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Synthesis of nickel-copper layered double hydroxides for asymmetric supercapacitors by low-temperature chemical co-precipitation method
In this paper, a straightforward low-temperature chemical co-precipitation method for the preparation of nickel-copper layered double hydroxide (L-Ni4CuLDH) was reported. The do** of copper element makes the st...
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Open AccessLongitudinal patient-reported outcomes after minimally invasive McKeown esophagectomy for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Surgery for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is characterized by a poor prognosis and high complication rate, resulting in a heavy symptom burden and poor health-related quality of life (QOL). We eval...
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Open AccessThe poverty alleviation effect of transfer payments: evidence from China
Transfer payments play a crucial role in combating poverty in countries. However, the effectiveness of transfer payments in alleviating poverty remains controversial due to variations in environmental factors,...
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Loss and Recovery of Nano-MoS2 Lubricity in Carbon Soot Contaminated Polyalphaolefin
Carbon soot (CS) is a contaminant of engine oil, and the interaction between CS and oil additives should be understood. This work investigated the interaction between CS and nano-MoS2. Results show that adding 0....
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Blood inflammatory biomarkers predict in-hospital pneumonia after endovascular treatment of aneurysm in patients with aneurysmal subarachoid hemorrhage
The systemic inflammatory response index (SIRI) is a well-known marker of systemic inflammation reflecting the body’s inflammatory/immune state. The study aimed to evaluate the relationship between the SIRI on...
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Association between higher systemic immune inflammation index (SII) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) after endovascular treatment
Inflammation contributes to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) formation in patients with aSAH after endovascular treatment. The relationship between systemic immune-inflammatory index (SII) as an inflammatory marker ...
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Open AccessOptimizing (O) rifapentine-based (RI) regimen and shortening (EN) the treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis (T) (ORIENT) using an adaptive seamless design: study protocol of a multicenter randomized controlled trial
Standard treatment for drug-susceptible tuberculosis (DS-TB) includes a multidrug regimen requiring at least 6 months of treatment, and this lengthy treatment easily leads to poor adherence. There is an urgent...
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Design of agricultural product cold chain transportation monitoring system based on Internet of Things technology
The cold chain transportation monitoring system is mainly responsible for data monitoring and control in the cold chain transportation environment, ensuring the stability of the cold chain compartment environm...
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MuST: Multimodal Spatiotemporal Graph-Transformer for Hospital Readmission Prediction
Hospital readmission prediction is considered an essential approach to decreasing readmission rates, which is a key factor in assessing the quality and efficacy of a healthcare system. Previous studies have ex...
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Profiling patient-reported symptom recovery from oesophagectomy for patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a real-world longitudinal study
Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients have severe symptom burden after oesophagectomy; however, longitudinal studies of symptom recovery after surgery are scarce. This study used longitudinal pat...
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IM-c-means: a new clustering algorithm for clusters with skewed distributions
In this paper, a new clustering algorithm, IM-c-means, is proposed for clusters with skewed distributions. C-means algorithm is a well-known and widely used strategy for data clustering, but at the same time p...
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A Second-Order Sliding Mode Controller of Quad-Rotor UAV Based on PID Sliding Mode Surface with Unbalanced Load
Quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a typical multiple-input-multiple-output underactuated system with couplings and nonlinearity. Usually, the flying environment is very complex, so that it is impossi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Deep Learning-Based Pipeline for Celiac Disease Diagnosis Using Histopathological Images
With an increasing number of celiac disease diagnoses and the increasing number of misdiagnoses, automated approaches are valuable to aid pathologists in efficiently diagnosing this disease. Histopathological ...
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Semantic Image Segmentation with Improved Position Attention and Feature Fusion
Encoder–decoder structure is an universal method for semantic image segmentation. However, some important information of images will lost with the increasing depth of convolutional neural network (CNN), and th...
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Open AccessInferring multimodal latent topics from electronic health records
Electronic health records (EHR) are rich heterogeneous collections of patient health information, whose broad adoption provides clinicians and researchers unprecedented opportunities for health informatics, di...
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Open AccessPTPN11 mutation with additional somatic alteration indicates unfavorable outcome in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: a retrospective clinical study from a single center
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a heterogeneous childhood leukemia. The management of patients with JMML requires accurate assessment of genetic and clinical features to help in patient risk stratif...
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Blocking ATM-dependent NF-κB pathway overcomes niche protection and improves chemotherapy response in acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Bone marrow (BM) niche responds to chemotherapy-induced cytokines secreted from acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells and protects the residual cells from chemotherapeutics in vivo. However, the underlying ...
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Open AccessImmunogenicity of a Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine When Co-Administered with Tetanus-Reduced Diphtheria-Acellular Pertussis and Quadrivalent Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccines in Healthy Adolescents: Results from a Randomized, Observer-Blind, Controlled Trial
Vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV), tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (Tdap) and Neisseria meningitidis are widely recommended in adolescents. A phase-4 observer-blind study was performed to investigate the...
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Human MiR-4660 regulates the expression of alanine–glyoxylate aminotransferase and may be a biomarker for idiopathic oxalosis
Dysfunction of oxalate synthesis can cause calcium oxalate stone disease and inherited primary hyperoxaluria (PH) disorders. PH type I (PH1) is one of the most severe hyperoxaluria disorders, which results in ...
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Intergenerational reproductive toxicity of chlordecone in male Caenorhabditis elegans
Chlordecone (CLD), also named Kepone, is a synthetic organochlorine pesticide. As one of the common persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in nature, CLD has a profound impact on the environment and human health...
