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Student- and school-level perceived ICT competence and academic performance in Chinese rural schools: a multilevel analysis
The relationship between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and academic performance is a controversial issue that has attracted increasing attention from administrators, policymakers, and research...
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Open AccessA low-light image enhancement method for personnel safety monitoring in underground coal mines
Intelligent monitoring technology plays an important role in promoting the development of coal mine safety management. Low illumination in the coal mine underground leads to difficult recognition of monitoring...
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In Situ Graft-on Fibrous Composites and Nanostructure Interlocking Facilitate Highly Stable Wearable Sensors for SIDS Prevention
High-performance and reliable wearable devices for healthcare are in high demand for the health monitoring of infants, ensuring that life-threatening events can be addressed promptly. Herein, the continuous mo...
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Open AccessMagnesium implantation as a continuous hydrogen production generator for the treatment of myocardial infarction in rats
Molecular hydrogen is an emerging broad-spectrum antioxidant molecule that can be used to treat myocardial infarction (MI). However, with hydrogen inhalation, the concentration that can be reached within targe...
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Eddy Scale-wise Topology Underlying Turbulence Anisotropy Illuminates the Dissimilar Transport of Momentum, Heat, and Moisture in a Stably Stratified Katabatic Flow
The backdrop for this study is a knowledge gap about how turbulence anisotropy relates to the dissimilar transport of momentum and scalars. We use single-level measurements of turbulence over an alpine glacier...
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Enhancing electrochemical performance of lithium-rich manganese-based cathode materials through lithium sulfate coating
The surface modification of Li1.2Mn0.54Ni0.13Co0.13O2 cathode material is carried out by heat treatment of the mixtures of Mn0.75Ni0.25C2O4 and (NH4)2SO4 absorbed on the surface of Li1.2Mn0.54Ni0.13Co0.13O2 mater...
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Iterative learning fault-tolerant control of networked systems with quantitative sampling
For the problem of fault-tolerant control of non-linear repetitive systems with quantized error, an iterative learning fault-tolerant controller scheme with a logarithmic quantizer is constructed in this paper...
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Open AccessOvercoming strength-ductility tradeoff with high pressure thermal treatment
Conventional material processing approaches often achieve strengthening of materials at the cost of reduced ductility. Here, we show that high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) treatment can help overcome t...
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Open AccessCreep Effect on Time to Corrosion-Induced Cracking of Concrete Cover
This paper presents an innovative method to include creep deformations in the prediction of time to corrosion-induced cover cracking. Using experimental results, creep and cracking criteria used in this method...
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Open AccessDense Al2O3 sealing inhibited high hydrostatic pressure corrosion of Cr/GLC coating
The corrosion failure of amorphous carbon (a-C) coatings is commonly ascribed to the existence of growth microdefects, which serve as pathways for corrosive fluids to permeate the substrate. Atomic layer depos...
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Modification of Microstructural and Fluid Migration of Bituminous Coal by Microwave–LN2 Freeze–Thaw Cycles: Implication for Efficient Recovery of Coalbed Methane
To improve the efficiency of coalbed methane and recoverability of reservoirs, enhanced fracturing technology is usually required to improve the low porosity and permeability status of coal reservoirs. As a fe...
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MA-VLAD: a fine-grained local feature aggregation scheme for action recognition
A recent trend in action recognition involves aggregating local features into a more compact representation to eliminate redundancy in video features while retaining essential components for recognition. An ex...
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Endoscopic Resection for Colonic Angiomas
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Open AccessPrognostic utility of rhythmic components in 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for the risk stratification of chronic kidney disease patients with cardiovascular co-morbidity
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents a significant global burden. Hypertension is a modifiable risk factor for rapid progression of CKD. We extend the risk stratification by introducing the non-parametric d...
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Square Polyhedron Transmitter for Three-Dimensional Omnidirectional Wireless Power Transfer
Achieving three-dimensional (3D) omnidirectional wireless power transfer (OWPT) without any active control is challenging. This paper proposes a square polyhedron transmitter (SPTx) based on the reverse curren...
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The features associated with mammography-occult MRI-detected newly diagnosed breast cancer analysed by comparing machine learning models with a logistic regression model
To compare machine learning (ML) models with logistic regression model in order to identify the optimal factors associated with mammography-occult (i.e. false-negative mammographic findings) magnetic resonance...
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Experience in treating children with ocular dyskinesia and hemifacial spasm secondary to pontine tumours adjacent to the fourth ventricle and systematic review
To investigate the treatment plan and prognosis of children with ocular dyskinesia and hemifacial spasm secondary to pontine tumours adjacent to the fourth ventricle.
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Suberanilohydroxamic acid (SAHA), a HDAC inhibitor, suppresses the effect of Treg cells by targeting the c-Myc/CCL1 pathway in glioma stem cells and improves PD-L1 blockade therapy
A strong immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) represents the major barrier responsible for the failure of current immunotherapy approaches in treating Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). Within the TME, t...
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Pharmacokinetics and safety of a new generic lurasidone: a phase I bioequivalence study in healthy Chinese subjects
Latuda® is a novel antipsychotic drug for schizophrenia and bipolar depression. A bioequivalence trial was performed to investigate the bioequivalence of Latuda® and its generic drug lurasidone. Two independent t...
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Association between programmed cell death ligand-1 expression in patients with cervical cancer and apparent diffusion coefficient values: a promising tool for patient´s immunotherapy selection
To investigate the associations between apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values extracted from three different region of interest (ROI) position approaches and programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expres...