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Open AccessAlterations in sea urchin (Mesocentrotus nudus) microbiota and their potential contributions to host according to barren severity
Sea urchins are biotic factors driving the decline of kelp forests in marine ecosystems. However, few studies have analyzed the microbiota of surviving sea urchins in barren regions with scarce diet resources....
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Open AccessCorrection: B7-H3 expression is associated with high PD-L1 expression in clear cell renal cell carcinoma and predicts poor prognosis
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Open AccessB7-H3 expression is associated with high PD-L1 expression in clear cell renal cell carcinoma and predicts poor prognosis
Clear cell Renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is an immunogenic tumor. B7 family members, such as CTLA-4, PD-1, and PD-L1, are the main components of immune checkpoints that regulate various immune responses. Specif...
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Open AccessThe stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, cancer stemness, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and B7-H4 expression in ovarian serous carcinoma
B7-H4 is expressed in various types of cancers and its expression inversely correlates with the degree of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). Studies have shown the relationship between B7-H4, cancer stem c...
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Fabrication of PA6/MoS2 nanocomposites via melt blending of PA6 with PA6/PEG modified-MoS2 masterbatch
Modified MoS2 (mMoS2) was prepared by reacting MoS2 with alkyl lithium and amine-terminated long-chain polyethylene glycol (APEG) derivatives via a one-pot modification process. The APEG on the surface of MoS2 gr...
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Gated Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Classification
The popular approach for several natural language processing tasks involves deep neural networks, and in particular, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). While RNNs can ca...
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Open AccessAssessment of barrier location effect on debris flow based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation on 3D terrains
Debris flows are one of the perilous landslide-related hazards due to their fast flow velocity, large impact force, and long runout, in association with poor predictability. Debris-flow barriers that can minim...
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Genome-wide Identification of DNA-protein Interaction to Reconstruct Bacterial Transcription Regulatory Network
The development and innovative use of next-generation sequencing technologies have opened the doors for genetic and epigenetic research at the next level. These technologies can be used to study gene expressio...
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Open AccessUnilateral synchronous papillary renal neoplasm with reverse polarity and clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a case report with KRAS and PIK3CA mutations
The presence of histologically different neoplasms in the same organ is rare in pathologic practice. We report the first case of synchronous clear cell renal cell carcinoma (clear cell RCC) and papillary renal...
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WheelLogger: Driver Tracing Using Smart Watch
Location-related data is one of the most sensitive data for user privacy. Theft of location-related information on mobile device poses serious threats to users. Even though the extant confirmation of permissio...
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Transretroperitoneal CT-guided Embolization of Growing Internal Iliac Artery Aneurysm after Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Transretroperitoneal Approach with Intramuscular Lidocaine Injection Technique
This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of CT-guided embolization of internal iliac artery aneurysm (IIAA) after repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm by transretroperitoneal approach using ...
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Construction of Japanese BAC library Yamato-2 (JY2): a set of 330K clone resources of damage-minimized DNA taken from a genetically established Japanese individual
A bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library referred to as Yamato-2 (JY2), was constructed from a Japanese individual and contained 330,000 clones. Library construction was based on 2 concepts: Japanese pe...
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Open AccessChromosome identification and its application in Chinese hamster ovary cells
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Erratum to: Effects of aerobic exercise on the blood pressure, oxidative stress and eNOS gene polymorphism in pre-hypertensive older people
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Development of cleaning robot system for live-line suspension insulator strings
A new cleaning robot system for suspension insulator strings was developed to prevent a power failure, which can have severe effects on the national industry and economy. Compared with existing cleaning robots...
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Robot Self-modeling of Rotational Symmetric 3D Objects Based on Generic Description of Object Categories
The next generation of service robots capable of such sophisticated services as errands, table/room settings, etc. should have in itself a database of a large number of object instances human use daily. Howeve...
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Elliptic Polygon Based 2D Sketch Interface for 3D Shape Matching
3D shape matching plays an important role in a 3d shape search system. Users generally want to query by sketch in a 3d shape search system rather than query by example or strings. Some interfaces with query by...
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Reduction of the Search Space in the Edge-Tracing Algorithm for the Voronoi Diagram of 3D Balls
Voronoi diagram for 3D balls can be applicable to various fields in science and engineering. The edge-tracing algorithm constructs the Voronoi diagram in O(mn) time in the worst-case where m and n are the numbers...
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Visualization and Analysis of Protein Structures Using Euclidean Voronoi Diagram of Atoms
Protein consists of amino acids, and an amino acid consists of atoms. Given a protein, understanding its functions is critical for various reasons for designing new drugs, treating diseases, and so on. Due to ...
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Probability Distribution of Op-Codes in Edgebreaker
Rapid transmission of 3D mesh models has become important with the use of Internet and with increased number of studies on the compression of various aspects for mesh models. Despite the extensive studies on E...
