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Author Correction: A highly distorted ultraelastic chemically complex Elinvar alloy
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A highly distorted ultraelastic chemically complex Elinvar alloy
The development of high-performance ultraelastic metals with superb strength, a large elastic strain limit and temperature-insensitive elastic modulus (Elinvar effect) are important for various industrial appl...
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Open AccessRational design of chemically complex metallic glasses by hybrid modeling guided machine learning
The compositional design of metallic glasses (MGs) is a long-standing issue in materials science and engineering. However, traditional experimental approaches based on empirical rules are time consuming with a...
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A new set of scaling relationships for DEM-CFD simulations of fluid–solid coupling problems in saturated and cohesiveless granular soils
The discrete element method (DEM) cannot effectively account for macroscale problems because of its high computational cost and time-consuming nature, especially for fluid–solid coupling problems. Therefore, a...
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Supplemented Organic and Inorganic Selenium Affects Milk Performance and Selenium Concentration in Milk and Tissues in the Guanzhong Dairy Goat
Trace amounts of selenium (Se) are essential for several organisms, and deficiencies therein have adverse effects on growth, development, and reproduction; this is particularly significant in animals raised fo...
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Open AccessRole of hippocampal p11 in the sustained antidepressant effect of ketamine in the chronic unpredictable mild stress model
Although ketamine shows a rapid and sustained antidepressant effect, the precise mechanisms underlying its effect are unknown. Recent studies indicate a key role of p11 (also known as S100A10) in depression-li...
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An Attribute Synthetic Evaluation System for Risk Assessment of Floor Water Inrush in Coal Mines
An attribute synthetic evaluation system was combined with attribute mathematical theory and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to evaluate the risk of floor water inrush in coal mines. The evaluation indice...
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Exogenous sucrose influences antioxidant enzyme activities and reduces lipid peroxidation in water-stressed cucumber leaves
To investigate whether exogenous sucrose can protect cucumber from water stress, cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) seedlings were pretreated with 90 mM sucrose or 90 mM mannitol for 1 d and then were dehydrated with ...
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Glucose application protects chloroplast ultrastructure in heat-stressed cucumber leaves through modifying antioxidant enzyme activity
To elucidate a physiological mechanism of heat stress mitigation by exogenous glucose, seedlings of Cucumis sativus cv. **chun No. 4 were pretreated with glucose and then exposed to normal (25/18 °C) and elevate...
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Process of aerenchyma formation and reactive oxygen species induced by waterlogging in wheat seminal roots
The development and regulation of aerenchyma in waterlogged conditions were studied in the seminal roots of wheat. Evans blue staining and the first cell death position indicated that the cortical cell death b...
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Open AccessCell Wall Degradation and the Dynamic Changes of Ca2+ and Related Enzymes in the Develo** Aerenchyma of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Under Waterlogging
This research was aimed to study the cell wall degradation and the dynamic changes of Ca2+ and related enzymes in develo** aerenchyma of wheat root under waterlogging. An examination of morphological developmen...
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Structure-function relationships during metaphloem sieve elements d evelopment in Triticum aestivum
The differentiation of metaphloem sieve element (MSEs) in the develo** caryopsis of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was a programmed cell semi-death process. We studied the changes of microtubules and polysacchari...
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The evolution of a transverse intra-ply crack coupled to delamination cracks
In this paper nonlinear cohesive fracture models with cohesive parameters and laminar elasticity typical of polymer composites are used to study the initiation and propagation of a transverse intra-ply crack t...
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Ketamine inhibits polymorphonuclear leucocyte CD11b expression and respiratory burst activity in endotoxemic rats
To observe the effect of ketamine on polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) adhesion and respiratory burst activity in endotoxemia rats.
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Molecular dynamics simulation of liquid argon flow at platinum surfaces
The micro Poiseuille flow for liquid argon flowing in a nanoscale channel formed by two solid walls was studied in the present paper. The solid wall material was selected as platinum, which has well establish...
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Preparation of Novel Composite VPO/Fumed Silica Catalyst for Partial Oxidation of n-Butane
By applying fumed SiO2 and the deposition–precipitation method based on organic medium, the composite VPO/fumed SiO2 catalysts were first prepared and tried for partial oxidation of n-butane to maleic anhydride. ...
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Ketamine inhibits LPS-induced calcium elevation and NF-kappa B activation in monocytes
Objective:To investigate whether ketamine could inhibit lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced intracellular calcium elevation and NF-kappa B activation in monocytes.
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Separation of the enantiomers of tebuconazole and its potential impurities by high-performance liquid chromatography with a cellulose derivative-based chiral stationary phase
The high-performance liquid chromatographic resolution of the enantiomers of tebuconazole, a new anti-fungal agent with one chiral center, and the enantiomers of some impurities in technical tebuconazole, has ...
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The RAPD evidence for the phylogenetic relationship of the closely related species of cultivated apple
The phylogenetic relationship of cultivated apple and its closely related species is still not clear in the taxonomy of genus Malus. To try to find new evidence for the origin and evolution of the cultivated appl...
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Molecularmarker diversity and hybrid sterility in indica-japonica rice crosses
The partial sterility of hybrids between the indica and japonica rice subspecies of Asian cultivated rice is a serious constraint for utilizing inter-subspecific heterosis in hybrid rice breeding. In this stu...
