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Features and formulae of sediment incipient motion in vegetated flow environment
Aquatic vegetation is a vital component of natural river ecosystems, playing a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance, providing habitat and improving water quality. However, the presence of vegetation...
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Stabilize and Reinforce Hydrogen-Bonded Polymer Complex Elastic Fiber by Catechol Chemistry and Coordination
Hydrogen-bonded polymer complex fiber of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) shows rubber elasticity in ambient environment, but the fiber has relatively low strength and weak stability. We...
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Exploring a high-urease activity Bacillus cereus for self-healing concrete via induced CaCO3 precipitation
The structural integrity and esthetic appeal of concrete can be compromised by concrete cracks. Promise has been shown by microbe-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) as a solution for concrete crack...
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Derivation of new resistance principle on flow-induced morphological response of flexible vegetation
Water flow under vegetated environments is a noteworthy research topic in environmental hydraulics and restoration ecology, and this research is particularly important for maintaining water transport and strea...
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Efficacy and safety of granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) antibodies in COVID-19 patients: a meta-analysis
This study aims to determine the efficacy and safety of granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) antibodies in COVID-19 patients.
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Dispersion features of pollutants in a compound channel with vegetated floodplains
The planting of the vegetation on the floodplain helps the ecological restoration, which is the main form of the river’s ecological corridor. Therefore, the current research of the river dynamics focuses on th...
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Influence of shrub root combinations and spacing on slope stability: study case at the Yongding River flooding regime, Langfang, China
Research on the mechanism of plant root–soil consolidation is a current focus in research into the ecological restoration of banks. The stability of ecological banks is central to this research, and bank stabi...
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Fractal Growth of Giant Amphiphiles in Langmuir-Blodgett Films
Fractal structures have attracted considerable scientific interest, and fractal geometry is an effective tool to study the complicated structure and dynamic processes, such as dilation symmetry of disorder str...
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Open AccessPhysiological and comparative transcriptome analyses reveal the mechanisms underlying waterlogging tolerance in a rapeseed anthocyanin-more mutant
Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is the second largest oil crop worldwide. It is widely used in food, energy production and the chemical industry, as well as being an ornamental. Consequently, it has a large economic va...
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Chinese Herbal Medicine for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trials
To provide evidence on the efficacy and safety of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) as interventions for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
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Open AccessFGF23 ameliorates ischemia-reperfusion induced acute kidney injury via modulation of endothelial progenitor cells: targeting SDF-1/CXCR4 signaling
The levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) rapidly increases after acute kidney injury (AKI). However, the role of FGF23 in AKI is still unclear. Here, we observe that pretreatment with FGF23 protein in...
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Estimation of the longitudinal dispersion coefficient using a two-zone model in a channel partially covered with artificial emergent vegetation
Understanding scalar transport in solvents is important in chemical engineering, pollution control, and water remediation, where the longitudinal dispersion coefficient (LDC) is a key parameter for describing ...
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Predictions of bulk velocity for open channel flow through submerged vegetation
Vegetation is of great significance in river ecosystems in terms of hydrodynamics, water environment and ecology. The question of how to predict the bulk velocity in channel flow through submerged vegetation i...
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Characterization of a Rapeseed Anthocyanin-More Mutant with Enhanced Resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Anthocyanins are important natural pigments in plants, and they function not only in antioxidation but also in plant stress responses, pollination, and seed propagation. The anthocyanin-more (am) mutant described...
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Advances in plant GDSL lipases: from sequences to functional mechanisms
GDSL lipases form multigene families in Arabidopsis, rice and some other sequenced plant species. Unlike classical GxSxG motif-containing lipases, this new sub-family of lipolytic enzymes possesses a GDSL sequenc...
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Langmuir-Blodgett Films of C60-end-capped Poly(ethylene oxide)
Buckyballs (C60) are linked to one end and two ends of linear poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) chains through highly efficient click chemistry to obtain giant amphiphilic molecules C60-PEO and C60-PEO-C60, respectively...
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The structure of turbulent flow through submerged flexible vegetation
The hydrodynamics of turbulent flow through submerged flexible vegetation is investigated in a flume using acoustic Doppler velocimetery (ADV) measurements. The flow characteristics such as the energetics and ...
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Open AccessFriction factor for turbulent open channel flow covered by vegetation
The need for operational models describing the friction factor f in streams remains undisputed given its utility across a plethora of hydrological and hydraulic applications concerned with shallow inertial flows....
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Open AccessHemojuvelin Predicts Acute Kidney Injury and Poor Outcomes Following Cardiac Surgery
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is detrimental after cardiac surgery. In this multicenter study, the novel biomarker hemojuvelin (HJV) was evaluated for AKI prediction following cardiac surgery. Urinary HJV, neutrop...
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Visual Servoing of a New Designed Inspection Robot for Autonomous Transmission Line Gras**
This paper presents a new using two lines features and this method is adopted for a novel dual-arm to transmission line autonomously. The new designed inspection robot has 5 DOFs ofeach arm, and the ar...
