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Open AccessIdentification of potential serum biomarkers for congenital heart disease children with pulmonary arterial hypertension by metabonomics
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a common complication in patients with congenital heart disease. In the absence of early diagnosis and treatment, pediatric patients with PAH has a poor survival rate. Here, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Another Look at Chinese Donkey Sentences: A Reply to Cheng and Huang (2020)
This paper re-examines two types of donkey conditional sentences in Mandarin Chinese, first identified by Cheng and Huang (1996), who argue that there is a strict correspondence between types of conditional se...
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Open AccessEngineered osteoclasts as living treatment materials for heterotopic ossification therapy
Osteoclasts (OCs), the only cells capable of remodeling bone, can demineralize calcium minerals biologically. Naive OCs have limitations for the removal of ectopic calcification, such as in heterotopic ossific...
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Open AccessSanfu herbal patch applied at acupoints in patients with bronchial asthma: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Bronchial asthma is one of the most common inflammatory airway disorders. As one of the main non-drug therapies, the Sanfu herbal patch (SHP) has been widely used to treat bronchial asthma, although the eviden...
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Replacement degree of Al3+ and Cr/V ratio in high-V emeralds from Malipo, Yunnan, China
Replacement degree of the Al3+ and Cr/V ratio in emeralds from Malipo, Yunnan, China, was studied using infrared (IR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), electron microprobe analysis (EMPA), laser ablation ind...
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Open AccessTotal morphosynthesis of biomimetic prismatic-type CaCO3 thin films
Biomimetic mineralization can lead to advanced crystalline composites with common chemicals under ambient conditions. An exceptional example is biomimetic nacre with its superior fracture toughness. The synthe...
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Open AccessDirect observation of mineral–organic composite formation reveals occlusion mechanism
Manipulation of inorganic materials with organic macromolecules enables organisms to create biominerals such as bones and seashells, where occlusion of biomacromolecules within individual crystals generates su...
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Empathy and Chinese long distance reflexive ziji—remarks on Giorgi (2006, 2007)
With the assumption that long distance anaphors (LDAs) are unsaturated positions, Giorgi (Nat. Lang. Linguist. Theory 24:1009–1047, 2006, Linguist. Inq. 38(2):321–342, 2007) argues that the machinery independentl...
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Open AccessMechanism of promoted dipeptide formation on hydroxyapatite crystal surfaces
The formation of dipeptides from amino acids can be driven by hydroxyapatite at a relatively low temperature in air. For example, the formation of (Ala)2 from Ala is induced on hydroxyapatite at 110°C with consid...
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Molecular simulation of water behaviors on crystal faces of hydroxyapatite
The water behavior on (001) and (100) crystal faces of hydroxyapatite (HAP) were studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The study showed that the water molecules between the HAP faces were under co...
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Focus and the Basic Function of Chinese Existential You-Sentences
In this paper we use data from the Chinese existential you-construction, the closest counterpart to the English there-construction, to show that the existential construction can be used to mark not only a new ent...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Zero Anaphora Resolution in Chinese Discourse
This paper explores various factors involved in the resolution of zero anaphora in Chinese discourse. Our study differs from previous ones in distinguishing three types of utterances and using clauses as the u...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Example-Based Study on Chinese Word Segmentation Using Critical Fragments
In our study, sentences are represented as sequences of critical fragments, and critical fragments with more than one distinct resolution found in the training corpus are considered as being ambiguous. Differe...
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Closeness, Prominence, and Binding Theory
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Imperfective aspect zhe, agent deletion, and locative inversion in Mandarin Chinese
In this article I argue that not all the verbs that undergo locative inversion in Mandarin Chinese are intrinsically unaccusative as assumed in the literature. The fact that some transitive non-passivized verb...
