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Open AccessPodocyte OTUD5 alleviates diabetic kidney disease through deubiquitinating TAK1 and reducing podocyte inflammation and injury
Recent studies have shown the crucial role of podocyte injury in the development of diabetic kidney disease (DKD). Deubiquitinating modification of proteins is widely involved in the occurrence and development...
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Open AccessThe etiological diagnostic value of metagenomic next-generation sequencing in suspected community-acquired pneumonia
The emergence of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) may provide a promising tool for early and comprehensive identification of the causative pathogen in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). In this s...
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Evaluation of Monochromatic Excitation X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry for Rapid Thallium Detection in Biological Samples Using Animal Models
Monochromatic excitation X-ray fluorescence (ME-XRF) spectrometry is a novel technique for trace element analysis, characterized by its simplicity, rapidity, and low cost. The objective of this study was to ev...
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Open AccessStudy for lightweight finger vein recognition based on a small sample
To address several common problems of finger vein recognition, a lightweight finger vein recognition algorithm by means of a small sample has been proposed in this study. First of all, a Gabor filter is applie...
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Open AccessValidation of human telomere length multi-ancestry meta-analysis association signals identifies POP5 and KBTBD6 as human telomere length regulation genes
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become well-powered to detect loci associated with telomere length. However, no prior work has validated genes nominated by GWAS to examine their role in telomere le...
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Open AccessLaCl3-based sodium halide solid electrolytes with high ionic conductivity for all-solid-state batteries
To enable high performance of all solid-state batteries, a catholyte should demonstrate high ionic conductivity, good compressibility and oxidative stability. Here, a LaCl3-based Na+ superionic conductor (Na1−xZr
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Open AccessMorphology and classification of the second mesiobuccal canal in maxillary first molars: a cone-beam computed tomography analysis in a Chinese population
Understanding the tooth anatomy is crucial for ensuring effective endodontic treatment. This study investigated the root canal morphology of the second mesiobuccal (MB2) canal in maxillary first molars (MFMs) ...
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On the generation of adversarial examples for image quality assessment
We study the generation of adversarial examples to test, assess, and improve deep learning-based image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms. This is important since social media platforms and other providers re...
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Inhibition of halide oxidation and deprotonation of organic cations with dimethylammonium formate for air-processed p–i–n perovskite solar cells
The manufacturing of perovskite solar cells under ambient conditions is desirable, yet the efficiency of p–i–n perovskite solar cells fabricated in air still lags behind those made in an inert atmosphere. Here...
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Two-dimensional alkali auride bimetallene semiconductors
Alloying different metal elements to form two-dimensional (2D) materials (metallenes) holds great significance for both fundamental research and practical applications in nanoelectronics, but few of them are s...
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Special perceptual parsing for Chinese landscape painting scene understanding: a semantic segmentation approach
The automatic and precise perceptual parsing of Chinese landscape paintings (CLP) significantly aids in the digitization and recreation of artworks. Manual extraction and analysis of objects in CLPs is challen...
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Pongamol Prevents Neurotoxicity via the Activation of MAPKs/Nrf2 Signaling Pathway in H2O2-Induced Neuronal PC12 Cells and Prolongs the Lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans
Despite tremendous advances in modern medicine, effective prevention or therapeutic strategies for age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remain limited. Growing evidence now s...
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Persistence of charge density wave against variation of band structures in VxTi1−xSe2(x = 0−0.1)
Charge density wave (CDW) is a phenomenon that occurs in materials, accompanied by changes in their intrinsic electronic properties. The study of CDW and its modulation in materials holds tremendous significan...
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Early Growth Response Gene-1 Deficiency Interrupts TGFβ1 Signaling Activation and Aggravates Neurodegeneration in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis Mice
Early growth response protein 1 (Egr-1) triggers the transcription of many genes involved in cell growth, differentiation, synaptic plasticity, and neurogenesis. However, its mechanism in neuronal survival and...
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Infrared and visible image fusion based on quaternion wavelets transform and feature-level Copula model
To solve the problems that the correlation of multi-scale coefficients is ignored, as well as inaccurate identification of complementarity and redundancy of source images in traditional infrared and visible im...
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Room-temperature long-range ferromagnetic order in a confined molecular monolayer
In recent years, research on spin ordering phenomena has broadened to include intermolecular exchange interactions in organic–inorganic crystals and goes beyond the traditional focus on interatomic interaction...
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An automatic music generation method based on RSCLN_Transformer network
With the development of artificial intelligence and deep learning, a large number of music generation methods have been proposed. Recently, Transformer has been widely used in music generation. However, the st...
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Open AccessCausal relationship between systemic lupus erythematosus and primary liver cirrhosis based on two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization and transcriptome overlap analysis
Overlap** cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) are rare and have not yet been fully proven to be accidental or have a common genetic basis.
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Asymmetric Attention Fusion for Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation
In this paper, we introduce a novel Asymmetric Attention Fusion Network (AAF-Net) based on an attention mechanism to complete unsupervised video object segmentation. Firstly, we propose an asymmetric attention...
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Competition or Collaboration? Exploring Interactive Relationships in Live-Streaming Audience Participation Game
Interactivity is the key to enhancing audience engagement and immersion during the live-streaming process. Viewer-streamer interaction is a research field worth exploring in live streaming. The live-streaming ...
