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Galvanic Corrosion Behavior of 7B04 Aluminum/TC16 Titanium Alloy Joints After Anodized Oxidation and Its Effect on Fatigue Life
The galvanic corrosion behavior of anodized 7B04 aluminum/TC16 titanium alloy joints in different corrosion time and its effect on fatigue life were studied, providing a basis for structural corrosion and prot...
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Nitrogen deep placement mitigates methane emissions by regulating methanogens and methanotrophs in no-tillage paddy fields
This study investigated the effects of placement of N at different soil depths on CH4 emissions and related microbial communities in no-tillage paddy soil. Five fertilizing treatments, including no N fertilizer, ...
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Periodic Driving Induced Anomalous End Modes in a Superconducting Wire with the Second-Neighbor Pairing Potential
The anomalous end modes are generated in a one-dimensional p-wave superconducting wire with second-neighbor couplings and a periodic driving in pairing potential. We show that the driving on the amplitude or the ...
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Role of Chitosan in the Regulation of the Growth, Antioxidant System and Photosynthetic Characteristics of Maize Seedlings under Cadmium Stress
Cadmium (Cd) pollution was becoming more and more serious; there is an urgent need for an effective solution to inhibit the harm of cadmium stress. Chitosan (CTS) is a biologically active polysaccharide that p...
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A review of hematopoietic cell transplantation in China: data and trends during 2008–2016
Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) activity in China was surveyed to assess its current status. A record number of HCTs (21 884: 16 631 allogeneic (76%) and 5253 autologous (24%)) were reported by 76 cen...
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Skp2 deficiency restricts the progression and stem cell features of castration-resistant prostate cancer by destabilizing Twist
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) remains a major clinical challenge because of the lack of effective targeted therapy for its treatment. The mechanism underlying how CRPC gains resistance toward hor...
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Effects of hysteresis of static contact angle (HSCA) and boundary slip on the hydrodynamics of water striders
It is known that contact lines keep relatively still on solids until static contact angles exceed an interval of hysteresis of static contact angle (HSCA), and contact angles keep changing as contact lines rel...
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Features of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases who develop hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
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Correction: Corrigendum: Map** tree density at a global scale
Nature 525, 201–205 (2015); doi:10.1038/nature14967 In the first boldface paragraph of this Article, the global number of trees should be approximately ‘1.30 trillion’ (rather than ‘1.39 trillion’) for tropica...
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Map** tree density at a global scale
Ground-sourced tree density data is assembled to provide a global map of tree density, which reveals that there are three trillion trees (tenfold more than previous estimates); tree numbers have declined by ne...
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Existence and Uniqueness of Solution for Fractional Differential Equation with Causal Operators in Banach Spaces
In this paper we are concerned with Cauchy problem for a fractional differential equation with causal operator in Banach spaces. By two types of approximate methods, existence and uniqueness of solution are pr...
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Changes of CO2 emission and labile organic carbon as influenced by rice straw and different water regimes
Crop residues under different water regimes can cause significant alterations in soil organic carbon fractions, and in turn, soil-atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. To evaluate the effect of rice straw ...
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Open AccessLocality and universality of quantum memory effects
The modeling and analysis of the dynamics of complex systems often requires to employ non-Markovian stochastic processes. While there is a clear and well-established mathematical definition for non-Markovianit...
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Open AccessThe impact of plasma epstein–barr virus DNA and fibrinogen on nasopharyngeal carcinoma prognosis: an observational study
The impact of combining plasma fibrinogen levels with Epstein–Barr Virus DNA (EBV DNA) levels on the prognosis for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) was evaluated.
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Family studies of type 1 diabetes reveal additive and epistatic effects between MGAT1 and three other polymorphisms
In a recent study on multiple sclerosis (MS), we observed additive effects and epistatic interactions between variants of four genes that converge to induce T-cell hyperactivity by altering Asn-(N)-linked protein...
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Open AccessThe combination of the prodrugs perforin-CEBPD and perforin-granzyme B efficiently enhances the activation of caspase signaling and kills prostate cancer
The survival of prostate cancer (PrCa) patients is associated with the transition to hormone-independent tumor growth and metastasis. Clinically, the dysregulation of androgen action has been associated with t...
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Existence of solutions for set differential equations involving causal operator with memory in Banach space
This paper concerns with the IVP for set differential equations involving causal operators with memory. By using the techniques of the measure of non-compactness, the existence of solutions has been establishe...
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Open AccessPromoter methylation of argininosuccinate synthetase-1 sensitises lymphomas to arginine deiminase treatment, autophagy and caspase-dependent apoptosis
Tumours lacking argininosuccinate synthetase-1 (ASS1) are auxotrophic for arginine and sensitive to amino-acid deprivation. Here, we investigated the role of ASS1 as a biomarker of response to the arginine-low...
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Genome-wide association study of bipolar I disorder in the Han Chinese population
We report the first genome-wide association study in 1000 bipolar I patients and 1000 controls, with a replication of the top hits in another 409 cases and 1000 controls in the Han Chinese population. Four reg...
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Bistable and negative lateral shifts of the reflected light beam from Kretschmann configuration with nonlinear left-handed metamaterials
We study the bistable and negative lateral shifts of the reflected light beam from Kretschmann configuration containing left-handed metamaterials with self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr-type nonlinearity. ...
