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5 September 2026

Goal: Deep learning-based motor imagery EEG classification is limited by data scarcity, which constrains model generalization and performance. Methods: We propose a dual-cascade generative adversarial network (dcGAN) framework with a variable focused...

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  • Open Access
655 Views
18 Pages

18 May 2026

Anxiety is a multidimensional construct that influences cognitive performance in complex ways, yet its factor structure and domain-specific effects remain unclear. This study examined (1) the psychometric structure of general and specific anxiety mea...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,923 Views
15 Pages

Experimental Investigation of the Vibration Reduction of the Pipeline System with a Particle Impact Damper under Random Excitation

  • Jiao Wang,
  • Mingxin Juan,
  • Shuguo Yang,
  • Decong Zhang and ,
  • Zhongyi Zhang,
  • Jie Jin and
  • Tao Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 January 2023

In the engineering field, severe vibration of the pipeline system occurs under random excitation, which leads to vibration failure of the pipeline system due to overload. The traditional method is to increase the rigidity of the pipeline system, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,594 Views
16 Pages

18 September 2024

A bi-Gamma distribution model is proposed to determine the probability density function (PDF) of broadband non-Gaussian random stress rainflow ranges during vibration fatigue. A series of stress Power Spectral Densities (PSD) are provided, and the co...

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  • Open Access
704 Views
22 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Domain Risk Assessment for Cybersecurity Monitoring in Industrial Systems

  • Jacek Łukasz Wilk-Jakubowski,
  • Aleksandra Sikora and
  • Jakub Piotr Zapała

3 September 2026

In the field of cybersecurity, malicious website classification plays a crucial role in protecting industrial systems. For this reason, research has been undertaken to analyze cybersecurity threats, with the long-term objective of developing methods...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Process Monitoring, Control, and Optimization for Industrial Systems)
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  • Open Access
121 Views
42 Pages

Fake News Detection Under Latent Semantic Domain Shift

  • Ouarda Lounis,
  • Farah Ibelaiden,
  • Yesin Sahraoui,
  • Seif Eddine Bouziane and ,
  • Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache and
  • Carlos T. Calafate
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 November 2026

High benchmark performance in fake news detection may reflect interpolation within familiar semantic distributions rather than robustness to latent semantic domain shift. However, datasets containing veracity labels without explicit semantic domain a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Media Literacy and AI Literacy in the Digital Age)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,182 Views
21 Pages

11 March 2024

Due to their outstanding mechanical properties and biocompatibility, additively manufactured titanium porous structures are extensively utilized in the domain of medical metal implants. Implants frequently undergo cyclic loading, underscoring the sig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Light Alloys and Composites)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,600 Views
14 Pages

Semi-Supervised Classification via Hypergraph Convolutional Extreme Learning Machine

  • Zhewei Liu,
  • Zijia Zhang,
  • Yaoming Cai,
  • Yilin Miao and
  • Zhikun Chen

25 April 2021

Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is characterized by simplicity, generalization ability, and computational efficiency. However, previous ELMs fail to consider the inherent high-order relationship among data points, resulting in being powerless on struc...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
866 Views
26 Pages

This paper deals with a time-domain methodology for nominal stress-based, screening-level fatigue assessment of semi-submersible FWT hulls, using a 10-MW semi-submersible FWT as a case study. A comprehensive procedure is outlined for both short- and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Breakthrough Research in Marine Structures)
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61 Citations
13,170 Views
18 Pages

Analyzing Secondary Structure Patterns in DNA Aptamers Identified via CompELS

  • Richard Sullivan,
  • Mary Catherine Adams,
  • Rajesh R. Naik and
  • Valeria T. Milam

21 April 2019

In contrast to sophisticated high-throughput sequencing tools for genomic DNA, analytical tools for comparing secondary structure features between multiple single-stranded DNA sequences are less developed. For single-stranded nucleic acid ligands cal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Oligonucleotides Application to Nano- and Biotechnology (DNA Origami, DNA Machine))
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  • Open Access
1,718 Views
13 Pages

Periodic supercell lattice structures with elements of random polydispersity disorder were created to simulate the effect of randomization on photonic crystals using finite-difference time domain (FDTD) methods. As a key exemplar system, a three-dime...

