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Open AccessA comparative study on ctDNA and tumor DNA mutations in lung cancer and benign cases with a high number of CTCs and CTECs
Liquid biopsy provides a non-invasive approach that enables detecting circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) using blood specimens and theoretically benefits early finding primary tum...
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Detection of circulating rare cells benefitted the diagnosis of malignant solitary pulmonary nodules
Solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) are challenging in differentiating between benignancy and malignancy. Therefore, more effective non-invasive biomarkers are urgently needed. The purpose of this investigation ...
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Open AccessNano-channel-based physical and chemical synergic regulation for dendrite-free lithium plating
Uncontrollable dendrite growth resulting from the non-uniform lithium ion (Li+) flux and volume expansion in lithium metal (Li) negative electrode leads to rapid performance degradation and serious safety problem...
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Open AccessNecroptosis regulates tumor repopulation after radiotherapy via RIP1/RIP3/MLKL/JNK/IL8 pathway
Tumor cell repopulation after radiotherapy is a major cause for the tumor radioresistance and recurrence. This study aims to investigate the underlying mechanism of tumor repopulation after radiotherapy, with ...
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A low-complexity and efficient encoder rate control solution for distributed residual video coding
Existing encoder rate control (ERC) solutions have two technical limitations that prevent them from being widely used in real-world applications. One is that encoder side information (ESI) is required to be ge...
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Utility-Based Resource Allocation in OFDMA Relay Systems with Half-Duplex Transmission
This paper considers resource allocation in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) relay system, which uses either direct transmission or nonregenerative relay transmission strategies in each...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Social-Aware Routing Protocol for Two Different Scenarios in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network
Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) has recently attracted wide public attention. A key challenge is to design suitable routing protocols for VANET. In order to get high packet delivery ratio and low end-to-end d...
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Propagation properties of overmoded plasma circular waveguide
The normal modes in overmoded plasma waveguide coated with a lossy material are analyzed, particularly for the variation of its propagation properties with plasma parameters, coating materials, dimensions of t...
