Preferred habitat of breeding birds may be compromised by climate change: unexpected effects of an exceptionally cold, wet spring.

Previous studies of the consequences for breeding birds of climate change have explored how their populations may respond to increasing temperatures.However, few have considered the likely outcome of predicted extreme conditions and the relative vulnerability of populations in different habitats.Here, we compare phenology and breeding success in gr

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Anti-SARS-CoV-2, antioxidant and immunomodulatory potential of dietary flavonol quercetin: Focus on molecular targets and clinical efficacy

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, caused by the infection of SARS-CoV-2, seems to be a tough global challenge because of its highly contagious nature and rapid evolution of the virus strain.As no effective clinical drugs are available for the treatment of this disease in the early phase till to date, scientists are hunting f

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Efficacy and Safety of PARP Inhibitor Combination Therapy in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

ObjectivesThough it is known to all that PARP inhibitors (PARPis) are effective when used as maintenance alone for women with recurrent ovarian cancer (ROC), little is known about whether using them in combination with other drugs would contribute to a better efficacy.We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore the efficacy and sa

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A Character-Word Information Interaction Framework for Natural Language Understanding in Chinese Medical Dialogue Domain

Natural language understanding is a foundational task in medical dialogue systems.However, there are still two key problems to be solved: (1) Multiple meanings of a word lead to ambiguity of intent; (2) character errors make slot entity extraction difficult.To solve the above problems, this paper proposes a character-word information interaction fr

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