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Open AccessSuccessful treatment of a severe Takotsubo syndrome case complicated by liver abscess
The main manifestations of Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) are a spherical expansion of the left ventricle or near the apex and decreased systolic function. TTS is mostly thought to be induced by emotional stress, an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Random Design and Quadratic Programming Detection of Cayley Code in Large MIMO System
Cayley code can assure high rate transmission without channel estimation in Large multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) system, but it lacks systematic design and feasible detection method. In this paper, we pro...
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Open AccessThe long-term impact of a chronic total occlusion in a non-infarct-related artery on acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction after primary coronary intervention
To investigate the long-term outcome of patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and a chronic total occlusion (CTO) in a non-infarct-related artery (IRA) and the risk factors for...
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Orientation Measurement for Objects with Planar Surface Based on Monocular Microscopic Vision
Orientation measurement of objects is vital in micro assembly. In this paper, we present a novel method based on monocular microscopic vision for 3-D orientation measurement of objects with planar surfaces. Th...
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Open AccessEffects of antidiabetic drugs on left ventricular function/dysfunction: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Although a variety of antidiabetic drugs have significant protective action on the cardiovascular system, it is still unclear which antidiabetic drugs can improve ventricular remodeling and fundamentally delay...
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Thermal Effect on Vibration Responses of Double-Layered Graphene Sheet–Based Nanomechanical Resonators Based on Galerkin Strip Transfer Function Method
Thermal effect on mass detection sensitivity of double-layered graphene sheet (DLGS) resonators based on their nonlocal vibration is investigated. A rectangular DLGS with a nanoparticle anywhere at the upper s...
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A study of boundary vorticity dynamics and identification of large-scale structures in flow field based on two-dimensional flow around a bluff body
A method based on decomposition of acceleration field and Lie derivative is introduced to identify shearing and rotational domains. This method is validated on two typical kinds of model flows. Vorticity dynam...
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Open AccessCorrelates of HIV infection among transgender women in two Chinese cities
In an era when HIV transmission has been on the rise among men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender women may play a considerable role in China’s current HIV epidemic as a potential “bridge” of HIV transmi...
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Open AccessOverexpression of the transcription factor NF-YC9 confers abscisic acid hypersensitivity in Arabidopsis
Nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) family proteins are involved in many developmental processes and responses to environmental cues in plants, but whether and how they regulate phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) signaling ...
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An effective on-line surface particles inspection instrument for large aperture optical element
Surface particles growing in large aperture optical element (LAOE) have significant impact on LAOE’s stable operation. It is a challenge for the online system to inspect the particles with long working distanc...
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Vibration analysis of viscoelastic single-walled carbon nanotubes resting on a viscoelastic foundation
Vibration responses were investigated for a viscoelastic Single-walled carbon nanotube (visco-SWCNT) resting on a viscoelastic foundation. Based on the nonlocal Euler-Bernoulli beam model, velocity-dependent e...
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Open AccessA practical community-based response strategy to interrupt Ebola transmission in sierra Leone, 2014–2015
The Ebola virus disease spread rapidly in West Africa in 2014, leading to the loss of thousands of lives. Community engagement was one of the key strategies to interrupt Ebola transmission, and practical commu...
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Overexpression of the MYB transcription factor MYB28 or MYB99 confers hypersensitivity to abscisic acid in arabidopsis
The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays a vital role in plant development and response to abiotic stress, and many components in ABA signaling remain to be discovered to fully understand the highly complex ...
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Open AccessOverexpression of the MYB37 transcription factor enhances abscisic acid sensitivity, and improves both drought tolerance and seed productivity in Arabidopsis thaliana
Although a lot of genes have been revealed to participate in abscisic acid (ABA) signaling, many of the additional components involved in ABA signaling remain to be discovered. Here we report that overexpressi...
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Open AccessCrucial roles of the pentatricopeptide repeat protein SOAR1 in Arabidopsis response to drought, salt and cold stresses
Whereas several mitochondrial/chloroplast pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins have been reported to regulate plant responses to abiotic stresses, no nucleus-localized PPR protein has been found to play rol...
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ABA Signal Perception and ABA Receptors
Searches for ABA receptors started from earlier analysis of ABA-binding proteins or perception sites, which suggest that ABA signal is perceived both inter- and intracellularly. The receptors or candidate rece...
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Protein Kinases and Phosphatases Involved in ABA Signaling
Reversible protein phosphorylation, catalyzed by protein kinases and phosphatases, is involved in almost all key events of cell metabolism and signaling in eukaryotes. A wide array of protein kinases and phosp...
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ABA Signaling and Circadian Clock
The circadian clock is an endogenous timing mechanism that controls a variety of physiological, metabolic, and developmental process. It serves as a timekeeper allowing the organisms to predict recurrent envir...
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Open AccessCochaperonin CPN20 negatively regulates abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis
Previous study showed that the magnesium-protoporphyrin IX chelatase H subunit (CHLH/ABAR) positively regulates abscisic acid (ABA) signaling. Here, we investigated the functions of a CHLH/ABAR interaction pro...
