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Open AccessPast, present, and future of cell replacement therapy for parkinson’s disease: a novel emphasis on host immune responses
Parkinson’s disease (PD) stands as the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease, and its prevalence continues to rise with the aging global population. Central to the pathophysio...
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Co-transplantation of autologous Treg cells in a cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease
The specific loss of midbrain dopamine neurons (mDANs) causes major motor dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease, which makes cell replacement a promising therapeutic approach1–4. However, poor survival of grafted mD...
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Connecting public health with urban planning: allocating walkable cooling shelters considering older people
Morbidity and mortality due to severe heat stress are particularly problematic for older people, which emphasizes the need to consider socio-demographic factors in distributing cooling resources. However, ther...
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Open AccessAptamer-based CRISPR-Cas powered diagnostics of diverse biomarkers and small molecule targets
CRISPR-Cas systems have been widely used in genome editing and transcriptional regulation. Recently, CRISPR-Cas effectors are adopted for biosensor construction due to its adjustable properties, such as simpli...
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The Practice of Education for Disaster Risk Reduction in Vietnam: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Implementation 2010–2020
The education sector is one of the most impacted sectors due to natural disasters in Vietnam. Understand the situation, the Ministry of Education and Training has prioritized the implementation of disaster ris...
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NetMix2: Unifying Network Propagation and Altered Subnetworks
A standard paradigm in computational biology is to use interaction networks to analyze high-throughput biological data. Two common approaches for leveraging interaction networks are: (1) network ranking, where on...
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Open AccessMolecular characteristics of Bombus (Alpinobombus) polaris from North Greenland with comments on its general biology and phylogeography
The bumble bee Bombus polaris (Curtis 1835) is known from the northernmost region of Greenland. But how it can survive there, where in terms of geographic origin it came from, and which species in addition to B. ...
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Open AccessRapid assessment checklist for green roof ecosystem services in Bangkok, Thailand
A green roof is a man-made ecosystem created when a rooftop is covered with substrate and vegetation. Although green roof ecosystems (GREs) are able to provide ecosystem services, there is currently no assessm...
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Open AccessChloroquine modulates inflammatory autoimmune responses through Nurr1 in autoimmune diseases
For over a half-century the anti-malarial drug chloroquine (CQ) has been used as a therapeutic agent, alone or in combination, to treat autoimmune diseases. However, neither the underlying mechanism(s) of acti...
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Open AccessEngineering de novo disulfide bond in bacterial α-type carbonic anhydrase for thermostable carbon sequestration
Exploiting carbonic anhydrase (CA), an enzyme that rapidly catalyzes carbon dioxide hydration, is an attractive biomimetic route for carbon sequestration due to its environmental compatibility and potential ec...
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Biostratigraphic Correlation of the Cambrian Succession Between Shandong Province, North China and the Taebaeksan Basin, Korea
The Palaeozoic North China Platform is an epeiric platform developed on the Sino–Korean Craton. The Cambrian succession is superbly exposed in Shandong Province, which is located in the central part of the Nor...
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Stratigraphy of the Lower Palaeozoic Bowers Supergroup, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Preliminary Results From the 2012–2013 Korean Antarctic Geological Expedition
Since Korea built the first Antarctic research station on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) has conducted geological projects on the island, including resea...
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Early Ordovician reefs from the Taebaek Group, Korea: constituents, types, and geological implications
The Early Ordovician (early to middle Floian) bioherms of the Dumugol Formation, Korea, are compiled and their paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic implications are discussed. These reefs are mostly made up ...
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Middle Furongian (late Cambrian) polymerid trilobites from the upper part of the Sesong Formation, Taebaeksan Basin, Korea
The upper part of the Sesong Formation of the Taebaek Group, Taebaeksan Basin, Korea, is known to contain the Kaolishania Zone which can be equated to the Kaolishania Zone of North China. Silicified trilobite scl...
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The Okcheon Supergroup in the Lake Chungju area, Korea: Neoproterozoic volcanic and glaciogenic sedimentary successions in a rift basin
The Okcheon Belt in southern Korea is an NE-SW trending fold-and-thrust belt consisting of two sedimentary basins of different origins: namely, the Chungcheong Basin and the Taebaeksan Basin. The Chungcheong B...
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Open AccessA stem-group cnidarian described from the mid-Cambrian of China and its significance for cnidarian evolution
Palaeontological data of extinct groups often sheds light on the evolutionary sequences leading to extant groups, but has failed to resolve the basal metazoan phylogeny including the origin of the Cnidaria. He...
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Cambrian stratigraphy of the North China Platform: revisiting principal sections in Shandong Province, China
The Cambrian succession in the North China Platform comprises a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sequence, superbly exposed in the southern part of Shandong Province, China. In order to refine the lithostratigrap...
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Genetic diversity and mating system of the threatened plant Kirengeshoma palmata (Saxifragaceae) in Korea
The endangered herb Kirengeshoma palmata, from eastern Asia, has had its population severely reduced in number through habitat loss and fragmentation. All of the individuals within five subgroups at Mt. Baek-un-s...
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Patterns of allozyme variation in relation to population size of the threatened plantMegaleranthis saniculifolia (Ranunculaceae) in Korea
Patterns of variation at 27 allozyme loci were investigated in the endangered endemic plantMegaleranthis saniculifolia. Levels of allozyme variation (A = 1.47,P = 40%,He = 0.088) were also compared with other end...
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Adaptive Preprocessing Scheme Using Rank for Lossless Indexed Image Compression
This paper proposes a brand-new preprocessing scheme using the ranking of co-occurrence count about indices in neighboring pixels. Original indices in an index image are substituted by their ranks. Arithmetic ...
