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Open AccessAbnormalities of retinal function in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients without clinical diabetic retinopathy detected by multifocal electroretinogram
To study the changes of retinal function in type 2 diabetes mellitus(DM) patients without apparently diabetic retinopathy via multifocal electroretinogram. Methods: Thirty-six type 2 DM patients (72 eyes) with...
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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is defined as a complex endocrinopathy greatly affecting reproductive-aged women. Krüppel-like factors (KLFs) are involved in female reproduction.
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Unsettling the Spatial in Identity Construction: Mediating Homecoming from Homeless Shanghai to Dystopian Dongbei in The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
Since China’s economic transformation of the 1990s, Dongbei has been suffering a slowing economy and decreasing population. Many Dongbei natives have migrated to other cities for a pursuit of better opportunit...
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In order to optimize the optoelectronic performance based on metal-doped ITO LED, the effect of the thickness of the ITO/SiO2 double-layer film in metal-doped ITO LED is investigated in this paper. Al-doped ITO f...
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Open AccessPolyphyllin I suppressed the apoptosis of intervertebral disc nucleus pulposus cells induced by IL-1β by miR-503-5p/Bcl-2 axis
There are no studies that have shown the role and underlying mechanism of Polyphyllin I (PPI)-mediated anti-apoptosis activity in nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs). The research aimed to evaluate the effects of PP...
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Open AccessThe association of age at menarche and adult height with mammographic density in the International Consortium of Mammographic Density
Early age at menarche and tall stature are associated with increased breast cancer risk. We examined whether these associations were also positively associated with mammographic density, a strong marker of bre...
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Conclusion
The sentimental opens up a dynamic space to examine Chinese cinema by recognising its core cultural value. Its (re)configurations in and through different circumstances and time periods reveal the consistency ...
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Rec2Real: Semantics-Guided Photo-Realistic Image Synthesis Using Rough Urban Reconstruction Models
We present a novel and effective photo-realistic image generation pipeline using the rough 3D reconstruction models from the Google Earth 3D map. Our goal is to transfer the images (rendered from the 3D models...
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The Power of Home: Shadow Magic and the Cinematic Discovery of the Sentimental
This chapter explores Shadow Magic (**yang**g, dir. Ann Hu, 2000), a film about the arrival of film in China. The chapter shows how the visual spectacle of early Chinese cinema gave audiences the opportunity to ...
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Death and the Road Home: The Sentimental as an Enduring Theme in Getting Home
Through a reading of Zhang Yang’s Getting Home (Luo ye gui gen, 2007), this chapter turns inwards and examines how the sentimental is capable of perpetuating itself in a Chinese cultural context. The sentimental ...
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Intimate Spaces in Still Life and The Orphan of Anyang
An analysis of The Orphan of Anyang (Anyang yinger, dir. Wang Chao, 2001) and Still Life (Sanxia haoren, dir. Jia Zhangke, 2006) achieves a better understanding of intimate spaces in Chinese cinema. Many films fr...
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Introduction
This book performs a close reading of several notable films in order to identify the rootedness of the sentimental and to explore its transformation in renewed circumstances. The sentimental, defined as qinqing (...
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Two Cities and the Same Sentimental: Perpetuation of the Sentimental in Springtime in a Small Town
This chapter illustrates how the sentimental becomes an eternal topic in Chinese cinema through a reading of Fei Mu’s Spring in a Small Town (**aocheng zhi chun, 1948) and its remake of the same Chinese title by ...
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Searching for an Alternative Intimacy in Nostalgia: The Sentimental in In the Heat of the Sun
In an era driven by materialism, the sense of the sentimental of home-longing becomes part of the general culture of longing for belonging. The sense of the sentimental homecoming is manifested, projected, sus...
