Background Because of the rapid change in lifestyle in China, there is concern that diabetes
may become epidemic. We conducted a national study from June 2007 through May 2008 …

Importance Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic with no specific therapeutic
agents and substantial mortality. It is critical to find new treatments. Objective To determine …

Rapid advances in networking and Internet technologies have fueled the emergence of the "software
as a service" model for enterprise computing. Successful examples of commercially …

Energy will be one of the most important factors to influence human society in the 21st century.
1, 2 Cost, availability, and sustainability of energy have a significant impact on the quality …

The rice Xa21 gene, which confers resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae race 6,
was isolated by positional cloning. Fifty transgenic rice plants carrying the cloned Xa21 gene …

Background High plasma HDL cholesterol is associated with reduced risk of myocardial
infarction, but whether this association is causal is unclear. Exploiting the fact that genotypes are …

The loss function is an important component in deep learning-based segmentation methods.
Over the past five years, many loss functions have been proposed for various segmentation …

The synthesis of hollow carbon nanospheres or capsules has attracted considerable attention
because of their potential applications in catalyst supports, fuel cells, gas storage and …

The interactions between Eph receptor tyrosine kinases and their ephrin ligands regulate
cell migration and axon pathfinding. The EphA receptors are generally thought to become …

In order to effectively utilize the magnetic-dielectric synergy and interfacial engineering, in
this paper, yolk—shell structured magnetic multicomponent nanocomposites (MCNCs) …