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Open AccessThe application of autofluorescence system contributes to the preservation of parathyroid function during thyroid surgery
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of autofluorescence technology on postoperative parathyroid function and short-term outcomes in patients undergoing thyroid surgery.
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Open AccessCytosolic Cadherin 4 promotes angiogenesis and metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer by suppressing the ubiquitination/degradation of β-catenin
Although the long-term prognosis of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is favorable, distant metastasis significantly compromises the prognosis and quality of life for patients with PTC. The Cadherin family plays ...
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Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting the early death of anaplastic thyroid cancer: a SEER population-based study
Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is a highly aggressive malignancy with dismal prognosis. This study aimed to identify the independent risk factors and construct a readily-to-use nomogram to predict the probabi...
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Classification of Hailstone Trajectories in a Hail Cloud over a Semi-Arid Region in China
The growth trajectory of hailstones in clouds determines the ground intensity and spatial distribution of hailfall. A systematic study of hail trajectories can help improve the current scientific understanding...
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The association between poor oral health and risk of breast cancer in the UK Biobank
Specific oral health conditions may be risk factors for breast cancer. This study aimed to investigate the associations of oral health conditions with breast cancer risk.
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Application of difficult endotracheal intubation under fluoroscopy in otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery
Thyroid cancer, laryngeal cancer and retrosternal goiter are common diseases of head and neck, which often causes difficulty breathing and dyspnea. However, it is usually hard to use conventional methods to de...
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Multi-label transfer learning via latent graph alignment
Multi-label transfer learning aiming to learn robust classifiers for the target domain by leveraging knowledge from a source domain has been received considerable attention recently. The core part of such rese...
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Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers
Lung cancer in never smokers (LCINS) is a common cause of cancer mortality but its genomic landscape is poorly characterized. Here high-coverage whole-genome sequencing of 232 LCINS showed 3 subtypes defined b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
TGKG: New Data Graph Based on Game Ontology
With the advent of the big data era, knowledge graph embodies great advantages. Especially in game domain, building a knowledge graph is of great value. However, some open-domain knowledge bases is not designe...
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Open AccessConvolutional neural network for the diagnosis of early gastric cancer based on magnifying narrow band imaging
Magnifying endoscopy with narrow band imaging (M-NBI) has been applied to examine early gastric cancer by observing microvascular architecture and microsurface structure of gastric mucosal lesions. However, th...
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Open AccessGermline TP53 and MSH6 mutations implicated in sporadic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC): a preliminary study
Germline BRCA1/2 prevalence is relatively low in sporadic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). We hypothesized that non-BRCA genes may also have significant germline contribution to Chinese sporadic TNBC, and...
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A novel lossless recovery algorithm for basic matrix-based VSS
Lossless recovery is very important for visual secret share (VSS). In this paper, a novel lossless recovery algorithm for the basic matrix-based VSS is proposed. The algorithm has the merit of reconstructing s...
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Modeling the impacts of ambient temperatures on cardiovascular mortality in Yinchuan: evidence from a northwestern city of China
No evidence is available on whether cardiovascular mortality is affected by the ambient temperatures in Yinchuan, which is located in the northwestern region of China, with a typical continental semi-humid sem...
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A novel map**-based lossless recovery algorithm for VSS
The disadvantages of the existing lossless recovery algorithms in visual secret sharing (VSS) are that n shadow images or complex computation operation (i.e., Lagrange interpolations) is required in the recoverin...
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Open AccessSedum alfredii SaNramp6 Metal Transporter Contributes to Cadmium Accumulation in Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana
The plant natural resistance-associated macrophage protein (Nramp) family plays an important role in tolerance to heavy metal stress. However, few Nramps have been functionally characterized in the heavy metal-ac...
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Novel avian leukosis viruses from domestic chicken breeds in mainland China
Two novel avian leukosis viruses (ALVs) were isolated from 1380 whole blood samples taken from domestic chicken breeds in China. The two ALVs were uniquely different from the env (Envelope) genes of ALV A-J and c...
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Self-organized amniogenesis by human pluripotent stem cells in a biomimetic implantation-like niche
The control of biophysical cues during the culture of human pluripotent stem cells on biomaterial substrates can be used to replicate the in vivo amniogenic environment and direct in vitro generation of early hum...
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Open AccessHIC1 and miR-23~27~24 clusters form a double-negative feedback loop in breast cancer
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as a major regulator of the initiation and progression of human cancers, including breast cancer. However, the cooperative effects and transcriptional regulation of multiple miR...
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A novel quantum representation of color digital images
In this paper, we propose a novel quantum representation of color digital images (NCQI) in quantum computer. The freshly proposed quantum image representation uses the basis state of a qubit sequence to store ...
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Ion transport mechanism in ClC-type channel protein under complex electrostatic potential
In order to illustrate the ion transport mechanism of chloride channel (ClC) protein, a type of ClC protein, ClC-ec1, from Escherichia coli is embedded into an explicit membranewater system by using software V...