(This article belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
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  • Open Access
64 Citations
8,534 Views
18 Pages

19 September 2016

Dual three-dimensional networks of structural and transport elements were combined to model the effect of fracture on mass transport in quasi-brittle geomaterials. Element connectivity of the structural network, representing elasticity and fracture,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis of Concrete using Discrete Elements)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,382 Views
23 Pages

Efficient Implementation of Homomorphic and Fuzzy Transforms in Random-Projection Encryption Frameworks for Cancellable Face Recognition

  • Abeer D. Algarni,
  • Ghada M. El Banby,
  • Naglaa F. Soliman,
  • Fathi E. Abd El-Samie and
  • Abdullah M. Iliyasu

To circumvent problems associated with dependence on traditional security systems on passwords, Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) and tokens, modern security systems adopt biometric traits that are inimitable to each individual for identificatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Security)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,793 Views
17 Pages

HeteEdgeWalk: A Heterogeneous Edge Memory Random Walk for Heterogeneous Information Network Embedding

  • Zhenpeng Liu,
  • Shengcong Zhang,
  • Jialiang Zhang,
  • Mingxiao Jiang and
  • Yi Liu

29 June 2023

Most Heterogeneous Information Network (HIN) embedding methods use meta-paths to guide random walks to sample from HIN and perform representation learning in order to overcome the bias of traditional random walks that are more biased towards high-ord...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,120 Views
23 Pages

Optimized AKS Primality Testing: A Fluctuation Theory Perspective

  • Bhupendra Nath Tiwari,
  • Jude Kibinde Kuipo,
  • Joshua M. Adeegbe and
  • Ninoslav Marina

The AKS algorithm is an important breakthrough in showing that primality testing of an integer can be done in polynomial time. In this paper, we study the optimization of its runtime. Namely, given a finite cardinality set of alphabets of a determini...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,371 Views
8 Pages

This study aimed to identify psychometric properties of the World Health Organization Quality of Life 100 questionnaire.

Material and methods
. A random sample of 1403 Kaunas city men and women aged 35–64 years was examined in 2001–2002. Quality of li...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,838 Views
17 Pages

11 February 2020

The structure and transport properties of alginate/chitosan microparticle membranes used in ethanol dehydration processes were investigated. The membranes were characterized based on images obtained from high-resolution microscopy. The following para...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Physics and Theory)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,361 Views
24 Pages

CRFalign: A Sequence-Structure Alignment of Proteins Based on a Combination of HMM-HMM Comparison and Conditional Random Fields

  • Sung Jong Lee,
  • Keehyoung Joo,
  • Sangjin Sim,
  • Juyong Lee and ,
  • In-Ho Lee and
  • Jooyoung Lee
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Sequence–structure alignment for protein sequences is an important task for the template-based modeling of 3D structures of proteins. Building a reliable sequence–structure alignment is a challenging problem, especially for remote homolog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Protein Folding and Related Areas – in Memory of Professor Sir Christopher M. Dobson (1949–2019))
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,149 Views
15 Pages

17 December 2019

Functional polymeric materials composed solely of lignin preparations appeared only very recently. A gradual paradigm shift spanning 56 years has revealed how lignin–lignin blends can upgrade the performance of 100 wt% lignin-based plastics. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lignin—Chemistry and Materials: Past, Present and Future)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,464 Views
24 Pages

30 December 2024

New energy vehicles have emerged as a prominent focus in the automotive industry. This study develops a comprehensive modeling specification for fuel cell systems in new energy vehicles and establishes a framework for fatigue life analysis in the fre...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,949 Views
25 Pages

A Machine Learning-Based Surrogate Model for the Identification of Risk Zones Due to Off-Stream Reservoir Failure

  • Nathalia Silva-Cancino,
  • Fernando Salazar,
  • Marcos Sanz-Ramos and
  • Ernest Bladé

