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Molecular Mechanism of Polysaccharides Extracted from Chinese Medicine Targeting Gut Microbiota for Promoting Health
The accumulating evidence revealed that gut microbiota plays an important role in pathological process of disease including obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, heart failure, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disea...
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Open AccessCT features of calcified micro-gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a case series
Due to the lack of corresponding clinical symptoms, small calcified gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are often overlooked in clinical practice. Therefore, there is an unmet need to define the im...
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Development and Application of High-Performance Grouting Materials for Anchoring Pipe in Soft Rock Tunnel
A high-performance grouting material is proposed to enhance the support effect of anchoring pipes in soft rock mass tunnels in this paper. Through mix proportion and strength tests, the initial setting time, c...
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Phenolic Compounds from Liparis viridiflora and their Inhibitory Effects on Nitric Oxide Production
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Utility of fetal cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in assessing the cardiac axis in fetuses with congenital heart disease
Fetal dedicated echocardiography is the standard to measure the fetal cardiac axis. However, fetal screening ultrasound (US) or fetal dedicated echocardiography may be technically limited.
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Open AccessThe relationship among social capital, eHealth literacy and health behaviours in Chinese elderly people: a cross-sectional study
Social capital has been linked to health behaviours, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. Previous studies have found that health literacy played the role of a mediator in the relationships among social ca...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: The Apostasia genome and the evolution of orchids
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessExpression regulation of MALATE SYNTHASE involved in glyoxylate cycle during protocorm development in Phalaenopsis aphrodite (Orchidaceae)
Orchid (Orchidaceae) is one of the largest families in angiosperms and presents exceptional diversity in lifestyle. Their unique reproductive characteristics of orchid are attracted by scientist for centuries....
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Designing Secure Quantum Key Agreement Protocols Against Dishonest Participants
Quantum key agreement (QKA) aims to negotiate a secure and consistent key among several participants. In this paper, we find that a type of QKA protocol is not secure when a participant is dishonest. He can ma...
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Open AccessEfficient travelling-mode quantum key agreement against participant’s attacks
Quantum key agreement (QKA) is to negotiate a final key among several participants fairly and securely. In this paper, we show that some existing travelling-mode multiparty QKA protocols are vulnerable to inte...
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Chemical Constituents of Pholidota articulata
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Diagnosis of anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery by echocardiography
To review the imaging characteristics and evaluate the diagnostic value of echocardiography for diagnosing anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ARCAPA).
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Open AccessSleep Disturbance and Related Factors in Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma and Their Family Caregivers Prior to the Initiation of Treatment
Sleep disturbance is a common complaint in cancer patients. However, less is known about the parameters of sleep in patients with nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) and their family caregivers (FCs) when they are abo...
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Open AccessDual stimuli-responsive rotaxane-branched dendrimers with reversible dimension modulation
With the aim of mimicking biological machines, in which the delicate arrangement of nanomechanical units lead to the output of specific functions upon the external stimulus, the construction of dual stimuli-re...
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Open AccessSelf-assembly of emissive supramolecular rosettes with increasing complexity using multitopic terpyridine ligands
Coordination-driven self-assembly has emerged as a powerful bottom-up approach to construct various supramolecular architectures with increasing complexity and functionality. Tetraphenylethylene (TPE) has been...
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Open AccessCorrelations between mitochondrial DNA haplogroup D5 and chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Yunnan, China
Mitochondrial abnormality is frequently reported in individuals with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, but the associated hosts’ mitochondrial genetic factors remain obscure. We hypothesized that mitochondria...
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Parental attendance of Chestnut Thrush reduces nest predation during the incubation period: compensation for low nest concealment?
A well-concealed nest site is supposed to reduce nest predation risk; however, the expected positive relationship between nest concealment and nest survival does not exist in some passerine species, especially...
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Open AccessThe Apostasia genome and the evolution of orchids
WebComparing the whole genome sequence of Apostasia shenzhenica with transcriptome and genome data from five orchid subfamilies permits the reconstruction of an ancestral gene toolkit, providing insight into orch...
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Influence of Kluyveromyces marxianus on proteins, peptides, and amino acids in Lactobacillus-fermented milk
With increasing application of yeast in fermented milk, in order to study the effect of yeast on milk protein during the fermentation process, the effects of the presence of Kluyveromyces marxianus in milk fermen...
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Analytical approach for support mechanism of feet-lock pipe combined with steel frame in weak rock tunnels
In the past few decades, an effective support method, i.e., adopting feet-lock pipe combined with steel frame, has been successfully applied to the settlement control in excavation of many weak rock tunnels. H...
