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A review on research progress and prospects of agricultural waste-based activated carbon: preparation, application, and source of raw materials
Agricultural waste is an economically and environmentally beneficial precursor material for the development of activated carbon (AC) due to its low price, wide sources, and large production scale. This makes i...
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Effect of clay minerals on polycarboxylate superplasticizer and methods to improve the performance of concrete containing clay: a review
The polycarboxylate superplasticizer (PCE) has been widely used in concrete products, tunnels, bridges and water conservancy projects due to its excellent characteristics. With the rapid development of the con...
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Open AccessEffective long-term sirolimus treatment in hypoxemia mainly due to intrapulmonary right-to-left shunt in a patient with multiple vascular anomalies
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs), particularly where feeding artery/arteries to PAVMs ≥ 3 mm can be treated with embolization. The treatment for hypoxemia resulting from multiple small or diffuse ...
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Effect of calcination temperature on the structure and formaldehyde removal performance at room temperature of Cr/MnO2 catalysts
In this paper, Cr/MnO2 catalysts were prepared by hydrothermal–calcination method and applied to the catalytic oxidation of formaldehyde (HCHO) at room temperature. The effects of calcination temperature on the p...
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Open AccessA non-ACE2-blocking neutralizing antibody against Omicron-included SARS-CoV-2 variants
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Synthesis and characterization of CuxO/Bi2O3 oxides for removal of HCHO under visible light irradiation
CuxO/Bi2O3 oxides grown on nickel foam were synthesized via an electrodeposition method to degrade indoor HCHO under visible light irradiation and fully characterized by XRD, SEM, FT-IR, and UV-Vis technologies. ...
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Open AccessA broadly neutralizing humanized ACE2-targeting antibody against SARS-CoV-2 variants
The successive emergences and accelerating spread of novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineages and evolved resistance to some ongoing clinical therapeutics increase the risks ...
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Open AccessA cost-effective and humidity-tolerant chloride solid electrolyte for lithium batteries
Li-ion-conducting chloride solid electrolytes receive considerable attention due to their physicochemical characteristics such as high ionic conductivity, deformability and oxidative stability. However, the ra...
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A human neutralizing antibody targets the receptor-binding site of SARS-CoV-2
An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)1–3, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)4, has spread globally. Countermeasures are needed to treat and prevent further dissemi...
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Application of gradient descent algorithms based on geodesic distances
In this paper, the Riemannian gradient algorithm and the natural gradient algorithm are applied to solve descent direction problems on the manifold of positive definite Hermitian matrices, where the geodesic d...
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Open AccessThe identification of a CD47-blocking “hotspot” and design of a CD47/PD-L1 dual-specific antibody with limited hemagglutination
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Application of a full model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) in 80 kVp ultra-low-dose paranasal sinus CT imaging of pediatric patients
To evaluate the clinical application of a full model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) algorithm in the ultra-low-dose paranasal sinus CT imaging of children.
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Berry syndrome: a rare cardiac malformation with extra-cardiac findings
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Open AccessImage quality improvement using model-based iterative reconstruction in low dose chest CT for children with necrotizing pneumonia
Model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) is a promising reconstruction method which could improve CT image quality with low radiation dose. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the advantage of usin...
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Erratum to: Energy-aware analysis of electrically long high speed I/O links
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Energy-aware analysis of electrically long high speed I/O links
This paper presents a novel approach for an energy-aware analysis of electrically long high speed I/O links. ABCD-parameters are used to analyze the passive link model, which takes into account termination imp...
