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Open AccessMaterials for sustainable metallic iron-based water filters: a review
Water pollution is calling for a sustainable remediation method such as the use of metallic iron (Fe0) to reduce and filter some pollutants, yet the reactivity and hydraulic conductivity of iron filters decline o...
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Simplified design of nonlinear damper parameters and seismic responses for long-span cable-stayed bridges with nonlinear viscous dampers
Viscous dampers are widely used as passive energy dissipation devices for long-span cable-stayed bridges for mitigation of seismic load-induced vibrations. However, complicated finite element (FE) modeling, to...
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Correction to: Efficacy and Safety of Neoadjuvant Subcutaneous Envafolimab in dMMR/MSI-H Locally Advanced Colon Cancer
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Efficacy and Safety of Neoadjuvant Subcutaneous Envafolimab in dMMR/MSI-H Locally Advanced Colon Cancer
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy with programmed death-ligand 1 blockade for colon cancer, especially for mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR)/high microsatellite instability (MSI-H) colon cancer, has gained considerable...
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Effects of Acupotomy on Immobilization-Induced Gastrocnemius Contracture and Fibrosis in Rats via Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling
To determine whether acupotomy ameliorates immobilization-induced muscle contracture and fibrosis via Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway.
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The New Methods for Characterization of Molecular Weight of Supramolecular Polymers
Supramolecular polymers, as a type of dynamic polymers, are subordinate to the interdisciplinary field of polymer chemistry and supramolecular chemistry, whose development has greatly promoted the prosperity o...
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Open AccessIndividualized dynamic frailty-tailored therapy (DynaFiT) in elderly patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma: a prospective study
It remains a substantial challenge to balance treatment efficacy and toxicity in geriatric patients with multiple myeloma (MM), primarily due to the dynamic nature of frailty. Here, we conducted a prospective ...
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Open AccessTrajectory Tracking Control of Fixed-Wing Hybrid Aerial Underwater Vehicle Subject to Wind and Wave Disturbances
The hybrid aerial underwater vehicle (HAUV) could operate in the air and underwater might provide a great convenience for aerial and underwater exploration, and the fixed-wing HAUV (FHAUV) has time, space and ...
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Open AccessU-shaped association between serum calcium and in-hospital mortality in diabetes patients with congestive heart failure: a cohort study
Previous studies have reported that the significant association between serum calcium and mortality substantially in patients, especially among those with intensive care unit (ICU). And In diabetes mellitus, c...
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Open AccessMetabolomics combined with network pharmacology reveals a role for astragaloside IV in inhibiting enterovirus 71 replication via PI3K-AKT signaling
Astragaloside IV (AST-IV), as an effective active ingredient of Astragalus membranaceus (Fisch.) Bunge. It has been found that AST-IV inhibits the replication of dengue virus, hepatitis B virus, adenovirus, an...
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Open AccessActive self-training for weakly supervised 3D scene semantic segmentation
Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fract...
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Chemical shift assignments of the ACID domain of MED25, a subunit of the mediator complex in Arabidopsis thaliana
Mediator complex is a key component that bridges various transcription activators and RNA polymerase during eukaryotic transcription initiation. The Arabidopsis thaliana Med25 (aMed25), a subunit of the Mediator ...
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Open AccessBile acids induce liver fibrosis through the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway and the mechanism of FXR inhibition of NLRP3 activation
Altered patterns of bile acids (BAs) are frequently present in liver fibrosis, and BAs function as signaling molecules to initiate inflammatory responses. Therefore, this study was conducted to uncover the not...
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Association between serum chloride and in-hospital mortality in congestive heart failure with diabetes: Data from the MIMIC-IV database
Congestive heart failure (CHF) demonstrates a heightened prevalence in individuals with diabetes mellitus within Intensive Care Units. The occurrence of abnormal chloride levels is frequently observed in criti...
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Ultrasonic properties and damage expression of frozen soil-rock mixture with various block conditions
The variation of ultrasonic parameters is closely linked to the mechanical properties and damage evolution of rock and soil mass. In this paper, uniaxial compression tests and real-time ultrasonic monitoring t...
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Myocardial contractility characteristics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients with and without sarcomere mutation
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients with sarcomere mutations have an increased risk of heart failure and left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction. We hypothesize that sarcomere mutation carriers have ...
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Open AccessPatterns of alteration in boar semen quality from 9 to 37 months old and improvement by protocatechuic acid
Comprehending the patterns of alteration in boar semen quality and identifying effective nutritional interventions are crucial for enhancing the productivity of commercial pig systems. This study aimed to exam...
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A support vector machine model of landslide susceptibility map** based on hyperparameter optimization using the Bayesian algorithm: a case study of the highways in the southern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
Recent advancements have seen a pervasive application of machine learning methodologies in assessing the susceptibility of geological hazards. A pivotal element influencing the accuracy of model predictions re...
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Open AccessEpithelial cells derived exosomal miR-203a-3p facilitates stromal inflammation of type IIIA chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome by targeting DUSP5 and increasing MCP-1 generation
Increased proinflammatory cytokines and infiltration of inflammatory cells in the stroma are important pathological features of type IIIA chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS-A), and the i...
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Enhancing Document-Level Relation Extraction with Attention-Convolutional Hybrid Networks and Evidence Extraction
Document-level relation extraction aims at extracting relations between entities in a document. In contrast to sentence-level correspondences, document-level relation extraction requires reasoning over multipl...
