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Unlocking the Impact of User Experience on AI-Powered Mobile Advertising Engagement
This study ventures into the burgeoning domain of artificial intelligence (AI)–powered advertising within mobile applications, addressing the critical gap in understanding how user experiences influence inform...
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Open AccessReliable wafer-scale integration of two-dimensional materials and metal electrodes with van der Waals contacts
Since the first report on single-layer MoS2 based transistor, rapid progress has been achieved in two-dimensional (2D) material-based atomically thin electronics, providing an alternative approach to solve the bo...
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Open AccessStrongly interacting Rydberg atoms in synthetic dimensions with a magnetic flux
Synthetic dimensions, wherein dynamics occurs in a set of internal states, have found great success in recent years in exploring topological effects in cold atoms and photonics. However, the phenomena thus far...
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GenoBaits®WheatplusEE: a targeted capture sequencing panel for quick and accurate identification of wheat–Thinopyrum derivatives
A total of 90,000 capture probes derived from wheat and Thinopyrum elongatum were integrated into one chip, which served as an economical genotype for explorating Thinopyrumspecies and their derivatives.
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Local differentially private federated learning with homomorphic encryption
Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm without revealing private local data for privacy-preserving. However, there are still limitations. On one hand, user’ privacy can be...
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Open AccessA new unsupervised pseudo-siamese network with two filling strategies for image denoising and quality enhancement
Digital image noise may be introduced during acquisition, transmission, or processing and affects readability and image processing effectiveness. The accuracy of established image processing techniques, such a...
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A novel pyridinium-based organic ionic plastic crystal for ambient temperature solid polymer electrolytes
The development of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) systems is a promising strategy for improving the safety of lithium batteries. However, the practical implementation of these systems is often hindered by the...
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Performance evaluation and driver analysis of pollution control and carbon reduction in China: based on a new analytical framework
This paper introduces a new indicator—pollution control and carbon reduction performance (PCCR) by non-radical directional distance function. We provide a solution method of DEA to measure PCCR in Chinese citi...
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Open AccessThreshold conditions for curbing COVID-19 with a dynamic zero-case policy derived from 101 outbreaks in China
By 31 May 2022, original/Alpha, Delta and Omicron strains induced 101 outbreaks of COVID-19 in mainland China. Most outbreaks were cleared by combining non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) with vaccines, bu...
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A feature weighted support vector machine and artificial neural network algorithm for academic course performance prediction
Academic performance, a globally understood metric, is utilized worldwide across disparate teaching and learning environments and is regarded as a quantifiable indicator of learning gain. The ability to reliab...
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Open AccessLessons drawn from Shanghai for controlling highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants: insights from a modelling study
The continuous emergence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants with markedly increased transmissibility presents major challenges to the zero-COVID policy in China. It is critical to adjust aspects of the policy about ...
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Current thoughts on cellular functions of numb-associated kinases
Members of the Numb-associated kinase family of serine/threonine kinases play an essential role in many cellular processes, such as endocytosis, autophagy, dendrite morphogenesis, osteoblast differentiation, a...
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Microfluidic preparation of magnetic chitosan microsphere and its adsorption towards Congo red
Facile separation from feed liquid is practically important for application of adsorbents, especially for powdery adsorbents. To this challenge, a co-flow microfluidic device was set up in this work to prepare...
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Comparison of Carbon Emissions of Gasoline Vehicles and Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles are promoted by many countries as alternative products of gasoline vehicles in recent years since they are widely regarded as low-emission green vehicles by the society. However, after a seri...
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Decoupled Consistency for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
By fully utilizing unlabeled data, the semi-supervised learning (SSL) technique has recently produced promising results in the segmentation of medical images. Pseudo labeling and consistency regularization are...
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Denoising of brain magnetic resonance images using a MDB network
The denoising of brain magnetic resonance images could be important for the medical image analysis. Many algorithms have been proposed for this task, especially the deep learning ones which show great success ...
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Open AccessEffect of dissolved humic acids and coated humic acids on tetracycline adsorption by K2CO3-activated magnetic biochar
Humic acids (HAs) widely exist in water environment, and has an important impact on the adsorption of pollutants. Herein, HAs (both dissolved and coated) was employed to assess the effect on the removal of the...
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Genomic characterization of a novel bacteriophage STP55 revealed its prominent capacity in disrupting the dual-species biofilm formed by Salmonella Typhimurium and Escherichia coli O157: H7 strains
Salmonella and Escherichia coli are important foodborne pathogens, forming bacterial biofilms that contribute to their virulence, antimicrobial resistance, and survival on surfaces. Broad lytic phages are promisi...
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Bending performance of post-fire lightweight polyethylene metal sandwich panels
This paper investigated the bending performance of post-fire lightweight polyethylene metal sandwich panels with different aspect ratios and span conditions using actual fires and post-fire three-point bending...
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Research on Diabetic Retinal Fundus Screening Model Based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets
Retinal fundus screening is of great significance to the diagnosis of diabetes. However, the existing methods have various problems in retinal blood vessel segmentation and exudate detection, such as insuffici...