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Open AccessCharacterization of Fusarium spp. Causing Potato Dry Rot in China and Susceptibility Evaluation of Chinese Potato Germplasm to the Pathogen
Dry rot is a serious potato disease and causes significant losses in China. Research efforts on potato dry rot have been very limited as well as the attempts to characterize the pathogen in the major potato pr...
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A Coupled SD and CLUE-S Model for Exploring the Impact of Land Use Change on Ecosystem Service Value: A Case Study in Baoshan District, Shanghai, China
Most of the cities in develo** countries are experiencing rapid urbanization. Land use change driven by urban sprawl, population growth, and intensified socio-economic activities have led to a steep decline ...
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Multilevel analysis of a riverscape under rapid urbanization in the Yangtze delta plain, China: 1965–2006
River networks are the typical hydrological characteristic of the Yangtze delta plain. They have important ecological service functions and a unique landscape, which has been significantly degraded during the ...
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Open AccessIntegrating transcriptomics and metabolomics to characterise the response of Astragalus membranaceus Bge. var. mongolicus (Bge.) to progressive drought stress
Astragalus membranaceus Bge. var. mongolicus (Bge.) Hsiao (A. mongolicus) is an important traditional Chinese herb that is cultivated on a large scale in northwestern China. Understand...
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An initial-boundary value problem for parabolic Monge-Ampère equation in mathematical finance
This paper deals with some parabolic Monge-Ampère equation raised from mathematical finance: V s V ...
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Spatial and temporal assessment of the initial pattern of phytoplankton population in a newly built coastal reservoir
For decades, the main threat to the water security of a metropolis, such as the city of Shanghai, has been the rapidly growing demand for water and at the same time, the decrease in water quality, including eu...
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Gini index estimation for lifetime data
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Identification of spinal circuits involved in touch-evoked dynamic mechanical pain
Touch-evoked dynamic mechanical pain is one of most bothersome and prevalent symptoms in chronic pain patients. Here the authors have genetically identified a population of spinal excitatory neurons that contr...
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Fully CapsNet for Semantic Segmentation
Fully convolutional networks (FCNs) are powerful models for semantic segmentation. But convolutional networks fail to perform well in recognizing and parsing images with spatial variation. In this paper, a nov...
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Open AccessVisualization method for stress-field evolution during rapid crack propagation using 3D printing and photoelastic testing techniques
Quantitative visualization and characterization of stress-field evolution during fracture rapid growth is critical for understanding the mechanisms that govern the deformation and failure of solids in various ...
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Reliability Analysis of Systems with Common Cause Failure Based on Stress-Strength Interference Model
Many mechanical systems have the characteristics of multiple failure modes and complex failure mechanisms. On the basis of stress-strength interference (SSI) model, this paper takes the mechanical system with ...
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Curvature estimates for convex solutions of some fully nonlinear Hessian-type equations
In the research of fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations, the concavities of the nonlinear operators is always essential. The concavity is the key to establish the curvature estimates of thes...
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Possible role of hsa-miR-194-5p, via regulation of HS3ST2, in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis in children
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a prevalent inflammatory skin disease. Ample evidence has shown that non-coding RNAs play important roles in the progression of AD, however, the function of plasma microRNAs in AD is ...
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Photoresponse properties and energy gap of CsPbBr3–CsPb2Br5 compound thin film prepared by one-step thermal evaporation method
We proposed the preparation of the compound thin film of CsPb2Br5 and CsPbBr3 perovskites via thermal evaporation method with post-annealing. The optical absorption, energy gap, and photoresponse properties of th...
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Influence of chloride ion on zinc electrodeposition from choline chloride based deep eutectic solvent
When deep eutectic solvent (DES) is used to recycle Zn from zinc-containing dusts, chlorine present in these dusts will enter into the resulting solution and inevitably affects subsequent electrodeposition of ...
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Effect of Cu(I) ion on electrodeposition of zinc from ChCl-urea deep eutectic solvent
The effect of Cu(I) ions on the electrodeposition of zinc from ChCl-urea-ZnO deep eutectic solvent (DES) was investigated through electrochemical measurement and the deposit characterization. The cyclic voltam...
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Diversity-Based Trajectory and Goal Selection with Hindsight Experience Replay
Hindsight experience replay (HER) is a goal relabelling technique typically used with off-policy deep reinforcement learning algorithms to solve goal-oriented tasks; it is well suited to robotic manipulation t...
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Correction to: In Situ Observation of the Dissolution of Al2O3 Particles in CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 Slags
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In Situ Observation of the Dissolution of Al2O3 Particles in CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 Slags
The dissolution of Al2O3 particles in CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 slags was investigated by confocal scanning laser microscope at the temperature range from 1723 K to 1853 K. It was found that the rate-limiting step was the d...
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Improved GRU
Existing fault diagnosis methods based on signal processing rely on manual feature extraction, the deep learning method can not learn the time domain and frequency domain characteristics of vibration signal at...
