Plants depend on both preformed and inducible defence responses to defend themselves against biotic stresses stemming from pathogen attacks. In this regard, plants perceive pathogenic threats from the environment through pattern recognition receptors...
Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea (FHA) is a non-organic reversible chronic endocrine disorder characterized by an impaired pulsatile secretion of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) from the hypothalamus. This impaired secretion, triggered by...
Male sex is one of the most important risk factors of atrial fibrillation (AF), with the incidence in men being almost double that in women. However, the reasons for this sex difference are unknown. Accordingly, in this study, we sought to determine...
Climate change is set to increase landslide frequency around the globe, thus increasing the potential exposure of people and material assets to these disturbances. Landslide hazard is commonly modelled from terrain and precipitation parameters, assum...
The segmentation of the in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle, consisting of the freezing of all embryos and the postponement of embryo transfer (ET), has become popular in recent years, with the main purpose of preventing ovarian hyperstimulation syndr...
Under the background of global change, the threshold for the propagation of meteorological drought to hydrological drought is crucial for drought early warning and water resource management. However, traditional threshold studies often adopt subjecti...
This research addresses cyber risk by defending against backdoor attacks on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). We propose the Explainable Complex System-Mitigation Triangular (ECSMT) Framework, which integrates Robust Training, Graph Regularization, and D...
This paper investigates the distributed event-triggered fixed-time time-varying formation control problem for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to model uncertainties and unknown time-varying disturbances. To address issues in traditio...
In this study, we present the Diverse Holding and Release Mechanism Can Satellite (DHRM CanSat) platform developed by the Space Technology Synthesis Laboratory (STSL) at Chosun University, South Korea. This platform focuses on several types of holdin...
This single-blind randomized controlled trial investigated the effectiveness of surface electromyography (sEMG)-triggered constraint-induced movement cycling therapy (CIMCT) in improving balance, lower extremity strength, and activities of daily livi...
Technologies such as robot-assisted gait trainers or functional electrical stimulation can improve the rehabilitation process of people affected with gait disorders due to stroke or other neurological defects. By combining both technologies, the pote...
Chemical defoliation is an essential agricultural practice in cotton production for mechanic harvesting. Thidiazuron (TDZ) is the active ingredient of the chemical defoliant used on cotton. So far, few studies havefocused on the method of identifying...
In vivo, cells are simultaneously exposed to multiple stimuli whose effects are difficult to distinguish. Therefore, they are often investigated in experimental cell culture conditions where stimuli are applied separately. However, it cannot be presu...
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This study was performed to evaluate the effects of EMG-triggered functional electrical stimulation on balance and gait ability on patient with Chronic Stroke. A total of 60 chronic stroke patients were divided into mirror treatment and functional el...
Long-term alcohol consumption leads to cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common alcohol-related arrhythmia. While AF significantly increases morbidity and mortality in patients, it takes years for an alcoholic individua...
Stroke-induced hand motor dysfunction severely limits activities of daily living (ADL). While conventional systems face challenges in portability and sustained actuation accuracy, this work addresses these limitations through an integrated adaptive c...
Au-Fe3O4 nanoheterodimers (NHD) were functionalized with the natural and synthetic anticancer drugs caffeic acid (CA), quercetin (Q) and 5-fluorocytidine (5FC). Their X-radiation dose-enhancing potential and chemotherapeutic efficacy for bimodal canc...
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) has persisted within human populations due to its ability to establish both lytic and latent infection. Given this, human hosts have evolved numerous immune responses to protect against HSV infection. Critical in this defen...
This paper investigates the synchronization problem of singularly perturbed complex networks with time delays, in which a novel event-triggered delayed impulsive control strategy is developed. To conserve limited communication bandwidth, a dynamic ev...
Photoactivatable cyclic caged morpholino oligomers (ccMOs) represent a promising tool to selectively regulate gene expression with spatiotemporal control. Nevertheless, some challenges associated with the preparation of these reagents have limited th...
Understanding how nanoparticles’ properties influence their cellular interactions is a bottleneck for improving the design of carriers. Macrophage polarization governs their active role in solving infections or tissue repair. To unravel the eff...
This paper studies the exponential stability in the mean square of the stochastic complex networks with time-varying coupling under an intermittent dynamic event-triggered control. A dynamic term and an exponential function are introduced into the ev...
This paper deals with a static/dynamic event-triggered asynchronous filter of nonlinear switched positive systems with output quantization. The nonlinear function is located in a sector. Both static and dynamic event-triggering conditions are establi...
In this paper, an event-triggered adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) method is proposed to deal with the
This paper studies the problem of DoS attack defense based on static observer-based event-triggered predictive control in networked control systems (NCSs). First, under the conditions of limited network bandwidth resources and the incomplete observab...
