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Open AccessSexual experience in patients with coronary heart disease: a descriptive phenomenological study
Sex is an essential part of life and is a basic demand for human beings. Coronary heart disease can have an impact on patients’ sexual lives; however, not much attention has been paid to it in China, and few s...
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Open AccessCollapse of carbon nanotubes due to local high-pressure from van der Waals encapsulation
Van der Waals (vdW) assembly of low-dimensional materials has proven the capability of creating structures with on-demand properties. It is predicted that the vdW encapsulation can induce a local high-pressure...
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Open AccessVectorized dataset of silted land formed by check dams on the Chinese Loess Plateau
Check dams on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) have captured billions of tons of eroded sediment, substantially reducing sediment load in the Yellow River. However, uncertainties persist regarding the precise s...
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Graphene nanoribbons grown in hBN stacks for high-performance electronics
Van der Waals encapsulation of two-dimensional materials in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) stacks is a promising way to create ultrahigh-performance electronic devices1–4. However, contemporary approaches for achi...
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Open AccessFerroelectric compute-in-memory annealer for combinatorial optimization problems
Computationally hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are ubiquitous in many applications. Various digital annealers, dynamical Ising machines, and quantum/photonic systems have been developed for so...
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Open AccessElectron/infrared-phonon coupling in ABC trilayer graphene
Stacking order plays a crucial role in determining the crystal symmetry and has significant impacts on electronic, optical, magnetic, and topological properties. Electron-phonon coupling, which is central to a...
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Open AccessImplementation of a dual-phase grating interferometer for multi-scale characterization of building materials by tunable dark-field imaging
The multi-scale characterization of building materials is necessary to understand complex mechanical processes, with the goal of develo** new more sustainable materials. To that end, imaging methods are ofte...
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Open AccessPhotogating-assisted tunneling boosts the responsivity and speed of heterogeneous WSe2/Ta2NiSe5 photodetectors
Photogating effect is the dominant mechanism of most high-responsivity two-dimensional (2D) material photodetectors. However, the ultrahigh responsivities in those devices are intrinsically at the cost of very...
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Open AccessObservation of non-superconducting phase changes in nitrogen doped lutetium hydrides
The recent report of near-ambient superconductivity and associated color changes in pressurized nitrogen doped lutetium hydride has triggered worldwide interest and raised major questions about the nature and ...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Identification of recurrent USP48 and BRAF mutations in Cushing’s disease
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Open AccessRapid self-heating synthesis of Fe-based nanomaterial catalyst for advanced oxidation
Iron-based catalysts are promising candidates for advanced oxidation process-based wastewater remediation. However, the preparation of these materials often involves complex and energy intensive syntheses. Fur...
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Open AccessTowards layer-selective quantum spin hall channels in weak topological insulator Bi4Br2I2
Weak topological insulators, constructed by stacking quantum spin Hall insulators with weak interlayer coupling, offer promising quantum electronic applications through topologically non-trivial edge channels....
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Open AccessUnreprogrammed H3K9me3 prevents minor zygotic genome activation and lineage commitment in SCNT embryos
Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) can be used to reprogram differentiated somatic cells to a totipotent state but has poor efficiency in supporting full-term development. H3K9me3 is considered to be an epig...
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Open AccessComprehensive analysis of the prognosis and immune infiltration of TMC family members in renal clear cell carcinoma
Renal cancer is a common malignancy of the urinary system, and renal clear cell carcinoma (RCCC) is the most common pathological type. Transmembrane channel-like (TMC) protein is an evolutionarily conserved ge...
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Open AccessGenomic and molecular landscape of homologous recombination deficiency across multiple cancer types
Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) causes faulty double-strand break repair and is a prevalent cause of tumorigenesis. However, the incidence of HRD and its clinical significance in pan-cancer patients ...
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Open AccessTunable growth of one-dimensional graphitic materials: graphene nanoribbons, carbon nanotubes, and nanoribbon/nanotube junctions
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), two representative one-dimensional (1D) graphitic materials, have attracted tremendous research interests due to their promising applications for future...
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Open AccessThe choice of an autocorrelation length in dark-field lung imaging
Respiratory diseases are one of the most common causes of death, and their early detection is crucial for prompt treatment. X-ray dark-field radiography (XDFR) is a promising tool to image objects with unresol...
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Open AccessSelective suppression of melanoma lacking IFN-γ pathway by JAK inhibition depends on T cells and host TNF signaling
Therapeutic resistance to immune checkpoint blockers (ICBs) in melanoma patients is a pressing issue, of which tumor loss of IFN-γ signaling genes is a major underlying mechanism. However, strategies of overco...
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Open AccessA temperature-regulated circuit for feeding behavior
Both rodents and primates have evolved to orchestrate food intake to maintain thermal homeostasis in co** with ambient temperature challenges. However, the mechanisms underlying temperature-coordinated feedi...
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Open AccessOnline public opinion during the first epidemic wave of COVID-19 in China based on Weibo data
As COVID-19 spread around the world, epidemic prevention and control policies have been adopted by many countries. This process has prompted online social platforms to become important channels to enable peopl...