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Exploring the relationship between frugivorous birds and fruit trees in urban parks using citizen science data
The occurrence of frugivorous bird species is strongly associated with the occurrence of fruit tree species in natural environments. However, the presence of a similar relationship in urban areas has not been ...
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Evaluation of the Damaged Stone Arch Bridge Strengthened with Uhpc Based on Limit Analysis Method
Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is widely used in retrofitting damaged structures, but few studies on the strengthening of stone arch bridges have been reported. This paper presents a simplified analysi...
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Small is Beautiful: Some New Insights into Small Strain Stiffness of Granular Soils
Small strain shear modulus (G0) or the associated shear wave velocity (Vs) is a basic soil property with clear physical meaning, and has a wide range of applications in geotechnical engineering. While it has been...
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GAN-Diffusion Relay Model: Advancing Semantic Image Synthesis
Semantic image synthesis, involves the transformation of semantic layouts into realistic images, is aimed at comprehending and leveraging given semantic information. Despite recent impressive advancements, cha...
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More Like Real World Game Challenge for Partially Observable Multi-agent Cooperation
Partially observable multi-agent cooperation (POMAC) is a popular task in multi-agent systems, where recognized environments play a vital role for algorithms development and testing like the StarCraft Multi-Ag...
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An Asymmetric Game Theoretic Learning Model
Recent successes of game AIs such as AlphaGo and AlphaStar, which beat professional human players in the games Go and StarCraft, respectively, mark the breakthroughs of intelligent decision making technique in...
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APAN: Anti-curriculum Pseudo-Labelling and Adversarial Noises Training for Semi-supervised Medical Image Classification
Pseudo-label semi-supervised learning (SSL) has gained extensive adoption in medical image analysis, with many methods allocating pseudo-labels to unlabeled samples through probability thresholds. However, thi...
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How nonlinear benchmark in delegation contract can affect asset price and price informativeness
Delegation contracts with conventional linear benchmarking cannot motivate institutions to acquire information, which deteriorates price informativeness and increases return volatility. This study investigates...
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A Deep Hybrid Model for Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Control
This paper proposes a deep hybrid model for stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation (SAEC). A two-stage model is considered, i.e., a deep-learning-based Kalman filter (DeepKalman) and a gated convolutional rec...
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A comprehensive genome-based analysis identifies the anti-cancerous role of the anoikis-related gene ADH1A in modulating the pathogenesis of breast cancer
Breast cancer (BC), a widespread and lethal neoplasm, is irrespective of the subtype of BC. Metastasis remains a crucial determinant for unfavorable outcome. The identification of novel diagnostic markers is i...
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Open AccessSTAP2 promotes the progression of renal fibrosis via HSP27
Renal fibrosis is a key process in the progression from acute kidney injury (AKI) to chronic kidney disease (CKD), while the intricate mechanisms of renal fibrosis remain obscure. While the signal-transducing ...
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Open AccessMulti-scale Information Aggregation for Spoofing Detection
Synthesis artifacts that span scales from small to large are important cues for spoofing detection. However, few spoofing detection models leverage artifacts across different scales together. In this paper, we...
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Open AccessEffect of fibroblast heterogeneity on prognosis and drug resistance in high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Tumor heterogeneity is associated with poor prognosis and drug resistance, leading to therapeutic failure. Here, we used tumor evolution analysis to determine the intra- and intertumoral heterogeneity of high-...
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Open AccessStrain Field Development, Fracturing, and Gas Ejection in Decoupled Charge Blasting Using Granite Cylinders
This study explored the fracture process of granite cylinders with a centric charge, varying decoupling ratios by conducting laboratory-scale experiments and numerical simulations. In experiments, the three-di...
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Effect of nano-particles ZnO and layered GO on high temperature tribological performance of MoS2-based heterojunction composite lubricating coating
As an excellent solid lubricant in vacuum and inert gas environment, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is easy to be oxidized in high temperature, which leads to serious deterioration or even failure of lubricating per...
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Open AccessCaspase-2 is a condensate-mediated deubiquitinase in protein quality control
Protein ubiquitination plays a critical role in protein quality control in response to cellular stress. The excessive accumulation of ubiquitinated conjugates can be detrimental to cells and is recognized as a...
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Open AccessTargeting a chemo-induced adaptive signaling circuit confers therapeutic vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer
Advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDACs) respond poorly to all therapies, including the first-line treatment, chemotherapy, the latest immunotherapies, and KRAS-targeting therapies. Despite an enormo...
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Open AccessShape optimization for high efficiency metasurfaces: theory and implementation
Complex non-local behavior makes designing high efficiency and multifunctional metasurfaces a significant challenge. While using libraries of meta-atoms provide a simple and fast implementation methodology, pi...
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Influence of the Elastic Modulus and Spiral Rib Appearance on the Resin Bonding Performance Based on an NPR Prestressed Bolt
This paper proposes a high-strength prestressed bolt that experiences both high strength and high elongation. Its elastic modulus is larger, and spiral ribs appear, which is referred to as the NPR bolt. The in...
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Open AccessDII modulates the relationship between SVD3 and NAFLD prevalence, rather than liver fibrosis severity, in hospitalized T2DM population
Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients are at high risk for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Studies show SVD3 and dietary inflammatory index (DII) are associated with NAFLD. It’s unknown if they interact i...