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Selenium reduction of ubiquinone via SQOR suppresses ferroptosis
The canonical biological function of selenium is in the production of selenocysteine residues of selenoproteins, and this forms the basis for its role as an essential antioxidant and cytoprotective micronutrie...
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Inhibition of KIF20A suppresses the replication of influenza A virus by inhibiting viral entry
The influenza A virus (IAV) has caused several pandemics, and therefore there are many ongoing efforts to identify novel antiviral therapeutic strategies including vaccines and antiviral drugs. However, influe...
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Open AccessA high‐efficiency and stable perovskite solar cell fabricated in ambient air using a polyaniline passivation layer
Over the past number of years, the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells has remained at 25.5%, reflecting a respectable result for the general incorporation of organometallic trihalide perovsk...
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KIF11 inhibition decreases cytopathogenesis and replication of influenza A virus
Seasonal flu is an infectious disease of the respiratory tract caused by influenza viruses. The development of anti-influenza drugs has significantly reduced the threat from the influenza virus; however, frequ...
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Open AccessMicrobial production of multiple short-chain primary amines via retrobiosynthesis
Bio-based production of many chemicals is not yet possible due to the unknown biosynthetic pathways. Here, we report a strategy combining retrobiosynthesis and precursor selection step to design biosynthetic p...
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Open AccessClassification and Morphological Analysis of Vector Mosquitoes using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Image-based automatic classification of vector mosquitoes has been investigated for decades for its practical applications such as early detection of potential mosquitoes-borne diseases. However, the classific...
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Genetic variation in resistance of the tiger pufferfish Takifugu rubripes to a host-specific monogenean parasite Heterobothrium okamotoi
The tiger pufferfish Takifugu rubripes is one of the most valuable aquaculture species in Japan. In this study, we investigated the genetic variation in resistance to heterobothriosis caused by a host-specific mo...
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Author Correction: A comprehensive metabolic map for production of bio-based chemicals
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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A comprehensive metabolic map for production of bio-based chemicals
Production of industrial chemicals using renewable biomass feedstock is becoming increasingly important to address limited fossil resources, climate change and other environmental problems. To develop high-per...
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Synergistic Transdermal Delivery of Biomacromolecules Using Sonophoresis after Microneedle Treatment
Transdermal drug delivery systems have been studied as an attractive alternative to conventional delivery routes. However, the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum, acts as a primary barrier to dru...
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Design of overlay coated region with hardfacing, transition and damage diminution layers for the reduction of damages of hot forging tools
Hot forging dies are damaged by the mixed failure modes including wear, thermal cracks, impact cracks, corrosion cracks, etc.. In order to extend the service life of the hot forging die, the diminution technol...
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Enhanced power conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells assisted with phosphor materials
Theoretically dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are high efficiency solar cells. However, DSSCs have lower power conversion efficiency (PCE) than silicon based solar cells. In this study, we use scattering la...
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Open AccessEnabling 5G mobile wireless technologies
Research on 5G mobile wireless technologies has been very active in both academia and industry in the past few years. While there has been certain consensus on the overall requirements of 5G wireless systems (...
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Applications of genome-scale metabolic network model in metabolic engineering
Genome-scale metabolic network model (GEM) is a fundamental framework in systems metabolic engineering. GEM is built upon extensive experimental data and literature information on gene annotation and function,...
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A fuzzy AHP-based decision support model for quantifying failure risk of excavation work
In recent years, excavation work of high-rise buildings has been becoming increasingly complex in the congested urban areas and frequently exposed to substantial hazards, impediment to safety as well as financ...
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miRAuto: An automated user-friendly MicroRNA prediction tool utilizing plant small RNA sequencing data
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression in animals and plants. The recent rapid advancement in miRNA biology, including high-throughput sequencing of s...
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Relay Selection with Limited Feedback for Multiple UE Relays
When a source has insufficient information about relay-to-destination (R-D) link, like type-2 user equipment (UE) relaying, using average channel gain severely degrades the end-to-end error performance. In thi...
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Partial Information Relaying with Multi-Layered Superposition Coding
In cooperative communications, relay usually forwards a full information of source data as received. Unlike this approach, this paper proposes a new relaying scheme based on multi-layered superposition coding ...
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Adaptive and Iterative GSC/MRC Switching Techniques Based on CRC Error Detection for AF Relaying System
In cooperative amplify-and-forward (AF) system using spatially distributed relays, there exist some relay paths degrading performance because of noise enhancement. In order to alleviate the deteriorating effec...
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Hybrid Hard/Soft Decode-and-Forward Relaying Protocol with Distributed Turbo Code
This paper proposes a hybrid hard/soft decode-and-forward (DF) relaying protocol with distributed turbo code (DTC), based on error detection in cooperative communications. In order to improve the performance i...
