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Higher Nitriding Efficiency in Ultrafine-Grained Iron Processed by Ultrasonic Nanocrystal Surface Modification
In this work, the nitriding efficiency in an ultrafine-grained iron was investigated. Prior to nitriding, the ultrasonic nanocrystalline surface modification (UNSM) technique was used to process the coarse-gra...
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Ultrasensitive aptamer-based biosensor for acetamiprid using tetrahedral DNA nanostructures
An electrochemical tetrahedral APT biosensor (Au-TAN biosensor) was successfully constructed, which had a stable structure and excellent performance using tetrahedral DNA nanomaterials (TDN) and Au nanoparticl...
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Responses of Photosynthetic Electron Transport to Drought and Re-watering in Two Maize Genotypes
Effects of drought stress on photosynthesis have been well-documented. However, photosynthetic electron transport process in response to combined drought stress and recovery in maize is relatively scant. In th...
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Synthesis and improvement of photocatalytic performance of ZnMn2O4/ZnMgO composite layered microspheres
The hierarchical ZnMn2O4 and ZnMn2O4/ZnMgO composite nanospheres have been successfully synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method, respectively. The effect of growth time of ZnMn2O4 on structure and photocataly...
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Mechanical Characterization and Material Modeling of Diabetic Aortas in a Rabbit Model
Diabetes has been recognized as a major risk factor to cause macrovascular diseases and plays a key role in aortic wall remodeling. However, the effects of diabetes on elastic properties of aortas remain large...
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Microwave-assisted synthesis of poly(urea-formaldehyde)/lauryl alcohol phase change energy storage microcapsules
In this study, lauryl alcohol suitable for thermal energy storage applications was microencapsulated in a poly(urea-formaldehyde) shell. The microcapsules were prepared by microwave-assisted in situ polymeriza...
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Effect of V-shaped Pit area ratio on quantum efficiency of blue InGaN/GaN multiple-quantum well light-emitting diodes
Blue InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well (MQW) light-emitting diodes with different density and size of V-shaped pits are numerically investigated. Simulation results show that internal quantum efficiency is first...
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Experimental study on the vascular thermal response to visible laser pulses
Port-wine stains (PWSs) are congenital vascular malformations that progressively darken and thicken with age, and laser therapy is the most effective in clinical practice. Using dorsal skin chamber (DSC), this...
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Poly(styrene-methyl methacrylate) microcapsules prepared by ultrasonically initiated miniemulsion polymerization phase separation method
Ultrasonically initiated miniemulsion polymerization phase separation was employed to prepare poly(styrene-methyl methacrylate) (P(St-co-MMA)) microcapsules. The results of a thermal analysis revealed that it was...
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Effects of drought stress on leaf gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence of Glycyrrhiza uralensis
Leaf gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch at two water supplies (equivalent to 240 mm for present precipitation and to 120 mm for future decreasing precipitation) were compared...
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Variations in leaf and root stoichiometry of Nitraria tangutorum along aridity gradients in the Hexi Corridor, northwest China
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations and N: P ratios between leaves and roots of Nitraria tangutorum along aridity gradients were studied. N. tangutorum was relatively limited by N in April (mean leaf N...
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Exogenous application of trehalose induced H2O2 production and stomatal closure in Vicia faba
Trehalose can reduce stomatal aperture by a hydrogen-peroxide-dependent pathway in Vicia faba L. (cv. Daqingpi) resulting in significantly lower values of net photosynthetic rate (PN), stomatal conductance (gs), ...
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Photosynthetic characteristics and antioxidant enzyme system in high-chlorophyll rice Gc mutant
The physiological photosynthetic characteristics and antioxidant enzyme system of the high-chlorophyll rice (Oryza sativa L.) mutant (Gc) and its wild type (Zhenshan 97B) were compared and analyzed. Resulting dat...
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Comparison of supercontinuum generation based on high-energy nanosecond pulses via single-mode and photonic-crystal fibers
We have experimentally investigated the supercontinuum (SC) generation based on high-energy Gaussian-spectrum pulses emitted from an erbium-doped fiber laser with large-anomalous dispersion. The pulses exhibit...
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Physiological behaviors of Acer mono under drought and low light
The seedlings of Acer mono Maxim. were exposed to two watering regimes (well watered (100% of field capacity) and drought (30% of field capacity)) and two light levels (high light (100% of full sunlight) and low ...
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Cloning, molecular characterization and heterologous expression of a glutathione S-transferase gene in rice
OsGSTL2 is one of three tandem-arranged glutathione S-transferase, lambda class genes in chromosome 3 of rice (Oryza sativa L.). It includes 9 introns and 10 exons, and encodes a protein ...
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Comparison of pulse evolutions in low and ultra-large anomalous dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers
We have investigated and compared the pulse evolutions in low and ultra-large anomalous dispersion erbium-doped fiber lasers mode-locked by the nonlinear polarization rotation technique. Two lasers deliver the...
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Role of calcium in nitric oxide-induced programmed cell death in tobacco protoplasts
We tried to determine the mechanisms by which Ca2+ mediated NO-induced programmed cell death (PCD) in tobacco protoplasts. Treatment of tobacco protoplasts with the NO donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) resulted in...
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The anti-glioma effect of suicide gene therapy using BMSC expressing HSV/TK combined with overexpression of Cx43 in glioma cells
The disseminated neoplastic foci of malignant gliomas are essentially responsible for the limited efficacy of current available therapeutic modalities. Bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMSCs) have the ability t...
