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Many applications need to meet diverse requirements of a large-scale distributed user group. That challenges the current requirements engineering techniques. Crowd-based requirements engineering was proposed a...
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Open AccessExperimental and numerical perspective on the fire performance of MXene/Chitosan/Phytic acid coated flexible polyurethane foam
Recent discoveries of two-dimensional transitional metal based materials have emerged as an excellent candidate for fabricating nanostructured flame-retardants. Herein, we report an eco-friendly flame-retardan...
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Open AccessGenetic diversity and population structure of Aedes aegypti after massive vector control for dengue fever prevention in Yunnan border areas
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the dengue virus. Aedes aegypti (Ae. Aegypti) is considered the primary vector of Dengue virus transmission in Yunnan Province, China. With increased urbanizatio...
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Open AccessA COVID-19 case report from asymptomatic contact: implication for contact isolation and incubation management
As of 2 March, 2020, at least 80 151 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases were reported in China. Most of the patients had a history of visiting Hubei Province or contacting with people who had ever staye...
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Shape-memory materials (SMMs) are characterized by their unique ability to remember and recover their shape in response to external stimuli. Over recent decades, the use of SMMs in biomedical areas such as tis...
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Open AccessThermal Degradation and Fire Properties of Fungal Mycelium and Mycelium - Biomass Composite Materials
Mycelium and mycelium-biomass composites are emerging as new sustainable materials with useful flame-retardant potentials. Here we report a detailed characterisation of the thermal degradation and fire propert...
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In recent years, submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection (STER) has emerged as a novel therapeutic endoscopic technique for upper gastrointestinal submucosal tumors (SMTs). The aim of this study was to evalu...
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Carbon nanomaterial-based aerogels have attracted significant interests from both academia and industry due to their extremely low bulk density, tunable surface functionality, high specific surface area, diel...
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Camshift has been well accepted as one of the most popular methods for object tracking. However, it fails to address complex situations, such as similar color interference, object occlusion, and illumination c...
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Open AccessTargeting inhibition of extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase pathway with AZD6244 (ARRY-142886) suppresses growth and angiogenesis of gastric cancer
AZD6244 (ARRY-142886), a highly selective MAPK-ERK kinase inhibitor, has shown excellent clinical efficacy in many tumors. However, the anti-tumor and anti-angiogenesis efficacy of AZD6244 on gastric cancer ha...
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Open AccessDietary fiber intake and pancreatic cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies
Evidence on the association between dietary fiber intake and pancreatic cancer risk has been controversial. Therefore, we carried out this meta-analysis to summarize available evidence from epidemiologic studi...
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The accuracy of microwave ranging is mainly limited by the frequency instability of the oscillator that generates the carrier phase signal. A dual transponder carrier ranging method is used to minimize the osc...
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Open AccessA meta-analysis for the effect of prophylactic GTN on the incidence of post-ERCP pancreatitis and on the successful rate of cannulation of bile ducts
Glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) has been shown to be able to relax the sphincter of Oddi (SO) both in animals and humans. Theoretically, the use of these compounds during and after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopan...
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