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Open AccessRadiomics predict the WHO/ISUP nuclear grade and survival in clear cell renal cell carcinoma
This study aimed to assess the predictive value of radiomics derived from intratumoral and peritumoral regions and to develop a radiomics nomogram to predict preoperative nuclear grade and overall survival (OS...
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2023: Weather and Climate Extremes Hitting the Globe with Emerging Features
Globally, 2023 was the warmest observed year on record since at least 1850 and, according to proxy evidence, possibly of the past 100 000 years. As in recent years, the record warmth has again been accompanied...
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Open AccessAssociations of clinical subtypes and bile acid levels of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy with pregnancy outcomes
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) can lead to many adverse pregnancy outcomes, and the influencing factors remain unclear at present. This study retrospectively analyzed clinical data from 1815 pregn...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the alleviation of “Double-ITCZ” bias in CMIP6 models from the perspective of atmospheric energy balance
The simulation of tropical precipitation has been a challenge to climate models. The multi-model ensemble mean of CMIP6 models only show limited improvement relative to the CMIP3 and CMIP5 models. However, a s...
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Will the Globe Encounter the Warmest Winter after the Hottest Summer in 2023?
In the boreal summer and autumn of 2023, the globe experienced an extremely hot period across both oceans and continents. The consecutive record-breaking mean surface temperature has caused many to speculate u...
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Open AccessExtreme dry advection dominates the record-breaking Yangtze River heatwave in midsummer of 2022
The Yangtze River Valley (YRV) experienced an unprecedented heatwave in midsummer of 2022. Still, the detailed physical processes involved in the influence of abnormal large-scale atmospheric circulation on th...
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Open AccessStudy protocol: a core outcome set for perioperative exercise clinical effectiveness trials for lung cancer patients
Outcome assessment in perioperative exercise trials for lung cancer is heterogeneous, often omitting those that are important and patient-relevant. This heterogeneity hinders the synthesis of evidence. To addr...
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Open AccessEnhanced risk of record-breaking regional temperatures during the 2023–24 El Niño
In 2023, the development of El Niño is poised to drive a global upsurge in surface air temperatures (SAT), potentially resulting in unprecedented warming worldwide. Nevertheless, the regional patterns of SAT a...
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Open AccessCross-talk between disulfidptosis and immune check point genes defines the tumor microenvironment for the prediction of prognosis and immunotherapies in glioblastoma
Disulfidptosis is a condition where dysregulated NAPDH levels and abnormal accumulation of cystine and other disulfides occur in cells with high SLC7A11 expression under glucose deficiency. This disrupts norma...
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Open AccessAnalysis of factors related to osteoporotic vertebral fracture in prostate cancer patients
This study was aimed at exploring the osteoporotic vertebral fracture rate and the related causal factors in prostate cancer patients before and after treatment.
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Open AccessLiver fat volume fraction measurements based on multi-material decomposition algorithm in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: the influences of blood vessel, location, and iodine contrast
In recent years, spectral CT-derived liver fat quantification method named multi-material decomposition (MMD) is playing an increasingly important role as an imaging biomarker of hepatic steatosis. However, th...
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Open AccessMiddle east warming in spring enhances summer rainfall over Pakistan
The edge of a monsoon region is usually highly sensitive to climate change. Pakistan, which is located on the northern edge of the Indian monsoon, is highly vulnerable to heavy rainfall and has witnessed sever...
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Open AccessThe CD2v protein of African swine fever virus inhibits macrophage migration and inflammatory cytokines expression by downregulating EGR1 expression through dampening ERK1/2 activity
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a highly contagious and deadly virus that leads to high mortality rates in domestic swine populations. Although the envelope protein CD2v of ASFV has been implicated in immu...
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Open AccessReversed asymmetric warming of sub-diurnal temperature over land during recent decades
In the latter half of the twentieth century, a significant climate phenomenon “diurnal asymmetric warming” emerged, wherein global land surface temperatures increased more rapidly during the night than during ...
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Preface to the 2nd Special Issue on Climate Science for Service Partnership China
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Open AccessInfluence of aging treatment on mechanical properties and wear resistance of medium manganese steel reinforced with Ti(C,N) particles
In this study, the hot rolled medium manganese steel containing titanium was solution treated at 1,000 °C and followed by aging treatment at 500, 550, and 600 °C. The influence of aging treatment on mechanical...
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Understanding and Attribution of Extreme Heat and Drought Events in 2022: Current Situation and Future Challenges
Extreme weather events and their consequential impacts have been a key feature of the climate in recent years in many parts of the world, with many partly attributed to ongoing global-scale warming. The past y...
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Open AccessCAS FGOALS-f3-L Model Datasets for CMIP6 DCPP Experiment
The outputs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (FGOALS-f3-L) model for the decadal climate prediction project (DCPP) of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Proj...
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Open AccessHierarchical painter: Chinese landscape painting restoration with fine-grained styles
Image inpainting is a critical area of research in computer vision with a broad range of applications, including image restoration and editing. However, current inpainting models often struggle to learn the sp...
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Open AccessExtremely hot East Asia and flooding western South Asia in the summer of 2022 tied to reversed flow over Tibetan Plateau
In the summer (July and August) of 2022, unprecedented heat wave occurred along the Yangtze River Valley (YRV) over East Asia while unprecedented flood occurred over western South Asia (WSA), which are located...
