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Open AccessEchocardiographic assessment for cardiopulmonary function in patients with congenital heart disease-related pulmonary arterial hypertension
For patients with congenital heart disease-related pulmonary arterial hypertension (CHD-PAH), cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) can reflect cardiopulmonary reserve function. However, CPET may not be read...
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A Monte Carlo simulation-based health risk assessment of heavy metals in soils of the tropical region in southern China
The disturbance of ecological stability may take place in tropical regions due to the elevated biomass density resulting from heavy metal and other contaminant pollution. In this study, 62 valid soil samples w...
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Integrated lithium niobate microwave photonic processing engine
Integrated microwave photonics (MWP) is an intriguing technology for the generation, transmission and manipulation of microwave signals in chip-scale optical systems1,2. In particular, ultrafast processing of ana...
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Good Feasibility of Ozone-Microwave Treatment as a Sterilization Technology to Extend the Edible Life of Candied Fruit as a Post-processed Fresh Fruit Product
In order to solve the problem of infestation of fresh fruit after making them into candied fruit and the quality degradation caused by the infestation, a combined ozone–microwave sterilization method was used ...
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Modeling on Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Traditional Residential Neighborhoods in Bei**g Based on GAN
With the support of new urban science and technology, the bottom-up and human-centered space quality research has become the key to delicacy urban governance, of which the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI...
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Emerging Techniques for Online Learning Analytics
The rapid growth of online learning platforms presents both challenges and opportunities for educational institutions. Online learning analytics has the potential to extract valuable insights from student lear...
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Research on the Generation Method of Predictive Intrusion Graph Model
In recent years, military equipment has been develo** towards digitization, networking, and intelligence. Software, as a core component of equipment, and network systems, as the survival environment of softw...
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Open AccessEditors’ Choice 2023
The Editorial Board and Editorial Team are delighted to present a selection of short Research Highlights describing some of our favourite Communications Engineering publications of 2023.
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Open AccessNomogram incorporating Epstein-Barr virus DNA and a novel immune-nutritional marker for survival prediction in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Since Immune response, nutritional status and Epstein–Barr Virus (EBV) DNA status have been confirmed to be relevant to the prognosis of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), we believe that the combin...
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Industrial few-shot fractal object detection
In practical industrial visual inspection tasks, foreign object data are difficult to collect and accumulate, hence few-shot object detection has gradually become the focus of research. It has been observed th...
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A novel feature and sample joint transfer learning method with feature selection in semi-supervised scenarios for identifying the sequence of some species with less known genetic data
When identifying the sequence of some species using fewer known gene training data (named target domain), the data of closely related species and unlabeled data of the species (named source domain) could be co...
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Open AccessMicroRNA-19b-3p dysfunction of mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes from patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm impairs therapeutic efficacy
Senescence of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) contributes to the formation of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Although mesenchymal stem cell exosomes (MSC-EXO) have been confirmed to restrict the develop...
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Open AccessBroadband physical layer cognitive radio with an integrated photonic processor for blind source separation
The expansion of telecommunications incurs increasingly severe crosstalk and interference, and a physical layer cognitive method, called blind source separation (BSS), can effectively address these issues. BSS...
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Open AccessSystemic immune-inflammation index during treatment predicts prognosis and guides clinical treatment in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) has been demonstrated to be closely associated with the poor prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). However, the role of SII during treatment of NPC has not been ...
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Open AccessLoureirin B downregulates osteoclast differentiation of bone marrow macrophages by targeting the MAPK signaling pathway
Excessive absorption of osteoclasts will break the balance between osteoclasts and osteoblasts, leading to bone loss, decreased bone density, and increased bone fragility. We have shown that Loureirin B (LrB) ...
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Open AccessEffect of knee joint weight change on knee function recovery and gait after total knee arthroplasty
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common disease based on degenerative pathological changes. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an effective treatment for end-stage of KOA. However, only volume adaptation can be ac...
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Spatiotemporal changes of typical glaciers and their responses to climate change in **njiang, Northwest China
Glaciers are highly sensitive to climate change and are undergoing significant changes in mid-latitudes. In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal changes of typical glaciers and their responses to climate...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The effects of statins on hyperandrogenism in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
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Open AccessPhotonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond
Matrix computation, as a fundamental building block of information processing in science and technology, contributes most of the computational overheads in modern signal processing and artificial intelligence ...
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Things of Interest Recommendation in Intelligent Ambient Environment
Recommender Systems for the IoT (RSIoT) aim for interactive item recommendations. Most existing methods focus on user feedback and have limitations in dealing with dynamic environments. Deep Reinforcement Lear...
