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Open AccessScreening for frailty and its association with activities of daily living, cognitive impairment, and falls among community-dwelling older adults in China
Frailty is a prevalent geriatric condition that significantly impacts the health of older adults. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of frailty among older Chinese adults aged ≥ 65 years and to assess ...
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EMSNet: Extremely multi-scale network for salient object detection
In salient object detection, accurately segmenting objects across scales and refining boundaries are crucial challenges. We introduce the Multi-UNet Module (MUM), utilizing multiple U-shaped branches at differ...
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Iptwins: visual analysis of injection-production correlations using digital twins
During oil-gas production, appropriate water injection to different production layers can effectively maintain stratum pressure and implement sustainable extraction of petroleum resources. Studying the perform...
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Open AccessApplication of downhole throttling technology to mitigate sustained casing pressure
Sustained casing pressure (SCP) and/or annular pressure build-up (APB) can pose severe threats to the safe operation of high-pressure, high-production gas wells, leading to premature well abandonment, unplanne...
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Open AccessTea and Pleurotus ostreatus intercrop** modulates structure of soil and root microbial communities
Intercrop** with Pleurotus ostreatus has been demonstrated to increase the tea yield and alleviate soil acidification in tea gardens. However, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, high-throughput seq...
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A novel framework for evaluating the impact of carbon subsidies and taxes on Africa’s energy industry using optimization modelling
Low-carbon development is a sustainable model characterized by low energy consumption, pollution, and low emissions. Although developed countries have provided many reference practices in low-carbon developmen...
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Open AccessPalmatine Alleviates Particulate Matter-Induced Acute Lung Injury by Inhibiting Pyroptosis via Activating the Nrf2-Related Pathway
Particulate matter (PM) induces and enhances oxidative stress and inflammation, leading to a variety of respiratory diseases, including acute lung injury. Exploring new treatments for PM-induced lung injury ha...
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Investigation of depth error of microgroove in micro-EDM adopting ultrasonic circular vibration (UCV) electrode
The unstable discharge status can greatly reduce the machining accuracy in micro-EDM of microgrooves. In order to solve this issue, a novel micro-EDM method using ultrasonic circular vibration (UCV) electrode ...
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Open AccessAssociation of volatile organic compound exposure with metabolic syndrome and its components: a nationwide cross-sectional study
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a health issue consisting of multiple metabolic abnormalities. The impact of exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on MetS and its components remains uncertain. This study...
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Open AccessMolecular classification reveals the sensitivity of lung adenocarcinoma to radiotherapy and immunotherapy: multi-omics clustering based on similarity network fusion
Due to individual differences in tumors and immune systems, the response rate to immunotherapy is low in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) patients. Combinations with other therapeutic strategies improve the efficacy...
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Improved Dyeing Performance of Blue Disperse Dyes with N-Acetoxyethyl Groups in D5 Non-aqueous Media System
Traditional commercial anthraquinone dyes and azo blue disperse dyes generally have high solubility in decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5) non-aqueous media dyeing system, which leads to low dyeing uptake. One w...
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Open AccessContactin-associated protein-like 2 (CNTNAP2) mutations impair the essential α-secretase cleavages, leading to autism-like phenotypes
Mutations in the Contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CNTNAP2) gene are associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and ectodomain shedding of the CNTNAP2 protein plays a role in its function. However, key en...
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Open AccessA multi-cohort study of the hippocampal radiomics model and its associated biological changes in Alzheimer’s Disease
There have been no previous reports of hippocampal radiomics features associated with biological functions in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). This study aims to develop and validate a hippocampal radiomics model fro...
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Real-time closed-loop control of molten pool transient area in direct laser deposition via PID algorithm with enhanced robustness
In the direct laser deposition (DLD) process, it is common to employ constant processing parameters. The utilization of the constant parameters may lead to fluctuations in the dynamic evolution of the molten p...
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Performance optimization for Pb(II) -containing wastewater treatment in constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell triggered by biomass dosage and Pb(II) level
Three identical sets of constructed wetland-microbial fuel cells (CW-MFCs) fabricated with biomass carbon source addition were constructed and underwent the short- and long-term experiments. For this, the effi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Welding Defect Detection Using X-Ray Images Based on Deep Segmentation Network
Automated detection of welding defects in X-ray images is critical for ensuring the quality of welded structures. However, accurately locating welding defects remains challenging because of various complex fac...
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Classification Method for Ship-Radiated Noise Based on Joint Feature Extraction
In order to address the problem of poor recognition performance from single signal features in ship identification and to enhance the accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in underwater acoustic tar...
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Research and prospect on microstructure and properties of laser additive manufactured parts
This paper mainly deals with the current status and development trends of research on the microstructure and properties of additive manufacturing formed parts. According to the laser processes and powder proce...
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Carbon Corrosion in Fuel Cells-Fundamentals and Mitigation Approaches
At present, Pt nanoparticles (NPs), supported on a high specific surface area carbon are widely used as proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) catalysts. However, carbon is not thermodynamically stable und...
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Performance Degradation of PEM Fuel Cells During Startup–Shutdown Cycles: A Case Study
As a catalyst carrier material, the oxidation of carbon materials is considered one of the main factors affecting the performance degradation of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) during startup and ...
