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Carbon dots with enhanced red emission for ratiometric sensing and encryption applications
The excitation-dependent emission properties of carbon dots (Cdots) are extensively reported, but their red emission is often weak, limiting their wider application. Here we introduce ethidium bromide, as a fu...
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Electrodeposition of rare refractory metals in low-temperature ionic liquids
Rare refractory metals (RRMs) play a significant role in fundamental industries, including electronics, chemical industry, machinery, etc., and future advanced fields, such as aerospace and superconductivity. ...
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A fundamental study on postmortem submersion interval estimation by metabolomics analyzing of gastrocnemius muscle from submersed rat models in freshwater
In forensic practice, determining the postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) and cause-of-death of cadavers in aquatic ecosystems has always been challenging task. Traditional approaches are not yet able to add...
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Open AccessDynamic change in the peritoneal cancer index based on CT after chemotherapy in the overall survival prediction of gastric cancer patients with peritoneal metastasis
The purpose of this research was to investigate the efficacy of the CT-based peritoneal cancer index (PCI) to predict the overall survival of patients with peritoneal metastasis in gastric cancer (GCPM) after ...
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A sufficient and necessary condition for one dimensional boundary blow-up problem with p-Laplace operator
The existence, uniqueness and asymptotic behavior for one dimensional boundary blow-up problem with p-Laplace operator has been investigated. This problem arises in many fields, such as in the theory of automo...
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Open AccessOrigin of charge density wave in topological semimetals SrAl4 and EuAl4
Topological semimetals in BaAl4-type structure show many interesting behaviors, such as charge density wave (CDW) in SrAl4 and EuAl4, but not the isostructural and isovalent BaAl4, SrGa4, and BaGa4. Here using Wa...
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Candidate biomarkers in brown adipose tissue for post-mortem diagnosis of fatal hypothermia
Post-mortem diagnosis of fatal hypothermia (FHT) is challenging in forensic practice because traditional morphological and biochemical methods lack specificity. Recent studies have reported that brown adipose ...
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Health-related quality of life in Chinese SLE patients: evidence from 1568 SLE patients and 2610 healthy controls
To investigate the effects of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), the relationship between disease activity and HRQOL, and potential factors affecting HRQOL in Chinese...
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Open AccessFlower color polymorphism of a wild Iris on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau
Flower color plays a crucial role in attracting pollinators and facilitating environmental adaptation. Investigating the causes of flower color polymorphism and understanding their potential effects on both ec...
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Open AccessAb-initio simulations of coherent phonon-induced pum** of carriers in zirconium pentatelluride
Laser-driven coherent phonons can act as modulated strain fields and modify the adiabatic ground state topology of quantum materials. Here we use time-dependent first-principles and effective model calculation...
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6-Methoxydihydrosanguinarine exhibits cytotoxicity and sensitizes TRAIL-induced apoptosis of hepatocellular carcinoma cells through ROS-mediated upregulation of DR5
6-methoxydihydrosanguinarine (6-MS), a natural benzophenanthridine alkaloid extracted from Macleaya cordata (Willd.) R. Br, has shown to trigger apoptotic cell death in cancer cells. However, the exact mechanisms...
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Open AccessIdentification of autophagy-associated circRNAs in sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy of mice
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play a role in sepsis-related autophagy. However, the role of circRNAs in autophagy after sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy (SICM) is unknown, so we explored the circRNA expression profile...
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Open AccessUnconventional surface state pairs in a high-symmetry lattice with anti-ferromagnetic band-folding
Many complex magnetic structures in a high-symmetry lattice can arise from a superposition of well-defined magnetic wave vectors. These “multi-q” structures have garnered much attention because of interesting ...
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Open AccessIFN-γ-STAT1-mediated CD8+ T-cell-neural stem cell cross talk controls astrogliogenesis after spinal cord injury
Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes nearly all patients to suffer from protracted disabilities. An emerging therapeutic strategy involving the recruitment of endogenous neural stem cells (NSCs) has been developed....
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Protective effect of ginsenoside Rd on military aviation noise-induced cochlear hair cell damage in guinea pigs
Noise pollution has become one of the important social hazards that endanger the auditory system of residents, causing noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). Oxidative stress has a significant role in the pathogen...
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An association study on the risk, glucocorticoids effectiveness, and prognosis of systemic lupus erythematosus: insight from mitochondrial DNA copy number
This study aimed to explore the role of mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn) in the risk, glucocorticoid (GC) effectiveness, and prognosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and its interactions with env...
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On Equilibrium in a Constant Retrial Queuing System with Reserved Time and Vacations
This paper investigates an M/M/1 constant retrial queue with reserved time and vacations. A new arriving customer will take up the server and accept service immediately if the server is idle. Otherwise, if the...
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Open AccessSingle-cell transcriptome analysis reveals the immune heterogeneity and the repopulation of microglia by Hif1α in mice after spinal cord injury
Neuroinflammation is regarded as a vital pathological process in spinal cord injury (SCI), which removes damaged tissue, secretes cytokines, and facilitates regeneration. Repopulation of microglia has been sho...
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Publisher Correction: Emergence of Fermi arcs due to magnetic splitting in an antiferromagnet
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A preliminary study on early postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) estimation and cause-of-death discrimination based on nontargeted metabolomics and machine learning algorithms
Postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) estimation and cause-of-death discrimination of corpses in water have long been challenges in forensic practice. Recently, many studies have linked postmortem metabolic ch...
