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Recent progress and strategies of cathodes toward polysulfides shuttle restriction for lithium-sulfur batteries
Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) have already developed into one of the most promising new-generation high-energy density electrochemical energy storage systems with outstanding features including high-energy d...
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A hybrid approach to three-way conversational recommendation
Conversational recommendation is ubiquitous in e-commerce, while three-way recommendation provides friendly choices for service providers and users. However, their combination has not been studied yet. In this...
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Improving recommendation quality through outlier removal
Rating data collected by recommendation systems contain noise caused by human uncertainty and malicious attacks. Existing outlier removal approaches usually aim at detecting noise inserted into ground-truth ra...
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Chesapeake Bay acidification buffered by spatially decoupled carbonate mineral cycling
Uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere has acidified the ocean and threatened the health of marine organisms and their ecosystems. In coastal waters, acidification is often enhanced by C...
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Open AccessControls on surface water carbonate chemistry along North American ocean margins
Syntheses of carbonate chemistry spatial patterns are important for predicting ocean acidification impacts, but are lacking in coastal oceans. Here, we show that along the North American Atlantic and Gulf coas...
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Open AccessSystematic analysis of the basic/helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor family in pummelo (Citrus grandis) and identification of the key members involved in the response to iron deficiency
Iron (Fe) deficiency is a common problem in citrus production. As the second largest superfamily of transcription factors (TFs), the basic/helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins have been shown to participate in the...
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Open AccessA randomized controlled trial of well-being therapy to promote adaptation and alleviate emotional distress among medical freshmen
Maladjustment and emotional distress are extremely prevalent among first-year medical students in college and are associated with numerous negative consequences for medical freshmen, their families and univers...
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Macleaya cordata helps improve the growth-promoting effect of chlortetracycline on broiler chickens
Chlortetracycline (CTC), one kind of common antibiotic for prevention and treatment of various diseases, also exhibits good performance in accelerating the growth of livestock. Macleaya cordata, a traditional Chi...
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Impact of maternal thyroid autoantibodies positivity on the risk of early term birth: Ma’anshan Birth Cohort Study
We aim to investigate associations of maternal serum anti-thyroperoxidase autoantibody (TPOAb) with duration of gestation. We aim to investigate whether maternal TPOAb positivity is associated with the risk of...
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Open AccessRedox reactions and weak buffering capacity lead to acidification in the Chesapeake Bay
The combined effects of anthropogenic and biological CO2 inputs may lead to more rapid acidification in coastal waters compared to the open ocean. It is less clear, however, how redox reactions would contribute t...
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Open AccessUrinary concentrations of phthalate metabolites in early pregnancy associated with clinical pregnancy loss in Chinese women
Limited evidence revealed conflicting results on relationship between phthalate exposure and clinical pregnancy loss (gestational weeks >6). A prospective cohort study in Chinese pregnant women (n = 3220) was ...
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A Three-Way Recommender System for Popularity-Based Costs
Recommender systems help e-commerce corporations to make profit among a large amount of customers. Three-way recommender systems handle this issue through considering misclassification and promotion costs. The...
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Detection of biological thiols based on a colorimetric method
Biological thiols (biothiols), an important kind of functional biomolecules, such as cysteine (Cys) and glutathione (GSH), play vital roles in maintaining the stability of the intracellular environment. In pas...
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Open AccessMaternal zinc deficiency during pregnancy elevates the risks of fetal growth restriction: a population-based birth cohort study
We investigated the association between maternal zinc level during pregnancy and the risks of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA) infants in a large population-based birth cohort study. ...
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Open AccessNodulation Characterization and Proteomic Profiling of Bradyrhizobium liaoningense CCBAU05525 in Response to Water-Soluble Humic Materials
The lignite biodegradation procedure to produce water-soluble humic materials (WSHM) with a Penicillium stain was established by previous studies in our laboratory. This study researched the effects of WSHM on th...
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Multipath Routing of Multiple Description Coded Images in Wireless Networks
Multiple description coding (MDC) generates multiple decodable bitstreams for a source to combat information loss. In this paper, multipath routing problem for two-description coded images is investigated for ...
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Coal-burning endemic fluorosis is associated with reduced activity in antioxidative enzymes and Cu/Zn-SOD gene expression
To study the effect of fluorine on the oxidative stress in coal-burning fluorosis, we investigated the environmental characteristics of coal-burning endemic fluorosis combined with fluorine content surveillanc...
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Association between the HLA-B*15:02 allele and carbamazepine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis in Han individuals of northeastern China
This study examined the significant association between carbamazepine (CBZ)-induced Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS)/toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and HLA-B*15:02 in epilepsy patients of Han ethnicity living in ...
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The detection of ESR1/PGR/ERBB2 mRNA levels by RT-QPCR: a better approach for subty** breast cancer and predicting prognosis
The molecular classification of breast cancer mainly focuses on ER, PR, and HER2 status detected by immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis. To explore the clinical value of breast cancer classification based on g...
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Detection of ETV6 gene rearrangements in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
ETV6 is an important hematopoietic regulatory factor and ETV6 gene rearrangement is involved in a wide variety of hematological malignancies. In this study, we sought to investigate the incidence of ETV6-associat...
