Search Results - Qiong Zhang

This paper analyzes Patent Court Decision No. 2023Na11276 (the “Hongsan Gyeonggeumseok case”) in the context of determining the applicable timeframe for the treble damages system introduced by the 2019 amendment to the Patent Act. Article 3 of the Addenda to Act No. 16208 stipulates that the enhance...

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with prognosis significantly deteriorating at advanced stages. While current diagnostic methods, such as colonoscopy and tissue biopsy, are widely employed in clinical practice, they ar...

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It is uncommon for breast cancer to present with distant metastasis as the initial symptom. This study reported a 67-year-old female patient with breast non-mass invasive ductal carcinoma, who sought medical attention due to abdominal distention, lower abdominal pain, constipation, hematochezia, and...

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Cardiovascular complications are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in type 2 diabetes patients. Diabetes greatly increases the risk of heart disease; therefore, the management of diabetes often involves the prevention of heart disease. DPP-4 inhibitors have been proven to be the effective...

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The separated biological nutrient removal for treating wastewater has drawn significant interest due to its energy-neutral or energy-positive nutrient removal pathways. Conventional denitrification-based nitrogen removal, an all-in-one process, remains challenging when treating municipal wastewater....

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Abstract Harmful algal blooms have large impacts on aquatic ecosystem and human health. Nutrient enrichment, in combination with warm water temperatures, high sunlight availability, and low water turbulence, have been proven to be major factors driving algal blooms. In this study, lake eutrophicatio...

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Manual fruit thinning (MFT) in fruit trees has been previously shown to increase fruit size and enhance fruit quality, but the effect of MFT on Ponkan (Citrus reticulata Blanco) and the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this study, efforts were made to elucidate how MFT influences t...

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Objective To develop a scientific and systematic core competency evaluation index system for informatics nurses in China. The goal is to support their training, assessment and performance evaluation.Methods An initial set of evaluation indicators was created based on a review of existing literature...

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Objective To investigate the interplay between anxiety disorders and SLE using lupus-prone MRL-lpr mice and MRL/MPJ control mice exposed to predator stress, and to elucidate the potential mechanisms underlying this interaction.Methods We conducted an experiment where 16 MRL-lpr mice and 16 MRL/MPJ c...

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The integrated use of molecular marker-assisted selection (MAS) and anther culture has potential to significantly increase efficiency in plant breeding; however, reports on this kind of practical use are very limited. In the present study, we report the development of cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS)...

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As a member of helix–loop–helix protein family, transcription factor 12 functions as either an oncogene or a tumor suppressor in various human cancers. However, there are no reports on its involvement in prostate cancer. To investigate clinical relevance of transcription factor 12 in prostate cancer...

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Targeted therapeutics for liver fibrosis (LF) are unavailable. PU.1 is a pioneer transcription factor (TF) that promotes hepatic stellate cell (HSC) activation and LF. PU.1 decoy oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) can potentially repress LF by capturing PU.1. In this study, we used Apt-Tan, a hepatic stel...

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