Self-supervised Self2Self denoising strategy for OCT speckle reduction with a single noisy image by Ge, Chenkun, Yu, Xiaojun, Yuan, Miao, Fan, Zeming, Chen, Jinna, Shum, Perry Ping, Liu, Linbo

“…Although various deep learning schemes have been proposed for OCT despeckling, they typically suffer from the requirement for ground-truth images, which are difficult to collect in clinical practice. …”
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Relative deficiency in interferon-γ-secreting CD4+ T cells is strongly associated with poorer COVID-19 vaccination responses in older adults by Ho, Vanda W. T., Boon, Low Heng, Cui, Jianzhou, Juequn, Zhou, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Gupta, Rashi, Tan, Nikki Y. J., Qian, Xinlei, Purushotorman, Kiren, Fong, Siew-Wai, Renia, Laurent, Ng, Lisa F. P., Angeli, Veronique, Chen, Jinmiao, Kennedy, Brian K., Ong, Catherine W. M., Macary, Paul A.

“…Although the two-dose mRNA vaccination regime provides protection against SARS-CoV-2, older adults have been shown to exhibit poorer vaccination responses. …”
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Byzantine-resilient decentralized stochastic gradient descent by Guo, Shangwei, Zhang, Tianwei, Yu, Han, Xie, Xiaofei, Ma, Lei, Xiang, Tao, Liu, Yang

“…However, how to achieve Byzantine Fault Tolerance in decentralized learning systems is rarely explored, although this problem has been extensively studied in centralized systems. …”
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Data-driven forward and inverse analysis of two-dimensional soil consolidation using physics-informed neural network by Wang, Yu, Shi, Chao, Shi, Jiangwei, Lu, Hu

“…Employing machine learning algorithms to forecast the behavior of nonlinear spatiotemporal systems, such as soil consolidation induced by land reclamation, has been popular in recent years. Although pure data-driven models demonstrate strong performance within their training domain, i.e., in-sample prediction, they lack interpretability and might have poor generalization outside the training domain, i.e., out-of-sample prediction, particularly when the observed geodata is limited. …”
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Interface dynamics in electroosmotic flow systems with non-Newtonian fluid frontiers by Chen, Di-Lin, Liu, Shu-Yan, Luo, Kang, Yi, Hong-Liang, Yang, Chun

“…However, critical scientific issues that address multifield coupling and multiscale physics have not been well addressed in non-Newtonian fluids. In this paper, electrical field-fluid flow-ion transport coupling is numerically implemented in two mainstream problems, i.e., induced electroconvection phenomena at ion-selective interfaces and induced charge electroosmosis in polarized cylinders. …”
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3D electron microscopy for analyzing nanoparticles in the tumor endothelium by Mladjenovic, Stefan M., Chandok, Ishaan S., Darbandi, Ali, Nguyen, Luan N. M., Stordy, Benjamin, Zhen, Mei, Chan, Warren C. W.

“…Delivering medical agents to diseased tissues has been challenging, leading researchers to study the in vivo transport process in the body for improving delivery. …”
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Mannitol enhances antibiotic sensitivity of persister bacteria in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by Rice, Scott A., Barraud, Nicolas, Buson, Alberto, Jarolimek, Wolfgang

“…Mannitol has previously been found to restore aminoglycoside sensitivity in Escherichia coli by generating a proton-motive force (PMF), suggesting a potential new strategy to improve antibiotic therapy and reduce disease progression in CF. …”
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Duplex stem-loop-containing quadruplex motifs in the human genome: a combined genomic and structural study by Lim, Kah Wai, Jenjaroenpun, Piroon, Low, Zhen Jie, Khong, Zi Jian, Ng, Yi Siang, Kuznetsov, Vladimir Andreevich, Phan, Anh Tuan

“…Duplex stem-loops and four-stranded G-quadruplexes have been implicated in (patho)biological processes. Overlap of stem-loop- and quadruplex-forming sequences could give rise to quadruplex–duplex hybrids (QDH), which combine features of both structural forms and could exhibit unique properties. …”
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A Slip Gap of the 2016 Mw 6.6 Muji, Xinjiang, China, Earthquake Inferred from Sentinel‐1 TOPS Interferometry by Feng, Wanpeng, Tian, Yunfeng, Zhang, Yong, Samsonov, Sergey, Almeida, Rafael, Liu, Peng

“…The components of the regional Global Positioning System velocities parallel to the Muji fault have been inverted to obtain an interseismic slip rate of ∼10  mm/yr on this structure. …”
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Transfusion-transmitted severe Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in a splenectomized patient with beta-thalassaemia major in Sabah, Malaysia: a case report by Bird, Elspeth M., Parameswaran, Uma, William, Timothy, Khoo, Tien Meng, Grigg, Matthew J., Aziz, Ammar, Marfurt, Jutta, Yeo, Tsin Wen, Auburn, Sarah, Anstey, Nicholas M., Barber, Bridget E.

