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Open AccessAssociation between the systemic immune inflammation index and periodontitis: a cross-sectional study
Periodontitis is a chronic oral inflammatory disease that seriously affects people's quality of life. The purpose of our study was to investigate the correlation between the systemic immune inflammation index ...
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What is the impact of ferroptosis on diabetic cardiomyopathy: a systematic review
Iron overload increases the production of harmful reactive oxygen species in the Fenton reaction, which causes oxidative stress in the body and lipid peroxidation in the cell membrane, and eventually leads to ...
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Open AccessExploring the role and mechanism of Astragalus membranaceus and radix paeoniae rubra in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis through network pharmacology and experimental validation
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive fibrotic disease with an unclear etiology and no effective treatment. This study aims to elucidate the pathogenic mechanism networks involving mult...
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Copper-promoted domino cyanation/Ullmann coupling toward difunctionalized acenaphthylenes with various optoelectronic properties
Tremendous progress has been made on aromatic fusion of acenaphthylene towards organic semiconductors. However, scarce studies focus on the functionalization of acenaphthylene without resort to aromatic extens...
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First Asian fossil record of Platydictya (Amblystegiaceae) from the lower Miocene and its paleoenvironmental significance
Mosses form a diverse land plant group in modern vegetation but have rarely showed up in the fossil record compared with vascular plants. Here, we report an extraordinarily-preserved early Miocene moss fossil ...
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Open AccessReliability assessment of transformer insulating oil using accelerated life testing
To improve the reliability and reduce the maintenance cost of transformer oil, a life prediction of transformer oil is needed so that the maintenance of transformer can be performed correctly. However, it is d...
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Menstrual cycle impacts lung structure measures derived from quantitative computed tomography
Quantitative computed tomography (qCT) is being increasingly incorporated in research studies and clinical trials aimed at understanding lung disease risk, progression, exacerbations, and intervention response...
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Open AccessCT-derived 3D-diaphragm motion in emphysema and IPF compared to normal subjects
Image registration-based local displacement analysis enables evaluation of respiratory motion between two computed tomography-captured lung volumes. The objective of this study was to compare diaphragm movemen...
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Open AccessCT image segmentation for inflamed and fibrotic lungs using a multi-resolution convolutional neural network
The purpose of this study was to develop a fully-automated segmentation algorithm, robust to various density enhancing lung abnormalities, to facilitate rapid quantitative analysis of computed tomography image...
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Open AccessReply to ‘Re-evaluating the phylogenetic position of the enigmatic early Cambrian deuterostome Yanjiahella’
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Open AccessClassification, positioning, and tracking of drones by HMM using acoustic circular microphone array beamforming
This paper addresses issues with monitoring systems that identify and track illegal drones. The development of drone technologies promotes the widespread commercial application of drones. However, the ability ...
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Condition Monitoring of Lubricant Shortage for Gearboxes Based on Compressed Thermal Images
Condition monitoring of gearboxes is a crucial task because gearboxes are essential power transmission components whose failure can lead to a catastrophic breakdown of machines. The common faults of a gearbox ...
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Practical Poisoning Attacks on Neural Networks
Data poisoning attacks on machine learning models have attracted much recent attention, wherein poisoning samples are injected at the training phase to achieve adversarial goals at test time. Although existing...
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Open AccessA stem group echinoderm from the basal Cambrian of China and the origins of Ambulacraria
Deuterostomes are a morphologically disparate clade, encompassing the chordates (including vertebrates), the hemichordates (the vermiform enteropneusts and the colonial tube-dwelling pterobranchs) and the echi...
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Effect of Nano-Particle Addition on Grain Structure Evolution of Friction Stir-Processed Al 6061 During Postweld Annealing
The fabrication of nano-composites is challenging because uniform dispersion of nano-sized reinforcements in metallic substrate is difficult to achieve using powder metallurgy or liquid processing methods. In ...
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Open AccessValosin-containing protein (VCP) promotes the growth, invasion, and metastasis of colorectal cancer through activation of STAT3 signaling
Valosin-containing protein (VCP) was previously shown to exhibit high expression in colorectal cancer (CRC) tissues as compared with that in normal tissues; however, the role of VCP in human CRC cells has rema...
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Open AccessAntigenic variation of the human influenza A (H3N2) virus during the 2014–2015 winter season
The human influenza A (H3N2) virus dominated the 2014–2015 winter season in many countries and caused massive morbidity and mortality because of its antigenic variation. So far, very little is known about the ...
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Open AccessCharacteristics of oseltamivir-resistant influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 virus during the 2013–2014 influenza season in Mainland China
In this study, we analyzed the characteristics of oseltamivir-resistant influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 virus isolated from patients in mainland China during the influenza season from September 2013 through March 201...
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Open AccessPoultry farms as a source of avian influenza A (H7N9) virus reassortment and human infection
Live poultry markets are a source of human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) virus. On February 21, 2014, a poultry farmer infected with H7N9 virus was identified in Jilin, China and H7N9 and H9N2 viruse...
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Open AccessGenetic Diversity of Avian Influenza A (H10N8) Virus in Live Poultry Markets and Its Association with Human Infections in China
Following the first human infection with the influenza A (H10N8) virus in Nanchang, China in December 2013, we identified two additional patients on January 19 and February 9, 2014. The epidemiologic, clinical...
