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Open AccessCorrection: Association between multiple-heavy-metal exposures and systemic immune inflammation in a middle-aged and elderly Chinese general population
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Hysteresis Analysis on Origami Energy Dissipation Braces with Local Miura Units
A local design scheme for origami energy dissipation braces was proposed by combining local Miura units at both ends and a straight segment in the middle. This design was implemented to address the issue of un...
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Investigation of fish diversity in the **amen Sea in spring using environmental DNA technology
Non-destructive and more effective approaches are needed in the context of monitoring the biodiversity of fish. Accordingly, the emergence of environmental DNA (eDNA) technology provides a valuable and non-inv...
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Open AccessFTO deficiency in older livers exacerbates ferroptosis during ischaemia/reperfusion injury by upregulating ACSL4 and TFRC
Older livers are more prone to hepatic ischaemia/reperfusion injury (HIRI), which severely limits their utilization in liver transplantation. The potential mechanism remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate older...
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Analyzing the Impact of Personalization on Fairness in Federated Learning for Healthcare
As machine learning (ML) usage becomes more popular in the healthcare sector, there are also increasing concerns about potential biases and risks such as privacy. One countermeasure is to use federated learnin...
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Reliability-Adaptive Consistency Regularization for Weakly-Supervised Point Cloud Segmentation
Weakly-supervised point cloud segmentation with extremely limited labels is highly desirable to alleviate the expensive costs of collecting densely annotated 3D points. This paper explores applying the consist...
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Isolation, identification, and tolerance analysis of yeast during the natural fermentation process of Sidamo coffee beans
Yeast, which plays a pivotal role in the brewing, food, and medical industries, exhibits a close relationship with human beings. In this study, we isolated and purified 60 yeast strains from the natural fermen...
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Open AccessDEAD-box helicase 17 (DDX17) protects cardiac function by promoting mitochondrial homeostasis in heart failure
DEAD-box helicase 17 (DDX17) is a typical member of the DEAD-box family with transcriptional cofactor activity. Although DDX17 is abundantly expressed in the myocardium, its role in heart is not fully understo...
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Chelator boosted tumor-retention and pharmacokinetic properties: development of 64Cu labeled radiopharmaceuticals targeting neurotensin receptor
Accumulating evidence suggests that neurotensin (NTS) and neurotensin receptors (NTSRs) play key roles in lung cancer progression by triggering multiple oncogenic signaling pathways. This study aims to develop...
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Establishment of Early Blood Perfusion Promotes CXCL12 Expression and Recruits Monocytes/Macrophages in Damaged Adipose Tissue in Mice Model
Blood perfusion in the recipient site is important for adipose tissue repair after fat grafting. It delivers host-derived macrophages derived from monocytes in bone marrow to initiate inflammatory reactions an...
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In Situ Reconfiguration of Assembling Pattern for Modular Continuum Robots
Modular continuum robots possess significant versatility across various scenarios; however, conventional assembling methods typically rely on linear connection between modules. This limitation can impede the r...
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Angiogenin-mediated tsRNAs control inflammation and metabolic disorder by regulating NLRP3 inflammasome
The cellular stress response system in immune cells plays a crucial role in regulating the development of inflammatory diseases. In response to cellular damage or microbial infection, the assembly of the NLRP3...
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Open AccessEMC+GD_C: circle-based enhanced motion consistency and guided diffusion feature matching for 3D reconstruction
Robust matching, especially the number, precision and distribution of feature point matching, directly affects the effect of 3D reconstruction. However, the existing methods rarely consider these three aspects...
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Open AccessAutomatic arrival-time picking of P- and S-waves of micro-seismic events based on relative standard generative adversarial network and GHRA
Rapid, high-precision pickup of microseismic P- and S-waves is an important basis for microseismic monitoring and early warning. However, it is difficult to provide fast and highly accurate pickup of micro-sei...
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Open AccessDGPRI, a new liver fibrosis assessment index, predicts recurrence of AFP-negative hepatocellular carcinoma after hepatic resection: a single-center retrospective study
Although patients with alpha-fetoprotein-negative hepatocellular carcinoma (AFPNHCC) have a favorable prognosis, a high risk of postoperative recurrence remains. We developed and validated a novel liver fibros...
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Open AccessGut microbiota, blood metabolites, and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in US Hispanics/Latinos
Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) is an important precursor of heart failure (HF), but little is known about its relationship with gut dysbiosis and microbial-related metabolites. By leveraging the...
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Open AccessSediment DNA Records the Critical Transition of Bacterial Communities in the Arid Lake
It is necessary to predict the critical transition of lake ecosystems due to their abrupt, non-linear effects on social-economic systems. Given the promising application of paleolimnological archives to tracki...
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High-precision X-ray polarimeter based on channel-cut crystals
We report on using synthetic silicon for a high-precision X-ray polarimeter comprising a polarizer and an analyzer, each based on a monolithic channel-cut crystal used at multiple Brewster reflections with a B...
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Rethinking the null hypothesis in significant colocation pattern mining of spatial flows
Spatial flows represent spatial interactions or movements. Mining colocation patterns of different types of flows may uncover the spatial dependences and associations among flows. Previous studies proposed a f...
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The prevalence of presbyphagia in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Presbyphagia is defined as structural, physiological and innervational alterations in the swallowing process as a result of aging and is considered to be involved in the etiology of dysphagia. This systematic ...