4 August 2022

Approximately 70,000 Spanish off-stream reservoirs, many of them irrigation ponds, need to be evaluated in terms of their potential hazard to comply with the new national Regulation of the Hydraulic Public Domain. This requires a great engineering ef...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,213 Views
21 Pages

Altering the Regioselectivity of T1 Lipase from Geobacillus zalihae toward sn-3 Acylglycerol Using a Rational Design Approach

  • Samah Hashim Albayati,
  • Malihe Masomian,
  • Siti Nor Hasmah Ishak,
  • Adam Thean Chor Leow and ,
  • Mohd Shukuri Mohamad Ali,
  • Fairolniza Mohd Shariff,
  • Noor Dina Muhd Noor and
  • Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 February 2023

The regioselectivity characteristic of lipases facilitate a wide range of novel molecule unit constructions and fat modifications. Lipases can be categorized as sn-1,3, sn-2, and random regiospecific. Geobacillus zalihae T1 lipase catalyzes the hydro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biocatalysis in Organic Chemistry and Enzyme Engineering)
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35 Pages

We study the multifractal structure of a branching random walk on the boundary of a finite-type Galton–Watson tree. For α∈R, we consider the level set EX(α)=t∈∂T:limn→∞SnX(t)n=α. The multi-type struct...

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485 Views
24 Pages

20 August 2026

Machine learning (ML) models trained on bulk-crystal descriptors are increasingly used to prescreen catalysts by predicting adsorption energies, yet reported performances often rely on random K-fold cross-validation that permits the same bulk formula...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrocatalysis)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,323 Views
19 Pages

Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Multi-Domain Feature Selection and the Fuzzy Broad Learning System

  • Le Wu,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Feifan Qin,
  • Hongbo Fei and ,
  • Guiyi Liu,
  • Jing Zhang and
  • Shuai Xu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 February 2024

In recent years, the Broad Learning System (BLS) has been acknowledged for its potential to revolutionize traditional artificial intelligence methods due to its short training time, strong interpretability, and simple structure. In the evolution of B...

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40 Citations
9,040 Views
9 Pages

Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Emirati Women

  • Linda Smail,
  • Ghufran Jassim and
  • Anam Shakil

To investigate the quality of life (QOL) of menopausal Emirati women aged 40–64 years and determine its relationship with their sociodemographic characteristics. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 70 Emirati women using mu...

(This article belongs to the Section Women's Health)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,339 Views
32 Pages

The Modeling of a River Impacted with Tailings Mudflows Based on the Differentiation of Spatiotemporal Domains and Assessment of Water–Sediment Interactions Using Machine Learning Approaches

  • João Paulo Moura,
  • Fernando António Leal Pacheco,
  • Renato Farias do Valle Junior,
  • Maytê Maria Abreu Pires de Melo Silva and ,
  • Teresa Cristina Tarlé Pissarra,
  • Marília Carvalho de Melo,
  • Carlos Alberto Valera,
  • Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes and
  • Glauco de Souza Rolim
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

23 January 2024

The modeling of metal concentrations in large rivers is complex because the contributing factors are numerous, namely, the variation in metal sources across spatiotemporal domains. By considering both domains, this study modeled metal concentrations...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,511 Views
18 Pages

Continuous Symmetry Breaking and Complexity of Biological Membranes

  • Samo Kralj,
  • Veronika Kralj-Iglič and
  • Aleš Iglič

20 August 2025

We consider domain-type patterns in biological membranes that possess an in-plane membrane order. Domains are inseparably linked to topological defects, and many features related to them can be guessed based on universal topological arguments. Howeve...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
406 Views
30 Pages

7 October 2026

Cross-domain few-shot hyperspectral image classification is challenged by scarce target-domain annotations, sensor-induced domain shifts, and spectral abnormalities, including band loss, noise, and spectral misalignment. To address these issues, we p...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,391 Views
16 Pages

Mechanism of Dynamic Recrystallization and Evolution of Texture in the Hot Working Domains of the Processing Map for Mg-4Al-2Ba-2Ca Alloy

