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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intelligent routing for global broadband satellite internet
With the fast development of internet, the multicasting applications (such as Distant Learning) have become more and more important. Since multicasting multimedia information over the wired links might generat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Poster Summaries
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Article
Urban Traffic Information Service Application Grid
Traffic information processing is very complicated because of dynamic, cooperative and distributed features. This paper describes the prototype system version 2.0 of Urban Traffic Information Service Applicati...
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Article
RhoA signaling in phorbol ester-induced apoptosis
Exposure of cells to phorbol ester activates protein kinase C (PKC) to induce apoptosis or differentiation, depending on the cellular context. In erythroblastic cell lines, TF-1 and D2, upregulation of the Rho...
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Determination of Trace Mercury by Solid Substrate-Room Temperature Phosphorimetry Quenching Method Based on Catalytic Effect of Hg2+on Formation of the Ion Association Complex [Sn(XO)6]4+·[(Fin)4]
A new method for the determination of trace mercury by solid substrate-room temperature phosphorimetry (SS-RTP) quenching method has been established. In glycine-HCl buffer solution, xylenol orange (XO) can re...
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Leaching potential and changes in components of metals in two acidic ferrisols
Two acidic ferrisols, i.e., red soil (RS) and yellow red soil (YRS), from the vicinity regions of non-ferrous ores in Hunan province of China, were leached with simulated acid rain through artificial column ex...
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Leptin Suppresses Human Chorionic Gonadotropin-Induced Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression and Prostaglandin Production in Cultured Human Granulose Luteal Cells
In a previous study, we demonstrated that high leptin levels at the time of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) injection impaired the pregnancy rate for women undergoing in vitro fertilization. In this study w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Forced and Non-forced Chinese Meditation Studies
There exist many different types of meditation. The mechanism why meditation improves people’s health remains unclear. Since different meditations may activate different regions in brain, we can use functional...
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Open AccessDetection of the inferred interaction network in hepatocellular carcinoma from EHCO (E ncyclopedia of H epatocellular C arcinoma genes O nline)
The significant advances in microarray and proteomics analyses have resulted in an exponential increase in potential new targets and have promised to shed light on the identification of disease markers and cel...
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Identification of human hepatocellular carcinoma-related proteins by proteomic approaches
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common malignant liver tumor. Analysis of human serum from HCC patients using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) combined with nano-high-performance liquid chr...
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Article
Effect of Eccentricity on Transmission in a Coaxial Bragg Structure
In practice a coaxial Bragg structure always has an eccentricity between the outer-wall and inner-rod axes. Numerical simulations are carried out to analyze the effect of the eccentricity on the transmission i...
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Percutaneous antegrade screwing for anterior column fracture of acetabulum with fluoroscopic-based computerized navigation
Open reduction and internal fixation has been the gold standard for displaced fracture involving weightbearing dome and fractures with intra-articular fragments. However, extensile exposure can lead to complic...
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Structural analysis and interpretation of the surface deformation associated with the Ning’er, Yunnan Province, China MS6.4 earthquake of June 3, 2007
The seismogenic fault and the dynamic mechanism of the Ning’er, Yunnan Province MS6.4 earthquake of June 3, 2007 are studied on the basis of the observation data of the surface fissures, sand blow and water erupt...
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Suppression of Residual Side-lobes in a Coaxial Bragg Reflector
This note demonstrates the existence and possible suppression of the residual side-lobes in a coaxial Bragg reflector by employing Blackman window distribution, no matter if the phase difference between the ou...
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Statistical Validation of Traditional Chinese Diagnostic Procedures
In recent years, the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for treatment of patients with critical and life-threatening diseases has attracted much attention in the pharmaceutical industry. The m...
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High Expression of PRL-3 can Promote Growth of Gastric Cancer and Exhibits a Poor Prognostic Impact on Patients
High expression of PRL-3 had been implicated in lymph node metastasis of gastric cancer. In the present study, we detected the expression of PRL-3 in primary gastric cancer tissue, and evaluated its role in ga...
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Mutation ofgyrA andparC in clinical isolates ofAcinetobacter baumannii and its relationship with antimicrobial drugs resistance in Taiwan
Acinetobacter baumannii is a species of non fermentative Gram-negative bacteria commonly found in water and soil. This organism was susceptible to most antibiotics in the 1970s. It has now become...
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Open AccessMonoclonal antibody induced with inactived EV71-Hn2 virus protects mice against lethal EV71-Hn2 virus infection
Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a viral pathogen that belongs to the Picornaviridae family, EV71-infected children can develop severe neurological complications leading to rapid clinical deterioration and death.
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Open AccessA duplex real-time RT-PCR assay for detecting H5N1 avian influenza virus and pandemic H1N1 influenza virus
A duplex real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay was improved for simultaneous detection of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus and pandemic H1N1 (2009) influenza viru...
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Structure and performance of polyamide-6 membranes prepared by thermally induced phase separation
The asymmetric polyamide-6 (PA6) membranes were prepared by thermally induced phase separation. From the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images, it is observed that with the increase of silicon dioxide (SiO2) ...
