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Erasure-Coded Hybrid Writes Based on Data Delta
Erasure coding is extensively deployed in today’s data centers to tackle prevalent failures, because it can offer higher reliability at lower storage overhead than data replication. However, for each small wri...
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Open AccessEnantioselective synthesis of chiral α,α-dialkyl indoles and related azoles by cobalt-catalyzed hydroalkylation and regioselectivity switch
General, catalytic and enantioselective construction of chiral α,α-dialkyl indoles represents an important yet challenging objective to be developed. Herein we describe a cobalt catalyzed enantioselective anti-Ma...
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Regionalism and diversity: the supply characteristics of metal resources in Southwestern China during the Eastern Han dynasty reflected by the bronzes from Zhaotong, Yunnan Province
The Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan regions in southwestern China have excellent metallogenic conditions and abundant mineral resources. The Han Dynasty bronzes developed on this basis contain important metal min...
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Open AccessRegulation mechanism and bioactivity characteristic of surfactin homologues with C14 and C15 fatty acid chains
Surfactin, a green lipopeptide bio-surfactant, exhibits excellent surface, hemolytic, antibacterial, and emulsifying activities. However, a lack of clear understanding of the synthesis regulation mechanism of ...
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An epidermal electrode based triboelectric walking energy harvester for wearable wireless sensing applications
Harvesting bio-kinetic energy using a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is one of the promising routes to solve the sustainable energy supply problem for wearable electronics. However, additional materials, c...
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Open AccessTraffic light optimization with low penetration rate vehicle trajectory data
Traffic light optimization is known to be a cost-effective method for reducing congestion and energy consumption in urban areas without changing physical road infrastructure. However, due to the high installat...
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Minimizing the cost of periodically replicated systems via model and quantitative analysis
Geographically replicating objects across multiple data centers improves the performance and reliability of cloud storage systems. Maintaining consistent replicas comes with high synchronization costs, as it f...
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Center of Gravity Position Estimation of Counterbalanced Forklift Truck Based on Multi Model Data Fusion
The center of gravity of a forklift truck, a crucial parameter for vehicle stability, changes with different loads during operation. We propose an estimation algorithm for the center of gravity position suitab...
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Open AccessExperimental study on deterioration of bedrock strength and P-wave velocity by pressurized seawater
Bedrock has to be excavated before the construction of rock-socketed pile foundations for offshore wind power turbines, leading to the exposure of fresh and dry rocks to seawater. The pile-rock interface is pa...
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Race and Gender Differences in the Associations Between Cadmium Exposure and Bone Mineral Density in US Adults
Several previous studies have found the deleterious effects of cadmium exposure on bone. However, studies on the effects of cadmium exposure on bone mineral density (BMD) in gender- and race-specific groups a...
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Open AccessTreatments for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma: laparoscopic or open repeat liver resection, how to make a decision?
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Dynamic two-side matching of tasks and resources in wide-area distributed computing environments
Recently, wide-area distributed computing environments have become popular due to its huge resource capacities. In the wide-area distributed computing environment, matching between tasks and resources plays an...
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From packing rules to cost-sharing mechanisms
Bin packing is one of the most fundamental problems in resource allocation. Most research on the classical bin packing problem has focused on the design and analysis of centralized packing rules. However, such...
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GCSS: a global collaborative scheduling strategy for wide-area high-performance computing
Wide-area high-performance computing is widely used for large-scale parallel computing applications owing to its high computing and storage resources. However, the geographical distribution of computing and st...
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Towards Better Generalization for Neural Network-Based SAT Solvers
Neural network (NN) has demonstrated its astonishing power in many data mining tasks. Recently, NN is adapted to the boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem as a solver, which is trained on a dataset containing t...
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Open AccessUncovering the Novel QTLs and Candidate Genes of Salt Tolerance in Rice with Linkage Map**, RTM-GWAS, and RNA-seq
Salinity is a major abiotic stress that limits plant growth and crop productivity. Indica rice and japonica rice show significant differences in tolerance to abiotic stress, and it is considered a feasible method...
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Quantum Teleportation Protocol of Arbitrary Quantum States by Using Quantum Fourier Transform
In this article, we first propose a quantum teleportation protocol to teleport the arbitrary quantum states via an arbitary quantum entanglement states. We find the projection base which Alice use to project h...
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Open AccessMiRNA-disease interaction prediction based on kernel neighborhood similarity and multi-network bidirectional propagation
Studies have shown that miRNAs are functionally associated with the development of many human diseases, but the roles of miRNAs in diseases and their underlying molecular mechanisms have not been fully underst...
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Atomic approaches towards stability
Single-atom catalysts recently attracted considerable research interest for heterogeneous electrocatalysis, including the oxygen reduction reaction. Now, an intriguing two-step approach towards a less explored...
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Open AccessXue-Fu-Zhu-Yu capsule in the treatment of qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome: a study protocol for a randomised controlled pilot and feasibility trial
Qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome (QS&BSS) is one of the common Zhengs in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which manifests as various symptoms and signs, such as distending pain or a tingling sensation i...
