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Open AccessThe burden and predictors of 30-day unplanned readmission in patients with acute liver failure: a national representative database study
Liver diseases were significant source of early readmission burden. This study aimed to evaluate the 30-day unplanned readmission rates, causes of readmissions, readmission costs, and predictors of readmission...
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The interfaces in incompatible A/B homopolymer blends with graft copolymer: a dissipative particle dynamics simulation study
The use of graft copolymers as surfactants offers a promising approach to enhance the interfacial properties of polymer blends or fluid blends. The effectiveness of these copolymers is closely related to their...
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Primal-Dual Algorithm for Distributed Optimization with Coupled Constraints
This paper focuses on distributed consensus optimization problems with coupled constraints over time-varying multi-agent networks, where the global objective is the finite sum of all agents’ private local obje...
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Moving object detection in satellite videos based on an improved ViBe algorithm
This paper studies moving object detection in satellite videos, which plays a significant role for large-scale video monitoring and dynamic analysis. Due to the tiny targets, complex background, and completely...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Prognostic value of neutrophil count to albumin ratio in patients with decompensated cirrhosis
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Open AccessPrognostic value of neutrophil count to albumin ratio in patients with decompensated cirrhosis
Our study aimed to investigate the prognostic value of neutrophil count to albumin ratio (NAR) in predicting short-term mortality of patients with decompensated cirrhosis (DC). A total of 623 DC patients were ...
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Deregulated Circulating Long Non-coding RNA TUG1 in Elderly Patients with Severe Pneumonia
To investigate the expression pattern of long non-coding RNA TUG1 in elderly patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP) and evaluate its diagnostic and prognostic value for sCAP. Serum TUG1 level...
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Large-Scale Traffic Signal Control Based on Integration of Adaptive Subgraph Reformulation and Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
In multiple intersection environment, it is difficult to require all agents to collectively make a globally optimal decision, for which the dimension of action space increases exponentially with the number of ...
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TrafficSCINet: An Adaptive Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Forecasting
For complex nonlinear temporal and spatial correlation in traffic flow data, the accurate and effective traffic flow forecasting model is indispensable for understanding the traffic dynamics and predicting the...
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Open AccessIsolation, complete genome sequencing and in silico genome mining of Burkholderia for secondary metabolites
Recent years, Burkholderia species have emerged as a new source of natural products (NPs) with increasing attractions. Genome mining suggests the Burkholderia genomes include many natural product biosynthetic gen...
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Identification of serum metabolites enhancing inflammatory responses in COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is characterized by a strong production of inflammatory cytokines such as TNF and IL-6, which underl...
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Comprehensive review of modeling, structure, and integration techniques of smart buildings in the cyber-physical-social system
Smart buildings have been proven to be a kind of flexible demand response resources in the power system. To maximize the utilization of the demand response resources, such as the heating, ventilating and air-c...
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Open AccessDownregulation of phosphoglycerate mutase 5 improves microglial inflammasome activation after traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is considered as the most common cause of disability and death, and therefore an effective intervention of cascade pathology of secondary brain injury promptly can be a potential t...
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Study on Performance of Savonius Rotor Type Wave Energy Converter Used in Conjunction with Floating Breakwater
In the present study, the performance characteristics of a Savonius rotor type wave energy converter used in conjunction with a conventional double-buoy floating breakwater is investigated using physical model...
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Effects of microRNA-338 Transfection into Sciatic Nerve on Rats with Experimental Autoimmune Neuritis
Nerve demyelination or axonal lesions are characteristic of experimental autoimmune neuritis (EAN). Previous studies have demonstrated that microRNA-338 can regulate the differentiation and maturation of oligo...
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Sliding Mode Control for a Constant Force Suspension System
The constant force suspension system is the core device of suspended gravity compensation platform. It can provide a microgravity environment similar to space for test objects, and is of great significance to ...
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Experimental Research on A New Type of Floating Breakwater for Wave-Absorbing and Energy-Capturing
To avoid the damage caused by big wind and wave in cage culture, and to solve the problem of energy supply faced by automatic breeding equipment, a new type of floating breakwater, named as Savonius double buo...
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Open AccessProtein-caged zinc porphyrin as a carbonic anhydrase mimic for carbon dioxide capture
Zinc tetraphenylporphyrin (Zn-TPP) solubilized by GroEL protein cage was prepared as a supramolecular mimic of carbonic anhydrase (CA) for CO2 capture. It is shown that the soluble Zn-TPP-GroEL complex can be for...
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High-spatiotemporal-resolution map** of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
High-resolution global maps of annual urban land coverage provide fundamental information of global environmental change and contribute to applications related to climate mitigation and urban planning for sust...
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Rural Areas’ Resilient Development Under a Water Conservancy Project: The Case of Nantong, China
This chapter aims at figuring out the key mechanism for the development of the villages neighbouring the city in Nantong, China. By carrying out the research of this region, a varied way of evolution in the ru...
