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Associations of insulin sensitivity and immune inflammatory responses with child blood lead (Pb) and PM2.5 exposure at an e-waste recycling area during the COVID-19 lockdown
Fine particular matter (PM2.5) and lead (Pb) exposure can induce insulin resistance, elevating the likelihood of diabetes onset. Nonetheless, the underlying mechanism remains ambiguous. Consequently, we assessed ...
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Open AccessInaccurate diagnosis of diabetes type in youth: prevalence, characteristics, and implications
Classifying diabetes at diagnosis is crucial for disease management but increasingly difficult due to overlaps in characteristics between the commonly encountered diabetes types. We evaluated the prevalence an...
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Local Maximum Synchrosqueezing-Based Velocity Synchronous Chirplet Transform for Bearing Multi-Fault Diagnosis
The chirplet transform is widely used to process nonstationary signals and detect mechanical faults. Recently, the velocity synchronous linear chirplet transform (VSLCT), can effectively alleviate the smear ef...
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Characterization and stabilization of incineration fly ash from a new multi-source hazardous waste co-disposal system: field-scale study on solidification and stabilization
The multi-source hazardous waste co-disposal system, a recent innovation in the industry, offers an efficient approach for hazardous waste disposal. The incineration fly ash (HFA) produced by this system exhib...
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Open AccessA generalizable and interpretable model for mortality risk stratification of sepsis patients in intensive care unit
This study aimed to construct a mortality model for the risk stratification of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with sepsis by applying a machine learning algorithm.
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A retrospective study of air quality associated with teratogenic pathogen screening in women of reproductive age in southern China
Adverse pregnancy outcomes are associated with a poor ambient atmospheric environment. Infections by teratogenic pathogens such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) are the main cause of the...
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Open AccessAGGF1 therapy inhibits thoracic aortic aneurysms by enhancing integrin α7-mediated inhibition of TGF-β1 maturation and ERK1/2 signaling
Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is a localized or diffuse dilatation of the thoracic aortas, and causes many sudden deaths each year worldwide. However, there is no effective pharmacologic therapy. Here, we sho...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identification of Sepsis Subphenotypes Based on Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory Auto-encoder Using Real-Time Laboratory Data Collected from Intensive Care Units
Sepsis is a heterogeneous syndrome characterized by a dysregulated immunological response to infection that results in organ dysfunction and often death. Identification of clinically relevant subphenotypes, wh...
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Investigation on Steady State Characteristics and Loss Reduction Measures of 220 kV Power Cables
With the rapid development of urbanization in China, power cables have gradually occupied the main position in the urban network, and the loss caused by the power cables in the power transmission has also cont...
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Liquid crystal-based optical aptasensor for the sensitive and selective detection of Gram-negative bacteria
The sensitive and differential detection of Gram-negative bacteria is essential in food processing, environmental monitoring, and the daily chemical industry. Herein, we propose and validate a liquid crystal (...
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Open AccessOpen-source algorithm and software for computed tomography-based virtual pancreatoscopy and other applications
Pancreatoscopy plays a significant role in the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic diseases. However, the risk of pancreatoscopy is remarkably greater than that of other endoscopic procedures, such as gastro...
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Enhancement of electrical properties by including nano-aluminum nitride to micro-silicon carbide/silicone elastomer composites for potential power module packaging applications
This paper reports an enhancement of the electrical properties of micro-silicon carbide/silicone elastomer (m-SiC/SE) composites by adding nano-aluminum nitride (n-AlN) for the next-generation power module enc...
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on visual outcomes of diabetic macular edema patients at a tertiary care veterans affairs center
There are limited studies on factors that impacted retina clinic patient outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to evaluate visual and anatomic outcomes in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) r...
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Open AccessPredictors and outcomes of postoperative tracheostomy in patients undergoing acute type A aortic dissection surgery
Despite surgical advances, acute type A aortic dissection remains a life-threatening disease with high mortality and morbidity. Tracheostomy is usually used for patients who need prolonged mechanical ventilati...
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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of a risk prediction model for postoperative pneumonia in adult patients undergoing Stanford type A acute aortic dissection surgery: a case control study
Pneumonia is a common complication after Stanford type A acute aortic dissection surgery (AADS) and contributes significantly to morbidity, mortality, and length of stay. The purpose of this study was to ident...
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Bayesian optimization of functional output in inverse problems
Motivated by the parameter identification problem of a reaction-diffusion transport model in a vapor phase infiltration processes, we propose a Bayesian optimization procedure for solving the inverse problem t...
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Constrained minimum energy designs
Space-filling designs are important in computer experiments, which are critical for building a cheap surrogate model that adequately approximates an expensive computer code. Many design construction techniques...
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Open AccessRisk factors and in-hospital mortality of postoperative hyperlactatemia in patients after acute type A aortic dissection surgery
Hyperlactatemia may be caused by increased production due to tissue hypoxia or non-hypoxia. The aim of this study was first to identify risk factors for postoperative hyperlactatemia (POHL) after Stanford type...
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Tetrasubstituted allenes via the palladium-catalysed kinetic resolution of propargylic alcohols using a supporting ligand
Efficient enantioselective construction of fully substituted allenes from simple starting materials is still a fundamental challenge due to the difficulty to discriminate between the four substituents at the 1...
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Open AccessInhibition of intimal hyperplasia in murine aortic allografts by administration of a small-molecule TLR4 inhibitor TAK-242
Graft arteriosclerosis (GA) is the leading cause of late cardiac allograft dysfunction. The innate immune system plays a major role in GA, paprticularly Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling. Here we character...
