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Open AccessYTHDC1 aggravates high glucose-induced retinal vascular endothelial cell injury via m6A modification of CDK6
Retinal vascular endothelial cell (RVECs) injury is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among the patients with diabetes. RVECs dysfunction is the predominant pathological manifestation of vascular compli...
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An algorithm for the spectral radius of weakly essentially irreducible nonnegative tensors
In this paper, we first define the weakly essentially irreducible nonnegative tensors and unify the definitions of essentially positive tensors, weakly positive tensors and generalized weakly positive tensors....
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Open AccessThe effect of different angle kappa on higher-order aberrations after small incision lenticule extraction
This study aimed to compare higher-order aberrations (HOAs) after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) in patients with different angle kappa. This is a retrospective report in which 341 right eyes of 3...
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Open AccessA giant orbital solitary fibrous tumor treated by surgical excision: a case report and literature review
Spindle cell tumors, called solitary fibrous tumors (SFTs), are of mesenchymal origin, and can develop in the orbit. As ‘intermediate malignancy’ tumors, only a small percentage show malignant behavior, such a...
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Novel compound heterozygous missense variants (c.G955A and c.A1822C) of CACNA2D4 likely causing autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa in a Chinese patient
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a rare and heterogeneous group of inherited ocular diseases. However, the relationship between CACNA2D4 mutations and RP is not well understood. In this study, a Chinese autosomal rec...
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Selective Am(III) strip** with water-soluble PyTri-Diol in nitric acid from HDEHP organic phase
Hydrophilic 2,6-bis[1-(propan-1-ol)-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)] pyridine (PyTri-Diol) was synthesized and tested for selective complexation of Am(III) into nitric acid solution from acidic bis(2-ethylhexyl)phosphoric...
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Tc behavior and influence in U/Pu partition flowsheet experiments with organic reducing agents
Tc play an important role in U/Pu partition when U(IV) is used as reducing agent in PUREX process. In this work, U/Pu partition flowsheet experiments were studied using different organic reducing agents, which...
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Characterizing groundwater flow in a translational rock landslide of southwestern China
Characterizing the groundwater flow pattern in a landslide would help to establish a monitor-warning system to predict the movement of a highly concealed and extremely hazard translational landslide. The compl...
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Selective extraction of plutonium(IV) over uranium(VI), americium(III), europium(III) and zirconium(IV) with bidentate O-phenoxydiamide ligands: experimental and theoretical study
The performance of a series of novel O-phenoxydiamides extracting Zr(IV), Eu(III), U(VI), Pu(IV) and Am(III) was studied. The result of extraction experiments showed that the coordination abilities of these fi...
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Open AccessA novel homozygous variant of GPR98 causes usher syndrome type IIC in a consanguineous Chinese family by next generation sequencing
Usher syndrome (USH) is a common heterogeneous retinopathy and a hearing loss (HL) syndrome. However, the gene causing Usher syndrome type IIC (USH2C) in a consanguineous Chinese pedigree is unknown.
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Effect of water motion and microhabitat preferences on spatio-temporal variation of epiphytic communities: a case study in an artificial rocky reef system, Laoshan Bay, China
Epiphytic fauna community structure is mainly determined by macro-scale environmental characteristics (e.g., water motion), whereas the influences of, and interaction with, micro-scale habitat-forming species ...
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Use of Free Modified Innervated Posterior Interosseous Artery Perforator Flap to Repair Digital Skin and Soft Tissue Defects
Current techniques to reconstruct soft tissue of the fingers result in scarring and functional deficits. Perforator flaps raised on the posterior interosseous artery are thin and well vascularised, and cause m...
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The Potential Challenges of the Entrepreneurial Education for China’s Open Universities
Different from traditional universities, Open Universities have no entry requirement for students, and the mission of Open Universities is to make sure that students have access to knowledge anytime anywhere. ...
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Open AccessEstimations for spectral radius of nonnegative matrices and the smallest eigenvalue of M-matrices
In this paper, some estimations for the spectral radius of nonnegative matrices and the smallest eigenvalue of M-matrices are given by matrix directed graphs and their k-path covering. The existent results on the...