The combinational application of photothermal therapy (PTT), chemotherapy, and nanotechnology is a booming therapeutic strategy for cancer treatment. Multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT) is often utilized as drug carrier in biomedical fields with exce...
Retinal neurodegeneration can impair visual perception at different levels, involving not only photoreceptors, which are the most metabolically active cells, but also the inner retina. Compensatory mechanisms may hide the first signs of these impairm...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia in the elderly, characterized by the presence of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, neuroinflammation, synapse loss and neurodegeneration in the brain. The a...
With the rapid development of smart grid technologies, communication networks have become the core infrastructure supporting control and energy optimization in microgrids. However, the excessive reliance of microgrid control on communication networks...
This paper studies the containment control problem for a class of fractional order nonlinear multiagent systems in the presence of arbitrary switchings, unmeasured states, and quantized input signals by a hysteresis quantizer. Under the framework of...
In this paper, a distributed event-triggered control strategy is proposed to investigate a flocking problem in a multi-agent system with Lipschitz nonlinear dynamics, where triggering conditions are proposed to determine the instants to update the co...
This paper proposes event- and self-triggered control strategies to achieve distributed synchronization for multiple Lur’e systems with unknown static nonlinearities. Firstly, the integral-type edge-event-triggered function is designed here without Z...
To reduce the communication and computation overhead of neural networks, a novel pinning event-triggered scheme (PETS) is developed in this paper, which enables pinning synchronization of uncertain coupled memristive neural networks (CMNNs) under lim...
In this paper, the dynamic event-triggered tracking control issue is studied for a class of unknown stochastic nonlinear systems with strict-feedback form. At first, neural networks (NNs) are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions. Then,...
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Challenging behaviour displayed by people with intellectual disabilities (ID) can be difficult to manage if caregivers do not understand the reasons for the behaviour. Identifying the contextual variables/triggers for the behaviour is likely to help...
This study aims to develop an event-triggered control strategy of grid-connected inverters, based on the linear parameter-varying (LPV) modeling approach. Regarding the changes in grid voltage, filter capacitance and inductance, and random electromag...
In this paper, the event-triggered control problem is investigated using backstepping techniques for nonlinear systems with dead-zone input. The external disturbance and unknown parameters are also considered in the controller’s design. It is w...
Combustion instability is a common thermoacoustic coupling problem in combustion systems, and the pressure oscillations generated inevitably damage the combustion system. Studying the mechanism of combustion instability, especially the triggering pro...
This paper presents a Sigmoid-like event-triggered scheme (Sigmoid-like ETS) for security cruise control systems (CCSs) under stochastic false data injection (FDI) attacks. In order to improve the sensitivity of the ETS, a Sigmoid-like function is fi...
In natural language processing, event detection is a critical step in event extraction, aiming to detect the occurrences of events and categorize them. Currently, the defects of Chinese event detection based on triggers include polysemous triggers an...
In this research, the adaptive event-triggered neural network controller design problem is investigated for a class of state-constrained pure-feedback fractional-order nonlinear systems (FONSs) with external disturbances, unknown actuator saturation,...
A fast convergence adaptive neural network event-triggered control strategy is proposed for the trajectory tracking issue of uncertain robotic systems with output constraints. To cope with the constraints on the system output in the actual industrial...
This paper studies the output feedback
The fundamental molecular mechanism underlying the membrane merger steps of regulated exocytosis is highly conserved across cell types. Although involvement of Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in regulated exocytosis has long been suggested, its function or t...
In a pilot study, simultaneous infection with Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) and H9N2 virus induced 20% mortality and severe avian airsacculitis, shedding light on animal models of poultry respiratory diseases. However, the pathogenesis is still un...
Swine are attracting increasing attention as a biomedical model, due to many immunological similarities with humans. However, porcine macrophage polarization has not been extensively analyzed. Therefore, we investigated porcine monocyte-derived macro...
Candidatus Liberibacter spp. can infect most citrus plants and rely entirely on phloem sieve tube cells of the host plant for survival. Candidatus Liberibacter primarily contains Ca. L. asiaticus (CLas), Ca. L. africanus (CLaf), and Ca. L. americanus...
This paper considers the stable tracking problem of high-speed train control systems based on event-triggered control. With the aid of external auxiliary dynamics and the integral signal of the controlled system state, an integral event-triggering co...
This paper investigates the event-triggered secure consensus problem for stochastic multi-agent systems (MASs) subject to bilateral false data injection attacks (FDIAs). To achieve reliable secure consensus while reducing resource consumption, an eve...
To address the presence of network-induced delays in networked control systems (NCSs), a dual event-triggered mechanism (DETM) is used to investigate the problem of reducing network delays and controller co-design. Firstly, the DETM of the sensor&nda...
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