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Open AccessPlasmodium sporozoite search strategy to locate hotspots of blood vessel invasion
Plasmodium sporozoites actively migrate in the dermis and enter blood vessels to infect the liver. Despite their importance for malaria infection, little is known about these cutaneous processes. We combine intra...
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Co-electrodeposition of Ni-La coating on Ni foam for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction
Electrocatalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen is a promising route to provide green hydrogen on a large scale. To explore non-noble metal electrocatalysts with high performance is still a challenge. Her...
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Design, synthesis, and anti-breast-cancer activity evaluation of pyrrolo(pyrido)[2,3-d]pyrimidine derivatives
Ribociclib and palbociclib, two typical selective CDK4/6 inhibitors, which have been employed in clinic for the treatment of estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, possess an active fragment of pyrrolo[2...
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Adaptive fuzzy control of mobile robots with full-state constraints and unknown longitudinal slip**
Motion control of wheeled mobile robots with state constraints under slip** condition faces many difficulties, such as unmeasurable velocities, non-holonomic kinematic model, and unknown disturbances. Aiming...
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Autonomous Removing Foreign Objects for Power Transmission Line by Using a Vision-Guided Unmanned Aerial Manipulator
This paper considers a problem that visual servo control for an aerial manipulator removes foreign objects of power transmission lines. A position-based visual servoing (PBVS) combing a foreign objects locatin...
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Semi-supervised Cloud Edge Collaborative Power Transmission Line Insulator Anomaly Detection Framework
The widely deployed power transmission line expedites develo** the age of electricity. Thus, it is necessary to maintain a power system with a great quantity of manpower and material resources, especially fo...
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Open AccessIdentification of the core bacteria in rectums of diarrheic and non-diarrheic piglets
Porcine diarrhea is a global problem that leads to large economic losses of the porcine industry. There are numerous factors related to piglet diarrhea, and compelling evidence suggests that gut microbiota is ...
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Effect of Molybdenum Disulfide Exfoliation Conditions on the Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Nanocomposites
In this work, the MoS2 fillers were prepared through chemical exfoliation method and used as fillers to fabricate epoxy (EP)/MoS2 nanocomposites. The effects of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) intercalation condition...
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Circumnavigation of a Moving Target in 3D by Multi-agent Systems with Collision Avoidance: An Orthogonal Vector Fields-based Approach
The problem of circumnavigating a moving target in a three dimensional setting by a network of agents while avoiding inter-agent collisions is addressed in this paper. A distributed control strategy is propose...
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Open AccessGene expression profiles of germ-free and conventional piglets from the same litter
Germ-free (GF) pigs have clear microbiological backgrounds, and are extensively used as large animal models in the biomedical sciences. However, investigations of the transcriptomic differences between GF and ...
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Open AccessEffect of probiotics on the meat flavour and gut microbiota of chicken
To date, no report has demonstrated the use of beneficial microbes for contributing to the flavour characteristics and gut microbiota diversity of chicken. Here, we selected six probiotics obtained from our la...
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Limited Genetic Diversity of Chinese Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata) Revealed by Partial Sequences of Mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome b Gene
Muscovy duck is a popular domestic animal for meat in China. In this study, we tried to have an insight into the genetic diversity of Chinese Muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata). The length of 475bp of mitochondr...
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A STAMP Analysis on the China-Yongwen Railway Accident
Traditional accident models regard accidents as resulting from a linear chain of events. They are limited in their ability to handle accidents in complex systems including non-linear interactions among compone...
