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Complexin-1 enhances ultrasound neurotransmission in the mammalian auditory pathway
Unlike megabats, which rely on well-developed vision, microbats use ultrasonic echolocation to navigate and locate prey. To study ultrasound perception, here we compared the auditory cortices of microbats and ...
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Open AccessAssociations between perceived and actual risk of HIV infection and HIV prevention services uptake among men who have sex with men in Shandong province, China: a cross-sectional study
Associations between perceived and actual risk of HIV infection and HIV prevention services uptake are inconclusive. This study aimed to evaluate the discrepancy between the perceived and actual HIV risk, and ...
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Open AccessDielectric thermally conductive boron nitride/silica@MWCNTs/polyvinylidene fluoride composites via a combined electrospinning and hot press method
With the development of microelectronics towards integration, miniaturization and high power, the accumulation of heat in this small space has become a serious problem. Therefore, polymer matrix composites wit...
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Open AccessCharacteristics and spending patterns of high-cost child patients: findings from Fujian in China
The health condition during childhood has been shown to influence an individual’s health and socioeconomic status in adulthood. Understanding the concentration and persistence patterns in children’s healthcare...
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One-Bit DOA Estimation Using Cross-Dipole Array
In this paper, we devise an effective algorithm for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using the cross-dipole array via one-bit quantization. Firstly, we theoretically prove that after one-bit quantization,...
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Open AccessEfficacy of Wearable low-intensity pulsed Ultrasound treatment in the Movement disorder in Parkinson’s disease (the SWUMP trial): protocol for a single-site, double-blind, randomized controlled trial
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative illness marked by the loss of dopaminergic neurons, causing motor symptoms. Oral levodopa replacement therapy remains the gold standard in the treat...
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Open AccessCrtc1 deficiency protects against sepsis-associated acute lung injury through activating akt signaling pathway
Interplay between systemic inflammation and programmed cell death contributes to the pathogenesis of acute lung injury (ALI). cAMP-regulated transcriptional coactivator 1 (CRTC1) has been involved in the norma...
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Open AccessEnabling robust blue circularly polarized organic afterglow through self-confining isolated chiral chromophore
Creating circularly polarized organic afterglow system with elevated triplet energy levels, suppressed non-radiative transitions, and effective chirality, which are three critical prerequisites for achieving b...
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Open AccessCorneal subbasal nerve plexus reinnervation and stromal cell morphology with different cap thicknesses in small incision lenticule extraction
The corneal cap thickness is a vital parameter designed in small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE). The purpose was to investigate the changes in corneal subbasal nerve plexus (SNP) and stromal cells with ...
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Healthcare and Social Needs Assessment and Response Quality Among Black Men
To understand Black men’s healthcare and social needs and determine if the resources that healthcare systems offer meet expectations. We surveyed men who had previously participated in at least one Minority Me...
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Robust DOA Estimator Against Mutual Coupling Using One-Bit Sampling
In this paper, we address the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using one-bit sampling in the presence of unknown mutual coupling. Firstly we reconstruct the normalized covariance matrix by util...
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Open AccessHigh temperature delays and low temperature accelerates evolution of a new protein phenotype
Since the origin of life, temperatures on earth have fluctuated both on short and long time scales. How such changes affect the rate at which Darwinian evolution can bring forth new phenotypes remains unclear....
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Open AccessAssociation of interleukin-6, ferritin, and lactate dehydrogenase with venous thromboembolism in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is frequntly accompanied by venous thromboembolism (VTE), and its mechanism may be related to the abnormal inflammation and immune status of COVID-19 patients. It has been p...
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A new predictor of coronary artery disease in acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack patients: pericarotid fat density
The study aims to evaluate the incremental predictive value of pericarotid fat density (PFD) on head and neck computed tomography angiography (CTA) for the obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) (≥ 50% sten...
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Open AccessA Siamese Swin-Unet for image change detection
The problem of change detection in remote sensing image processing is both difficult and important. It is extensively used in a variety of sectors, including land resource planning, monitoring and forecasting ...
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Open AccessExploration and bioinformatic prediction for profile of mRNA bound to circular RNA BTBD7_hsa_circ_0000563 in coronary artery disease
As a novel circRNA, BTBD7_hsa_circ_0000563 has not been fully investigated in coronary artery disease (CAD). Our aim is to reveal the possible functional role and regulatory pathway of BTBD7_hsa_circ_0000563 i...
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Fully automated artificial intelligence-based coronary CT angiography image processing: efficiency, diagnostic capability, and risk stratification
To prospectively investigate whether fully automated artificial intelligence (FAAI)-based coronary CT angiography (CCTA) image processing is non-inferior to semi-automated mode in efficiency, diagnostic abilit...
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Quality improvement of refill friction stir spot welds in 2A12-T42 aluminum alloy with alclad by adjusting sleeve design
In this study, a modified sleeve was utilized for refill friction stir spot welding (RFSSW) of 2A12-T42 aluminum alloy sheet compared to a conventional one. The effect of sleeve design on the macrostructures, ...
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Effect of Hot Torsion on Microstructure and Properties of Precipitation Hardening Martensitic Stainless Steel
In this study, a 14.4Cr-13.9Co-4.9Mo-0.5 V precipitation hardening steel was twisted by free-end torsion at various temperatures. The microstructure of the twisted samples at different strained layers was char...
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Buckling Analysis of Viscoelastic Composite Bistable Column-Shell Booms
Composite thin-walled column-shell structures prepared at certain ply angles can be stable in both the curled state and the deployment state without any other constraints. This structure has high deployment re...
