With the emergence of various Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, energy-saving schemes for IoT devices have been rapidly developed. To enhance the energy efficiency of IoT devices in crowded environments with multiple overlapping cells, the selec...
Alleles that cause advantageous phenotypes with positive selection contribute to adaptive evolution. Investigations of positive selection in protein-coding genes rely on the accuracy of orthology, models, the quality of assemblies, and alignment. Her...
The diverse application vertices of internet-of-things (IoT) including internet of vehicles (IoV), industrial IoT (IIoT) and internet of drones things (IoDT) involve intelligent communication between the massive number of objects around us. This digi...
Indoor fingerprinting localization approaches estimate the location of a mobile object by matching observations of received signal strengths (RSS) from access points (APs) with fingerprint records. In real WLAN environments, there are more and more A...
Wi-Fi fingerprint-based positioning has been widely deployed for indoor localization due to its low deployment cost and good environmental adaptability. Nevertheless, positioning accuracy is significantly degraded by signal interference, redundant ac...
The flexible mobility feature of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) leads to frequent handovers and serious inter-cell interference problems in UAV-assisted cellular networks. Establishing a cell-free UAV (CF-UAV) network without cell boundaries effecti...
In this paper, we investigate a joint resource allocation algorithm in a time-division duplex (TDD)-based cell-free massive MIMO (CFMM) system, which has great potential to improve spectrum efficiency and throughput. Because the throughput of the sys...
Alveolar macrophages orchestrate phagocytosis and inflammatory programs during respiratory infection. CD2-associated protein (CD2AP) and BTB and CNC homology 2 (BACH2) are immune-related genes involved in cytoskeletal organization/vesicular trafficki...
With the development of communication technology, the demand for location-based services is growing rapidly. This paper presents an algorithm for indoor localization based on Received Signal Strength (RSS), which is collected from Access Points (APs)...
An RSS transform–based weighted k-nearest neighbor (WKNN) indoor positioning algorithm, Q-WKNN, is proposed to improve the positioning accuracy and real-time performance of Wi-Fi fingerprint–based indoor positioning. To smooth the RSS fluctuation dif...
Pilot contamination due to pilot reuse seriously mitigates the performance of the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we propose a joint pilot assignment scheme that employs user clustering and graph colori...
The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) deployments has created an urgent need for energy-efficient communication strategies that can adapt to dynamic operational conditions. This study presents a novel adaptive protocol selection framework that...
Methionine aminopeptidases (MetAPs) are attractive drug targets due to their essential role in eukaryotes as well as prokaryotic cells. In this study, biochemical assays were performed on newly synthesized Isatin-pyrazole hydrazones (PS1–14) to...
Mercury is a highly toxic heavy metal that poses serious threats to human health and environmental safety, highlighting the critical importance of accurate Hg2+ detection. In this study, a novel fluorescent probe AP was synthesized by conjugating flu...
This article uses the Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) from STEP AP242 neutral files for gripper selection and grasp planning in a robotic assembly operation. The PMI, along with the part geometry and dimensions, are used in identifying variou...
Fluorescent probes with the binding selectivity to specific structures in DNAs or RNAs have gained much attention as useful tools for the study of nucleic acid functions. Here, chloro-substituted 2-amino-5,7-dimethyl-1,8-naphthyridine (ClNaph) was de...
Autonomous parking systems (APSs) can help drivers complete the task of finding a parking space and the parking operation, which improves driving comfort. Current research on APSs focus on the perception, localization, planning, and control modules,...
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) got tremendous attention due to its atomically thin body, rich physics, and high carrier mobility. The controlled synthesis of large area and high crystalline monolayer MoS2 nanosheets on diverse substrates remains a chall...
There are various indoor fingerprint localization techniques utilizing the similarity of received signal strength (RSS) to discriminate the similarity of positions. However, due to the varied states of different wireless access points (APs), each AP&...
Plants are an important source of drug development and numerous plant derived molecules have been used in clinical practice for the ailment of various diseases. The Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR-4) signaling pathway plays a crucial role in inflammation i...
Acupuncture point (AP) selections can vary depending on clinicians’ acupuncture style, and therefore, acupuncture style is an important factor in determining the efficacy of acupuncture treatment. However, few studies have examined the differences in...
Wi-Fi-based fingerprint indoor positioning technology has gained special attention, but the development of this technology has been full of challenges such as positioning time cost and positioning accuracy. Therefore, selecting reasonable Wireless Ac...
The detection of anti-phosphatidylethanolamine autoantibodies (aPEs) has been proposed to improve the diagnosis and management of patients presenting clinical manifestations of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), such as thrombosis, and who are persiste...
The IEEE 802.11 wireless local-area network (WLAN) has been deployed around the globe as a major Internet access medium due to its low cost and high flexibility and capacity. Unfortunately, dense wireless networks can suffer from poor performance due...
Most of the microbiome studies suggest that using ensemble models such as Random Forest results in best predictive power. In this study, we empirically evaluate a more powerful ensemble learning algorithm, multi-view stacked generalization, on pediat...
