The quantum Pusey–Barrett–Rudolph (PBR) theorem addresses the question of whether the quantum state corresponds to a ψ-ontic model (system’s physical state) or to a ψ-epistemic model (observer’s knowledge about the sys...
The study aims to assess site assessment of the performance of 18F-PBR-111 as a neuroinflammation marker in the cuprizone mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS). 18F-PBR-111 PET imaging has not been well evaluated in multiple sclerosis applications b...
Many new challenges are faced by the PBR (passive bi-static radar) employing non-cooperative radar illuminators. After the CFAR (constant false alarm) processor, the appearance of the amount of false alarm clutter points impacts the following tracing...
The 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO/PBR) is a multifunctional evolutionary highly conserved outer mitochondrial membrane protein. Decades of research has reported an obligatory role of TSPO/PBR in both mitochondrial cholesterol transport and, thus,...
Generative neural networks have expanded from text and image generation to creating realistic 3D graphics, which are critical for immersive virtual environments. Physically Based Rendering (PBR)—crucial for realistic 3D graphics—depends o...
The Chebyshev approximation technique (CAT) combined with the MoM based on the electric-field integral equation (EFIE) and the Poggio–Miller–Chang–Harrington–Wu–Tsai (PMCHWT) integral equation is proposed to efficiently...
The ability of bacteriophages to destroy bacteria has made them the subject of extensive research. Interest in bacteriophages has recently increased due to the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, although genomic research has not kept pace with the gr...
POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR) is designed as a payload for a NASA suborbital Super Pressure Balloon that will circle over the Southern Ocean and a mission duration as long as 50 days. The PBR instrument consists of a 1.1 m aperture Schmidt telescop...
Iron is an essential trace element for plants; however, low bioactive Fe in soil continuously places plants in an Fe-deficient environment, triggering oxidative damage. To cope with this, plants make a series of alterations to increase Fe acquisition...
‘FalstaffPBR’ is a pear variety released by CREA and New Plant in 2012. This study focused on the effects of various clonal rootstocks on the main productive and qualitative traits of ‘FalstaffPBR’ scion. The rootstocks used w...
Iron (Fe) deficiency poses a major threat to pear (Pyrus spp.) fruit yield and quality. The Gretchen Hagen 3 (GH3) plays a vital part in plant stress responses. However, the GH3 gene family is yet to be characterized, and little focus has been given...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) modelled by lateral fluid percussion-induction (LFPI) in rats is a widely used experimental rodent model to explore and understand the underlying cellular and molecular alterations in the brain caused by TBI in humans. Cu...
In airborne passive bistatic radar (PBR), the reference channel toward the opportunity illuminator is applied to receive the direct-path signal as the reference signal. In the actual scenario, the reference signal is contaminated by the multipath sig...
The increasing accessibility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) drives the demand for reliable, easy-to-deploy surveillance systems to consolidate public security. This paper employs passive bistatic radar (PBR) based on a digital audio broadcast (DA...
With the rapid development of virtual reality (VR) technology, digital materials have become more realistic and controllable, offering new opportunities for material perception research. However, material parameters for physically based rendering (PB...
Microalgae, a renewable bio-resource, are considered a potential value-added commodity and a tool to combat climate change. Microalgal research has received worldwide attention recently. Different perspectives have been explored, but cultivation in o...
Inspired by the vast potential of microalgae in the bioeconomy and the numerous applications and benefits associated with their cultivation, a multitude of pilot- and industrial-scale microalgae production systems have been developed in recent years....
Polysialylation is a process of polysialic acid (polySia) addition to neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM), which is associated with tumor cell migration and progression in many metastatic cancers and neurocognition. Polysialylation can be catalyzed...
This paper presents a description of recent research and the multi-target tracking in experimental passive bistatic radar (PBR) system taking advantage of numerous non-cooperative AM radio signals via multi-static doppler shifts. However, it raises c...
The SAUR (small auxin-up RNA) gene family is the biggest family of early auxin response genes in higher plants and has been associated with the control of a variety of biological processes. Although SAUR genes had been identified in several genomes,...
Dysfunction of neurons in the central nervous system is the primary pathological feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Despite different triggering, emerging evidence indicates that neuroinflammation revealed through microglia activation is crit...
Microglial activation is commonly identified by elevated levels of the 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO) in response to several inflammatory processes. [11C]PBR28 is one of the most promising PET tracers to image TSPO in both human and non-human pri...
In the passive bistatic radar (PBR) system, methods exist to address the issue of detecting weak targets without being influenced by non-ideal factors from adjacent strong targets. These methods utilize the sparsity in the delay-Doppler domain of the...
With the development of radio technology, passive bistatic radar (PBR) will suffer from interferences not only from the base station that is used as the illuminator of opportunity (BS-IoO), but also from the base station with co-frequency or adjacent...
In a digital terrestrial multimedia broadcasting (DTMB)-based passive bistatic radar (PBR) system, the received reference signal often suffers from serious multipath effect, which decreases the detection ability of low-observable targets in urban env...
