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Serum granulosa cell-derived TNF-α promotes inflammation and apoptosis of renal tubular cells and PCOS-related kidney injury through NF-κB signaling
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a disorder with endocrinal and metabolic problems in reproductive aged women. Evidence shows that PCOS is in a high prone trend to develop kidney diseases. In this study, we...
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Quantitative proteomics profiling reveals the inhibition of trastuzumab antitumor efficacy by phosphorylated RPS6 in gastric carcinoma
The anti-HER2 antibody trastuzumab is a standard treatment for gastric carcinoma with HER2 overexpression, but not all patients benefit from treatment with HER2-targeted therapies due to intrinsic and acquired...
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High-Risk Breast Lesions Diagnosed by Ultrasound-Guided Vacuum-Assisted Excision
The aim of this study was to analyze the role of ultrasound-guided vacuum-assisted excision (US-guided VAE) in the treatment of high-risk breast lesions and to evaluate the clinical and US features of the pati...
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Evaluation of Supratrochlear, Supraorbital and Angular Artery Course Variations and Depth by Doppler Ultrasound
Supratrochlear (STA), supraorbital (SOA), and dorsal nasal artery (DNA) branches from the ophthalmic artery and angular artery (AA) from the facial artery are the primary suppliers of blood to the upper face. ...
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Ultrasound-Guided Vacuum-Assisted Excision to Treat Intraductal Papilloma
To evaluate the value of ultrasound-guided vacuum-assisted excision (US-guided VAE) in the treatment of intraductal papillomas, including intraductal papillomas with atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH), and to e...
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Improve University Humanities Students’ Problem-Solving Ability Through Computational Thinking Training
Humanities students are often considered to have lower problem solving ability and information application skills. This may be due to the fact that many humanities students receive basic computer education tha...
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Open AccessEHD2 is a Predictive Biomarker of Chemotherapy Efficacy in Triple Negative Breast Carcinoma
EHD2 is a mechanotransducing ATPase localized in caveolae invaginations at the plasma membrane. EHD2 has recently been associated with several human cancers, however the significance of EHD2 transcript levels ...
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Implementation of an Individual English Oral Training Robot System
To improve oral English ability, in addition to learners’ willingness to practice more, the learning effect will be more obvious if tutor assistance is provided and can involve one-on-one individual tutoring. ...
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Sema4D expression and secretion are increased by HIF-1α and inhibit osteogenesis in bone metastases of lung cancer
Most lung cancer bone metastasis are characterized by osteolytic destruction and osteoblastic activity is significantly decreased, suggesting that hypoxia may play a critical role in the process, but the under...
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A System to Support the Learning of English Collocations via Video Materials: A Preliminary Study
This paper shows the functionality of an online web-based system to facilitate English collocation learning via videos along with their captions. As videos can be attractive and fun materials for L2 learners w...
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ETAR: An English Teaching Assistant Robot and Its Effects on College Freshmen’s In-Class Learning Motivation
Educational robots have become popular and mature in lots of Robot-Assisted Language Learning (RALL) applications in recent years. This paper reports the development of an English Teaching Assistant Robot (ETA...
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Open AccessGastrin inhibits gastric cancer progression through activating the ERK-P65-miR23a/27a/24 axis
To test the hypothesis that activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) regulates P65-miR23a/27a/24 axis in gastric cancer (GC) and the ERK-P65-miR23a/27a/24 axis plays an important role in the devel...
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The effect of electron competition on chromate reduction using methane as electron donor
We studied the effect of electron competition on chromate (Cr(VI)) reduction in a methane (CH4)-based membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR), since the reduction rate was usually limited by electron supply. A low surfac...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robot Assisted Reading: A Preliminary Study on the Robotic Storytelling Service to Children in the Library
It is important for the modern library to cultivate the public’s information literacy and reading literacy. When these two important tasks can be rooted in the children’s readers, the function of the library c...
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An Extensive Reading System Built on the Basis of Comprehensible Input Principles - A Key to Rescuing the Lower-Level EFL University Students’ Vocabulary Ability
Although scholars of extensive reading and vocabulary pedagogy confirm that the two research fields have a strong connection to improve one’s language competence, little seems to be implemented on students wh...
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The Ideal and Reality of Implementing Technology into English Language Teaching: A Case Study of Using a Peer Review System
Although research into peer review claimed some convenience and benefits of executing online or computer-mediated-communication peer revisions in writing courses, few of them mentioned the control of the peer ...
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Concentration and distribution of entanglement based on valley qubits system in graphene
Exploiting the optical excitation selection rules in graphene quantum dots, we investigate theoretically the entanglement generation process and entanglement concentration process of valley qubits. Our protoc...
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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the PRKCG gene and osteosarcoma susceptibility
The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the protein kinase C gamma (PRKCG) gene and osteosarcoma susceptibility in Chinese Han population. ...
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MiR-142-3p functions as a tumor suppressor by targeting CD133, ABCG2, and Lgr5 in colon cancer cells
Studies have shown that the expression of CD133, leucine-rich-repeat-containing G-protein-coupled receptor 5 (Lgr5), and ATP binding cassette (ABC)G2 proteins is associated with malignancy and poor prognosis i...
