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Modelling, Analysis and Control of Non-linear Kinetics of a Planetary Magnetic Gear Motor for a Steering System
A non-linear mathematical model was built to represent the planetary magnetic gear motor in a vehicle steering system. In view of period doubling, quasi-period and chaotic motions in the steering process of th...
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Deleterious variant in FAM71D cause male infertility with asthenoteratospermia
Asthenoteratospermia is a significant cause of male infertility. FAM71D (Family with sequence similarity 71, member D), as a novel protein exclusively expressed in the testis, has been found to be associated w...
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Predictive Value of Myocardial Markers for Early Postoperative Mortality in Children with Congenital Heart Disease
To investigate the influencing factors of postoperative creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) elevation in children with congenital heart disease and its peak value in predicting early postoperative mortality. The clinic...
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Attribute-Image Person Re-identification via Modal-Consistent Metric Learning
Attribute-image person re-identification (AIPR) is a cross-modal retrieval task that searches person images who meet a list of attributes. Due to large modal gaps between attributes and images, current AIPR me...
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Learning region-wise deep feature representation for image analysis
Effective feature representation plays an important role in image analysis tasks. In recent years, deep features, instead of hand-crafted features, have become the mainstream of the representation in image ana...
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A novel 7-base pair deletion at a splice site in MS-2 impairs male fertility via premature tapetum degradation in common bean (Phaseolis vulgaris L.)
A novel splice-site mutation in the P. vulgarisgene for TETRAKETIDE α-PYRONE REDUCTASE 2 impairs male fertility, and parthenocarpic pod development can be improved by external application of IAA.
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Surgical Outcomes for Children with Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery
Objective of this study is to summarize surgical outcomes of patients with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) in a single center. The clinical data of 89 children u...
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Graph fusion network for multi-oriented object detection
In object detection, non-maximum suppression (NMS) methods are extensively adopted to remove horizontal duplicates of detected dense boxes for generating final object instances. However, due to the degraded qu...
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QNE1 is a key flowering regulator determining the length of the vegetative period in soybean cultivars
The soybean E1 gene is a major regulator that plays an important role in flowering time and maturity. However, it remains unclear how cultivars carrying the dominant E1 allele adapt to the higher latitudinal area...
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Scene text detection via decoupled feature pyramid networks
Detecting arbitrary shape scene texts is challenging mainly due to the varied aspect ratios, curves, and scales. In this paper, we propose a novel arbitrary shape scene text detection method via Decoupled Feat...
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Open AccessElectrochemical aromatic C–H hydroxylation in continuous flow
The direct hydroxylation of arene C–H bonds is a highly sought-after transformation but remains an unsolved challenge due to the difficulty in efficient and regioselective C–H oxygenation and high reactivity o...
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Optimizing river damming and impounding strategies to mitigate seawater intrusion in the coastal aquifer of Dagu River Basin, China
River impoundment is an alternative to artificial groundwater recharge in coastal aquifers, while mitigating seawater intrusion caused by anthropogenic activities. This study implements a new multiobjective op...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
H-ViT: Hybrid Vision Transformer for Multi-modal Vehicle Re-identification
Vehicle re-identification (ReID) is a critical technology in smart city and has drawn much attention. Many studies focus on single-modal (i.e., visible) vehicle re-identification, which are prone to be deterio...
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Open AccessElectrochemical C–H phosphorylation of arenes in continuous flow suitable for late-stage functionalization
The development of efficient and sustainable methods for carbon-phosphorus bond formation is of great importance due to the wide application of organophosphorus compounds in chemistry, material sciences and bi...
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Loss of longitudinal superiority marks the microarchitecture deterioration of osteoporotic cancellous bones
Osteoporosis (OP), a skeletal disease making bone mechanically deteriorate and easily fracture, is a global public health issue due to its high prevalence. It has been well recognized that besides bone loss, m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Receptive Field Adaptation for Attention-Based Text Recognition
Existing attention-based recognition methods generally assume that the character scale and spacing in the same text instance are basically consistent. However, this hypothesis not always hold in the context of...
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A spatial structural similarity triplet loss for auxiliary vehicle re-identification
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Open AccessPercutaneous device closure of pediatirc patent ductus arteriosus through femoral artery guidance by transthoracic echocardiography without radiation and contrast agents
For many years, percutaneous interventional occlusion of congenital patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) has been completed using radiation and contrast agents. In this study, transthoracic echocardiography without ...
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Contactless treatment for scoliosis by electromagnetically controlled shape-memory alloy rods: a preliminary study in rabbits
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a system aiming to correct scoliosis called “electromagnetically controlled shape-memory alloy rods” (EC-SMAR) used in a rabbit model.
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Groundwater contaminant source identification via Bayesian model selection and uncertainty quantification
Many deterministic and stochastic approaches have been applied for groundwater contaminant source identification (GCSI) in recent decades. Usually, these implementations are based on a single groundwater model...