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Challenges in the treatment of pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) is an important cause of community-acquired pneumonia in children and young adolescents. Despite macrolide antibiotics effectiveness as a first-line therapy, persistence of fever and/or...
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Open AccessEffect of labour income on the optimal bankruptcy problem
In this paper we deal with the optimal bankruptcy problem for agents who can optimally allocate their consumption rate, the amount of capital invested in the risky asset, as well as their leisure time. In our ...
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Open AccessPhthalate exposure and blood pressure in U.S. children aged 8–17 years (NHANES 2013–2018)
Current evidence from epidemiologic studies suggested that phthalate metabolites might be associated with blood pressure (BP) changes. However, the special relationship between phthalate metabolites and BP cha...
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Open AccessJoint association of sedentary behavior and physical activity with pulmonary function
Sedentary behavior may influence the respiratory health, but the joint effects of sedentary behavior and physical activity on pulmonary function remains poorly elucidated. We aimed to estimate the association ...
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Associations of legacy perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, alternatives, and isomers with gestational diabetes mellitus and glucose homeostasis among women conceiving through assisted reproduction in Shanghai, China
Prior research has reported that perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) may be linked to impaired glucose homeostasis in pregnant women. However, few studies have investigated PFAS alternatives a...
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Open AccessBankruptcy and retirement: a comparison in an optimal stop** times ordered framework
We deal with an agent who optimally decides the consumption-portfolio-leisure policy to maximize a power utility function, considering two optimal stop** times: bankruptcy and retirement from labor. Predeter...
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Open AccessPrecipitation pattern changed the content of non-structural carbohydrates components in different organs of Artemisia ordosica
Non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) play a significant role in plant growth and defense and are an important component of carbon cycling in desert ecosystems. However, regarding global change scenarios, it rema...
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Siamese global location-aware network for visual object tracking
Visual tracking is widely used in industrial systems such as vision servo systems and in intelligent robots. However, most tracking algorithms are designed without considering the balance of algorithmic effici...
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Rapid Person Re-Identification via Sub-space Consistency Regularization
Person Re-Identification (ReID) matches pedestrian across disjoint cameras. Existing ReID methods adopting real-value feature descriptors have achieved high accuracy, but they are low in efficiency due to the ...
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Association of perfluoroalkyl substances with pulmonary function in adolescents (NHANES 2007–2012)
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) constitute an environmentally persistent and widespread class of anthropogenic chemicals that have been used in industrial and commercial applications in the USA and around th...
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Leveraging Action Affinity and Continuity for Semi-supervised Temporal Action Segmentation
We present a semi-supervised learning approach to the temporal action segmentation task. The goal of the task is to temporally detect and segment actions in long, untrimmed procedural videos, where only a smal...
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Size- and leaf age-dependent effects on the photosynthetic and physiological responses of Artemisia ordosica to drought stress
Drought is one of the most significant natural disasters in the arid and semi-arid areas of China. Populations or plant organs often differ in their responses to drought and other adversities at different grow...
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Therapeutic plasma exchange combined with continuous venovenous hemofiltration in a series of pediatric patients with toxic epidermal necrolysis
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Spatiotemporal patterns of the forage-livestock balance in the **lin Gol steppe, China: implications for sustainably utilizing grassland-ecosystem services
Understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of the forage-livestock balance is imperative for regionally arranging animal husbandry production while ensuring sustainable grassland-ecosystem service use. The **li...
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Double Effects of Age and Environment on Resource Allocation Trade-offs of Salix psammophila in Different Microtopographic Habitats of a Sand Dune
Adjustments to the allocation of aboveground biomass allocation are an important component of the adaptive strategies of plant growth. Plants can modify their biomass allocation patterns to adapt to various en...
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Open AccessAtomically dispersed palladium catalyses Suzuki–Miyaura reactions under phosphine-free conditions
Single-atom catalysts have emerged as a new frontier in catalysis science. However, their applications are still limited to small molecule activations in the gas phase, the classic organic transformations cata...
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Metal–Organic Frameworks Towards Desulfurization of Fuels
Petroleum is an essential source of energy for our daily life. However, crude oil contains various kinds of sulfur-containing compounds that will form sulfur oxides upon combustion and cause severe environment...
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Metal–Organic Frameworks Towards Desulfurization of Fuels
Petroleum is an essential source of energy for our daily life. However, crude oil contains various kinds of sulfur-containing compounds that will form sulfur oxides upon combustion and cause severe environment...
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Spatiotemporal variation in the occurrence of sand-dust events and its influencing factors in the Bei**g-Tian** Sand Source Region, China, 1982–2013
The Bei**g-Tian** Sand Source Region (BTSSR) is an ecological barrier for Bei**g, the capital of China. Exploration of the spatiotemporal patterns of sand-dust weather and their influencing factors is impor...
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Linking wind erosion to ecosystem services in drylands: a landscape ecological approach
Wind erosion is a widespread environmental problem in the world’s arid landscapes, which threatens the sustainability of ecosystem services in these regions.
