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Open AccessSingle-ended recovery of optical fiber transmission matrices using neural networks
Ultra-thin multimode optical fiber imaging promises next-generation medical endoscopes reaching high image resolution for deep tissues. However, current technology suffers from severe optical distortion, as th...
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Open AccessSingle multimode fibre for in vivo light-field-encoded endoscopic imaging
Super-resolution microscopy is typically not applicable to in situ imaging through a narrow channel due to the requirement for complex optics. Although multimode fibres (MMFs) have emerged as a potential platf...
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Recent progress in the direct phosphorylation of parent heterocycles to construct phosphorylated heterocycles
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Optimal Grading Policies in the Online Acquisition of Used Products
Although online reverse commerce (recommerce) is convenient and efficient, it is not without caveats. It limits recommerce firms’ flexibility to offer personalized prices and may cause mismatched grading betwe...
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Optimal Technology Investment under Emission Trading Policy
Low-carbon economy is gaining growing attention nowadays as global warming intensifies. As a market-based policy, emission trading policy is widely considered an effective means to achieve the doublewin of eco...
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Open AccessPin2 telomeric repeat factor 1-interacting telomerase inhibitor 1 (PinX1) inhibits nasopharyngeal cancer cell stemness: implication for cancer progression and therapeutic targeting
Recurrence and distant metastasis are still the main factors leading to treatment failure for malignant tumors including nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Therefore, elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlyi...
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Open AccessJoint quantitative measurement of hTERT mRNA in both peripheral blood and circulating tumor cells of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma and its clinical significance
The study was aimed to quantitatively detect mRNA levels of the catalytic subunit of telomerase (hTERT) in both peripheral blood and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NP...
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B2B market formation and welfare implication in a buyer’s market
The emergence of B2B electronic markets has greatly changed the relative bargaining power of buyers and sellers. We study the equilibrium market structure in a buyer’s market. We find that buyer-controlled B2B...
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Staphylococcal enterotoxin B-derived haptens promote sensitization
T helper 2 (Th2) polarization is a major pathological feature in allergic diseases; its etiology is not fully understood. This study aims to elucidate the adjuvant effect of the microbial product-derived small...
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Open AccessPinX1 regulation of telomerase activity and apoptosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells
Human interacting protein X1 (PinX1) has been identified as a critical telomerase inhibitor and proposed to be a putative tumor suppressor gene. Loss of PinX1 has been found in a large variety of malignancies,...
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Open AccessTargeted gene therapy of nasopharyngeal cancer in vitro and in vivo by enhanced thymidine kinase expression driven by human TERT promoter and CMV enhancer
To explore the therapeutic effects of thymidine kinase (TK) expressed by enhanced vector pGL3-basic- hTERTp-TK-EGFP-CMV driven by human telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter (hTERTp) as well as cytomegalov...
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Joint multiple parameters estimation for coherent chirp signals using vector sensor array
In this paper, an algorithm is proposed to estimate starting frequency (SF), chirp rate (CR), 2-D direction-of-arrivals (DOA) and polarization of coherent chirp signals with vector sensor arrays. The fractiona...
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Solid state reactions of nitrogenous heterocyclic compounds (II)
Solid state Michael addition reaction of indole with α, β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds was carried out, by which a series of compounds containing three different heterocyclic groups binding to one carbon ato...
