Accumulation characteristics, mechanism, and identification of an ancient...
AbstractThe fluctuation of the water level in a reservoir may induce various types of slope movements. Some of these movements are new, whereas others are old but reactivated. Many ancient landslide...
View ArticleTwo-hierarchical nonnegative matrix factorization distinguishing the...
AbstractBackgroundNonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been used in blind fluorescence unmixing for multispectral in-vivo fluorescence imaging, which decomposes a mixed source data into a set of...
View ArticleNotch2 signaling contributes to cell growth, invasion, and migration in...
AbstractMany studies have explored whether the Notch signaling pathway has a tumor-suppressive or an oncogenic role in various tumors; however, the role of the Notch signaling pathway in salivary...
View ArticlePassenger Flow Trend Analysis and Forecasting for Large High-Speed Railway...
AbstractWith the rapid development of China’s social economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, people’s travel demand grows rapidly. As high-speed rail provides fast and comfortable...
View ArticleMoving Cast Shadow Detection Using Joint Color and Texture Features with...
AbstractMoving cast shadow detection is an important technique that increases the rate of accuracy in object detection. In this paper, we introduce a moving cast shadow detection method that is based...
View ArticleCompliance Analysis and Synthesis of a Serial Manipulator with Redundant DOFs...
AbstractSerial manipulator with redundant DOF joints performs the maintenance and inspection tasks in Tokamak, which needs good stiffness behavior in vertical direction and appropriate compliance in...
View ArticleControl over the preferred orientation of CIGS films deposited by magnetron...
AbstractA growth method is presented to control the preferred orientation in chalcopyrite CuInxGa1-xSe2 (CIGS) thin films grown by magnetron sputtering. Films with (220/204) and (112) preferred...
View ArticleBacillus nitroreducens sp. nov., a humus-reducing bacterium isolated from a...
AbstractA Gram-staining-positive, facultative anaerobic, motile and rod-shaped bacterium, designated GSS08T, was isolated from a windrow compost pile and characterized by means of a polyphasic...
View ArticleInter-tissue coexpression network analysis reveals DPP4 as an important gene...
AbstractBackgroundInter-tissue molecular interactions are critical to the function and behavior of biological systems in multicellular organisms, but systematic studies of interactions between tissues...
View ArticleRobust mesh deformation with salient features preservation
AbstractTriangular meshes often contain a few salient features. Traditional deformation algorithms mainly preserve the local details and volume, thus producing unnatural results. This paper proposes a...
View ArticleCharacterization of a cold-adapted and salt-tolerant exo-chitinase (ChiC)...
AbstractWe have previously reported a non-processive endo-type chitinase, ChiA, from a newly isolated marine psychrophilic bacterium, Pseudoalteromonas sp. DL-6. In this study, a processive exo-type...
View ArticleThe effect of vitamin A on renal damage following acute pyelonephritis in...
AbstractBackgroundRenal scarring after acute pyelonephritis (APN) in children is of concern and in the worst cases leads to long-term cardiovascular morbidity. There are reports that vitamin A may...
View ArticleInfluence of cooling conditions on joint properties and microstructures of...
AbstractIn this study, 6013 aluminum alloy and AZ31 magnesium alloy were joined by friction stir welding (FSW) in immersed (underwater) and conventional (in air) conditions. The effect of the immersion...
View ArticleDiverse topologies of three cobalt(II) coordination polymers constructed from...
AbstractThree cobalt(II) coordination polymers {[Co(L1)(nda)(H2O)2]·2H2O}n (1), [Co(L2)(tbi)(H2O)]n (2) and [Co(L2)(bpdc)(H2O)]n (3) (L1 = 1,3-bis(5,6-dimethylbenzimidazol-1-yl)-2-propanol, L2 =...
View ArticleTNFα-induced M-MDSCs promote transplant immune tolerance via nitric oxide
AbstractEfficient induction of functional competent myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) will be critical for the clinical application of MDSCs to treat autoimmune diseases and to induce...
View ArticleCharacteristics of research collaboration in biotechnology in China: evidence...
AbstractThis study draws on biotechnology publications by Chinese scientists indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded from 1991 to 2014, using bibliometric and statistical methods to investigate...
View ArticleProton Spin Structure from Large Momentum Effective Theory
AbstractRecently a large momentum effective theory approach has been proposed to compute parton observables. We discuss its application to the spin structure of the proton. In particular, we explain...
View ArticleRapid Discrimination of Different Grades of White Croaker Surimi by Tri-Step...
AbstractWhite croaker surimi, an important raw material of traditional kamaboko industry, commonly has four grades, A, AA, FA, and SA which have distinct quality but are tough to be identified and...
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