Dirigent proteins (DIR) are involved in lignan biosynthesis, stress responses, and disease resistance in plants. However, systematic characterization of the DIR gene family in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) remains limited. Here, we identified 22 ClD...
Dirigent proteins (DIRs) are pivotal regulators of lignin/lignan biosynthesis and play multifaceted roles in plant development and stress adaptation. Despite their functional significance, DIR genes remain unexplored in Rosa chinensis, a globally imp...
Dirigent proteins (DIR) play important roles in the biosynthesis of lignins and lignans, defensive responses, secondary metabolism, and disease resistance in plants. The DIR gene family has been identified and studied in many plants. However, the ide...
Background/Objectives: The aim of the study was to compare diagnostic performance of 3D-Double Inversion Recovery (DIR) and 3D-Fluid-Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) sequences in the detection of brain lesions in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients...
Polar codes are closer to the Shannon limit with lower complexity in coding and decoding. As traditional decoding techniques suffer from high latency and low throughput, with the development of deep learning technology, some deep learning-based decod...
The DIR (Dirigent) gene family plays a multifaceted role in plant growth, development, and stress responses, making it one of the key gene families for plant adaptation to environmental changes. However, research on ZmDIRs in maize remains limited. I...
Inspection robots are widely used in the field of smart grid monitoring in substations, and partial discharge (PD) is an important sign of the insulation state of equipment. PD direction of arrival (DOA) algorithms using conventional beam forming and...
The DIR gene family, which encodes Dirigent proteins, plays a crucial role in plant development and stress responses. However, the functions and mechanisms of this family in maize remained underexplored. This study identified ZmDIR11, a member of the...
Dirigent proteins (DIRs) are known to function in lignin biogenesis and to be involved in stress resistance in plants. However, the sugarcane DIRs have not been functionally characterized. In this study, we investigated the DIR−protein−en...
[NiFe] hydrogenases are metalloenzymes that catalyze the reversible cleavage of dihydrogen (
Tomato clade species (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon) display multiple interspecific reproductive barriers (IRBs). Some IRBs conform to the SI x SC rule, which describes unilateral incompatibility (UI) where pollen from SC species is rejected on SI speci...
Deformable image registration (DIR) is an image-analysis method with a broad range of applications in biomedical sciences. Current applications of DIR on computed-tomography (CT) images of the lung and other organs under deformation suffer from large...
Schima superba, commonly known as the Chinese guger tree, is highly adaptable and tolerant of poor soil conditions. It is one of the primary species forming the evergreen broad-leaved forests in southern China. Dirigent proteins (DIRs) play crucial r...
Nickel is a known hepatotoxic, haemotoxic, pulmonary toxic, nephrotoxic, reproductive toxic, carcinogenic, phytotoxic and neurotoxic agent. The adverse ecological impacts from unnecessary heavy metals include contamination of water and soil which pos...
By their faculty to transpose, transposable elements are known to play a key role in eukaryote genomes, impacting both their structuration and remodeling. Their integration in targeted sites may lead to recombination mechanisms involved in chromosoma...
The utilization of dimension stone in construction has been prevalent since ancient times; however, its application in modern construction has gained significant attention over the last few decades. This research aimed to assess the physical and stre...
Marssonina brunnea causes a major disease that limits poplar growth. Lignin and lignan play essential roles in protecting plants from various biological stresses. Dirigent (DIR) proteins are thought to control the stereoselective coupling of conifery...
The area postrema (AP) is a key circumventricular organ involved in the regulation of autonomic functions. Accurate identification of the AP via MRI is essential in neuroimaging but it is challenging. This study evaluated 3D FSE Cube T2WI, 3D FSE Cub...
Background: The Dirigent (DIR) gene family is pivotal for lignin polymerization and stress adaptation in plants, yet its systematic characterization in Sorghum bicolor (S. bicolor), a critical bioenergy crop, remains underexplored. Methods: Leveragin...
Modern cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures face increasingly sophisticated and diverse cyber threats that challenge traditional detection systems in terms of scalability, adaptability, and explainability. In this paper, we present (H...
As the threat from malicious UAVs continues to intensify, accurate identification of individual UAVs has become a critical challenge in regulatory and security domains. Existing single-signal analysis methods suffer from limited recognition accuracy....
Accurate information on potential evapotranspiration (PET) is mandatory for arid regions (such as Egypt) to assess crop water requirements. Such precision is limited by the dynamical downscaling options and the physical settings used in regional clim...
The hydrogen fuel quality is critical to the efficiency and longevity of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), with ISO 14687:2019 grade D establishing stringent impurity limits. This study compared two different sampling techniques for assessing the...
Semantic co-reference and ellipsis always lead to information deficiency when parsing natural language utterances with SQL in a multi-turn dialogue (i.e., conversational text-to-SQL task). The methodology of dividing a dialogue understanding task int...
Maliciously deployed disco intelligent reflecting surfaces (DIRSs) introduce active channel aging (ACA) to achieve fully passive jamming without requiring channel state information or jamming power. To enhance this capability, we propose a distribute...
Using a white-matter selective double inversion recovery sequence (WM-DIR) that suppresses both grey matter (GM) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) signals, some white matter (WM) lesions appear surrounded by a dark rim. These dark rim lesions (DRLs) seem...
