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Safety and efficacy of restarting immune checkpoint inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer patients following immune-related adverse events: a systematic review and meta-analysis
This meta-analysis aims to evaluate the safety and efficacy of restarting immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after experiencing immune-related adverse event...
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Assessment of potential risks induced by increasing extreme precipitation under climate change
A warmer climate has caused more extreme climate events like the heatwave or extreme precipitation, which has led to a large number of lives and economic losses. In this study, we adopt historical daily precip...
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Open AccessOverestimated climate warming and climate variability due to spatially homogeneous CO2 in climate modeling over the Northern Hemisphere since the mid-19th century
Since the mid-19th century, the global atmospheric CO2 concentration (ACC) has increased dramatically due to the burning of fossil fuels. Because of unequal population growth and economic development among region...
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Projection of spatiotemporal patterns and possible changes of drought in the Yellow River basin, China
Drought projection is of critical significance for designing long-term drought adaptation strategies to cope with changing climate. This study presents an application of multi-class models for characterizing f...
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Structural and mechanistic basis of mammalian Nudt12 RNA deNADding
We recently demonstrated that mammalian cells harbor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-capped messenger RNAs that are hydrolyzed by the DXO deNADding enzyme. Here, we report that the Nudix protein Nudt12...
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Simulating potential yields of Chinese super hybrid rice in Bangladesh, India and Myanmar with EPIC model
In this study, information is collected on the weather, soils, field management and agricultural statistics in the Bangladesh, India and Myanmar (BIM) region. Crop growth parameters within the EPIC (Environmen...
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Ecological Risks
Climate change has strong influence on terrestrial ecosystems, and the influence is almost certain to grow in the near future (IPCC 2014).
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Agricultural Risks
Climate change may affect crop growth and yield, which consequently casts a shadow of doubt over China’s food self-sufficiency efforts. Although the projections of climate change impacts on crop yields may be ...
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Integrated Environmental Risks
Most environmental risks have been recognized as top global risks in terms of their likelihood and impact (WEF in Global risks 2015. World Economic Forum, Geneva, 2015, The Global Risks Report 2016. World Econ...
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Application of minimum relative entropy theory for streamflow forecasting
This paper develops and applies the minimum relative entropy (MRE) theory with spectral power as a random variable for streamflow forecasting. The MRE theory consists of (1) hypothesizing a prior probability d...
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Minimum relative entropy theory for streamflow forecasting with frequency as a random variable
This paper develops a minimum relative entropy theory with frequency as a random variable, called MREF henceforth, for streamflow forecasting. The MREF theory consists of three main components: (1) determinati...
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Hydrological monitoring and seasonal forecasting: Progress and perspectives
Hydrological monitoring and seasonal forecasting is an active research field because of its potential applications in hydrological risk assessment, preparedness and mitigation. In recent decades, developments ...
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Entropy Theory for Streamflow Forecasting
Streamflow forecasting is used in river training and management, river restoration, reservoir operation, power generation, irrigation, and navigation. In hydrology, streamflow forecasting is often done using t...
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An effective error concealment scheme for heavily corrupted H.264/AVC videos based on Kalman filtering
Error concealment at the decoder side is an economical approach to ensuring an acceptable and stable video quality in case of packet erasure or loss, and thus, it has attracted considerable research and applic...
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Speech enhancement using harmonics regeneration based on multiband excitation
This paper proposes an algorithm that adopts the harmonic regeneration as post-processing to improve the performance of speech enhancement using traditional Short Time Spectral Amplitude (STSA). The proposed a...
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Open AccessAssociation of elevated transcript levels of interferon-inducible chemokines with disease activity and organ damage in systemic lupus erythematosus patients
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-system autoimmune disease with a heterogeneous course and varying degrees of severity and organ damage; thus, there is increasing interest in identifying biomarker...
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Superior step-size theorem and its application
With independence assumption, this paper proposes and proves the superior step-size theorem on least mean square (LMS) algorithm, from the view of minimizing mean squared error (MSE). Following the theorem we ...
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Chessboard-interpolation-based multiple description video coding
To enhance the robustness of video transmission over noisy channels, this paper presents a multiple description video coding algorithm based on chessboard-interpolation. In the algorithm, the input image is de...
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Optimal variable step-size LMS model and algorithm with independence assumption
To solve the contradiction between convergence rate and steady-state error in least mean square (LMS) algorithm, basing on independence assumption, this paper proposes and proves the optimal step-size theorem ...
