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Opposite turning hook of crushable sand's stress–dilatancy curve and its prediction
For crushable sand, compared to non-crushable sand, this paper describes the experimental phenomenon of the opposite turning direction of stress–dilatancy curve after the peak stress ratio. Then, based on the ...
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Natural molecule Niacin enables printable carbon-based mesoscopic perovskite solar cells with 17.3% efficiency
Printable carbon-based mesoscopic perovskite solar cells (MPSCs) have garnered great attention in the growing solar industry owing to their low cost, scalable manufacturing process and excellent stability. The...
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Immunoregulatory nanomedicine for respiratory infections
Immune-regulation strategies, such as vaccination and immunotherapy, are key to the prevention and treatment of respiratory infectious diseases. In particular, nanomedicines can be engineered and formulated to...
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Open AccessSurplus fatty acid synthesis increases oxidative stress in adipocytes and induces lipodystrophy
Adipocytes are the primary sites for fatty acid storage, but the synthesis rate of fatty acids is very low. The physiological significance of this phenomenon remains unclear. Here, we show that surplus fatty a...
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Foreground and Background Separate Adaptive Equilibrium Gradients Loss for Long-Tail Object Detection
The current mainstream object detection methods usually tend to implement on datasets where the categories remain balanced, and have made great progress. However, in the presence of long-tail distribution, the...
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Additive manufacturing of Cu-Al-Mn shape memory alloy with enhanced superelasticity
The Cu-based shape memory alloy (SMA) with highly oriented columnar crystals is an ideal candidate for the commercial application, especially the ones obtained through rapid cooling via additive manufacturing ...
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ShallowHRD status acts as an effective prognostic predictor in ovarian cancer patients treated by poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPis)
Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) plays a crucial role in ovarian cancer patients who are treated with Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPis). It could be defined as a prognosis biomarker. Ho...
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Open AccessCollective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays
The performance of any engineering material is naturally limited by its structure, and while each material suffers from one or multiple shortcomings when considered for a particular application, these can be p...
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Open AccessEvaluation of the possible association of PDCD-1 and LAG3 gene polymorphisms with hepatocellular carcinoma risk
Programmed death-1 (PDCD-1) and lymphocyte activating 3 (LAG3), two important immunosuppressive molecules, play crucial roles in immune escape of tumor cells. This study evaluated the effects of PDCD-1 (rs1020...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Characterization of γ′ Precipitation Behavior in Additively Manufactured IN738LC Superalloy via In-Situ Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
In the present study, quantitative evaluation of the size and volume fraction of γ′ particles have been studied (SANS) and FE-SEM in additively manufactured employing isothermal conditions at 850 ℃. Th...
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Rutile TiO2 nanorods grown on carbon nanotubes as high-performance lithium-ion batteries anode via one-dimensional electron pathways
Achieving the fast electron transport is an effective strategy to improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Here, we develop a new method to quickly synthesize rutile TiO2 nanorods grown carbon nan...
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Fractal Characteristics of Drilling Particle Size Distribution of Shale: A Laboratory Scale Investigation
The fractal particle size distribution (PSD) theory is used to characterize the particles produced in shale drilling.
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Open AccessDifferential neutralization and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 variants by antibodies elicited by COVID-19 mRNA vaccines
The evolution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in the emergence of new variant lineages that have exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of those variants were desi...
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Open AccessBioimaging guided pharmaceutical evaluations of nanomedicines for clinical translations
Nanomedicines (NMs) have emerged as an efficient approach for develo** novel treatment strategies against a variety of diseases. Over the past few decades, NM formulations have received great attention, and ...
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Yttrium ion do** effect on electrochemical performance of LiNiPO4 materials
In the article, olivine-structured pure LiNiPO4 and yttrium-doped LiNiPO4 powder were prepared by sol-gel method using citric acid as chelating agent. The effect of 1.0 mol% Y do** on the structure and electroc...
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Open AccessU2AF1 mutation promotes tumorigenicity through facilitating autophagy flux mediated by FOXO3a activation in myelodysplastic syndromes
Mutations in the U2 small nuclear RNA auxiliary factor 1 (U2AF1) gene are the common feature of a major subset in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). However, the genetic landscape and molecular pathogenesis of onco...
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Open AccessHigh catalytic activity for formaldehyde oxidation of an interconnected network structure composed of δ-MnO2 nanosheets and γ-MnOOH nanowires
Among the transition metal oxide catalysts, manganese oxides have great potential for formaldehyde (HCHO) oxidation at ambient temperature because of their high activity, nontoxicity, low cost, and polybasic m...
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Titanium Oxide Films Prepared by Cathodic Electrodeposition Method
In this paper, titanium oxide (TiO2) films were prepared by cathodic electrodeposition using titanium oxysulfate (TiOSO4), potassium nitrate (KNO3), citric acid, and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as reactants. The art...
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Open AccessStimuli-responsive polymeric nanomaterials for rheumatoid arthritis therapy
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term inflammatory disease derived from an autoimmune disorder of the synovial membrane. Current therapeutic strategies for RA mainly aim to hamper the macrophages' prolifera...
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Open AccessEmodin alleviates LPS-induced inflammatory response in lung injury rat by affecting the function of granulocytes
Acute lung injury (ALI) and/or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are critical life-threatening syndromes characterized by the infiltration of a large number of granulocytes (mainly neutrophils) that l...
