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Exotic origin of the Chinese continental shelf
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Open AccessA huge oceanic-type UHP metamorphic belt in southwestern Tianshan, China: Peak metamorphic age and P-T path
Recent progress in the study of the UHP metamorphic belt in southwestern Tianshan, China, is summarized in this paper. This about 80-km-long and over 10-km-wide UHP belt has been recognized by the discovery of...
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Open AccessThe relation between Pauli and γ representation in QED3 and induced Chern-Simons term
In this letter, we propose to introduce a new Abelian gauge field B μ corresponding to the so-called β symmetry into the normal Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+1 d...
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Open AccessInterannual precipitation variations in the mid-latitude Asia and their association with large-scale atmospheric circulation
This study analyzed the spatial differences of the precipitation variations in the mid-latitude Asia and their possible physical mechanisms during 1960–2009. The annual precipitation showed an opposite variati...
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Open AccessStructural and chronological constraints on a Late Paleozoic shortening event in the Yanshan Tectonic Belt
Early deformation history of the Yanshan Tectonic Belt is an unsolved, important issue. We report early structures and their dating results in basement rocks south of the Kalaqin metamorphic core complex. The ...
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Open AccessFunctional analysis of the ABA-responsive protein family in ABA and stress signal transduction in Arabidopsis
The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays an important role in plant growth and development, for example in seed dormancy and germination, as well as in plant responses to environmental stresses, such as drou...
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Open AccessAutophagy as new emerging cellular effect of nanomaterials
The biosafety issue of nanoscale materials is getting more and more attention with their increasing manufacture and application. In the research of cellular effects and underlying mechanisms related to toxicit...
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Open AccessFabrication and characterization of novel tentacle-type adsorbent for resolution of chiral drugs
Novel tentacle-type chiral adsorbent based on silica gels modified with β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and polyvinyl alcohol(PVA) is synthesized by surface grafting technique. The adsorption behavior of chiral pharmaceuti...
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Open AccessThe yellow sea green tides were dominated by one species, Ulva (Enteromorpha) prolifera, from 2007 to 2011
Green tides have occurred in the Yellow Sea successively from 2007 to 2011. Genetic analysis of the 5-year green-tide-forming algae needs to be performed to determine the source of the biomass and understand t...
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Open AccessStar-shaped conjugated oligoelectrolyte for bioimaging in living cells
A new star-shaped oligoelectrolyte (TEFCOONa) with triphenylamine as the core, acetylene as linkage and anionic fluorenes as arms was obtained and used for direct imaging in living PANC-1 cells. Because of the...
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Open AccessBiogeochemical sequestration of carbon within phytoliths of wetland plants: A case study of **xi wetland, China
As an important long-term terrestrial carbon sequestration mechanism, biogeochemical sequestration of carbon within phytoliths may play a significant role in the global carbon cycle and climate change. The aim...
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Open AccessThermoluminescence of Al2O3 crystals grown by temperature gradient techniques
Color center concentrations of the Al2O3 crystal grown by temperature gradient techniques were calculated from Gaussian fits to absorption spectra. The concentrations for F- and F +-centers at 204...
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Open AccessScriptaid affects histone acetylation and the expression of development-related genes at different stages of porcine somatic cell nuclear transfer embryo during early development
Although the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) technique has been used extensively for cloning and generating transgenic pigs, the cloning efficiency is still very low. It has been proposed that the low eff...
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Open AccessInfluence of the pore structure of Ce/MgAl hydrotalcite-derived mixed oxides on its SO x pick-up capacity
The sulfur-transfer catalyst is widely used to remove the sulfur oxides (SO x ) from the flue gas in the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) units. This paper reports the influence of...
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Open AccessDetermination of color centers in CaF2 crystals by multiple gamma-ray irradiations
Color centers of CaF2 crystals subjected to three high-dose gamma-ray irradiation treatments were studied. Three absorption bands at 349, 409 and 478 nm are ascribed to the F interstitials through the variation i...
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Open AccessMultiplex detection of KRAS and BRAF mutations using cationic conjugated polymers
The mutation detections of KRAS and BRAF genes are of significant importance to predict the responses to anti-cancer therapy and develop new drugs. In this paper, we developed a multi-step fluorescence resonance ...
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Open AccessEffects of vegetation height and density on soil temperature variations
Reduction in vegetation cover caused by human activities has a great impact on soil temperature. It is important to assess how soil temperature responds to reduction of vegetation height and density. In this p...
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Open AccessLake eutrophication and its ecosystem response
China is a country with many lakes, about one-third of which are freshwater mainly distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Currently most of the lakes are mesotrophic or eutrophic. La...
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Open AccessPELP1 protein and the estrogen non-genomic signaling pathway
Estrogen exerts its biological effects through two signal pathways, the genomic and non-genomic pathway, both of which contribute to cell homeostasis. The non-genomic pathway has been suggested to be important...