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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Closer Look of Revenge Travelers
This study investigated how three different types of revenge travel - more expensive trips, longer stays, and more frequent travel - are affected by the combination of consumers’ perceived constraints, negotia...
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Growth hormone treatment in pre-pubertal short Chinese children with chronic kidney disease prior to transplantation
The effect of recombinant human GH (rhGH) in Chinese children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is unclear.
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Open AccessRole of exogenous abscisic acid in freezing tolerance of mangrove Kandelia obovata under natural frost condition at near 32°N
Mangroves possess substantial ecological, social, and economic functions in tropical and subtropical coastal wetlands. Kandelia obovata is the most cold-resistance species among mangrove plants, with a widespread...
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Development and characterization of 29 InDel markers from the Mangrove Kandelia obovata genome using a resequencing dataset
Insertion-deletion (InDel) markers are widely employed in genetic studies. The rapid advancement of DNA sequencing technology has enabled the development of a large number of InDel makers from the genomes of n...
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Open AccessThe impacts of surgical mask in young healthy subjects on cardiopulmonary function and muscle performance: a randomized crossover trial
To explore the impacts of surgical mask in normal subjects on cardiopulmonary function and muscle performance under different motor load and gender differences.
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Target Protein Design and Preselection Analysis
DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology utilizes affinity-based selection methods to screen chemical libraries. DEL technology possesses some unique features compared to other small molecule screening technologie...
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DEL Selections Against a Soluble Protein Target
Affinity-based DNA-encoded library (DEL) selection is considered a powerful tool for small molecule drug discovery. Such selections are a multi-round process that involves incubation of a target protein with t...
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Open AccessMiner revenue optimization algorithm based on Pareto artificial bee colony in blockchain network
In order to improve the revenue of attacking mining pools and miners under block withholding attack, we propose the miner revenue optimization algorithm (MROA) based on Pareto artificial bee colony in blockcha...
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Short-term traffic flow prediction based on improved wavelet neural network
Due to the characteristics of time-varying traffic and nonlinearity, the short-term traffic flow data are difficult to predict accurately. The purpose of this paper is to improve the short-term traffic flow pr...
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Isolation and Neuroprotective Activity of Phenolic Derivatives from the Marine-Derived Fungus Penicillium janthinellum
A new phenolic compound, 6-(2-acetyl-3,5-dihydroxybenzyl)-4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2H-pyran-2-one (1), along with other six known phenolic derivatives (2-7), were isolated from the mangrove rhizosphere fungus Penicilli...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Anti-attack Revenue Optimization Algorithm in the Proof-of-Work Based Blockchain
To improve the revenues of both the attack mining pools and miners under block withholding attack, this paper proposes a novel anti-attack mining revenue optimization algorithm (MROA) in the Proof-of-work (PoW...
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Protocol for Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation and Transgenic Plant Production of Switchgrass
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is one of the most important bioenergy crops for lignocellulose ethanol production. Molecular breeding provides a powerful tool to supplement conventional switchgrass breeding by...
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Open AccessComparative transcriptome analysis of nonchilled, chilled, and late-pink bud reveals flowering pathway genes involved in chilling-mediated flowering in blueberry
Blueberry cultivars require a fixed quantity of chilling hours during winter endo-dormancy for vernalization. In this study, transcriptome analysis using RNA sequencing data from nonchilled, chilled, and late ...
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Electrochemical properties of Mg3MnNi2-x% polymethyl methacrylate-multiwalled carbon nanotubes (PMMA-MWCNTs) (x = 25, 50, 75, 100)
In this work, we report a novel core–shell-like structure of uniform coating PMMA-MWCNTs composite film on the surface of the Mg3MnNi2 alloy particles prepared by hydriding combustion synthesis. The structures an...
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Open AccessGenetic Determinants of Crop Timing and Quality Traits in Two Interspecific Petunia Recombinant Inbred Line Populations
The rate at which plants develop new nodes (development rate) is a major determinant of crop production time, yet the genetic control of this process, including genetic interactions with crop quality parameter...
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Upregulation of microRNA-203 is associated with advanced tumor progression and poor prognosis in epithelial ovarian cancer
MicroRNA-203 (miR-203), possessing tumor suppressive or promotive activities, has been found to be downregulated or upregulated in different cancer types. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether t...
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Protective effects of Huang Qi Huai granules on adriamycin nephrosis in rats
Huang Qi Huai (HQH) granules, a mixture of Chinese herbs, contains trametes robiniophila murr, wolfberry fruit, and Polygonatum. We investigated the mechanism of the protective effects of HQH on adriamycin nephro...
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Expression and function of the Ets transcription factor pea3 during formation of zebrafish pronephros
Polyomavirus enhancer activator 3 (Pea3), belonging to the PEA3 subfamily of Ets transcription factors, is essential for certain organogenesis in mammals. Previously, we found that pea3 correlated with wt1 expres...
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Halogen bonded two-dimensional supramolecular assemblies studied by high resolution scanning tunneling microscopy
We described the formation of self-organized two-dimensional (2D) assemblies of N-(2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-4-iodophenyl)hexadecylamine and 1-dodecyl-imidazole at the liquid/HOPG interface. The two-dimensional assembl...
