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Effect of Water Stress on Photosynthesis, Chlorophyll Fluorescence Parameters and Water Use Efficiency of Common Reed in the Hexi Corridor
Water stress is the major environmental stress that affect agricultural production worldwide, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. This research investigated the effect of water stress on common reed (Phragm...
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Semi-analytical and Numerical Studies on the Flattened Brazilian Splitting Test Used for Measuring the Indirect Tensile Strength of Rocks
Based on the two-dimensional elasticity theory, this study established a mechanical model under chordally opposing distributed compressive loads, in order to perfect the theoretical foundation of the flattened...
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Open AccessProtogenin prevents premature apoptosis of rostral cephalic neural crest cells by activating the α5β1-integrin
The bones and connective tissues of the murine jaws and skull are partly derived from cephalic neural crest cells (CNCCs). Here, we report that mice deficient of protogenin (Prtg) protein, an immunoglobulin do...
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Expression of β-glucuronidase on the surface of bacteria enhances activation of glucuronide prodrugs
Extracellular activation of hydrophilic glucuronide prodrugs by β-glucuronidase (βG) was examined to increase the therapeutic efficacy of bacteria-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (BDEPT). βG was expressed on t...
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A novel intronic mutation and a missense mutation of MEN1 identified in two Chinese families with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
Background: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) caused by MEN1 mutation is widely recognized. To date, 14 novel mutations were reported in Chinese and intronic mutations are getting more a...
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Absorption Enhancement in Plasmonic Solar Cells by Incorporation of Periodic Nanopatterns
Currently, the performances of thin film solar cells are limited by poor light absorption and carrier collection. In this research, large, broadband, and polarization-insensitive light absorption enhancement w...
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Hold-time effects on elevated-temperature low-cycle-fatigue and crack-propagation behaviors of HAYNES® 188 superalloy
Low-cycle-fatigue (LCF) and fatigue-crack-growth (FCG) behaviors of a cobalt-based HAYNES 188 superalloy were studied at temperatures ranging from 816 to 982 °C in laboratory air. Various tensile-hold times we...
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Tumor-targeting prodrug-activating bacteria for cancer therapy
Increasing the specificity of chemotherapy may improve the efficacy of cancer treatment. Toward this aim, we developed a strain of bacteria to express enzymes for selective prodrug activation and non-invasive ...
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High-temperature tensile-hold crack-growth behavior of HASTELLOY® X alloy compared to HAYNES® 188 and HAYNES® 230® alloys
The creep–fatigue crack-growth tests of HASTELLOY® X alloy were carried out at the temperatures of 649°C, 816°C, and 927°C in laboratory air. The experiments were conducted under a constant stress-intensity-facto...
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Coarsening kinetics of intermetallic precipitates in Ni75AlxV25−x alloys
The precipitation kinetics of growth and coarsening of γ′(Ni3Al) and θ (Ni3V) in Ni75AlxV25−x alloys were investigated by microscopic phase-field simulation incorporated with elastic interactions. For the elastic...
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A membrane antibody receptor for noninvasive imaging of gene expression
Monitoring gene expression is important to optimize gene therapy protocols and ensure that the proper tissue distribution is achieved in clinical practice. We developed a noninvasive imaging system based on th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automated Information Mining on Multimedia TV News Archives
This paper addresses an integrated information mining techniques for multimedia TV-news archive. The utilizes techniques from the fields of acoustic, image, and video analysis, for information retrieval on new...
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Ex vivo gene therapy in autologous bone marrow stromal stem cells for tissue-engineered maxillofacial bone regeneration
This study examines the clinical relevance of tissue engineering integrating gene therapy and polymer science to bone regeneration. Bilateral maxillary defects (3 × 1.2 cm2) in 20 miniature swine were bridged wit...
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Finite element implementation of thermal weight function method for calculating transient SIFs of a body subjected to thermal shock
The thermal weight function (TWF) is a universal function, which is dependent only on the crack configuration and body geometry, and is independent of temperature fields. The TWF method is especially suitable ...
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Spectral properties and quasi-phase-matched second-harmonic generation in a new active medium: optical superlattice Nd:MgO:LiNbO3
crystal – was grown in our Laboratory. The absorption and fluorescence spectra were measured and show some differences from the results of common Nd:MgO:LiNbO3 with monodomain structure. Third-order quasi-phase-...
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Fluorescence and attenuation properties of Er3+ -doped phosphate-glass fibers and efficient infrared-to-visible up-conversion
Fluorescence spectra of phosphate glasses with different erbium do** have been measured. The flourescence intensity reaches its maximum at an Er3+-do** concentration of 0.75 mol%. When the Er3+ do** exceeds...
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Identification of wheat-Agropyron cristatum monosomic addition lines by RFLP analysis using a set of assigned wheat DNA probes
A non-radioactive digoxigenin-labelled DNA method was used successfully to identify RFLP markers in 54 Triticum aestivum cv ‘Chinese Spring’ — Agropyron cristatum (2n=28, genome PPPP) P-genome monosomic addition ...
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Geochemistry of dissolved and particulate elements in the major rivers of China (The Huanghe, Changjiang, and Zhunjiang rivers)
The relationship between the geochemistry of dissolved and particulate materials and geographic conditions was investigated. Samples of water and suspended particulate matter were collected from five locations...