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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 AccessAssociations of community, famliy and early individual factors with body mass index z-scores trajectories among Chinese children and adolescents
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Open AccessDNMT1-mediated methylation inhibits microRNA-214-3p and promotes hair follicle stem cell differentiate into adipogenic lineages
Dysfunction of the DNA methylation was associated with stem cell reprogramming. Moreover, DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) deficiency was involved in the differentiation of hair follicle stem cell (HFSc), but t...
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Open AccessNew terpenoids from the roots of Jatropha curcas
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