Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy combined with systemic therapy sequentially or simultaneously for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma by Yu-zhe Cao, Jia-yu Pan, Guang-lei Zheng, Chao An, Meng-Xuan Zuo

“…The patients who received hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy combined with targeted therapy and PD-(L)1 blockade simultaneously have a better prognosis than those who received it sequentially.…”
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Risk Management for 4-H Youth Development Work: Large Animals—Livestock by Chad Carr, Saundra Tenbroeck, Wendy DeVito, Chris Strong, Dale Pracht, Georgene Bender

“…This 8-page fact sheet covers risks in the following categories: injuries to people, injuries to animals, property damage, biosecurity (diseases transmitted to humans and between animals), and general precautions. Written by Chad Carr, Saundra TenBroeck, Wendy DeVito, Chris Strong, Dale Pracht, and Georgene Bender, and published by the UF Department of Animal Sciences, November 2015. …”
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Considerations in assessing blood glucose in mice: coping with interferences of intraperitoneal injection, noise, fasting, housing and blood sampling by Si-Li Zheng, Xue-Lian Wang, Pin Wang, Jin Chen, Chao-Yu Miao

“…Blood glucose tested during different stages of blood sampling varied greatly, where values of blood collected by inferior vena cava puncture were significantly higher than those of tail-tip blood, and values of serum samples after immediate centrifugation of blood were the highest, followed by those of serum samples underwent a common clotting process of 2 h. …”
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WLAN indoor positioning algorithm based on skewness-kurtosis testing by Zhen-long SONG, Gang-yi JIANG, Chao HUANG, Mei YU, Jia-le ZHANG

“…Focused on the issues that large positioning errors produced by the inconsistency of received signal strength (RSS)sample population distributions under indoor wireless local area network (WLAN),an indoor positioning algorithm based on skewness-kurtosis testing was proposed.By using the testing method of skewness and kurtosis,whether the RSS samples come from the normal population or not was checked.The distribution functions of the samples accepting null hypothesis were approximated with normal distribution,and the probability density functions of the samples refusing null hypothesis were estimated by kernel function.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm leads to a 15 percent improvement over the previous methods.Moreover,the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce the workload of the off-line phase at the same positioning accuracy.…”
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Disulfidptosis-related gene SLC3A2: a novel prognostic biomarker in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Xinyi Zhang, Yiqi Lin, Liang Shi, Aixia Zhai, Chao Wu, Qian-Ying Zhu

“…Recently, disulfidoptosis, a novel form of cell death, has been proposed. Several studies in recent years have extensively investigated the function of the disulfidoptosis-related SLC7A11 gene in cancer, but the role of its partner protein, SLC3A2, remains unknown unclear in NPC.MethodsGEO database analysis confirmed SLC3A2's prognostic impact on nasopharyngeal carcinoma. …”
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The Social Capital in The Disaster Mitigation of The Forest and The Peatland Fire in Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province by Yesi Yesi, Jalil Ashaluddin, Ling Chan Kim, Asriwandari Hesti, Hidir Achmad, Sugiyanto Seger

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Investigation on Two-Stop-Line Signalized Roundabout: Capacity and Optimal Cycle Length by Ze-hao Jiang, Tao Wang, Chao-yang Li, Fei Pan, Xiao-guang Yang

“…The parameter sensitivity analysis demonstrates that the cycle length and radius of the central island have a significant influence on the capacity of the left-turn lane and results in an optimal value of signal cycle length maximizing the capacity.…”
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Review of the application of virtual reality in language education from 2010 to 2020 by Zheng Chunping, Yu Miao, Guo Zhiyan, Liu Hanyong, Gao Mengya, Chai Ching Sing

“…Virtual reality (VR) is an innovative technology that has been applied in language education to improve learners’ motivation, engagement and academic performance. …”
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Mechanism of eliminating UDP redundancy control packets in OpenFlow network by Hui HU, Ming CHEN, Bo LIU, Bo XU, Chang-you XING, Chao HU

“…Large numbers of redundant control packets produced by connectionless UDP flows may engender serious influence over the performance of the SDN controllers and networks.The endangerment of the redundant control packets for the performance of SDN controllers by testing and modeling was firstly analyzed,and then a basic solution to solve the problem was formed.Therefore,a preinstalling flow-tables ＆amp; filtering redundant packets (PFFR) mechanism was proposed.By preinstalling flow tables,PFFR limited the initial rate of control packets in UDP flows,and through installing flow tables according to paths and utilizing the redundant packets filtering algorithm,PFFR eliminated redundant packets rapidly.A prototype system based on PFFR was implemented and tested.The experimental results prove that the PFFR mechanism can effectively improve the performance of the controller.…”
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A comparative analysis of livelihood sustainability among farmers in Ca Mau Province, Vietnam: a case study of organic mangrove–shrimp and rice–shrimp farming systems by Hieu Hong Hua, Duyen My Chau, Thuy Thanh Thi Ngo, Man Le Nguyen

