Spatial and seasonal dynamics of biogenic silica in a eutrophic marginal sea, the East China Sea
Available online 19 September 2023
Biogenic silica (BSi) is a key component of the marine silicon cycle, which is mainly driven by diatom metabolism notably contributing to primary production and export of particulate organic carbon...
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Catastrophic Shifts in Large Lake Levels
Available online 17 September 2023
Large lakes are important to buffering the potential impacts of global climate change on local water resources that millions of people's livelihoods depend on. However, abrupt changes in water level...
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Concept, Development and Applications of DNA Computation
Available online 16 September 2023
As traditional silicon-based chips approach their theoretical limits on computing power, DNA-based computation presents a promising alternative with potential advantages such as reduced size, high storage...
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A New Pathway for Pyrite Formation in Low-Sulfate Sediments Driven by Mineralization of Reduced Organic Sulfur
Available online 14 September 2023
Although pyrite is the main sedimentary form of sulfur, an ample mechanistic comprehension of its formation in low-sulfate environments is lacking. Applying high depth-resolution multigeochemical and...
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Dynamics of the climate-permafrost-vegetation coupling system at its southernmost zone in Eurasia under climate warming
Available online 14 September 2023
Climate warming is suspected of causing notable degradation of permafrost at the regional and global levels, resulting in carbon release and substantially high carbon storage, which in turn, accelerates...
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Development of the second version of the Global Prediction System for Epidemiological Pandemic
Available online 10 September 2023
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a severe global public health emergency that has caused a major crisis in the safety of human life, health, the global economy, and social order. Moreover, COVID-19...
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Cross-modal communication technology: A survey
Available online 9 September 2023
In the 5G era and beyond, multi-modal services that integrate audio, visual, and haptic signals are expected to become dominant applications. To support multi-modal services, the concept of cross-modal...
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A Simulation Optimization Method for Coordination of Production, Transportation and Sales
Available online 9 September 2023
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An overview for monitoring and prediction of pathogenic microorganisms in the atmosphere
Available online 28 August 2023
Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has exerted a profound adverse impact on human health. Studies have demonstrated that aerosol transmission is one of the major transmission routes of severe acute...
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Enhanced near-field radiative heat transfer between core-shell nanoparticles through surface modes hybridization
Available online 23 August 2023
Core-shell nanoparticles (CSNPs) are widely used in energy harvesting, conversion, and thermal management due to the excellent physical properties of different components. Because of the synergistic...
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Experimental Realization of Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexed Four-Beam Quadrature Squeezing
Available online 19 August 2023
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Towards reliable object representation via sparse directional patches and spatial center cues
Available online 10 August 2023
In the process of image understanding, the human visual system (HVS) performs multiscale analysis on various objects. HVS primarily focuses on marginally conspicuous image patches located within or...
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Quantifying direct associations between variables
Available online 10 August 2023
•In this paper, we propose independent conditional mutual information (ICMI) to measure the direct association between two variables (X and Y) having a confounding parent (Z). Compared with conditional...
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When omicron knocks at door: An inverted U-shape relationship between virus proximity and prosocial behavior
Available online 7 August 2023
The literature suggests inconsistent evidence regarding the influence of danger on prosocial behavior. We explore this issue through a nationwide survey of 8,567 households in China during the COVID-19...
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High-Density 2D Hole Gas in P-GaN/AlN/AlGaN on A Silicon Substrate with Polarization-Enhanced Mg Ionization
Available online 6 August 2023
Improving the hole concentration in p-GaN specimens has posed a major challenge due to the high activation energy of Mg doping in GaN. Recently, a delta doping technique for modulating the valence band...
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RNA biology and therapeutics
Available online 3 August 2023
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Evolutionary divergence of subgenomes in common carp provides insights into speciation and allopolyploid success
Available online 1 August 2023
Hybridization and polyploidization have made great contributions to speciation, heterosis, and agricultural production within plants, but there is still limited understanding and utilization in animals....
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Metal complexes induced ferroptosis for anticancer therapy
July 2023
Metal complexes for anti-tumor treatment have been developed rapidly in recent decades since the application of cisplatin in clinics. However, some tumor cells are resistant to apoptosis and not sensitive...
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Fluid-rock interactions leading to the formation of the epithermal Ag-Pb-Zn veins: A perspective of thermodynamic modeling
July 2023
•Dissolution textures and evidence of compositional heterogeneity for freibergite suggest that its decomposition may have redistributed the Ag and contributed in part to the high Ag grade ores.•The...
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Dock4 is required for the maintenance of cochlear hair cells and hearing function
July 2023
Auditory hair cells (HCs) are the mechanosensory receptors of the cochlea, and HC loss or malfunction can result from genetic defects. Dock4, a member of the Dock180-related protein superfamily, is...
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Twisted lattice nanocavity with theoretical quality factor exceeding 200 billion
July 2023
Simultaneous localization of light to extreme spatial and spectral scales is of high importance for testing fundamental physics and various applications. However, there is a longstanding trade-off between...
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Characterization of lipid-based nanomedicines at the single-particle level
July 2023
Lipid-based nanomedicines (LBNMs), including liposomes, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and extracellular vesicles (EVs), are recognized as one of the most clinically acceptable nano-formulations. However,...
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Alkyl side chain engineering enables high performance as-cast organic solar cells of over 17% efficiency
July 2023
•High-performance as-cast OSCs could be achieved by a simple alkyl-modified strategy.•Based on as-cast PM6:Y6-eC6-BO OSCs processed from chloroform, a PCE over 17% is achieved.•As-cast PM6:Y6-eC6-BO...
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