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Efficient Fixation of CO2 to Cyclic Carbonates Under Mild Conditions Catalyzed by Deep Eutectic Solvent
The fixation of CO2 into valuable chemicals under mild conditions is of great importance. Here, we reported an efficient and mild method for the cycloaddition of CO2 to cyclic carbonates. Iodized salt of DBU was ...
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Open AccessA classification and recognition algorithm of key figures in public opinion integrating multidimensional similarity and K-shell based on supernetwork
In online public opinion events, key figures are crucial to the formation and diffusion of public opinion, to the evolution and dissemination of topics, and to the guidance and transformation of the direction ...
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Open AccessCharacterization of tumour microenvironment reprogramming reveals invasion in epithelial ovarian carcinoma
Patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage with tumour cell invasion. However, identifying the underlying molecular mechanisms and biomarkers of EOC proliferati...
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Pollution characteristics and health risk assessment of phthalate esters in agricultural soil of the Yellow River Delta, China
A total of 100 agricultural soil samples, collected in the Yellow River Delta, China, were analyzed for six U.S. Environmental Protection Agency priority phthalate esters (PAEs), focusing on the characteristic...
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Highly efficient generation of blastocyst-like structures from spliceosomes-repressed mouse totipotent blastomere-like cells
Mammalian embryogenesis begins with a totipotent zygote. Blastocyst-like structures can be captured by aggregated cells with extended pluripotent properties in a three-dimensional (3D) culture system. However,...
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Outdoor air pollution exposure and the risk of asthma and wheezing in the offspring
According to the “fetal origin of disease” hypothesis, air pollution exposure in pregnancy may play an important role in stimulating the early programming of asthma and allergies. However, previous studies rep...
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Open AccessLevels of extracellular matrix metabolites are associated with changes in Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score and MRI inflammation scores in patients with axial spondyloarthritis during TNF inhibitor therapy
In axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) inflammation of the sacroiliac joints and spine is associated with local extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling of affected tissues. We aimed to investigate the association of...
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Association between exposure to air pollutants and the risk of inflammatory bowel diseases visits
The topic of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has attracted more and more attention. Accumulating evidence suggests that exposure to air pollutants is associated with IBD, yet the results are inconsistent and ...
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MiR-582-3p participates in the regulation of biological behaviors of A549 cells by ambient PM2.5 exposure
Ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is one of the main environmental air pollutants that is closely related to the development of lung cancer, but the mechanisms are unclear. In this study, A549 cells were ex...
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Prenatal air pollution exposure increases the risk of macrosomia: evidence from a prospective cohort study in the coastal area of China
Effects of prenatal ambient air pollution exposure could increase the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, which have been well documented by various studies. However, only very few studies investigated the eff...
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Open AccessThe activation fragment of PAR2 is elevated in serum from patients with rheumatoid arthritis and reduced in response to anti-IL6R treatment
Osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are serious and painful diseases. Protease-activated receptor 2 (PAR2) is involved in the pathology of both OA and RA including roles in synovial hyperplasia, ...
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Experimental investigation of dual swept shock wave/boundary layer interactions
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Associations between air pollution exposure and birth defects: a time series analysis
Air pollution is a serious environmental problem in China. Birth defects are particularly vulnerable to outdoor air pollution. Our study was to evaluate the association between short-term exposure to air pollu...
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Two Foxo1 homologues in the orange-spotted grouper Epinephelus coioides: sequences, expression, and possible involvement in the activation of cyp19a1a expression in the ovary
Foxo1, a member of Foxo transcription factor family, is involved in a number of physiological processes including metabolism, cell cycle progression, aging, and apoptosis. In the ovarian granulosa cell of mous...
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Open AccessThe burden of the current curative expenditure of injury in Dalian, China—a study based on the “system of health accounts 2011”
Injury is one of the major public health problems and causes more than 5 million deaths in the world annually. Cases of specific types of injury are life-threatening and heavily-burdened to individuals and soc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Scheduling with Contiguous Resource Allocation for Next-Generation Wireless Systems
Scheduling plays a pivotal role in multi-user wireless communications, since the quality of service of various users largely depends upon the allocated radio resources. In this paper, we propose a novel schedu...
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Flowfield of a helicopter submerged inlet with power output shaft
The submerged inlet is an attractive configuration for advanced helicopters due to its high stealth performance and low external drag. In this paper, a submerged inlet, integrated with a ROBIN helicopter fusel...
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The short-term effect of PM2.5/O3 on daily mortality from 2013 to 2018 in Hefei, China
This research intends to explore the short-term impacts of PM2.5/O3 on daily death in Hefei from 2013 to 2018. Data on daily death of Hefei residents, meteorological factors, and air pollutants were collected fro...
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Open AccessA novel biomarker of MMP-cleaved prolargin is elevated in patients with psoriatic arthritis
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic musculoskeletal inflammatory disease found in up to 30% of psoriasis patients. Prolargin—an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein present in cartilage and tendon—has been pr...
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Open AccessCo-infection of vvMDV with multiple subgroups of avian leukosis viruses in indigenous chicken flocks in China
In China, although the ALV eradication program and the MD vaccination strategy greatly reduce the disease burdens caused by the infection of ALV and MDV, the frequent emergence of novel ALV-K or vvMDV in the v...
