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Biophysical models accurately characterize the thermal energetics of a small invasive passerine bird

iScience, 2023
Summary: Effective management of invasive species requires accurate predictions of their invasion potential in different environments. By considering species’ physiological tolerances and requirements, biophysical mechanistic models can potentially ...
Marina Sentís, Cesare Pacioni, Annelies De Cuyper, Geert P.J. Janssens, Luc Lens, Diederik Strubbe   +5 more
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Multicenter study for CH-VAD as a fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device

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Summary: The CH-VAD is a fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device (LVAD) designed for optimized hemocompatibility. This study evaluates the clinical outcomes of 77 patients implanted with the CH-VAD across seven centers in China from ...
Yifan Lu, Shuanglei Zhao, Jie Han, Qiang Lv, Xin Du, Zhengdong Hua, Keli Huang, Zhenwei Ge, Xiaoning Sun, Dan Zhu, Yongfeng Shao, Hongjia Zhang, Ming Gong   +12 more
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The role of platelet-rich plasma in biomedicine: A comprehensive overview

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Summary: Biomedicine has seen significant advancements in the 21st century, with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) playing a crucial role in clinical practice.
Zhixin Zhang, Peng Liu, Xinmiao Xue, Zhiyu Zhang, Li Wang, Yvke Jiang, Chi Zhang, Hanwen Zhou, Shuhan Lv, Weidong Shen, Shiming Yang, Fangyuan Wang   +11 more
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Basin dependencies of tropical cyclone genesis environment and possible future changes revealed by machine learning methods

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Summary: Tropical cyclone (TC) genesis mechanisms remain debated, complicating predictions of climate change impacts. This study uses principal-component analysis (PCA), confidence ellipses, and correlation circles to analyze TC genesis environments ...
QiFeng Qian, YeFeng Chen, XiaoJing Jia, Hao Ma, Wei Dong   +4 more
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A comparative study on communication structures of Chinese journals in the social sciences

, 2010
We argue that the communication structures in the Chinese social sciences have not yet been sufficiently reformed. Citation patterns among Chinese domestic journals in three subject areas -- political science and marxism, library and information science,
Allen, Beaver, Beaver, Ben-David, Boisot, Cheng, Cronin, Dong, Edge, Egghe, Gibbons, Hicks, Hicks, Kyvik, Lemaine, Leydesdorff, Leydesdorff, Leydesdorff, Leydesdorff, Lin, Moed, Mulkay, Naughton, Price, Qiu, Ren, Ren, Ren, Riskin, Van den Besselaar, Van der Meulen, Weingart, Worboys, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhu   +36 more
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Why Study History? On Its Epistemic Benefits and Its Relation to the Sciences [PDF]

, 2017
I try to return the focus of the philosophy of history to the nature of understanding, with a particular emphasis on Louis Mink’s project of exploring how historical understanding compares to the understanding we find in the natural sciences.
Grimm, Stephen R.
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NRASQ61R Expression in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Causes Enlarged Vessels, Hemorrhagic Chylous Effusions, and High Mortality in a Mouse Model of Kaposiform Lymphangiomatosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA) is an aggressive complex lymphatic anomaly. Patients exhibit malformed lymphatic vessels and often develop hemorrhagic effusions and elevated angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2) levels. A somatic NRAS p.Q61R (NRASQ61R) mutation has been associated with KLA.
C. Griffin McDaniel, Patricia Pastura, Joshua P. Scallan, Timothy D. Le Cras   +3 more
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A contactless monitoring system for accurately predicting energy expenditure during treadmill walking based on an ensemble neural network

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Summary: The monitoring of treadmill walking energy expenditure (EE) plays an important role in health evaluations and management, particularly in older individuals and those with chronic diseases.
Shangjun Huang, Houde Dai, Xiaoming Yu, Xie Wu, Kuan Wang, Jiaxin Hu, Hanchen Yao, Rui Huang, Wenxin Niu   +8 more
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Scientific Knowledge in Aristotle’s Biology [PDF]

, 2015
Aristotle was the first thinker to articulate a taxonomy of scientific knowledge, which he set out in Posterior Analytics. Furthermore, the “special sciences”, i.e., biology, zoology and the natural sciences in general, originated with Aristotle.
Botter, Barbara
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The Effect of Interfacial Chemical Bonding in TiO2-SiO2 Composites on their Photocatalytic NOx Abatement Performance [PDF]

, 2017
The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant Ref: EP/M003299/1) and the Natural Science Foundation of China (No.
Hakki, Amer, MacPhee, Donald E, Wang, Fazhou, Yang, Lu   +3 more
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