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Open AccessEffects of the kinetic pattern of dietary glucose release on nitrogen utilization, the portal amino acid profile, and nutrient transporter expression in intestinal enterocytes in piglets
Promoting the synchronization of glucose and amino acid release in the digestive tract of pigs could effectively improve dietary nitrogen utilization. The rational allocation of dietary starch sources and the ...
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Open AccessAlpha-fetoprotein predicts the treatment efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors for gastric cancer patients
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are commonly used in conjunction with chemotherapy to improve treatment outcomes for patients with gastric cancer. Since AFP could influence immunity by both inhibiting natu...
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Open AccessEngineering Strategies for Suppressing the Shuttle Effect in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
The electrochemical principles/mechanism of Li–S batteries and origin of the shuttle effect have been discussed.
The efficie...
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Open AccessStimulus-responsive proteins involved in multi-process regulation of storage substance accumulation during rice grain filling under elevated temperature
The intensified global warming during grain filling deteriorated rice quality, in particular increasing the frequency of chalky grains which markedly impact market value. The formation of rice quality is a com...
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Open AccessEffect of perioperative goal-directed fluid therapy on postoperative complications after thoracic surgery with one-lung ventilation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
An understanding of the impact of goal-directed fluid therapy (GDFT) on the outcomes of patients undergoing one-lung ventilation (OLV) for thoracic surgery remains incomplete and controversial. This meta-analy...
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Cayley graphs that have a quantum ergodic eigenbasis
We investigate which finite Cayley graphs admit a quantum ergodic eigenbasis, proving that this holds for any Cayley graph on a group of size n for which the sum of the dimensions of its irreducible representatio...
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Open AccessQuantum Unique Ergodicity for Cayley Graphs of Quasirandom Groups
A finite group G is called C-quasirandom (by Gowers) if all non-trivial irreducible complex representations of G have dimension at least C. For any unit ...
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Open AccessCo-utilization of glucose and xylose for the production of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) by Sphingomonas sanxanigenens NX02
Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB), produced by a variety of microbial organisms, is a good substitute for petrochemically derived plastics due to its excellent properties such as biocompatibility and biodegradabili...
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Open AccessElectrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Ethylene: From Mechanistic Understanding to Catalyst Surface Engineering
Three key processes in carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) for ethylene generation were discussed, including CO2 adsorption/activation, *CO intermediates formation, and C...
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Open AccessGenotype-degree of hemolysis correlation in hereditary spherocytosis
Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a common inherited hemolytic anemia, caused by mutations in five genes that encode erythrocyte membrane skeleton proteins. The red blood cell (RBC) lifespan could directly refl...
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Nitrogen Alleviated the Deterioration of Rice Quality by Affecting the Accumulation of Grain Storage Protein Under Elevated Temperature
The adverse effect of future global warming on rice quality is a fact that cannot be ignored. Evidence from our previous field warming experiments confirmed that warming had a significant negative impact on ri...
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Effects of atorvastatin on the Sirtuin/PXR signaling pathway in Mugilogobius chulae
Atorvastatin (ATV) is a hypolipidemic drug widely detected in the aquatic environment. Nevertheless, limited information is provided about the toxic effects of ATV on estuary or coastal species and the underly...
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Abnormal [18F]FDG uptake in liver and adipose tissue: a potential imaging biomarker for cancer-associated cachexia
This study aims to investigate and develop imaging biomarkers for the diagnosis of cancer-associated cachexia based on the organ and tissue-specific abnormal metabolisms measured by fluorine-18-fluorodeoxygluc...
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Open AccessSpherical Two-Distance Sets and Eigenvalues of Signed Graphs
We study the problem of determining the maximum size of a spherical two-distance set with two fixed angles (one acute and one obtuse) in high dimensions. Let ...
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The cylindrical width of transitive sets
We show that for every 1 ≤ k ≤ d/(log d)C, for some absolute constant C, that every finite transitive set of unit vectors in ℝd lies within distance ...
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Sustainability in Chinese Investment: How Chinese Investors Perceive the Benefit and Liabilities of ESG Rating of New Ventures
Within the Chinese investment context, the topic of sustainability is increasing in attention, such that investors are considering further reliance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings as the...
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Shear Test of Pre-stressed Anchor Block and Fracture Mechanism Analysis of Anchor Cable
The large-scale model test bench frame is adopted to carry out shear test on the pre-stressed anchor block containing structural plane, and the characteristics of tensile, bending and shear failure of anchor c...
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Open AccessModulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis
Platinum is the most efficient catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction in acidic conditions, but its widespread use has been impeded by scarcity and high cost. Herein, Pt atomic clusters (Pt ACs) containing P...
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Induced arithmetic removal: complexity 1 patterns over finite fields
We prove an arithmetic analog of the induced graph removal lemma for complexity 1 patterns over finite fields. Informally speaking, we show that given a fixed collection of r-colored complexity 1 arithmetic patte...
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Open AccessThe SNPs of mitochondrial DNA displacement loop region and mitochondrial DNA copy number associated with risk of polymyositis and dermatomyositis
Oxidative damage-induced mitochondrial dysfunction may activate muscle catabolism and autophagy pathways to initiate muscle weakening in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs). In this study, Single nucleot...
