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Background The recruitment of participants into community-based randomized controlled trials studying childhood obesity is often challenging, especially from low-income racial/ethnical minorities and when long-term participant commitments are required ...
Zhaohui Cui +13 more
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Schottky barrier controls the transfer of hot carriers between contacted metal and semiconductor, and decides the performance of plasmonic metal–semiconductor devices in many applications.
Zhiguang Sun, Yurui Fang
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Effectiveness of a six-week high-intensity interval training programme on cardiometabolic markers in sedentary males [PDF]
High-intensity interval training (HIT) has been proposed as an effective, time efficient strategy to elicit similar cardiometabolic health benefits as traditional moderate-intensity endurance training. This is an important consideration as "lack of time"
Bray, James +6 more
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Epithelial barrier dysfunction in bronchial asthma
The pathogenesis of bronchial asthma is based on chronic inflammation as a response to etiological factors. It causes bron-chial hyperreactivity, remodeling of the respiratory tract and hypersecretion of mucus.
R. N. Khramova +2 more
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Research and development concept of barrier membranes based on “ immune microenvironment regulation”
Guided bone regeneration technology applied in alveolar bone defect regeneration is based on the barrier function and space maintenance of the barrier membrane.
CHEN Zetao +4 more
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Optimal investment policy and dividend payment strategy in an insurance company [PDF]
We consider in this paper the optimal dividend problem for an insurance company whose uncontrolled reserve process evolves as a classical Cram\'{e}r--Lundberg process. The firm has the option of investing part of the surplus in a Black--Scholes financial
Di Tella +3 more
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Thermosensitive hydrogel‐based GPR124 delivery strategy for rebuilding blood‐spinal cord barrier
Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes blood‐spinal cord barrier (BSCB) disruption, leading to secondary damage, such as hemorrhagic infiltration, inflammatory response, and neuronal cell death. It is of great significance to rebuild the BSCB at the early stage
Jiawei Shu +19 more
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Convexity of ruin probability and optimal dividend strategies for a general Levy process [PDF]
In this paper, we consider the optimal dividends problem for a company whose cash reserves follow a general Levy process with certain positive jumps and arbitrary negative jumps.
Shen, Ying +2 more
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Background Sepsis is a major cause of death in ICU, and intestinal barrier dysfunction is its important complication, while the treatment is limited. Recently, mesenchymal stem cell-derived microvesicles (MMVs) attract much attention as a strategy of ...
Danyang Zheng +7 more
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Periodontal diseases initiate on epithelial surfaces of the subgingival compartment, while the gingival epithelium functions as an epithelial barrier against microbial infection and orchestrates immune responses.
Hiroki Takeuchi +3 more
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