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Open AccessA case of acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura induced by acute severe hepatitis E: successfully treated by plasma exchange and rituximab
With its low morbidity and high mortality rates, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) has imposed a critical physical and economic burden on both society and individuals. Thrombocytopenia commonly occurs ...
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Uncertainty relations for triples of observables and the experimental demonstrations
Uncertainty relations are of profound significance in quantum mechanics and quantum information theory. The well-known Heisenberg-Robertson uncertainty relation presents the constraints on the spread of measur...
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Open AccessThe bHLH-zip transcription factor SREBP regulates triterpenoid and lipid metabolisms in the medicinal fungus Ganoderma lingzhi
Ganoderic acids (GAs) are well recognized as important pharmacological components of the medicinal species belonging to the basidiomycete genus Ganoderma. However, transcription factors directly regulating the ex...
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Open AccessCell-free fetal DNA testing and its correlation with prenatal indications
The prenatal test of cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) is also known as noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) with high sensitivity and specificity. This study is to evaluate the performance of NIPT and its clinical ...
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Open AccessIdentification of subgroups along the glycolysis-cholesterol synthesis axis and the development of an associated prognostic risk model
Skin cutaneous melanoma (SKCM) is one of the most highly prevalent and complicated malignancies. Glycolysis and cholesterogenesis pathways both play important roles in cancer metabolic adaptations. The main ai...
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Investigation of the Bonding Formation of a Plasma-Sprayed Cast Iron Splat on a Preheated Aluminum Substrate Using an Experimentally Based Numerical Simulation Method
In this study, the bonding formation of the cast iron splat deposited on a preheated aluminum substrate by atmospheric plasma spraying was investigated using a finite element method based on a heat transfer mo...
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Band bending and valence band shifting of sub-monolayer TiO2 functionalized SnO2 nanowires
Sub-monolayer TiO2 over-layers were deposited on SnO2 nanowires (NWs) by atomic layer deposition. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Mott–Schottky plots and photoluminance spectra were used to investigate the band...
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Microstructural Evolution of Plasma-Sprayed Cast Iron Coatings at Different Deposition Temperatures and Its Effect on Corrosion Resistance
The properties of a thermally sprayed coating are primarily determined by the porosity and inter-lamellar bonding. In this work, three cast iron coatings were prepared by the atmospheric plasma spraying proces...
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Open AccessEffect of bovine lactoferrin as a novel therapeutic agent in a rat model of sepsis-induced acute lung injury
Sepsis is a serious clinical condition resulting from severe infection. High rates of mortality and tissue damage have been reported in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with sepsis. Bovine lactoferrin (BLF) ...
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Open AccessExperimental implementation of fully controlled dephasing dynamics and synthetic spectral densities
Engineering, controlling, and simulating quantum dynamics is a strenuous task. However, these techniques are crucial to develop quantum technologies, preserve quantum properties, and engineer decoherence. Earl...
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Remarks on minimal surfaces in a 3-dimensional Randers space
In this paper, we study minimal surfaces in Randers space. We consider Randers metric \(F=\alpha +\beta \) ...
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Open AccessHeisenberg-scaling measurement of the single-photon Kerr non-linearity using mixed states
Improving the precision of measurements is a significant scientific challenge. Previous works suggest that in a photon-coupling scenario the quantum fisher information shows a quantum-enhanced scaling of N2, whic...
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Development in plasma surface diffusion techniques of Ti-6Al-4V alloy: a review
Ti-6Al-4V alloy has been widely used as an important structural material in aerospace, automotive, and chemical and biomedical industries due to its high specific strength and excellent corrosion resistance. H...
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iTRAQ-Based Comparative Proteomics Analysis of the Fruiting Dikaryon and the Non-fruiting Monokaryon of Flammulina velutipes
Flammulina velutipes is a potentially excellent fungus to study basic mechanisms of basidiomycete mycelium biology. To provide a better understanding of the mechanism of hyphae growth and...
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Experimental investigation of the no-signalling principle in parity–time symmetric theory using an open quantum system
The violation of the no-signalling principle — information can be transmitted faster than light — is experimentally investigated using entangled photons. It can be simulated when the parity–time symmetrically ...
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Open AccessFunctional evaluation of rat hearts transplanted after preservation in a high-pressure gaseous mixture of carbon monoxide and oxygen
We recently succeeded in resuscitating an extracted rat heart following 24–48 hours of preservation in a high-pressure gaseous mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen (O2). This study aimed to examine the func...
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Determining the Real Data Completeness of a Relational Dataset
Low quality of data is a serious problem in the new era of big data, which can severely reduce the usability of data, mislead or bias the querying, analyzing and mining, and leads to huge loss. Incomplete data...
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Non-Markovian discrete qubit dynamics
The study of open quantum systems is important for fundamental issues of quantum physics as well as for technological applications such as quantum information processing. The interaction of a quantum system wi...
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Burn-resistant behavior and mechanism of Ti14 alloy
The direct-current simulation burning method was used to investigate the burn-resistant behavior of Ti14 titanium alloy. The results show that Ti14 alloy exhibits a better burn resistance than TC4 alloy (Ti–6A...
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Open AccessStorage of multiple single-photon pulses emitted from a quantum dot in a solid-state quantum memory
Quantum repeaters are critical components for distributing entanglement over long distances in presence of unavoidable optical losses during transmission. Stimulated by the Duan–Lukin–Cirac–Zoller protocol, ma...
