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Relationships between urban expansion and socioenvironmental indicators across multiple scales of watersheds: a case study among watersheds running through China
Understanding the relationships between urban expansion and social/environmental features is fundamental to managing watershed and urban expansion. However, such relationships remain unclear, especially across...
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Open AccessProtein nanoparticle-induced osmotic pressure gradients modify pulmonary edema through hyperpermeability in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), caused by noncardiogenic pulmonary edema (PE), contributes significantly to Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)-associated morbidity and mortality. We explored the effect of...
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Unconditionally Energy Stable and Bound-Preserving Schemes for Phase-Field Surfactant Model with Moving Contact Lines
Phase-field surfactant model with moving contact lines (PFS-MCL) has been extensively investigated in the study of droplet dynamics on solid surfaces in the presence of surfactants. This model consists of two ...
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Open AccessSmart imaging to empower brain-wide neuroscience at single-cell levels
A deep understanding of the neuronal connectivity and networks with detailed cell ty** across brain regions is necessary to unravel the mechanisms behind the emotional and memorial functions as well as to fi...
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Abnormal Expression of microRNA-296-3p in Type 2 Diabetes Patients and its Role in Pancreatic β-Cells Function by Targeting Tensin Homolog Deleted on Chromosome Ten
Diabetes mellitus (DM), a familiar disease, is characterized by high blood glucose levels owing to insulin deficiency. Researches have suggested that the incidence rate of diabetes is increasing and it has bec...
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Uniformly accurate nested Picard integrators for a system of oscillatory ordinary differential equations
A uniformly second order accurate nested Picard iterative integrator (NPI) is proposed to solve a system of oscillatory ordinary equations involving a parameter
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Open AccessSymmetry-aware recursive image similarity exploration for materials microscopy
In pursuit of scientific discovery, vast collections of unstructured structural and functional images are acquired; however, only an infinitesimally small fraction of this data is rigorously analyzed, with an ...
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Prognostic value of olfactory evoked potentials in patients with post-infectious olfactory dysfunction
Prognostic assessment of patients with post-infectious olfactory dysfunction (PIOD) poses a challenge for clinicians. While there have been some studies on the prognostic factors of PIOD focusing on demographi...
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Open AccessDevelopment of an arteriolar niche and self-renewal of breast cancer stem cells by lysophosphatidic acid/protein kinase D signaling
Breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) are essential for cancer growth, metastasis and recurrence. The regulatory mechanisms of BCSC interactions with the vascular niche within the tumor microenvironment (TME) and t...
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Open AccessGenome-wide identification of DNA methylation QTLs in whole blood highlights pathways for cardiovascular disease
Identifying methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) and integrating them with disease-associated variants from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) may illuminate functional mechanisms underlying geneti...
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Open AccessBlock copolymer derived uniform mesopores enable ultrafast electron and ion transport at high mass loadings
High mass loading and fast charge transport are two crucial but often mutually exclusive characteristics of pseudocapacitors. On conventional carbon supports, high mass loadings inevitably lead to sluggish ele...
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Olfactory cortex and Olfactory bulb volume alterations in patients with post-infectious Olfactory loss
Upper respiratory tract infection (URI) is one of the most common etiology of olfactory loss. Previous studies demonstrated that both olfactory bulb (OB) volume and sulcus (OS) depth decreased in patients with...
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Open AccessWelding fume exposure is associated with inflammation: a global metabolomics profiling study
Increasing evidence suggests that welding fume exposure is associated with systemic inflammation. Although celluar metabolites may be associated with inflammation, there is limited information on metabolomic c...
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Epigenome-wide association study for 28-day survival of acute respiratory distress syndrome
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Open AccessEpigenetic modifications in KDM lysine demethylases associate with survival of early-stage NSCLC
KDM lysine demethylase family members are related to lung cancer clinical outcomes and are potential biomarkers for chemotherapeutics. However, little is known about epigenetic alterations in KDM genes and their ...
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Open AccessWhole blood microRNA markers are associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) can play important roles in inflammation and infection, which are common manifestations of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We assessed if whole blood miRNAs were potential diagno...
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Biodegradable, flame retardant wood-plastic combination via in situ ring-opening polymerization of lactide monomers
A wood-plastic combination (WPC) was created via in situ polymerization of the l-lactide monomer (3S)-cis-3,6-dimethyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione. Commercial poplar boards (Liriodendron tulipifera) were impregnated wi...
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Late-onset moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome is associated with shorter survival and higher mortality: a two-stage association study
To evaluate the association between acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) onset time and prognosis.
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Improving the Electrical Properties of Zr-Doped Bi3.15Nd0.85Ti3O12 Thin Films by Engineering Polarization Rotation
Nd3+/Zr4+-cosubstituted bismuth titanate (BNTZ x , x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5) thin films have been fabricated by chemical solution deposition and their polarization hysteres...
