Background: The immunological factors associated with long-term hepatitis C virus (HCV)-specific humoral immunity after cure remain uncharacterized, particularly in people with HIV (PWH). This study investigated T-cell immunophenotypes and plasma bio...
Value factorization methods have become a standard tool for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in the centralized-training, decentralized-execution (CTDE) setting. QMIX (a monotonic mixing network for value factorization), in parti...
With the advancement of autonomous driving technology, vehicle lane-change decision (LCD) has become a critical issue for improving driving safety and efficiency. Traditional deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods face challenges such as slow conv...
Coordinated control of fuel economy, state-of-charge (SOC), thermal state, and engine operation is central to hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) energy management. In existing discrete-action deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods, action selection u...
Aiming to enhance the efficiency and precision of multi-objective optimization in southwestern secondary growth of Pinus yunnanensis forests, this study integrated spatial and non-spatial structural indicators to establish objective functions and con...
To improve traffic efficiency, adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) systems have been widely developed. However, few studies have proactively optimized the air environmental issues in the development of ATSC. To fill this research gap, this study p...
With the popularization of internet of things (IoT), the energy consumption of mobile edge computing (MEC) servers is also on the rise. Some important IoT applications, such as autonomous driving, smart manufacturing, and smart wearables, have high r...
Overlay accuracy, one of the three fundamental indicators of lithography, is directly influenced by alignment precision. During the alignment process based on the Moiré fringe method, a slight angular misalignment between the mask and wafer wi...
When colloidal particles are deposited in a heat transfer channel, they increase the flow resistance in the channel, resulting in a substantial decrease in heat transfer efficiency. It is critical to have a comprehensive understanding of particle pro...
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a large class of RNAs with regulatory functions within cells. We recently showed that circSMARCA5 is a tumor suppressor in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and acts as a decoy for Serine and Arginine Rich Splicing Factor 1 (...
DailyColors™ is a supplement made up of several phytonutrients that aims to replicate elements from the Mediterranean diet. These include fruit, berry and vegetable extracts that are rich in key phytochemicals such as Quercetin, Catechins, Phlo...
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents implicitly memorize the structure of their training environment, allowing an attacker to reconstruct it by querying the action outputs of a deployed model and causing environment-privacy leakage. To address th...
In this paper, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and knowledge transfer are used to achieve the effective control of the learning agent for the confrontation in the multi-agent systems. Firstly, a multi-agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG)...
Hypertension is a pervasive and widespread health condition that poses a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which includes conditions such as heart attack, stroke, and heart failure. Despite its widespread occurrence, the exact cause...
Maternal blood glucose regulation adaptation to pregnancy aims to support fetal growth but may also lead to the development of gestational diabetes mellitus, the most common pregnancy complication. MiRNAs are small RNA molecules secreted and stable i...
In this paper, a novel type of polarization-insensitive terahertz metal metasurface with cross-shaped holes is presented, which is designed based on the theory of bound states in continuous media. The fundamental unit of the metasurface comprises a m...
Maternal nutrition’s impact on liver transcriptome in beef cattle offspring is still underexplored. We investigated the long-term effects of maternal nutrition strategies on the liver transcriptome of pre-slaughter Nelore bulls. Pregnant cows w...
Breast, colon, and lung carcinomas are classified as aggressive tumors with poor relapse-free survival (RFS), progression-free survival (PF), and poor hazard ratios (HRs) despite extensive therapy. Therefore, it is essential to identify a gene expres...
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play crucial roles in a variety of biological processes, including stress response. However, the number, characteristics and stress-related expression of lncRNAs in turbot are still largely unknown. In this study, a tot...
To enable autonomous driving in real-world environments that involve a diverse range of geographic variations and complex traffic regulations, it is essential to investigate Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms capable of policy learning in h...
The main objective of protecting ecosystems and enhancing the supply of ecosystem services (ESs) is to quantify the value of ecological services. This article calculates the ecological service value (ESV) of the Tarim Basin over the past 40 years usi...
As a result of the current imperfection of the meat traceability system, there have been numerous food safety events with serious consequences. In this paper, a meat product information traceability system is designed to efficiently prevent such prob...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formation flying is an efficient and economical operation mode for air transportation systems. To improve the effectiveness of synergetic formation control for UAVs, this paper proposes a pairwise conflict resolution app...
