The rapid advancement of quantum computing technology poses a significant threat to conventional public key cryptographic infrastructure. The SM2 (state key cryptography algorithm no. 2) elliptic curve public key cryptographic algorithm, which adopts...
This article reports on a study of an intensive three-week culture intervention program, delivered via VooV Meeting (an online meeting platform) as an additional opportunity for CFL students at a Vietnamese university in December 2021. The primary ai...
Semantic radicals are meaning-bearing sublexical components of Chinese characters that have been shown to facilitate incidental vocabulary learning in L1 Chinese readers. However, it remains unclear whether this sublexical mechanism extends to learne...
Resource depletion remains central to human economic activity with resulting negative consequences for the local and global environment. Material and energy consumption patterns are also increasing globally, as developing countries follow the trail b...
Meat quality and meat composition are not separated from the influences of animal genetic improvement systems; the growth and development of skeletal muscle are the primary factors in agricultural meat production and meat quality. Though the muscle-t...
MicroRNAs are known to play a critical role in skeletal myogenesis and maintenance, and cofilin-2 (CFL2) is necessary for actin cytoskeleton dynamics and myogenic differentiation. Nonetheless, target molecules and the modes of action of miRNAs, espec...
Skeletal myogenesis is required to maintain muscle mass and integrity, and impaired myogenesis is causally linked to the etiology of muscle wasting. Recently, it was shown that excessive uptake of saturated fatty acids (SFA) plays a significant role...
This study explores the effects of integrating virtual reality (VR) into task-based learning (TBL) to support Chinese language learning among Thai university students enrolled in a basic Chinese course. A total of fifty first-year students were selec...
The environmental impacts of photoluminescence and light-emitting diode (LED) lighting technologies in horticulture are described in this paper. As a case study, the life cycle assessment (LCA) associated with the raw materials, air, water and natura...
GDF15 is a downstream gene of S100A4. miR-3189 is embedded in the intron of GDF15—and coexpressed with it. miR-3189-3p functions to inhibit the proliferation and migration of glioblastoma cells. We speculated that S100A4 might regulate miR-3189-3p to...
Clustered federated learning (CFL) addresses data heterogeneity by grouping clients with similar data distributions and training personalized models for each cluster. However, existing CFL schemes depend on clustering-related parameters that require...
Sentence-level stress is one of the major means of expressing information focus in oral speaking, and it is of importance for Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) learners to accurately receive and send the right information in conversation. However,...
In this article, we explore the possibility of using reinforcement learning to create convective flow approximation schemes that maintain accuracy and stability at high Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) numbers in the finite-volume discretization of adve...
This mainly theoretical work is devoted to the study of the contribution of the cell-free layer (CFL) near the vessel wall to hemodynamics in a large coronary artery with stenosis to assess the relevance of CFL modeling to the needs of interventional...
Learning environment and student engagement (SE) are widely considered valuable to foreign language learning, but how they influence foreign language achievement (LA) remains underexplored. Drawing on sociocultural theory, this survey study explored...
This study examines the perceived and actual effectiveness of an LLM-driven tutor embedded in an educational game for Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) learners. Drawing on 82 chat sessions from 31 beginner-level (HSK3) CFL learners, we analyzed le...
Mapping the time-variable calving front location (CFL) of Antarctic ice shelves is important for estimating the freshwater budget, as an indicator of changing ocean and structural conditions or as a precursor of dynamic instability. Here, we present...
The study of hemodynamics is particularly important in medicine and biomedical engineering as it is crucial for the design of new implantable devices and for understanding the mechanism of various diseases related to blood flow. In this study, we exp...
Skeletal myogenesis is essential for the maintenance of muscle quality and quantity, and impaired myogenesis is intimately associated with muscle wasting diseases. Although microRNA (miRNA) plays a crucial role in myogenesis and relates to muscle was...
In the last decade, mainly due to political incentives towards energy efficiency, the share of lamps with power electronic interfaces, like Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) and Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps, has significantly increased in the resid...
Light is a key factor in poultry production; however, there is still a lack of knowledge as to describing the light quality, how to measure the light environment as perceived by birds, and how artificial light compares with the light in the natural f...
This study investigates native English CFL (Chinese as a Foreign Language) learners’ difficulties with Mandarin consonants at the initial stage of learning and explores the relationship between second language (L2) speech perception and product...
The conceptual description of Follicular lymphoma (FL) in the 5th edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of haematolymphoid tumors (WHO-HAEM5) has undergone significant revision. The vast majority of FL (85%) with a follicular...
The present work focuses on the in-silico investigation of the steady-state blood flow in straight microtubes, incorporating advanced constitutive modeling for human blood and blood plasma. The blood constitutive model accounts for the interplay betw...
This study proposes a rectangular-shaped optical module capable of simultaneously implementing crop cultivation and solar power generation. By employing a cylindrical Fresnel lens (CFL) array plate with a size of 100 × 100 mm2, multiple focal l...
