-
Article
Open AccessInvestigation of a novel biofilm model close to the original oral microbiome
A more optimized culture medium used in vitro to mimic the bacterial composition of original oral flora as similar as possible remains difficult at present, and the goal of this study is to develop a novel ora...
-
Article
Open AccessAberrant splicing of CaV1.2 calcium channel induced by decreased Rbfox1 enhances arterial constriction during diabetic hyperglycemia
Diabetic hyperglycemia induces dysfunctions of arterial smooth muscle, leading to diabetic vascular complications. The CaV1.2 calcium channel is one primary pathway for Ca2+ influx, which initiates vasoconstricti...
-
Article
Effects of Co-Firing Biomass and Pulverized Coal on NO Reduction in Cement Precalciner
With increased awareness of the large-scale CO2 emissions from the cement industry, there has been growing focus on greenhouse gas reduction strategies. Among all these strategies, fuel substitution using biomass...
-
Article
Highly selective and efficient photocatalytic NO removal: Charge carrier kinetics and interface molecular process
The widespread nitrogen oxides (NOx, mainly in NO) in the atmosphere have threatened human health and ecological environment. The dilute NO (ppb) is difficult to efficiently remove via the traditional process due...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Numerical Simulation Analysis of Finger Seal Wear Performance
Finger seal is a new type of contacting flexible gas seal which can be used in gas turbine. In order to investigate the wear performance of high-temperature alloy finger seal and rotor with wear-resistant coat...
-
Article
Open AccessOccurrence and health risks of heavy metals in crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) from Jiangsu province, China
Concentrations of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb) in crayfish from Jiangsu province, China, were measured and their health risks were evaluated. For crayfish from both crayfish-rice cult...
-
Article
Dense-Gated Network for Image Super-Resolution
Deep-learning based methods have achieved great success in the field of Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) by progressively exploring contextual and deep semantic features. However, existing methods do not m...
-
Article
Open AccessStudy on environmental factors affecting the quality of codonopsis radix based on MaxEnt model and all-in-one functional factor
Owing to the increasing market demand of Codonopsis Radix, the cropper blindly cultivates to expand planting area for economic benefits, which seriously affects the quality of Codonopsis Radix. Therefore, this...
-
Article
Coal-Biomass Preheating Combustion Characteristics in Cement Precalciner. Part 1: Preheating of Coal/Biomass
The co-combustion of biomass and coal can positively impact the environment and reduce the cost of power generation. However, biomass fuels have many limitations. Circulating fluidized bed (CFB) preheating com...
-
Article
Discovery of potential biomarkers for lung cancer classification based on human proteome microarrays using Stochastic Gradient Boosting approach
Early identification of lung cancer (LC) will considerably facilitate the intervention and prevention of LC. The human proteome micro-arrays approach can be used as a “liquid biopsy” to diagnose LC to compleme...
-
Article
Open AccessDysregulated Rbfox2 produces aberrant splicing of CaV1.2 calcium channel in diabetes-induced cardiac hypertrophy
L-type Ca2+ channel CaV1.2 is essential for cardiomyocyte excitation, contraction and gene transcription in the heart, and abnormal functions of cardiac CaV1.2 channels are presented in diabetic cardiomyopathy. H...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
The Non-destructive Testing Technology of Reinforced Concrete Pipes Based on Ultrasonic Rebound Method
As an important part of municipal infrastructure, the compressive strength of reinforced concrete of full-scale pipes during service cannot be obtained through conventional mechanical tests in-situ due to the ...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
An Experimental Study on the Acoustic Emission Response of Reinforced Concrete Pipe Under Diametrical Load
In this study, mechanical loading tests and acoustic emission (AE) monitoring were conducted for reinforced concrete pipe segments, and the AE response of the whole process of segment failure is explored. The ...
-
Article
Open AccessStreptococcus mutans membrane vesicles inhibit the biofilm formation of Streptococcus gordonii and Streptococcus sanguinis
Streptococcus mutans, whose main virulence factor is glucosyltransferase (Gtf), has a substantial impact on the development of dental caries. S. mutans membrane vesicles (MVs), which are rich in Gtfs, have been s...
-
Article
Multi-color Tunable and White Circularly Polarized Luminescent Composite Nanofibers Electrospun from Chiral Helical Polymer
Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)-active nanomaterials have attracted tremendous attention. However, it is still a big challenge to conveniently fabricate multi-color and white CPL-active nanomaterials o...
-
Article
Open AccessIntegrating Internet multisource big data to predict the occurrence and development of COVID-19 cryptic transmission
With the recent prevalence of COVID-19, cryptic transmission is worthy of attention and research. Early perception of the occurrence and development risk of cryptic transmission is an important part of control...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Hybrid Channel Modeling and Multi-frequency Propagation Characterization for GNSS in Urban Canyons
In order to evaluate the multi-frequency transmission performance of satellite navigation in urban canyon environment, the channel model needs to take into account the difference of multi-frequency transmissio...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
MCAD-Net: Multi-scale Coordinate Attention Dense Network for Single Image Deraining
Single image rain removal is an urgent and challenging task. Images acquired under natural conditions are often affected by rain, which leads to a serious decline in the visual quality of images and hinders so...
-
Reference Work Entry In depth
Chiral Magnetic Nanocomposite Particles: Preparation and Chiral Applications
Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are highly attractive due to their ease of recovery and recycling uses, nontoxicity, and convenient availability. MNPs also show other advantages in that they can be easily functi...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Unpaired Deep Image Dehazing Using Contrastive Disentanglement Learning
We offer a practical unpaired learning based image dehazing network from an unpaired set of clear and hazy images. This paper provides a new perspective to treat image dehazing as a two-class separated factor ...
