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Latent profile analysis of personal values among Chinese college students: associations with mental health disorders and life satisfaction
Interindividual differences in personal values are prevalent both within and across societies. Interindividual differences in personal value and the relationships with mental health disorders and life satisfac...
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Studies on competitive adsorption characteristics of bisphenol A and 17α-ethinylestradiol on thermoplastic polyurethane by site energy distribution theory
Compound pollution of microplastics and estrogens is a growing ecotoxicological problem in aquatic environments. The adsorption isothermal properties of bisphenol A (BPA) and 17α-ethinyl estradiol (EE2) on pol...
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Vagal-α7nAChR signaling is required for lung anti-inflammatory responses and arginase 1 expression during an influenza infection
Vagal circuit-α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR, coded by Chrna7) signaling can modulate lung proinflammatory responses. Arginase 1 (ARG1) plays a crucial role in the resolution of lung inflammation. H...
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Inexact Operator Splitting Method for Monotone Inclusion Problems
The Douglas–Peaceman–Rachford–Varga operator splitting methods are a class of efficient methods for finding a zero of the sum of two maximal monotone operators in a real Hilbert space; however, they are someti...
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The protective effects of long non-coding RNA-ANCR on arterial calcification
Arterial calcification is a major factor for cardiovascular events and is characterized by vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) transformed into osteoblast-like cells. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) were recogn...
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A Robust Face Recognition Method Combining LBP with Multi-mirror Symmetry for Images with Various Face Interferences
Face recognition (FR) is a practical application of pattern recognition (PR) and remains a compelling topic in the study of computer vision. However, in real-world FR systems, interferences in images, includin...
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Polynomial Convergence of Primal-Dual Path-Following Algorithms for Symmetric Cone Programming Based on Wide Neighborhoods and a New Class of Directions
This paper presents a class of primal-dual path-following interior-point algorithms for symmetric cone programming (SCP) based on wide neighborhoods and new directions with a parameter
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Open AccessColorful Hydrophobic Poly(Vinyl Butyral)/Cationic Dye Fibrous Membranes via a Colored Solution Electrospinning Process
Colorful nanofibrous membranes have attracted much attention for their visual varieties and various functionalities. In this article, a colored solution electrospinning process was used to fabricate colorful h...
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Open AccessTargeting STAT3/miR-21 axis inhibits epithelial-mesenchymal transition via regulating CDK5 in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Abnormal activation of STAT3 and miR-21 plays a vital role in progression and invasion of solid tumors. The cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) is reported to contribute to cancer metastasis by regulating epithel...
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Shape synchronization of drive-response for a class of two-dimensional chaotic systems via continuous controllers
This paper investigates the drive-response synchronization in shape for a class of two-dimensional continuous systems of chaos. The shape of the chaotic attractor of the drive chaotic system is considered in t...
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Proximal-Based Pre-correction Decomposition Methods for Structured Convex Minimization Problems
This paper presents two proximal-based pre-correction decomposition methods for convex minimization problems with separable structures. The methods, derived from Chen and Teboulle’s proximal-based decompositio...
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Suppression of neuroinflammation by astrocytic dopamine D2 receptors via αB-crystallin
Chronic inflammation is a feature of the ageing brain and some neurodegenerative diseases; the authors show that astrocytes normally suppress neuroinflammation through activation of their DRD2 receptor by CRYA...
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Open AccessAn efficient intrathecal delivery of small interfering RNA to the spinal cord and peripheral neurons
We have developed a highly effective method for in vivo gene silencing in the spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia (DRG) by a cationic lipid facilitated delivery of synthetic, small interfering RNA (siRNA). A siRN...
