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Open AccessPrevalence of ST1049-KL5 carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae with a blaKPC-2 and blaNDM-1 co-carrying hypertransmissible IncM1 plasmid
Infection caused by KPC and NDM carbapenemases co-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC_NDM_CRKP) poses serious public health concerns. Here, we elucidate the prevalence of a hypertransmissible lncM1 plasmid, pKPC...
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Latent class analysis of post-traumatic disorder and post-traumatic growth among front-line healthcare professionals during the early outbreak of COVID-19
The pandemic is a major public health crisis, which may bring post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as post-traumatic growth (PTG) to healthcare professionals. The current study aimed to assess coexist...
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Regional climate model intercomparison over the Tibetan Plateau in the GEWEX/LS4P Phase I
Results from eight regional climate models (RCMs) participating in the Impact of Initialized Land Temperature and Snowpack on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction (LS4P) initiative of the Global Energy and Wate...
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Explore variation of salivary bacteria across time and geolocations
Saliva is an informative body fluid that can be found at various crime scenes, and the salivary bacterial community has been revealed it is a potential auxiliary target for forensic identification. However, th...
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Influence of Sub-Cloud Secondary Evaporation Effects on the Stable Isotopes in Precipitation of Urumqi Glacier No. 1, Eastern Tianshan
In arid regions, the stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopic composition in raindrops is often modified by sub-cloud secondary evaporation when they descend from cloud base to ground through the unsaturated air. A...
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Identification of candidate genes and favourable haplotypes for yield traits in rice based on a genome-wide association study
The key to food security is increasing rice yield. Therefore, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to analyse and identify the effects of plant height (PH), effective tiller number (ETN), headin...
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Assessment of Net Irrigation Requirements for Spring Wheat and Spring Maize in Shiyanghe Watershed, Northwestern China
Evaluating net irrigation requirements could support water resources managements, especially in arid regions. Shiyanghe watershed was in the northwest of China, and its dominant grain crops were spring wheat a...
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Loss of Y chromosome in leukocytes can be regarded as a male-specific age predictor for age group estimation in forensic genetics
Age prediction is an important field in forensic and aging research. Traditional methods used DNA methylation, telomere shortening, and mitochondrial DNA mutations to conduct age prediction models. Sex chromos...
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Open AccessOrder–order assembly transition-driven polyamines detection based on iron−sulfur complexes
Innovative modes of response can greatly push forward chemical sensing processes and subsequently improve sensing performance. Classical chemical sensing modes seldom involve the transition of a delicate molec...
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Open AccessCharacterization of loss of chromosome Y in peripheral blood cells in male Han Chinese patients with schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (SCZ) has a global prevalence of 1% and increases the risk of mortality, reducing life expectancy. There is growing evidence that the risk of this disorder is higher in males than in females and ...
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Open AccessPeat-based hairy root transformation using Rhizobium rhizogenes as a rapid and efficient tool for easily exploring potential genes related to root-knot nematode parasitism and host response
Root-knot nematodes (RKNs) pose a worldwide threat to agriculture of many crops including cucumber. Genetic transformation (GT) has emerged as a powerful tool for exploration of plant-RKN interactions and gene...
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Research and Application of U \(^2\) -NetP Network Incorporating Coordinate Attention for Ship Draft Reading in Complex Situations
Ship draft reading is an essential link to the draft survey. At present, manual observation is primarily used to determine a ship’s draft. However, manual observation is easily affected by complex situations s...
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Open AccessPromising applications of human-derived saliva biomarker testing in clinical diagnostics
Saliva testing is a vital method for clinical applications, for its noninvasive features, richness in substances, and the huge amount. Due to its direct anatomical connection with oral, digestive, and endocrin...
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Large fragment Sanger sequencing identifies the newly encountered variant that caused null alleles in parentage testing
Short tandem repeat (STR) is regarded as a crucial tool for personal identification as well as parentage testing. Thus, genoty** errors of STRs could have negative effects on the reliability of forensic iden...
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Open AccessPreparatory attention to visual features primarily relies on non-sensory representation
Prior knowledge of behaviorally relevant information promotes preparatory attention before the appearance of stimuli. A key question is how our brain represents the attended information during preparation. A s...
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Identification of ferroptosis-related signature with potential implications in prognosis and immunotherapy of renal cell carcinoma
Develo** individualized therapies for different renal cell carcinoma patients is pivotal for improving the efficacy of immunotherapy. It has been reported that ferroptosis is involved in T cell-mediated anti...
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Urban air quality in **njiang and snow chemistry of Urumqi Glacier No. 1 during COVID-19’s restrictions
The unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak impacted the world in many aspects. Air pollutants were largely reduced in cities worldwide in 2020. Using samples from two snow pits dug separately in 2019 and 2020 in Urum...
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Open AccessMutation analysis for newly suggested 30 Y-STR loci with high mutation rates in Chinese father-son pairs
Rapidly mutating Y-STRs (RM Y-STRs) harbor great potential to distinguish male relatives and achieve male identification. However, forensic applications were greatly limited by the small number of the initiall...
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Open AccessCorrection: Thiostrepton induces ferroptosis in pancreatic cancer cells through STAT3/GPX4 signalling
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Open AccessThiostrepton induces ferroptosis in pancreatic cancer cells through STAT3/GPX4 signalling
Ferroptosis is a new form of regulated cell death that is mediated by intracellular iron and ester oxygenase, and glutathione-dependent lipid hydroperoxidase glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) prevents ferroptosi...