“…No confirmed case of accidental transfusion-transmitted P. knowlesi has yet been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 23-year old splenectomized patient with beta thalassaemia major presented with fever 11 days after receiving a blood transfusion from a pre-symptomatic donor who presented with knowlesi malaria 12 days following blood donation. …”
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Simultaneous polymerization and adhesion under hypoxia in sickle cell disease by Papageorgiou, Dimitrios P., Abidi, Sabia Z., Chang, Hung-Yu, Li, Xuejin, Kato, Gregory J., Karniadakis, George E., Suresh, Subra, Dao, Ming

“…Polymerization and adhesion, dynamic processes that are hallmarks of sickle cell disease (SCD), have thus far been studied in vitro only separately. Here, we present quantitative results of the simultaneous and synergistic effects of adhesion and polymerization of deoxygenated sickle hemoglobin (HbS) in the human red blood cell (RBC) on the mechanisms underlying vasoocclusive pain crisis. …”
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Optical characteristics of p-type GaAs-based semiconductors towards applications in photoemission infrared detectors by Lao, Y. F., Perera, A. G. U., Wang, H. L., Zhao, J. H., Jin, Y. J., Zhang, Dao Hua

“…Free-carrier effects in a p-type semiconductor including the intra-valence-band and inter-valence-band optical transitions are primarily responsible for its optical characteristics in infrared. Attention has been paid to the inter-valence-band transitions for the development of internal photoemission (IPE) mid-wave infrared (MWIR) photodetectors. …”
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Trust and distrust of tsunami vertical evacuation buildings: Extending protection motivation theory to examine choices under social influence by McCaughey, Jamie W., Mundir, Ibnu, Daly, Patrick, Mahdi, Saiful, Patt, Anthony

“…Yet whether TVE buildings actually save lives depends critically on whether people trust and evacuate to them, a question that has not previously been researched. We examine the case of the city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, where a M8.6 earthquake on 11-April-2012 caused a spontaneous mass evacuation but no tsunami. …”
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Kinematics of Active Deformation Across the Western Kunlun Mountain Range (Xinjiang, China) and Potential Seismic Hazards Within the Southern Tarim Basin by Guilbaud, Christelle, Simoes, Martine, Barrier, Laurie, Laborde, Amandine, Van der Woerd, Jérôme, Li, Haibing, Tapponnier, Paul, Coudroy, Thomas, Murray, Andrew

“…Finally, we compare the seismotectonic context of the Western Kunlun to what has been proposed for the Himalayas of Central Nepal. …”
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Hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha up-regulates CD70 under hypoxia and enhances anchorage-independent growth and aggressiveness in cancer cells by Kitajima, Shojiro, Lee, Kian Leong, Fujioka, Masaki, Sun, Wendi, You, Jia, Chia, Grace Sushin, Wanibuchi, Hideki, Tomita, Shuhei, Araki, Marito, Kato, Hiroyuki, Poellinger, Lorenz

“…While HIF-1α functions in cancer progression have been increasingly recognized, the contribution of HIF-2α remains widely unclear despite accumulating reports showing its overexpression in cancer cells. …”
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Review of mid-infrared mode-locked laser sources in the 2.0 μ m–3.5 μ m spectral region by Ma, Jie, Qin, Zhipeng, Xie, Guoqiang, Qian, Liejia, Tang, Dingyuan

“…Over the past decade, a significant progress has been made in the development of inexpensive, compact, high-efficiency mid-IR ultrafast mode-locked lasers in the picosecond and femtosecond domains that cover the 2.0 μm–3.5 μm spectral region. …”
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Cross-reactive dengue human monoclonal antibody prevents severe pathologies and death from Zika virus infections by Kam, Yiu-Wing, Lee, Cheryl Yi-Pin, Teo, Teck-Hui, Howland, Shanshan W., Siti Naqiah Amrun, Lum, Fok-Moon, See, Peter, Kng, Nicholas Qing-Rong, Huber, Roland G., Xu, Mei-Hui, Tan, Heng-Liang, Choo, Andre, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Ginhoux, Florent, Fink, Katja, Wang, Cheng-I, Ng, Lisa F.P., Rénia, Laurent

“…Zika virus (ZIKV) infections have been linked with neurological complications and congenital Zika syndrome. …”
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Ge nanocrystals in lanthanide-based Lu2O3 high-k dielectric for nonvolatile memory applications by Seng, H. L., Ho, V., Chan, Mei Yin, Lee, Pooi See

“…The formation and evolution of the Ge nanocrystals have been studied using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) in conjunction with depth profiling, and secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) analysis. …”
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Soybean oil-based green diesel production via catalytic deoxygenation (CDO) technology using low-cost modified dolomite and commercial zeolite-based catalyst by Hafriz, R.S.R.M., Habib, S.H., Raof, N.A., Ong, M.Y., Seah, C.C., Razali, S.Z., Yunus, R., Razali, N.M., Salmiaton, A.

“…The CDO of soybean oil (SO) was executed using a modified low-cost dolomite catalyst denoted as NiO-CD catalyst and its performance has been compared with commercial zeolite heterogeneous-based catalysts such as ZSM-5, HY-zeolite and FCC. …”
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Cytotoxicity and apoptotic DNA fragmentation evaluation of ethanolic extract of Phyllanthus niruri L. in Vero and primary feline testicular cells by Roslan, Rasydan Hadi, Choong, Siew Shean, Mohamed, Maizan, Abu Bakar, Md Zuki, Gilbert, Brenda Sabrina, Noralidin, Amalina, Izamin, Izzati, Mohd Sani, Nani Izreen

“…Phyllanthus niruri or Dukung Anak is native to Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia and has been used as traditional preparations and as health supplements. …”
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