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Chapter and Conference Paper
Usability Evaluation of the Aging Scenario Wiki as a Learning Tool
The Chinese government has developed a unique “Smart Eldercare” model that utilizes digital technologies to address the growing needs of its rapidly aging population. To implement this model, the government ha...
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Open AccessRecurrent RNA edits in human preimplantation potentially enhance maternal mRNA clearance
Posttranscriptional modification plays an important role in key embryonic processes. Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing, a common example of such modifications, is widespread in human adult tissues and has vario...
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Association between solid fuel combustion and diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis
In recent years, many epidemiological studies have investigated the relationship between solid fuel combustion and diabetes mellitus (DM). This meta-analysis was performed to explore the potential association ...
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Berberine Improves TNF-α-Induced Hepatic Insulin Resistance by Targeting MEKK1/MEK Pathway
Berberine (BBR), a natural isoquinoline alkaloid exhibiting insulin sensitizing activity, has been applicated in the treatment of diabetes. However, until now, the exact target of BBR has not been well investi...
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Open AccessApoptin mediates mitophagy and endogenous apoptosis by regulating the level of ROS in hepatocellular carcinoma
Apoptin, as a tumor-specific pro-apoptotic protein, plays an important anti-tumoral role, but its mechanism of autophagy activation and the interaction between autophagy and apoptosis have not been accurately ...
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Association of urinary or blood heavy metals and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies
Amounting epidemiological evidence has shown detrimental effects of heavy metals on a wide range of diseases. However, the effect of heavy metal exposure on mortality in the general population remains unclear....
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Open AccessNitrogen-rich energetic polymer powered aluminum particles with enhanced reactivity and energy content
Aluminum particles are of significant interest in enhancing the energy release performance of explosives. One of the major impediments to their use is that Al2O3 shell significantly decreases overall performance....
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In vivo and in vitro inhibition of SCLC by combining dual cancer-specific recombinant adenovirus with Etoposide
Oncolytic virotherapy is emerging as an important modality in cancer treatment. In a previous study, we designed and constructed Ad-Apoptin-hTERTp-E1a (Ad-VT), a dual cancer-selective anti-tumor recombinant ad...
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Open AccessAd-VT enhances the sensitivity of chemotherapy-resistant lung adenocarcinoma cells to gemcitabine and paclitaxel in vitro and in vivo
Background One of the main challenges in the clinical treatment of lung cancer is resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs. P-glycoprotein (P-gp)-mediated drug resistance is the main obstacle to successfully implemen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Clustering Method Based on Improved Density Estimation and Shared Nearest Neighbors
Density-based clustering methods can detect clusters of arbitrary shapes. Most traditional clustering methods need the number of clusters to be given as a parameter, but this information is usually not availab...
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Eco-synthesized bimetallic sulfide nanoparticles within coral-like N,S-doped carbon scaffolds for lithium-/sodium-ion anode nanomaterials
Long-cycling of anode nanomaterials is crucial for promoting lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) towards the further practical applications. Anode nanomaterials, such as transition-met...
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Open AccessThe legume-specific transcription factor E1 controls leaf morphology in soybean
The leaf is a determinate organ essential for photosynthesis, whose size and shape determine plant architecture and strongly affect agronomic traits. In soybean, the molecular mechanism of leaf development is ...
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Biotreatment of Cr(VI) and pyrene combined water pollution by loofa-immobilized bacteria
Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) and pyrene are toxic pollutants that are difficult to remediate from soils and wastewater. Serratia sp. strains have been previously demonstrated to remove either Cr(VI) or pyrene and...
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Effects of quercetin on the alterations of serum elements in chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced depressed rats
Depression is a common and serious psychiatric disorder, but current conventional antidepressants have limited efficacy and significant side effects. Thus, better antidepressants are urgently needed. This stud...
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Fe-doped CoS2 nanoparticles supported CoS2 microspheres@N-doped carbon electrocatalyst for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction
Non-noble electrocatalysts (such as transition metal sulfides) have been attractive to substitute noble-metal catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) to advance the practical application of clean energy....
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Open AccessA latent highly activity energetic fuel: thermal stability and interfacial reaction kinetics of selected fluoropolymer encapsulated sub-micron sized Al particles
Aluminum can enhance heat release of energetic composite in theory. However, the commonly used micron aluminum powder has several short comings like incomplete reaction and low reaction rate. Meanwhile, outer ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interface Color Design of Intelligent Vehicle Central Console
The development of intelligent automobiles puts forward higher requirements for HMI design. The information obtained by drivers through vision accounts for 80%. As a key part of visual perception, color affect...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Nested Causality Extraction on Traffic Accident Texts as Question Answering
As an important type of relationship, causality plays a vital role in relation reasoning. Therefore, causality extraction from natural language texts is a crucial task, especially in the field of traffic. For ...
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A forecasting model for wave heights based on a long short-term memory neural network
To explore new operational forecasting methods of waves, a forecasting model for wave heights at three stations in the Bohai Sea has been developed. This model is based on long short-term memory (LSTM) neural ...
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Reactivity of fluororubber-modified aluminum in terms of heat transfer effect
Fluororubber-modified aluminum (AlF) was investigated by core–shell heat transfer model and compared with traditional aluminum with oxide shell (AlO) in terms of heat transfer effect on the reaction behavior o...
