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Genetic and biological drivers of prostate cancer disparities in Black men
Black men with prostate cancer have historically had worse outcomes than white men with prostate cancer. The causes of this disparity in outcomes are multi-factorial, but a potential basis is that prostate can...
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Functional quality of life among newly diagnosed young adult colorectal cancer survivors compared to older adults: results from the ColoCare Study
Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality are increasing among young adults (YAs) aged 18–39. This study compared quality of life (QOL) between YA and older adult CRC survivors in the ColoCare Study.
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High-Speed Rubbing Behavior of Abrasive Coating Coated on Titanium Alloy Blade Tips
In aero-engines, abrasive coatings are typically utilized to protect the blade tip from excessive wear caused by the harder abradable sealing coating and thereby improve the sealing performance of engines. The...
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Wear resistance of Ni/nano-Al2O3 composite coatings by brush electroplating
In this study, Ni/nano-Al2O3 composite coatings and the Ni/Ni–Al2O3 multilayer coatings have been prepared on the 304 stainless steel substrate by adding the nano-Al2O3 particle in Ni plating solution and by alte...
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A Generalized Algorithm and Simulation Verification of Non-circular Gear Tooth Surface Data Points
This paper presents a method to establish a mathematical model of non-circular gear tooth surface, which can avoid the issues of low accuracy and low efficiency in extracting tooth surface of previous non-circ...
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Open AccessMolecular classification reveals the sensitivity of lung adenocarcinoma to radiotherapy and immunotherapy: multi-omics clustering based on similarity network fusion
Due to individual differences in tumors and immune systems, the response rate to immunotherapy is low in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) patients. Combinations with other therapeutic strategies improve the efficacy...
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Design and tooth geometric trait analysis of helical noncircular gears based on a novel mathematical model
Current studies on noncircular gears have focused primarily on geometric design, but equations for tooth surfaces are lacking. This limitation prevents tooth contact analysis (TCA) from being performed. This s...
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Co-dependent Origination and the Doctrine of Gongsheng: A Buddhist Perspective on the Harmony of Humanity, Nature, and Civilizations
Gongsheng is a very important concept in Buddhist thought. This chapter discusses the special meaning of the Buddhist concept of gongsheng, and discusses in detail the different types of gongsheng in Buddhism, in...
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Text to Image Generation with Conformer-GAN
Text-to-image generation (T2I) has been a popular research field in recent years, and its goal is to generate corresponding photorealistic images through natural language text descriptions. Existing T2I models...
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Text-to-Image Synthesis with Threshold-Equipped Matching-Aware GAN
In this paper, we propose a novel Equipped with Threshold Matching-Aware Generative Adversarial Network (ETMA-GAN) for text-to-image synthesis. By filtering inaccurate negative samples, the discriminator can m...
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The Concept of Gongsheng in Daoist Philosophy: Examples from Laozi and Zhuangzi
Using examples from the works of Laozi and Zhuangzi, this chapter discusses the connotations and characteristics of gongsheng 共生 in Daoist philosophy. It examines in detail Laozi’s notion of wanwu bingzuo 万物并作 (a...
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Depth Normalized Stable View Synthesis
Novel view synthesis (NVS) aims to synthesize photo-realistic images depicting a scene by utilizing existing source images. The synthesized images are supposed to be as close as possible to the scene content. ...
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Multi-view Consistency View Synthesis
Novel view synthesis (NVS) aims to synthesize photo-realistic images depicting a scene by utilizing existing source images. The core objective is that the synthesized images are supposed to be as close as poss...
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Relationship between antibiotic resistance and the cagA and vacA genotypes among Helicobacter pylori strain isolates from patients in **’an
The issue of drug resistance of Helicobacter pylori is becoming increasingly serious. To analyze the correlation between the cagA and vacA genotypes of H. pylori strains and their resistance to metronidazole, lev...
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Open AccessThe development of proximity labeling technology and its applications in mammals, plants, and microorganisms
Protein‒protein, protein‒RNA, and protein‒DNA interaction networks form the basis of cellular regulation and signal transduction, making it crucial to explore these interaction networks to understand complex b...
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Open AccessClinical Data based XGBoost Algorithm for infection risk prediction of patients with decompensated cirrhosis: a 10-year (2012–2021) Multicenter Retrospective Case-control study
To appraise effective predictors for infection in patients with decompensated cirrhosis (DC) by using XGBoost algorithm in a retrospective case-control study.
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Relative search popularity of five advanced prostate cancer medications using Google Trends
There are many FDA-approved drugs for advanced prostate cancer (PC), yet public interest in these drugs is not well understood. We compared public interest and state-level predictors of interest in five common...
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Open AccessPredicting delayed methotrexate elimination in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients: an innovative web-based machine learning tool developed through a multicenter, retrospective analysis
High-dose methotrexate (HD-MTX) is a potent chemotherapeutic agent used to treat pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). HD-MTX is known for cause delayed elimination and drug-related adverse events. The...
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Open AccessDiversity, community structure, and quantity of eukaryotic phytoplankton revealed using 18S rRNA and plastid 16S rRNA genes and pigment markers: a case study of the Pearl River Estuary
Understanding consistencies and discrepancies in characterizing diversity and quantity of phytoplankton is essential for better modeling ecosystem change. In this study, eukaryotic phytoplankton in the Pearl R...
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An improved sine cosine algorithm with heterogeneous subpopulations for global optimization and fractional order PID controller design
As one of recently proposed optimization algorithm, sine cosine algorithm (SCA) suffers from the problems of skip** over true solutions, stagnating in local optima and premature convergence. Therefore, an im...
