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Effect of Surface Roughness on the Properties of Ag/Cu Composite Strips
Ag/Cu composite strips with an alternating arrangement of 4 silver and 5 copper, which can be used as a fuse element, were successfully prepared by diffusion welding + cold rolling processes. The changing law ...
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Generation and characterization of customized Laguerre–Gaussian beams with arbitrary profiles
We experimentally demonstrate the generation of customized Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) beams whose intensity maxima are localized around any desired curves. The principle is to act with appropriate algebraic functi...
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Electroplating of Refractory Metals in Molten Salts: A Review
Molten salt has a wide electrochemical window and excellent ion conductivity, which makes it possible to electrodeposit refractory metals in molten salt to obtain coatings. Meanwhile, the electroplating rate w...
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Biochemical Characterization of a Marine Pseudoalteromonas citrea-Derived Fatty Acyl-AMP Ligase That Exhibits N-Acyl Amino Acid Synthetic Activity
Activation of fatty acids as acyl-adenylates by fatty acid-AMP ligase (FAAL) is a well-established process contributing to the formation of various functional natural products. Enzymatic characterization of FA...
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Open AccessThe roles of Th cells in myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, is a serious condition caused by the abrupt stoppage of blood flow to a part of the heart, leading to tissue damage. A significant aspect of this condit...
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We think, we do, and vice versa: Reciprocal effects of team collective perception of voice importance for leaders and team voice
How can teams sustain their team voice behavior over time? Drawing from meta-perceptions and the collective action perspective, we propose a reciprocal relationship between collective perception of voice impor...
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Protective Effect of Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgoaceae Family) Leaf Extracts on Female Drosophila melanogaster Suffering from Ultraviolet Irradiation through Activating the Keap1-Nrf2 Signaling Pathway
Ginkgo biloba leaf extracts (GBLE) possess strong physiological activities, such as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. In the experiment, the mitigating effects of GBLE on ultraviolet (UV) radiation-induc...
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Open AccessMulti-cohort study on cytokine and chemokine profiles in the progression of COVID-19
Various substances in the blood plasma serve as prognostic indicators of the progression of COVID-19. Consequently, multi-omics studies, such as proteomic and metabolomics, are ongoing to identify accurate bio...
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Open AccessEnergy-efficient two-way full-duplex relay transmission strategy with SWIPT and direct links
In this paper, we improve networks’ spectral efficiency (SE), extend networks’ lifetime, and maximize networks’ energy efficiency (EE) of two-way full-duplex (FD) relay networks. Firstly, to improve networks’ ...
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Analyzing Industry 4.0 Adoption Enablers for Supply Chain Flexibility: Impacts on Resilience and Sustainability
Supply chains all around the globe have experienced unprecedented disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme weather events, industrial mishaps, political conflicts, and war. In response to these disru...
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Low-temperature lead-free SnBiIn solder for electronic packaging
In pursuit of functionality and miniaturization in electronics, 3D integrated packaging requires low-temperature solders. This study explores a novel low-temperature lead-free SnBiIn solder. The solder has an ...
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Age of hypertension onset and cognitive function in the elderly: an observational study from the NHANES 2011–2014
This study aims to evaluate the association between age of hypertension onset and cognitive function in a representative sample of US older adults.
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Enhancing Wheat Yield Through Microbial Organic Fertilizer Substitution for Partial Chemical Fertilization: Regulation of Nitrogen Conversion and Utilization
The efficacy of microbial organic fertilizer as a partial replacement for chemical fertilizer in augmenting crop yield and improving soil quality has been a topic of uncertainty. This study sought to clarify t...
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Abnormal Condition Identification for the Electro-fused Magnesia Smelting Process Based on Condition-relevant Information
To improve the accuracy of feature representation and abnormal condition identification, a new abnormal condition identification method, named integrating multiple binary neural networks based on condition-rel...
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Nitrate Reductase Drives Nutrition Control and Disease Resistance in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Cultivars
Nitrate reductase plays an important role in preventing the occurrence of diseases and insect pests, which could rapidly reduce the accumulation of nitrate and induce the excess of soluble nitrogen compounds i...
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Two weight estimates for \(L^{r}\) -Hörmander singular integral operators and rough singular integral operators with matrix weights
In this paper, we give new bump conditions for two matrix weight inequalities of \(L^{r}\) ...
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Open AccessAssociation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among US adults with prehypertension: a prospective cohort study
Prehypertension affects 25–50% of adults worldwide and no prior study has examined the relationship between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations and mortality risk in individuals with prehyperten...
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Insidious transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ordos, China: a molecular epidemiology study
In this study, we conducted this population-based study to evaluate the genetic diversity and clustering rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) strains using the whole-genome sequencing (WGS), to better underst...
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Open AccessA pancancer analysis of the clinical and genomic characteristics of multiple primary cancers
Multiple primary cancer (MPC) denotes individuals with two or more malignant tumors occurring simultaneously or successively. Herein, a total of 11,000 pancancer patients in TCGA database (1993–2013) were divi...
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Open AccessRecent progress in Fano-resonant terahertz metasurface and its application
The unique electromagnetic response characteristics of metasurfaces and their intrinsic physical mechanisms have attracted a lot of attention. With the help of metasurfaces, the amplitude, phase, polarization,...
