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** **ang Zhang
Earth Sciences, general
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Altered relationship between thickness and intrinsic activity amplitude in generalized tonic–clonic seizures
A thinner cortex has higher potential for binding GABA receptor A which is associated with larger amplitudes of intrinsic brain activity (iBA). However, the relationship between cortical thickness and iBA is u...
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A superarmoured lobopodian from the Cambrian Stage 4 of southern China
A superarmoured lobopodian Collinsium sp. from the Cambrian (Stage 4) Wulongqing Formation in Kunming clearly exhibits dorsal sets of sclerotized spines, suspension feeding appendages with spiniform setae, and an...
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Is 2D stereological method good enough for quantification of solid oxide fuel cell electrode microstructure?
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Conglomerates and sandstones from the Yintun Formation in Northern Liaoning Province: Implications for the Huronian Glaciation and reconstruction of the Columbia supercontinent
New U–Pb zircon geochronology data suggest that the Yintun Formation is younger than ~1895 Ma and is late Paleoproterozoic. The Yintun Formation may represent the first sedimentary cover of the North China Cra...
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Stem cell lineage in body layer specialization and vascular patterning of rice root and leaf
Since the first appearance of vascular plants during evolution, the plant body has become specialized for adaption to land conditions. Much of our knowledge of plant body specialization and the origins of tiss...
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Super-resolution imaging and tracking of TGF-β receptor II on living cells
Single-particle tracking photoactivated localization microscopy (sptPALM) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for high-density imaging and tracking of individual molecules in living cells. In this work, we...
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Kinetics for hydrogen production by methanol steam reforming in fluidized bed reactor
Hydrogen is one of the best energy carriers. Fluidized bed reactor provides a promising approach for hydrogen production. To describe the hydrogen generating rate with methanol steam reforming in fluidized be...
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Bicycle kick in soccer: is the virtuosity systematically entrainable?
In soccer, the bicycle kick has provided viewers moments of breathtaking spectacle that seem virtuosic in scope. The novelty of such moments is underscored by the rarity with which players have performed this ...
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Comparing simulated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration with GOSAT retrievals
Satellite observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) provide a useful way to improve the understanding of global carbon cycling. In this paper, we present a comparison between simulated CO2 concentrations f...
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Climate change threats to protected plants of China: an evaluation based on species distribution modeling
Climate change poses major new challenges to biodiversity conservation. Distribution ranges of species have been proven to be affected by climate anomalies. Detecting the extent of protected species response t...
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Selected multiferroic perovskite oxides containing rare earth and transition metal elements
Multiferroic materials are currently the subject of intensive research worldwide, because of both their fundamental scientific problems and also possible technological applications. Among a number of candidate...
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Exploiting cooperative multipath–Doppler diversity in relay-assisted high-speed train communications
Severe doubly selective channel fading, or the time- and frequency-selective fading, prevailing in high-speed train (HST) communications, has been a critical issue that hinders the improvement of system effici...
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Different mechanisms between reactions of soot with gaseous and adsorbed NO2
The reactions of soot with gaseous and adsorbed NO2 were tested over the K/MgAlO catalyst. After the reaction intermediates were identified by combination of in situ IR characterization and first-principles calcu...
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Growth mechanism of liquid Hg/solid β-HgS metal-semiconductor heterostructures
Density functional theory (DFT) was utilized to simulate the reactions occurred in the mixture solution of cysteine and Hg(II) ions with the ratio < 2. Simulation result shows that Hg ions will coordinate to c...
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Narrower atomic filter at 422.7 nm based on thermal Ca beam
So far, the only Ca magneto-optic atomic filters reported are based on a heated Ca cell, and the transmission spectrum obtained is double-peaked with 3 GHz effective passband limited by Doppler broadening. A m...
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Fe3O4@C nanoparticles as high-performance Fenton-like catalyst for dye decoloration
Water pollution has become serious environmental problem nowadays. Advanced oxidation processes (AOP) have been widely applied in water treatment. However, traditional Fenton reaction based on Fe2+-H2O2 system ha...
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How cat lands: insights into contribution of the forelimbs and hindlimbs to attenuating impact force
To safely land after different drops, cats can perfectly use their limbs as dampers to dissipate impact forces. Yet, we know little about the contribution of the forelimbs and hindlimbs of cats to attenuating ...
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Isolation and characterization of rl (t), a gene that controls leaf rolling in rice
Moderate leaf rolling is one of the most important morphological traits in rice breeding for plant ideotype. Previous studies have shown that the rl (t) gene has a high breeding potential for deve...
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Lakes’ state and abundance across the Tibetan Plateau
Understanding the changes in number and areal extent of lakes, as well as their abundance and size distribution is important for assessments of regional and global water resources, biogeochemical cycles, and c...
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All-optical signal processing for linearity enhancement of Mach–Zehnder modulators
This paper presents the fundamental principles and recent advances in the field of linearity enhancement of Mach–Zehnder modulators in microwave photonic systems using all-optical signal processing. A review o...