  • Kalidass Suresh,
  • Kamineni Pitcheswara Rao,
  • Yellapregada Venkata Rama Krishna Prasad,
  • Chi-Man Lawrence Wu and ,
  • Norbert Hort and
  • Hajo Dieringa
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 December 2017

The occurrence of dynamic recrystallization (DRX) and its effect on the evolution of texture during uniaxial compression of a creep-resistant cast Mg-4Al-2Ba-2Ca alloy in the temperature range of 260–500 °C and strain rate range of 0.0003–10 s−1 has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Recrystallization Behavior of Metallic Materials)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,991 Views
20 Pages

11 July 2023

When using ultrasound to detect the thickness of protective coatings on assembled steel structures, the coatings are extremely thin, which can cause echo signals to overlap and impair the detection accuracy. Therefore, the study of the separation of...

(This article belongs to the Section Functional Polymer Coatings and Films)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,555 Views
18 Pages

In-Situ Study on the Tensile Deformation and Fracture Mechanism of a Bimodal-Structured Mg-Gd-Y Alloy

  • Jiangli Ning,
  • Bosong Gao,
  • Jialiao Zhou,
  • Liansheng Chen and ,
  • Guangze Tang and
  • Shubo Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 August 2023

The as-extruded (EX) Mg-Gd-Y alloy studied here exhibited a bimodal structure, composed of fine dynamic recrystallized (DRXed) grains with random orientations and longitudinal coarse hot-worked grains. The slip analysis showed the DRXed grains exhibi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Forming Technologies, Mechanical Performance and Structural Properties of Metallic Materials and Alloys)
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12 Citations
4,741 Views
12 Pages

The question addressed by this paper is tackled through a continuum micromechanics model of a 2D random checkerboard, in which one phase is linear elastic and another linear viscoelastic of integer-order. The spatial homogeneity and ergodicity of the...

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825 Views
21 Pages

30 March 2026

In this paper, we propose the Manifold Random Drift Particle Swarm Optimization (MRDPSO) algorithm for matrix optimization on smooth manifolds. Conventional swarm intelligence methods generally converge prematurely in constrained domains. To mitigate...

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4 Citations
1,641 Views
19 Pages

27 July 2025

Transmission towers constitute critical power infrastructure, yet structural damage may accumulate over their long-term service, underscoring the paramount importance of research on damage identification. This paper presents a cross-correlation funct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,135 Views
15 Pages

Genome-Wide Identification and Analysis of Auxin Response Factor Transcription Factor Gene Family in Populus euphratica

  • Yunzhu Shi,
  • Zixuan Mu,
  • Xiangyu Meng,
  • Xiang Li and ,
  • Lingxuan Zou,
  • Xuli Zhu and
  • Wenhao Bo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 April 2025

Auxin response factor (ARF) is a plant-specific transcription factor that responds to changes in auxin levels, regulating various biological processes in plants such as flower development, senescence, lateral root formation, stress response, and seco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Genetic Breeding of Trees)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,021 Views
20 Pages

Stochastic Material Point Method for Analysis in Non-Linear Dynamics of Metals

  • Weidong Chen,
  • Yaqin Shi,
  • Jingxin Ma,
  • Chunlong Xu and ,
  • Shengzhuo Lu and
  • Xing Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 January 2019

A stochastic material point method is proposed for stochastic analysis in non-linear dynamics of metals with varying random material properties. The basic random variables are parameters of equation of state and those of constitutive equation. In con...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,646 Views
20 Pages

5 May 2022

The dynamic ice load of conical offshore wind turbines (OWTs) in cold regions is unclear. The ice force period is the key parameter used to establish an ice force model for conical structures. To obtain ice load data, a field monitoring system was in...

