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Open AccessGeometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept
Liquid crystals are a vital component of modern photonics, and recent studies have demonstrated the exceptional sensing properties of stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals. However, existing cholester...
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Open AccessElectrical tuning of branched flow of light
Branched flows occur ubiquitously in various wave systems, when the propagating waves encounter weak correlated scattering potentials. Here we report the experimental realization of electrical tuning of the br...
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Pore Structure Characterization of Cement Paste by XCT and FIB/SEM
Many durability properties of cement-based materials, such as water permeability, chloride diffusivity and CO2 diffusivity, are closely related to their pore structures. As a porous material, cement paste has a w...
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Open AccessHarnessing disordered photonics via multi-task learning towards intelligent four-dimensional light field sensors
The complete description of a continuous-wave light field includes its four fundamental properties: wavelength, polarization, phase and amplitude. However, the simultaneous measurement of a multi-dimensional l...
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Open AccessThe gut mycobiome: a novel player in chronic liver diseases
The human gut microbiome (bacteria, fungi, viruses, and archaea) is a complex and diverse ecosystem. It plays an important role in human health, but is involved in several intestinal and extraintestinal diseas...
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Existence and Multiplicity of Solutions for p(x)-Curl Systems Without the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz Condition
In this paper, we study the p(x)-curl systems: $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \nabla \times \big (|\nabla \times \mathbf ...
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Open AccessPRRT2 deficiency induces paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia by regulating synaptic transmission in cerebellum
Mutations in the proline-rich transmembrane protein 2 (PRRT2) are associated with paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD) and several other paroxysmal neurological diseases, but the PRRT2 function and pathogenic ...
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Open AccessHepatocyte nuclear factor-1beta enhances the stemness of hepatocellular carcinoma cells through activation of the Notch pathway
Hepatocyte nuclear factor-1beta plays an important role in the development and progression of liver cancer. In recent years, the expression of HNF-1β has been reported to be associated with risk for a variety ...
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Exome sequencing identifies somatic mutations of DDX3X in natural killer/T-cell lymphoma
Zhu Chen, Sai-Juan Chen, Wei-Li Zhao and colleagues identify recurrent loss-of-function mutations in the RNA helicase gene DDX3X in 20% of subjects with natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) in their study. The ...
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Novel metal-dielectric metameric optical filters for optical security devices
Optical security devices play an essential role in the fight against counterfeiting. In this paper, we study and design a pair of metal-dielectric optical filters based on metameric effect, which offer a hidde...
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Features, Training and Participation of National Computer Simulation Grand Prize
National Computer Simulation Grand Prize (NCSGP) is a national computer simulation contest sponsored by Higher Education Department of Ministry of Education P.R.C. which gaining more and more concern and parti...
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Study on the failure mechanism of Ag-Ce contacts in DC level
Nominal contact resistance, minimum erosion and material transfer are required with low cost materials working in a wide currents range for DC relays. Ag-Ni contact materials have low contact resistance, but t...
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Research on the overload protection reliability of moulded case circuit-breakers and its test device
This paper analyzed the reliability and put forward the reliability index of overload protection for moulded case circuit breaker. The success rate was adopted as its reliability index of overload protection. ...
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The Study of Multi-agent Network Flow Architecture for Application Performance Evaluation
With the new software architecture appearing, the application performance evaluation becomes quite difficult. Based on previous studies, a new architecture is proposed concerning using multi-agent network data...
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Subsumption checking between concept queries in different ontologies based on mutual instances
This paper proposes a checking method based on mutual instances and discusses three key problems in the method: how to deal with mistakes in the mutual instances and how to deal with too many or too few mutual...
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Concept approximation between fuzzy ontologies
Fuzzy ontologies are efficient tools to handle fuzzy and uncertain knowledge on the semantic web; but there are heterogeneity problems when gaining interoperability among different fuzzy ontologies. This paper...
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Specification and verification for semi-structured data
Tree logic, inherited from ambient logic, is introduced as the formal foundation of related programming language and type systems. In this paper, we introduce recursion into such logic system, which can descri...
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Liquid penetration of freeze-drying and air-drying wood of plantation Chinese fir
A comparative study was conducted on liquid penetration of the freeze-drying and air-drying sapwood and heartwood lumber of plantation Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata). The maximum amount of dyeing solution ...
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The measure and decision of technical risk in the development of naval vessels
The risks in development of navy vessels were explored. The resources of technical risk in the design and development of vessels were mentioned. It was pointed that technical risk dominated the other risk comp...
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Computer support system for residential environment evaluation for citizen participation
Though the method of citizen participation in urban planning is quite well established, for a specific segment of residential environment, however, existing participation system has not coped adequately with t...
