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Open AccessThe prognostic significance of histologic variant on survival outcomes in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy
While the treatment guidelines have been established for pure urothelial carcinoma (pUC), patients with variant type urothelial carcinoma (vUC) face limited effective treatment options. The effectiveness of im...
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Hermeneutics in the Mencius: Methods, Context, Divergence
This chapter discusses the salient features of the hermeneutics in Mencius. Mencius was a great hermeneutic philosopher who invented two operational methods for hermeneutics of the classics, namely, (a) the me...
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A Time-Dependent Design Concept of a Cementless Hip Stem Prosthesis for Improving Physiological Load Transfer in Proximal Femur: A Finite Element Analysis
Although short-stem prostheses have been introduced to improve metaphyseal load transmission, the shortcomings of short-stem total hip arthroplasties (THAs) such as early axial migration, lower load bearing, a...
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Open AccessThe importance of cellular and exosomal miRNAs in mesenchymal stem cell osteoblastic differentiation
The differentiation of osteoblasts is under complex regulation that includes autocrine and paracrine signaling from MSCs. Exosomes are important components of the MSC secretome and their cargo contains numerou...
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Between humane governance and hegemony: a study on East Asian Confucian discourse on Guan Zhong and related questions
The article studies the image of Guan Zhong, a historical figurehead from the Spring and Autumn period China, in East Asian Confucian discourse on humaneness (ren 仁, “benevolence”) and related political questions...
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Open AccessPretreatment prognostic factors of survival and late toxicities for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated by simultaneous integrated boost intensity-modulated radiotherapy
To scrutinize the pretreatment prognosticators on survival and late toxicities in a homogenous cohort of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients treated by simultaneous integrated boost intensity-modulated rad...
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Agrarian Tradition and Chinese Culture: An Interpretive Overview
This article discusses the relationships between agrarian tradition and Chinese culture. Economic life, social structure, political monarchy and cultural developement in traditional China had been based upon a...
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Self-coupled dual-mode ring resonator with turning transmission zeros in microwave bandpass filter for planar metamaterial: analysis and design
An H-shape dual-mode closed resonator with self-coupled segments is reported. The self-coupling between ring segments renders an equivalent mode perturbation effect as the normal ways of adding stub, cutting n...
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Laser sealing of organic light-emitting diode using low melting temperature glass frit
Glass frit encapsulation for laser-base sealing of the complex interiors results challenges for the electronics manufacturing process. The conventional frit packaging method relies on elevating thermal process...
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Open AccessTGF beta receptor II interacting protein-1, an intracellular protein has an extracellular role as a modulator of matrix mineralization
Transforming growth factor beta receptor II interacting protein 1 (TRIP-1), a predominantly intracellular protein is localized in the ECM of bone. TRIP-1 lacks a signal peptide, therefore, in this study, we pr...
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The effects of UV curing on silicon oxycarbide films
Changes in the configuration and properties of a commercial silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) films are examined as a function of substrate temperature after UV curing. The treatment results in a chemical configuratio...
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Resolution enhancement of digital laser scanning fluorescence microscopy with a dual-lens optical pickup head
The resolution of the cell fluorescence image captured by a digital laser scanning microscopy with a modified dual-lens BD-ROM optical pickup head is enhanced by image registration and double sample frequency....
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A new and efficient method for the synthesis of 2-N-(aryl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2,5-diamine derivatives
We report a series of cyclic analogues of 2,5-diamino-1,3,4-oxadiazoles which were prepared in a simple and general protocol. This method involves easy cyclisation of N-(aryl)-1,2-hydrazinedicarboxamides and m...
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Liberal Arts Education in Postwar Taiwan: A Case Study on General Education Reform at National Taiwan University
After World War II, Taiwan underwent profound economic, social, cultural, political and educational transformation. A major part of the transformation of its higher education system was the introduction of gen...
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Synthesis and evaluation of alkoxylated-ether diols of hydroquinone with different chain-lengths as extenders in segmented polyurethanes
Two symmetrical alkoxylated-ether diols of hydroquinones (HQ), 1,4-bis(2-hydroxyethoxy)benzene (HQEE) and 1,4-bis(2-hydroxypropoxy)benzene (HQPP), were synthesized from HQ and cyclic carbonates. Another asymmetri...
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Effect of heat convection on the thermal and structure stress of high-power InGaN light-emitting diode
In this study, two models are investigated: (1) the convection cooling of high-power indium–gallium–nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and (2) the effects of thermal stress distribution. The first model chip...
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The Effect of Annealing on the Microstructure and Scratch Behavior of Copper Deposited Film
In this study, copper film with thickness 5 μm was deposited by electron beam evaporation on slightly oxidized silicon substrates. Ti and Al metals were used as adhesion or barrier layers. The effect of anneal...
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Introduction
This volume, part of the Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy Series edited by Huang Yong 黃勇, seeks to advance the study of Japanese Confucian philosophy for English language readers. It also advances a tradition ...
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What’s Ignored in Itō **sai’s Interpretation of Mencius?
This article discusses the 17th century Japanese Confucian Itō **sai’s interpretation of Mencius. It is argued that Itō **sai grinds the Mencius with an axe of Japanese “practical learning.” In his representati...