Banded iron formations (BIFs) are enigmatic chemical sedimentary rocks that chronicle the geochemical and microbial cycling of iron and carbon in the Precambrian. However, the formation pathways of Fe carbonate, namely siderite, remain disputed. Here...
Long tunnels with significant overburden, changeable geological conditions, a steep gradient, water infiltration, and heavy traffic flow are susceptible to environmental concerns during both construction and operation. The availability of fresh air a...
Accurate solar radiation forecasting with numerical weather prediction (NWP) is critical for optimizing photovoltaic power generation. This study evaluates short-term (<36 h) performance of the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF-Solar) an...
This study aims to collect information about soil investigation by FTIR. As we know, the FTIR technique is most often used in organic and bioorganic chemistry, while in geochemistry FTIR spectroscopy is not used very often. Therefore, there is a prob...
The changing climate and global warming have rendered existing surface water insufficient, which is projected to adversely influence the irrigated farming systems globally. Consequently, groundwater demand has increased significantly owing to increas...
It is a challenging but key task to reduce the tritium inventory in EU-DEMO to levels that are acceptable for a nuclear regulator. As solution to this issue, a smart fuel cycle architecture is proposed based on the concept of Direct Internal Recyclin...
Integrated Radar and Communication (RadCom) Systems have become more crucial ingredients in the next generation of networks due to numerous types of characteristics, including reducing the system size, minimizing power consumption, and mitigating spe...
As Building Information Modeling (BIM) models are getting bigger, with more information linked to geometrical 3D models, a dedicated BIM search engine is important. A BIM search engine was developed to examine the value of exploiting a 3D object&rsqu...
In order to explore a rapid identification method for the anti-counterfeit of commercial high value collections, a three-step infrared spectrum method was used for the pterocarpus collection identification to confirm whether a commercial pterocarpus...
Infrared Thermography (IRT) is a non-contact, non-intrusive, and non-ionizing radiation tool used for detecting breast lesions. This paper analyzes the surface temperature distribution (STD) on an optimal Region of Interest (RoI) for extraction of su...
Introduction: The autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA) is a rare condition caused by an immune response associated with over-reactivity of the immune system, triggered by adjuvants. The most common adjuvants are aluminium salt...
The Defective in Induced Resistance 1 (DIR1) gene, a member of the lipid transferase proteins (LTPs), plays a crucial role in plant defense against pathogens. While previous transcriptomic studies have highlighted the significant expression of citrus...
The main objective of this study was to assess the quality and quantity of roof-harvested rainwater to overcome the water shortage problem in the study area. We also aimed to find health hazards associated with rainwater in the study area. For this p...
1 January 2004
Ce petit ouvrage de moins de 100 pages, publié dans le cadre du groupe d’études «France-Université-Antidépresseurs»(FUAG), un groupe très dynamique présidé par le Professeur Julien-Daniel Guelfi, peut être considéré comme une référence sur l’anxiété...
Ultraviolet C (UVC) is a DNA damage inducer, and 20 J/m2 of UVC irradiation caused cell growth inhibition and induced cell death after exposure for 24–36 h. The growth of NIH 3T3 cells was significantly suppressed at 24 h after UVC irradiation wherea...
1 January 2007
Im Kontext der Deinstitutionalisierung und dem damit einhergehenden Ausbau von ambulanten Versorgungssystemen sowie der Entwicklung von nebenwirkungsärmeren atypischen Neuroleptika ist es in zunehmendem Masse auch Frauen mit einer schweren chronische...
We aimed to clarify the accuracy of rigid image registration and deformable image registration (DIR) in carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT) for pancreatic cancer. Six patients with pancreatic cancer who were treated with passive irradiation CIRT were enro...
Dendrobium lindleyi is an orchid species valued for both ornamental and medicinal purposes; its secondary metabolites possess heat-clearing and fluid-generating properties. Dirigent (DIR) proteins play a key regulatory role in plant lignin polymeriza...
Dirigent (DIR) members have been shown to play essential roles in plant growth, development and adaptation to environmental changes. However, to date, there has been no systematic analysis of the DIR members in the genus Oryza. Here, 420 genes were i...
(1) Purpose: Challenges remain in dose accumulation for cervical cancer radiotherapy combined with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) and brachytherapy (BT) as there are many large and complex organ deformations between different treatments. This stud...
Document image retrieval (DIR) systems simplify access to digital data within printed documents by capturing images. These systems act as bridges between print and digital realms, with demand in organizations handling both formats. In education, stud...
Dirigent (DIR) genes play a pivotal role in plant development and stress adaptation. Manihot esculenta Crantz, commonly known as cassava, is a drought-resistant plant thriving in tropical and subtropical areas. It is extensively utilized for starch p...
The directional multiple signal classification (Dir-MUSIC) algorithm based on the antenna gain array manifold has been proposed to find the direction of the partial discharge (PD) source in substations. However, PD signals are wideband signals and th...
Dirigent (DIR) proteins are induced under various stress conditions and involved in sterio- and regio-selective coupling of monolignol. A striking lack of information about dirigent genes in cucurbitaceae plants underscores the importance of function...
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