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Open AccessImpact of COVID-19 on women living with HIV who are survivors of intimate partner violence
Women living with HIV (WLWH) experience higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) compared to women without HIV, but there has been minimal research to date on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ...
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Complete genome sequence of a novel mitovirus identified in the phytopathogenic fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis strain T-SD3
A novel mitovirus was identified in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis strain T-SD3 and designated as "Fusarium oxysporum mitovirus 3" (FoMV3). The virus was isolated from diseased muskmelon plants with the typica...
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Digital Inclusive Finance, Spatial Spillover Effects and Relative Rural Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from China
How to govern relative rural poverty is the key and difficulty in eliminating poverty and achieving common prosperity in China. With the rapid development of digital economy, digital inclusive finance is playi...
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Open AccessTowards a systematic study of non-thermal leptogenesis from inflaton decays
This paper investigates non-thermal leptogenesis from inflaton decays in the minimal extension of the canonical type-I seesaw model, where a complex singlet scalar ϕ is introduced to generate the Majorana masses ...
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Open AccessDynamic Arabidopsis P5CS filament facilitates substrate channelling
In plants, the rapid accumulation of proline is a common response to combat abiotic stress1–7. Delta-1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase (P5CS) is a rate-limiting enzyme in proline synthesis, catalysing the initia...
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Open AccessA Soft Supernumerary Robotic Limb with Fiber-Reinforced Actuators
Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) have great potentials to assist human in daily activities and industrial manufacturing by providing extra limbs. However, current SRLs have heavy and rigid structures that ma...
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MicroRNAs regulate the vicious cycle of vascular calcification-osteoporosis in postmenopausal women
Menopause is a normal physiological process accompanied by changes in various physiological states. The incidence of vascular calcification (VC) increases each year after menopause and is closely related to os...
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay of metal-binding activator MAC1 is dependent on copper levels and 3′-UTR length in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway was initially identified as a surveillance pathway that degrades mRNAs containing premature termination codons (PTCs). NMD is now also recognized as a post-transc...
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The Complete Chloroplast Genome of Inula britannica: Unraveling the Phylogeny, Evolution, and Taxonomic Significance of the Genus Inula
Inula britannica is a significant botanical species of plant in the Asteraceae family. The dried capitulum of this plant has been utilized as a traditional Chinese herbal remedy, exhibiting therapeutic properties...
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Kinetics study and bio-phase characteristics of drainage in paddy fields purified by a compound ecological ditch
Paddy field drainage discharged directly into natural waters without the treatment will aggravate water eutrophication. The removal characteristics of the purified paddy field drainage was explored by establis...
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Open AccessAssociation between biological aging and diabetic retinopathy
The impact of aging on diabetic retinopathy (DR) remains underestimated. The current study aimed to investigate the association between biological aging and DR, in contrast to chronological age (CA). Using the...
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Changes in metabolic parameters and serum YKL-40 levels in Chinese rheumatoid arthritis patients during tocilizumab therapy
To investigate the metabolic changes during therapy of tocilizumab (TCZ) and methotrexate (MTX) in non-diabetic rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and for the first time explore the associations between metabo...
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Open AccessThe effect of salt substitution on frequency and severity of headache: results from the SSaSS cluster-randomised controlled trial of 20,995 participants
Headache is one of the most common neurological symptoms. Headache disorders are associated with a high global burden of disease. Prior studies indicate that short-to-medium term sodium reduction reduces heada...
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Open AccessCO2 elevation modulates the growth and physiological responses of soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) to progressive soil drying
Understanding the impact of future climates on crop performance is essential for sustainable agricultural production. In the current research, the development and biological behavior of soybean plants during g...
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Degradation Performance of Estrogen During Anaerobic Digestion of Pig Manure
A large amount of estrogen is introduced into the feed to improve livestock growth, excessive residual estrogen would exist in the excrements. The accumulation of estrogen can cause the water and soil pollutio...
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Open AccessCorrection to: 3D bioprinted tumor model: a prompt and convenient platform for overcoming immunotherapy resistance by recapitulating the tumor microenvironment
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Research on the Mechanical Characteristics of Thick Alluvium on the Surface Subsidence Features of Thin Bedrock Deposits at Depth
There are a large number of thick alluvium and thin bedrock deposits at depth in the Henan coal base. The degree of surface mining is high, and the surface environment is seriously damaged. Using indoor experi...
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Efficient heterologous expression of bovine lactoferrin in Pichia pastoris and characterization of antibacterial activity
The low-expression level of lactoferrin (LF) in the production process poses a significant challenge. This study aimed to efficiently express bovine lactoferrin (BLF) using Pichia pastoris GS115 as the expression...
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Association Between CYP24A1 Polymorphisms and Bladder Cancer Risk in the Chinese Han Population
In this cohort of 217 bladder cancer patients and 484 healthy controls, we explored the association between CYP24A1 variants (rs2762934, rs1570669, rs6068816, rs2296241) and bladder cancer risk in the Chinese Han...
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Open AccessCombining transformer global and local feature extraction for object detection
Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based object detectors perform excellently but lack global feature extraction and cannot establish global dependencies between object pixels. Although the Transformer is able...