22 February 2023
Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is thought to stem from masticatory muscle hypersensitivity. Masticatory myofascial pain syndrome (MMPS) is characterized by multiple trigger points (MTrPs), also known as hyperirritable points, in taut bands of affecte...
This paper investigates the data-driven event-triggering control of discrete time-delay systems. When there is enough data available, the system parameters can be determined by identified methods, and the model-based controller design can be implemen...
Aiming at the salvo-attack problem of multiple missiles, a distributed cooperative guidance law based on the event-triggered mechanism is proposed, which enables missiles with large differences in spatial location and velocity to achieve simultaneous...
This article delves into the fuzzy finite-time adaptive control problem for uncertain nonlinear systems where state measurements are unavailable, nonlinear functions are unknown, and communication is limited. To emulate the unknown nonlinear relation...
Background: Many food components influence intestinal epithelial barrier properties and might therefore also affect susceptibility to the development of food allergies. Such allergies are triggered by increased antibody production initiated in Peyer&...
Cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 (CNF1) is a bacterial protein toxin primarily expressed by pathogenic Escherichia coli strains, causing extraintestinal infections. The toxin is believed to enhance the invasiveness of E. coli by modulating the activity...
Studies of third-order shear-deformation theory (TSDT) and an advanced shear coefficient for thick-walled functionally graded material (FGM) spherical shells subjected to thermal vibrations triggered by sinusoidal temperature are presented. The nonli...
Lesion mimic mutants are ideal materials for investigating programmed cell death in plants. The rice mutant sdr7-6 exhibits a light-dependent lesion mimic phenotype, but the specific light conditions that trigger necrosis and the underlying molecular...
No effective treatments are available for familial steroid-resistant Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), characterized by proteinuria due to ultrastructural abnormalities in glomerular podocytes. Here, we studied a private PAX2 mutation identi...
Development of nanotheranostic agents with near-infrared (NIR) absorption offers an effective tool for fighting malignant diseases. Lanthanide ion neodymium (Nd3+)-based nanomaterials, due to the maximum absorption at around 800 nm and unique optical...
The differences in micro-environment between cancer cells and the normal ones offer the possibility to develop stimuli-responsive drug-delivery systems for overcoming the drawbacks in the clinical use of anticancer drugs, such as paclitaxel, doxorubi...
Sleep deprivation is a prevalent issue that disrupts the circadian rhythm of estrogen, particularly estradiol, thereby significantly affecting women’s skin health and appearance. These disruptions can impair skin barrier functionality and decre...
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a dynamic organelle that responds to demand in secretory proteins by undergoing expansion. The mechanisms that control the homeostasis of ER size and function involve the activation of the unfolded protein response (...
Tightly regulated and highly adaptive lipid metabolic and transport pathways are critical to maintaining brain cellular lipid homeostasis and responding to lipid and inflammatory stress to preserve brain function and health. Deficits in the lipid han...
Aquaporins (AQPs) constitute a wide and ancient protein family of transmembrane channels dedicated to the regulation of water exchange across biological membranes. In plants, higher numbers of AQP homologues have been conserved compared to other king...
Background/Objectives: Trigger finger is a common cause of hand pain and functional limitation. Although open A1 pulley release remains the standard surgical treatment, ultrasound-guided percutaneous needle release (UGPR) has emerged as a minimally i...
Applications of nanoparticles in various fields have been addressed. Nanomaterials serve as carriers for transporting conventional drugs or proteins through lysosomes to various cellular targets. The basic function of lysosomes is to trigger degradat...
Dental pain due to dentine hypersensitivity or pulpitis is characterized by short or lasting episodes of pain triggered by normally innocuous stimuli originating from exposed dentine. Both represent the most frequent pain of the orofacial region. Tra...
The major limitation of any cancer therapy lies in the difficulty of precisely controlling the localization of the drug in the tumor cells. To improve this drawback, our study explores the use of actively-targeted chemo-photo-nanocarriers that recogn...
Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) disrupt the electrochemical balance of biological membranes, thereby causing abnormal cation movement and deterioration of the function of membrane voltage-gated ion channels. These can trigger an increase of oxidative s...
Nitric oxide, a ubiquitous molecule found throughout the natural world, is a key molecule implicated in many central and benefic molecular pathways and has a well-established role in the function of the central nervous system, as numerous studies hav...
MRGPRX2, the human member of the MAS-related G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), mediates the immunoglobulin E (IgE)-independent responses of a subset of mast cells (MCs) that are associated with itch, pain, neurogenic inflammation, and pseudoallerg...
The adipose organ is involved in many metabolic functions, ranging from the production of endocrine factors to the regulation of thermogenic processes. Aging is a natural process that affects the physiology of the adipose organ, leading to metabolic...
