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Deep Learning-Based Image and Video Inpainting: A Survey
Image and video inpainting is a classic problem in computer vision and computer graphics, aiming to fill in the plausible and realistic content in the missing areas of images and videos. With the advance of de...
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Open AccessRetrospective study about clinical severity and epidemiological analysis of the COVID-19 Omicron subvariant lineage-infected patients in Hohhot, China
Fear of a global public health issue and fresh infection wave in the persistent COVID-19 pandemic has been enflamed by the appearance of the novel variant Omicron BF.7 lineage. Recently, it has been seeing the...
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Open AccessIGF2BP3 enhances lipid metabolism in cervical cancer by upregulating the expression of SCD
Cervical cancer (CC) is the most common gynecologic malignancy, which seriously threatens the health of women. Lipid metabolism is necessary for tumor proliferation and metastasis. However, the molecular mecha...
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Neural networks-based iterative learning control consensus for periodically time-varying multi-agent systems
In this paper, the problem of adaptive iterative learning based consensus control for periodically time-varying multi-agent systems is studied, in which the dynamics of each follower are driven by nonlinearly ...
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Research on Carbon Emission Characteristics of Large Vehicles and Vertical Slope Optimization Design
Road alignment is closely related to carbon emission of the freeway. The research on the carbon emission of the vertical slope is mostly focused on the one of vertical alignment parameters. However, the compre...
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Online Food Provisioning Services (OFPS) as Sociotechnical Assemblages: Three Theoretical Threads and a Proposition for Further Research
Online food provisioning services (OFPS) are increasingly used by consumers to source food in everyday life. Given the dynamics and diversities of OFPS, it is important to find out theoretical approaches to co...
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Effect of Mold Cooling Intensity on the Depression-Type Crack Formation and Mold Flux Infiltration During Continuous Casting Process
As one of the most serious defects in the products of continuous casting steel, the surface depressions with longitudinal cracks originated from the mold were clearly characterized. A mold simulator technique ...
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Towards Sustainable Cities: Studying Evaluation Index of Water Environment Carrying Capacity
Water is a crucial resource for sustainable development in cites. Water carrying capacity is a vital part of the carrying capacity of various natural resources in the sustainable development of a region. Appro...
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Consensus control for heterogeneous uncertain multi-agent systems with hybrid nonlinear dynamics via iterative learning algorithm
In this study, We propose a compensated distributed adaptive learning algorithm for heterogeneous multi-agent systems with repetitive motion, where the leader’s dynamics are unknown, and the controlled system’...
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Huber loss based distributed robust learning algorithm for random vector functional-link network
In this paper, we propose two algorithms based on the random vector functional link network (RVFLN) and alternating direction method of multipliers algorithm to solve distributed learning (DL) problems with da...
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Adaptive neural control of nonlinear periodic time-varying parameterized mixed-order multi-agent systems with unknown control coefficients
In this paper, we first consider the adaptive leader-following consensus problem for a class of nonlinear parameterized mixed-order multi-agent systems with unknown control coefficients and time-varying distur...
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Distributed Repetitive Learning Consensus Control of Mixed-order Linear Periodic Parameterized Nonlinear Multi-agent Systems
This paper studies the consensus of mixed-order unknown periodic time-vary parameterized nonlinear multi-agent systems over heterogeneous network topology. The follower is represented by a first-order or secon...
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Open AccessOxeiptosis: a novel pathway of melanocytes death in response to oxidative stress in vitiligo
Vitiligo is a cutaneous depigmenting autoimmune disease caused by the extensive destruction of epidermal melanocytes. Convincing data has defined a critical role for oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of vit...
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Open AccessBletilla striata polysaccharide cryogel scaffold for spatial control of foreign-body reaction
Implantation of a biomaterial may induce the foreign-body reaction to the host tissue that determines the outcome of the integration and the biological performance of the implants. The foreign-body reaction ca...
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Open AccessIntracellular virus sensor MDA5 exacerbates vitiligo by inducing the secretion of chemokines in keratinocytes under virus invasion
Vitiligo is a disfiguring disease featuring chemokines-mediated cutaneous infiltration of autoreactive CD8+ T cells that kill melanocytes. Copious studies have indicated that virus invasion participates in the pa...
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Podocytic infolding glomerulopathy: two new cases with connective tissue disease and literature review
Podocytic infolding glomerulopathy (PIG) is a newly proposed disease entity, and only 29 cases have been reported worldwide so far, characterized by microspheres or microtubular structures or both associated w...
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Distributed Adaptive Iterative Learning Consensus for Uncertain Topological Multi-agent Systems Based on T–S Fuzzy Models
This paper addresses the exactly consensus problem for the multi-agent system with uncertain topology structure. A T–S fuzzy model is presented to describe the uncertain topology structure of multi-agent syste...
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Serum progranulin irrelated with Breg cell levels, but elevated in RA patients, reflecting high disease activity
Soluble progranulin (PGRN) is known to directly regulate regulatory T cells; however, whether PGRN levels are elevated in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and affect the regulatory subsets of B cells remain ...
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Report on the Institutional Reform of China’s Special Economic Zones
In the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, held in November, 2013, the Party made strategic arrangements for comprehensively intensifying the reform, and put fo...
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Changes in regulatory B cells and their relationship with rheumatoid arthritis disease activity
Regulatory subsets of B cells (Bregs) modulate immune responses in autoimmunity, cancer, and other inflammation diseases. In the present study, we investigated the numbers of circulating Breg cells in patients...
