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Open AccessComparing variants related to chronic diseases from genome-wide association study (GWAS) and the cancer genome atlas (TCGA)
Several genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been performed to identify variants related to chronic diseases. Somatic variants in cancer tissues are associated with cancer development and prognosis. Exp...
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Lowering the percent body fat in the obese population might reduce male lower urinary tract symptoms
This study aimed to investigate the practicality of percent body fat (PBF), calculated using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), in predicting benign prostatic hyperplasia/lower urinary tract symptoms (BPH...
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Non-epitaxial single-crystal 2D material growth by geometric confinement
Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their heterostructures show a promising path for next-generation electronics1–3. Nevertheless, 2D-based electronics have not been commercialized, owing mainly to three critical ...
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A study on the characteristics of materials for ex vivo phantom of diffusion tensor images
The purpose of this study was to visually reconstruct the connectivity of fibers in plant fibers and synthetic fibers using diffusion tensor tractography for ex vivo phantom of DTI and to compare FA and ADC va...
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Open AccessRevealing carbon capture chemistry with 17-oxygen NMR spectroscopy
Carbon dioxide capture is essential to achieve net-zero emissions. A hurdle to the design of improved capture materials is the lack of adequate tools to characterise how CO2 adsorbs. Solid-state nuclear magnetic ...
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Open AccessPopulation genomics study for the conservation management of the endangered shrub Abeliophyllum distichum
Natural monuments are IUCN Category III protected areas that play an important role in biodiversity conservation as they provide species refuge and allow species migration. Despite their status, natural monume...
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Open AccessAssociation between life-style, metabolic syndrome and lower urinary tract symptoms and its impact on quality of life in men ≥ 40 years
We aimed to assess the relationship between lifestyle-related variables, metabolic syndrome, and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men ≥ 40 years. We also assessed the impact of these variables on quality...
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Marrow ring sideroblasts are highly predictive for TP53 mutation in MDS with excess blasts
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The Antipsychotic Drug Clozapine Suppresses the RGS4 Polyubiquitylation and Proteasomal Degradation Mediated by the Arg/N-Degron Pathway
Although diverse antipsychotic drugs have been developed for the treatment of schizophrenia, most of their mechanisms of action remain elusive. Regulator of G-protein signaling 4 (RGS4) has been reported to be...
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Open AccessUndoped tin dioxide transparent electrodes for efficient and cost-effective indoor organic photovoltaics (SnO2 electrode for indoor organic photovoltaics)
Indoor organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are currently being investigated for small-scale energy generation from artificial light sources to power small electronic devices. Despite recent progress in increasing the...
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Effective modulus of Si electrodes considering Li concentration, volume expansion, pore, and Poisson’s ratio of Li-ion batteries
We propose a novel mathematical model for predicting the effective modulus of Si electrodes in Li-ion batteries by considering the large volume expansion of Si during lithiation and porosity variation, as well...
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Survey of spiking in the mouse visual system reveals functional hierarchy
The anatomy of the mammalian visual system, from the retina to the neocortex, is organized hierarchically1. However, direct observation of cellular-level functional interactions across this hierarchy is lacking d...
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Open AccessSpontaneous sparse learning for PCM-based memristor neural networks
Neural networks trained by backpropagation have achieved tremendous successes on numerous intelligent tasks. However, naïve gradient-based training and updating methods on memristors impede applications due to...
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Analysis of Correlation between Heart Rate and Pulse Wave Velocity using Cardiovascular Simulator
In clinical studies, the effect of heart rate (HR) alone as feedback for maintaining homeostasis cannot be observed. Therefore, in this study, the effect of HR on pulse wave velocity (PWV) was investigated usi...
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Modeling Vascular Aging Using Arterial Simulator
This study investigated the effects of vascular elastic modulus on hemodynamic characteristics using an arterial simulator. The simulator comprises a pulse generator that functions as a heart and an arterial s...
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Open AccessReduced chronic restraint stress in mice overexpressing hyperactive proteasomes in the forebrain
While chronic restraint stress (CRS) results in depression-like behaviors possibly through oxidative stress in the brain, its molecular etiology and the development of therapeutic strategies remain elusive. Si...
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Assessment of air purifier on efficient removal of airborne bacteria, Staphylococcus epidermidis, using single-chamber method
We evaluated the efficiency of an air purifier using the single-chamber method for the effective removal of airborne Staphylococcus epidermidis, a nosocomial infection–causing bacterium. In this experiment, the b...
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Open AccessAn unexpected genetic diversity pattern and a complex demographic history of a rare medicinal herb, Chinese asparagus (Asparagus cochinchinensis) in Korea
Range-wide population studies of wide spread species are often associated with complex diversity patterns resulting from genetically divergent evolutionary significant units (ESUs). The compound evolutionary h...
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Publisher Correction: Regioselective surface encoding of nanoparticles for programmable self-assembly
In the version of this Article originally published, the diblock copolymer structure in Fig. 2a showed a single bond between the carbon and the oxygen atoms; it should have been a double bond. This has been co...
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Regioselective surface encoding of nanoparticles for programmable self-assembly
Surface encoding of colloidal nanoparticles with DNA is fundamental for fields where recognition interaction is required, particularly controllable material self-assembly. However, regioselective surface encod...
