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Open AccessProbiotic-derived amphiphilic exopolysaccharide self-assembling adjuvant delivery platform for enhancing immune responses
Enhancing immune response activation through the synergy of effective antigen delivery and immune enhancement using natural, biodegradable materials with immune-adjuvant capabilities is challenging. Here, we p...
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Open AccessData-driven energy landscape reveals critical genes in cancer progression
The evolution of cancer is a complex process characterized by stable states and transitions among them. Studying the dynamic evolution of cancer and revealing the mechanisms of cancer progression based on expe...
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Energy Landscape Analysis of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Network
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a key developmental program that is often activated during the cancer invasion, metastasis, and drug resistance. However, it remains a critical question to elucid...
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Consciously Constructing the Robust NiS/g-C3N4 Hybrids for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
Selective growth of cocatalyst on the surface of photocatalyst has been attracted considerable attention due to their efficient charges transfer property. In this study, the robust NiS modified graphitic carbo...
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NiCo2S4 decorated g-C3N4 nanosheets for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Efficient hole-electron pair separation plays a crucial role in enhancing photocatalytic activity of g-C3N4, which usually requires a noble metal cocatalyst. Here we report metallic NiCo2S4 nanoparticles as a coc...
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Curvature estimates for convex solutions of some fully nonlinear Hessian-type equations
In the research of fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations, the concavities of the nonlinear operators is always essential. The concavity is the key to establish the curvature estimates of thes...
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The Rigidity of Hypersurfaces in Euclidean Space
In the present paper, the rigidity of hypersurfaces in Euclidean space is revisited. The Darboux equation is highlighted and two new proofs of the rigidity are given via energy method and maximal principle, re...
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Open AccessA landscape view on the interplay between EMT and cancer metastasis
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a basic developmental process that converts epithelial cells to mesenchymal cells. Although EMT might promote cancer metastasis, the molecular mechanisms for it r...
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Open AccessLandscape reveals critical network structures for sharpening gene expression boundaries
Spatial pattern formation is a critical issue in developmental biology. Gene expression boundary sharpening has been observed from both experiments and modeling simulations. However, the mechanism to determine...
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Open AccessA self-enhanced transport mechanism through long noncoding RNAs for X chromosome inactivation
X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is the mammalian dosage compensation strategy for balancing sex chromosome content between females and males. While works exist on initiation of symmetric breaking, the underlyi...
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An isomer of a POM-based hybrid compound formed through different linkage between CuI ions and pyrazine
One 3D Keggin polyoxometalates-based hybrid compound, [Cu4(pz)6(H2O)2(SiW12O40)] (1) (pz = pyrazine), was hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by an elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, thermogravimetric ...
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On the linearized Darboux equation arising in isometric embedding of the Alexandrov positive annulus
In the present paper, the solvability condition of the linearized Gauss-Codazzi system and the solutions to the homogenous system are given. In the meantime, the solvability of a relevant linearized Darboux eq...
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The semi-global isometric embedding of surfaces with Gaussian curvature changing sign cleanly
A new method to solve the Gauss-Codazzi system is given in which we transform the linearized system to a partial differential equation of second order, and by the method we solve the problem of semi-global iso...
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Difference in miRNA expression profiles between two cotton cultivars with distinct salt sensitivity
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of endogenous, non-coding small RNAs that play important roles in many developmental processes and stress responses in plants and animals. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum
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The analyticity of solutions to a class of degenerate elliptic equations
In the present paper, the analyticity of solutions to a class of degenerate elliptic equations is obtained. A kind of weighted norms are introduced and under such norms some degenerate elliptic operators are o...
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On a linear equation arising in isometric embedding of torus-like surface
The solvability of a linear equation and the regularity of the solution are discussed. The equation is arising in a geometric problem which is concerned with the realization of Alexandroff’s positive annul in R ...
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Infinitesimal nonrigidity of convex surfaces with planar boundary
In the present paper infinitesimal nonrigidity of a class of convex surfaces with planar boundary is given. This result shows that if the image of the Gauss map of an evolution convex surface with planar bound...
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Magnetocaloric effect in Gd5Si1.85Ge2.15 prepared by Gd metal with lower purity
The magnetic phase transition and magnetocaloric effect of Gd5Si1.85Ge2.15 alloy are studied. The alloy was prepared from distilled commercial gadolinium. The major impurities (in wt.%) in the distilled commercia...
