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Open AccessUpper limb modeling and motion extraction based on multi-space-fusion
Modeling and motion extraction of human upper limbs are essential for interpreting the natural behavior of upper limb. Owing to the high degrees of freedom (DOF) and highly dynamic nature, existing upper limb ...
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Open AccessInhibition of CXorf56 promotes PARP inhibitor-induced cytotoxicity in triple-negative breast cancer
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPis) induce DNA lesions that preferentially kill homologous recombination (HR)-deficient breast cancers induced by BRCA mutations, which exhibit a low incidence in breas...
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Open AccessAGGF1 therapy inhibits thoracic aortic aneurysms by enhancing integrin α7-mediated inhibition of TGF-β1 maturation and ERK1/2 signaling
Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is a localized or diffuse dilatation of the thoracic aortas, and causes many sudden deaths each year worldwide. However, there is no effective pharmacologic therapy. Here, we sho...
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Open AccessRotavirus and Norovirus Infections in Children Under 5 Years Old with Acute Gastroenteritis in Southwestern China, 2018–2020
Rotaviruses and noroviruses are important causes of acute gastroenteritis in children. While previous studies in China have mainly focused on rotavirus, we investigated the incidence of norovirus in addition t...
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Open AccessDevelopment and evaluation of demonstration information recording approach for wheelchair mounted robotic arm
To offer simple and convenient assistance for the elderly and disabled, researchers focus on programming by demonstration approach to improve the intelligence and adaptability of wheelchair mounted robotic arm...
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Open AccessKey immunity characteristics of diverse stages of brucellosis in rural population from Inner Mongolia, China
Brucellosis poses a serious threat to human and animal health, particularly in develo** countries such as China. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is one of the most severely brucellosis-endemic provinces...
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Open AccessClinical and antibody characteristics reveal diverse signatures of severe and non-severe SARS-CoV-2 patients
COVID-19 pandemic continues, clarifying signatures in clinical characters and antibody responses between severe and non-severe COVID-19 cases would benefit the prognosis and treatment.
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Open AccessDeep Learning Based Customer Preferences Analysis in Industry 4.0 Environment
Customer preferences analysis and modelling using deep learning in edge computing environment are critical to enhance customer relationship management that focus on a dynamically changing market place. Existin...
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Open AccessAssociation study of relationships of polymorphisms in the miR-21, miR-26b, miR-221/222 and miR-126 genes with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical cancer
miR-21, miR-26b, miR-221/222 and miR-126 play crucial roles in cervical cancer development. Studies have shown that polymorphisms in miRNA genes can affect miRNA expression, which might be associated with cancer ...
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A GIS-MOPSO Integrated Method for Optimal Design of Grid-Connected HRES for Educational Buildings
In this paper, an optimal design of a grid-connected PV-battery-hydrogen hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) at a University campus in Ouargla, Algeria is carried out. To achieve this goal, geographical info...
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An MRF-Based Intention Recognition Framework for WMRA with Selected Objects as Contextual Clues
To mitigate the physical burden of disabled people, we propose an approach that a robot could perceive the implied action intentions of disabled people by their selected objects. This article presents a framew...
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Open AccessPolymorphisms in endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase genes are associated with cervical cancer risk in a Chinese Han population
Antigen-processing machinery molecules play crucial roles in infectious diseases and cancers. Studies have shown that polymorphisms in endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase (ERAP) genes can influence the enzyma...
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Online model-learning algorithm from samples and trajectories
Learning of the value function and the policy for continuous MDPs is non-trial due to the difficulty in collecting enough data. Model learning can use the collected data effectively, to learn a model and then ...
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A Study on PD-like Fuzzy Logic Control Based Active Noise Control for Narrowband Noise Cancellation with Acoustic Feedback and Distance Ratio
This study considers the significance of geometrical configuration on the point noise cancellation in the three-dimensional linear propagation medium as its background field and proposes a Proportional Derivat...
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Identification of rare variants in cardiac sodium channel β4-subunit gene SCN4B associated with ventricular tachycardia
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) causes sudden cardiac death, however, the majority of risk genes for VT remain unknown. SCN4B encodes a β-subunit, Navβ4, for the voltage-gated cardiac sodium channel complex involved...
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Open AccessPolymorphisms in the CCR5 promoter associated with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in a Chinese Han population
C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) has attracted wide concern for its critical role in the progression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Several studies have demonstrated that CCR5 affects...
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Simulated Tests of Feedforward Active Noise Control (ANC) for Building Noise Cancellation
This paper presents an understanding of active noise control (ANC) systems especially focus on the physical geometries of the detector and the observer and develops a series of simulation experiments for diffe...
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Large-Scale Streamwise Vortices in Turbulent Channel Flow Induced by Active Wall Actuations
Direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow in a plane channel using spanwise alternatively distributed strips (SADS) are performed to investigate the characteristics of large-scale streamwise vortices (LSS...
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Open AccessA non-canonical pathway regulates ER stress signaling and blocks ER stress-induced apoptosis and heart failure
Endoplasmic reticulum stress is an evolutionarily conserved cell stress response associated with numerous diseases, including cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure. The major endoplasmic reticulum stress signa...
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Tetrahedral mesh improvement by shell transformation
Existing flips for tetrahedral meshes simply make a selection from a few possible configurations within a single shell (i.e., a polyhedron that can be filled up with a mesh composed of a set of elements that m...
