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Genome-wide association studies dissect low-phosphorus stress response genes underling field and seedling traits in maize
Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for plant growth, and its deficiency can cause decreased crop yield. This study systematically evaluated the low-phosphate (Pi) response traits in a large population at m...
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Enhanced Nitriding of 38CrMoAl Steels with Laser Vibrational Excitation of Ammonia
Gas nitriding is a thermochemical surface hardening process that is widely used in industry but suffers from a low decomposition rate of ammonia (NH3) and extremely long processing cycles. To enhance the gas nitr...
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Association of magnetic resonance imaging–derived sarcopenia with outcomes of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after hepatectomy
To evaluate whether sarcopenia, diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocol, constitutes a prognosis-associated risk factor in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after hepatectomy.
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Open AccessActivation of kappa opioid receptor suppresses post-traumatic osteoarthritis via sequestering STAT3 on the plasma membrane
Kappa opioid receptor (KOR) signaling is involved in joint development and inflammation in Osteoarthritis (OA), while the biochemical mechanism remains unclarified. This study aims to investigate downstream mo...
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Exploring the phosphorus–starch content balance mechanisms in maize grains using GWAS population and transcriptome data
Examining the connection between P and starch-related signals can help elucidate the balance between nutrients and yield. This study utilized 307 diverse maize inbred lines to conduct multi-year and multi-plot...
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Open AccessPredictive Factors for the Formation of Viable Embryos in Subfertile Patients with Diminished Ovarian Reserve: A Clinical Prediction Study
This study aims to construct and validate a nomogram for predicting blastocyst formation in patients with diminished ovarian reserve (DOR) during in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures. A retrospective analys...
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Open AccessPhotocatalytic toluene oxidation with nickel-mediated cascaded active units over Ni/Bi2WO6 monolayers
Adsorption and activation of C–H bonds by photocatalysts are crucial for the efficient conversion of C–H bonds to produce high-value chemicals. Nevertheless, the delivery of surface-active oxygen species for C...
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Identification of heavy metal stress in rice using spatial clustering based on time series of crop spectral information
Rice is susceptible to various types of stresses during its growth cycle, including heavy metals, drought, nutritional stress, pests, and diseases, resulting in inaccurately distinguishing heavy metal stress f...
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Identification of a stripe rust resistance gene in Chinese wheat line Shaannong69 using bulked-segregant sequencing
Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a devastating fungal disease, leading to huge yield losses in wheat production. Identification of resistance genes and closely linked molecular...
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The defect-modulated UiO-66(Ce) MOFs for enhancing photocatalytic selective organic oxidations
Defect engineering in metal organic frameworks (MOFs) has captured significant attention in the field of photocatalysis. A series of UiO-66(Ce) (UiO = University of Oslo) MOFs with different contents of missin...
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Identification novel mutations and phenotypic spectrum expanding in PATL2 in infertile women with IVF/ICSI failure
Abnormalities in oocyte maturation, fertilization, and early embryonic development are major causes of primary infertility in women who are undergoing IVF/ICSI attempts. Although many genetic factors responsib...
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A convolutional Neural Network Approach for Character Recognition in Non-English License Plates
Non-English license plate recognition is a challenging task due to the lack of standardization in license plate design and the diversity of image quality, lighting conditions, and camera angles. Although many ...
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Open AccessRedox proteomics of PANC-1 cells reveals the significance of HIF-1 signaling protein oxidation in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma pathogenesis
Protein cysteine oxidation is substantially involved in various biological and pathogenic processes, but its implications in pancreatic cancer development remains poorly understood.
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Open AccessNLRC4 methylation and its response to intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in Kawasaki disease: a case control study
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis accompanied by many systemic physiological and biochemical changes. Elucidating its molecular mechanisms is crucial for diagnosing and develo** effective treatm...
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Open AccessNeutrophil CD64 index as a new early predictive biomarker for infected pancreatic necrosis in acute pancreatitis
Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) is a serious complication of acute pancreatitis, and early recognition and timely intervention are the keys to improving clinical outcomes. The purpose of this study was to...
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Open AccessTON1 recruiting motif 21 positively regulates the flavonoid metabolic pathway at the translational level in Arabidopsis thaliana
This study reveals that TRM21 acts as a positive regulator of flavonoid biosynthesis at the translational level in Arabidopsis, impacting both secondary metabolites and genes associated with root hair growth.
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Eigenvalue Estimates for Beltrami-Laplacian Under Bakry-Émery Ricci Curvature Condition
On closed Riemannian manifolds with Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature bounded from below and bounded gradient of the potential function, we obtain lower bounds for all positive eigenvalues of the Beltrami-Laplacian ...
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Bi-allelic missense variants in MEI4 cause preimplantation embryonic arrest and female infertility
Preimplantation embryonic arrest is an important pathogenesis of female infertility, but little is known about the genetic factors behind this phenotype. MEI4 is an essential protein for DNA double-strand brea...
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ABCD-HN: An Artificial Network Benchmark for Community Detection on Heterogeneous Networks
Community detection is essential for identifying cohesive groups in complex networks. Artificial benchmarks are critical for evaluating community detection algorithms, offering controlled environments with kno...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Incremental Inductive Dynamic Network Community Detection
In order to address the problem of reconstruction and retraining time overhead in representation learning processing dynamic networks, this paper proposes an incremental inductive dynamic network community det...