Previous studies have reported that estrogen hormone promotes melanogenesis while progesterone inhibits it. A selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), tamoxifen, has been shown to promote melanogenesis; however, to date, there have been no repor...
With the increase in user density, it is a challenging problem to achieve higher energy efficiency in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks, where frequent handovers occur as users continuously pass through dense cell boundaries. In this paper, we inv...
Fast responses to an external threat depend on the rapid transmission of signals through a plant. Action potentials (APs) are proposed as such signals. Plant APs share similarities with their animal counterparts; they are proposed to depend on the ac...
The urban rail transit stations are an important part of an urban transit system. Scientific and reasonable location of rail transit station can greatly alleviate traffic pressure. The number of people in the surrounding area of a rail transit statio...
The selective transport of proteins or lipids by vesicular transport is a fundamental process supporting cellular physiology. The budding process involves cargo sorting and vesicle formation at the donor membrane and constitutes an important process...
The B-lymphocyte antigen (CD20) is a suitable target for single-stranded (ss) nucleic acid oligomer (aptamers). The aim of study was selection and characterization of a ssDNA aptamer against CD20 using Cell-Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponent...
Interest in developing selective and sensitive metal sensors for environmental, biological, and industrial applications is mounting. The goal of this work was to develop a sensitive and selective sensor for certain metal ions in solution. The goal wa...
This review aims to point out the main achievements in the cutting-edge field of aptamer nanotechnology and its applications in the most frequent neuro-oncological and neurodegenerative diseases. The article discusses the properties, advantages and d...
Members of the AP2/ERF transcription factor family play critical roles in plant development, biosynthesis of key metabolites, and stress response. A detailed study was performed to identify TtAP2s/ERFs in the durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum...
This paper investigates handover in hybrid visible light communication (VLC)/radio frequency (RF) networks. In such a network, mobile users are prone to experience frequent handovers (FHOs). To this end, we propose a collaborative online learning-bas...
The APETALA2 (AP2) transcription factors (TFs) play crucial roles in regulating development in plants. However, a comprehensive analysis of the AP2 family members in a valuable Chinese herbal orchid, Dendrobium officinale, or in other orchids, is lim...
Arsenoplatin-1 (AP-1), the prototype of a novel class of metallodrugs containing a PtAs(OH)2 core, was encapsulated within the apoferritin (AFt) nanocage. UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy meas...
Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is a Gram-negative pathogen responsible for fatal nosocomial infections worldwide. Iron is essential for Gram-negative bacteria to establish an infection. Therefore, iron acquisition proteins (IAPs) of bacteria...
Fragaria × ananassa Duch, which among the youngest fruit crops, comprises many popular cultivars that are famous for their favored color and aroma. The regulation roles of AP2/ERF (APETALA2/ethylene-responsive element-binding factor) transcription fa...
Background: Pericardial involvement is the most common cardiac manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), ranging from mild effusion to recurrent pericarditis and cardiac tamponade. The influence of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) on lupus-...
Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4)-dependent ferroptosis in pancreatic acinar cells plays a critical role in acute pancreatitis (AP). However, potential upstream regulators of GPX4 are not well defined. Here, we observed a marked reduction in acinar GPX...
Transient receptor potential melastatin 4 (TRPM4) plays an important role in many tissues, including pacemaker and conductive tissues of the heart, but much less is known about its electrophysiological role in ventricular myocytes. Our earlier result...
Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) selectively cleaves the apurinic/apyrimidinic site (AP site) in DNA, playing a critical role in base excision repair and genomic stability maintenance. Aberrant APE1 expression has been linked to numerous d...
Use of antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) in trauma patients is a common practice. However, considering the increasing rates of antibiotic resistance, AP use should be questioned and limited only to specific cases. We performed a systematic review of recent...
Background: Altered passive eruption (APE) is one of the etiological factors associated with excessive gingival display and is commonly treated with esthetic crown lengthening (ECL). However, existing classification systems provide limited guidance f...
The AP2/ERF gene family is one of the most conserved and important transcription factor families mainly occurring in plants with various functions in regulating plant biological and physiological processes. However, little comprehensive research has...
Adaptor protein (AP) complexes are critical components of the cellular membrane transport machinery. They mediate cargo selection during endocytosis and intracellular vesicular trafficking. Five AP complexes have been characterized (AP1-5), and toget...
Approximate entropy (ApEn) and sample entropy (SampEn) are statistical indices designed to quantify the regularity or predictability of time-series data. Although ApEn has been a prominent choice in analyzing non-linear data, it is currently unclear...
APETALA2/Ethylene Responsive Factor (AP2/ERF) family plays important roles in reproductive development, stress responses and hormone responses in plants. However, AP2/ERF family has not been systematically studied in Dendrobium catenatum. In this stu...
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are becoming popular at many manufacturing facilities. To ensure mobility and flexibility, AGVs are often controlled by wireless communication, eliminating the constraints of physical cables. These AGVs require multip...
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