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Emotional Orientation in Peer Assessment: Impact on College Student Performance
The aim of this study is to investigate how the emotional orientations in peer assessment affect student performance. Given that the emotional data in peer comments exist in the form of unstructured text, this...
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Highly Bendable Ionic Electro-responsive Artificial Muscles Using Microfibrillated Cellulose Fibers Combined with Polyvinyl Alcohol
For promising applications such as soft robotics, flexible haptic monitors, and active biomedical devices, it is important to develop ultralow voltage, highly-performant artificial muscles with high bending st...
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Open AccessTransformer fusion-based scale-aware attention network for multispectral victim detection
The aftermath of a natural disaster leaves victims trapped in rubble which is challenging to detect by smart drones due to the victims in low visibility under the adverse disaster environments and victims in v...
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Treatment of Syringomyelia Characterized by Focal Dilatation of the Central Canal Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Neural Stem Cells
Syringomyelia is a progressive chronic disease that leads to nerve pain, sensory dissociation, and dyskinesia. Symptoms often do not improve after surgery. Stem cells have been widely explored for the treatmen...
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Cracking Patterns and Damage Evolution Characteristics of Coal with Bedding Structures Under Liquid Nitrogen Cooling
Liquid nitrogen (LN2) fracturing has various advantages, such as low reservoir damage, minimal environmental impact, and excellent permeability. In this study, the cracking pattern and damage evolution characteri...
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Transformer-Based Multi-layer Feature Aggregation and Rotated Anchor Matching for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images
Object detection has made significant progress in computer vision. However, challenges remain in detecting small, arbitrarily oriented, and densely distributed objects, especially in aerial remote sensing imag...
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Open AccessSpeaking without vocal folds using a machine-learning-assisted wearable sensing-actuation system
Voice disorders resulting from various pathological vocal fold conditions or postoperative recovery of laryngeal cancer surgeries, are common causes of dysphonia. Here, we present a self-powered wearable sensi...
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Open AccessInvolvement of DJ-1 in the pathogenesis of intervertebral disc degeneration via hexokinase 2-mediated mitophagy
Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is an important pathological basis for degenerative spinal diseases and is involved in mitophagy dysfunction. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying mitophagy regul...
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Changes in China’s food security driven by nutrition security and resource constraints
Food security and the utilization of natural resources in a sustainable manner are vital to the expansion of China's agricultural system. The relationship between environmental pressure and dietary structure h...
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Open AccessGrafted human-induced pluripotent stem cells-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells combined with human umbilical vein endothelial cells contribute to functional recovery following spinal cord injury
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating disease that causes extensive damage to oligodendrocytes and neurons leading to demyelination and axonal degeneration. In this study, we co-transplanted cell grafts co...
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Open AccessBig data-driven spatio-temporal heterogeneity analysis of Bei**g's catering service industry during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Catering Service Industry (CSI) experienced profound impacts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the long-term and multi-timepoint analysis using big data remained limited, influencing governmental deci...
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Open AccessMutual communication between radiosensitive and radioresistant esophageal cancer cells modulates their radiosensitivity
Radiotherapy is an important treatment modality for patients with esophageal cancer; however, the response to radiation varies among different tumor subpopulations due to tumor heterogeneity. Cancer cells that...
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Upregulation of CELSR1 expression promotes ovarian cancer cell proliferation, migration, and invasion
Cadherin epidermal growth factor and laminin-G seven-pass G-type receptor 1 (CELSR1) is a planar cell polarity protein involved in the transmission of directional cues to align either individual cells within a...
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Open AccessEnabling direct-growth route for highly efficient ethanol upgrading to long-chain alcohols in aqueous phase
Upgrading ethanol to long-chain alcohols (LAS, C6+OH) offers an attractive and sustainable approach to carbon neutrality. Yet it remains a grand challenge to achieve efficient carbon chain propagation, particular...
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Open AccessConsensus decision-making in artificial swarms via entropy-based local negotiation and preference updating
This paper presents an entropy-based consensus algorithm for a swarm of artificial agents with limited sensing, communication, and processing capabilities. Each agent is modeled as a probabilistic finite state...
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Open AccessEvaluating the value of 18F-PSMA-1007 PET/CT in the detection and identification of prostate cancer using histopathology as the standard
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT is a highly regarded radionuclide imaging modality for prostate cancer (PCa). This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of 18F-PSMA-1007 PET/CT in de...
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A New 3D Statistical Parameter for Determining Roughness of Joint Surfaces Considering Shear Direction and Asperity Features
The engineering rock mass is a multi-fracture body crisscrossed by geologic structure planes, and its safety is affected by the rock joints’ mechanical properties and morphological features. The joint roughnes...
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A pan-coronavirus peptide inhibitor prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice by intranasal delivery
Coronaviruses (CoVs) have brought serious threats to humans, particularly severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which continually evolves into multiple variants. These variants, especia...
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Research on Energy Evolution and Failure Characteristics of Coal with Different Gas Pressures
Studying the evolution of characteristics associated with the energy of gas-bearing coal is essential for exploring the mechanism of coal and gas outbursts and disaster prevention. In this paper, uniaxial comp...
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DJ-1-mediated p62 degradation delays intervertebral disc degeneration by inhibiting apoptosis of nucleus pulposus cells
Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is the most important pathological basis of degenerative spinal diseases, for which effective interventions are still lacking. Oxidative stress is considered to be one of...