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Escalating arsenic contamination throughout Chinese soils
China faces widespread soil arsenic pollution caused by intensified industrial and agricultural activities, the impacts of which, however, have never been evaluated at the national scale. In this study, we dev...
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Carbon supported “core-shell structure” of Fe nanoparticles for enhanced Fenton reaction activity and magnetic separation
Effectively facilitating Fe3+/Fe2+ cycles and expanding its operating pH range are keys to optimizing the traditional Fenton reaction. In this exploration, we used chitosan and ferrous sulfate as precursors to pr...
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Comparisons between needle puncture and chondroitinase ABC to induce intervertebral disc degeneration in rabbits
This study aimed to compare the effect of needle puncture and chondroitinase ABC (ChABC) injection on inducing intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration (IVDD) in rabbits.
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Embryonic gene expression altered by maternal exposure to air pollution in rats
Exposure to air pollution is known to increase the risks for cardiovascular, pulmonary and metabolic diseases. Growing evidences also indicated that air pollution exposure during pregnancy could negatively imp...
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Differentially expressed circular RNAs in air pollution–exposed rat embryos
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are an important class of non-coding RNAs partly by acting as microRNA sponges. Growing evidence indicates that air pollution exposure during pregnancy could lead to congenital defects...
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Activation of peroxymonosulfate by Fe-N complexes embedded within SBA-15 for removal of organic contaminants via production of singlet oxygen
Persulfates are recognized as promising oxidants and an alternative to Fenton reaction for water treatment. However, activation methods in hand restrict the practical application. Herein, we explore the possib...
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Open AccessAssociation of Genes implicated in primary angle-closure Glaucoma and the ocular biometric parameters of anterior chamber depth and axial length in a northern Chinese population
The membrane frizzled-related protein (MFRP) gene is involved in axial length (AL) regulation and MFRP mutations cause nanophthalmos; also, the hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) gene is reported to result in morphol...
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Efficient removal of antibiotics in a fluidized bed reactor by facile fabricated magnetic powdered activated carbon
Powdered activated carbons (PACs) with micrometer size are showing great potential for enabling and improving technologies in water treatment. The critical problem in achieving practical application of PAC inv...
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\(Z_3\) -Connectivity of Claw-Free Graphs
Jaeger et al. conjectured that every 5-edge-connected graph is \(Z_3\) ...
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A survey of technology accessibility problems faced by older users in China
Internet accessibility for older users has become an important issue to promote inclusion and participation in the Information Society. This paper proposes an investigation into the technology accessibility pr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Aggregation Models for People Finding in Enterprise Corpora
Finding authoritative people of a given field automatically within a large organization is quite helpful in various aspects, such as problem consulting and team building. In this paper, a novel aggregation mod...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SAID: A Self-Adaptive Intrusion Detection System in Wireless Sensor Networks
Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is usually regarded as the second secure defense of network. However, traditional IDS cannot be suitable to deploy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) because of the nature of WS...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Key Establishment Between Heterogenous Nodes in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
WSAN (Wireless Sensor and Actor Network) has become a promising direction in research. However, up to now, little work has been done in WSAN, especially in security issues. In this paper, we first discuss seve...