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Open AccessRare ectopic thyroid tissue as multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules: a case report and literature review
The prevalence of ectopic thyroid tissue is 1 in every 100,000 to 300,000 persons in the general population, and ectopic thyroid tissue in the bilateral lung lobes is even rarer. Due to its rarity, there is no...
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Effects of Acupuncture on Endometrium and Pregnancy Outcomes in Patients with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Undergoing in vitro Fertilization-Embryo Transfer: A Randomized Clinical Trial
To observe the effect of acupuncture on endometrium and pregnancy outcomes in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) infertility undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET).
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Open AccessIntegrated analysis reveals the pivotal interactions between immune cells in the melanoma tumor microenvironment
Melanoma is the most lethal type of skin cancer. Despite the breakthroughs in the clinical treatment of melanoma using tumor immunotherapy, many patients do not benefit from these immunotherapies because of mu...
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Open AccessWho and which regions are at high risk of returning to poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Pandemics such as COVID-19 and their induced lockdowns/travel restrictions have a significant impact on people’s lives, especially for lower-income groups who lack savings and rely heavily on mobility to fulfi...
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Open AccessAssociation between social capital and frailty and the mediating effect of health-promoting lifestyles in Chinese older adults: a cross-sectional study
To explore the association between social capital and frailty and the mediating effect of health-promoting lifestyles among Chinese older adults, while providing scientific evidence for frailty intervention.
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T2*-weighted imaging and diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) of rectal cancer: correlation with clinical histopathologic prognostic factors
Histopathologic prognostic factors of rectal cancer are closely associated with local recurrence and distant metastasis. We aim to investigate the feasibility of T2*WI in assessment of clinical prognostic fact...
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Introduction
Founded in 2005, the Building Energy Research Center of Tsinghua University (BERC), has worked continuously on China’s buildings sector, to comprehensively analyses the current status, unique features and key ...
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Aerodynamic Optimization of Tail-Board in Heavy-Duty Truck Based on Approximate Model and Non-smooth Surface
This research aims to develop a tail-board add-on to reduce the aerodynamic drag experienced by heavy-duty trucks. When installed at the rear end of the container, the tail-board can delay the separation of ai...
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A Study on Functional Satisfaction with Smart Health Care Air Purification Product in the Post-epidemic Era
In the context of the COVID-19, respiratory diseases have become the focus of social attention, and the elderly, as a susceptible population, is more significantly affected by the epidemic. In order to fully p...
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Carbon Neutrality Pathways for China’s Building Sector
China’s central government has announced the mid- and long-term climate targets of carbon peaks by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. Low-carbon development is not only the task for the energy sector but also...
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Urban Residential Buildings Energy and Emissions
At the beginning of this chapter, we will explain the basic situation of urban areas, urban residential buildings and their energy consumption. Urban area consists of city areas and county.
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Extracting Densest Sub-hypergraph with Convex Edge-Weight Functions
The densest subgraph problem (DSG) aiming at finding an induced subgraph such that the average edge-weights of the subgraph is maximized, is a well-studied problem. However, when the input graph is a hypergrap...
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China’s Building Energy Use and GHG Emissions
In recent years, urbanization has grown rapidly in China. In 2019, 848 million people lived in urban areas, while 654 million people lived in rural areas.
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Thermo-Economic Modeling and Evaluation of Physical Energy Storage in Power System
In order to assess the electrical energy storage technologies, the thermo-economy for both capacity-type and power-type energy storage are comprehensively investigated with consideration of political, environm...
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Open AccessMicroRNA-449a delays lung cancer development through inhibiting KDM3A/HIF-1α axis
It has been established that microRNA (miR)-449a is anti-tumorigenic in cancers, including lung cancer. Therefore, this study further explored miR-449a-mediated mechanism in lung cancer, mainly focusing on lys...
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A Whole-Net Positioning Method Based on Baseline Optimization Selection in Multi-vehicle Cooperative System
Cooperative positioning for vehicles is a typical application of Internet of Vehicle, and high-precision relative positioning in a cooperative system is a significant issue. To achieve decimeter or centimeter ...
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Hypoxia-reoxygenation induces macrophage polarization and causes the release of exosomal miR-29a to mediate cardiomyocyte pyroptosis
To investigate the mechanism by which hypoxia-reoxygenation (HR) mediates macrophage polarization to the M1 phenotype and then mediates cardiomyocyte (CM) pyroptosis through exosome release. Mouse bone marrow ...
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District Heating Business Models and Policy Solutions: Financing Utilization of Low-Grade Industrial Excess Heat in the People’s Republic of China
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has taken bold actions to utilize low-grade industrial excess heat to improve energy efficiency of districting heating systems since 2016. This study aims to draw policy in...
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Open AccessHuman CD133-positive hematopoietic progenitor cells enhance the malignancy of breast cancer cells
Human CD133+ hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) are a specific subset of cells that can regulate tumor malignancy. However, the mechanism by which CD133+ HPCs affect the malignancy of human breast cancer ha...
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Open AccessDeep learning-based model for detecting 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia on high-resolution computed tomography
Computed tomography (CT) is the preferred imaging method for diagnosing 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID19) pneumonia. We aimed to construct a system based on deep learning for detecting COVID-19 pneumonia on hig...
