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Open AccessA proof-of-concept study of ultrasound-guided continuous parasacral ischial plane block for postoperative pain control in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty
Continuous peripheral nerve blocks are widely used for anesthesia and postoperative analgesia in lower limb surgeries. The authors aimed to develop a novel continuous sacral plexus block procedure for analgesi...
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Effect of different starting doses of FSH on laboratory and clinical outcomes in patients with moderate AMH level
IVF and ICSI-ET are widely used ART for addressing infertility which have been developed and improved over the last four decades. COS is a crucial step in IVF/ICSI-ET, whereby medications stimulate the ovaries...
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Open AccessCancer immunometabolism: advent, challenges, and perspective
For decades, great strides have been made in the field of immunometabolism. A plethora of evidence ranging from basic mechanisms to clinical transformation has gradually embarked on immunometabolism to the cen...
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2D materials for intelligent devices
Neuromorphic intelligent hardware technologies have undergone rapid advancement during the past decade, with the goal of building intelligent devices and systems capable of overcoming challenges associated wit...
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An Effective Microsatellite Marker Panel for Noninvasive Samples in Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana)
An effective genetic marker panel that can be used with noninvasive samples is useful for population genetics and the conservation management of endangered species. We aimed to develop a microsatellite marker ...
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Open AccessThe role of LncRNAs in tumor immunotherapy
Cancer immunotherapy is a major breakthrough in the history of tumor therapy in the last decade. Immune checkpoint inhibitors blocking CTLA-4/B7 or PD-1/PD-L1 pathways have greatly prolonged the survival of pa...
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AOED: Generating SQL with the Aggregation Operator Enhanced Decoding
NL2SQL is a translation task that converts natural language queries to SQL. We revisit the popular NL2SQL models and find that the accuracy of aggregation operator prediction remains a bottleneck of current NL...
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A Hybrid Model for Spatio-Temporal Information Recognition in COVID-19 Trajectory Text
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic at the end of 2019, the normalization of epidemic prevention and control has become one of the core tasks of the entire country. Health self-examination by checking ...
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Cross-language activation of culture-specific features in Chinese–English bilinguals
Dong et al. (2005) proposed that when an individual learns a word in a second language (L2), they link the features from the translation in their first language (L1) to that word, and as they become proficient in...
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Open AccessAssessment of tantalum nanoparticle-induced MC3T3-E1 proliferation and underlying mechanisms
In our previous study, tantalum nanoparticle (Ta-NPs) was demonstrated to promote osteoblast proliferation via autophagy induction, but the specific mechanism remains unclear. In the present study, we will exp...
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Open AccessEfficient photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide generation coupled with selective benzylamine oxidation over defective ZrS3 nanobelts
Photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) generation represents a promising approach for artificial photosynthesis. However, the sluggish half-reaction of water oxidation significantly limits the efficiency of H2O2
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STMG: Spatial-Temporal Mobility Graph for Location Prediction
Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) data reflects a large amount of user mobility patterns. So it is possible to infer users’ unvisited Points of Interest (POIs) through the users’ check-in records in LBSNs...
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LncRNA KTN1-AS1 promotes the progression of non-small cell lung cancer via sponging of miR-130a-5p and activation of PDPK1
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the major cause of cancer-associated death worldwide, but its underlying mechanisms remain to be fully elucidated. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are known to play an impor...
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Changes of Phenolic Acids and Antioxidant Activities in Diploid and Tetraploid Echinacea purpurea at Different Growth Stages
Phenolic acids are the main active substances that contribute to the antioxidant activity of Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench, Asteraceae. However, the effect of chromosome doubling and developmental growth stage o...
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Open AccessGenome-wide study of salivary microRNAs as potential noninvasive biomarkers for detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Recent studies reported that blood-based microRNAs (miRNAs) could detect cancers and predict prognosis have opened a new field of utilizing circulating miRNAs as cancer biomarkers. In this pilot study, we cond...
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Open AccessSynthesized natural peptides from amphibian skin secretions increase the efficacy of a therapeutic vaccine by recruiting more T cells to the tumour site
Therapeutic vaccines against cervical cancer remain ineffective. Previously, we demonstrated that blocking the signalling of a cytokine, interleukin 10, at the time of immunisation elicited significantly highe...
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Open AccessHP1 cooperates with CAF-1 to compact heterochromatic transgene repeats in mammalian cells
The nuclear organization of tightly condensed heterochromatin plays important roles in regulating gene transcription and genome integrity. Heterochromatic domains are usually present at chromosomal regions con...
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Open AccessBlocking IL-10 signalling at the time of immunization does not increase unwanted side effects in mice
Cancer therapeutic vaccine induced cytotoxic T cell (CTL) responses are pivotal for the killing of tumour cells. Blocking interleukin 10 (IL-10) signalling at the time of immunization increases vaccine induced...
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Open AccessEnergy-filtered Electron Transport Structures for Low-power Low-noise 2-D Electronics
In addition to cryogenic techniques, energy filtering has the potential to achieve high-performance low-noise 2-D electronic systems. Assemblies based on graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have been demonstrated to ...
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Comprehensive Evaluation on the Primary Frequency Regulation Performance of Generator Units Based on Data from a Wide Area Measurement System
On-line monitoring of the unit’s primary frequency regulation performance can be realized on the basis of measured data from WAMS (Wide Area Measurement System). Based on measured data and according to the ind...