“…Mangrove-shrimp and rice-shrimp farming are vital organic models supporting shrimp farmers’ livelihoods in Ca Mau, a coastal province in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. …”
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Changes of Soil Moisture from Multiple Sources during 1988–2010 in the Yellow River Basin, China by Dan Lou, Guojie Wang, Chan Shan, Daniel Fiifi T. Hagan, Waheed Ullah, Dawei Shi

“…SMVIC captures the interannual variations but fails to have the long-term trends in SMin  situ. As for SMERA and SMNCEP, they fail to capture both the interannual variations and the long-term soil drying trends in SMin  situ.…”
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Hydrophobicity and performance analysis of beverage and agricultural waste torrefaction for high-grade bio-circular solid fuel by Napat Kaewtrakulchai, Sutthipoj Wongrerkdee, Benjapon Chalermsinsuwan, Namfon Samsalee, Chao-Wei Huang, Kanit Manatura

“…The ANOVA results indicated that temperature had the most significant impact on the response parameters. …”
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INTERFERENCE AND CONTACT ANALYSIS OF SELF-ALIGNING BEARING IN LARGE ROLLING MILL BASED ON A SIMPLIFIED MODEL by ZHANG AnKang, DONG QingBing, CHEN Zhuang, LI JinChao, HE Dong

“…Firstly, proposes a new simplified finite element model of bearing based on Hertz contact theory, which can greatly improve the calculation efficiency. …”
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Model Error Correction in Data Assimilation by Integrating Neural Networks by Jiangcheng Zhu, Shuang Hu, Rossella Arcucci, Chao Xu, Jihong Zhu, Yi-ke Guo

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Utility of Bronchoscopy with Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Diagnosing Pulmonary Infection in Hospitalized Patients with Underlying Malignancy by CW Chow, A McGeer, G Kasupski, N Senathiragah, P Gallant, CK Chan

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In-Plane Dynamic Cushioning Performance of Concave Hexagonal Honeycomb Cores by Miao Liu, Yan Cao, De-Qiang Sun, Chao-Rui Nie, Zhi-Jie Wang

“…A dynamic cushioning coefficient method was proposed to characterize the cushioning performance of CHCs. The dynamic cushioning coefficient curve and minimum dynamic cushioning coefficient (MDCC) of CHCs with different impact velocities and structural parameters are obtained. …”
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The Campylobacter jejuni BumS sensor phosphatase detects the branched short-chain fatty acids isobutyrate and isovalerate as direct cues for signal transduction by Nestor Ruiz, Jiawei Xing, Igor B. Zhulin, Chad A. Brautigam, David R. Hendrixson

“…The Campylobacter jejuni BumSR TCS is unusual in that the BumS sensor exclusively functions as a phosphatase rather than a kinase to control phosphorylated levels of its cognate BumR response regulator (P-BumR). …”
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Low KV-low contrast medium dose one-stop dual source CT high pitch integrated coronary-carotid-cerebral-aortic CTA improves image quality and reduces both radiation and contrast medium doses by Meng Wang, Chao Zheng, Lin Yang, Juan Su, Bo Wang, JieXin Sheng

“…Conclusion: Low-kV, low-CM one-stop dual-source high-pitch integrated coronary-carotid-cerebral-aortic CTA can ensure image quality while significantly reducing the doses of contrast medium and radiation…”
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Modulation Effects of Cordycepin on Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels in Rat Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Neurons in the Presence/Absence of Oxygen by Zhi-Bin Liu, Chao Liu, Bin Zeng, Li-Ping Huang, Li-Hua Yao

“…Additionally, this mild reduction on the peak of INa induced by the pretreatment with cordycepin can attenuate and delay the following hypoxia causing rapid dramatic decrease in INa with no additive change in the voltage dependence of inactivation. …”
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Modifications Caused by Enzyme-Retting and Their Effect on Composite Performance by Jonn A. Foulk, Denis Rho, Mercedes M. Alcock, Chad A. Ulven, Shanshan Huo

“…Variation in composite performance might not be realized due to poor interfacial bonding being of larger impact than the more subtle changes incurred by the enzyme treatment.…”
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