurements of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase passing through different barriers. As intuitiv...

** Qian, Allison Cartee, Wenxuan Xu, Yan Yan, Bing Wang… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Deficiency of the HGF/Met pathway leads to thyroid dysgenesis by impeding late thyroid expansion

The mechanisms of bifurcation, a key step in thyroid development, are largely unknown. Here we find three zebrafish lines from a forward genetic screening with similar thyroid dysgenesis phenotypes and identif...

Ya Fang, Jia-** Wan, Zheng Wang, Shi-Yang Song, Cao-Xu Zhang… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Contribution of irreversible non-180° domain to performance for multiphase coexisted potassium sodium niobate ceramics

Despite the dominance of lead-based piezoelectric materials with ultrahigh electric-field-induced strain in actuating applications, seeking eco-friendly substitutes with an equivalent performance remains an ur...

Bo Wu, Lin Zhao, Jiaqing Feng, Yiting Zhang, **long Song, Jian Ma… in Nature Communications (2024)

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BASALT refines binning from metagenomic data and increases resolution of genome-resolved metagenomic analysis

Metagenomic binning is an essential technique for genome-resolved characterization of uncultured microorganisms in various ecosystems but hampered by the low efficiency of binning tools in adequately recoverin...

Zhiguang Qiu, Li Yuan, Chun-Ang Lian, Bin Lin, Jie Chen, Rong Mu… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Identification of diagnostic markers for moyamoya disease by combining bulk RNA-sequencing analysis and machine learning

Moyamoya disease (MMD) remains a chronic progressive cerebrovascular disease with unknown etiology. A growing number of reports describe the development of MMD relevant to infection or autoimmune diseases. Ide...

Yifan Xu, Bing Chen, Zhongxiang Guo, Cheng Chen, Chao Wang, Han Zhou… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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The Deinococcus protease PprI senses DNA damage by directly interacting with single-stranded DNA

Bacteria have evolved various response systems to adapt to environmental stress. A protease-based derepression mechanism in response to DNA damage was characterized in Deinococcus, which is controlled by the spec...

Huizhi Lu, Zi**g Chen, Teng **e, Shitong Zhong, Shasha Suo… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Limited generalizability of multivariate brain-based dimensions of child psychiatric symptoms

Multivariate machine learning techniques are a promising set of tools for identifying complex brain-behavior associations. However, failure to replicate results from these methods across samples has hampered t...

Bing Xu, Lorenza Dall’Aglio, John Flournoy, Gerda Bortsova… in Communications Psychology (2024)

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Constructing and validating the museum product creativity measurement (MPCM): dimensions for creativity assessment of souvenir products in Chinese urban historical museums

As museums continue to play an increasingly significant role in the preservation, innovation, and dissemination of cultural heritages, the products sold in their souvenir shops have become a vital carrier of c...

Hui Cheng, Xu Sun, **g **e, Bing-Jian Liu… in Humanities and Social Sciences Communicati… (2024)

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A deep-learning-based framework for identifying and localizing multiple abnormalities and assessing cardiomegaly in chest X-ray

Accurate identification and localization of multiple abnormalities are crucial steps in the interpretation of chest X-rays (CXRs); however, the lack of a large CXR dataset with bounding boxes severely constrai...

Weijie Fan, Yi Yang, **g Qi, Qichuan Zhang, Cuiwei Liao, Li Wen… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Life cycle environmental impact assessment of natural gas distributed energy system

Natural gas distributed energy is recognized as a pivotal means to enhance energy efficiency and mitigate carbon dioxide emissions through localized energy cascading. Positioned as a key option for advancing t...

Yakun Wang, Ting Ni, Bing He, Jiu** Xu in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Programmed microalgae-gel promotes chronic wound healing in diabetes

Chronic diabetic wounds are at lifelong risk of develo** diabetic foot ulcers owing to severe hypoxia, excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS), a complex inflammatory microenvironment, and the potential for ...

Yong Kang, Lingling Xu, **rui Dong, Xue Yuan, Jiamin Ye… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Addendum: Cellular differentiation into hyphae and spores in halophilic archaea

Shu-Kun Tang, **ao-Yang Zhi, Yao Zhang, Kira S. Makarova… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Single-cell analysis of chromatin accessibility in the adult mouse brain

Recent advances in single-cell technologies have led to the discovery of thousands of brain cell types; however, our understanding of the gene regulatory programs in these cell types is far from complete^1–4. Here...

Songpeng Zu, Yang Eric Li, Kangli Wang, Ethan J. Armand, Sainath Mamde… in Nature (2023)

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Conserved and divergent gene regulatory programs of the mammalian neocortex

Divergence of cis-regulatory elements drives species-specific traits¹, but how this manifests in the evolution of the neocortex at the molecular and cellular level remains unclear. Here we investigated the gene r...

Nathan R. Zemke, Ethan J. Armand, Wenliang Wang, Seoyeon Lee, **gtian Zhou… in Nature (2023)

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SLC35D3 promotes white adipose tissue browning to ameliorate obesity by NOTCH signaling

White adipose tissue browning can promote lipid burning to increase energy expenditure and improve adiposity. Here, we show that Slc35d3 expression is significantly lower in adipose tissues of obese mice. Whil...

Hongrui Wang, Liang Yu, **’e Wang, Yaqing Zhang, Mengchen Xu… in Nature Communications (2023)