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Open AccessFunctional CRISPR screens in T cells reveal new opportunities for cancer immunotherapies
T cells are fundamental components in tumour immunity and cancer immunotherapies, which have made immense strides and revolutionized cancer treatment paradigm. However, recent studies delineate the predicament...
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Contribution of Insulin Resistance and β Cell Dysfunction to Gestational Diabetes Stratified for Pre-pregnant Body Mass Index
The objective of the study was to evaluate the contribution of insulin resistance and β cell dysfunction to gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Chinese women stratified by pre-pregnant body mass index (BMI)...
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Open AccessNeutrophil extracellular trap-related mechanisms in acne vulgaris inspire a novel treatment strategy with adipose-derived stem cells
Acne vulgaris is a type of chronic skin disorder caused by Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes). Neutrophil extrinsic traps (NETs) play key role in many types of inflammatory skin diseases. Adipose-derived stem cel...
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Synergistic effect of layered melamine-phytate and intumescent flame retardant on enhancing fire safety of polypropylene
The possibility of layered melamine-phytate (MEL-PA) as an efficient synergist for intumescent flame retardant (IFR) is explored. The synergistic effects of MEL-PA on polypropylene (PP)/IFR composites are inve...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adversarial Contrastive Learning via Asymmetric InfoNCE
Contrastive learning (CL) has recently been applied to adversarial learning tasks. Such practice considers adversarial samples as additional positive views of an instance, and by maximizing their agreements wi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SymSem: Symbolic Execution with Time Stamps for Deobfuscation
Code virtualization technique obfuscates programs by transforming original code to self-defined bytecode in a different instruction architecture. It is widely used in obfuscating malware for its ability to ren...
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Determining the Impact of Personal Mobility Carbon Allowance Schemes in Transportation Networks
Personal mobility carbon allowance (PMCA) schemes are designed to reduce carbon consumption from transportation networks. PMCA schemes influence the travel decision process of users and accordingly impact the ...
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A-RESCUE: An Agent based Regional Evacuation Simulator Coupled with User Enriched Behavior
Household behavior and dynamic traffic flows are the two most important aspects of hurricane evacuations. However, current evacuation models largely overlook the complexity of household behavior leading to ove...
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Electrochemical capacitance of porous reduced graphene oxide/nickel foam
Porous reduced graphene oxide (rGO) supported on nickel foam (NF) had been prepared for electrochemical supercapacitor application. The GO/NF was synthesized by depositing graphene oxide on NF through ultraso...
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Chapter
Characterizing Urban Dynamics Using Large Scale Taxicab Data
Understanding urban dynamics is of fundamental importance for the efficient operation and sustainable development of large cities. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study on characterizing urban dynami...
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Inferring Urban Land Use Using Large-Scale Social Media Check-in Data
Emerging location-based services in social media tools such as Foursquare and Twitter are providing an unprecedented amount of public-generated data on human movements and activities. This novel data source co...