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Open AccessDcR3-associated risk score: correlating better prognosis and enhanced predictive power in colorectal cancer
Decoy receptor 3 (DcR3), a novel soluble protein belonging to the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) family, has been previously associated with tumorigenesis in various cancers. However, in our study, we u...
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Boosting Character-based Mandarin ASR via Chinese Pinyin Representation
Current end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have achieved good results in phonetic language such as English and French. However, Chinese character is a typical ideographic writing, and there i...
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CI-Mix: cut instance mix for robust speaker verification
Data augmentation is commonly used to help build a robust speaker verification system, especially when resources are limited. In this paper, we generalize the idea of CutMix to cut instance mix (CI-Mix) for au...
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Open AccessIntegrated transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of two sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum Linn.) varieties differing in their lodging tolerance
Lodging seriously affects sugarcane stem growth and sugar accumulation, reduces sugarcane yield and sucrose content, and impedes mechanization. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying sugarcane lodging to...
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Open AccessBicriteria fabrication scheduling of two-component jobs on a single machine
This paper studies the bicriteria problem of non-preemptively scheduling n jobs, each of which is associated with a due date and comprises a standard and a specific component, on a single fabrication machine to m...
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Preterm Prelabor Rupture of Membranes Linked to Vaginal Bacteriome of Pregnant Females in the Early Second Trimester: a Case-Cohort Design
Preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (PPROM) is a major cause of spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB), one of the greatest challenges facing obstetrics with complicated pathogenesis. This case-cohort study invest...
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Open AccessSociodemographic characteristics and healthcare utilization of infants with SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S
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Effect of the Buffer Layers on the Performance of Fe(Se, Te) Films Fabricated on IBAD Metal Templates by Pulsed Laser Deposition
In the development of Fe(Se, Te) films, the substrate is thought to be a consequential factor in the growth and characteristics of the films. In this study, Fe(Se, Te) films were grown on ion beam-assisted dep...
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In-field Performance Comparison and Vortex Pinning Analysis in Depth of Pristine and BaHfO3-Doped Y0.5Gd0.5Ba2Cu3O7-δ Films in Different Temperature Regions
Pristine Y0.5Gd0.5Ba2Cu3O7-δ films and Y0.5Gd0.5Ba2Cu3O7-δ films with additional 1 mol% and 3 mol% BaHfO3 secondary phases were fabricated on a CeO2 layer, and the microstructure and superconducting properties in...
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Highly enhanced thermoelectric and mechanical properties of Bi2Te3 hybrid nanocomposite with inclusion of Pt nanoparticles and SWCNTs
In this work, an approach of a hybrid inclusion of Pt nanoparticles and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in a bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) matrix is developed to enhance the thermoelectric and micromechanica...
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Alterations of oral microbiota in Chinese children with viral encephalitis and/or viral meningitis
The role of oral microbiota in viral encephalitis and/or viral meningitis (VEVM) remains unclear. In this hospital-based, frequency-matched study, children with clinically diagnosed VEVM (n = 68) and those wit...
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Acoustic domain mismatch compensation in bird audio detection
Detecting bird calls in audio is an important task for automatic wildlife monitoring, as well as in citizen science and audio library management. This paper presents front-end acoustic enhancement techniques t...
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Effect and Mechanism of Do** Concentration on Growth and Performance of Thick BaHfO3-doped Y0.5Gd0.5Ba2Cu3O7−δ Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition
One mole percent and 3 mol% BaHfO3-doped Y0.5Gd0.5Ba2Cu3O7−δ films with thickness of micron level were prepared on CeO2 layer under different laser fluences respectively by pulsed laser deposition. Under a higher...
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Service Function Chain Reliability Improvement Algorithm Based on Resource Characteristics
In the network virtualization environment, the reliability of the service function chain is low. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a service function chain reliability improvement algorithm based on r...
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Predictors of venous thromboembolism among infants in children’s hospitals in the United States: a retrospective Pediatric Health Information Study
Examine: (1) Prevalence of diagnosed venous thromboembolism (VTE) in infants <6 months discharged from U.S. NICUs; (2) Associations between sociodemographic and clinical factors and VTE; (3) Secondary outcomes...
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Open AccessPronunciation augmentation for Mandarin-English code-switching speech recognition
Code-switching (CS) refers to the phenomenon of using more than one language in an utterance, and it presents great challenge to automatic speech recognition (ASR) due to the code-switching property in one utt...
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Open AccessFormation and Evaluation of Silicon Substrate with Highly-Doped Porous Si Layers Formed by Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching
Porous silicon (Si) is a low thermal conductivity material, which has high potential for thermoelectric devices. However, low output performance of porous Si hinders the development of thermoelectric performan...
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The formation of uniform straw-like β-FeOOH nanostructures with superior catalytic performance for the degradation of Rhodamine B
In this work, uniform straw-like akaganeite (β-FeOOH) nanostructures with superior catalytic performance were successfully prepared via a facile hydrothermal method. The as-prepared uniform straw-like β-FeOOH ...
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Mask-based blind source separation and MVDR beamforming in ASR
This paper presents a front-end enhancement system for automatic speech recognition to address the cocktail party problem. Cocktail party problem is focus on recognizing the target speech when multiple speaker...
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Open AccessA novel construct with biomechanical flexibility for articular cartilage regeneration
Although tissue-engineered cartilage has been broadly studied, complete integration of regenerated cartilage with residual cartilage is still difficult for the inferior mechanical and biochemical feature of ne...
