Persistent luminescence is not affected by background autofluorescence, and thus holds the
promise of high-contrast bioimaging. However, at present, persistent luminescent materials …

Since December 2019, novel coronavirus infected pneumonia emerged in Wuhan city and
rapidly spread throughout China. In severe novel coronavirus pneumonia cases, the number …

Background First-line chemotherapy for advanced esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma
results in poor outcomes. The monoclonal antibody nivolumab has shown an overall survival …

This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users
have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desired …

Background Although several randomised trials in patients with triple-negative breast cancer
have shown that the addition of carboplatin, with or without poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (…

The introduction of oxygen vacancies (Ov) has been regarded as an effective method to
enhance the catalytic performance of photoanodes in oxygen evolution reaction (OER). However…

Background Thrombin potently activates platelets through the protease-activated receptor
PAR-1. Vorapaxar is a novel antiplatelet agent that selectively inhibits the cellular actions of …

Background Patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with mutations
in the FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 gene (FLT3) infrequently have a response to salvage …

Conventional water electrolyzers produce H 2 and O 2 simultaneously, such that additional
gas separation steps are needed to prevent H 2 /O 2 mixing. The sluggish anodic O 2 …

Numerical results for ground-state and excited-state properties (energies, double
occupancies, and Matsubara-axis self-energies) of the single-orbital Hubbard model on a two-…