Kinetic Study of Biodangerous Methylmercury Degradation under Various Light Conditions by Yutao Zhang, Xia Chen, Qixia Jiang, Xiaojuan Zhang, Qiuyun Zhang

“…Methylmercury (MeHg) has remarkable toxicological effects on humans, plants, and other lives in the environment, which may restrict the comprehensive utilization of biomass source in view of possibly forming biohazardous waste. …”
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Lateral-Torsional Coupling Characteristics of a Two-Stage Planetary Gear Rotor System by Zhipeng Wang, Yunbo Yuan, Zhiyong Wang, Wei Liu, Yibin Guo, Donghua Wang

“…Natural frequencies dominated by the two-stage planetary gear subsystem are sensitive to coupled conditions, whereas natural frequencies dominated by the input rotor subsystem are remarkably insensitive to coupled conditions. Furthermore, the natural frequency of the first torsional mode can be obtained only in the fully coupled condition. …”
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Intestinal organoids: The path towards clinical application by Hady Yuki Sugihara, Ryuichi Okamoto, Tomohiro Mizutani

“…Preclinical studies have demonstrated a remarkable functional recapitulation of infectious and genetic diseases, and there is mounting evidence for the reliability of intestinal organoids as a patient-specific avatar. …”
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Study of the Dynamic Strain-Induced Transformation Process of a Low-Carbon Steel: Experiment and Finite Element Simulation by Lei He, Ruijie Ruan, Chen Lin, Ting Dai, Xianjun Hu, Bruce W. Krakauer, Mingfang Zhu

“…During Pass 4 to Pass 6, however, the temperatures of the slab center and surface are nearly identical but fluctuate remarkably due to the large reduction rate. The simulated maximum rolling force and start rolling temperature of each pass agree reasonably with the experimental measurements. …”
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The role of microorganisms and microbial enzymes in commercial fermented mushroom production: a comprehensive review of their action mechanisms, quality attributes and health benef... by Mohamed A. Farag, Nurkhalida Kamal, Hamizah Shahirah Hamezah, Merna Saleh, Jiachao Zhang, Ahmed Mediani, Mostafa H. Baky

“…Several studies have demonstrated that bioactive compounds from mushrooms exert remarkable biological activities, however, they have low oral bioavailability, restricting their therapeutic application. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Studies on Vertical Properties of a New Multi-Dimensional Earthquake Isolation and Mitigation Device by Zhaodong Xu, Liheng Lu, Benqiang Shi, Fuhgwo Yuan

“…Study on new devices that can mitigate and isolate multi-dimensional (including both horizontal and vertical) earthquake actions has a remarkable significance. A new kind of multi-dimensional earthquake isolation and mitigation device was recently developed, and experimental study on vertical performances of the device under different excitation frequencies and amplitudes has been carried out in this paper. …”
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Dominance of Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria, <i>Thiomicrorhabdus</i>, in the Waters Affected by a Shallow-Sea Hydrothermal Plume by Chih-Ching Chung, Gwo-Ching Gong, Hsiao-Chun Tseng, Wen-Chen Chou, Chuan-Hsin Ho

“…The shallow-sea hydrothermal vent at Guishan Islet, located off the coast of Taiwan, serves as a remarkable natural site for studying microbial ecology in extreme environments. …”
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Machine learning optimized design of THz piezoelectric perovskite-based biosensor for the detection of formalin in aqueous environments by Jacob Wekalao, Shobhit K. Patel, Om Prakash Kumar, Fahad Ahmed Al-zahrani

“…Computational simulations demonstrate vigorous sensing capabilities across three discrete frequency bands, achieving remarkable sensitivity parameters of 444 GHzRIU⁻¹, accompanied by a quality factor of 5.970 and detection accuracy of 7.576. …”
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Hepatoma-Targeted Radionuclide Immune Albumin Nanospheres: 131I-antiAFPMcAb-GCV-BSA-NPs by Mei Lin, Junxing Huang, Dongsheng Zhang, Xingmao Jiang, Jia Zhang, Hong Yu, Yanhong Xiao, Yujuan Shi, Ting Guo

“…In cultured HepG2 cells, the uptake and retention rates of 131I-antiAFPMcAb-GCV-BSA-NPs were remarkably higher than those of 131I alone. As well, the uptake rate and retention ratios of 131I-antiAFPMcAb-GCV-BSA-NPs in AFP-positive HepG2 cells were also significantly higher than those in AFP-negative HEK293 cells. …”
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Pharmacokinetics of p-Aminohippuric Acid and Inulin in Rabbits with Aristolochic Acid Nephropathy by Chiao-Shih Tseng, Shih-Ming Chen, Shu-Chen Chien, Kuang-Yang Hsu

