Changes in Adipokines following Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery in Chinese Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and BMI of 22–30 kg·m−2 by Chandrama Shrestha, Honghui He, Yiqun Liu, Shaihong Zhu, Jing Xiong, Zhaohui Mo

“…Although altered endocrine changes following bariatric surgery in morbidly obese patients with diabetes have been demonstrated by previous studies, little is known about their effects on low BMI patients of T2DM. …”
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Variation of the Side Chain Branch Position Leads to Vastly Improved Molecular Weight and OPV Performance in 4,8-dialkoxybenzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene/2,1,3-benzothiadiazole Copolymers by Robert C. Coffin, Christopher M. MacNeill, Eric D. Peterson, Jeremy W. Ward, Jack W. Owen, Claire A. McLellan, Gregory M. Smith, Ronald E. Noftle, Oana D. Jurchescu, David L. Carroll

“…Through manipulation of the solubilizing side chains, we were able to dramatically improve the molecular weight (Mw) of 4,8-dialkoxybenzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene (BDT)/2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (BT) copolymers. …”
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Activity-Trip Chaining Behavior of Urban Low-Income Populations in Nanjing, China: A Structural Equations Analysis by Zhaoming Chu, Hui Chen, Lin Cheng, Xuewu Chen, Senlai Zhu

“…This paper analyzes the activity-trip chaining behavior of urban low-income populations in Nanjing, China, based on a specific travel survey of low-income residents of Nanjing city (2010), and the database of residents travel survey of Nanjing city (2009). …”
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Ion-specific effects in polyelectrolyte solutions: chain–chain interactions, chain rigidity and dynamics by Hotton, Claire, Sakhawoth, Yasine, Rollet, Anne-Laure, Sirieix-Plénet, Juliette, Tea, Lingsam, Combet, Sophie, Sharp, Melissa, Hoffmann, Ingo,  Nallet, Frédéric, Malikova, Natalie

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Presenting a Management Model for a Multiobjective Sustainable Supply Chain in the Cellulosic Industry and Its Implementation by the NSGA-II Meta-Heuristic Algorithm by Meisam Mehri Charvadeh, Shademan Pourmousa, Ajang Tajdini, Abbas Tamjidi, Vahidreza Safdari

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Nanobody screening and machine learning guided identification of cross-variant anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing heavy-chain only antibodies. by Peter R McIlroy, Le Thanh Mai Pham, Thomas Sheffield, Maxwell A Stefan, Christine E Thatcher, James Jaryenneh, Jennifer L Schwedler, Anupama Sinha, Christopher A Sumner, Iris K A Jones, Stephen Won, Ryan C Bruneau, Dina R Weilhammer, Zhuoming Liu, Sean Whelan, Oscar A Negrete, Kenneth L Sale, Brooke Harmon

“…Previously, we designed a next-generation synthetic humanized nanobody (Nb) phage display library and demonstrated that this library could be used to rapidly identify highly specific and potent neutralizing heavy chain-only antibodies (HCAbs) with prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy in vivo against the original SARS-CoV-2. …”
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A Theoretical and Experimental Study on Esterification of Citric Acid with the Primary Alcohols and the Hydroxyl Groups of Cellulose Chain (n = 1-2) in Parched Condition by Dang T. Nguyen, Quan T. Pham

“…Esterification of citric acid (CA) with the primary alcohols and the hydroxyl groups of cellulose chain (n = 1-2) in parched condition were investigated by using density functional theory (DFT) method and a two-layer ONIOM approach. …”
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Assessment of Climate Change Effects on Water Resources in the Yellow River Basin, China by Zhiyong Wu, Heng Xiao, Guihua Lu, Jinming Chen

“…The water resources in the Yellow River basin (YRB) are vital to social and economic development in North and Northwest China. The basin has a marked continental monsoon climate and its water resources are especially vulnerable to climate change. …”
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Statistical Downscaling and Projection of Future Air Temperature Changes in Yunnan Province, China by Jiaxu Liu, Sujing Chen, Lijuan Li, Jiuyi Li

“…The results showed the following. (1) The pattern of change and the numerical values of the air temperature could be reasonably simulated, with the average R2 between observed and generated data being 0.963 for calibration and 0.964 for validation. (2) All scenarios projected increases of different degrees of temperature in all seasons, except for spring in the 2020s. …”
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Does Urbanization Exacerbate Asymmetrical Changes in Precipitation at Divergent Time Scales in China? by Fanggang Li, Xin Pan, Nan Xu, Xiangjin Meng, Zhiqing Li, Rufat Guluzade, Yang Dai, Yingbao Yang

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Vegetation Dynamics and Sensitivity Responds to Climate Change in the Upstream of the Yellow River, China by XiangYu Lan, RuoWei Li, Xin Wang, TianCai Zhou, YunHui Li, JieJi Duo, Jian Sun

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Trend Change Study of Climate Variables in Xin’anjiang-Fuchunjiang Watershed, China by Muhammad Zaman, Guohua Fang, Kashif Mehmood, Muhammad Saifullah

“…In this study, statistical tests were performed at 1901–2013 precipitation and temperature series and then after detection of the change year precipitation data were divided into two different scenarios of 1901–1960 period and 1961–2013 period. …”
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Impact of Climate Change on Temperate and Alpine Grasslands in China during 1982–2006 by Xiangjin Shen, Binhui Liu, Guangdi Li, Daowei Zhou

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Impacts of Future Climate Changes on Shifting Patterns of the Agro-Ecological Zones in China by Yingzhi Lin, Anping Liu, Enjun Ma, Fan Zhang

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Projection of the Spatially Explicit Land Use/Cover Changes in China, 2010–2100 by Yongwei Yuan, Tao Zhao, Weimin Wang, Shaohui Chen, Feng Wu

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Herdsmen’s Adaptation to Climate Changes and Subsequent Impacts in the Ecologically Fragile Zone, China by Yingcheng Liu, Tao Zhang, Xiaoli Geng, Liansheng He, Zhiguo Pang

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Impacts of Land Cover Change on the Near-Surface Temperature in the North China Plain by Ruijie Qu, Xiaolin Cui, Haiming Yan, Enjun Ma, Jinyan Zhan

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Spatiotemporal Variability and Change of the South China Spring Precipitation during 1961–2012 by Hong-Lan Liu, Qiang Zhang, Jun-Qin Guo, Jun-Guo Zhang, Sheng Wang

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Quantitative impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland growth in Xinjiang, China by Hanyi Rui, Beier Luo, Ying Wang, Lin Zhu, Qinyuan Zhu

“…However, research quantifying the contributions of these two factors to grassland changes is still not thorough enough. …”
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INTERACTIONS BETWEEN C6H4(CH2NH3)2[PhCO2]2, Et2NH2[Ph(OH)CO2] AND CuCl2, ErCl3 or SnPh3OH: AN INFRARED STUDY by ASSANE TOURE, LIBASSE DIOP

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