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Association between the triglyceride-glucose index and thyroid disorders: a cross-sectional survey and Mendelian randomization analysis
Metabolic diseases are associated with thyroid disorders. Insulin resistance is the common pathological basis of metabolic diseases. We explored the relationship between the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, a...
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Open AccessEffects of iodine intake on gut microbiota and gut metabolites in Hashimoto thyroiditis-diseased humans and mice
Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease linked to iodine intake. Emerging evidence highlights the gut microbiota’s role in HT pathogenesis via the microbiota-gut-thyroid axis. Howeve...
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Open AccessEffects of altitude on thyroid disorders according to Chinese three-rung, ladder-like topography: national cross-sectional study
Chinese topography appears a three-rung ladder-like distribution of decreasing elevation from northwest to southeast, which is divided by two slo** edges. Previous studies have reported that prevalence of th...
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SCAU-net: 3D self-calibrated attention U-Net for brain tumor segmentation
Recently, U-Net architecture with its strong adaptability has become prevalent in the field of MRI brain tumor segmentation. Meanwhile, researchers have demonstrated that introducing attention mechanisms, espe...
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Characterization of N-glycome profile in mouse brain tissue regions by MALDI-TOF/MS
Glycosylation is one of the most common types of post-translational modifications in mammals. It is well known that N-glycans play a key role in cell adhesion, differentiation, synapsis, and myelination during...
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Sphericity and roundness for three-dimensional high explosive particles by computational geometry
Particle shape governs the macro-mechanical behavior of high explosives. This study develops 3D computational geometry techniques to determine commonly used sphericity and roundness definitions of typical high...
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Open AccessParticle shape characterizations for energetic materials by computational geometry and stereology method
Particle shapes significantly affect viscosity and flow behavior of energetic materials, and therefore affect their packability and processability. This study presents a computational geometry framework for au...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Anatomically revealed morphological patterns of pyramidal neurons in layer 5 of the motor cortex
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Open AccessA Novel Artificial Neuron-Like Gas Sensor Constructed from CuS Quantum Dots/Bi2S3 Nanosheets
An ultra-sensitive capture of NO2 molecules and fast charge collection and transfer has been realized by constructing the model of artificial neuron-likega...
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Two Inhibitors Against the 3C-Like Proteases of Swine Coronavirus and Feline Coronavirus
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are important human and animal pathogens that cause respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. Porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED), characterized by severe diarrhoea and vomiting in pigs, is ...
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The Preventive Effects of Lactobacillus casei on Acute Lung Injury Induced by Lipopolysaccharide
Lactobacillus has been reported to inhibit acute lung injury (ALI). However, the molecular mechanism of Lactobacillus casei (L. casei) in preventing ALI has not been identified, so we investigated whether L. case...
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Open AccessAnatomically revealed morphological patterns of pyramidal neurons in layer 5 of the motor cortex
Neuronal cell types are essential to the comprehensive understanding of the neuronal function and neuron can be categorized by their anatomical property. However, complete morphology data for neurons with a wh...
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Efficient regular expression matching on LZ77 compressed strings using negative factors
The state-of-the-art approaches for regular expression matching on LZ78 compressed strings do not perform efficiently. Moreover, LZ78 compression has some shortcomings, such as higher compression ratio and slo...
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Efficient Approximate Subsequence Matching Using Hybrid Signatures
In this paper, we focus on the problem of approximate subsequence matching, also called the read map** problem in genomics, which is finding similar subsequences (A subsequence refers to a substring which ha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Regular Expression Matching on Compressed Strings
Existing methods for regular expression matching on LZ78 compressed strings do not perform efficiently. Moreover, LZ78 compression has some shortcomings, such as high compression ratio and slower decompression...
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Open AccessSkin appendage-derived stem cells: cell biology and potential for wound repair
Stem cells residing in the epidermis and skin appendages are imperative for skin homeostasis and regeneration. These stem cells also participate in the repair of the epidermis after injuries, inducing restorat...
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Efficient Approximate Substring Matching in Compressed String
The idea of LZ77 self-index has been proposed for repetitive text in compressed forms. Existing methods of approximate string matching based on LZ77 focus on space efficiency. We focus on how to efficiently se...