“…Significant tubulointerstitial damage to kidney specimens was found, but there were no remarkable glomerular changes. Clearance rates of PAH and inulin both significantly decreased in AANa-treated rabbits. …”
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Research on 3D printing concrete mechanical properties prediction model based on machine learning by Yonghong Zhang, Suping Cui, Bohao Yang, Xinxin Wang, Tao Liu

“…With a correlation coefficient between 0.96 and 0.98 with real values, experimental results demonstrate the random forest model's remarkable predicted accuracy, greatly beyond that of conventional prediction techniques. …”
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Experimental Investigation into Compressive Behaviour and Preconsolidation Pressure of Structured Loess at Different Moisture Contents by Yali Xu, Panpan Guo, Chengwei Zhu, Gang Lei, Kang Cheng

“…The discrepancy before and after structural yielding is more remarkable for the undisturbed soil. The Casagrande method realized through the MATLAB program can effectively eliminate human factors and accurately calculate the corresponding preconsolidation pressure for undisturbed soil. …”
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Transposon mediated functional genomic screening for BRAF inhibitor resistance reveals convergent Hippo and MAPK pathway activation events by Li Chen, Iulian Pruteanu-Malinici, Anahita Dastur, Xunqin Yin, Dennie Frederick, Ruslan I. Sadreyev, Cyril H. Benes

“…Abstract Genotype-informed anticancer therapies such as BRAF inhibitors can show remarkable clinical efficacy in BRAF-mutant melanoma; however, drug resistance poses a major hurdle to successful cancer treatment. …”
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Acoustic Transmitted Decellularized Fish Bladder for Tympanic Membrane Regeneration by Hong Chen, Hui Zhang, Guangjie Zhu, Long Cao, Chenjie Yu, Maoli Duan, Xiaoyun Qian, Xia Gao, Yuanjin Zhao

“…In addition, by loading mesenchymal stem cells on the DFB scaffolds, the resultant DFB@MSCs system exhibits remarkable anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory effects, together with the ability to promote cell migration and angiogenesis. …”
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A case of immune checkpoint inhibitor-related conjunctivitis controlled by tacrolimus eye drops by Ayaka Kawaguchi, Hayato Tanaka, Hitoshi Tabuchi, Kei Nakai, Atsuki Fukushima

“…One week later, there was a remarkable improvement in the conjunctival symptoms. …”
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Parameter Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control of Flexible Coupling Air-Breathing Hypersonic Vehicle by Haibing Chen, Wei Lin, Tielin Ma, Hengxian Jin, Cheng Xu

“…A strong coupling model of the same vehicle, considering aerodynamic-scramjet engine-flight dynamic-elastic couplings, is established as the verification platform of the designed control law. The remarkable differences of flight dynamic characteristics between this strong coupling model and the rigid body model can be seen, which mean the controller needs to endure very great uncertainty, unmodeled dynamics, and other types of internal disturbance. …”
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Unveiling inverted D genes and D-D fusions in human antibody repertoires unlocks novel antibody diversity by Ponraj Prabakaran, Abhinav Gupta, Sambasiva P. Rao, Deepak Rajpal, Maria Wendt, Yu Qiu, Partha S. Chowdhury

“…Abstract Antibodies, essential components of adaptive immunity, derive their remarkable diversity primarily from V(D)J gene rearrangements, particularly within the heavy chain complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR-H3) where D genes play a major role. …”
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Popcorn Effect–inspired Self‐propagating Formation of High‐conductivity Cement Composite for Multifunctional Applications by Haiping Wu, Jiaqi Huang, Zhengyao Qu, Xueling Zheng, Sirui Tan, Wei Du, Guanming Cai, Zhong Zhao, Jing Wu, Daiqi Li

“…The obtained composites demonstrate a remarkable reduction of 60% in electrical resistance after heat treatment compared to the electrical resistance of standard cement composites, and the enhancing mechanisms is explored. …”
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Neural-field-based image reconstruction for bioluminescence tomography by Xuanxuan Zhang, Xu Cao, Jiulou Zhang, Lin Zhang, Guanglei Zhang

“…The proposed NF-based method establishes a transformation between the coordinate of an arbitrary spatial point and the source value of the point with a relatively light-weight multilayer perceptron, which has remarkable computational efficiency. Another simple neural network composed of two fully connected layers and a 1D convolutional layer is used to generate the neural features. …”
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Igf2/H19 Imprinting Control Region (ICR): An Insulator or a Position-Dependent Silencer? by Subhasis Banerjee, Alan Smallwood, Scott Lamond, Stuart Campbell, Geeta Nargund

“…Central to the insulator model is the site-specific binding of a ubiquitous nuclear factor CTCF which exhibits remarkable flexibility in functioning as transcriptional activator or silencer. …”
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