This paper focuses on the fuzzy adaptive predefined-time control for fractional-order nonlinear systems with time-varying deferred constraints. First, a modified dynamic surface control technique is introduced to address the problem of computational...
In 1992, a transcendental report suggested that the receptor of advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) functions as a cell surface receptor for a wide and diverse group of compounds, commonly referred to as advanced glycation end-products (AGEs), res...
Glaucoma, an optic neuropathy with the loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss. Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction have a significant role in triggering glia-driven neuroinflammation and subse...
Urgent need for innovative and effective antibacterial coatings in different fields seems to have triggered the development of numerous strategies for the production of such materials. As shown in this short overview, plasma based techniques arouse c...
Macrophage infiltration and accumulation is a hallmark of chronic kidney disease. Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is a serine protease regulating the homeostasis of blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, and matrix degradation, and has been shown to act...
This paper is concerned with resilient triggered control problem for load frequency control and virtual synchronous generation (LFC-VSG) scheme of discrete-time multi-area power system with parameter uncertainty, governor dead band (GDB), and low ine...
This study presents a novel event-triggered relearning framework for neural network modeling, designed to improve prediction precision in dynamic stochastic complex industrial systems under non-stationary and variable conditions. Firstly, a sliding w...
In humans and other higher life forms, electrochemical impulses flow through neurons and reach the central nervous system (CNS). In bacteria, signaling molecules bind to sensors on the cell surface, in the cell wall, and at the cell membrane, trigger...
Neural machine translation (NMT) systems have achieved outstanding performance and have been widely deployed in the real world. However, the undertranslation problem caused by the distribution of high-translation-entropy words in source sentences sti...
Chronic inflammatory processes in the intestine result in serious conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and cancer. An increased detection of cytoplasmic DNA sensors has been reported in the IBD colon mucosa, suggesting their contributi...
Viruses have evolved different strategies to hijack subcellular organelles during their life cycle to produce robust infectious progeny. Successful viral reproduction requires the precise assembly of progeny virions from viral genomes, structural pro...
Osteoarthritis (OA) has long been viewed as a degenerative disease of cartilage, but accumulating evidence indicates that inflammation has a critical role in its pathogenesis. In particular, chondrocyte-mediated inflammatory responses triggered by th...
In order to improve the endurance of underwater vehicles and make it possible for the underwater vehicle to inspect long-distance water tunnels, a sliding mode control method based on event triggering is proposed for the depth control of underwater v...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is characterized by disorganized rapid atrial electrical activity, which leads to impaired atrial function, adverse hemodynamic effects, and increased thromboembolic risk. The paroxysmal forms of AF can be effectively treated...
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the integration of a MOF thin film on electrostatically actuated microstructures to realize a switch triggered by gas and a sensing algorithm based on amplitude tracking. The devices are based on the nonl...
The exponential synchronization in mean square for complex networks by using two self-triggered impulsive control mechanisms under denial-of-service (DoS) and deception attacks is studied in this paper. These proposed control mechanisms include both...
Unmanned aircraft systems are expected to provide both increasingly varied functionalities and outstanding application performances, utilizing the available resources. In this paper, we explore the recent advances and challenges at the intersection o...
This paper focuses on the problem of event-triggered
Intestinal barrier function is required for the maintenance of mucosal homeostasis. Barrier dysfunction is thought to promote progression of both intestinal and systemic diseases. In many cases, this barrier loss reflects increased permeability of th...
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of recent investigations in the field of endothelial cell (EC) biology that advance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that trigger normal EC functions and dysfunctions in pathologies...
An event-triggered neural adaptive cooperative control is proposed for the towing system (TS) with model parameter uncertainties and unknown disturbances. Different from ordinary multi-vessel formation control, the tugs and unactuated offshore platfo...
In this study, we explore the integration of a cost-effective triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) with an large silicon PIN detector (diameter: 12 mm) for intelligent wireless recognition applications. Wireless communication eliminates the need for ph...
This paper studies the robust stabilization of impulsive Boolean control networks (IBCNs) with function perturbation. A Boolean control network (BCN) with a state-dependent impulsive sequence is converted to an equivalent BCN by the semi-tensor produ...
In a signaling network, not only the functions of molecules are important but when (temporal) and where (spatial) those functions are exerted and orchestrated is what defines the signaling output. To temporally and spatially modulate signaling events...
Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a bioactive phospholipid that regulates physiological and pathological processes in numerous cell biological functions, including cell migration, apoptosis, and proliferation. Macrophages are found in most human tissues...
The pathogenic plant fungus Bipolaris maydis is responsible for southern corn leaf blight (SCLB), a widespread agricultural disease that significantly reduces maize yield in various agroecological zones. The present research focuses on characterizing...
This work explores the potential of the use of interactive and immersive technologies to create impactful experiences that generate emotions, contributing to the process of activation or somatic excitation that triggers links that strengthen cognitiv...
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