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Open AccessAnalysis of the multiple drivers of vegetation cover evolution in the Taihangshan-Yanshan region
The Taihangshan-Yanshan region (TYR) is an important ecological barrier area for Bei**g-Tian**-Hebei, and the effectiveness of its ecological restoration and protection is of great significance to the ecolog...
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Compressibility characteristics of municipal solid waste considering multiple factors
Borehole samples were collected from a municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill in **'an, China, and subjected to a series of basic geotechnical and compression tests. This study aims to investigate the influence ...
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Whey Protein-Based High Internal Phase Emulsion Gel Characterization and Its Effect on the Textural and Melting Properties of Processed Cheese
Some undesirable physical characteristics of processed cheese due to insufficient fat emulsification have prompted extra ingredients to be added to compensate. Whey proteins offer promising nutritional and emu...
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Training with One2MultiSeq: CopyBART for social media keyphrase generation
Keyphrase generation, which can help people obtain key information from a long document (social media posts or scientific articles) in a short time, has made significant progress in recent years, especially fo...
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Open AccessDeep sea cold seeps are a sink for mercury and source for methylmercury
The effect of seafloor cold seeps on the biogeochemical cycling of mercury (Hg) remains enigmatic. Here we demonstrate substantial enrichments of mercury and methylmercury, along with the presence of microbes ...
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Peripheral Immune Cells Contribute to the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder with progressive memory and cognitive loss. Neuroinflammation is a central mechanism involved in the progression of AD. With the disruptio...
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Open AccessMetal-organic frameworks for solar-driven desalination
The rising demand for freshwater and the challenge of energy scarcity have fueled interest in solar interfacial water evaporation technology, which harnesses solar energy to produce clean water. Attaining high...
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Open AccessComparative transcriptome analysis of vegetable soybean grain discloses genes essential for grain quality
Vegetable soybean is an important vegetable crop in world. Seed size and soluble sugar content are considered crucial indicators of quality in vegetable soybean, and there is a lack of clarity on the molecular...
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Investigation of Co–Mn–Ce Ternary Composite Oxide Catalyst for Low-Temperature Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx with NH3
In this paper, the CoxMn1Cey composite oxide catalyst was synthesized by the co-precipitation method. The structure–activity relationship of the catalyst was analyzed by characterization methods such as XRD, Rama...
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Open Access1-Methyltryptophan treatment ameliorates high-fat diet-induced depression in mice through reversing changes in perineuronal nets
Depression and obesity are prevalent disorders with significant public health implications. In this study, we used a high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese mouse model to investigate the mechanism underlying HFD-in...
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Open Access4AC-YOLOv5: an improved algorithm for small target face detection
In real scenes, small target faces often encounter various conditions, such as intricate background, occlusion and scale change, which leads to the problem of omission or misdetection of face detection results...
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Open AccessStructure and genome editing of type I-B CRISPR-Cas
Type I CRISPR-Cas systems employ multi-subunit effector Cascade and helicase-nuclease Cas3 to target and degrade foreign nucleic acids, representing the most abundant RNA-guided adaptive immune systems in prok...
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Open AccessInvestigation of a novel biofilm model close to the original oral microbiome
A more optimized culture medium used in vitro to mimic the bacterial composition of original oral flora as similar as possible remains difficult at present, and the goal of this study is to develop a novel ora...
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Rigidity and quantitative stability for partially overdetermined problems and capillary CMC hypersurfaces
In this paper, we first prove a rigidity result for a Serrin-type partially overdetermined problem in the half-space, which gives a characterization of capillary spherical caps by the overdetermined problem. I...
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Open AccessP2X7 receptor: a potential target for treating comorbid anxiety and depression
In clinical practice, depression and anxiety frequently coexist, and they are both comorbid with somatic diseases. The P2X7R is an adenosine 5’-triphosphate (ATP)-gated non-selective cation channel that is wid...
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Open AccessEffect of lung isolation with different airway devices on postoperative pneumonia in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a propensity score-matched study
Postoperative pneumonia is one of the common complications after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. There is no related study on the effect of lung isolation with different airway devices on postoperative p...
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Is thermal-guided mobile air supply a practical measure in burn isolation wards? Potential future applications
A validated computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model was developed to conduct a detailed examination of particle distribution within a burn patient ward. The indoor airflow was simulated using an RNG k–epsilon tur...
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Levels of neuronal pentraxin 2 in plasma is associated with cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia
The precise diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment remains a major challenge in the field of schizophrenia (SCZ) research. Synaptic dysfunction and loss are thought to be closely related to the occurr...
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Open AccessFast CU size decision and intra-prediction mode decision method for H.266/VVC
H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is the most recent video coding standard developed by the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET). The quad-tree with nested multi-type tree (QTMT) architecture that improves the com...
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Open AccessSpontaneous crystallization of strongly confined CsSnxPb1-xI3 perovskite colloidal quantum dots at room temperature
The scalable and low-cost room temperature (RT) synthesis for pure-iodine all-inorganic perovskite colloidal quantum dots (QDs) is a challenge due to the phase transition induced by thermal unequilibrium. Here...
