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Association of metabolic syndrome conditions with risk of second primary uterine cancer in breast cancer survivors
Uterine cancer risk is high in breast cancer survivors. Although breast cancer and uterine cancer share some common epidemiological risk factors, association of metabolic syndrome with incident uterine cancer ...
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MOF-derived Ni-Co bimetal/porous carbon composites as electromagnetic wave absorber
In this paper, Ni-Co/PC composite is prepared by introducing metal Co element with Ni-MOF/PC as precursor. Then a series of Ni-Co bimetal/PC composites are prepared by polyaniline coating, oxidation reaction, ...
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Complex carotid artery segmentation in multi-contrast MR sequences by improved optimal surface graph cuts based on flow line learning
Carotid atherosclerosis is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular disease with high mortality. Multi-contrast MRI can identify atherosclerotic plaque components with high sensitivity and specificity. Accu...
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Enhanced removal of aqueous chromium(VI) by KOH-activated soybean straw-based carbon
Activated carbon has attracted much attention in the remediation of heavy metal pollution; however, it is still a challenge to explore a cheap and efficient activated carbon for the removal of chromium(VI) fro...
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Fusion diversion network for fast, accurate and lightweight single image super-resolution
In recent years, deep convolution neural network has been widely used in image super-resolution and achieved great performance. As the network becomes deeper and deeper, the accuracy of reconstruction is highe...
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Unsupervised Domain Attention Adaptation Network for Caricature Attribute Recognition
Caricature attributes provide distinctive facial features to help research in Psychology and Neuroscience. However, unlike the facial photo attribute datasets that have a quantity of annotated images, the anno...
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Covalent grafting of triazine derivatives onto graphene oxide for preparation of epoxy composites with improved interfacial and mechanical properties
Interface interactions are the important problems in improving the mechanical properties of graphene and polymer composites. In this work, a simple method is proposed to prepare epoxy composites with admirable...
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Open AccessThe airway inflammation induced by nasal inoculation of PM2.5 and the treatment of bacterial lysates in rats
Particulate matter (PM) is one of the most important environmental issues in China. This study aimed to explore the correlation between PM2.5 and airway inflammation in healthy rats. The PM2.5 group was given ...
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Egress Mechanism Color Image Segmentation Based on Region and Feature Fusion in Mars Exploration
During the egress phase of Mars exploration, the egress mechanism image segmentation is the basis of the egress mechanism vision measurement analysis. In this paper, an egress mechanism image segmentation meth...
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Develo** a Word Associates Test to Assess L2 Chinese Learners’ Vocabulary Depth
This chapter reports on our development and initial validation of a Word Associates Test (WAT) for assessing the depth of vocabulary knowledge of Chinese as Second/Foreign Language learners. The validation stu...
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Open AccessSub-nanosecond signal propagation in anisotropy-engineered nanomagnetic logic chains
Energy efficient nanomagnetic logic (NML) computing architectures propagate binary information by relying on dipolar field coupling to reorient closely spaced nanoscale magnets. Signal propagation in nanomagne...
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Structure and properties of PLLA/β-TCP nanocomposite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
One of the key components of tissue engineering is a scaffold with suitable morphology, outstanding mechanical properties, and favorable biocompatibility. In this study, β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) nanopart...
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Protocol Customization for Improving MPI Performance on RDMA-Enabled Clusters
Optimizing Message Passing Interface (MPI) point-to-point communication for large messages is of paramount importance since most communications in MPI applications are performed by such operations. Remote Dire...
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Concave nanomagnets: investigation of anisotropy properties and applications to nanomagnetic logic
Emerging applications for nanomagnets demand increasingly precise control of magnetic anisotropy. To date, many of the available mechanisms for controlling anisotropy have placed restrictions on a nanomagnet’s...
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Open AccessContrast-enhanced small-animal PET/CT in cancer research: strong improvement of diagnostic accuracy without significant alteration of quantitative accuracy and NEMA NU 4–2008 image quality parameters
The use of iodinated contrast media in small-animal positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) could improve anatomic referencing and tumor delineation but may introduce inaccuracies in the at...
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PTOV1 is associated with UCH-L1 and in response to estrogen stimuli during the mouse oocyte development
To investigate the biological significance of ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) involvement in oocyte maturation, we screened for proteins that bound to UCH-L1 in mouse ovaries, and we found th...
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A Novel Fluorescent Probe for Copper Ions Based on Polymer-modified CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dots
Quantum dots (QDs) have become one of the most attractive fields of current research because of their unique optical properties. Novel copper-sensitive fluorescent fluoroionophores based on CdSe/CdS core/shell...
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Structure and Properties of Hydrogenated Nitrile Rubber/Organo-Montmorillonite Nanocomposites
The aim of the work was to study the effect of organo-montmorillonite (OMt) on the properties of hydrogenated nitrile rubber (HNBR)/OMt nanocomposites. The nanocomposites were prepared by a melt intercalation ...
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Open AccessHealth related quality of life measured by SF-36: a population-based study in Shanghai, China
Health related quality of life (HRQL) is a research topic that has attracted increasing interests around the world over the past two decades. The 36-item Short Form (SF-36) is a commonly used instrument for me...
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High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Thermal Oxidation of Single Crystalline Aluminum Nitride
The impact of process conditions and crystal properties on the structure of thermal oxides formed on AlN were determined by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). Oxidation for 2 hours at bo...
