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Seismogenic Structure of the 1605 Qiongshan M7½ Earthquake and Its Holocene Activity History in Northern Hainan Island, China: Evidence from Cross-Section Drilling and Shallow Seismic Profile
The 1605 M7½ Earthquake is the only earthquake in the history of China that has caused large-scale land subsidence into the sea, with the total area of land subsidence exceeding 100 km2. The disaster has led to t...
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Mechanical, electronic structure, magnetic properties, and strain effects of quaternary Heusler alloy FeMnZnZ (Z = Si, Ge, Sn, Pb)
In this study, the electronic structure and mechanical and magnetic properties of quaternary Heusler alloy FeMnZnZ (Z = Si, Ge, Sn, Pb) were analyzed through first-principles calculations. The electronic band and...
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Open AccessA weighted-sum chaotic sparrow search algorithm for interdisciplinary feature selection and data classification
In today’s data-driven digital culture, there is a critical demand for optimized solutions that essentially reduce operating expenses while attempting to increase productivity. The amount of memory and process...
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Open AccessPaleoenvironmental changes in the coastal zone of the northwest South China Sea during the last 13 kyr
Marine sediments in coastal zones serve as valuable archives for understanding the history of silicate chemical weathering and summer monsoon rainfall in source areas, providing insights into terrigenous clima...
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Assessing Heavy Metal Pollution of the Largest Nature Reserve in Tian** City, China
Beidagang Wetland (BW) Nature Reserve is centrally situated in Tian** City, experiencing an extreme industrial development. This study uses index characteristic analysis systems for assessing the individual a...
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Preparation and visible-light photocatalytic activity of Bi5+ doped Bi2WO6 nanoflowers
Bi5+ doped Bi2WO6 nanoflowers were prepared for the first time by hydrothermal method using sodium bismuth and sodium tungstate as raw materials. The crystal structure, micromorphology, optical absorption and pho...
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Characteristics of Thin Films of Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Fe1.1Ti0.9O3−δ Under the Pulsed Laser Deposition Method at Different Substrate Temperatures
In this study, epitaxial Fe1.1Ti0.9O3−δ thin films with a smooth surface were prepared by adjusting the substrate temperature (TS) and via pulsed laser deposition (PLD) in Ar gas and α-Al2O3 (001) substrate. Duri...
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Fusion of subarachnoid hemorrhage data and computed tomography angiography data is helpful to identify the rupture source in patients with multiple intracranial aneurysms
Determining the rupture source is imperative in patient with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). About one third of SAH cases with multiple intracranial aneurysms cannot be certain of the rupture source ...
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Diabetic Retinopathy Detection Based on Weakly Supervised Object Localization and Knowledge Driven Attribute Mining
Disease grading and lesion identification are two important tasks for diabetic retinopathy detection. Disease grading uses image-level annotation but lesion identification often needs the fine-grained annotati...
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Ti Cap** Layer Effects in Microstructure and Magnetic Properties of Sputter-Deposited FePt Thin Film
Ti/FePt/Fe nano-thin films were fabricated by a DC facing-target magnetron sputtering method onto glass substrates at room temperature and were subsequently annealed in situ in vacuum. The impacts of the Ti ca...
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Genetic association study of exfoliation syndrome identifies a protective rare variant at LOXL1 and five new susceptibility loci
Chiea Chuen Khor, Tin Aung, Francesca Pasutto, Janey Wiggs and colleagues report a global genome-wide association study of exfoliation syndrome and a fine-map** analysis of a previously identified disease-as...
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Open AccessAssociation of three single nucleotide polymorphisms at the SIX1-SIX6 locus with primary open angle glaucoma in the Chinese population
This study investigated the genetic association of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs; rs10483727, rs33912345, and rs146737847) at the SIX1-SIX6 locus with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in the Chine...
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Open AccessEthnic specific association of the CAV1/CAV2 locus with primary open-angle glaucoma
A single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs4236601 at the CAV1/CAV2 locus is associated with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). Rs4236601 is common in Caucasians but rare in East Asians. Here we conducted a haplot...
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Correction: Corrigendum: A common variant map** to CACNA1A is associated with susceptibility to exfoliation syndrome
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A common variant map** to CACNA1A is associated with susceptibility to exfoliation syndrome
Tin Aung, Chiea-Chuen Khor and colleagues report the results of a genome-wide association study of exfoliation syndrome. They replicate a known association at LOXL1 and identify a previously unreported associatio...
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Postharvest treatment with trans-2-hexenal induced resistance against Botrytis cinerea in tomato fruit
Trans-2-hexenal is a biocidal molecule released in many fruits and vegetables. In this paper, the effects of trans-2-hexenal on the control of postharvest diseases in tomato fruits were investigated. We indica...
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Common variants near ABCA1 and in PMM2 are associated with primary open-angle glaucoma
Zhenglin Yang, **nghuai Sun and colleagues report the results of a genome-wide association study of primary open-angle glaucoma in East Asians. They show that common variants near ABCA1 and in PPM2 are associated...
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MGARP Regulates Mouse Neocortical Development via Mitochondrial Positioning
Neocortical development is an extremely complicated process that critically depends on the proper migration, distribution, and positioning of neural cells. Here, we identified mitochondria-localized glutamic a...
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Expression and tissue localization of renalase, a novel soluble FAD-dependent protein, in reproductive/steroidogenic systems
Renalase was initially identified in human kidney as a soluble monoamine oxidase. Here we show that renalase is predominantly expressed in reproductive/steroidogenic systems, with particularly substantial expr...
