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Open AccessDental caries status and related factors among 5-year-old children in Shanghai
Dental caries in young children is a difficult global oral health problem. In the last decade, China has put a great deal of effort into reducing the prevalence of dental caries. This study, which is part of t...
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Task Delegation from AI to Humans: The Impact of AI Transparency on Human Performance
This study examines the effects of AI transparency in AI-human task delegation. According to the principal-agent theory (PAT), increasing transparency can help address the problem of hidden action. Through a b...
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Few-shot out-of-scope intent classification: analyzing the robustness of prompt-based learning
Out-of-scope (OOS) intent classification is an emerging field in conversational AI research. The goal is to detect out-of-scope user intents that do not belong to a predefined intent ontology. However, establi...
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Open AccessEffect of the telemedicine-supported multicomponent exercise therapy in patients with knee osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
The rising prevalence of knee osteoarthritis is placing a considerable strain on the global healthcare system. To address this issue, telemedicine-supported multicomponent exercise therapy has emerged as a pro...
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Predicting the prognosis of operable gastric cancer patients by dynamic changes in platelets before and after surgery: a retrospective cohort study
Since the relationship between postoperative platelet count and prognosis is still unclear, we designed a standardized index of platelet count to predict the prognosis of gastric cancer (GC).
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Open AccessThe effect of official intervention on reducing the use of potentially discriminatory language during the COVID-19 pandemic in China
This study used the Baidu Index to analyze searches using discriminatory language toward the source of the outbreak during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found a strong correlation betw...
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Open AccessPrevalence and influencing factors of malocclusion in adolescents in Shanghai, China
The main purpose of the study was to investigate the prevalence and related risk factors of malocclusion in permanent dentition among adolescents in Shanghai, and provide basic data for government’s preventive...
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CookDial: a dataset for task-oriented dialogs grounded in procedural documents
This work presents a new dialog dataset, CookDial, that facilitates research on task-oriented dialog systems with procedural knowledge understanding. The corpus contains 260 human-to-human task-oriented dialog...
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Knowledge-Based Design: A Function-Knowledge Reasoning Model for Product Conceptual Design
The foundation depends heavily on the amount of knowledge and the usage of knowledge. How to retrieve relevant knowledge from knowledge resources accumulated by the enterprises to support product conceptual ...
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Single-machine multitasking scheduling with job efficiency promotion
Motivated by behavioural and psychological phenomena that occur in human operators, we study single-machine multitasking scheduling with job efficiency promotion. In traditional multitasking scheduling, the pr...
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Effects of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid on Seed Germination, Ion Balance, and Metabolic Activity in Perennial Ryegrass Under Salinity Stress
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) can mediate plant stress tolerance. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of GABA on seed germination, seedling growth, ion elements, and carbohydrate and antiox...
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Open AccessTranscriptome characterization of candidate genes for heat tolerance in perennial ryegrass after exogenous methyl Jasmonate application
Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) plays a role in improving plant stress tolerance. The molecular mechanisms associated with heat tolerance mediated by MeJA are not fully understood in perennial grass species. The study...
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Conceptual Design for Innovation: Process and a Knowledge-Based Approach
The traditional design methods mainly focus on product or technical system themselves, but seldom recognize and plan design process from creative cognition approach point of views. This chapter introduces the ...
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Plant growth, ion accumulation, and antioxidant enzymes of endophyte-infected and endophyte-free tall fescue to salinity stress
Endophyte-mediated salinity tolerance is largely unknown in tall fescue [Schedonorus arundinaceus (Schreb.)]. The experiment was designed to characterize growth, ion accumulation, and antioxidant metabolism of ta...
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Open AccessNatural variation of physiological traits, molecular markers, and chlorophyll catabolic genes associated with heat tolerance in perennial ryegrass accessions
Identification of genetic diversity in heat tolerance and associated traits is of great importance for improving heat tolerance in cool-season grass species. The objectives of this study were to determine gene...
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Growth and Hormone Alterations in Response to Heat Stress in Perennial Ryegrass Accessions Differing in Heat Tolerance
Plant growth regulators can mediate plant response to stress. The objective of this study was to investigate hormone alterations associated with plant growth and heat tolerance in perennial ryegrass (Lolium peren...
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Open AccessThe signal peptide of Cry1Ia can improve the expression of eGFP or mCherry in Escherichia coli and Bacillus thuringiensis and enhance the host’s fluorescent intensity
The signal peptides (SPs) of secretory proteins are frequently used or modified to guide recombinant proteins outside the cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells. In the periplasmic space and extracellular environment,...
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A two-stage sequential conditional selection approach to sparse high-dimensional multivariate regression models
In this article, we deal with sparse high-dimensional multivariate regression models. The models distinguish themselves from ordinary multivariate regression models in two aspects: (1) the dimension of the res...
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Open AccessAssociation between tooth loss and hypertension among older Chinese adults: a community-based study
The purpose of the study is to examine the association between tooth loss and hypertension among older community residents in urban China.
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MapReduce machine covering problem on a small number of machines
We study machine covering problem in MapReduce system. Each job consists of two sets of tasks, namely the map tasks and reduce tasks. A job’s reduce tasks can only be processed after all its map tasks are fini...
