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Access control mechanism in distributed smart power plants based on blockchain and ciphertext updatable functional encryption
With the advancement of smart power plants, electricity consumers are transitioning from a passive electricity consumption model to an intelligent consumption model. However, distributed power equipment and th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reallocation of Supply Air in Large Indoor Spaces Considering Thermal Coupling
In large public indoor spaces, such as railway station and airport waiting halls, indoor thermal environment is not always homogenous due to non-uniform indoor occupant distributions. A conventional air condit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Epoch: Enabling Path Concealing Payment Channel Hubs with Optimal Path Encryption
Payment channel path information includes node identity and balance. With this public information, an attacker can initiate a recurring transaction against the victim node, resulting in the victim node’s avail...
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Open AccessCDK4/6 inhibitors, PI3K/mTOR inhibitors, and HDAC inhibitors as second-line treatments for hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer: a network meta-analysis
This study sought to compare the benefits and safety of agents including Cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitors, phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors, and h...
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Hydroclimatic variations in the Tianshan Mountains based on grain size and geochemistry of core sediments since ∼1490 CE
Numerous studies have focused on modern hydroclimate and the modulated mechanisms in the Tianshan Mountains (TMs), arid central Asia. However, the detailed information of hydroclimatic processes beyond the ins...
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Open AccessDestructive and non-destructive mechanical characterisation of chocolate with different levels of porosity under various modes of deformation
Chocolate exhibits a complex material response under the varying mechanical loads present during oral processing. Mechanical properties such as Young’s modulus and fracture stress are linked to sensorial attri...
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Open AccessSurvival benefit and biomarker analysis of pyrotinib or pyrotinib plus capecitabine for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer: a pooled analysis of two phase I studies
Pyrotinib, a novel irreversible tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), has demonstrated promising antitumor activity to improve the overall response rate and progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with HER2-pos...
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Open AccessCEBPD modulates the airway smooth muscle transcriptomic response to glucocorticoids
CCAAT/Enhancer Binding Protein D (CEBPD), a pleiotropic glucocorticoid-responsive transcription factor, modulates inflammatory responses. Of relevance to asthma, expression of CEBPD in airway smooth muscle (ASM) ...
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Vegetation dynamics and its response to climate change during the past 2000 years in the Altai Mountains, northwestern China
Over the past 2000 years, a high-resolution pollen record from the Yushenkule Peat (46°45′–46°57′N, 90°46′–90°61′E, 2374 m a.s.l.) in the south-eastern Altai Mountains of northwestern China has been used to ex...
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Multi-Headed Symmetrical Superpositions of Coherent States
Based on N different coherent states with equal weights and phase-space rotation symmetry, we introduce N-headed incoherent superposition states (NHICSSs) and N-headed coherent superposition states (NHCSSs). Thes...
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Circ_0091581 Promotes the Progression of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Through Targeting miR-591/FOSL2 Axis
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have shown crucial regulatory roles in cancer biology. We aimed to uncover the role and underlying mechanism of circ_0091581 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression.
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Preparation of porous carbon based on partially degraded raw biomass by Trichoderma viride to optimize its toluene adsorption performance
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are usually organic compounds with boiling point in the range of 50 to 260°C, pose a serious threat to human health and ecological environment. In order to find an adso...
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Holocene vegetation and hydrology variations and their associations with climate changes: a multi-proxy analysis of a sediment core from an alpine basin in the middle Tianshan Mountains
We in this paper present a multi-proxy study of a 186-cm-long lacustrine sediment core (i.e., BY Core) obtained from the Youerdusi Basin in the middle Tianshan Mountains in an attempt to disentangle the causal...
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Open AccessCataloguing experimentally confirmed 80.7 kb-long ACKR1 haplotypes from the 1000 Genomes Project database
Clinically effective and safe genoty** relies on correct reference sequences, often represented by haplotypes. The 1000 Genomes Project recorded individual genotypes across 26 different populations and, usin...
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Open AccessContinental chemical weathering during the Early Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE1b): a case study from the Fuxin fluvio-lacustrine basin, Liaoning Province, NE China
This study focuses on Early Cretaceous mudstones from the Shahai and Fuxin formations in the Fuxin continental basin. We analyse chemical weathering, land surface temperatures and palaeoclimates based on chemi...
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Efficient treatment of anthraquinone dye wastewater by adsorption using sunflower torus-like magnesium hydroxide microspheres
Novel sunflower torus-like magnesium hydroxide (MH) microsphere particles were prepared by a facile one-step, self-assembly method. The synthesized products and the mechanism of adsorption of samples of the an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Spectrum Correlation Based Energy Detection for Wideband Spectrum Sensing
With the rapid development of wireless communications technology, the problem of scarcity of spectrum resources is becoming serious. Cognitive radio (CR) which is an effective technology to improve the utiliza...
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The mechanism of resistance loss of the super rice varieties to rice blast
In order to clarify the mechanism of the resistance loss of super rice varieties to rice blast, we monitored the resistance of 10 super rice varieties to rice blast for four consecutive years under different e...
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Spatial-temporal characteristics of epilithic algae succession on artificial substrata in relation to water quality in Erhai Lake, Yunnan Province, China
In this study, two sites with different nutritional levels at Erhai Lake were selected to perform an epilithic succession experiment in order to better understand the successional dynamic process and associate...
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Open AccessSafety, anti-tumour activity, and pharmacokinetics of fixed-dose SHR-1210, an anti-PD-1 antibody in advanced solid tumours: a dose-escalation, phase 1 study
To assess the safety profile, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and preliminary antitumour activity of fixed-dose SHR-1210, a novel anti-PD-1 antibody, in advanced solid tumours.
