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Open AccessRobotic-assisted differential total knee arthroplasty with patient-specific implants: surgical techniques and preliminary results
In total knee arthroplasty (TKA), achieving soft-tissue balance while retaining acceptable lower limb alignment is sometimes difficult and may lead to patient dissatisfaction. Theoretically, patient-specific i...
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Spatial and variety distributions, risk assessment, and prediction model for heavy metals in rice grains in China
In this study, 6229 brown rice grains from three major rice-producing regions were collected to investigate the spatial and variety distributions of heavy metals in rice grains in China. The potential sources ...
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Open AccessUsing sequential bone cutting to titrate soft tissue balance in total knee arthroplasty effectively minimizes soft tissue release
Achieving soft tissue balance while maintaining limb alignment within acceptable boundaries is crucial for successful total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We proposed a sequential bone cutting (SBC) technique to tit...
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Open AccessHierarchical porous ECM scaffolds incorporating GDF-5 fabricated by cryogenic 3D printing to promote articular cartilage regeneration
In recent years, there has been significant research progress on in situ articular cartilage (AC) tissue engineering with endogenous stem cells, which uses biological materials or bioactive factors to improve ...
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Open AccessHydrogel composite scaffolds achieve recruitment and chondrogenesis in cartilage tissue engineering applications
The regeneration and repair of articular cartilage remains a major challenge for clinicians and scientists due to the poor intrinsic healing of this tissue. Since cartilage injuries are often clinically irregu...
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Insight of low-abundance proteins in rice leaves under Cd stress using combinatorial peptide ligand library technology
Low-abundance proteins (LAPs) play a very important role in interaction, regulation, and metabolism of plant biological processes. A combinatorial peptide ligand library (CPLL) can solve the problem of high-ab...
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Open AccessCo-culture of hWJMSCs and pACs in double biomimetic ACECM oriented scaffold enhances mechanical properties and accelerates articular cartilage regeneration in a caprine model
The dedifferentiation of chondrocytes and the unstable chondrogenic differentiation status of pluripotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are immense issues in cell-based articular cartilage repair and regenerat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of a New Type Two-Stage Cutting Composite Bit
In drilling engineering, the timeliness of drill bits is very important, which affects drilling speed and drilling cost. This paper aims at improving economic and technical indexes of single bit and achieving ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimization Design of Drilling Speed in Sulige Gas Field
Ordos basin formation contains a lot of sandstone, strong abrasive property, large amount of mud and sand. The lower part of Yanchang formation has high hardness, poor drillability, and serious dip**, which ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of Oil and Gas Well Ground Manifold Connecting Aid
During the construction of drilling engineering, the connection of the blowout line is inconvenient in the well field. Nowadays, there is no effective auxiliary connection tool. In this paper, according to the...
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Native tissue-based strategies for meniscus repair and regeneration
Meniscus injuries appear to be becoming increasingly common and pose a challenge for orthopedic surgeons. However, there is no curative approach for dealing with defects in the inner meniscus region due to its...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Optimal Joint User Association and Power Allocation Algorithm for Secrecy Information Transmission in Heterogeneous Integrated Networks
In recent years, radio access technologies have experienced rapid development and gradually achieved effective coordination and integration, resulting in heterogeneous networks (HetNets). User equipments (UEs)...
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Open AccessQuantitation of glutathione S-transferases in rice (Oryza sativa L.) roots exposed to cadmium by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry using isotope-labeled wing peptides as an internal standard
Plant glutathione S-transferases (GSTs, EC 2.5.1.18) are multifunctional enzymes involved in heavy metal cellular detoxification by conjugating the tripeptide (g-Glu-Cys-Gly) glutathione to heavy metals. Previous...
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A lower complexity antenna selection for DF relay mimo systems
Based on the existing incremental selection algorithm for Decode-and-Forward (DF) Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems, a faster one which combines the incremental selection with the decremental exclu...
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Channel estimation technique in multi-antenna AF relay communication systems
The channel estimation technique is investigated in OFDM communication systems with multi-antenna Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay. The Space-Time Block Code (STBC) is applied at the transmitter of the relay to ...
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Performance analysis of TAS/MRC-based scheme in time-varying Rayleigh fading channels
This paper investigates a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) scheme combining Transmit Antenna Selection and receive Maximal-Ratio Combining (TAS/MRC) in time-varying Rayleigh fading channels. We first pres...
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The Effect of Salinity Pretreatment on Cd Accumulation and Cd-Induced Stress in BADH -Transgenic and Nontransgenic Rice Seedlings
The influence of betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH) and salinity pretreatment on oxidative stress under cadmium (Cd) toxicity was investigated in rice cv. **ushui 11 and its BADH-transgenic line Bxiushui 11. T...
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Using iron fertilizer to control Cd accumulation in rice plants: A new promising technology
Effects of two kinds of iron fertilizer, FeSO4 and EDTA·Na2Fe were studied on cadmium accumulation in rice plants with two rice genotypes, Zhongzao 22 and Zhongjiazao 02, with soil culture systems. The results sh...
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Iron nutrition affects cadmium accumulation and toxicity in rice plants
The effect of iron (Fe) nutrition on cadmium (Cd) toxicity and accumulation in rice plants was studied using a hydroponic system. The inhibitory effect of Cd on plant growth and chlorophyll content (SPAD value...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Distributed Network Computing on Transient Stability Analysis and Control
In this paper, we introduce graph theory into transient stability analysis in power system. In the weighted graph, Vertex weight represents node’s parallel computing workload and edge weight represents serial ...