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Open AccessThe burden of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease among working-age people in the Western Pacific Region, 1990–2019: an age–period–cohort analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study
The growing prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in younger populations, particularly those of working age (15–64 years), has become a public health concern. Being diagnosed at a younger age...
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Iron recovery and dephosphorization behaviors from high-phosphorus oolitic hematite by gas-based direct reduction and magnetic separation
With the depletion of high-quality iron ore resources, high-phosphorus oolitic hematite (HPOH) has attracted great attention due to its large reserve and relatively high iron content. However, HPOH is very dif...
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Volume-of-fluid-based implementation for the spatiotemporal variation of viscosity in grouting process: transport time tracking approach
Due to the spatiotemporal variation of viscosity, the simulation of grouting processes is quite challenging. In this work, based on the volume-of-fluid method, the transport time tracking approach is develope...
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Open AccessCayratia albifolia C.L.Li exerts anti-rheumatoid arthritis effect by inhibiting macrophage activation and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)
Cayratia albifolia C.L.Li (CAC), commonly known as “Jiao-Mei-Gu” in China, has been extensively utilized by the Dong minority for several millennia to effectively alleviate symptoms associated with autoimmune dis...
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Comparative analysis of the mass elevation effect and its implication for the treeline between the Tibetan and Bolivian plateaus based on solar radiation
As one of the main non-zonal factors, the mass elevation effect (MEE) has significant impacts on both regional climates and mountain ecological patterns. In recent years, with the development of quantitative t...
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Revisiting the White method for estimating groundwater evapotranspiration: a consideration of sunset and sunrise timings
The well-known White method (A method of estimating ground-water supplies based on discharge by plants and evaporation from soil: Results of investigation in Escalante Valley, Utah. Washington D.C, US Geologic...
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Green preparation of chlorine-doped graphene and its application in electrochemical sensor for chloramphenicol detection
A green but efficient synthesis approach for chlorine-doped reduced graphene oxide (Cl-RGO) was developed. The chlorine-do** and reduction was achieved in one-step by refluxing graphene oxide solution in con...
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Perfect Nonreciprocal Absorption Based on Metamaterial Slab
In order to achieve nonreciprocal absorption, we design a metamaterial slab made of arrays of tilted metal layers. Through studying the extraordinary material dispersion, we derive the transfer matrix to calcu...
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Open AccessMicroRNA-30a-5p inhibits gallbladder cancer cell proliferation, migration and metastasis by targeting E2F7
Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC), the most common malignant tumour of the bile duct, is highly aggressive and has a poor prognosis. MicroRNA-30a-5p (miR-30a-5p) is an important tumour suppressor that participates i...
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Open AccessA new use for an old index: preoperative high-density lipoprotein predicts recurrence in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after curative resections
Hepatocellular carcinoma has high incidence and mortality worldwide. Liver is the site of most metabolic biotransformation, which could reflect the status of cells. Most plasma apolipoproteins, endogenous lipi...
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Open AccessThe E545K mutation of PIK3CA promotes gallbladder carcinoma progression through enhanced binding to EGFR
Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is the most common malignancy of the bile duct and patients with GBC have extremely poor prognoses. PIK3CA, which encodes the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) subunit p110α, is freq...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
RDQS: A Relevant and Diverse Query Suggestion Generation Framework
Traditional query suggestion methods mainly leverage click-through information to find related queries as recommendations, without considering the semantic relateness between queries. In addition, few studies ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Ontology-Based Approach to Query Suggestion Diversification
Query suggestion is proposed to generate alternative queries and help users explore and express their information needs. Most existing query suggestion methods generate query suggestions based on document info...