The common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is a crucial freshwater species cultivated worldwide for food consumption. Female carp have better growth performance than males, which fascinates scholars to uncover the mechanism of gonadal differentiation and prod...
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent environmental contaminants associated with neurotoxicity and increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases. PCB 153, a highly abundant non-coplanar congener, bioaccumulates in human tissues and impairs h...
Coastal wetlands, situated at the critical land–sea ecotone, play a vital role in sustaining ecological balance and supporting human activities. Currently, these ecosystems face dual stresses from climate change and intensified anthropogenic ac...
Normozoospermia, defined by semen parameters above the WHO lower reference limits, is conventionally treated as a single category. Increasing evidence suggests that this classification may encompass molecular heterogeneity. This pilot-pooled sequenci...
The emergence and establishment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of interest (VOIs) and variants of concern (VOCs) highlight the importance of genomic surveillance. We propose a statistical learning strategy (S...
Background: Older adults are vulnerable to frailty, but the biological mechanisms are unclear. Metabolomics and proteomics may help characterize the biological basis of frailty that can be used to target future interventions. Methods: This study is a...
In this study, we investigate two RpoN homologs in Bradyrhizobium sp. DOA9—chromosomal RpoNc and megaplasmid-borne RpoNp—and their roles in free-living conditions and nitrogen fixation. Phylogenetic analysis showed that RpoNc clusters wit...
Network anomaly detection and classification is an important open issue in network security. Several approaches and systems based on different mathematical tools have been studied and developed, among them, the Anomaly-Network Intrusion Detection Sys...
The Dongting Lake Basin (DLB), a region of key importance in the national project of the Yangtze River Protection and Economic Belt Construction, experienced dramatic land use changes caused by anthropogenic disturbances and climate change. Understan...
This paper presents a theoretically grounded integration of deterministic Q-learning with relational game theory (QLRG) for efficiently identifying minimal winning coalitions in Online Social Networks (OSNs). We address the fundamental challenge that...
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Many diverse subclasses of analytic functions, q-starlike functions, and symmetric q-starlike functions have been studied and analyzed by using q-analogous values of integral and derivative operators. In this paper, we define a q-analogous value of d...
In the literature so far, for Caputo fractional boundary value problems of order
Many properties of special polynomials, such as recurrence relations, sum formulas, integral transforms and symmetric identities, have been studied in the literature with the help of generating functions and their functional equations. In this paper,...
Engineering corridors on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau have substantially modified the regional ecosystem functions and environment, resulting in changes in the alpine ecosystem. In addition, the building and operation of these engineering corridor...
In this article, the authors study the boundedness of the vector-valued inequality for the intrinsic square function and the boundedness of the scalar-valued intrinsic square function on variable exponents Herz spaces
Agricultural watersheds must simultaneously support multiple Ecosystem Services (ESs), yet the coordination between Ecosystem Service Value (ESV) growth and synergies of ESs remains poorly understood. Taking the Liaohe River mainstream Basin (LRMB),...
This paper continues our earlier work, in which the differential evolution algorithm was applied to coefficient problems in Geometric Function Theory, and the sharp
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An interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy set (
Introduction: Quantitative computed tomography (qCT) is an emergent technique for diagnostics and research in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). qCT parameters demonstrate a correlation with pulmonary function tests and sympt...
We propose a model for the QCD running coupling constant based on the analytical inverse QCD coupling constant concept with an additional regularization in the low momentum region. Analyticity in the
Background: It is unclear whether the presence of minimal lung function impairment is an independent risk factor for the development of lung cancer in general populations. Methods: We conducted a population-based cohort study using nationally represe...
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ) is a ubiquitous lipid with different biological functions. In blood, there is a close relationship between CoQ status and cholesterol, which strongly supports the study of both molecules simultaneously. The objective of this study...
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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a cornerstone of modern Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure, enabling seamless data collection and communication for many IoT applications. However, the deployment of WSNs in remote or inaccessible locations po...
In this paper, we discuss various estimates to the right-hand (resp. left-hand) side of the Hermite–Hadamard inequality for functions whose absolute values of the second (resp. first) derivatives to positive real powers are log-convex. As an ap...
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