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Endovenous Microwave Ablation Versus Laser Ablation for Small Saphenous Vein Varicosis
Laser and radiofrequency ablation are two thermal ablation methods currently widely used to treat lower limb venous insufficiency. However, very few studies have been conducted on the use of microwaves, a form...
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Open AccessComplications of preventive loop ileostomy versus colostomy: a meta-analysis, trial sequential analysis, and systematic review
Preventive colostomy is required for colorectal surgery, and the incidence of complications associated with ileostomy and colostomy remains controversial. This study aimed to compare the incidence of postopera...
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A Machine Learning Tool for Pavement Design and Analysis
The AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design program is a pavement analysis tool, which is typically used for design purposes through an iterative trial-and-error process. To help the designer with a reasonable starting ...
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DWT-CNN-TRANS: High Frequency Stock Prediction Model Based on Improved Transformer
In recent years, many researchers and investors have used the latest machine learning and deep learning techniques for financial time series prediction and classification problems. How to avoid overfitting and...
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Laboratory and Field Performance Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt Incorporating RAP and RAS
Pavement sustainability draws attention from different stakeholders in recent years. Warm mix asphalt (WMA) incorporating reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) or reclaimed asphalt shingles (RAS) has been widely re...
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Traffic inputs for pavement ME design using Oklahoma data
Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide (MEPDG) or Pavement ME Design requires traffic inputs in three levels based on the availability of data and the importance of the project. The availability of site-s...
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Wavelet based macrotexture analysis for pavement friction prediction
Pavement friction and texture characteristics are important aspects of road safety. Despite extensive studies conducted in the past decades, knowledge gaps still remain in understanding the relationship betwee...
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Open AccessThe C-reactive protein/albumin ratio, a validated prognostic score, predicts outcome of surgical renal cell carcinoma patients
The preoperative C-reactive protein/Albumin (CRP/Alb) ratio has been shown to be valuable in predicting the prognosis of patients with certain cancers. The aim of our study is to explore its prognostic value i...
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Biotic stress-induced expression of mulberry cystatins and identification of cystatin exhibiting stability to silkworm gut proteinases
Biotic stresses induce the expression of mulberry cystatins. MaCPI-4 protein is stable in silkworm digestive fluid and accumulates in gut food debris and frass.
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Influence of Calcium Addition on Inclusions in LCAK Steel with Ultralow Sulfur Content
Experiments with different calcium addition were carried out in a MgO crucible without slag at 1873 K (1600 °C) to investigate the variation of inclusion composition in low carbon Al-killed (LCAK) steel with ...
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Open AccessDraft genome sequence of the mulberry tree Morus notabilis
Human utilization of the mulberry–silkworm interaction started at least 5,000 years ago and greatly influenced world history through the Silk Road. Complementing the silkworm genome sequence, here we describe ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DPEES: DDoS Protection Effectiveness Evaluation System
Implemented Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS) protection effectiveness evaluation system (DPEES) in Linux system is proposed in this paper to meet the needs of DDoS attack test and related defense experiment...
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SCFP, a novel fiber-specific promoter in cotton
To investigate the expression pattern of GhSCFP which was isolated from cotton fiber cDNA library, a 1006 bp upstream fragment of the gene was cloned by chromosome walking and fused to GUS and GFP respectively. H...
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A common sequence difference between cytoplasmic male sterile lines and their maintainer lines existing in rice (Oryza sativa L.) chloroplast tRNA-Leu gene region
DNA polymorphism between a wild-abortivecytoplasmic male sterile line Zhenshan97Aand its maintainer line Zhenshan97B wasanalyzed using AFLP technique. Among the1953 amplified bands, a stable polymorphicfragmen...
