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Open Access‘Fear, uncertain, tired…...’ psychological distress among pulmonary hypertension patients: a qualitative interview study
Patient-centered health care for patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) is important and requires an understanding of patient experiences. However, there is a lack of approaches to examine what's the effect...
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Open AccessSelf-perceived care needs and quality of life in people with cognitive impairment during routine care at home: cross-sectional results of the interventional study
Cognitive impairment (CI) is one of the most common disabling symptoms in the elderly, and people with CI face a variety of unmet care needs. There is limited evidence on the relationship between unmet needs a...
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Anion do** in LiCoO2 cathode materials for Li-ion batteries: a first-principles study
In this work, anion (F, Cl, and S)-doped LiCoO2 cathode materials were systematically investigated by using first-principles calculations. The results show that F do** can improve the electronic conductivity an...
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Statistical inference in the partial functional linear expectile regression model
As extensions of means, expectiles embrace all the distribution information of a random variable. The expectile regression is computationally friendlier because the asymmetric least square loss function is dif...
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Open AccessThe clinical learning environment, supervision and future intention to work as a nurse in nursing students: a cross-sectional and descriptive study
Clinical practice is a core component of nurse education. It is believed that nursing students’ clinical placement experiences can affect their learning outcomes, satisfaction, as well as influence their choic...
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Line defects in monolayer TiSe2 with adsorption of Pt atoms potentially enable excellent catalytic activity
Two-dimensional (2D) materials with defects are desired for catalysis after the adsorption of monodispersed noble metal atoms. High-performance catalysts with the absolute value of Gibbs free energy (∣∆GH∣) close...
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Estimation in Partially Observed Functional Linear Quantile Regression
Currently, working with partially observed functional data has attracted a greatly increasing attention, since there are many applications in which each functional curve may be observed only on a subset of a c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Proxy Re-encryption Scheme of Medical Data Sharing Based on Consortium Blockchain
In order to solve the problem of sharing medical data among different hospitals, this paper proposes a multi-party secure sharing scheme of medical information based on a consortium blockchain. Based on proxy ...
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Open AccessCirc_0043532 regulates miR-182/SGK3 axis to promote granulosa cell progression in polycystic ovary syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine and metabolic disease in women at childbearing age. Several circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been demonstrated to be involved in PCOS. In this study, we aime...
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Open AccessAnalysis of the status quo of the Elderly’s demands of medical and elderly care combination in the underdeveloped regions of Western China and its influencing factors: a case study of Lanzhou
This study aims to analyse the current demand by senior citizens in Lanzhou, China for a combination of medical and elderly care services and to identify the factors influencing their needs.
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Transient Direct Current Control of Single-Phase Cascaded H-Bridge Rectifier Without Phase-Locked Loop
The traction drive system without industrial frequency transformer is the trend and effective lightweight solution of high-speed train in the future. Cascade H-bridge rectifier has become the preferred solutio...
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Local linear smoothers using inverse Gaussian regression
Local linear fitting has been widely used for estimating the univariate regression function, it has numerous fantastic properties like minimax efficiency and boundary correction. The asymmetric kernel function...
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Local linear regression with reciprocal inverse Gaussian kernel
In this paper, we propose a local linear estimator for the regression model \(Y=m(X)+\varepsilon \) ...
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Open AccessComplement activation contributes to perioperative neurocognitive disorders in mice
The complement system plays an important role in many neurological disorders.
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Open AccessComparison of the effect of oral care with four different antiseptics to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults: protocol for a network meta-analysis
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is defined as the occurrence of pneumonia in patients receiving mechanical ventilation for more than 48 h after endotracheal intubation. The implementation of effective or...
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Oct4 regulates the miR-302 cluster in P19 mouse embryonic carcinoma cells
Oct4 is a transcription factor that is required for pluripotency during early embryogenesis and the maintenance of embryonic stem (ES) cell and pluripotent cell identity. miR-302, a cluster of eight microRNAs ...
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Towards a custom chelator for mercury: evaluation of coordination environments by molecular modeling
A chelator is a molecule which binds a metal or metalloid ion by two or more functional groups to form a stable ring complex known as a chelate. Despite the widespread clinical use of so-called chelation thera...
