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Mechanical Responses of a Porous Red Sandstone to Quasi-Static Cyclic Loads Under Uniaxial Compression
Porous rocks exhibit mechanical behaviors characterized by high compressibility and stiffness enhancement under quasi-static cyclic loads. In this study, we investigated the mechanical responses of a porous re...
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Open AccessDeficiency of the HGF/Met pathway leads to thyroid dysgenesis by impeding late thyroid expansion
The mechanisms of bifurcation, a key step in thyroid development, are largely unknown. Here we find three zebrafish lines from a forward genetic screening with similar thyroid dysgenesis phenotypes and identif...
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Optimized online filter stack spectrometer for ultrashort X-ray pulses
Currently, with the advent of high-repetition-rate laser-plasma experiments, the demand for online diagnosis for the X-ray spectrum is increasing because the laser-plasma-generated X-ray spectrum is very impor...
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An electromagnetic vibro-impact nonlinear energy sink for simultaneous vibration suppression and energy harvesting in vortex-induced vibrations
An electromagnetic vibro-impact nonlinear energy sink (EM-VINES) is proposed in the application of vortex-induced vibration, for both purpose of vibration suppression and energy harvesting. The considered syst...
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Linear stability of compact shrinking Ricci solitons
In this paper, we continue investigating the second variation of Perelman’s \(\nu \) ν -entr...
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Research on Water-Flood Law of Diamictite Reservoir in Iraq F Field
The Asmari Formation of F Oilfield in Iraq develops sandstone, limestone, dolomite and diamictite rocks. At present, most wells in the oilfield are experiencing water flooding and the water content is increasi...
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Millisecond dynamics of colloidal suspension studied by X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility
X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) has emerged as a powerful tool for probing the nanoscale dynamics of soft condensed matter and strongly correlated materials owing to its high spatial resolution an...
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Open AccessMyeloid cells interact with a subset of thyrocytes to promote their migration and follicle formation through NF-κB
The pathogenesis of thyroid dysgenesis (TD) is not well understood. Here, using a combination of single-cell RNA and spatial transcriptome sequencing, we identify a subgroup of NF-κB-activated thyrocytes locat...
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Four-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with half positive isotropic curvature
In this paper, we investigate the geometry of 4-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with half positive isotropic curvature (half PIC) or half nonnegative isotropic curvature. Our first main ...
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Open AccessPhotocatalytic conversion of sugars to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural using aluminium(III) and fulvic acid
5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is a valuable and essential platform chemical for establishing a sustainable, eco-friendly fine-chemical and pharmaceutical industry based on biomass. The cost-effective productio...
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A Pair of 2D MOFs Based on [Tm2] Secondary Building Units: Syntheses, Structural Variation and Magnetic Properties
A pair of 2D MOFs, [Tm4(ipO)4(H2O)4] (1) and [Tm2(ipO)2(DMF)(H2O)] (2), have been solvothermally synthesized using 2-hydroxyisophthalic acid (H3ipO) ligand. Both of them are structurally characterized by single-c...
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Open AccessZyxin regulates embryonic stem cell fate by modulating mechanical and biochemical signaling interface
Biochemical signaling and mechano-transduction are both critical in regulating stem cell fate. How crosstalk between mechanical and biochemical cues influences embryonic development, however, is not extensivel...
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Open AccessGut microbiome dysregulation drives bone damage in broiler tibial dyschondroplasia by disrupting glucose homeostasis
Tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) with multiple incentives is a metabolic skeletal disease that occurs in fast-growing broilers. Perturbations in the gut microbiota (GM) have been shown to affect bone homoeostasis,...
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Complete gradient expanding Ricci solitons with finite asymptotic scalar curvature ratio
Let \((M^n, g, f)\) ( M ...
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A Weil–Petersson Type Metric on the Space of Fano Kähler–Ricci Solitons
In this paper, we define a Weil–Petersson type metric on the space of (shrinking) Kähler–Ricci solitons and prove a necessary and sufficient condition on when it is independent of the choices of Kähler–Ricci s...
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Open AccessFirst commissioning results of the coherent scattering and imaging endstation at the Shanghai soft X-ray free-electron laser facility
The Shanghai soft X-ray free-electron laser (SXFEL) user facility project started in 2016 and is expected to be open to users by 2022. It aims to deliver ultra-intense coherent femtosecond X-ray pulses to five...
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On deformations of Fano manifolds
In this paper, we provide new necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Kähler–Einstein metrics on small deformations of a Fano Kähler–Einstein manifold. We also show that the Weil–Petersson met...
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Open AccessB7-H3 is eligible for predicting clinical outcomes in lung adenocarcinoma patients treated with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Not all lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) patients with activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations respond to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) as intended. Thus, biomarkers are needed to identify pati...
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Dynamics of an electromagnetic vibro-impact nonlinear energy sink, applications in energy harvesting and vibration absorption
The dynamics of an electromagnetic vibro-impact nonlinear energy sink (VINES) is investigated. The system consists of a linear oscillator equipped with multiple turns of coil, coupled to a magnet attachment th...
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Open AccessLymphocyte infiltration and thyrocyte destruction are driven by stromal and immune cell components in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is the most common autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration and thyrocyte destruction. Dissection of the interaction between the thyroidal stromal microenvironm...
