The barrier surfaces of the gastrointestinal tract are in constant contact with various microorganisms.
Cytokines orchestrate the mucosal adaptive and innate immune cells in the defense …

Absorption heating has attracted increased attention due to its irreplaceable advantages in
energy conservation and pollution reduction in heating and domestic hot water supplies. This …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is considered as an emerging therapeutic modality against
cancer with high spatiotemporal selectivity because the utilized photosensitizers (PSs) are only …

Ground-coupled heat pumps are widely applied in cold regions, but soil thermal imbalances
in some projects greatly deteriorate the systems’ practical performances and heavily inhibit …

Based on daily surface air temperature (maximum, minimum and mean values) and precipitation
records at 52 meteorological stations over Xinjiang, China, the spatial and temporal …

Based on the daily data of temperature and precipitation of 108 meteorological stations in
Southwest China from 1960 to 2009, we calculate the monthly and yearly surface humid …

The use of ammonia-based working fluids for absorption prevails in a wide range of applications
due to the low freezing temperature of the refrigerant and the absence of crystallization …

Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHPs) are extensively used as renewable energy technology
over the world. In heating-dominated buildings, the ground thermal imbalance leads to the …

Gas refrigerant injection has been proven as an effective method to improve the performance
of the scroll compressor and its refrigeration system under high compression ratio working …

Mammalian mitochondria have small genomes encoding very limited numbers of proteins.
Over one thousand proteins and noncoding RNAs encoded by the nuclear genome must be …