Smoking is not only associated with NPC risk in individuals from China but is also associated with EBV seropositivity in healthy males and is involved in EBV activation.

As a powerful predictor of 5-year DSS among patients with NPC, the newly developed NPC-SVM classifier based on tumor-associated biomarkers will facilitate patient counseling and individualize management of patients with NPC.

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To reduce information exchange requirements in smart grids, an event-triggered communication based distributed optimization is proposed for economic dispatch. In this work, the θ-logarithmic barrier based method is employed to reformulate the economic dispatch problem and the consensus based approach is considered for developing fully distributed technologyenabled algorithms. Specifically, a novel distributed algorithm utilizes the minimum connected dominating set which efficiently allocates the task of balancing supply and demand for the entire power network at the beginning of economic dispatch. Further, an event-triggered communication based method for the incremental cost of each generator is able to reach a consensus, coinciding with the global optimality of the objective function. In addition, a fast gradient based distributed optimization method is also designed to accelerate the convergence rate of the event-triggered distributed optimization. Simulations based on the IEEE 57-bus test system demonstrate the effectiveness and good performance of proposed algorithms.

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Background: Tumor microenvironments affect the progression of cancers. Results: We demonstrated that Th17 cells were accumulated in tumor tissues, and the tumor-derived MIF induced Th17 cell accumulation and had clinical relevance in NPC. Conclusion:The cytokine MIF regulates intratumoral Th17 cell expansion and has prognostic value for NPC patients. Significance: The tumor microenvironment influences the clinical prognosis of NPC patients.

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