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Multi-parametric atlas of the pre-metastatic liver for prediction of metastatic outcome in early-stage pancreatic cancer
Metastasis occurs frequently after resection of pancreatic cancer (PaC). In this study, we hypothesized that multi-parametric analysis of pre-metastatic liver biopsies would classify patients according to thei...
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Open AccessVariational AdaBoost knowledge distillation for skin lesion classification in dermatology images
Knowledge Distillation has shown promising results for classifying skin lesions in dermatology images. Traditional knowledge distillation typically involves the student model passively mimicking the teacher mo...
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Open AccessParallel processing model for low-dose computed tomography image denoising
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has gained increasing attention owing to its crucial role in reducing radiation exposure in patients. However, LDCT-reconstructed images often suffer from significant noise ...
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Growth Stage-Dependent Variation in Soil Quality and Microbial Diversity of Ancient Gleditsia sinensis
The environment monitoring of forest is vital for the ecosystem sustainable management, especially soil quality. Ancient Gleditsia sinensis is one of the most distributed ancient trees in Shaanxi. Comprehensive s...
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Stepped-up development of accelerator mass spectrometry method for the detection of 60Fe with the HI-13 tandem accelerator
The Moon provides a unique environment for investigating nearby astrophysical events such as supernovae. Lunar samples retain valuable information from these events, via detectable long-lived “fingerprint” rad...
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A novel nuclear recoil calibration for liquid helium detectors
According to many dark matter models, a potential signal registered in a detector would feature a single-scattering nuclear recoil (NR). So, it is crucial to calibrate the detector’s response to NR events. The...
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Binary classification for imbalanced datasets using twin hyperspheres based on conformal method
Aiming at binary classification of highly imbalanced data, this paper proposes a novel twin-hypersphere method with conformal transformation. To provide favorable environments that the hyperspheres can search ...
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A fuzzy detection approach to high-dimensional anomalies
Rare anomalies allow to be hidden in any subspace upon a high-dimensional space so that high-dimensional dimensional of the data brings a lot of trouble for anomalous detectors. To mine high-dimensional anomal...
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Impact of the subtropical South Pacific on the decadal change in El Niño zonal propagation
The propagation of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies along the equatorial Pacific Ocean during El Niño shifted around the late 1970s, previously propagating westward from the eastern Pacific and shifting...
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Open AccessSelf-condensation-assisted chemical vapour deposition growth of atomically two-dimensional MOF single-crystals
Two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have a wide variety of applications in molecular separation and other emerging technologies, including atomically thin electronics. However, due to the inherent ...
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Open AccessIdentification and Validation of Basement Membrane Related LncRNA Signatures as a Novel Prognostic Model for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a significant cancer with limited treatments and a poor prognosis, with the basement membrane (BM) playing a crucial role in its initiation and growth. This study utilized dat...
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Open AccessApplication direct anterior approach in pediatric femoral head and neck lesions
Femoral neck is one of the high-risk areas for benign tumors and tumor-like lesions. Small range of lesions may also lead to pathological fracture, femoral head necrosis and other serious problems.
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Open AccessInPACT: a computational method for accurate characterization of intronic polyadenylation from RNA sequencing data
Alternative polyadenylation can occur in introns, termed intronic polyadenylation (IPA), has been implicated in diverse biological processes and diseases, as it can produce noncoding transcripts or transcripts...
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Open AccessRBBP6 maintains glioblastoma stem cells through CPSF3-dependent alternative polyadenylation
Glioblastoma is one of the most lethal malignant cancers, displaying striking intratumor heterogeneity, with glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) contributing to tumorigenesis and therapeutic resistance. Pharmacolog...
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Author Correction: Spontaneous broken-symmetry insulator and metals in tetralayer rhombohedral graphene
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Spontaneous broken-symmetry insulator and metals in tetralayer rhombohedral graphene
Interactions among charge carriers in graphene can lead to the spontaneous breaking of multiple degeneracies. When increasing the number of graphene layers following rhombohedral stacking, the dominant role of...
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Interfacial insight into elevated dielectric properties in graphite nanosheets reinforced PVDF composites via engineering TiO2 shell as an interlayer
Percolating composites present giant dielectric constant (ε′) at the critical filler loading (fc), whereas the accompanied undesirable high loss and leakage current significantly limit their wide applications owi...
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Consensusless Blockchain: A Promising High-Performance Blockchain Without Consensus
Consensus is unnecessary when the truth is available. In this paper, we present a new perspective of rebuilding the blockchain without consensus. When the consensus phase is eliminated from a blockchain, trans...
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Clinical Application of Computer-Aided Diagnosis System in Breast Ultrasound: A Prospective Multicenter Study
Ultrasound tends to present very high sensitivity but relatively low specificity and positive predictive value (PPV), which would result in unnecessary breast biopsies. The purpose of this study is to analyze ...
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Super-enhancer RNA m6A promotes local chromatin accessibility and oncogene transcription in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
The biological functions of noncoding RNA N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification remain poorly understood. In the present study, we depict the landscape of super-enhancer RNA (seRNA) m6A modification in pancreatic...
