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Luminescent nanomaterials for biosensing and bioimaging
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Portable hydrogel-based tri-channel fluorescence sensor array for visual detection of multiple explosives
The identification and detection of various types of explosives are essential for human health and environmental monitoring. Array-based sensing approach offers significant advantages in detecting multi-analyt...
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Effects of High-Water Fluoride Exposure on IQ Levels in School-Age Children: A Cross-Sectional Study in Jiangsu, China
This cross-sectional research aimed to investigate the potential effects of elevated fluoride levels in drinking water on children’s intelligence quotient (IQ). A total of 721 children from rural Jiangsu, Chin...
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Open AccessEvaluating financial fragility: a case study of Chinese banking and finance systems
Global financial systems are inherently fragile due to their complexities. Thus, it is of great interest to devise various methods to assess the dynamics of financial fragility. As such, this study builds a fi...
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Open AccessPrice discovery and volatility spillovers in the interest rate derivatives market
The interest rate derivatives market is an important force in promoting the development of the bond market and is an effective tool to manage interest rate risk. The research on price discovery and volatility ...
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Open AccessHeavy-to-light electron transition enabling real-time spectra detection of charged particles by a biocompatible semiconductor
The current challenge of wearable/implantable personal dosimeters for medical diagnosis and radiotherapy applications is lack of suitable detector materials possessing both excellent detection performance and ...
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Open AccessAssociation Between Wnt Target Genes and Cortical Volumes in Alzheimer’s Disease
The disproportionate cortical atrophy is an established biomarker for the pathophysiological process of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the genetic basis underlying the cortical atrophy remains poorly defin...
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Open AccessGenotypic and phenotypic heterogeneity among Chinese pediatric genetic white matter disorders
The pediatric genetic white matter disorders are characterized by a broad disease spectrum. Genetic testing is valuable in the diagnosis. However, there are few studies on the clinical and genetic spectrum of ...
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Open AccessThe BET degrader ZBC260 suppresses stemness and tumorigenesis and promotes differentiation in triple-negative breast cancer by disrupting inflammatory signaling
Breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) are resistant to standard therapies, facilitate tumor dissemination, and contribute to relapse and progression. Super-enhancers are regulators of stemness, and BET proteins, wh...
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Open AccessLncRNA XIST regulates breast cancer stem cells by activating proinflammatory IL-6/STAT3 signaling
Aberrant expression of XIST, a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) initiating X chromosome inactivation (XCI) in early embryogenesis, is a common feature of breast cancer (BC). However, the roles of post-XCI XIST in b...
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Genomic architecture of leaf senescence in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor)
Leaf senescence in sorghum is primarily controlled by the progression, but not by the onset of senescence. The senescence-delaying haplotypes of 45 key genes accentuated from landraces to improved lines.
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Cationic antibacterial metal nanoclusters with traceable capability for fluorescent imaging the nano—bio interactions
A thorough understanding of antimicrobial mechanism is of great importance for develo** novel, efficient antibacterial agents. While cationic nanoparticles, such as metal nanoclusters (NCs), represent an att...
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Palmprint Recognition Utilizing Modified LNMF Method
A new palmprint recognition method utilizing a modified local non-negative matrix factorization (LNMF) is proposed in this paper. LNMF retains the advantages of NMF and can successfully extract the local featu...
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Upconversion nanorods anchored metal-organic frameworks via hierarchical and dynamic assembly for synergistic therapy
Heterogeneous materials made of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and optically active nanomaterials have attracted intensive interests in recent years due to their distinct physicochemical properties, but contr...
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Editorial for special issue on human-centered cooperative computing
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Metal–Organic Frameworks-Mediated Assembly of Gold Nanoclusters for Sensing Applications
Gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) are an emerging type of ultrasmall nanomaterials possessing unique physicochemical characteristics. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), a singular kind of porous solid and crystalline ma...
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Toward state-of-the-art techniques in predicting and controlling slope stability in open-pit mines based on limit equilibrium analysis, radial basis function neural network, and brainstorm optimization
This study aims to propose state-of-the-art techniques in predicting and controlling slope stability in open-pit mines based on limit equilibrium analysis, artificial neural networks, and optimization algorith...
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Palmprint Recognition Using the Combined Method of BEMD and WCB-NNSC
A novel image palmprint reconstruction method using the combined method of bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) and weight coding based non-negative sparse coding (WCB-NNSC) is proposed here. The...
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Analysis on Key Technologies of New Energy Internet Information Communication
PickAt present, with the development of science and technology, how to realize the sustainable development and full utilization of energy has become one of the important tasks in the new era. In order to ensur...
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Palmprint Feature Extraction Utilizing WTA-ICA in Contourlet Domain
Contourlet transform can obtain the better contour of an image and make it sparser in local subspace. While independent component analysis based winner-take-all (WTA-ICA) algorithm can extract efficiently imag...
