Hepatic ischemia‐reperfusion injury (IRI), in which an insufficient oxygen supply followed by
reperfusion leads to an inflammatory network and oxidative stress in disease tissue to …

Highlights This review focuses on the therapeutic mechanisms, targeting strategies of various
nanomaterials in acute liver failure, and recent advances of diverse nanomaterials for …

Liver disease, particularly viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is a global
healthcare burden and leads to more than 2 million deaths per year worldwide. Despite some …

We present the priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers
a window query using O((N/B) 1−1/d +T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of d-dimensional (…

Nearest neighbor (NN) search in high dimensional space is an important problem in many
applications. Ideally, a practical solution (i) should be implementable in a relational database, …

Background The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 193,825 deaths
during the past few months. A quick-to-be-identified cure for the disease will be a therapeutic …

As part of its Paris Agreement commitment, China pledged to peak carbon dioxide (CO 2 )
emissions around 2030, striving to peak earlier, and to increase the non-fossil share of …

Joins are expensive, and online aggregation over joins was proposed to mitigate the cost,
which offers users a nice and flexible tradeoff between query efficiency and accuracy in a …

Large flash disks, or solid state drives (SSDs), have become an attractive alternative to
magnetic hard disks, due to their high random read performance, low energy consumption and …

Consider the following problem: We have k players each receiving a stream of items, and
communicating with a central coordinator. Let the multiset of items received by player i up until …