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Uric Acid Mitigates Cognitive Deficits via TFEB-Mediated Microglial Autophagy in Mice Models of Alzheimer’s Disease
Clinical trials have demonstrated the potential neuroprotective effects of uric acid (UA) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the specific mechanism underlying the neuroprotective effect of UA remains unclea...
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Adapting and Evaluating a Strategic Disclosure Program to Address Mental Health Stigma Among Chinese
People with mental illness are challenged by self-stigma, leading to a sense of behavioral futility and reduced goal seeking. Honest, Open, Proud (HOP) program is a peer service program that utilizes strategic...
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Open AccessTransmission of areca palm velarivirus 1 (APV1) by Pseudococcus cryptus
Betel palm is one of the most economically important crops in Southeast Asia. The occurrence and expansion of yellow leaf disease (YLD) have significantly impacted betel palm plantations. Our previous research...
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Site Effects in Multisite Fetal Brain MRI: A Morphological Study of Early Brain Development
Studies have shown that the non-biological site-related effects may induce bias in multisite neuroimaging studies among adults and adolescents. It is unknown how site effects would affect fetal brain MRI and w...
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Non-affine atomic rearrangement of glasses through stress-induced structural anisotropy
The atomic-scale structural rearrangement of glasses on applied stress is central to the understanding of their macroscopic mechanical properties and behaviour. However, experimentally resolving the atomic-sca...
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Self-Stigma, Secrecy, and Disclosure Among Chinese with Serious Mental Illness
The self-stigma of mental illness can undermine self-esteem leading to greater depression. This study examines the impact of varied models of self-stigma on Chinese with serious mental illness. First, we valid...
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A simple detection and generation algorithm for simple circuits in directed graph based on depth-first traversal
This paper proposes a new algorithm for detecting and generating simple circuits within a directed graph. Before generating all simple circuits in a directed graph, the algorithm first detects whether there is...
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Correction to: Adapting and Evaluating a Strategic Disclosure Program to Address Mental Health Stigma Among Chinese
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Open AccessTA-MSCs, TA-MSCs-EVs, MIF: their crosstalk in immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment
As an important component of the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME), it has been established that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) promote the progression of tumor cells. MSCs can directly promote the...
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Open AccessCrosstalk among m6A RNA methylation, hypoxia and metabolic reprogramming in TME: from immunosuppressive microenvironment to clinical application
The tumor microenvironment (TME), which is regulated by intrinsic oncogenic mechanisms and epigenetic modifications, has become a research hotspot in recent years. Characteristic features of TME include hypoxi...
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Stability analysis of a novel mobile spray-painting robot for touch-up painting in vehicle repair plant
The stability of a mobile robot is important because it may tip over. This work proposes a hybrid spray-painting robot with high stiffness for touch-up painting in vehicle repair plant and investigates its sta...
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Open AccessAmino acid sites related to the PB2 subunits of IDV affect polymerase activity
In 2011, a new influenza virus, named Influenza D Virus (IDV), was isolated from pigs, and then cattle, presenting influenza-like symptoms. IDV is one of the causative agents of Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD...
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Chitosan-derived N-self-doped Pt/C as stable electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction
Among the currently studied nitrogen-doped Pt-C catalysts, the environmental friendliness of the nitrogen source and the stability of Pt-C catalysts for fuel cells are urgent issues to be solved. In this study...
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Open AccessLethal infection caused by Tetratrichomonas gallinarum in black swans (Cygnus atratus)
Tetratrichomonas gallinarum is parasitic protozoa with a wide host range. However, its lethal infection is rare reported.
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Inverse Kinematics of a 7-DOF Spray-Painting Robot with a Telescopic Forearm
Inverse kinematics is an important issue for redundant robot. This paper studies the inverse kinematics of a 7 degree of freedom (7-DOF) spray-painting robot with a telescopic forearm. The map** relationship...
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A sensitive and rapid bacterial antibiotic susceptibility test method by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
This study aims to develop a rapid bacterial antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) method by Bacteria-aptamer@AgNPs–surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and further evaluate the influence of different ant...
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Open AccessHigh cholesterol induces apoptosis and autophagy through the ROS-activated AKT/FOXO1 pathway in tendon-derived stem cells
Hypercholesterolemia increases the risk of tendon pain and tendon rupture. Tendon-derived stem cells (TDSCs) play a vital role in the development of tendinopathy. Our previous research found that high choleste...
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Improved reliability-based design optimization of non-uniformly stiffened spherical dome
To resist external pressure, stiffened spherical domes have been widely used in underwater vehicles. In traditional design of these thin-walled structures, uniform stiffeners are usually utilized and overly co...
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Training Deep Nets with Progressive Batch Normalization on Multi-GPUs
Batch normalization (BN) enables us to train various deep neural networks faster. However, the training accuracy will be significantly influenced with the decrease of input mini-batch size. To increase the mod...
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Smooth size design for the natural frequencies of curved Timoshenko beams using isogeometric analysis
Curved thick beams with smoothly variable cross-section size are very common in practical engineering problems. Designing the variable size based on the traditional finite element methods often leads to non-sm...
