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Background: Systemic treatments are recommended for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in preserved liver function. However, their effects are unsatisfactory in some tumor conditions, particularly macrovascular invasion (MVI) including major por...

Dopaminergic transporter (DAT) imaging with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is used to diagnose Parkinson’s disease and to differentiate it from other neurodegenerative disorders without presynaptic dopaminergic dysfunction....

With the development of the Internet of things (IoT), both types and amounts of spatial data collected from heterogeneous IoT devices are increasing. The increased spatial data are being actively utilized in the data mining field. The existing associ...

Flooding events are becoming more frequent and the negative impacts that they are causing globally are very significant. Current predictions have confirmed that conditions linked with future climate scenarios are worsening; therefore, there is a stro...

Background/Objective: Pediatric feeding problems are becoming more widespread. They represent a synthesis of social, behavioral, and biological issues. Inevitably, the multifaceted nature of these problems has to be evaluated through one multidimensi...

We introduce I-fp convergence (ideal convergence in fuzzy paranormed spaces) and develop its core theory, including stability results and an equivalence to I*-fp convergence under the AP Property. Building on this foundation, we design an adaptive ba...

Background: Prostanoid FP receptor agonists (FP agonists) are widely used as first-line therapies for glaucoma but differ in their potential to induce prostaglandin-associated periorbitopathy (PAP), which may affect surgical outcomes. While several s...

Aiming at the issues of low sensitivity and poor resistance to temperature and vibration interference in traditional optical fiber current transformers, as well as the structural complexity of magnetostrictive material-coupled sensors, this paper int...

Key air route segments refer to route segments that play a hub-supporting role in the air transportation network of a specific airspace, and whose traffic anomalies (such as saturation or delay) are likely to trigger chain reactions through segment c...

We are aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performances of quantitative indices obtained from dual-phase 18F-FP-CIT PET/CT for differential diagnosis of atypical parkinsonian syndromes (APS) from Parkinson’s disease (PD). We analyzed 172 subjects,...

Background: Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, with incidence and prevalence rates of 8–18 per 100,000 people per year and 0.3–1%, respectively. As parkinsonian symptoms do not appear until approximatel...

In the dynamic environment of fresh food supermarkets, managing the short shelf life and varying quality of vegetable products presents significant challenges. This study focuses on optimizing restocking and pricing strategies to maximize profits whi...

In this article, the structural, elastic, electronic, and magnetic characteristics of both regular and inverse Heusler alloys, Sc2TiAl and Sc2TiSi, were investigated using a full-potential, linearized augmented plane-wave (FP-LAPW) method, within the...

Sensitive and accurate detection of specific metal ions is important for sensor development and can advance analytical science and support environmental and human medical examinations. Fluorescent proteins (FPs) can be quenched by specific metal ions...

Fusarium crown rot (FCR) of wheat, an important soil-borne disease, presents a worsening trend year by year, posing a significant threat to wheat production. Fusarium pseudograminearum cv. b was reported to be the dominant pathogen of FCR in China. P...

We review our works on Fabry-Perot (F-P) interferometric fiber-optic sensors with various applications. We give a general model of F-P interferometric optical fiber sensors including diffraction loss caused by the beam divergence and the Gouy phase s...

Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim. (Z. bungeanum) has attracted attention for its rich aroma. The aroma of Z. bungeanum is mainly volatile terpenes synthesized by plant terpene metabolic pathways. However, there is little information on Z. bungeanum terpen...

In this work, the differential evolution algorithm behavior under a fixed point arithmetic is analyzed also using half-precision floating point (FP) numbers of 16 bits, and these last numbers are known as FP16. In this paper, it is considered that it...

The polyvalent bacteriophage fp01, isolated from wastewater in Valparaiso, Chile, was described to have lytic activity across bacterial species, including Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovars. Due to its polyvalent nature, the bacterioph...

In this paper, an optical fiber humidity sensor based on acrylate AB adhesive film is studied, and two methods—a bubbling method and a dual pressure assisted method—for preparing thin films are proposed. The forms will make the thin film...

Cas9 with specialized temperature adaptations are essential for broadening the application of CRISPR-based genome editing across diverse biological contexts. Although Cas9 orthologs from thermophilic and mesophilic organisms have been characterized f...

In e-commerce logistics, government registration, financial transportation and other fields, communication addresses are required. Analyzing the communication address is crucial. There are various challenges in address recognition due to the address...

In this paper, a network-flow model was constructed to simulate the performance of interdependent critical infrastructure systems during flood hazards, when there is shortage of commodities such as electrical power and water. The model enabled us to...

Multi-Object Multi-Camera Tracking (MOMCT) is essential for real-world applications but remains challenging in low-FPS environments where motion-based tracking is ineffective. This study proposes a novel vehicle tracking approach that integrates YOLO...

Background: Cancer patients often use natural health products (NHPs) during chemotherapy without medical supervision. We have previously described the clinical cases of two patients taking capecitabine in combination with folate supplements who suffe...