This paper presents the measurement of aggregated conducted emission in the frequency range of 9 kHz to 150 kHz produced by multiple compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) and how it equates to a multiple power converter system. Discrepancies in peak emissi...
Energy-saving lamps are equipped with converters enabling high energy efficiency at the cost of injecting very distorted currents on the mains. The problem is more complex in the emerging smart-lighting scenario where these lamps are also used to per...
Light emitting diode (LED) and compact fluorescent light (CFL) lamps are widely used because they are associated with low energy consumption and a reduced environmental impact. In the present paper, a study of the real consumption of these devices ha...
We present a class of efficient parametric closure models for 1D stochastic Burgers equations. Casting it as statistical learning of the flow map, we derive the parametric form by representing the unresolved high wavenumber Fourier modes as functiona...
In the current paper, an iterative algorithm is developed to simulate the problem of two-phase flow with heat transfer in porous media. The convective body force caused by heat transfer is described by Boussinesq approximation throughout with the gov...
The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of pulsed electric fields (PEF) on the growth and acidification kinetics of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus CFL1 during fermentation. The PEF treatments were applied during the fermentati...
Waxy cuticle covers plant aerial organs and protects plants against environmental challenges. Although improved cuticle-associated traits are aimed at the wheat breeding programs, the mechanism governing wheat cuticular wax biosynthesis remains to be...
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) forward modeling is one of the core geophysical research topics and also the primary task of simulating ground penetrating radar system. It is a process of simulating the propagation laws and characteristics of electrom...
Background: Timely screening and diagnosis are critical for improving prognosis and survival in gastric cancer. Building on prior serum proteomics findings, this study evaluated two novel early-stage diagnostic biomarkers, CFL1 and TAGLN2, using retr...
Lipid extraction from microbial and microalgae biomass requires the separation of oil-rich cells from the production media. This downstream procedure represents a major bottleneck in biodiesel production, increasing the cost of the final product. Flo...
Intestinal gastric cancer (IGC) carcinogenesis results from a complex interplay between environmental and molecular factors, ultimately contributing to disease development. We used integrative bioinformatic analysis to investigate IGC high-throughput...
Agricultural meat composition and quality are not independent of the effects of skeletal muscle growth and development in animals. Cofilin is distributed extensively in muscle and non-muscle cells, and its function is tightly regulated in the cell. C...
In normal operating conditions, the mains voltage level provided by low-voltage distribution networks follows time-varying patterns within permissible limits. The statistical characterisation of disturbances inserted into the power grid by nonlinear...
Cofilin-1 (CFL1) overexpression in pancreatic cancer correlates with high invasiveness and shorter survival. Besides a well-documented role in actin remodeling, additional cellular functions of CFL1 remain poorly understood. Here, we unraveled molecu...
The contribution of Antarctica’s ice sheet to global sea-level rise depends on the very dynamic behavior of glaciers and ice shelves. One important parameter of ice-sheet dynamics is the location of glacier and ice-shelf fronts. Numerous remote...
The eukaryotic nucleus remodels extensively during mitosis. Upon mitotic entry, the nuclear envelope breaks down and chromosomes condense into rod-shaped bodies, which are captured by the spindle apparatus and segregated during anaphase. Through telo...
Here we present the numerical methods, applications, and comparisons with observations and previous studies. It includes numerical analyses of shallow water equations, Sun’s scheme, and nonlinear model simulations of a dam break, solitary Rossb...
This paper presents an analytical and numerical benchmark verification framework for explicit time integration procedures applied to the one-dimensional wave equation. The study combines an exact analytical solution, a closed-form discrete central-di...
Protein aggregates of cofilin and actin have been found in neurons under oxygen–glucose deprivation. However, the regulatory mechanism behind the expression of Cfl1 during oxygen–glucose deprivation remains unclear. Here, we found that he...
Contrafreeloading (CFL) is a concept that describes the preference of an animal to work for food even when identical food is freely available, and reflects an intrinsic motivation to engage in foraging-related activities. However, altered brain neuro...
As the quality of beef products has received increasing attention, it is essential to explore the underlying transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of meat traits. Our project uses Qinchuan cattle as the research subject. First, we examined the sp...
The actin depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilin protein family is essential for actin dynamics, cell division, chemotaxis and tumor metastasis. Cofilin-1 (CFL-1) is a primary non-muscle isoform of the ADF/cofilin protein family accelerating the actin f...
Among the non-linear loads used in household, Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) and LED lamps are becoming more widespread, while incandescent lamps are intended to be replaced by these types of lighting devices. LEDs and CFLs are significantly more e...
In this study, a biomimetic microfluidic plasma separation device is discussed. The design of the device drew inspiration from in vivo observations of enhanced cell-free layer (CFL) formation downstream of vascular bifurcations. The working principle...
Flexible liposomes (FLs) were developed as promising nano-carriers for anticancer drugs. Coating them with chitosan (CS) could improve their drug delivery properties. The aim of this study was to investigate the physicochemical characteristics, pharm...
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