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The impact of preoperative calcitonin screening on the prognosis of patients with medullary thyroid cancer: a retrospective multicenter cohort study
There is still controversy in different guidelines regarding the necessity of routine preoperative calcitonin (Ctn) testing in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). The level of preoperative Ctn may influence the ex...
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Clinical prediction models for cervical lymph node metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma
Accurate preoperative diagnosis of lymph node metastasis (LNM) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) remains an unsolved problem. This study aimed to construct a nomogram and scoring system for predicting LNM b...
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Stability and transitions of depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults over a 5-year follow up
This study aimed to examine the stability of depression subtypes over time or the multiple factors and mechanisms that influence these subtypes. Data from two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudi...
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An Effective and Sensitive HPLC–MS/MS Method for Determination of Cholic Acid-Coupled Camptothecin Derivative A2 in Rat Pharmacokinetics and Tissue Distribution
Camptothecin bile acid analog (A2) is a camptothecin derivative, which has been verified to possess the high anti-tumor activity. The purpose of this study was to develop an effective and sensitive detection m...
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Enhancement of anticorrosion performance of epoxy coatings with exfoliated graphite nanoplatelets and functionalized graphene
A combination of a series of epoxy coatings filled with octadecylamine (ODA)-modified graphene oxide (mGO) or commercial exfoliated graphite nanoplatelets (xGnP) was developed to boost the anticorrosion perfor...
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Thick-wire swing arc narrow gap GMA welding assisted by pre-embedding cold wires
To raise narrow gap GMA welding efficiency while ensuring weld formation, the present work presents a thick-wire swing arc narrow gap GMA welding process assisted by cold wires. This process employs the thick ...
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Open AccessThe edge segmentation of grains in thin-section petrographic images utilising extinction consistency perception network
The first step in petrographic image analysis is to segment the mineral grains in the thin section petrographic image, allowing the petrographer to identify the rock based on the grain size and composition. Th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Compressive Mechanical Property of Artificial Hail Under Intermediate Strain Rates
Hail in nature is stronger than pure ice, and cotton fibers are usually added to imitate the mechanical properties of hail in nature. In this paper, distilled water and absorbent cotton were used to prepare di...
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Open AccessRule-Based Identification of Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Alzheimer’s Disease Using Clinical Notes from the United States Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
Early identification of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a clinical and research imperative. Use of diagnostic codes for MCI and AD identification has limitation...
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Physics informed neural network for dynamic stress prediction
Structural failures are often caused by catastrophic events such as earthquakes and winds. As a result, it is crucial to predict dynamic stress distributions during highly disruptive events in real time. Curre...
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A Novel Method to Measure the High Temperature Melt Volume Change
It was difficult to measure the volume change of alloy at high temperature, especially for undercooled solidification. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to measure the volume change of high temperature...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
NeuralSI: Structural Parameter Identification in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Structural monitoring for complex built environments often suffers from mismatch between design, laboratory testing, and actual built parameters. Additionally, real-world structural identification problems enc...
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Open AccessBridging finite element and deep learning: High-resolution stress distribution prediction in structural components
Finite-element analysis (FEA) for structures has been broadly used to conduct stress analysis of various civil and mechanical engineering structures. Conventional methods, such as FEA, provide high fidelity re...
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Open Accessβ-elemene regulates M1-M2 macrophage balance through the ERK/JNK/P38 MAPK signaling pathway
Macrophages are classified into classically activated M1 macrophages and alternatively activated M2 macrophages, and the two phenotypes of macrophages are present during the development of various chronic dise...
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Research on a Space Anti-irradiation Magnetic Feedback DCDC Conversion Technology
A voltage and current dual-loop control DCDC converter is designed. The controller adopts the magnetic feedback topology to realize the circuit isolation, compared with optocouplers, the magnetic feedback circ...
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The Performance Influence of Stator Structure for Five Phase Fault Tolerant PMSM
In this paper, finite element simulation software is used to optimize the stator of five-phase fault-tolerant motor, and the influence of tooth width, notch width, groove shoulder Angle and yoke isolation groo...
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Research on Anti-saturation Control Strategy of High-Power and High-Dynamic Servo Power Supply
This paper aims at the multipolar converter topology commonly used in servo power converters, the magnetic bias problem caused by the inconsistent characteristics of the transformer primary coil generating a D...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
BSDG: Anomaly Detection of Microservice Trace Based on Dual Graph Convolutional Neural Network
Microservice architecture has been widely used by more and more developers in recent years. Accurate anomaly detection is crucial for system maintenance. Trace data can reflect the microservice dependency rela...
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Open AccessAssociations of community, famliy and early individual factors with body mass index z-scores trajectories among Chinese children and adolescents
The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity is increasing. This study aimed to examine trajectories of BMI z-scores among Chinese children and the potential determinants including early individual, fami...
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Fire Performance of Continuous Steel-Concrete Composite Bridge Girders
This paper presents a detailed investigation in to fire resistance along with failure mode in continuous steel-concrete composite twin I-shaped bridge girders under different localized fire through considering...
