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Clean-label attack based on negative afterimage on neural networks
Adversarial attacks can fool machine learning models by adding small but carefully designed perturbations to an image, resulting in the model to misclassify it into another class. In general, an attacker choos...
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Modification of microspheres and matrix to improve mechanical properties, thermal stability, and viscosity of thermal insulation composites
In this study, hollow SiO2 microspheres (HSM) and hollow glass microspheres (HGM) were chemically modified with hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) to enhance their compatibility with the SR matrix. Additionally, the mat...
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Design Comparison for the Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle with Recompression and Thermal Regeneration: Numerical Results
The supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycle shows obvious advantages (e.g., higher efficiency, compact system design, etc.) compared with the traditional Rankine cycle for high temperature thermal sourc...
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Open AccessAll-organic polymeric materials with high refractive index and excellent transparency
High refractive index polymers (HRIPs) have drawn attention for their optoelectronic applications and HRIPs with excellent transparency and facile preparation are highly demanded. Herein, sulfur-containing all...
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Unique mechanofluoro enhancement effect of an AIEgen containing Tröger’s base and TPE units
We demonstrate a unique mechano-luminochromic (MLC) effect of an aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-active luminogen (AIEgen), DTPE-TB, which is characterized by the evidently changed emission intensity but un...
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Open AccessAn organoid library of salivary gland tumors reveals subtype-specific characteristics and biomarkers
Salivary gland tumors (SGTs) include a large group of rare neoplasms in the head and neck region, and the heterogeneous and overlap** features among the subtypes frequently make diagnostic difficulties. Ther...
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Exploration of biocompatible AIEgens from human trichochrome
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Characterization of seismic information entropy attributes of braided river delta sedimentary microfacies for the upper Shaximiao formation in the Wubaochang area, northeastern Sichuan Basin, China
The Wubaochang structure is located at the edge of the eastern Sichuan structural belt, at the intersection of the Dabashan and eastern Sichuan arcuate fold-and-thrust belts. The tectonic setting is complex an...
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Heat-insulating materials with high-temperature resistance through binding hollow glass microspheres with vinyl-functionalized polyborosiloxane
In this study, a kind of novel heat-insulating material composed by the vinyl-functionalized polyborosiloxane (BSiO) and hollow glass microspheres (HGM) was successfully prepared. Under solvent-free condition,...
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Open AccessPKCζ facilitates lymphatic metastatic spread of prostate cancer cells in a mice xenograft model
Prostate cancer disseminates primarily into the adjacent lymph nodes, which is related to a poor outcome. Atypical protein kinase C ζ (PKCζ) is highly expressed in aggressive prostate cancer and correlates wit...
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Pattern matching localization algorithms are commonly proposed in complex indoor environments. Received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of radio signals backscattered from passive ultra high frequency radio f...
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Borosiloxane oligomers for improving adhesion of addition-curable liquid silicone rubber with epoxy resin by surface treatment
The purpose of this study is to improve the interfacial adhesion property between epoxy resin (EP) and addition-curable liquid silicone rubber (AL-SR). A novel surface treatment agent, borosiloxane oligomers (...
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Open AccessAnaconda: AN automated pipeline for somatic COpy Number variation Detection and Annotation from tumor exome sequencing data
Copy number variations (CNVs) are the main genetic structural variations in cancer genome. Detecting CNVs in genetic exome region is efficient and cost-effective in identifying cancer associated genes. Many to...
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Identifying Gene–Environment Interactions Associated with Prognosis Using Penalized Quantile Regression
In the omics era, it has been well recognized that for complex traits and outcomes, the interactions between genetic and environmental factors (i.e., the G×E interactions) have important implications beyond th...
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Empirical Likelihood Test for High Dimensional Generalized Linear Models
Technological advances allow scientists to collect high dimensional data sets in which the number of variables is much larger than the sample size. A representative example is genomics. Consequently, due to th...
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Influence of deposition pressure on properties of ZnO: Al films fabricated by RF magnetron sputtering
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Thermal and electrical properties of composites based on (3-mercaptopropyl) trimethoxysilane- and Cu-coated carbon fiber and silicone rubber
In this paper, (3-mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysilane (MPTS)- and copper-coated carbon fiber (M–Cu-CF) was obtained by electroless plating method. The M–Cu-CF was evaluated by FTIR, XRD, TGA, and SEM. It was found...
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Identifying Gene-Environment Interactions with a Least Relative Error Approach
For complex diseases, the interactions between genetic and environmental risk factors can have important implications beyond the main effects. Many of the existing interaction analyses conduct marginal analysi...
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Open AccessVascular dysfunction and increased metastasis of B16F10 melanomas in Shb deficient mice as compared with their wild type counterparts
Shb is a signaling protein downstream of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 and Shb deficiency has been found to restrict tumor angiogenesis. The present study was performed in order to assess metastas...
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