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An efficient bit rate allocation algorithm for motion JPEG2000 transport in tile encoding
An efficient bit rate allocation algorithm for video sequence transmission in motion JPEG2000 is presented. In many cases, the moving portions of video are often the interested regions. Based on tile encoding ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Basic Level Advantage and Its Switching during Information Retrieval: An fMRI Study
Basic level advantage effect in human cognition suggested there was a more readily accessible cognitive status to the human mind than others during information retrieval, but the phenomenon of advantage effect...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Role of Lateral Inferior Prefrontal Cortex during Information Retrieval
To investigate the role of lateral inferior prefrontal cortex (LIPFC) during information retrieval, we used two tasks based on the phenomenon of basic-level advantage and its reversal to examine the activities...
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Mothers’ Pasts and Daughters’ Presents and Futures: A Cross-generational Exploration of Women’s Work and Aspirations in Urban China
Since the late 1970s, China adopted an approach to socialist construction that was centred on economic modernization*. The post-Mao economic reforms — which led to major social, political, and economic changes...
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Open AccessAgeing in rural China: migration and care circulation
This article applies the concept of care circulation (Baldassar and Merla, Transnational families, migration and the circulation of care: understanding mobility and absence in family life, 2013) to the process...
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Open AccessThe social context of ageing and intergenerational relationships in Chinese families
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sEcad and EGF Levels Increased in Urine of Non-ferrous Metal Workers and Medium of Uroepithelial Cell Line Treated by Arsenic
Inorganic arsenic (iAs) is a carcinogen and could increase the risks of bladder, lung, and skin cancer. Mining and smelting of non-ferrous metals are common occupational arsenic exposures. In this study, 125 i...
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Long-term treatment with arsenite activates HER1 and HER2 through upregulating EGF, TGFα, and HSP90 in a human uroepithelial cell line
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Visit-to-visit blood pressure variability and risk of adverse birth outcomes in pregnancies in East China
To investigate the potential associations between visit-to-visit blood pressure variability (VVV) and adverse birth outcomes in pregnancies, 48,209 pregnant women without proteinuria or chronic hypertension be...
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Open AccessGestational systolic blood pressure trajectories and risk of adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes in Chinese women
Associations between trajectories of systolic blood pressure (SBP) during pregnancy and pregnant outcomes remain unclear and disparate.
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Open AccessSchool-based surveillance on visit-to-visit blood pressure variability and high blood pressure in children and adolescents
The predictive importance of visit-to-visit blood pressure variability (VVV) for high blood pressure (HBP) in a pediatric population has been largely unsettled. We aimed to evaluate it based on Health Promotio...
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Open AccessInfluence of the densities and nutritional components of bacterial colonies on the culture-enriched gut bacterial community structure
Isolating relevant microorganisms is still a substantial challenge that limits the use of bacteria in the maintenance of human health. To confirm which media and which bacterial colony densities can enrich cer...
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Open AccessPURPL represses autophagic cell death to promote cutaneous melanoma by modulating ULK1 phosphorylation
Uncontrolled overactivation of autophagy may lead to autophagic cell death, suppression of which is a pro-survival strategy for tumors. However, mechanisms involving key regulators in modulating autophagic cel...
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Blood pressure categories defined by the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline and all-cause mortality: a national cohort study in China and meta-analysis
The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline recommends a lowered threshold for hypertension diagnosis. Nonetheless, the association of blood pressure (BP) groups defined by the...
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Open AccessClinical and genetic features of infancy-onset congenital myopathies from a Chinese paediatric centre
Congenital myopathies are a group of rare neuromuscular diseases characterized by specific histopathological features. The relationship between the pathologies and the genetic causes is complex, and the preval...
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Mercury distribution and emission reduction potentials of Chinese coal-fired industrial boilers
Coal-fired industrial boilers (CFIBs) are an important emission source of mercury. In this study, the mercury flow of the CFIBs in China, including mercury input and output (atmospheric mercury and mercury-con...
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Open AccessSALIS transcriptionally represses IGFBP3/Caspase-7-mediated apoptosis by associating with STAT5A to promote hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common subtype of liver cancer and the second most fatal cancer in the world despite the great therapeutic advances in the past two decades, which reminds us of the g...
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Effectiveness of a body shape index in predicting pediatric high blood pressure
A body shape index (ABSI) is an emerging anthropometric indicator, challenging two traditional parameters: body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). We aimed to systematically compare and validate th...
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Prepubertal BMI, pubertal growth patterns, and long-term BMI: Results from a longitudinal analysis in Chinese children and adolescents from 2005 to 2016
To assess the effects of prepubertal BMI on pubertal growth patterns, and the influence of prepubertal BMI and pubertal growth patterns on long-term BMI among Chinese children and adolescents.
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Open AccessResveratrol rescues cutaneous radiation-induced DNA damage via a novel AMPK/SIRT7/HMGB1 regulatory axis
Cutaneous radiation injury (CRI) interrupts the scheduled process of radiotherapy and even compromises the life quality of patients. However, the current clinical options for alleviating CRI are relatively lim...
