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Laser-assisted synthesis of PtPd alloy for efficient ethanol oxidation
The inefficiency of ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) presents a significant obstacle in harnessing renewable biofuels with high energy density into electricity. Despite efforts, most Pt-based catalysts still s...
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Generate, transform, and clean: the role of GANs and transformers in palm leaf manuscript generation and enhancement
Palm leaf manuscripts offer a rich source of data critical for document analysis tasks, including character, word, and text analysis. However, their cleaning and denoising present substantial challenges due to...
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Open AccessHealth-Related Quality of Life and Economic Burden Among Hospitalized Children with Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease: A Multiregional Study in China
Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is an infectious disease with high morbidity and mortality rates among children under 5 years old. This study aimed to explore the health-related quality of life (HRQOL), e...
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An Axisymmetric Analytical Model for Cracking During Solidification and Its Comparison with the RDG Model
An analytical model was developed to calculate the susceptibility of an alloy to cracking during solidification. Instead of treating the mushy zone as a porous medium like in the prominent analytical model dev...
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Open AccessReciprocal negative feedback between Prrx1 and miR-140-3p regulates rapid chondrogenesis in the regenerating antler
During growth phase, antlers exhibit a very rapid rate of chondrogenesis. The antler is formed from its growth center reserve mesenchyme (RM) cells, which have been found to be the derivatives of paired relate...
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Open AccessInterface-induced dual-pinning mechanism enhances low-frequency electromagnetic wave loss
Improving the absorption of electromagnetic waves at low-frequency bands (2-8 GHz) is crucial for the increasing electromagnetic (EM) pollution brought about by the innovation of the fifth generation (5G) comm...
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Multi-step cutting depth optimization method based on the removal mechanism of SiCp/Al
SiCp/Al composites (Silicon Carbide Particles embedded in an Aluminum matrix) are widely used in aerospace, automotive and other fields due to their excellent properties such as high dimensional stability and ...
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Biogeographic patterns and drivers of soil viromes
Viruses are crucial in sha** soil microbial functions and ecosystems. However, studies on soil viromes have been limited in both spatial scale and biome coverage. Here we present a comprehensive synthesis of...
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Stacking textured films on lattice-mismatched transparent conducting oxides via matched Voronoi cell of oxygen sublattice
Transparent conducting oxides are a critical component in modern (opto)electronic devices and solar energy conversion systems, and forming textured functional films on them is highly desirable for property man...
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Open AccessBuilding Feedback-Regulation System Through Atomic Design for Highly Active SO2 Sensing
Feedback-regulation system is established between single Pt sites and MoS2 supports
The Pt1-MoS2-def can expand the electron...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Inulin-enriched Megamonas funiformis ameliorates metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease by producing propionic acid
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Microwave irradiated polyester staple fibers for natural rubber with excellent interface performance
The excellent bonding performance between polyester fibers and rubber is key to the high elasticity and fatigue resistance of rubber composite materials. Here, the modified polyester staple fiber (MPET) was ob...
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A 2–20 Gbps Clock and Data Recovery Based on Phase Interpolation and Delay Locked Loop
This paper presents a low-power multi-rate clock and data recovery (CDR) for receivers of serial links. Its basic structure includes a current-mode logic bang–bang phase detector sampled by low-mismatch half-r...
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Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution on CuBi2O4 Photocathode with Silver as Conductive Channels
CuBi2O4 is a promising p-type semiconductor material with a theoretical maximum current density of about 19.7 mA cm‒2. Although CuBi2O4 has a very high theoretical photocurrent, its poor charge transmission effic...
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Semi-supervised Retinal Vessel Segmentation Through Point Consistency
Retinal vessels usually serve as biomarkers for early diagnosis and treatment of ophthalmic and systemic diseases. However, collecting and labeling these clinical images require extensive costs and thus existi...
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An improved sparrow search algorithm optimized fuzzy controller for the tea water-removin temperature control system
Accurate temperature control in tea water-removing is the key to determine the quality of tea. The PID controller is universally used in this field. However, the choice of controller parameters has a direct ef...
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Inhaled SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for single-dose dry powder aerosol immunization
The COVID-19 pandemic has fostered major advances in vaccination technologies1–4; however, there are urgent needs for vaccines that induce mucosal immune responses and for single-dose, non-invasive administration
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Kindergarten dust heavy metal(loid) exposure associates with growth retardation in children
Heavy metal contamination from electronic waste recycling sites is present in dust found in indoor kindergartens located in e-waste recycling areas, and its potential impact on child health is a significant co...
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Open AccessInulin-enriched Megamonas funiformis ameliorates metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease by producing propionic acid
Accumulated evidence supports the beneficial role of inulin in alleviating metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) by modulating gut microbiota. However, the underlying mechanisms are not ...
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A CFD Study on Intergranular Liquid Feeding and Cracking During Solidification in Welding
An alloy tends to solidify with columnar dendritic grains in welding. Unless compensated by liquid feeding through intergranular channels, solidification shrinkage and transverse tension can cause intergranula...
