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Open AccessEffect of humic substances on the fraction of heavy metal and microbial response
Contamination of soils by Molybdenum (Mo) has raised increasing concern worldwide. Both fulvic acid (FA) and humic acid (HA) possess numerous positive properties, such as large specific surface areas and micro...
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Moss-like porous biochar loading Co3O4 nanoparticles as sulfur host maintain the stability of Li-sulfur batteries
The combination and structural regulation of physical adsorption and chemisorption carriers for polysulfides play an important role in limiting the shuttle effect of lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs). So, in thi...
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Open AccessReview of anomaly detection in large span bridges: available methods, recent advancements and future trends
During the life-cycle service of the constructed large span bridges, they face various threats every day due to the sophisticated operational environments. To ensure the structural safety, it is necessary to d...
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Performance Evaluation of Spark, Ray and MPI: A Case Study on Long Read Alignment Algorithm
The utilization of large-scale datasets in various fields is increasing due to the advancement of big data technology. Due to limited computing resources, traditional serial frameworks are no longer efficient ...
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Open AccessBeamforming: a spatial de-noising approach for civil structural health monitoring
In the civil structural health monitoring fields, monitored data suffer from noise and sensor faults. In practice, redundant sensors are usually deployed to monitor structural condition to obtain more accurate...
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An improved binary particle swarm optimization combing V-shaped and U-shaped transfer function
Feature selection aims to find a best feature subset from all feature sets of a given dataset, which represents the whole feature space to reduce redundancy and improve classification accuracy. The evolutionar...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Association between obese phenotypes and risk of carotid artery plaque among chinese male railway drivers
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Open AccessComparison of the prognostic value of a comprehensive set of predictors in identifying risk of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease among employed adults
Metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is of concern in employed adults, while the crucial indicators in predicting MAFLD are understudied in this population. We aimed to investigate and compare the ...
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Integrated analysis of ferroptosis-related gene signature for overall survival prediction in Asian patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most prevalent types of cancers in Asia. Accumulating evidence suggests that ferroptosis is a non-apoptotic form of cell death, and has played an important role in ...
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Open AccessAssociation between obese phenotypes and risk of carotid artery plaque among chinese male railway drivers
China has the world’s highest rail transportation network density, and the prevalence of obesity among railway workers in China is more than twice that of adults in the world. Carotid artery plaque (CAP) is a ...
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Solving the Unit Commitment Problem with Improving Binary Particle Swarm Optimization
Unit commitment is a traditional mixed-integer non-convex problem and an optimization task in power system scheduling. The traditional methods of solving the Unit commitment problem have some problems, such as...
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Open AccessVISPR-online: a web-based interactive tool to visualize CRISPR screening experiments
VISPR is an interactive visualization and analysis framework for CRISPR screening experiments. However, it only supports the output of MAGeCK, and requires installation and manual configuration. Furthermore, V...
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Open AccessProbing subwavelength in-plane anisotropy with antenna-assisted infrared nano-spectroscopy
Infrared nano-spectroscopy based on scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is commonly employed to probe the vibrational fingerprints of materials at the nanometer length scale. Howeve...
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The Experimental Analysis on Transfer Function of Binary Particle Swarm Optimization
Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) has extended the capacity of the conventional particle swarm optimization (PSO) for optimizing the discrete combinational optimization problems. The transfer function ...
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Effective adsorption of phenol from aqueous solutions on activated semi-coke
To explore an alternative adsorbent, a type of activated semi-coke was prepared by the activation with NaOH. The adsorption ability in removing phenol from aqueous solutions was explored through the utilizatio...
