Ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) was added at different contents to the thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) matrix to form a non-compatible blending system, and foaming materials with high pore density were prepared using the supercritical carbon dioxide extrusion method. The influence of the phase morphology and crystal morphology of the TPU/EVA blend on its foaming behavior was studied. The results show that EVA changed the phase morphology and crystal morphology of the blends, leading to the improved melt viscosity and crystallinity of the blend system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThyroid Carcinoma (THCA) is the most common endocrine tumor that is mainly treated using surgery and radiotherapy. In addition, immunotherapy is a recently developed treatment option that has played an essential role in the management of several types of tumors. However, few reports exist on the use of immunotherapy to treat THCA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the risk of asthma and multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in interleukin 7 receptor () and genes, as well as the gene- environment interactions.
Methods: This is a hospital- based case- control study. A total of 430 patients with asthma were continuously recruited.
Comput Intell Neurosci
September 2018
Cross-domain collaborative filtering (CDCF) solves the sparsity problem by transferring rating knowledge from auxiliary domains. Obviously, different auxiliary domains have different importance to the target domain. However, previous works cannot evaluate effectively the significance of different auxiliary domains.
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