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Characterization of the long noncoding RNA transcriptome in human preimplantation embryo development
Infertility remains a human health burden globally. Only a fraction of embryos produced via assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) develop to the blastocyst stage in vitro. lncRNA abundance changes signif...
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NaCL: noise-robust cross-domain contrastive learning for unsupervised domain adaptation
The Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) methods aim to enhance feature transferability possibly at the expense of feature discriminability. Recently, contrastive representation learning has been applied to UD...
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Open AccessNon-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 reduced the incidence of infectious diseases: a controlled interrupted time-series study
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been implemented worldwide to suppress the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, few studies have evaluated the effect of NPIs on other infectious...
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Beyond confusion matrix: learning from multiple annotators with awareness of instance features
Learning from multiple annotators aims to induce a high-quality classifier from training instances, where each of them is associated with a set of observed labels provided by multiple annotators under the impa...
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Open AccessSpatiotemporal dynamics and environmental determinants of scrub typhus in Anhui Province, China, 2010–2020
This study aims to describe the epidemiological characteristics of scrub typhus, detect the spatio-temporal patterns of scrub typhus at county level, and explore the associations between the environmental vari...
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Open AccessUsing ecological niche modeling to predict the potential distribution of scrub typhus in Fujian Province, China
Despite the increasing number of cases of scrub typhus and its expanding geographical distribution in China, its potential distribution in Fujian Province, which is endemic for the disease, has yet to be inves...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Approach to Assessing the Health of Opensource Software Ecosystems
With the development of open-source technology, open-source software ecosystems (OSSECO) have been formed due to various connections between open-source projects and developers. To measure stability and sustai...
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Incorporating pixel proximity into answer aggregation for crowdsourced image segmentation
The success of crowdsouring has been witnessed in handling a wide spectrum of application tasks. However, there remain technical challenges for dealing with complex tasks like image segmentation. One reason is...
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Optimization of Mix Proportion of Self-compacting Concrete Based on Single Fluid Model
The study aims to optimize the mix proportion of self-compacting concrete according to the workability and compressive strength. Firstly, based on computational fluid dynamics, the flowability and filling abil...
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DDPNet: A Novel Dual-Domain Parallel Network for Low-Dose CT Reconstruction
The low-dose computed tomography (CT) scan is clinically significant to reduce the radiation risk for radiologists and patients, especially in repeative examination. However, it inherently introduce more noise...
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Open AccessDiversity and molecular network patterns of symptom phenotypes
Symptom phenotypes have continuously been an important clinical entity for clinical diagnosis and management. However, non-specificity of symptom phenotypes for clinical diagnosis is one of the major challenge...
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Open AccessFree Vibration and Transmission Response Analysis for Torsional Vibration of Circular Annular Plate
In this paper, free vibration and transmission response for the torsional vibration of circular annular plate are presented. To the author’s knowledge, few studies can be found for the torsional vibration from...
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Effects of Nano-Silica Particle Size on Fresh State Properties of Cement Paste
The rheometer was used to test the rheology of cement paste with and without nano-silica, and the fluidity and free water content were tested, the isothermal calorimetry of cement and C3S was tested and hydration...
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Model learning: a survey of foundations, tools and applications
Software systems are present all around us and playing their vital roles in our daily life. The correct functioning of these systems is of prime concern. In addition to classical testing techniques, formal tec...
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Comparisons on the effects of temperature, runoff, and land-cover on carbonate weathering in different karst catchments: insights into the future global carbon cycle
This study compares and analyzes high-frequency hydrochemical data from three karst catchments in the mountainous Gadenalpe (GAC, Austrian Alps), Tsanfleuron-Sanetsch (TSC, Swiss Alps), and Banzhai (BZC, SW Ch...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Low-Code Development Framework for Constructing Industrial Apps
With the advent of the Industry 4.0, intelligent manufacturing has become a technological highland to conquer in the process of enterprise digitalization. As the core competitiveness of intelligent manufacturi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Poisoning Attacks on Crowdsourcing Learning
Understanding and assessing the vulnerability of crowdsourcing learning against data poisoning attacks is the key to ensure the quality of classifiers trained from crowdsourced labeled data. Existing studies o...
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Find truth in the hands of the few: acquiring specific knowledge with crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing has been a helpful mechanism to leverage human intelligence to acquire useful knowledge. However, when we aggregate the crowd knowledge based on the currently developed voting algorithms, it ofte...
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Temporal variations in riverine hydrochemistry and estimation of the carbon sink produced by coupled carbonate weathering with aquatic photosynthesis on land: an example from the **jiang River, a large subtropical karst-dominated river in China
The coupled carbonate weathering represents a significant carbon sink and can be controlled by the riverine hydrochemical variations. However, magnitudes, variations, and mechanisms responsible for the carbon ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Predicting Crowdsourcing Worker Performance with Knowledge Tracing
Knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing (KI-C) plays an important role in today’s knowledge economy. And competitive knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing (CKI-C) is a kind of KI-C in which tasks are released in the for...
