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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of a scoring system to predict the mortality of hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron: a nationwide, multicentre study
The Omicron variant broke out in China at the end of 2022, causing a considerable number of severe cases and even deaths. The study aimed to identify risk factors for death in patients hospitalized with SARS-C...
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How tax competition affects China’s environmental pollution?: A spatial econometric analysis
The relationship between tax policy and environment is a hot topic of widespread concern. Clarifying the mechanism between them is of great significance to promote the coordinated development of economy and en...
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Effect of Deposition Temperature on the Electrical Properties of Solid-Phase Crystallized Ge Thin Films
We report the effect of deposition temperature, spanning from 30 °C to 200 °C, on the electrical properties of solid-phase crystallized Ge thin films on SiO2/Si substrates. Our findings revealed three distinct ra...
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Effect of Y2O3 on Microstructure and Corrosion Resistance of Ni45 Coating by Laser Cladding with Different Flow Rates of Carrier Gas
Laser cladding can create a protective coating on metal. In this study, Ni45 coatings were fabricated on 42CrMoA alloy steel by laser cladding using a CO2 laser-processing system. Numerical analysis of the carrie...
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Multimodal data integration using machine learning to predict the risk of clear cell renal cancer metastasis: a retrospective multicentre study
To develop and validate a predictive combined model for metastasis in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) by integrating multimodal data.
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RA-CFGPT: Chinese financial assistant with retrieval-augmented large language model
In this paper, we present the RA-CFGPT system, designed for Chinese financial tasks such as question answering, document analysis, investment advising, and risk assessment. Our system combines a hybrid knowled...
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Research on the Shrinkage Performance of Vertical Vibration Compacted Cement-Stabilized Gravel
This study investigates the shrinkage performance of cement-stabilized gravel (CSG) compacted using vertical vibrations. The reliability of the vertical vibration compaction method (VVCM) for preparing CSG was...
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Fast thermal responsive separators toward long-life and safe lithium metal batteries
Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) have been extensively investigated during the past decades because of their ultrahigh energy densities. With the increasing demand for energy density, however, the safety issue o...
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Identification of Anoikis-Related Genes in Spinal Cord Injury: Bioinformatics and Experimental Validation
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a serious disease without effective therapeutic strategies. To identify the potential treatments for SCI, it is extremely important to explore the underlying mechanism. Current stud...
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Reasons for college major-job mismatch and subsequent job mobility and earnings growth
This study examines the heterogeneity in job mobility and earnings growth among workers who were mismatched in their previous jobs due to different reasons. Mismatched is defined as working in jobs that are no...
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Open AccessDriving carbon emission reduction in China through green finance and green innovation: an endogenous growth perspective
Discovering drivers of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is vital for the Chinese government to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutral. With this aim, a theoretical endogenous growth model capturing the mitigating e...
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Open AccessRobotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty improves implant position and early functional recovery for the knee with severe varus/valgus deformity
Robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty (r-TKA) facilitates precise bone resection and lower limb alignment, yet accuracy and functional recovery for severe varus/valgus deformity is not well-documented. The ...
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Multigrid methods for time fractional conservation laws
For solving the time fractional conservation laws with discontinuous solutions such as shock waves, current feasible methods are the implicit finite-volume TVD schemes that employ the Lax-Friedrichs fluxes cor...
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Open AccessDiagnostic value and role of serum miR-15a-5p in patients with schizophrenia
More and more studies have confirmed that the heredity plays an important role in mental disorders, especially microRNA. The objective of this research was to explore the level of miR-15a-5p in patients with s...
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Open AccessWillingness to take long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men who participated in the CROPrEP study: a cross-sectional online study
Evidence on the willingness of men who have sex with men (MSM) with oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) experience, especially those with suboptimal adherence, to take long-acting injectable PrEP (LAI-PrEP) i...
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Open AccessThe effects of doxorubicin loaded aptamer S3-linked DNA tetrahedrons on nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Our research group in the early stage identified CD109 as the target of aptamer S3 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). This study was to use S3 to connect DNA tetrahedron (DT) and load doxorubicin (Dox) onto DT...
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Open AccessBiological perspectives in geotechnics: theoretical developments
The interaction of bio–geosphere dates to the formation of first unicellular microbes on earth. However, it is only relatively recently that the complex biological interactions are observed, characterised, and...
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Open AccessInhibitory receptor CD47 binding to plasma TSP1 suppresses NK-cell IFN-γ production via activating the JAK/STAT3 pathway during HIV infection
Natural killer (NK) cells play an important first-line role against tumour and viral infections and are regulated by inhibitory receptor expression. Among these inhibitory receptors, the expression, function, ...
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Genome-wide association study for temperature response and photo-thermal interaction of flowering time in soybean using a panel of cultivars with diverse maturity groups
A total of 101 QTNs were found to be associated with soybean flowering time responses to photo-thermal conditions; three candidate genes with non-synonymous substitutions were identified: Glyma.08G302500 (GmHY5),...
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A perspective on Petri Net learning
