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Long-term exercise pre-training attenuates Alzheimer’s disease–related pathology in a transgenic rat model of Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. Despite enormous efforts around the world, there remains no effective cure for AD. This study was performed to investigate the effects of long-term...
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Activation of Neuropeptide Y2 Receptor Can Inhibit Global Cerebral Ischemia-Induced Brain Injury
Cardiopulmonary arrest (CA) can greatly impact a patient’s life, causing long-term disability and death. Although multi-faceted treatment strategies against CA have improved survival rates, the prognosis of CA...
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The competitions of time-varying and constant loadings in asset pricing models: empirical evidence and agent-based simulations
Under two frameworks of cross-section and time-series factors, we implement asset pricing models to dissect the abnormal returns in the Chinese stock market. Our findings indicate that the model using the earn...
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Protein Arginine Methyltransferases in Cardiovascular and Neuronal Function
The methylation of arginine residues by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is a type of post-translational modification which is important for numerous cellular processes, including mRNA splicing, DNA...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Manipulated Information Dissemination and Risk-Adjusted Momentum Return in the Chinese Stock Market
We study the manipulated information dissemination and risk-adjusted momentum return in the Chinese stock market. In this paper, we employ excess media coverage as a proxy for manipulated information dissemina...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hot Trading and Price Stability Under Media Supervision in the Chinese Stock Market
The Chinese stock market is one of the markets where price reversal easily takes place in the world. Its opening has been accelerating. However, this market has plenty of shortcomings, some of which involve Ch...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Do Information Quantity and Transmission Make a Difference to the Stable Contrarian?
We study how financial transparency and media coverage work in the Chinese stock markets. In this paper, transparency means information quantity, while media means information transmission. The market has nega...
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Open AccessArtificial Momentum, Native Contrarian, and Transparency in China
The Chinese stock market has a large ratio of retail investors, which is significantly different from the stock markets in the US and Europe. We have known that momentum profits exist in the latter by applying...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Data Mining Analysis of the Chinese Inland-Coastal Inequality
As in many countries, even in China the socio-economic changes have affected income inequality in recent decades. The various economic opportunities have led to different paths of development causing severe di...
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Fatty Acid Methyl Esters and Solutol HS 15 Confer Neuroprotection after Focal and Global Cerebral Ischemia
We previously showed that palmitic acid methyl ester (PAME) and stearic acid methyl ester (SAME) are simultaneously released from the sympathetic ganglion and PAME possesses potent vasodilatory properties whic...
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Open AccessSedum tarokoense (Crassulaceae), a new species from a limestone area in Taiwan
An unknown Sedum was found from the limestone region in Taiwan. After a detailed comparison with other congeners in Taiwan and neighboring countries, we identified this plant as a new species.
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Chapter
Ischemic Preconditioning-Mediated Signaling Pathways Leading to Tolerance Against Cerebral Ischemia
Cerebral ischemia, most notably in the form of stroke, is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality resulting in long-term disability in the USA. Approximately 800,000 strokes occur each year in the USA, an...
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Tolerance Against Global Cerebral Ischemia: Experimental Strategies, Mechanisms, and Clinical Applications
Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) refers to the ability of a sublethal ischemic insult to increase an organ’s resistance to a subsequent ischemic attack, which would otherwise have been lethal. The focus of this ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Differential Effects of Delta and Epsilon Protein Kinase C in Modulation of Postischemic Cerebral Blood Flow
Cerebral ischemia causes cerebral blood flow (CBF) derangements resulting in neuronal damage by enhanced protein kinase C delta (δPKC) levels leading to hippocampal and cortical neuronal death after ischemia. ...
