Background To estimate the long-term cost-effectiveness of once-weekly semaglutide versus sitagliptin as an add-on therapy for type 2 diabetes patients inadequately controlled on metformin in China, to better inform healthcare decision making. Methods The Cardiff diabetes model which is a Monte...

Hydrogen-free Al-DLC films were prepared by HiPIMS technology under different bias voltages through an Al-C composite target. Surface and cross-sectional morphologies, chemical composition, microphase structure and bonding state, residual stress, hardness and elastic modulus, friction...

Hydrogen-free Al-DLC films were prepared by HiPIMS technology under different bias voltages through an Al-C composite target. Surface and cross-sectional morphologies, chemical composition, microphase structure and bonding state, residual stress, hardness and elastic modulus, friction...

It was a challenge to prepare nickel phyllosilicate with high catalytic activity using biomass-based silica as substrate due to the low Ni content. In order to efficiently utilize the abundant silanol group in silica-contained biomass, the acid-treated rice husk without calcination (P-R) was...

The temporal heterogeneity of nitrogen availability in soils is increasing due to agricultural deposition. We here compared the effects of gradually increasing nitrogen deposition rate and its increasing temporal heterogeneity patterns on the exotic species Rhus typhina and the native species...