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Single-atom catalysis for advanced oxidation and reduction systems in water decontamination
Water scarcity is an escalating global crisis, posing a severe threat to populations worldwide. Consequently, exploring various materials to remove emerging contaminants from freshwater sources has garnered si...
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Proteomic analysis of the responses to chelerythrine in the fungal pathogen Ustilaginoidea virens
Chelerythrine (CHE) is a natural benzophenanthridine alkaloid with broad pharmacological activities. Herein, we investigated the responses to CHE of the fungal pathogen Ustilaginoidea virens using a proteomics ap...
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Foam-gelcasting preparation of porous SiC ceramic for high-temperature thermal insulation and infrared stealth
Porous SiC ceramics (PSCs) are promising lightweight and efficient thermal insulators that can evade infrared detection by reducing the surface temperature of the protected object, which plays a crucial role i...
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High-strength aluminum alloys hollow billet prepared by two-phase zone continuous casting
The two-phase zone continuous casting (TZCC) technique was used to continuously cast high-strength aluminum alloy hollow billets, and a verified 3D model of TZCC was used to simulate the flow and temperature f...
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Open AccessPhysical activity improves outcomes of combined lenvatinib plus anti-PD-1 therapy in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a retrospective study and mouse model
Physical activity is known to have anti-cancer effects, including immunomodulatory actions. This study investigated the hypothesis that physical activity synergizes with combined lenvatinib plus anti-PD-1 ther...
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DG-CNN: Introducing Margin Information into Convolutional Neural Networks for Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Ultrasound Images
Although using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) has made tremendous progress in the last few years, the small medical datasets remain to be the major bottleneck in this a...
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Open AccessPCSK9 promotes tumor growth by inhibiting tumor cell apoptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma
Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), one of the key enzymes in the process of lipid transport, is involved in the disease progression of various types of tumors. This article is to study the ...
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Open AccessNT5DC2 promotes tumor cell proliferation by stabilizing EGFR in hepatocellular carcinoma
Most hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage; however, the effect of systemic therapy on advanced HCC remains undetermined. Therefore, new treatment targets must be identifie...
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Exact solutions to magneto-electro-thermo-elastic fields for a cracked cylinder composite during thermal shock
This report derives the exact solutions for the problem of a magneto-electro-elastic cylinder with a penny-shaped and embedded crack subjected to transient thermal load. Thermal cracking is analysed in the the...
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Microstructure quantification of Cu–4.7Sn alloys prepared by two-phase zone continuous casting and a BP artificial neural network model for microstructure prediction
Microstructures of Cu–4.7Sn (%) alloys prepared by two-phase zone continuous casting (TZCC) technology contain large columnar grains and small grains. A compound grain structure, composed of a large columnar g...
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Influence of solution heat treatment on microstructure and hardness of as-cast biodegradable Zn–Mn alloys
Zn–(< 1 wt%)Mn alloy is a promising base alloy for develo** biodegradable Zn–Mn-based alloys with high strength and high ductility. In this paper, the influence of solution heat treatment on microstructure a...
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Microstructure and Properties of Nickel-Based Superalloy Prepared by Two-Phase Zone Directional Solidification
The principle of two-phase zone directional solidification technique is presented in this paper, taking the GH4738 nickel-based superalloy as the object, under the conditions of the mold temperature at 1350 °C...
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Efficient quantum dialogue using entangled states and entanglement swap** without information leakage
We propose a novel quantum dialogue protocol by using the generalized Bell states and entanglement swap**. In the protocol, a sequence of ordered two-qutrit entangled states acts as quantum information chann...
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Investigation on crack propagation in single crystal Ag with temperature dependence
Crack propagation behaviors in a precracked single crystal Ag under mode I loading at different temperatures are studied by molecular dynamics simulation. The simulation results show that the crack propagation...
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Open AccessInhibition of LDHA suppresses tumor progression in prostate cancer
A key hallmark of cancer cells is their altered metabolism, known as Warburg effect. Lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) executes the final step of aerobic glycolysis and has been reported to be involved in the tum...
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Open AccessComplementary compressive imaging for the telescopic system
Conventional single-pixel cameras recover images only from the data recorded in one arm of the digital micromirror device, with the light reflected to the other direction not to be collected. Actually, the sam...
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Copper foils with gradient structure in thickness direction and different roughnesses on two surfaces fabricated by double rolling
Copper foils with gradient structure in thickness direction and different roughnesses on two surfaces were fabricated by double rolling. The two surface morphologies of double-rolled copper foils are quite dif...
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SR-MAC: A Low Latency MAC Protocol for Multi-Packet Transmissions in Wireless Sensor Networks
Event detection is one of the major applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Most of existing medium access control (MAC) protocols are mainly optimized for the situation under which an event only gene...
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A New Species and Genus Distribution Record from China: Neoscytalidium novaehollandiae
One isolate from bark beetle galleries was identified and characterized using morphological and molecular methodology, and described and illustrated based on these data. These results identified a new species ...
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Effect of Long-Chain Length on the Surface Activities of Zwitterionic Imidazolium-Based Surfactants: 1-Carboxymethyl-3-alkylimidazolium Inner Salts
Zwitterionic imidazolium-based surfactants, namely 1-carboxymethyl-3-alkyl imidazolium inner salts (C n imCM, n = 10, 12, and 14), were synthesized. Their molecule structures wer...
