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Phantom study of a self-shielded X-ray bone age assessment instrument against scattered radiation in children
Hand-wrist radiography is the most common and accurate method for evaluating children’s bone age. To reduce the scattered radiation of radiosensitive organs in bone age assessment, we designed a small X-ray in...
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Open AccessThe heterogeneity of signaling pathways and drug responses in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with distinct genetic mutations
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is the second most common malignancy among primary liver cancers, with an increasing overall incidence and poor prognosis. The intertumoral and intratumoral heterogeneity ...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Modeling and Simulation of Epoxy/Natural Fiber Composites
The research on epoxy/natural fiber composites and their modeling and simulation methods developed in recent years is summarized. Natural fiber reinforced composites (NFRC), also known as a biological composit...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Modeling and Simulation of Epoxy/Natural Fiber Composites
The research on epoxy/natural fiber composites and their modeling and simulation methods developed in recent years is summarized. Natural fiber reinforced composites (NFRC), also known as a biological composit...
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Open AccessUtilisation of community care services and self-rated health among elderly population in China: a survey-based analysis with propensity score matching method
Elderly care and elderly health are the enormous challenges in such an aging society as China. Community care services have been develo** rapidly in recent years in China as an increasingly mainstream care r...
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Open AccessNIR-II-activated biocompatible hollow nanocarbons for cancer photothermal therapy
Photothermal therapy has attracted extensive attentions in cancer treatment due to its precise spatial-temporal controllability, minimal invasiveness, and negligible side effects. However, two major deficienci...
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Open AccessA high-quality genome assembly highlights rye genomic characteristics and agronomically important genes
Rye is a valuable food and forage crop, an important genetic resource for wheat and triticale improvement and an indispensable material for efficient comparative genomic studies in grasses. Here, we sequenced ...
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Open AccessRural-urban and gender differences in the association between community care services and elderly individuals’ mental health: a case from Shaanxi Province, China
While community care services have been develo** rapidly as a new way to meet the growing demands of elderly individuals in China, their health benefits are virtually unknown. Thus, the aim of this study was...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Partial Distillation of Deep Feature for Unsupervised Image Anomaly Detection and Segmentation
Unsupervised image anomaly detection and segmentation is challenging but important in many fields, such as the defect of product inspection in intelligent manufacturing. The challenge is that, the labeled anom...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Improved Genetic Algorithm for Distributed Job Shop Scheduling Problem
Distributed job shop scheduling is an important branch in the field of intelligent manufacturing. But the literatures are still relatively limited since the issue is still in its infancy. Effective methods sti...
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Open AccessNOTCH1 activation compensates BRCA1 deficiency and promotes triple-negative breast cancer formation
BRCA1 mutation carriers have a higher risk of develo** triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which is a refractory disease due to its non-responsiveness to current clinical targeted therapies. Using the Slee...
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Open AccessBiocompatible Mesoporous Hollow Carbon Nanocapsules for High Performance Supercapacitors
A facile and general method for the controllable synthesis of N-doped hollow mesoporous carbon nanocapsules (NHCNCs) with four different geometries has been developed. The spheres (NHCNC-1), low-concaves (NHCN...
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Effect of coordinated water of hexahydrate on nickel platings from choline–urea ionic liquid
Impacts of coordinated water of nickel chloride hexahydrate (NiCl2·6H2O) on the properties of choline–urea (ChCl–2Urea) ionic liquid (IL), including viscosity and electrical conductivity, and electrodeposition be...
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A dynamic parameter controlled harmony search algorithm for assembly sequence planning
Assembly sequence planning (ASP) plays an important role in intelligent manufacturing. As ASP is a non-deterministic polynomial (NP) hard problem, it is scarcely possible for a brute force approach to find out...
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Leachability of phenanthrene from soil under acid rain and its relationship with dissolved organic matter
Acid rain is a serious environmental problem in the world. Soil columns were leached with simulated acid rain (SAR) at pH ranging from 2.5 to 5.6. The impact of SAR on the release of phenanthrene from red soil...
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Immunogenicity of the capsid precursor and a nine-amino-acid site-directed mutant of the 3C protease of foot-and-mouth disease virus coexpressed by a recombinant goatpox virus
The myristoylated capsid precursor mP1-2A of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), when expressed in mammalian cells and processed by the FMDV 3C protease, can self-assemble into virus-like particles (VLPs). In...
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Chapter
Land Productivity and Food Security in Zhangjiagang, China
Urbanization, industrialization, population expansion and other economic activities have been occurring among different regions in China in varying degrees. Zhangjiagang city is one of the fastest growing citi...
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Preparation, characterization, and blood compatibility of polylactide-based phospholipid polymer
l-α-glycerophosphorylcholine (GPC) was obtained by hydrolysis of lecithin extracted from eggs. FT-IR and 1H-NMR analysis indicated a successful preparation of GPC. Polylactide-based phospholipid polymer (PLLA-PC...
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Effect of electroacupuncture in Wei**g points on gastrointestinal interdigestive migrating motor complex and brain gut peptides release in dogs
Interdigestive gastrointestinal migrating motor complex (MMC) activities were recorded by strain gauge implanted on the serosa in 7 conscious dogs. We studied the effects of electroacupuncture (EAP) Wei**g po...
