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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Acronyms in Chinese: A Prosodic Perspective
Acronym is one way to create new words on the basis of existing expressions, but it is required to meet the codes of a language and its natural rhythm. In Chinese, disyllable is the best unit in the prosodic m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Embedded Compounding Monosyllabic Morphemes: A Perspective from the Lexical Study and TCFL
Many modern Chinese words inherited from the classical Chinese. Therefore, vocabularies used in written Chinese are different from those used in modern Chinese. In written Chinese, an embedded compounding mono...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on Prosodic Morphology of Chinese Verbal Monosyllabic-Disyllabic Synonyms
Chinese verbal synonyms, mainly verbal monosyllabic and disyllabic synonyms (hereafter, verbal monosyllabic-disyllabic synonyms), vary in their semantic and pragmatic performances. However, a systematic resear...
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Article
Signal Processing and Application of Six-axis Force/Torque Sensor Integrated in Humanoid Robot Foot
Six-axis force/torque sensor (F/T sensor) that can detect three orthogonal forces and torques has been extensively adopted in humanoid robot foot for stable control. Due to the F/T sensors being seriously influen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Study on the Interactive Relationships Between the Formation of Three-Syllable Abbreviations and the Prosody
Most Chinese abbreviations consist of two syllables, but in certain cases, they are composed of three syllables in the form of super-prosody. On the basis of how to make up three-syllable abbreviations, this p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Interaction Between the Structure and the Prosody of Chinese 1 + 3 Idioms
Most four-syllable Chinese idioms are in the structure of first two syllables sharing inter-relationship and the other two syllables sharing idiomatic structural interaction (thereafter, 2 + 2 structure), whil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Structural and Prosodic Analysis of Trisyllabic New Words
The majority of Chinese new words are trisyllabic, which violates the disyllabic norm of Chinese vocabulary. This paper explores reasons underlying this phenomenon by studying the structure and prosody of the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Three Registers behind two Characters: an Analysis of the Words’ Formation and their Registers
Three Registers behind two characters, or Two-Character-Three-Register, is a special phenomenon in Chinese word formation, which mainly means that on the premise that a dissyllabic verb consists of two monosyl...
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Article
Survey of sulfur-oxidizing bacterial community in the Pearl River water using soxB, sqr, and dsrA as molecular biomarkers
In this study, we surveyed the abundance and diversity of three sulfur oxidation genes (sqr, soxB, and dsrA) using quantitative assays and Miseq high-throughput sequencing. The quantitative assays revealed that s...
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Article
Distribution of alkaline phosphatase genes in cyanobacteria and the role of alkaline phosphatase on the acquisition of phosphorus from dissolved organic phosphorus for cyanobacterial growth
Phosphorus is a vital nutrient for cyanobacterial growth. Aside from dissolved inorganic phosphorus, dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) is used by cyanobacterial species via the activity of alkaline phosphatas...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of the Foot Types and Structures of Chinese Four-Syllable Abbreviations
This paper investigates the foot types and structural features of Chinese four-syllable abbreviations. Results show that: first, whether for the need of complexity and richness of ideogram or for avoiding ambi...
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Article
Open AccessSophoridine exerts tumor-suppressive activities via promoting ESRRG-mediated β-catenin degradation in gastric cancer
As a natural alkaloid product isolated from Sophora alopecuroides. L, Sophoridine reshapes gastric cancer immune microenvironment via inhibiting chemotaxis and M2 polarization of tumor-associated macrophages (TAM...
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Article
Open AccessAnalysis of the clinical characteristics of 77 COVID-19 deaths
The COVID-19 outbreak is becoming a public health emergency. Data are limited on the clinical characteristics and causes of death. A retrospective analysis of COVID-19 deaths were performed for patients’ clini...
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Article
Temporal variation of PM2.5-associated health effects in Shijiazhuang, Hebei
Shijiazhuang is one of the cities in the North China Plain. In recent decades, this city has experienced high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which have potentially significant effects on human health....
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Article
Health and economic losses attributable to PM2.5 and ozone exposure in Handan, China
Handan has been experiencing severe air pollution with significantly high fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) levels in recent decades, but its health and economic outcomes have not been well understoo...
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Article
Non-negligible Effect of Native Rhizobacteria on Cooperation with Plant Growth Regulators Improve Tolerance to Cadmium: A Case Study Using Duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza as Indicating Plant
Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are well known for their ability to improve plants’ tolerance to heavy metals. However, in these treatments, the contribution of native rhizobacteria on heightened tolerance to h...
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Article
Growth and N2O production of Nitrosocosmicus clade in agricultural soil when responding to high ammonium inputs
In recent years, some ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) species from the Nitrosocosmicus clade have been suggested to be ammonium tolerant, with ability close to many ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) species. Howev...
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Open AccessIntegrated genome-wide association and transcriptomic analysis to identify receptor kinase genes to stripe rust resistance in wheat germplasm from southwestern China
Stripe rust of wheat, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is one of the most important diseases of wheat worldwide. Identification of new and elite Pst-resistance loci or genes has the potential ...
