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Interplay of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and papillary thyroid carcinoma: insights from a Chinese cohort
Thyroid cancer is one of a set of extrahepatic cancers that closely linked to metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD). However, the connection between MAFLD and the characteristics of papi...
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Increased Dietary Niacin Intake Improves Muscle Strength, Quality, and Glucose Homeostasis in Adults over 40 Years of Age
Age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength begins at 40 years of age, and limited evidence suggests that niacin supplementation increases levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in mouse muscle ...
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Open AccessTheoretical and Computational Analysis of the Thermal Quasi-Geostrophic Model
This work involves theoretical and numerical analysis of the thermal quasi-geostrophic (TQG) model of submesoscale geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). Physically, the TQG model involves thermal geostrophic balan...
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A Derivative-Free Characterization of the Weighted Besov Spaces
We obtain a characterization of the weighted Besov space \({{\cal B}_K}\left( p \right)\) ...
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Sex-Specific Associations of Dietary Iron Intake with Brain Iron Deposition on Imaging and Incident Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study
The study aimed to evaluate the association of dietary iron intake with incident dementia and brain iron deposition.
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SpatioTemporally Adaptive Quadtree Mesh (STAQ) Digital Image Correlation for Resolving Large Deformations Around Complex Geometries and Discontinuities
Digital image correlation (DIC) is a powerful experimental tool for measuring full-field material deformations. Inherent limitations of typical DIC algorithms can cause a multitude of errors when analyzing the...
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Open AccessEfficient world-line-based quantum Monte Carlo method without Hubbard–Stratonovich transformation
By precisely writing down the matrix element of the local Boltzmann operator ( \({\mathrm{e}}^{-\tau h}\) ...
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Longitudinal change in bone mineral density among Chinese individuals with HIV after initiation of antiretroviral therapy
This is the first study to report changes in BMD and related risk factors among Chinese patients with HIV after initiation of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)-containing antiretroviral therapy. Greater bone...
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Open AccessEnhanced stability of quantum Hall skyrmions under radio-frequency radiations
We present in this paper the results from a recent study on the stability of the quantum Hall skyrmions state at a Landau level filling factor (ν) close to ν = 1 in a narrow GaAs quantum well. Consistent with ...
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Reimagine: a randomized controlled trial of an online, symptom self-management curriculum among breast cancer survivors
Chronic pain, depression, and fatigue are common effects resulting from the cancer experience; new interventions are needed. This study examined the effect of Reimagine, an online symptom self-management curricul...
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An AHP-ANP Integrated Framework of Evaluating Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Building
Sustainable building (SB) has emerged as an innovative approach to minimizing resource consumption and its resulting impacts on ecological systems. Innovative business models are in need to present the economi...
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A System Dynamics Framework of Drivers and Constraints to Enhancing Productivity of the Hong Kong Construction Industry
The Hong Kong construction industry has experienced high-speed growth during the past few decades and is still expecting significant growth in the near future due to the combination of public and private housi...
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Correlation Analysis of Key Influencing Factors to the Total Factor Productivity of the Hong Kong Construction Industry
Productivity is an endemic issue that challenges the Hong Kong construction industry. Studies addressing labour productivity abound; however, few have investigated and analysed the key influencing factors that...
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An Intelligent Decision Support System for Improving Information Integrity in Procuring Infrastructures in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has gone through huge programmes of infrastructure development, which bring about significant economic benefits and improve our living environment. The government of the HKSAR has developed tender ev...
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Berry phase and anomalous transport of the composite fermions at the half-filled Landau level
Experimental signatures of a Berry phase for composite fermions in the fractional quantum Hall effect provide support for the predictions that these composite fermions are Dirac particles.
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Smurf1 regulates lung cancer cell growth and migration through interaction with and ubiquitination of PIPKIγ
Type Iγ phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase (PIPKIγ), a phospholipid kinase generating PIP2, is positively expressed in breast cancer tissues, which correlates intimately with the progression of patients. Ho...
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Does preterm period sleep development predict early childhood growth trajectories?
The current study examined the relationship between sleep state development across the preterm and early post-term periods and subsequent growth trajectories from 1 to 27 months corrected age.
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Low genetic diversity and strong population structure shaped by anthropogenic habitat fragmentation in a critically endangered primate, Trachypithecus leucocephalus
Habitat fragmentation may strongly impact population genetic structure and reduce the genetic diversity and viability of small and isolated populations. The white-headed langur (Trachypithecus leucocephalus) is a...
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Dye adsorption on electrochemical exfoliated graphene oxide nanosheets: pH influence, kinetics and equilibrium in aqueous solution
Graphene oxide nanosheets were synthesized by electrochemical exfoliation. X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, Raman spectrometry and Fourier transform infrared spectromet...
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A binary concrete crack self-healing system containing oxygen-releasing tablet and bacteria and its Ca2+-precipitation performance
A strategy to supply molecular oxygen for microbial calcium precipitation was developed for the first time. Firstly, a controlled oxygen-releasing tablet (ORT) containing CaO2 and lactic acid with a suitable rati...
