Academic Articles & Research Papers

Behavioral Differences in the Preference for Hepatitis B Virus Vaccination: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Understanding behavioral factors differences in the preferences for vaccinations can improve predictions of vaccine uptake rates and identify effective policy interventions to increase the demand for vaccinations. In this study, 353 adults ...

Assessment of the response of tropical dry forests to El Niño southern oscillation

Tropical Dry Forests (TDFs) in the Americas are significantly affected by drought related to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The analysis builds upon two drought indices: the MODIS-derived Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) and Temperatu...

Water conservation in arid and semi-arid basins exhibits a nonlinear effect on water quality improvement

Study region: The Weihe River Basin (WRB), a typical arid and semi-arid basin in China. Study focus: Water conservation regulates hydrological processes and pollutant transport, yet the response mechanisms of water quality to water conserva...

Mutations at the Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase Impact Its Interaction with a Soluble NSF Attachment Protein and a Pathogenesis-Related Protein in Soybean

Resistance to soybean cyst nematodes (SCN) in “Peking-type” resistance is bigenic, requiring Rhg4-a and rhg1-a. Rhg4-a encodes a serine hydroxymethyltransferase (GmSHMT08) and rhg1-a encodes a soluble NSF attachment protein (GmSNAP18). Rece...

Erratum to: Search for resonant and nonresonant production of pairs of dijet resonances in proton-proton collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV

Fault interaction and earthquake triggering mechanisms: Progress and prospects

Research on fault interaction and earthquake triggering, which is a hot issue in the field of source physics, can facilitate understanding of the underlying mechanisms of strong earthquakes and also has good application prospects in earthqu...

Combined Letrozole and Growth Hormone Therapy in Late-Pubertal Males with Advanced Bone Age and Open Knee Physes

Background/Objectives: The therapeutic window for growth hormone (GH) therapy in late-pubertal males with advanced bone age (BA ≥ 15 years) is generally considered closed. Yet, open knee physes may indicate residual growth potential. This s...

Epidemiology of Lung Cancer

Demonstration of hypergraph-state quantum information processing

Abstract Complex entangled states are the key resources for measurement-based quantum computations, which is realised by performing a sequence of measurements on initially entangled qubits. Executable quantum algorithms in the graph-state q...

Distributed systems meet economics: pricing in the cloud

Cloud computing allows users to perform computation in a public cloud with a pricing scheme typically based on incurred resource consumption. While cloud comput-ing is often considered as merely a new application for classic distributed sys...

Effects of long-term exposure to air pollutant mixture on blood pressure in typical areas of North China

Background: Studies about the combined effects of gaseous air pollutants and particulate matters are still rare. Objectives: This study was performed based on baseline survey of the Diverse Life-Course Cohort in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (B...

Teaching evaluation of “traditional Chinese medicine” course for eight-year undergraduates of Peking Union Medical College

Objective To explore the role of teaching evaluation in the practice of “traditional Chinese medicine” course for eight-year undergraduates of Peking Union Medical College. Methods With a secret questionnaire survey, statistics and summariz...

The relationship between perceived stress and depression in colorectal cancer patients: the mediating role of illness perception and the moderating role of self-efficacy

BackgroundNumerous studies have demonstrated a close association between perceived stress and depression in colorectal cancer patients; however, the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. This study aims to investigate the im...

Piezo1 knockdown activates PI3K/AKT and enhances SPP1 to drive M2 macrophage polarization and reduce cardiac inflammation

Abstract Piezo1 plays a key role in the immune response during sepsis. To date, our understanding of the role of Piezo1 in inflammatory diseases has mostly been limited to influencing vasomotor function and regulating inflammatory infiltrat...

Study on Building Business-oriented Resource On-demand Resolution Model

To address the issue of re-analyzing and repeating development of natural language processing tools and resource ana-lysis plugins when new requirements arise during project development,this paper proposes a business-oriented on-demand reso...

Fashion Meets Computer Vision

Fashion is the way we present ourselves to the world and has become one of the world’s largest industries. Fashion, mainly conveyed by vision, has thus attracted much attention from computer vision researchers in recent years. Given the rap...

A coordinated and enhanced brain network supports the persistence of long-term cocaine memory

Abstract The persistence of drug memories accounts for the high risk of drug relapse, which is a major challenge in the treatment of substance use disorders. However, the neurobiological underpinnings, especially the dynamic changes of brai...

Deep Learning for Geophysics: Current and Future Trends

Abstract Recently deep learning (DL), as a new data‐driven technique compared to conventional approaches, has attracted increasing attention in geophysical community, resulting in many opportunities and challenges. DL was proven to have the...

High-fidelity single-frame computational super-resolution using signal-preserving denoising-enabled deconvolution

Abstract Computational super-resolution (SR) methods enable nanoscale imaging from single-frame wide-field or spinning-disk confocal images without hardware modifications, yet face limitations: statistical restoration suffers from noise and...

Statistical Characteristics of Nighttime Medium‐Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances From 10‐Years of Airglow Observation by the Machine Learning Method

Abstract For the first time, we used the machine learning method to analyze the statistical occurrence and propagation characteristics of nighttime medium‐scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTIDs) from October 2011 to December 2021 ...