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Open AccessThree-dimensional inversion of knot defects recognition in timber cutting
The comprehensive utilization of wood is the main goal of log cutting, but knot defects increase the difficulty of rationally optimizing cutting. Due to the lack of real shape data of knot defects in logs, it ...
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Comprehensive Evaluation of the Reinforcement Effect of Grouting in Broken Surrounding Rock in Deep Roadways
With the gradual increase in mining depth, China has entered the deep mining stage. Deep mining is facing the influence of high ground stress. Additionally, due to the dual influence of working face mining, ro...
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A novel NIRS modelling method with OPLS-SPA and MIX-PLS for timber evaluation
The identification of timber properties is important for safe application. Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) technology is widely-used because of its simplicity, efficiency, and positive environmental attribut...
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Open AccessExtracellular vesicles produced by bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells attenuate renal fibrosis, in part by inhibiting the RhoA/ROCK pathway, in a UUO rat model
Extracellular vesicles produced by bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSC-EVs) can play important roles in the repair of injured tissues. Though numerous studies have reported the effect of EVs on renal fibr...
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Development of an Inexpensive Decentralized Autonomous Aquatic Craft Swarm System for Ocean Exploration
Swarm robotics in maritime engineering is a promising approach characterized by large numbers of relatively small and inexpensive autonomous aquatic crafts (AACs) to monitor marine environments. Compared with ...
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Open AccessExtracellular vesicles from bone marrow-derived multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells regulate inflammation and enhance tendon healing
Extracellular vesicles from bone marrow-derived multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (BMSC-EVs) can play important roles in the repair of injured tissues. However, no reports have investigated the role and un...
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Influence of Gd3+ on the Optical Properties of Dy3+-Activated CaF2 Single Crystal for White LED Application
The spectroscopic properties of 0.6%Dy:Ca1−xGdxF2+x (x = 0.003, 0.006, 0.012, 0.03) crystals were investigated and compared. The energy transfer process between Gd3+ and Dy3+ was also studied. Increasing the prop...
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Observability of Boolean Control Networks with Time-Variant Delays in States
This paper gives an equivalent condition for the observability of Boolean control networks (BCNs) with time-variant delays in states under a mild assumption by using the graph-theoretic method under the framew...
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An initial differential renal function between 35% and 40% has greater probability of leading to normal after pyeloplasty in patients with unilateral pelvic-ureteric junction obstruction
We compared the outcomes in patients who were <1 year old and had hydronephrosis with SFU grade 3–4 PUJ obstruction to observe the potential recovery of renal morphology and DRF after successful pyeloplasty.
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Effects of the donor age on proliferation, senescence and osteogenic capacity of human urine-derived stem cells
To study the effects of the donor age on the application potential of human urine-derived stem cells (hUSCs) in bone tissue engineering, by comparing proliferation, senescence and osteogenic differentiation of...
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Distributed Formation Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Based on Flocking and Consensus Algorithms
In this paper, a distributed formation controller of autonomous underwater vehicles is presented. An artificial potential field is proposed based on the Lennard-Jones potential. A weight function is designed t...
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Combined effects of engineered tendon matrix and GDF-6 on bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-based tendon regeneration
To examine whether an engineered tendon matrix (ETM) environment and growth and differentiation factor-6 (GDF-6) have synergistic effects on the tenogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells ...
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Diode-pumped mode-locked operation of a Nd,Y-codoped:SrF2 Laser
The continuously mode-locked operation of a novel Nd,Y:SrF2 laser pumped by the low power 796 nm multimode laser diode and mode-locked using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror is demonstrated. The continuo...
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Open AccessCo-delivery of VEGF and bFGF via a PLGA nanoparticle-modified BAM for effective contracture inhibition of regenerated bladder tissue in rabbits
Graft contracture is a common problem associated with the regeneration processes of tissue-engineered bladders. Currently, most strategies used for incorporating bioactive molecules into biomaterial designs do...
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Combined effect of ligament stem cells and umbilical-cord-blood-derived CD34+ cells on ligament healing
Transplantation of ligament-tissue-derived stem cells has become a promising approach in the repair of injured ligament. Neovascularization plays an important role in ligament healing and remodeling. Recently,...
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Effect of Young Extrinsic Environment Stimulated by Hypoxia on the Function of Aged Tendon Stem Cell
Tendon stem cells (TSCs), recently identified as tendon cells, play an important role in maintaining the homeostasis of tendon tissue. Age-related decrease in the function of TSCs has been reported. Recent rep...
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HGF inhibits TGF-β1-induced myofibroblast differentiation and ECM deposition via MMP-2 in Achilles tendon in rat
Both myofibroblast differentiation and extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition are essential components of scar formation in tendons, and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is reported to prevent fibrogenic response...
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Stress-dependent piezoresistivity of tunneling-percolation systems
We studied the stress-dependent piezoresistive behavior of tunneling-percolation systems. Starting from percolation-like power law of resistivity, a model relating piezoresistive stress coefficient to the appl...
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HGF suppresses the production of collagen type III and α-SMA induced by TGF-β1 in healing fibroblasts
The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of HGF in blocking TGF-β1-induced collagen III and α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) production in rat healing fibroblasts, fibroblasts were obtained from hea...
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Analysis on electrical transport characteristic of 8-hydroquinoline aluminum film
The current-voltage and capacitance-voltage characteristic of the organic single-layered electroluminescent diode utilizing 8-hydroquinoline aluminum as active layer have been measured under bias ranging from ...
