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Exposure Duration Is a Determinant of the Effect of Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Fields on Peak Bone Mass of Young Rats
We proposed a three-step strategy to obtain the optimal therapeutic parameters, which is composed of large-scale screening at cellular level, verification in animal experiments, and confirmation by a clinical ...
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Methylation markers differentiate thyroid cancer from benign nodules
The incidence of thyroid cancer (TC) is increasing. Cytology by itself cannot distinguish TC from some benign nodules especially in certain subtypes of TC. Our immediate goal is to identify DNA methylation mar...
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Effect of Various Nanoparticles on Tribo-Layers and Wear Behavior of TC11 Alloy
Multilayer graphene (MLG), Fe2O3, and their nanocomposites with various proportions and amounts were applied as additives and directly participated in the formation of tribo-layers during sliding wear of TC11 all...
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Primary cilium is required for the stimulating effect of icaritin on osteogenic differentiation and mineralization of osteoblasts in vitro
Icaritin, one effective metabolite of Herba Epimedii-derived flavonoid icariin, has a strong osteogenic activity. However, its action mechanism remains unclear. Since primary cilia have been shown to play a pi...
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Relations of Counterface Hardness with Wear Behavior and Tribo-Oxide Layer of AISI H13 Steel
Dry sliding wear tests of AISI H13 steel (50 HRC) against AISI D2 steel counterface with three hardness levels (55, 50, and 42 HRC) were performed at 298 K to 873 K (25 °C to 600 °C). The relations of counterf...
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Wear Behavior and Mechanism of Fe-Al Intermetallic Coating Prepared by Hot-Dip Aluminizing and Diffusion
A Fe-Al intermetallic compound coating was prepared on AISI H13 steel by hot-dip aluminizing and subsequent high-temperature diffusion. Dry sliding wear tests of the Fe-Al intermetallic coating were performed...
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Mild and Severe Wear of Titanium Alloys
Dry sliding wear tests were performed for TC4 and TC11 alloys on a pin-on-disk wear tester at room temperature and various sliding velocities. TC4 and TC11 alloys shared almost the same wear regularity as a fu...
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An RDL UBM Structural Design for Solving Ultralow-K Delamination Problem of Cu Pillar Bump Flip Chip BGA Packaging
Copper (Cu) pillar bumps tend to induce high thermal–mechanical stress during environmental tests and fabrication processes due to the high hardness of Cu, especially when applied with an ultralow-K (ULK) chip. A...
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Ultra low-k die crack study for lead free solder bump flip-chip packaging
Ultra low-K (ULK) dielectric has lower mechanical strength (E < 8 GPa), lower cohesive strength and lower adhesion (<5 J/m2) than low-K and SiO2 dielectric material. The packaging reliability test has shown that ...
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Wear Behavior and Mechanism of a Cr-Mo-V Cast Hot-Working Die Steel
The wear behavior and mechanisms of a Cr-Mo-V cast hot-working die steel with three microstructures (tempered martensite, troostite, and sorbite) were studied systematically through the dry-sliding wear tests ...
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Analysis for Wear Behaviors of Oxidative Wear
Sliding wear tests were performed for H13 steel and a cast steel under atmospheric conditions of 25, 200, and 400°C. XRD results identify that oxidative wear prevailed for the steels during sliding at 200–400°...
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Raman scattering spectra in C-implanted GaN epilayers
We have investigated the Raman scattering spectra in C-implanted GaN epilayers. (a) In as-implanted GaN, new Raman bands at 293, 376, 669, 1027, 1094 and 1053 cm −1 appeared. From phonon-dispersion curves for hex...
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Evaluation of coronary artery in-stent restenosis with prospectively ECG-triggered axial CT angiography versus retrospective technique: a phantom study
This study compared the performance of prospectively electrocardiographically (ECG)-triggered axial computed tomography (CT) angiography with retrospective technique in evaluating coronary artery stent resteno...
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Prospective study comparing two iodine concentrations for multidetector computed tomography of the pancreas
The authors sought to determine the influence of two different iodine concentrations of nonionic contrast media (cm) on contrast enhancement in pancreatic computed tomography angiography (CTA).
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Copper pillar bump design optimization for lead free flip-chip packaging
The interfacial delamination between the under bump metallurgy and the aluminum (Al) pad was observed in a copper (Cu) pillar bump evaluation in the work. The finite element analysis was employed to investigat...
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The value of multidetector-row CT in the preoperative detection of pancreatic insulinomas
The authors sought to quantitatively analyse enhancement characteristics of pancreatic insulinomas in different phases and determine the value of multidetector-row computed tomography (CT) for detecting insuli...
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Impact of packaging materials on reliability test for low-K wire bond-stacked flip chip CSP
As the consumer electronics market keeps expanding, the system-in-package (SiP) has become more and more popular. The SiP has the benefits of space efficiency and an integrated flexible function by stacking di...
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Open AccessCumulative survival in early-onset unilateral and bilateral breast cancer: an analysis of 1907 Taiwanese women
As the epidemiological pattern of breast cancer in modernising Asian countries differs greatly from that in Western countries, it is worthwhile to investigate the long-term prognoses of unilateral and bilatera...
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Effects of silicon on defense of wheat against oxidative stress under drought at different developmental stages
The effects of silicon application before sowing on the drought-induced oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were investigated. Drought stress was applied by withholding wateri...
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Antioxidant defense system in Phragmites communis Trin. ecotypes
The antioxidant defense system in three ecotypes of reed (Phragmites communis Trin.), swamp reed (SR), dune reed (DR), and heavy salt meadow reed (HSMR), from northwest China were investigated. The HSMR possessed...