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Threat of low-frequency high-intensity floods to global cropland and crop yields
Flood hazards pose a significant threat to agricultural production. Agricultural adaptations tend to be prevalent and systematic in high-frequency flood (HFF) areas but neglected in low-frequency flood (LFF) a...
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Tool wear prediction based on a fusion model of data-driven and physical models in the milling process
Precision tool wear prediction in the milling process is crucial in enhancing product quality and machining efficiency. Both data-driven models and physical models are vital for indirect tool wear prediction. ...
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Simulation of powder transportation in directed energy deposition
To understand the mechanism of powder transportation in a coaxial feeding system, computational fluid dynamics and the discrete element method are coupled to simulate the gas flow and metal powder transportati...
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Open AccessPredictive Factors for the Formation of Viable Embryos in Subfertile Patients with Diminished Ovarian Reserve: A Clinical Prediction Study
This study aims to construct and validate a nomogram for predicting blastocyst formation in patients with diminished ovarian reserve (DOR) during in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures. A retrospective analys...
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An SGX-based execution framework for smart contracts upon permissioned blockchain
Since consensus protocol and execution mechanism act as two key factors for the overall throughput of blockchain systems, how to execute smart contracts efficiently becomes an emergent bottleneck as many high-...
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High-temperature corrosion resistance of Fe–Cr–Mo amorphous coating for water wall protection of USC boiler
A novel Fe–Cr–Mo amorphous coating, a high-temperature corrosion-resistant material for water wall protection of power plant ultra-supercritical boilers, has been prepared via arc spraying. A systematic study ...
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Open AccessInfluence of metabolic syndrome on prognosis of patients with surgically treated esophageal cancer: a meta-analysis
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been related to the increased incidence of esophageal cancer (EC). The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of MetS on prognosis of patients with surgically treated EC i...
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Microstructure Evolution and Properties of Nitrogen-Bearing Hypereutectic High Chromium Cast Iron after Quenching
High chromium cast iron (HCCI) is widely used in mining and metallurgy due to its high wear resistance. The purpose of this study is to reveal the effects of different quenching temperatures on the microstruct...
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OpenFold: retraining AlphaFold2 yields new insights into its learning mechanisms and capacity for generalization
AlphaFold2 revolutionized structural biology with the ability to predict protein structures with exceptionally high accuracy. Its implementation, however, lacks the code and data required to train new models. ...
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Open AccessCorrection: CKLF1 Aggravates Focal Cerebral Ischemia Injury at Early Stage Partly by Modulating Microglia/Macrophage Toward M1 Polarization Through CCR4
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The analytical study of soliton dynamics in fractional coupled Higgs system using the generalized Khater method
This study introduces the generalized Khater Method (gKM) as a tool for investigating the existence and dynamics of soliton solutions within the realm of the Fractional Coupled Higgs System (FCHS) with conform...
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An ingenious construction of porous sodium alginate/TEMPO-oxidized cellulose composite aerogels for efficient adsorption of crystal violet dyes in wastewater
Since caustic dyes are a major component of wastewater used in printing and dyeing, they represent a significant risk to human health. It’s getting harder to get rid of them efficiently. An appealing solution ...
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Spatial-temporal graph transformer network for skeleton-based temporal action segmentation
Temporal action segmentation (TAS) of minute-long untrimmed videos involves locating and classifying human action segments using multiple action class labels. Previously, research on this task typically involv...
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Non-reciprocal Heterogeneous Nucleation in Solidification of Ag–Cu Alloys
Taking Ag-27 at% Cu hypoeutectic and Ag-67 at% Cu hypereutectic alloys as examples, a theoretical criterion was established based on the classical nucleation theory to predict the non-reciprocal nucleation. Fo...
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Label-free detection and profiling of individual solution-phase molecules
Most chemistry and biology occurs in solution, in which conformational dynamics and complexation underlie behaviour and function. Single-molecule techniques1 are uniquely suited to resolving molecular diversity a...
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Author Correction: Ginsenoside Rg1 protects against ischemic/reperfusion-induced neuronal injury through miR-144/Nrf2/ARE pathway
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Open AccessCastration alters the ileum microbiota of Holstein bulls and promotes beef flavor compounds
In the beef industry, bull calves are usually castrated to improve flavor and meat quality; however, this can reduce their growth and slaughter performance. The gut microbiota is known to exert a significant i...
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Approximation algorithm for the minimum partial connected Roman dominating set problem
Given a graph \(G=(V,E)\) G = ( ...
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Mammalian PIWI–piRNA–target complexes reveal features for broad and efficient target silencing
The PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway is an adaptive defense system wherein piRNAs guide PIWI family Argonaute proteins to recognize and silence ever-evolving selfish genetic elements and ensure genome inte...
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Approximation algorithms for maximum weighted target cover problem with distance limitations
In this paper, we study approximation algorithms for the problem of maximum weighted target cover with distance limitations (MaxWTCDL). Given n targets ...
