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Open AccessHealth-related quality of life in patients with Kashin–Beck disease is lower than in those with osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional study
Kashin–Beck disease (KBD) is an endemic deformable bone and joint disease, which affects the quality of life (QOL) of patients. We conducted a cross-sectional study of the QOL of KBD patients by a new KBD qual...
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Prevalence and radiographic features of atlantoaxial dislocation in adult patients with Kashin–Beck disease
Kashin–Beck disease (KBD) is an endemic osteoarthropathy affecting the epiphyseal growth plate of multiple joints in young and adolescent patients. Previous studies have focused on the visible deformed extremi...
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Open AccessDividend and Capital Injection Optimization with Transaction Cost for Lévy Risk Processes
The optimal dividends problem has remained an active research field for decades. For an insurance company with reserve modelled by a spectrally negative Lévy process having finite first-order moment, we study ...
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Evidence of Altered Cortical Processing of Dynamic Lexical Tone Pitch Contour in Chinese Children with Autism
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Optimal implementation delay of taxation with trade-off for spectrally negative Lévy risk processes
In this paper we consider two cases of optimal implementation delay of taxation with trade-off under spectrally negative Lévy insurance risk processes. In the first case, we assume that the insurance company s...
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Open AccessProline-rich protein 11 overexpression is associated with a more aggressive phenotype and poor overall survival in ovarian cancer patients
The proline-rich protein 11 (PRR11) is a newly identified oncogene associated with a poor prognosis in several human cancers. Nonetheless, research on its role in ovarian cancer (OC) remains largely understudi...
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Open AccessDevelopment and preliminary application of a gridded surface air temperature homogenized dataset for China
When meteorological stations are quite unevenly distributed, a simple regional arithmetic mean of observation data may assign an excessive weight to one region with dense stations, which affects the representa...
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UDP-glucose accelerates SNAI1 mRNA decay and impairs lung cancer metastasis
Cancer metastasis is the primary cause of morbidity and mortality, and accounts for up to 95% of cancer-related deaths1. Cancer cells often reprogram their metabolism to efficiently support cell proliferation and...
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Open AccessGenetic association study identified a 20 kb regulatory element in WLS associated with osteoporosis and bone mineral density in Han Chinese
Previous studies have linked the WNT pathway and human skeleton formation; therefore, genes related to WNT might contribute to the onset and development of osteoporosis. In this study, we investigated the pote...
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Accidental or linked: separated odontoid process fused to the enlarged anterior arch of the atlas associated with atlantoaxial subluxation in a Kashin–Beck disease patient
KBD is an endemic disease affecting the epiphyseal growth plate and articular cartilage of multiple joints, resulting in extremities’ deformation and skeletal dysplasia. More attention has been paid to the vis...
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Open AccessAcceleration of tendon–bone healing of anterior cruciate ligament graft using intermittent negative pressure in rabbits
The purpose of this study was to test effects of negative pressure on tendon–bone healing after reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in rabbits.
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Identification of green tea origins by near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and different regression tools
In this study, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was applied to efficiently and non-destructively identify Shandong green tea origins coupled with three different regression tools. Analysis results indicated th...
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Open AccessOptimization of hierarchical structure and nanoscale-enabled plasmonic refraction for window electrodes in photovoltaics
An ideal network window electrode for photovoltaic applications should provide an optimal surface coverage, a uniform current density into and/or from a substrate, and a minimum of the overall resistance for a...
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A review of current treatment of lumbar posterior ring apophysis fracture with lumbar disc herniation
Lumbar posterior ring apophysis fracture (PRAF) is an uncommon disorder frequently accompanied by lumbar disc herniation (LDH). Over the years, there have constantly been published studies concerning this diso...
