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A dense linear geophone array is deployed across the Tatun volcano group (TVG) at the northern tip of Taiwan, where more than 7 million residents live in the Taipei metropolis. The array is composed of 50 geop...
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Open AccessActive Volcanism Revealed from a Seismicity Conduit in the Long-resting Tatun Volcano Group of Northern Taiwan
Abundant earthquakes clustered within a particular zone often reflect an active geological feature, such as clustering seismicity along a fault zone and a huge number of volcanic-earthquakes around the eruptin...
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Open AccessThe effect of orbital-lattice coupling on the electrical resistivity of YBaCuFeO5 investigated by X-ray absorption
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Open AccessTherapeutic glucocorticoids prevent bone loss but drive muscle wasting when administered in chronic polyarthritis
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experience extra-articular manifestations including osteoporosis and muscle wasting, which closely associate with severity of disease. Whilst therapeutic glucocorticoids...
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Open AccessSpin-charge-lattice coupling in YBaCuFeO5: Optical properties and first-principles calculations
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Open AccessAMPK antagonizes hepatic glucagon-stimulated cyclic AMP signalling via phosphorylation-induced activation of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 4B
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Open AccessMacrophage migration inhibitory factor has a permissive role in concanavalin A-induced cell death of human hepatoma cells through autophagy
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On the Influence of Resonant States on Ballistic Transport in Open Quantum Dots: Spectroscopy and Tunneling in the Presence of Multiple Conducting Channels
A fundamental issue in quantum mechanics concerns the manner in which the discrete level spectrum of an isolated system is modified when it is coupled to some external, macroscopic measuring environment. From ...
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Rate-based flow control plays an important role for efficient traffic management of ABR service in ATM networks. In this paper, a performance analysis of a rate-based flow control mechanism is presented. In ou...