Fusarium crown rot (FCR), caused by Fusarium pseudograminearum, is a devastating wheat disease leading to significant yield losses worldwide. However, the pathogenic mechanism of F. pseudograminearum and its resistance to fungicides remain poorly und...

BACKROUND: Not all patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) benefit from treatment with molecular targeted agents such as sorafenib. We investigated whether New-FP (fine-powder cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil), a hepatic arterial infusion chemothera...

Soft computing models based on fuzzy or probabilistic approaches provide decision system makers with the necessary capabilities to deal with imprecise and incomplete information. Hybrid systems based on different soft computing approaches with comple...

A demand for division of focal plane (DoFP) polarization image sensors grows rapidly as nanofabrication technologies become mature. The DoFP sensor can output real time data of polarization information. In this paper, a novel visualization method for...

This work presents an assessment focused on technical, economic, and resilience-related aspects applied to a crude palm oil production process using the FP2O methodology, considering a capacity of 30 tons of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) per hour and an...

The weigh-in-motion (WIM) system is a necessary piece of equipment for an intelligent road. It can provide real-time vehicle weight and lateral distribution data on wheel load to effectively support pavement structure design and service life analysis...

The structural, mechanical, electronic and optical properties of SrTMO3 (TM = Rh, Zr) compounds are investigated by using first principle calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). The exchange-correlation potential was treated with the g...

Fertility preservation (FP) is the use of a specific medical intervention to protect the fertility of individuals whose disease or disease treatment may lead to infertility. These medical interventions include the cryopreservation of oocytes, embryos...

Eleven highly oxidized withanolides, chantriolides F–P (1–11), together with six known analogues (12–17), were isolated from the rhizomes of Tacca chantrieri. Their structures were established on the basis of comprehensive spectrosc...

Recently, the combination of Fringe Projection (FP) and 2D Digital Image Correlation (2D-DIC) has become a low-cost alternative for measuring deformations even in dynamic events such as vibration testing. FP and DIC are displacement measurement techn...

In order to meet the needs of attitude correction of the optical fiber sensor array, an all-fiber optical sensor combined with FBG and CFBG-FP is proposed to monitor its attitude angle. The FBG sensor for pitch and roll angles detection employs a geo...

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been widely adopted to solve decision-making problems in complex environments, demonstrating high performance across various domains. However, DRL-based FPS agents are typically trained with a traditional, monoli...

Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent proteins (FPs) designed from PAS (Per-ARNT-Sim repeats) and GAF (cGMP phosphodiesterase/adenylate cyclase/FhlA transcriptional activator) domains of bacterial phytochromes covalently bind biliverdin (BV) chromophore vi...

Background/Objectives: Traditionally consumed fermented foods and lactic acid bacteria (LAB)-based products have primarily been investigated for their nutritional and health-promoting benefits as dietary supplements. More recently, research has advan...

Introduction: Self-reported physical fitness (PF) provides an accurate measure of PF, specifically for young people. The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is one of the most used psychosocial measurement methods. The main arguments in favor of VAS are its...

In this paper, a dual-axis Fabry–Pérot (FP) accelerometer assembled on single optical fiber is proposed. The sensor is equipped with a special beam-splitting prism to split the light into two perpendicular directions (the X- and Y-axes);...

Levee failures due to floods often cause considerable economic damage and life losses in inundated dike-protected areas, and significantly change flood hazard upstream and downstream the breach location during the event. We present a new extension fo...

Gait, a manifestation of one’s walking pattern, intricately reflects the harmonious interplay of various bodily systems, offering valuable insights into an individual’s health status. However, the current study has shortcomings in the ext...

Based on the characteristic magnetic-controlled refractive index property, in this paper, a magnetic fluid is used as a sensitive medium to detect the magnetic field in the fiber optic Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity. The temperature compensation in fiber Fa...

Accurate measurement of strain is one of the most important issues for high temperature environments. We present a highly integrated all-fiber sensor to achieve precise measurements of strain/high-pressure, which consists of a fiber Bragg grating (FB...

Memory-limited partially observable stochastic control (ML-POSC) is the stochastic optimal control problem under incomplete information and memory limitation. To obtain the optimal control function of ML-POSC, a system of the forward Fokker–Pla...

Two novel double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) mycoviruses, termed Fusarium poae dsRNA virus 2 (FpV2) and Fusarium poae dsRNA virus 3 (FpV3), were isolated from the plant pathogenic fungus, Fusarium poae strain SX63, and molecularly characterized. FpV2 and Fp...

In mammals, the role of interleukin-18 (IL-18) in the immune response is to drive inflammatory and, normally therefore, anti-viral responses. IL-18 also shows promise as a vaccine adjuvant in mammals. Chicken IL-18 (chIL-18) has been cloned. The aim...

Macroscopic vascular invasion (MVI) is a poor prognostic factor in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) is a promising treatment in MVI-HCC. However, it is not clear which regimens are suitable for HAIC. In th...

Background/Objectives: 123I-FP-CIT dopamine transporter imaging is commonly used for the diagnosis of Parkinsonian syndromes in patients whose clinical presentation is atypical. Prolonged immobility, which can be difficult to maintain in this populat...