The Proteus Effect: Influence of Avatar Appearance on Social Interaction in...
AbstractIn virtual interactions, avatars can affect people’s perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors consciously or unconsciously, which is known as the Proteus effect. The study created a new paradigm...
View ArticleHigh stability and reactivity of defective graphene-supported Fe n Pt 13−n (...
AbstractRecent experimental studies have shown that the FePt nanoparticles (NPs) assembled on graphene exhibit enhanced durability and catalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) than...
View ArticleDesign and Development of a Medical Big Data Processing System Based on Hadoop
AbstractSecondary use of medical big data is increasingly popular in healthcare services and clinical research. Understanding the logic behind medical big data demonstrates tendencies in hospital...
View ArticleA correlation analysis method for analyzing tribological states using...
AbstractA multi-physical signal correlation analysis method is proposed to identify the different tribological properties of materials. The acoustic emission (AE), contact resistance, and frictional...
View ArticleAn Electronic Medical Record System with Treatment Recommendations Based on...
AbstractAs the core of health information technology (HIT), electronic medical record (EMR) systems have been changing to meet health care demands. To construct a new-generation EMR system framework...
View ArticleLung metastasis of pancreatic carcinoma is regulated by TGFβ signaling
AbstractThe molecular regulation of the lung metastasis of pancreatic carcinoma (PCC) is not completely understood. Here, we show that the levels of phosphorylated SMAD3, ZEB1, ZEB2, Snail1, and Snail2...
View ArticleMetformin sensitizes hepatocellular carcinoma to arsenic trioxide-induced...
AbstractHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly malignant tumor that can evolve rapidly to acquire resistance to conventional chemotherapies. Arsenic trioxide (ATO) is a traditional Asian medicine,...
View ArticleNanorheology of liquid crystal thin films confined between interfaces with...
AbstractThe hydrodynamic properties of confined liquids play a significant role in the transportation of fluids in microfluidics, nanofluidics, and flows in porous media so on. In this paper, the...
View ArticleTransverse cervical vessels as recipient vessels in oral and maxillofacial...
AbstractBackgroundThe purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability and outcome of using the transverse cervical vessel (TCV) as a recipient vessel for microvascular reconstruction in...
View ArticleInfluence of thickness and permeability of endothelial surface layer on...
AbstractThe molecular coating on the surface of microvascular endothelium has been identified as a barrier to transvascular exchange of solutes. With a thickness of hundreds of nanometers, this...
View ArticleBi 2 S 3 microflowers assembled from one-dimensional nanorods with a high...
AbstractIn this paper, Bi2S3 microflowers have been successfully synthesized via a facile one-pot hydrothermal method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron...
View ArticleBuilding one-dimensional Bi 2 S 3 nanorods as enhanced photoresponding...
AbstractIn this paper, Bi2S3 nanorods were successfully synthesized via a facile one-pot hydrothermal method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy,...
View ArticleSurface interaction induced transcrystallization in biodegradable...
AbstractThe growth of transcrystallines of poly(butylene succinate)(PBS) induced by organic and inorganic fibres was investigated mainly with optical microscopy and DSC. The formation of...
View ArticleCombination of curcumin and piperine prevents formation of gallstones in...
AbstractBackgroundA disruption of cholesterol homeostasis characterized by the physical-chemical imbalance of cholesterol solubility in bile often results in formation of cholesterol gallstones. Our...
View ArticleAmur tigers and leopards returning to China: direct evidence and a landscape...
AbstractContextThe Amur tiger and leopard, once roaming over the Eurasian continent, are now endangered and confined to the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Russia—a landscape that has been increasingly...
View ArticleStick-slip behavior of magnetorheological fluids in simple linear shearing mode
AbstractThe stick-slip motion of magnetorheological (MR) fluids under a simple linear shear mode has been experimentally reported. The critical shear strain for the onset of the stick-slip motion...
View ArticleTransumbilical single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: long-term review...
AbstractBackground Currently, researches about single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC) are various, but long-term reviews assessing relevant complications after SILC with considerable...
View ArticleThe quasi-normal modes of charged scalar fields in Kerr-Newman black hole and...
AbstractIt is well-known that there is a geometric correspondence between high-frequency quasi-normal modes (QNMs) and null geodesics (spherical photon orbits). In this paper, we generalize such...
View ArticleEnhanced salinity tolerance in transgenic maize plants expressing a BADH gene...
AbstractSalinity is an adverse environmental stress that limits the yield and quality of maize. As one of the most important osmolytes present in higher plants, glycinebetaine helps stabilize...
View ArticleA Novel Load Balance Algorithm for Cloud Computing
AbstractA good scheduling algorithm is a key for load balance system, in which system’s load meets users’ requirement. Here, a new load balance algorithm based on swarm intelligence is proposed which...
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