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Damage identification of non-dispersible underwater concrete columns under compression using impedance technique and stress-wave propagation
Current scouring effects and additives increase the risk of failure in underwater structures, and poor observation complicates the identification and assessment of damage. We present a novel index for assessin...
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Open AccessXELOX (capecitabine plus oxaliplatin) plus bevacizumab (anti-VEGF-A antibody) with or without adoptive cell immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with previously untreated metastatic colorectal cancer: a multicenter, open-label, randomized, controlled, phase 3 trial
Fluoropyrimidine-based combination chemotherapy plus targeted therapy is the standard initial treatment for unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), but the prognosis remains poor. This phase 3 trial ...
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Druse Calcite Crystals Formed by Mesoproterozoic Paleo-Earthquake Activity in the Northern Margin of the North China Craton
The Meso-neoproterozoic Bayan Obo rift is located along the northern margin of the North China Craton, and was associated with the break-up of the Columbia supercontinent. During rift evolution, syn-sedimentar...
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Microstructure Features and the Macroscopic Acoustic Behavior of Gassy Silt in the Yellow River Delta
The morphological changes in isolated bubbles in gassy silt play a critical role in the microscopic structures between soil particles and bubbles and macroscopic physical properties. Based on X-ray CT scanning...
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Investigation on robotic cells design improvement in the welding process of body in white
Issues about cycle time optimization is of great importance in the field of automotive production, the industrial robots are widely used in the welding process of automobiles, but there is little research on t...
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Insights into carbon formation over molten salt-promoted NiO/Al2O3 during methane pyrolysis
Pyrolysis of methane is a carbon-economic method to obtain valuable carbon materials and COx-free H2, under the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. In this work, we propose a methane pyrolysis process to ...
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Revealing the manufacturing and corrosion characteristics of Chinese archaeological metal arrows by non-destructive neutron techniques
The manufacturing and corrosion properties of metal artefacts are significant for archaeologists and conservators. In this study, non-destructive neutron-based techniques are applied on ancient copper-iron arr...
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Microstructure Characterization of Bubbles in Gassy Soil Based on the Fractal Theory
The microscopic characterization of isolated bubbles in gassy soil plays an important role in the macroscopic physical properties of sediments and is a key factor in the study of geological hazards in gas-bear...
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Open AccessThe corrosion mechanism of lead-glazed pottery in Han dynasty
Ancient pottery, having endured prolonged burial in soil, invariably underwent the process of glaze corrosion. The micromorphology and structural composition of four lead-glazed pottery fragments dating back t...
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Open AccessIntegrated multi-omic analysis and experiment reveals the role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in lung adenocarcinoma
Lung cancer is a highly prevalent malignancy worldwide and is associated with high mortality rates. While the involvement of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the development of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) h...
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Dual-Domain Learning for JPEG Artifacts Removal
JPEG compression brings artifacts into the compressed image, which not only degrades visual quality but also affects the performance of other image processing tasks. Many learning-based compression artifacts r...
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Research on the Degree of Non-Stationarity in Extreme Precipitation in the Continental United States
The non-stationarity of identifying hydrological extreme sequences is essential for understanding the patterns of hydrological systems and conducting reasonable risk assessments. Currently, research on detecti...
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A Heuristic Method for Data Allocation and Task Scheduling on Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Systems Under Memory Constraints
Computing workflows in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems are often depicted as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) comprising tasks and data blocks. These elements represent computational modules and their inter...
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Unveiling Backdoor Risks Brought by Foundation Models in Heterogeneous Federated Learning
The foundation models (FMs) have been used to generate synthetic public datasets for the heterogeneous federated learning (HFL) problem where each client uses a unique model architecture. However, the vulnerab...
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Federated Trajectory Search via a Lightweight Similarity Computation Framework
Contact tracing is one of the most effective ways of disease control during a pandemic. A typical method for contact tracing is to examine the spatio-temporal companion between the trajectories of patients and...
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Open AccessAberrant epithelial cell interaction promotes esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma development and progression
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and proliferation play important roles in epithelial cancer formation and progression, but what molecules and how they trigger EMT is largely unknown. Here we performed ...
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CLGLIAM: contrastive learning model based on global and local semantic interaction for address matching
As an essential part of geocoding, address matching has gained increasing research attention. Due to the long-distance dependency and unstructured property, existing address-matching methods hardly capture the...
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Open AccessBattling with the low-resource condition for snore sound recognition: introducing a meta-learning strategy
Snoring affects 57 % of men, 40 % of women, and 27 % of children in the USA. Besides, snoring is highly correlated with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), which is characterised by loud and frequent snoring. OSA ...
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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of a gene expression-based nomogram to predict the prognosis of patients with cholangiocarcinoma
To establish and validate a prognostic nomogram of cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) using independent clinicopathological and genetic mutation factors.
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Functions and substrate selectivity of diacylglycerol acyltransferases from Mortierella alpina
Mortierella alpina produces various polyunsaturated fatty acids in the form of triacylglycerols (TAG). Diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) catalyzes the binding of acyl-CoA to diacylglycerol to form TAG and is ...
