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The Bottom of the Heart of the Property Builder: Evidence from Online Messages of Chinese Rural Migrant Workers
This article collects nearly 20,000 migrant workers’ posts from the People’s Daily Online Leaders’ Message Board (difang lingdao liuyanban) between 2011 and 2019 using web crawler technology. Through the methods ...
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Open AccessA large-strain and ultrahigh energy density dielectric elastomer for fast moving soft robot
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) with large actuation strain and high energy density are highly desirable for actuating soft robots. However, DEAs usually require high driving electric fields (>100 MV m−1) t...
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Open AccessLand scale division and multifunctional evaluation for Fu** County, China, based on DEM-based watershed analysis
Land is the spatial background and basic carrier of human survival and development. The study of land function evaluation at different scales can promote the harmonious coexistence of humans and nature. Taking...
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Temporal relationship between hepatic steatosis and blood pressure elevation and the mediation effect in the development of cardiovascular disease
The temporal relationship between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and hypertension remains highly controversial, with ongoing debates on whether NAFLD induces hypertension or vice versa. We employed ...
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Open AccessEffects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on body fat: a retrospective case‒control study in Chinese transwomen
There is insufficient research on how gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) affects body fat modifications in transwomen from China. It is unclear whether hormone therapy affects the prevalence of obesity an...
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Synthesis, swelling and water-retention behaviors of phytic acid-modified corn stalk-composite superabsorbents
A novel phytic acid-modified corn stalk-composite superabsorbent (PACS-g-p(AA-AM-VP)) with water absorbency of 391 g/g, water retention around 30% at 200 min under 90 °C, adsorption capacities of 284 mg/g and ...
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Ventriculoperitoneal shunting obstruction: a multicentre clinical audit for cerebrospinal fluid parameters and its prediction role
Shunt obstruction is a type of ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) failure. Whether changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) parameters can influence shunt outcomes or not is debatable.
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A New Method for Evaluating the Recoverability of Geothermal Fluid Under In Situ Conditions Based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Aiming to solve the problems of unclear pore structure, unknown fluid storage and seepage pattern, and inaccurate fluid recoverability evaluation under in situ high pressure of thermal storage, a new method ba...
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Open AccessInfluence of emotions on co** behaviors in crisis: a computational analysis of the COVID-19 outbreak
Widespread public crises often give rise to the proliferation of sensationalized rumors and conspiracy theories, which can evoke a variety of public emotions. Despite the growing importance of research on the ...
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Joint InSAR and discrete element numerical simulation method for landslide identification and monitoring: a case study of the Gongjue landslide, **sha River, China
The river-blocking landslide disasters are widely distributed in the mountainous areas of southwest China, characterized by high-elevation long-runout movements with significant destructive power. The identifi...
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Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening
Vegetation greening has been suggested to be a dominant trend over recent decades, but severe pulses of tree mortality in forests after droughts and heatwaves have also been extensively reported. These observa...
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Deep learning-accelerated T2WI: image quality, efficiency, and staging performance against BLADE T2WI for gastric cancer
The purpose of our study is to investigate image quality, efficiency, and diagnostic performance of a deep learning-accelerated single-shot breath-hold (DLSB) against BLADE for T2-weighted MR imaging (T2WI) for g...
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Open AccessA novel multidrug-resistant cell line from a Chinese patient with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Chemotherapy resistance poses clinical challenges in pancreatic cancer treatment. Develo** cell lines resistant to chemotherapy is crucial for investigating drug resistance mechanisms and identifying alterna...
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A universal calibration method for eliminating topography-dependent current in conductive AFM and its application in nanoscale imaging
The topography and electrical properties are two crucial characteristics that determine the roles and functionalities of materials. Conductive atomic force microscopy (CAFM) is widely recognized for its abilit...
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Open AccessOral epithelial dysplasia detection and grading in oral leukoplakia using deep learning
The grading of oral epithelial dysplasia is often time-consuming for oral pathologists and the results are poorly reproducible between observers. In this study, we aimed to establish an objective, accurate and...
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Retraction Note: Alternating-direction-method-of-multipliers-based fast model predictive control for an aerial trees-pruning robot
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A DRL-based online real-time task scheduling method with ISSA strategy
In Industry 4.0, the focus of task scheduling is more on smart services such as robotic services under the paradigm of mobile edge computing, which are widely used to improve the efficiency of smart manufactur...
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Iterative shrinkage thresholding-based anti-multi-noise compression perceptual image reconstruction network
Telemedicine imaging services usually require wireless transmission of a large number of medical images MRI/CT, etc., in the network, which are subject to noise interference and block effect during transmissio...
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Open AccessPreparation of Ti3C2Tx modified rare earth doped PbO2 electrodes for efficient removal of sulfamethoxazole
In this study, we deposited Ti3C2Tx-modified, rare-earth-doped PbO2 on the surface of a carbon fabric via electrodeposition. The surface morphology and electronic structure of the electrode were characterized wit...
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Open AccessDistinguishing pure and thermal states by Landauer’s principle in open systems
Starting from Polchinski’s thought experiment on how to distinguish between pure and thermal states, we construct a specific system to study the interaction between qubit and cavity quantum field theory (QFT) ...
