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Tough and fatigue-resistant anisotropic hydrogels via fiber reinforcement and magnetic field induction
Biological tissues (such as tendons and cartilages) are not only well known for their excellent strength, modulus, and toughness, but also have long-term stability which can withstand millions of high-stress c...
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Utilizing biodegradable alloys as guided bone regeneration (GBR) membrane: Feasibility and challenges
Guided bone regeneration (GBR) is a therapeutic procedure used to enhance alveolar bone volume before dental implants. Commercial non-absorbable membranes (i.e., titanium membranes) typically require a second ...
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Development of micro-Laue technique at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility for materials sciences
Synchrotron radiation-based micro-Laue technique has showcased great application potentials in materials science study for its unprecedented crystal orientation and lattice strain/stress resolution. Here we re...
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Analyzing close relations between target artifacts for improving IR-based requirement traceability recovery
Requirement traceability is an important and costly task that creates trace links from requirements to different software artifacts. These trace links can help engineers reduce the time and complexity of softw...
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Controlled growth of plasmonic heterostructures and their applications
Plasmonic nanocrystals with unique properties have been extensively studied in the past decades. A combination of plasmonic materials with other characteristic materials of metals and semiconductors leads to p...
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Enzyme/pH-sensitive dendritic polymer-DOX conjugate for cancer treatment
It is in a great demand to design a biodegradable, tumor microenvironment-sensitive drug delivery system to achieve safe and highly efficacious treatment of cancer. Herein, a novel pH/enzyme sensitive dendriti...
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Microstructure and wear behavior of Ti-6Al-4V treated by plasma Zr-alloying and plasma nitriding
A duplex treatment of plasma Zr-alloying and plasma nitriding was used to improve the tribological properties of Ti-6Al-4V. The microstructure of the Zr-N composite (alloyed) layer formed on Ti-6Al-4V and its ...
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Total triterpene acids, isolated from Corni Fructus, ameliorate progression of renal damage in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
To investigate whether total triterpene acids (TTAs), isolated from Cornus Fructus, attenuates renal function by reducing oxidative stress and down-regulating the expression of transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-...
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Evaluating the growth of pulmonary nodular ground-glass opacity on CT: Comparison of volume rendering and thin slice images
This study examined the value of volume rendering (VR) interpretation in assessing the growth of pulmonary nodular ground-glass opacity (nGGO). A total of 47 nGGOs (average size, 9.5 mm; range, 5.7–20.6 mm) we...
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Configuration analysis of deepwater S-lay pipeline
The safety of offshore pipeline has drawn a great deal of attention during deepwater installation due to the combined actions of high external pressure, axial tension, and bending moment. Meanwhile, the pipeli...
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An range-free localization scheme for large scale underwater wireless sensor networks
In this paper, we study an area localization problem in large scale underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). The limited bandwidth, the severely impaired channel and the cost of underwater equipment all ma...
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A simulation study of service differentiation for the bandwidth request scheme in fixed IEEE 802.16 network
Various flexible mechanisms related to quality of service (QoS) provisioning have been specified for uplink traffic at the medium access control (MAC) layer in the IEEE 802.16 standards. Among the mechanisms, ...
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Partial least squares regression model to predict water quality in urban water distribution systems
The water distribution system of one residential district in Tian** is taken as an example to analyze the changes of water quality. Partial least squares (PLS) regression model, in which the turbidity and Fe ...
