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Wei-liang Chen
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Open AccessThree-dimensional ultrafast charge-density-wave dynamics in CuTe
Charge density waves (CDWs) involved with electronic and phononic subsystems simultaneously are a common quantum state in solid-state physics, especially in low-dimensional materials. However, CDW phase dynami...
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Open AccessNondestructive circadian profiling of starch content in fresh intact Arabidopsis leaf with two-photon fluorescence and second-harmonic generation imaging
Plant chloroplasts conduct photosynthesis to convert solar energy into sugars for the carbon source essential for cell living and growth during the day. One fraction of photosynthetic products is stored in chl...
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Open AccessDetrimental health relationship between blood lead and cadmium and the red blood cell folate level
Increasing studies have demonstrated the association between heavy metal pollution and micronutrients, especially folate. However, the relationship between cadmium and folate remains rarely discussed. In this ...
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Open AccessAssociation of short sleep duration and trabecular bone score
Short sleep duration has been found to be associated with bone health deterioration by using bone mineral density (BMD). Only a few attempts have been made to assess the association of sleep duration and bone ...
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Open AccessLife expectancy estimations and determinants of return to work among cancer survivors over a 7-year period
Due to advances in medical science and technology, the number of cancer survivors continues to increase. The workplace needs and employment difficulties cancer survivors face after treatment need to be address...
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Open AccessAtherogenic index of plasma as predictors for metabolic syndrome, hypertension and diabetes mellitus in Taiwan citizens: a 9-year longitudinal study
Deeply involved with dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease has becoming the leading cause of mortality since the early twentieth century in the modern world. Whose correlation with metabolic syndrome (MetS), hy...
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Open AccessExamining the association between serum phosphate levels and leukocyte telomere length
Accelerated telomere attrition is related to various diseases, and multiple factors have been reported to influence telomere length. However, little attention has focused on the relationship between serum phos...
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Open AccessExploring the association of Bone Alkaline Phosphatases And Hearing Loss
Hearing loss becomes increasingly common with age and affects quality of life. Recently, scientists have published articles about the relationship between metabolic disease and hearing loss. Metabolic disease ...
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Open AccessAssociation between Serum Calcium and Risk of Cardiometabolic Disease among Community-dwelling Adults in Taiwan
Serum calcium, although only comprising 1% of total body calcium, is involved in intracellular signal pathways, vascular dilatation/constriction, and muscle contraction, which are crucial for insulin secretion...
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Open AccessCharacterization of Cardiometabolic Risks in Different Combination of Anthropometric Parameters and Percentage Body Fat
The prevalence of obesity was increasing and became a growing problem worldwide. Obesity increased the risk of develo** metabolic abnormalities and was associated adverse health outcomes. Our aim was to exam...
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Open AccessBody Fat Percentage in Relation to Lung Function in Individuals with Normal Weight Obesity
Accumulating evidence indicates the association between obesity and lung function. However, no previous study has examined whether obesity affects lung function in normal weight participants with high body fat...
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Open AccessCrosssectional Assessment of Bone Mass Density in Adults with Hepatitis B Virus and Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Osteoporosis is one of the major complications in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) infection. However, few studies had examined the relationship between hepatic viral infection with bone l...
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Open AccessAssociation between HOMA-IR and Frailty among U.S. Middle-aged and Elderly Population
Previous literatures revealed that homeostasis model assessment-estimated insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was one of the cardio-metabolic risk factors. This study was conducted to access the association between H...
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Open AccessChanges of Percent Body Fat as a Useful Surrogate for Risk of Declined Renal Function
The association between anthropometric indices with chronic kidney disease (CKD) was examined previously. However, the effect of body fat on renal function was not determined clearly. Our aim was to investigat...
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Open AccessAssociation of Percentage Body Fat and Metabolic Health in Offspring of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases
Family history was one of the major risk factors for develo** adverse health outcomes such as metabolic syndrome (MetS), type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HTN). Our aim was to examine the relat...
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Open AccessExamining the Associations among Fibrocystic Breast Change, Total Lean Mass, and Percent Body Fat
Fibrocystic breast change (FBC) is extremely common and occurrs in 90% of women during their lives. The association between body composition and risk of breast cancer is well established. We hypothesized that ...
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Open AccessExploring the Link between Serum Phosphate Levels and Low Muscle Strength, Dynapenia, and Sarcopenia
Emerging evidences addressed an association between phosphate and muscle function. Because little attention was focused on this issue, the objective of our study was to explore the relationship of phosphate wi...
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Open AccessHigher Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Increased the Risk of Sarcopenia in the Community-Dwelling Older Adults
The platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) has been extensively studied in oncologic diseases. However, the correlation between PLR and sarcopenia remains unknown. In this cross-sectional analysis, we enrolled 3,6...
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Open AccessCalf Circumference as a Novel Tool for Risk of Disability of the Elderly Population
Disability became increasingly common with age, and crude rates of disability were rising around the globe. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between calf circumference (CC) and disabili...
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Open AccessThe chemical states and atomic structure evolution of ultralow-energy high-dose Boron implanted Si(110) via laser annealing
Further scale down the dimension of silicon-based integrated circuit is a crucial trend in semiconductor fabrication. One of the most critical issues in the nano-device fabrication is to confirm the atomic str...