(This article belongs to the Topic Marine Renewable Energy)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,197 Views
16 Pages

The growing demand for the application of jacket platforms in deep water requires more attention on the assessment of structural reliability. This paper is devoted to the dynamic reliability analysis of jacket platforms subjected to random wave loads...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Offshore and Subsea Structures)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,822 Views
19 Pages

Design and Embedded Implementation of Secure Image Encryption Scheme Using DWT and 2D-LASM

  • Heping Wen,
  • Zefeng Chen,
  • Jiehong Zheng,
  • Yiming Huang and ,
  • Shuwei Li,
  • Linchao Ma,
  • Yiting Lin,
  • Zhen Liu,
  • Rui Li and
  • Huaide Yang
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

22 September 2022

In order to further improve the information effectiveness of digital image transmission, an image-encryption algorithm based on 2D-Logistic-adjusted-Sine map (2D-LASM) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is proposed. First, a dynamic key with plaint...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,725 Views
15 Pages

With the exponential growth of online review platforms, understanding user preferences and interests in the tourism domain has become increasingly critical for businesses and service providers. However, extracting meaningful insights from the vast am...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,790 Views
8 Pages

Plasmonic Conglobation of Ultrathin Ag Nanofilms Far below Their Melting Points by Infrared Illumination

  • Han Dai,
  • Junfeng Zhao,
  • Tongjian Huang,
  • Xinxiang Yu and ,
  • Jie Sun,
  • Hongjie Fang,
  • Zhenfeng Zhu,
  • Mingfu Zhang and
  • Kun Yu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

30 May 2018

Plasmon heating has been employed as a low-temperature annealing method for the conglobation of ultrathin Ag nanofilms into nanoparticles both on silicon and carbon spheres, with complex surface structures, simply under illumination with infrared lig...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences)
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  • Open Access
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16 Pages

This paper investigates the qualitative and topological behavior of random solutions for a class of partial fractional random differential equations governed by the Darboux problem. Unlike classical configurations that rely on bounded or finite delay...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis of Fractional Stochastic Differential Equations and Their Applications, Second Edition)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,030 Views
22 Pages

22 November 2025

The study of the conformational stability of protein layers at the interface between gold surfaces and lipid membranes is crucial for determining the biological activity of these systems and understanding their interactions. The surfaces differ signi...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,072 Views
24 Pages

14 October 2023

One of the fundamental challenges in geophysics is the calculation of distribution models for physical properties in the subsurface that accurately reproduce the measurements obtained in the survey and are geologically plausible in the context of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Exploration Geophysics)
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986 Views
20 Pages

Background: The integration of active breaks during the school day has been widely demonstrated to be effective in counteracting sedentary behaviors. The present study assessed the efficacy of a structured active breaks (ABs) intervention implemented...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Children’s Motor Development: From Birth to Adolescence: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
254 Views
23 Pages

Self-efficacy is task-referenced, yet it is often treated as a single subject-level belief. Drawing on the specificity and correspondence principles of self-efficacy theory, this study asks whether learning experiences that more closely match a judge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Math Development and Cognitive Skills)
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  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,470 Views
15 Pages

12 October 2018

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a kind of high-frequency electromagnetic detection technology. It is mainly used to locate targets and interfaces in underground structures. In addition to the effective signals reflected from the subsurface objects...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors, Systems and Algorithms for GPR Inspections)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,342 Views
17 Pages

2 September 2022

Most of data set can be represented in an asymmetric matrix. How to mine the uncertain information from the matrix is the primary task of data processing. As a typical unsupervised learning method, three-way k-means clustering algorithm uses core reg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Granular Computing for Intelligent Data Analysis)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,663 Views
15 Pages

Identification of Critical Amino Acid Residues of a Two-Component Sensor Protein for Signal Sensing in Porphyromonas gingivalis Fimbriation via Random Mutant Library Construction

  • Haruka Iida,
  • Kiyoshi Nishikawa,
  • Takuma Sato,
  • Misuzu Kawaguchi and ,
  • Ken Miyazawa and
  • Yoshiaki Hasegawa
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) utilizes FimA fimbriae to colonize the gingival sulcus and evade the host immune system. The biogenesis of all FimA-related components is positively regulated by the FimS–FimR two-component system, making the FimS...

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