Polysialic acid (polySia) is an unusual glycan that posttranslational modifies neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) proteins in mammalian cells. The up-regulated expression of polySia-NCAM is associated with tumor progression in many metastatic human...
The light spectrum effect on the cultivation efficiency of the microalgae strain Stichococcus sp. is explored, as a means of potentially intensifying the biomass productivity and regulating the cellular composition. Stichococcus sp. batch culture exp...
Pear is an important originate fruiter in China, ranking first in the world in terms of cultivation area and yield. However, it is susceptible to infection by Alternaria alternata (A. alternata), resulting in a reduction of approximately 30% in yield...
Reactive microgliosis is a pathological hallmark that accompanies neuronal demise in many neurodegenerative diseases, ranging from acute brain/spinal cord injuries to chronic diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s disease...
Passive Bistatic Radar (PBR) has significant civilian and military applications due to its ability to detect low-altitude targets. However, the uncontrollable characteristics of the transmitter often lead to subpar target detection performance, prima...
This paper addresses the issue of the reference signal being contaminated by target echoes due to factors such as wide beamwidths, beam pointing errors, or site errors in passive bistatic radar (PBR). Such contamination can lead to reference signal i...
Exposure to Pb2+ in the environment, especially in water, poses a significant threat to human health and urgently necessitates the development of highly sensitive Pb2+ detection methods. In this study, we have integrated the high sensitivity of elect...
The escalating climate crisis and the imperative to transition from a fossil fuel-dependent economy demand transformative solutions for sustainable energy and carbon management. Biological CO2 capture and utilization (CCU) using microalgae represents...
Towards the bioremediation of toxic compounds from aquatic environments using living microalgae, Chlorella vulgaris has emerged as a promising candidate for the removal of heavy metals. The present study advances the scale-up of the microalga’s...
CAMTA are calcium-modulating binding transcription factors that contribute to plant development. We identified 46 CAMTA genes from eight Rosaceae species and divided them into five subgroups based on a phylogenetic tree. Our analysis indicated that C...
Real-time rendering is increasingly used in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), interactive design, and product visualisation, where materials must prioritise efficiency and consistency rather than the extreme accuracy required in offline renderin...
Microalgae-mediated CO2 sequestration has been a subject of numerous research works and has become one of the most promising strategies to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions. However, feeding flue and exhaust gas into algae-based systems has been show...
Overexpression of the 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) is closely linked to inflammatory responses in the heart, including myocarditis, which can lead to myocardial necrosis. In vivo assessment of inflammatory responses has enabled the precise diag...
The microalgae–bacteria consortium is a promising and sustainable alternative for industrial wastewater treatment, since it may allow good removal of organic matter and nutrients, as well as the possibility of producing products with added valu...
A hybrid method combining the adaptive cross approximation method (ACA) and the Chebyshev approximation technique (CAT) is presented for fast wideband BCS prediction of arbitrary-shaped 3D targets based on non-cooperative radiation sources. The incid...
The received signal of passive radar based on mobile communication signals contains direct and multipath interference (DMI) signals from multiple co-channel base stations (CCBS). The direct signal spatial spectrum of each CCBS should be obtained firs...
This paper presents the first successful drone detection results using a 5G network as a source of illumination in a passive radar system. Furthermore, a novel adaptive strategy for signal integration is shown. The proposed approach is based on the R...
Background: Translocator protein (TSPO) is a neuroinflammation hallmark. Different TSPO affinity compounds have been produced and over time, the techniques of radiolabeling have been refined. The aim of this systematic review is to summarize the deve...
Molecular imaging is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning for glioblastoma patients. Positron emission tomography (PET) with tracers for the detection of the solute carrier family 7 member 5 (SLC7A5; also known as the amino acid transporter...
Since the 1950s, microalgae have been grown commercially in man-made cultivation units and used for biomass production as a source of food and feed supplements, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and lately biofuels, as well as a means for wastewater treatme...
The expression of polysialic acid (polySia) on the neuronal cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) is called NCAM-polysialylation, which is strongly related to the migration and invasion of tumor cells and aggressive clinical status. During the NCAM polysialy...
A passive bistatic ground-based synthetic aperture radar (PB-GB-SAR) system without a dedicated transmitter has been developed by using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware for local-area high-resolution imaging and displacement measurement purpo...
Swine leukocyte antigen (SLA) plays a central role in controlling the immune response by discriminating self and foreign antigens and initiating an immune response. Studies on SLA polymorphism have demonstrated associations between SLA allelic varian...
Power battery recycling (PBR) has triggered profound changes in the industrial chain of electric vehicles (EVs). The PBR innovation network provides information channels and resource conditions for enterprises, but the mechanism of its impact on the...
Background: Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common NSCLC and is associated with metabolic dysregulation. Purine biosynthesis, regulated by PAICS, plays a key role in tumor progression and therapy resistance. Methods: We focused on LUAD using pan-canc...
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