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Association of magnetic resonance imaging–derived sarcopenia with outcomes of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after hepatectomy
To evaluate whether sarcopenia, diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocol, constitutes a prognosis-associated risk factor in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after hepatectomy.
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Open AccessAssessment of disease control rate and safety of sorafenib in targeted therapy for advanced liver cancer
The clinical efficacy and safety of sorafenib in patients with advanced liver cancer (ALC) were evaluated based on transarterial chemoembolization (TACE).
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CBCT-based three-dimensional dual-phase vascular image fusion: a novel technique for interventional real-time TIPS guidance
Due to the invisibility of the portal vein (PV), how to puncture the PV accurately and safely in transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) creation remains a challenge of the procedure.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Diving Deep into the Preimage Security of AES-Like Hashing
Since the seminal works by Sasaki and Aoki, Meet-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks are recognized as an effective technique for preimage and collision attacks on hash functions. At Eurocrypt 2021, Bao et al. automated...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Full Round Distinguishing and Key-Recovery Attacks on SAND-2
This paper presents full round distinguishing and key recovery attacks on lightweight block cipher SAND-2 with 64-bit block size and 128-bit key size, which appears to be a mixture of the AND-Rotation-XOR (AND...
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Molecular dynamics simulations reveal the inhibition mechanism of Cdc42 by RhoGDI1
Cell division control protein 42 homolog (Cdc42), which controls a variety of cellular functions including rearrangements of the cell cytoskeleton, cell differentiation and proliferation, is a potential cancer...
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Validation of catalytic site residues of Ubiquitin Specific Protease 2 (USP2) by molecular dynamic simulation and novel kinetics assay for rational drug design
Post-translational modifications of proteins such as protein ubiquitination are crucial for regulating conformation, stability and localization of the modified protein. Ubiquitin-specific protease 2 (USP2), a ...
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Comparing the predictive ability of portoatrial and portocaval gradient after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt creation for variceal rebleeding
Measuring the portal pressure gradient from the portal vein (PV) to the inferior vena cava (IVC) or to the right atrium (RA) remains controversial. The aim of our study was to compare the predictive ability of...
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Predictive power of portal pressure gradient remeasured shortly after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt
The portal pressure gradient (PPG) measured at the time of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) completion (immediate PPG) is easily disturbed by many factors. This study aimed to assess the di...
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Response of the North Pacific Storm Track Activity in the Cold Season to Multi-scale Oceanic Variations of Kuroshio Extension System: A Statistical Assessment
In this paper, a statistical method called Generalized Equilibrium Feedback Analysis (GEFA) is used to investigate the responses of the North Pacific Storm Track (NPST) in the cold season to the multi-scale oc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Linear Cryptanalysis and Its Variants with Fast Fourier Transformation Technique on MPC/FHE/ZK-Friendly \(\mathbb {F}_p\) -Based Ciphers
The emergence of advanced cryptographic protocols has promoted the developments of many applications, such as secure multi-party computation (MPC). For this reason, new symmetric-key primitives have been desig...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Related-Key Differential Cryptanalysis of GMiMC Used in Post-Quantum Signatures
With the urgency of the threat imposed by quantum computers, there is a strong interest in making the signature schemes quantum resistant. As the promising candidates to ensure post-quantum security, symmetric...
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Hydrogen sulfite promoted the activation of persulfate by μM Fe2+ for bisphenol A degradation
This study evaluated the improvement of bisphenol A (BPA) elimination through hydrogen sulfite (HS) coupling with persulfate (PS) activated by low amounts of Fe2+. Under the optimum condition (10 μM Fe2+, 0.6 mM ...
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Dominant modes of winter SST variability in the Japan Sea and their influences on atmosphere
The high-resolution spatial and long-term temporal variabilities of winter sea surface temperature (SST) in the Japan Sea and their influences on the atmosphere are investigated using a newly published satelli...
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Open AccessAchieving thermally stable nanoparticles in chemically complex alloys via controllable sluggish lattice diffusion
Nanoparticle strengthening provides a crucial basis for develo** high-performance structural materials with potentially superb mechanical properties for structural applications. However, the general wisdom o...
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SREBF2 triggers endoplasmic reticulum stress and Bax dysregulation to promote lipopolysaccharide-induced endothelial cell injury
An increased lipopolysaccharide (LPS) level in patients with cirrhosis induced the dysregulation of sterol regulatory element–binding transcription factor 2 (SREBF2), which participated in the modulation of tu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adapting on Road Traffic-Oriented Controlled Optimization of Phases to Heterogeneous Intersections
The optimization of traffic signal control has become a significant issue concerned by the whole society with the increasingly travel demands and the rise of vehicles on roadways. As one of the mature optimiza...
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SAND: an AND-RX Feistel lightweight block cipher supporting S-box-based security evaluations
We revisit designing AND-RX block ciphers, that is, the designs assembled with the most fundamental binary operations—AND, Rotation and XOR operations and do not rely on existing units. Likely, the most popula...
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Knockdown of TRIM15 inhibits the activation of hepatic stellate cells
Liver fibrosis is a global public health problem, and the activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) is the main driving force for liver fibrosis. However, the activation mechanism of HSCs is still not fully ...
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Enhancing the thermal stability of silica-mineralized wood via layer-by-layer self-assembly
Employing a combination of a layer-by-layer self-assembly and sol gel methods, a negatively charged silica sol was successfully deposited into the cell wall and cell cavity of wood by the electrostatic attract...
