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Microstructures and mechanical properties of laser-directed energy deposited CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy
The distinctive intrinsic heat treatment (IHT) originating from cyclic reheating in the laser-directed energy deposition (LDED) has attracted growing attention in recent years. In this investigation, simulatio...
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An Enhanced Energy Coupling-Based Control Method for Quadrotor UAV Suspended Payload with Variable Rope Length
The quadrotor suspended payload systems have difficulties to achieve precise positioning of the quadrotor UAV and suppression of the load swing angle at the same time because of their characteristics, such as ...
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Suppression of seismic random noise by deep learning combined with stationary wavelet packet transform
Many traditional denoising methods, such as Gaussian filtering, tend to blur and lose details or edge information while reducing noise. The stationary wavelet packet transform is a multi-scale and multi-band a...
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Injection of a Self-propelled Polymer into a Small Circular Cavity
The injection of a polymer chain into a small circular cavity under tangential self-propelled force is studied by using Langevin dynamics simulation. Results indicate that the injection dynamics of the active ...
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Incidence of cardiovascular mortality among head and neck cancer patients
While treatment advancements have prolonged the lives of patients with head and neck cancer, the subgroups of these patients at higher risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality remain unclear.
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Super-stealth dicing of transparent solids with nanometric precision
Laser cutting of semiconductor wafers and transparent dielectrics has become a dominant process in manufacturing industries, encompassing a wide range of applications from display panels to microelectronic chi...
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Gas microchannel plate-pixel detector for X-ray polarimetry
POLAR-2 is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) polarimeter that is designed to study the polarization in GRB radiation emissions, aiming to improve our knowledge of related mechanisms. POLAR-2 is expected to utilize an on...
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Open AccessGenome-wide investigation of UDP-Glycosyltransferase family in Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum)
Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) belongs to Polygonaceae family and has attracted increasing attention owing to its high nutritional value. UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs) glycosylate a variety of plant se...
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Effect and Safety of Herbal Medicine Foot Baths in Patients with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Multicenter Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
To evaluate the effect and safety of foot baths with Tangbi Waixi Decoction (TW) in treating patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN).
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Role of thrombospondin-1 in high-salt–induced mesenteric artery endothelial impairment in rats
The matrix glycoprotein thrombospondin-1 (THBS1) modulates nitric oxide (NO) signaling in endothelial cells. A high-salt diet induces deficiencies of NO production and bioavailability, thereby leading to endot...
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Nondestructive technique for identifying nuclides using neutron resonance transmission analysis at CSNS Back-n
Nondestructive and noninvasive neutron assays are essential applications of neutron techniques. Neutron resonance transmission analysis (NRTA) is a powerful nondestructive method for investigating the elementa...
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Open AccessMolecular mechanisms underlying the BIRC6-mediated regulation of apoptosis and autophagy
Procaspase 9 is the initiator caspase for apoptosis, but how its levels and activities are maintained remains unclear. The gigantic Inhibitor-of-Apoptosis Protein BIRC6/BRUCE/Apollon inhibits both apoptosis an...
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Long-Term Survival and Recurrence Patterns in Locally Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients with Pathologic Complete Response After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Followed by Surgery
The higher pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy compared with neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has not translated into s...
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Open AccessAdvances in nuclear detection and readout techniques
“A Craftsman Must Sharpen His Tools to Do His Job,” said Confucius. Nuclear detection and readout techniques are the foundation of particle physics, nuclear physics, and particle astrophysics to reveal the nat...
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The nearest neutron star candidate in a binary revealed by optical time-domain surveys
The near-Earth (within ∼100 pc) supernova explosions in the past several million years can cause the global deposition of radioactive elements (e.g., 60Fe) on Earth. The remnants of such supernovae are too old to...
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Open AccessLiquid-liquid phase separation in DNA double-strand breaks repair
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the fatal type of DNA damage mostly induced by exposure genome to ionizing radiation or genotoxic chemicals. DSBs are mainly repaired by homologous recombination (HR) and no...
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A numerical study based on GBM3D-DEM model: Multi-level force chain analysis in dynamic flexural tensile strength test
The force chain network is the key information of rock materials under loading, which is close to the micro-scale cracking and macroscopic mechanical behavior of rocks. In this paper, a novel 3D grain-based mo...
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TNRC18 engages H3K9me3 to mediate silencing of endogenous retrotransposons
Trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9me3) is crucial for the regulation of gene repression and heterochromatin formation, cell-fate determination and organismal development1. H3K9me3 also provides an essent...
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The skeletal safety of milk-derived proteins: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
There has been a persistent claim that dairy products contain calcium-leaching proteins, although the soundness of such a claim has been challenged. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on th...
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Phase precipitation and corrosion properties of copper-bearing ferritic stainless steels by annealing process
The effects of different annealing processes on the phase precipitation behavior and corrosion properties of copper-bearing 430 ferritic stainless steel were systematically investigated. The shape, quantity an...
