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Microstructure and Properties Characteristics of Ni–25Cr–10Fe–xSi (x = 1, 2, 3, 4) Alloys for Waste Incineration Equipment
The long-term aging behavior and corrosion resistance of Ni–25Cr–10Fe–xSi (x = 1, 2, 3, 4) alloys with varying Si content were systematically investigated. Ni–25Cr–10Fe–xSi alloys exhibited satisfactory mechanica...
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Steroid markers for species-specific Symbiodiniaceae: insights from molecular and δ13C measurements on four scleractinian corals
Endosymbiotic dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae are physiologically and ecologically important for reef-building corals. Certain symbiotic lineages may provide adaptive functions that aid corals in...
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Open AccessApplicability and improvement of different potential evapotranspiration models in different climate zones of China
Accurate estimation of potential evapotranspiration (PET) is the key for studying land-air interaction hydrological processes. Several models are used to estimate the PET based on standardized meteorological d...
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Seasonal Variation of Soil Erodibility Under Vegetation Restoration in the Agro-pastoral Ecotone of Northern China
Understanding the seasonal change of vegetation canopy and root system and its response to soil erodibility is helpful to elucidate the change and difference of erodibility in different land use and time under...
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Open AccessEBV infection-induced GPX4 promotes chemoresistance and tumor progression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) was the first oncogenic virus identified in humans. It is primarily associated with multiple lymphoid and epithelial cancers, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). However, its ass...
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Last glacial terrestrial vegetation record of leaf wax n-alkanols in the northern South China Sea: Contrast to scenarios from long-chain n-alkanes
Long-chain n-alkanols and n-alkanes in core sediments from the northern South China Sea (SCS) were measured to make a comparison during terrestrial vegetation reconstruction from ~42 ka to ~7 ka. The results show...
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Validating a Rating Scale for a University-Based Writing Assessment: The RUC-TWPE Experience
The validity of rating scales of writing performance is essential for ensuring reliable test scores and valid score inferences. This study reports on the validation of a rating scale for a university-based wri...
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Carbon nanotube supported bifunctional electrocatalysts containing iron-nitrogen-carbon active sites for zinc-air batteries
Bifunctional electrocatalysts with high activity toward both oxygen reduction and evolution reaction are highly desirable for rechargeable Zn-air batteries. Herein, a kind of carbon nanotube (CNT) supported si...
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Lake-level records support a mid-Holocene maximum precipitation in northern China
Lake level and its inferred East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) evolution in northern boundary of EASM during the Holocene are highly debated. Here, we present a 15-ka record of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraeth...
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Open AccessPartitioning tree water usage into storage and transpiration in a mixed forest
Water migration and use are important processes in trees. However, it is possible to overestimate transpiration by equating the water absorbed through the plant roots to that diffused back to the atmosphere th...
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The Silurian-Devonian boundary in East Yunnan (South China) and the minimum constraint for the lungfish-tetrapod split
The Silurian-Devonian interval is an essential period in Earth history for witnessing the rise of sarcopterygian fishes and terrestrial vascular plants. In addition to its implication in global stratigraphic c...
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Operational Laboratory Methods for GDGTs Groups Separation
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs), specific membrane lipids synthesized mainly by bacteria and archaea, can be divided into isoprenoids and methyl branched alkyl GDGTs (iGDGTs and brGDGTs, respecti...
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Sedimentary records of nitrogen isotope in the western tropical Pacific linked to the eastern tropical Pacific denitrification during the last deglacial time
The influence of past variations in water column denitrification (WCD) in the eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) on the western tropical Pacific (WTP) remains ambiguous, due to the deficiency of enough down-core r...
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Whole-plant instantaneous and short-term water-use efficiency in response to soil water content and CO2 concentration
Water-use efficiency (WUE) is a key parameter to understand plant survival strategies and promote forest management in response to climate change. Here, the whole-plant instantaneous WUE (WUEi-P) and short-term W...
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Open AccessLarge-scale microcarrier culture of HEK293T cells and Vero cells in single-use bioreactors
Gene therapy and viral vaccine are becoming attractive therapeutic options for the treatment of different malignant diseases. Viral vector productions are often using static culture vessels and small volume st...
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Open AccessA vegetation configuration pattern with a high-efficiency purification ability for TN, TP, AN, AP, and COD based on comprehensive assessment results
To identify a vegetation configuration pattern with a high-efficiency purification ability for total nitrogen (TN), available nitrogen (AN), total phosphorous (TP), available phosphorous (AP), and chemical oxy...
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Comparison of the partitioning of evapotranspiration – numerical modeling with different isotopic models using various kinetic fractionation coefficients
In the context of a warming climate and dry conditions, aggravating water shortages, research on partitioning total evapotranspiration (ET) into soil evaporation (E) and plant transpiration (T) is needed.
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Open AccessLooking beyond scores: validating a CEFR-based university speaking assessment in Mainland China
The present study examined the validity of a university-based speaking assessment (Test of Oral Proficiency in English, TOPE for short) in mainland China. The speaking assessment was developed to meet the stan...
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Alcohol compounds in Azolla imbricata and potential source implication for marine sediments
This study investigated the composition of long-chain alkyl diols, triols, sec-alcohols, hydroxyl acids, and other hydroxylated compounds in Azolla imbricata and compared the organic alcohol components of Azolla ...
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Detection and indication of 1,3,4-C27–29 triol in the sediment of northern South China Sea
After the detection of the 1,20,21-C29 long-chain triol in some sediments and freshwater pteridophytes, in this study, a new homologous long-chain triol, 1,3,4-C27–29, is detected for the first time in the Site4B...
