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Industrial fluoride emissions and their spatial characteristics in the Nansi Lake Basin, Eastern China
Excessive fluoride emissions threaten ecological stability and human health. Previous studies have noted that industrial sources could be significant. However, quantifying industrial fluoride emissions has not...
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Single-crystalline van der Waals layered dielectric with high dielectric constant
The scaling of silicon-based transistors at sub-ten-nanometre technology nodes faces challenges such as interface imperfection and gate current leakage for an ultrathin silicon channel1,2. For next-generation nan...
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Open AccessHRCT features between lepidic-predominant type and other pathological subtypes in early-stage invasive pulmonary adenocarcinoma appearing as a ground-glass nodule
Different pathological subtypes of invasive pulmonary adenocarcinoma (IPA) have different surgical methods and heterogeneous prognosis. It is essential to clarify IPA subtypes before operation and high-resolut...
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Who is more utilitarian? Negative affect mediates the relation between control deprivation and moral judgment
This research tried to examine the effect of sense of control on moral judgments and the mediating roles of positive and negative affect. Sixty-one Chinese college students were randomly assigned to control-de...
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Improving Entity Linking by Encoding Type Information into Entity Embeddings
Entity Linking (EL) refers to the task of linking entity mentions in the text to the correct entities in the Knowledge Base (KB) in which entity embeddings play a vital and challenging role because of the subt...
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A native oxide high-κ gate dielectric for two-dimensional electronics
Silicon-based transistors are approaching their physical limits and thus new high-mobility semiconductors are sought to replace silicon in the microelectronics industry. Both bulk materials (such as silicon-ge...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Ultrafast and highly sensitive infrared photodetectors based on two-dimensional oxyselenide crystals
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper
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Interdecadal changes in the asymmetric impacts of ENSO on wintertime rainfall over China and atmospheric circulations over western North Pacific
Based on data diagnoses, in this study the interdecadal changes in asymmetric impacts of ENSO on wintertime East Asian climate are investigated. It is found that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) can signi...
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Structural characteristics and implication on tectonic evolution of the Daerbute strike-slip fault in West Junggar area, NW China
The Daerbute fault zone, located in the northwestern margin of the Junggar basin, in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, is a regional strike-slip fault with a length of ~ 400 km. The NE-SW trending Daerbute faul...
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Open AccessUltrafast and highly sensitive infrared photodetectors based on two-dimensional oxyselenide crystals
Infrared light detection and sensing is deeply embedded in modern technology and human society and its development has always been benefitting from the discovery of various photoelectric materials. The rise of...
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Toxic metal tolerance in native plant species grown in a vanadium mining area
Vanadium (V) has been extensively mined in China and caused soil pollution in mining area. It has toxic effects on plants, animals and humans, posing potential health risks to communities that farm and graze c...
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Synthesis and Characterization of MnZn Ferrite Nanoparticles with Improved Saturation Magnetization
Mn0.8Zn0.2Fe2O4 nanoparticles with improved saturation magnetization were prepared by a modified hydrothermal method. This method involves a chemical co-precipitation of hydroxides under a vacuum condition using ...
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Open AccessPerinate and eggs of a giant caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of central China
The abundance of dinosaur eggs in Upper Cretaceous strata of Henan Province, China led to the collection and export of countless such fossils. One of these specimens, recently repatriated to China, is a partia...
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Spatial Organization of Enzyme Cascade on a DNA Origami Nanostructure
Self-assembled DNA nanostructures hold great promise to organize multi-enzyme systems with the precise control of the geometric arrangements. Enzymes modified with single-stranded DNA anchors are assembled ont...
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Open AccessTSG-6 secreted by human umbilical cord-MSCs attenuates severe burn-induced excessive inflammation via inhibiting activations of P38 and JNK signaling
The hMSCs have become a promising approach for inflammation treatment in acute phase. Our previous study has demonstrated that human umbilical cord-MSCs could alleviate the inflammatory reaction of severely bu...
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Soil heavy metal contamination related to roasted stone coal slag: a study based on geostatistical and multivariate analyses
Soil was examined for vanadium (V) and related metal contamination near a stone coal mine in Hubei Province, China. In total, 92 surface and vertical (0–200 cm) soil samples were collected from the site. A han...
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Removal of Pb and Zn from contaminated soil by different washing methods: the influence of reagents and ultrasound
Pb and Zn contamination in agricultural soils has become an important issue for human health and the environment. Washing is an effective method for remediating polluted soil. Here, we compare several washing ...
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Role of intraseasonal oscillation in asymmetric impacts of El Niño and La Niña on the rainfall over southern China in boreal winter
The impacts of El Niño and La Niña on the rainfall over southern China in winter half year (November–April) are investigated diagnostically. It is found that positive rainfall anomalies with statistical signif...
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Open AccessEffects of transforming growth factor β-1 infected human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells on high- and low-metastatic potential hepatocellular carcinoma
This study investigates the effects of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell (hMSC) on migration and proliferation ability of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with high- and low-metastatic potential.
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Open AccessMultiple sclerosis: clinical features and MRI findings in Northern China
Reports in Asian populations suggest that ethnic and geographical differences may influence susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS) and its clinical behaviors. Here, we sought to retrospectively survey clini...
