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Self-Similar Fractal Characteristics of Phosphorus Slag Powder Particles and its Effect on the Mechanical Properties of Cementitious Systems
Firstly, this paper used a laser particle size analyzer to test the particle size distribution characteristics of four specific surface areas of phosphate slag powder particles. Then, it used the powder fracta...
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Open AccessAn observational study on the safety of COVID-19 vaccination in patients with myasthenia gravis
There is concern that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine may trigger or worsen autoimmune diseases. The objective of this study was to determine the impacts of COVID-19 vaccination on symptom severity ...
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Gender-specific SBNO2 and VPS13B as a potential driver of osteoporosis development in male ankylosing spondylitis
To identify the critical genes and pathways that related to OP development in male AS patients, bioinformatic gene analysis and qRT-PCR validation were performed. SBNO2 and VPS13B were identified as the potent...
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Open AccessImprove oxidation resistance at high temperature by nanocrystalline surface layer
An interesting change of scale sequence occurred during oxidation of nanocrystalline surface layer by means of a surface mechanical attrition treatment. The three-layer oxide structure from the surface towards...
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Time-delay feedback controller for amplitude reduction in vortex-induced vibrations
We investigate the possibility of using a time-delay feedback control to suppress the vortex-induced vibrations of an elastically mounted circular cylinder. An appropriate reduced-order wake-oscillator model i...
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Control of cross-flow-induced vibrations of square cylinders using linear and nonlinear delayed feedbacks
We investigate the effectiveness of linear and nonlinear time-delay feedback controls to suppress high amplitude oscillations of an elastically mounted square cylinder undergoing gallo** oscillations. A repr...
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Open AccessLHX6 acts as a novel potential tumour suppressor with epigenetic inactivation in lung cancer
LIM homeobox domain 6 (LHX6) is a putative transcriptional regulator that controls the differentiation and development of neural and lymphoid cells. However, the function of LHX6 in cancer development remains lar...
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Clinical features of myasthenia gravis in southern China: a retrospective review of 2,154 cases over 22 years
The objectives of the study are to study the clinical features of myasthenia gravis in southern China. A retrospective study was carried out on all patients who were diagnosed with myasthenia gravis at the Fir...
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Phase behavior of tetradecane–hexadecane mixtures confined in SBA-15
Phase behavior of tetradecane–hexadecane mixtures (n-C14H30–C16H34, C14–C16) confined in SBA-15 (pore diameters 3.8, 7.8, and 17.2 nm) has been studied by differential scanning calorimetry. Phase diagram of the c...
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Phase behavior of dodecane—tetradecane binary system confined in SBA-15
Phase behavior of dodecane–tetradecane (n-C12H26–C14H30, n-C12–C14) binary system in bulk and confined in SBA-15 (pore diameters 8 nm; 15.9 nm) has been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry and trans...
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Fabrication and characterization of transparent Tm,Ho:YAG ceramic
Transparent Tm,Ho:YAG ceramic with excellent optical properties was fabricated by solid-state reaction method using high-purity commercial powders as raw materials. Optical absorption and 2.0 μm emission spect...
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Levels and Profiles of Unintentionally Produced Persistent Organic Pollutants in Surface Soils from Shanxi Province, China
Six species of unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutions comprised of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated naphthalenes, hex...
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Protein phosphatase-1 regulates Akt1 signal transduction pathway to control gene expression, cell survival and differentiation
AKT pathway has a critical role in mediating signaling transductions for cell proliferation, differentiation and survival. Previous studies have shown that AKT activation is achieved through a series of phosph...
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DEA models with undesirable inputs and outputs
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models with undesirable inputs and outputs have been frequently discussed in DEA literature, e.g., via data transformation. These studies were scatted in the literature, and oft...
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Profiles of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans in Fish Livers and Gills from Dongting Lake, China
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Recent Application of the ETAS Model and a Proposed Method for Prediction of Strong Aftershocks
In this paper, 28 aftershock sequences are selected, which are distributed in different areas including north China, southwest of China, northwest of China, Taiwan area, Turkey and Greece. In order to investig...
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A Recent Application of the ETAS Model and a Proposed Method for Prediction of Strong Aftershocks
In this paper, 28 aftershock sequences are selected, which are distributed in different areas including north China, southwest of China, northwest of China, Taiwan area, Turkey and Greece. In order to investig...
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Novel Algorithms for Noisy Minimization Problems with Applications to Neural Networks Training
The supervisor and searcher cooperation framework (SSC), introduced in Refs. 1 and 2, provides an effective way to design efficient optimization algorithms combining the desirable features of the two existing ...
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Protein serine/threonine phosphatase-1 dephosphorylates p53 at Ser-15 and Ser-37 to modulate its transcriptional and apoptotic activities
We have previously demonstrated that the serine/threonine protein phosphatase-1 (PP-1) plays an important role in promoting cell survival. However, the molecular mechanisms by which PP-1 promotes survival rema...
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Influence of pH values on preparation of hydroxyapatite/gelatin composites