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Open AccessMediating roles of activities of daily living and depression on the relationship between sleep quality and health-related quality of life
This study aimed to explore the mediating effects of ADL and depression on the relationship between sleep quality and HRQOL among older people in rural China, while also exploring the moderating impact of lone...
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Pharmacologically significant constituents collectively responsible for anti-sepsis action of XueBi**g, a Chinese herb-based intravenous formulation
Sepsis, a life-threatening health issue, lacks effective medicine targeting the septic response. In China, treatment combining the intravenous herbal medicine XueBi**g with conventional procedures reduces the...
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Heavy metal pollution and ecological risk assessment: A study on Linli County soils based on self-organizing map and positive factorization approaches
This study analyzed the pollution level, distribution, sources, and ecological impact of six heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Zn and Pb) in soil from Linli County, China. The concentration analysis showed that th...
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Open AccessBiphasic Cholinergic Modulation of Reverberatory Activity in Neuronal Networks
Acetylcholine (ACh) is an important neuromodulator in various cognitive functions. However, it is unclear how ACh influences neural circuit dynamics by altering cellular properties. Here, we investigated how A...
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All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte
Electrification of transportation and rising demand for grid energy storage continue to build momentum around batteries across the globe. However, the supply chain of Li-ion batteries is exposed to the increas...
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Alternations of interhemispheric functional connectivity in patients with optic neuritis using voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity: A resting state fMRI study
We used the voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) method to investigate brain interhemispheric functional connectivity changes in patients with optic neuritis (ON).
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Cassiterite beneficiation in China: A mini-review
Tin is indispensable for the development of advanced technology and cassiterite is the only mineral of commercial importance, from which tin can be extracted economically. In the past two decades, tin reserves...
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Study on Beam Trajectory Deflection and Spatial Dose Distribution in Magnetic Resonance-Guided Proton Therapy
Proton therapy can significantly inhibit the radiation damage of additional tissues, which is the development trend of cancer radiotherapy. At present, the randomness of range fluctuation of proton beam in the...
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Recent progress in synthesis of composite powders and their applications in low-carbon refractories
The development of low-carbon refractories is of great significance, but it is limited by the deteriorated properties that resulted from the decreased graphite content. Incorporating composite powders has prov...
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Open AccessAged bone matrix-derived extracellular vesicles as a messenger for calcification paradox
Adipocyte differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (BMSCs) instead of osteoblast formation contributes to age- and menopause-related marrow adiposity and osteoporosis. Vascular calcificati...
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PM2.5 Elements in the Rural Area of **g-**-Ji Region in China: Source Identification and Health Risk Assessment
This study identified the potential sources of the elements in PM2.5 and estimated the health risks of heavy metallic elements at a background site of Bei**g–Tian**–Hebei region (**g-**-Ji region) in heating ...
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Open AccessDevelopment of gated fiber detectors for laser-induced strong electromagnetic pulse environments
With the development of laser technologies, nuclear reactions can happen in high-temperature plasma environments induced by lasers and have attracted a lot of attention from different physical disciplines. How...
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Open AccessDonor-derived CD19 CAR-T cell therapy of relapse of CD19-positive B-ALL post allotransplant
Safety and efficacy of allogeneic anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T cells) in persons with CD19-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) relapsing after an allotransplant remain un...
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Open AccessNeoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with unresectable locally advanced sigmoid colon cancer: clinical feasibility and outcome
Patients with locally advanced sigmoid colon cancer (LASCC) have limited treatment options and a dismal prognosis with poor quality of life. This retrospective study aimed to further evaluate the feasibility...
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Prevalence and multilocus genoty** of Cryptosporidium spp. in cattle in Jiangxi Province, southeastern China
Cryptosporidium is a genus of single-celled protozoa, infecting a wide range of animals and humans. Although Cryptosporidium infections of cattle have been reported in some provinces in China, there is no availab...
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Open AccessNeoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for patients with unresectable radically locally advanced colon cancer: a potential improvement to overall survival and decrease to multivisceral resection
The management of unresectable locally advanced colon cancer (LACC) remains controversial, as resection is not feasible. The goal of this study was to evaluate the treatment outcomes and toxicity of neoadjuvan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MetaCon: Meta Contrastive Learning for Microsatellite Instability Detection
Colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who are detected as microsatellite instability (MSI) can receive precise targeted therapies, but existing MSI detection methods are not available to all patients due to various...
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Open AccessEnhanced visible light photocatalytic activity of Fe2O3 modified TiO2 prepared by atomic layer deposition
In this work, commercial anatase TiO2 powders were modified using ultrathin Fe2O3 layer by atomic layer deposition (ALD). The ultrathin Fe2O3 coating having small bandgap of 2.20 eV can increase the visible light...
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Sulfide mineral bioleaching: Understanding of microbe-chemistry assisted hydrometallurgy technology and acid mine drainage environment protection
Bioleaching is regarded as an essential technology to treat low grade minerals, with the distinctive superiorities of lower-cost and environment-friendly compared with traditional pyrometallurgy method. Howeve...
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Open AccessNectar mimicry: a new phenomenon
Nectar is the most common floral reward for flower-visiting flies, bees, bats and birds. Many flowers hide nectar in the floral tube and preclude sensing of nectar by flower-visitors from a distance. Even in t...
