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Imaging surface structure and premelting of ice Ih with atomic resolution
Ice surfaces are closely relevant to many physical and chemical properties, such as melting, freezing, friction, gas uptake and atmospheric reaction1–8. Despite extensive experimental and theoretical investigatio...
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Open AccessIdentifying the causal relationship between immune factors and osteonecrosis: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study
A wealth of evidence intimates a profound connection between the immune system and osteonecrosis, albeit the specific immune factors underlying this connection remain largely veiled. A bidirectional Mendelian ...
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Open AccessMulti-constraint non-negative matrix factorization for community detection: orthogonal regular sparse constraint non-negative matrix factorization
Community detection is an important method to analyze the characteristics and structure of community networks, which can excavate the potential links between nodes and further discover subgroups from complex n...
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Open AccessDouble-pivot proper digital artery perforator flap for fingertip reconstruction
Dorsal flap based on proper digital artery perforator has been commonly used in wound coverage of fingertip; yet a small diameter and short length poses a risk of pedicle kinking or occlusion. The present stud...
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Open AccessThe rare complication of vascular malformations of the limb after sclerotherapy: a report of 3 cases and brief literature review
Vascular malformations are common but complicated types of disease in infants, with unclear causes and lack of effective prevention. The symptoms usually do not disappear and tend to progress without medical i...
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Open AccessNanoconfinement facilitates reactions of carbon dioxide in supercritical water
The reactions of CO2 in water under extreme pressure-temperature conditions are of great importance to the carbon storage and transport below Earth’s surface, which substantially affect the carbon budget in the a...
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Small extracellular vesicles derived from PD-L1-modified mesenchymal stem cell promote Tregs differentiation and prolong allograft survival
We aimed to explore whether programmed cell death protein-1 ligand (PD-L1) modification on small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) could promote T regulatory cells (Tregs) differentiation. In this study, it was co...
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Open AccessBridging the gap between atomically thin semiconductors and metal leads
Electrically interfacing atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors (TMDSCs) with metal leads is challenging because of undesired interface barriers, which have drastically constrained the ...
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The Waveform Design of Descending Branch of Lateral Circumflex Femoral Artery Perforator Flap for the Heel Defect Reconstruction
A 51-year-old man suffered from skin and soft-tissue defect at the right heel in a crush injury. In a local hospital, a skin grafting surgery was conducted but left a scar contracture, shortening of the Achill...
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Open AccessComplication of osteo reconstruction by utilizing free vascularized fibular bone graft
The success of free vascularized fibular bone graft (FVFBG) has accelerated the osteo reconstruction which results from trauma, resection of a tumor or an infectious bone segment, or correction of congenital d...
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Open AccessEvaluating the accuracy of hand models obtained from two 3D scanning techniques
The aim of this study was to identify an efficient approach for 3D imaging of hand. The 3D photographs of hand were taken with Gemini structured-light scanning system (SL scanning) and CT scanning. The 3D phot...
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Dynamic Trajectory Planning of Autonomous Lane Change at Medium and Low Speeds Based on Elastic Soft Constraint of the Safety Domain
Most current research on the trajectory planning of the autonomous lane change focuses on high-speed scenarios and assumes that the states of the surrounding vehicles keep stable during the lane change. The me...
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Open AccessA first principles method to determine speciation of carbonates in supercritical water
The determination of the speciation of ions and molecules in supercritical aqueous fluids under pressure is critical to understanding their mass transport in the Earth’s interior. Unfortunately, there is no ex...
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Open AccessFree vascularized iliac bone flap based on deep circumflex iliac vessels graft for the treatment of osteonecrosis of femoral head
To investigate the feasibility and clinical efficacy of free vascularized iliac bone flap based on deep iliac circumflex vessels graft for the treatment of osteonecrosis of femoral head (ONFH) in young adults.
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Knowledge representation framework of accounting event in corpus-based financial report text
As the financial report has entered the “era of annotation” (Fan and Zhang in Contemp Accout Res 29(1):38–42 2012), and the length of the unstructured information in the financial report has far exceeded the fina...
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Open AccessAqueous proton-selective conduction across two-dimensional graphyne
The development of direct methanol fuel cells is hindered by the issue of methanol crossover across membranes, despite the remarkable features resulting from the use of liquid fuel. Here we investigate the pro...
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Smart Skin Flap Postsurgical Pre-warning Mobile App Design
Skin flap transplantation surgery has been widely applied in repairing wound surface in clinical medicine. However, blood vessel crisis takes place easily after surgery, leading to failure of postoperative re...
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Sterically controlled mechanochemistry under hydrostatic pressure
‘Molecular anvil’ molecules consisting of a compressible mechanophore and incompressible ligands react under hydrostatic pressure to produce elemental metal via an unexplored mechanism.
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Role of illumination intensity in microcystin development using Microcystis aeruginosa as the model algae
Microcystis aeruginosa (M. aeruginosa) is one of the most common genera of cyanobacteria in algal blooms. In the present work, the impact of the illumination intensity on the growth of M....
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Use of Manganese/Silicon Tailing Waste for Coking Wastewater Treatment: Evaluation of Phenol and Phenylamine Removal Efficiencies
Industrial production of manganese/silicon ore has generated a large number of tailing wastes which are difficult to dispose. A new method treating coking wastewater was proposed using the manganese/silicon ta...
