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Development of a rapid and quantitative prediction model for assessing the leakage status of water pipeline systems
Monitoring the leakage status of water pipes is of great importance for intelligent water services. In this work, the leakage status of the water pipeline was monitored in real time using a fiber optic distrib...
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Allergen protease-activated stress granule assembly and gasdermin D fragmentation control interleukin-33 secretion
Interleukin-33 (IL-33), an epithelial cell-derived cytokine that responds rapidly to environmental insult, has a critical role in initiating airway inflammatory diseases. However, the molecular mechanism under...
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Open AccessAn intein-split transactivator for intersectional neural imaging and optogenetic manipulation
The cell-type-specific recording and manipulation is instrumental to disentangle causal neural mechanisms in physiology and behavior and increasingly requires intersectional control; however, current approache...
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Magnetic properties of surface sediments from Liuxi River, southern China and their environmental significance
Magnetic minerals within fluvial sediments are affected by a variety of natural and anthropogenic factors, limiting the capability of sediment magnetism in tracing provenance, assessing pollution, and other en...
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Junctional and somatic hypermutation-induced CX4C motif is critical for the recognition of a highly conserved epitope on HCV E2 by a human broadly neutralizing antibody
Induction of broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (bNAbs) that bind to the viral envelope glycoproteins is a major goal of hepatitis C virus (HCV) vaccine research. The study of bNAbs arising in natural ...
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Encrypted Medical Records Search with Supporting of Fuzzy Multi-keyword and Relevance Ranking
Medical records are highly private and sensitive. To protect the information security of patients and medical institutes, medical records and data should be encrypted before outsourcing to the cloud storage. H...
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Correction to: Construction of Medical Equipment-Based Doctor Health Monitoring System
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. Corrections in equations which were highlighted in a doc file were not carried out. The original version has been corrected.
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Open AccessConstruction of medical equipment-based doctor health monitoring system
The health status of doctors has been overlooked by the society and even the doctors themselves, especially those doctors who work long hours. Their attention is always on patients, so they are more likely to ...
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An Optimal Wet Friction Plate Inspired by Biological Surface Patterns
It is found that many biological organisms exhibit superior adhesion characteristics in wet environments. It has been observed that the foot pads of tree frogs and katydids are consist of a number of closely a...
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Open AccessNegligible contribution of M2634V substitution to ZIKV pathogenesis in AG6 mice revealed by a bacterial promoter activity reduced infectious clone
ZIKV has emerged as a significant human pathogene for the severe neurological complications, including Guillain-Barré(GBS) syndrome in adults and a variety of fetal abnormalities such as microcephaly. A stable...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Multi-scale Dehazing Network with Transmission Range Stretching
Image dehazing has become a significant research area in recent years. However, the traditional dehazing algorithms based on statistics priors cannot adaptive to various conditions of natural hazy images. And ...
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Open AccessThe application of a novel integrated rigid and flexible Nephroscope in percutaneous nephrolithotomy for renal staghorn stones
Renal staghorn stones are challenging for urologists to ensure maximum stone clearance and minimal morbidity. Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) has become the gold standard treatment for renal staghorn stone...
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Trace Elements and Chemotherapy Sensitivity
Trace elements might be associated with the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and the efficacy of chemotherapy against HCC. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the association between trace elem...
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Open AccessAssociation between family members of dialysis patients and chronic kidney disease: a multicenter study in China
Family members of patients with end stage renal disease were reported to have an increased prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, studies differentiated genetic and non-genetic family members are...
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Open AccessA randomized controlled trial of long term effect of BCM guided fluid management in MHD patients (BOCOMO study): rationales and study design
Bioimpedance analysis (BIA) has been reported as helpful in identifying hypervolemia. Observation data showed that hypervolemic maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients identified using BIA methods have higher ...
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Chronic hepatitis C: Portrait of a silent epidemic and the etiologic agent
Chronic liver disease caused by infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important medical problem. Although primary infection usually is mild, and often asymptomatic, in the vast majority of cases HCV...
