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Open AccessA survey of breastfeeding among women with previous surgery for benign breast disease: a descriptive exploratory study
Surgery is the primary treatment for benign breast disease and causes some disruption to the normal physiology of the breast, even when this disruption is localised, it remains unclear whether it affects women...
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Cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7) inhibitors as a novel therapeutic strategy for different molecular types of breast cancer
Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 7 is aberrantly overexpressed in many types of cancer and is an attractive target for cancer therapy due to its dual role in transcription and cell cycle progression. Moreover, CD...
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Open AccessItaconate alleviates anesthesia/surgery-induced cognitive impairment by activating a Nrf2-dependent anti-neuroinflammation and neurogenesis via gut-brain axis
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a common neurological complication of anesthesia and surgery in aging individuals. Neuroinflammation has been identified as a hallmark of POCD. However, safe and e...
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Open AccessEffects of intravenous glucocorticoids on postoperative delirium in adult patients undergoing major surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis
The effects of intravenous glucocorticoids on postoperative delirium (POD) in adult patients undergoing major surgery remain controversial. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis to assess whether intraven...
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Open AccessIntraoperative Radiotherapy as a Tumour-Bed Boost Combined with Whole Breast Irradiation Versus Conventional Radiotherapy in Patients with Early-Stage Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
There is no definitive answer regarding the efficacy of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) as a tumour bed boost for patients with early-stage breast cancer. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to summarise ...
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Pseudobinary Eutectic Growth and Structural Evolution Control of Quinary Ti27Ni25Co20Nb14V14 High-Entropy Alloy Through Containerless Processing
The rapid eutectic growth kinetics of undercooled liquid Ti27Ni25Co20V14Nb14 high-entropy alloy (HEA) was investigated by electromagnetic levitation (EML) and drop tube (DT) techniques. The maximum liquid underco...
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Peak Ratio Iteration-Based Leading-Edge Detection Algorithm in UWB Localization
Highly-precision positioning plays a vital role in warehousing, intelligent manufacturing, smart city operation, emergency rescuing and other fields. In practical applications, there are many physical obstacle...
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Open AccessA novel incision technique of a totally implanted venous access port in the upper arm for patients with breast cancer
A totally implanted venous access port (TIVAP) in the upper arm is a safe and cost-effective vascular access device and is widely used in breast cancer patients. Traditional tunnelling technique increases the ...
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Open AccessVimentin affects inflammation and neutrophil recruitment in airway epithelium during Streptococcus suis serotype 2 infection
Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (SS2) frequently colonizes the swine upper respiratory tract and can cause Streptococcal disease in swine with clinical manifestations of pneumonia, meningitis, and septicemia. Previ...
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Vehicle Trajectory Obfuscation and Detection
A vehicle in road networks shares location data with other vehicles and location-based services (LBS) through Internet-of-vehicles (IoV). By analyzing the location data from vehicles, LBS providers can offer v...
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Smart Heating in Centralized Urban Heating Systems
One cornerstone of China's “Carbon Neutrality” roadmap is to realize the sustainable development of district heating systems to reduce their impact on the environment. As a key part of the district heating sys...
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Metastable liquid properties and rapid crystal growth of Ti-Ni-Al alloy investigated by electrostatic levitation and molecular dynamics simulation
Electrostatic levitation technique and molecular dynamics simulation were performed to investigate the thermophysical properties, liquid structure and crystal growth dependence on undercooling of Ti85Ni10Al5 allo...
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Open AccessThe existence, uniqueness and asymptotic estimates of solutions for third-order full nonlinear singularly perturbed vector boundary value problems
In this paper, we discuss third-order full nonlinear singularly perturbed vector boundary value problems. We first present the existence of solutions for the nonlinear vector boundary value problems without pe...
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Dynamic Detection of Thrombolysis in Embolic Stroke Rats by Synchrotron Radiation Angiography
A rodent model of embolic middle cerebral artery occlusion is used to mimic cerebral embolism in clinical patients. Thrombolytic therapy is the effective treatment for this ischemic injury. However, it is diff...
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The Existence and Asymptotic Estimates of Solutions for a Third-Order Nonlinear Singularly Perturbed Boundary Value Problem
In this paper, we consider a class of third-order nonlinear differential equation with singular perturbation subject to three-point boundary value conditions, whose solution exhibits a boundary layer at one en...
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Comparative Efficacy of CDK4/6 Inhibitors Plus Aromatase Inhibitors Versus Fulvestrant for the First-Line Treatment of Hormone Receptor-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer: A Network Meta-Analysis
Several endocrine therapies are available for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive (HR +) advanced breast cancer (ABC). Given the absence of direct comparisons between fulvestrant and cyclin-dep...
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Existence of Solution for a p-Laplacian Multi-point Boundary Value Problem at Resonance
In this paper, we are concerned with the p-Laplacian multi-point boundary value problem $$\begin{aligned} (\phi _{p}(x''(t)))'= & {} f...
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Cross Diffusion on Multi-hypergraph for Multi-modal 3D Object Recognition
3D object recognition is a longstanding task in computer vision and has shown wide applications in computer aided design, virtual reality, etc. Current state-of-the-art methods mainly focus on 3D object repres...
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Open AccessEndothelial progenitor cells transplantation attenuated blood-brain barrier damage after ischemia in diabetic mice via HIF-1α
Blood-brain barrier impairment is a major indicator of endothelial dysfunction in diabetes. Studies showed that endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) transplantation promoted angiogenesis and improved function rec...
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Linking News and Tweets
In recent years, the rise of social media such as Twitter has been changing the way people acquire information. Meanwhile, traditional information sources such as news articles are still irreplaceable. These h...
