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Open AccessIntercultural interaction willingness: a PLS-PM approach to influencing factors and its mediation effect
For international students, interaction with host nationals greatly influences their adjustment to the host country. Their willingness to interact is subject to the influence of multiple factors. Partial least...
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Dynamic spillover of upstream primary metals and by-product metals market and its impact from the downstream new energy vehicles market
The anticipated continued growth of the new energy vehicle market has raised concerns regarding the stable supply of its critical raw materials. This article combines Diebold and Yilmaz's spillover index and w...
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A selenium-mediated layer-by-layer synthetic strategy for multilayered multicomponent nanocrystals
Ordered heterostructured nanocrystals with large compositional and morphological diversity are important for many applications. However, design of multicomponent nanostructures at the atomic level is difficult...
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Open AccessPreoperative blood urea nitrogen-to-serum albumin ratio for prediction of in-hospital mortality in patients who underwent emergency surgery for acute type A aortic dissection
The study aimed to assess the predictive value of blood urea nitrogen (BUN)-to-albumin ratio (BA-R) for in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing emergency surgery for acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD)...
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Permeable, three-dimensional integrated electronic skins with stretchable hybrid liquid metal solders
The development of wearable and on-skin electronics requires high-density stretchable electronic systems that can conform to soft tissue, operate continuously and provide long-term biocompatibility. Most stret...
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Multi-parametric atlas of the pre-metastatic liver for prediction of metastatic outcome in early-stage pancreatic cancer
Metastasis occurs frequently after resection of pancreatic cancer (PaC). In this study, we hypothesized that multi-parametric analysis of pre-metastatic liver biopsies would classify patients according to thei...
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Open AccessNeferine inhibits BMECs pyroptosis and maintains blood–brain barrier integrity in ischemic stroke by triggering a cascade reaction of PGC-1α
Blood–brain barrier disruption is a critical pathological event in the progression of ischemic stroke (IS). Most studies regarding the therapeutic potential of neferine (Nef) on IS have focused on neuroprotect...
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Open AccessVariational AdaBoost knowledge distillation for skin lesion classification in dermatology images
Knowledge Distillation has shown promising results for classifying skin lesions in dermatology images. Traditional knowledge distillation typically involves the student model passively mimicking the teacher mo...
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Preoperative transthoracic echocardiography does not lead to decreased postoperative mortality but with increased time to surgery and length of stay in Chinese geriatric hip fracture patients
To investigate the influence of preoperative transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) on postoperative short-term mortality, surgery delay, as well as other economic and clinical outcomes in Chinese geriatric hip ...
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Open AccessA clade of receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases and 14-3-3 proteins coordinate inositol hexaphosphate accumulation
Inositol hexaphosphate (InsP6) is the major storage form of phosphorus in seeds. Reducing seed InsP6 content is a breeding objective in agriculture, as InsP6 negatively impacts animal nutrition and the environmen...
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Open AccessAn ultra-short-acting benzodiazepine in thalamic nucleus reuniens undermines fear extinction via intermediation of hippocamposeptal circuits
Benzodiazepines, commonly used for anxiolytics, hinder conditioned fear extinction, and the underlying circuit mechanisms are unclear. Utilizing remimazolam, an ultra-short-acting benzodiazepine, here we revea...
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Open AccessParallel processing model for low-dose computed tomography image denoising
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has gained increasing attention owing to its crucial role in reducing radiation exposure in patients. However, LDCT-reconstructed images often suffer from significant noise ...
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Growth Stage-Dependent Variation in Soil Quality and Microbial Diversity of Ancient Gleditsia sinensis
The environment monitoring of forest is vital for the ecosystem sustainable management, especially soil quality. Ancient Gleditsia sinensis is one of the most distributed ancient trees in Shaanxi. Comprehensive s...
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Hollow Multishelled Structure: Synthesis Chemistry and Application
Hollow multishelled structure (HoMS), a promising and complex multifunctional structural system, features at least two shells that are separated by internal voids. The unique structure endows it with numerous ...
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Identifying the origin of porous evolution of microsized bismuth in potassium-ion batteries
Microsized bismuth (Bi) with in-situ constructed three-dimensional (3D) porous network has been considered as a promising anode for high-performance potassium-ion batteries (PIBs). However, the mechanism of the i...
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Stepped-up development of accelerator mass spectrometry method for the detection of 60Fe with the HI-13 tandem accelerator
The Moon provides a unique environment for investigating nearby astrophysical events such as supernovae. Lunar samples retain valuable information from these events, via detectable long-lived “fingerprint” rad...
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A novel nuclear recoil calibration for liquid helium detectors
According to many dark matter models, a potential signal registered in a detector would feature a single-scattering nuclear recoil (NR). So, it is crucial to calibrate the detector’s response to NR events. The...
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Binary classification for imbalanced datasets using twin hyperspheres based on conformal method
Aiming at binary classification of highly imbalanced data, this paper proposes a novel twin-hypersphere method with conformal transformation. To provide favorable environments that the hyperspheres can search ...
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Open AccessSIRT1 restores mitochondrial structure and function in rats by activating SIRT3 after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury
Mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to cerebral ischemia–reperfusion (CI/R) injury, which can be ameliorated by Sirtuin-3 (SIRT3). Under stress conditions, the SIRT3-promoted mitochondrial functional recover...
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A fuzzy detection approach to high-dimensional anomalies
Rare anomalies allow to be hidden in any subspace upon a high-dimensional space so that high-dimensional dimensional of the data brings a lot of trouble for anomalous detectors. To mine high-dimensional anomal...
