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Next-generation neutrino telescopes with substantially improved sensitivity are required to pinpoint the sources of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux detected by IceCube and uncover the century-old puzzl...
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Frailty is a pervasive condition among older people worldwide. Despite the association between higher protein intake and lower frailty risk has been well documented, older individuals encounter barriers to enh...
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This study was intended to define T lymphocyte subsets in different clinical groups of COVID-19-infected patients to explore the interaction between T cell-mediated immune response and the severity of COVID-19...
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A Novel Environmentally Friendly Vegetated Three-Layer Landfill Cover System Using Construction Wastes But Without a Geomembrane
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Metastable β Ti-12Mo wt pct alloys with controllable grain sizes are successfully produced, and the effect of grain size on mechanical responses has been thoroughly investigated. It is found that target alloys...
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Open AccessMeasuring Method for Lightning Channel Temperature
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A survey of outcomes and management of patients post fragility fractures in China
We found that the fragility hip and vertebral fractures caused excess mortality rates in this Chinese female population, which was unexpectedly lower than those in western countries and other Asian countries. ...
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Three modes of rainfall infiltration inducing loess landslide
Rainfall infiltration depth in an integrated and homogeneous soil mass is extremely limited. How does rainfall infiltrate into a loess slope developed with various fractures and holes? How do infiltration mech...
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Impact factors of multiple organ dysfunction syndromes complicating acute myocardial infarction in the elderly: multivariate logistic regression analysis
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Inhibition of hepatitis C virus replication and expression by small interfering RNA targeting host cellular genes
Small interfering RNA (siRNA) is a powerful tool for functional genomics and gene therapy. Viral replication and gene expression are strongly inhibited by siRNA treatment of infected mammalian cells. However, ...
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Development of adiabatic shear bands in annealed 316L stainless steel: Part II. TEM studies of the evolution of microstructure during deformation localization
The evolution of adiabatic shear localization in an annealed AISI 316L stainless steel has been investigated and was reported in Part I of this paper (Met. Trans. A, 2006, Vol. 37A, pp. 2435–446). In the present ...
