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A Synchronous Sensing Method of Measuring Lubricating Oil Film Thickness and Temperature by Using Eddy Current Effect
The eddy current method can be well applied in the lubricating oil film thickness measurement, due to its excellent performance, such as high-precision, non-destructive and strong environmental adaptability in...
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Open AccessCausal associations between female reproductive behaviors and psychiatric disorders: a lifecourse Mendelian randomization study
The timings of reproductive life events have been examined to be associated with various psychiatric disorders. However, studies have not considered the causal pathways from reproductive behaviors to different...
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Comparing the efficacy of catheter ablation strategies for persistent atrial fibrillation: a Bayesian analysis of randomized controlled trials
Catheter ablation has been recommended as the first-line treatment option for selected patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, a widely accepted ablation strategy for persistent AF (perAF) has not yet...
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Classification, modeling and characterization of marine carbonate paleokarst reservoirs in Tahe Oilfield, Tarim Basin, China
Deep marine carbonate paleokarst reservoirs have large hydrocarbon reserves in Tarim Basin, NW China. Geological modeling and characterization are critical to the development of such reservoirs. However, relia...
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The development process of a temperate montane peatland and its controlling factors since the middle Holocene
Peatlands are some of the largest carbon reservoirs in terrestrial ecosystems and play a key role in the global carbon cycle. Understanding peatland development, carbon accumulation processes, and the peatland...
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Open AccessQuantifying substantial carcinogenesis of genetic and environmental factors from measurement error in the number of stem cell divisions
The relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors versus unavoidable stochastic risk factors to the variation in cancer risk among tissues have become a widely-discussed topic. Some claim that th...
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Identifying causality, genetic correlation, priority and pathways of large-scale complex exposures of breast and ovarian cancers
Genetic correlations, causalities and pathways between large-scale complex exposures and ovarian and breast cancers need systematic exploration.
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Characteristics and Assessment of Trace Elements (Hg, As, Sb, Se, and Bi) in Mire Surface Water from the Changbai Mountains, Northeastern China
Knowledge about trace elements such as mercury (Hg), arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), selenium (Se), and bismuth (Bi) in mire surface water is limited. We studied 105 surface water samples collected from 50 mires ...
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Open AccessA novel path-specific effect statistic for identifying the differential specific paths in systems epidemiology
Biological pathways play an important role in the occurrence, development and recovery of complex diseases, such as cancers, which are multifactorial complex diseases that are generally caused by mutation of m...
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Open AccessA novel method for controlling unobserved confounding using double confounders
Controlling unobserved confounding still remains a great challenge in observational studies, and a series of strict assumptions of the existing methods usually may be violated in practice. Therefore, it is urg...
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Motion Control of Capsule-like Underwater Robot Utilizing the Swing Properties of Ionic Polymer Metal Composite Actuators
Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (IPMC) is a novel electrically actuated intelligent material with the advantages of big bending displacement, low driving voltage, flexible and so on. It has been recognized as on...
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Use of testate amoebae to infer paleohydrology during fen and fen-bog transition stages of ombrotrophic mire development
We evaluated the feasibility of using testate amoebae to infer the quantitative paleohydrology of ombrotrophic mires during their early stages (fen and fen-bog transition) of development. Two transfer function...
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Open AccessExploring the causal pathway from ischemic stroke to atrial fibrillation: a network Mendelian randomization study
Previous studies have found ischemic stroke is associated with atrial fibrillation. However, the causal association between ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation is not clear. Furthermore, the network relati...
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Instance Image Retrieval with Generative Adversarial Training
While generative adversarial training becomes promising technology for many computer vision tasks especially in image processing domain, it has few works so far on instance level image retrieval domain. In thi...
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Different distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) between Sphagnum and Ledum peat from an ombrotrophic bog in Northeast China
The aims of this study are to investigate historical PAH deposition through the analysis of PAHs in bulk peat cores and reveal the different distribution of PAHs in Sphagnum and Ledum peat from peat cores.
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Why Do Testate Amoeba Optima Related to Water Table Depth Vary?
This study focusses on the ecology of testate amoeba species in peatlands of the southern taiga of Western Siberia. To estimate the influence of the trophic state of mires on species optima related to water ta...
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Mercury and arsenic in the surface peat soils of the Changbai Mountains, northeastern China: distribution, environmental controls, sources, and ecological risk assessment
The potential toxic risk of mercury (Hg) and arsenic (As) in the soils of mining regions and other artificially disturbed lands receives considerable research attention. However, limited investigation has been...
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Open AccessThe alarming problems of confounding equivalence using logistic regression models in the perspective of causal diagrams
Confounders can produce spurious associations between exposure and outcome in observational studies. For majority of epidemiologists, adjusting for confounders using logistic regression model is their habitual...
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A trajectory planning method for sprawling robot inspired by a trotting animal
Motion coordination is a key factor affecting the stability and efficiency of robots. Such coordination involves the intra-limb coordination between each motion stage of a single leg and the inter-limbs coordi...
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Open AccessA simulation study on matched case-control designs in the perspective of causal diagrams
In observational studies, matched case-control designs are routinely conducted to improve study precision. How to select covariates for match or adjustment, however, is still a great challenge for estimating c...
