Currently, the only clinically utilized Phonocardiogram (PCG) is an electronic stethoscope used in a hospital or clinical environment. The availability of continuously recorded PCGs can provide a new avenue of research into chronic disease management...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are among the primary causes of mortality globally, highlighting the critical need for early detection to mitigate their impact. Phonocardiograms (PCGs), which record heart sounds, are essential for the non-invasive ass...
Because a cardiac function signal cannot reflect cardiac health in all directions, we propose a classification method using ECG and PCG signals based on BiLSTM-GoogLeNet-DS. The electrocardiogram (ECG) and phonocardiogram (PCG) signals used as resear...
This study proposes a low-cost, wearable multimodal system for comprehensive cardiovascular monitoring, integrating electrocardiogram (ECG), phonocardiogram (PCG), and photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals. By leveraging the complementary strengths of the...
Procedural content generation (PCG) algorithms have become increasingly vital in video games developed by small studios due to their ability to save time while creating diverse and engaging environments, significantly enhancing replayability by ensur...
Objective: Cardiac monitoring in community and home environments requires automated operation, cross-state robustness, and interpretable feedback under resource-constrained and uncontrolled conditions. Unlike accuracy-driven ECG–PCG studies foc...
This study proposes a comprehensive and computationally efficient system for the recognition of heart valve diseases (HVDs) in phonocardiogram (PCG) signals, emphasizing an end-to-end workflow suitable for real-world deployment. The core of the syste...
Cardiechema is a way to reflect cardiovascular disease where the doctor uses a stethoscope to help determine the heart condition with a sound map. In this paper, phonocardiogram (PCG) is used as a diagnostic signal, and a deep learning diagnostic fra...
In this work we present the intelligent orchestrator of random generators (IORand), a hybrid procedural content generation (PCG) algorithm, driven by game experience, based on reinforcement learning and semi-random content generation methods. Our stu...
Against the backdrop of the rapid advancement of intelligent speech interaction and holographic display technologies, this paper introduces an interactive holographic display system. This paper applies 2D-to-3D technology to acquisition work and uses...
Early and highly precise detection is essential for delaying the progression of coronary artery disease (CAD). Previous methods primarily based on single-modal data inherently lack sufficient information that compromises detection precision. This pap...
Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are pivotal in maintaining gene silencing through epigenetic mechanisms, particularly by catalyzing Histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) via the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) complex. These modifications...
High-resolution global ocean general circulation models (OGCMs) play a key role in accurate ocean forecasting. However, the models of the operational forecasting systems are still not in high resolution due to the subsequent high demand for large com...
Background/Objectives: To develop a fast and interpretable multimodal framework for the automatic detection of cardiac abnormalities using electrocardiogram (ECG) and phonocardiogram (PCG) signals. Methods: A multimodal classification scheme was desi...
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is an irreversible and fatal disease. It necessitates timely and precise diagnosis to slow CAD progression. Electrocardiogram (ECG) and phonocardiogram (PCG), conveying abundant disease-related information, are prevalent...
Chromobox homolog 2 (CBX2), a key member of the polycomb group (PcG) family, is essential for gonadal development in mammals. A functional deficiency or genetic mutation in cbx2 can lead to sex reversal in mice and humans. However, little is known ab...
Electrocardiogram (ECG) and phonocardiogram (PCG) signals are widely used in the early prevention and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) due to their ability to accurately reflect cardiac conditions from different physiological perspectives...
Polycomb group (PcG) proteins, which are important epigenetic regulators, play essential roles in the regulatory networks involved in plant growth, development, and environmental stress responses. Currently, as far as we know, no comprehensive and sy...
Rapidly increasing numbers of the plastic-covered greenhouse (PCG) worldwide ensure food security but threaten environmental security; thus, accurate monitoring of the spatiotemporal pattern in plastic-covered greenhouses (PCGs) is necessary for mode...
Phonocardiography (PCG) signals that can be recorded using the electronic stethoscopes play an essential role in detecting the heart valve abnormalities and assisting in the diagnosis of heart disease. However, it consumes more bandwidth when transmi...
Multiphase flow solvers are widely-used applications in OpenFOAM, whose scalability suffers from the costly communication overhead. Therefore, we establish communication-optimized multiphase flow solvers in OpenFOAM. In this paper, we first deliver a...
The World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the leading causes of death globally, with an estimated rise to over 23.6 million deaths by 2030. This alarming trend can be attributed to our unhealthy lif...
Altered expression of protein coding gene (PCG) and long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) have been identified in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells and tissues from COVID-19 patients. The functional role and mechanism (s) of transcriptional regulation of deregulated...
Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) and PRC2 are the major complexes composed of polycomb-group (PcG) proteins in plants. PRC2 catalyzes trimethylation of lysine 27 on histone 3 to silence target genes. Like Heterochromatin Protein 1/Terminal Flower...
This paper focuses on the design, realization, and verification of a novel phonocardiographic- based fiber-optic sensor and adaptive signal processing system for noninvasive continuous fetal heart rate (fHR) monitoring. Our proposed system utilizes t...
The extreme diversity and complexity of angiosperms is well known. Despite the fact that parasitic plants are angiosperms, little is known about parasitic plant mitogenomic diversity, complexity, and evolution. In this study, we obtained and characte...
Although all cells in the human body are made of the same DNA, these cells undergo differentiation and behave differently during development, through integration of external and internal stimuli via ‘specific mechanisms.’ Epigenetics is o...
Optimal heart function depends on perfect synchronization between electrical and mechanical activity. In this pilot study, we aimed to investigate the electromechanical activity of the heart in healthy cats and cats with cardiomyopathy with phonocard...
Early and reliable detection of cardiac disease is crucial for preventing complications and enhancing patient outcomes. Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals, which encode rich information about cardiac function, offer a non-invasive and cost-effective way t...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a leading cause of mortality worldwide, with a particularly high burden in India. Non-invasive methods like Phonocardiogram (PCG) analysis capture the acoustic activity of the heart. This holds significant potential...
Continuous cardiovascular monitoring is essential for the early detection of cardiac events, but conventional electrode-based ECG systems cause skin irritation and are unsuitable for long-term wear. We propose an electrode-free ECG monitoring approac...
Background/Objectives: Cardiovascular diseases remain a leading cause of death worldwide, and early diagnosis is essential. Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals provide a non-invasive and inexpensive means of cardiac assessment. However, accurate interpreta...
Chromatin remodeling, including histone modification, chromatin (un)folding, and nucleosome remodeling, is a significant transcriptional regulation mechanism. By these epigenetic modifications, transcription factors and their regulators are recruited...
Background/Objectives: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment of these diseases are of critical importance. Stethoscopes are the easiest and fastest medical devices for the initial d...
Cone snails, as a type of marine organism, have rich species diversity. Traditionally, classifications of cone snails were based mostly on radula, shell, and anatomical characters. Because of these phenotypic features’ high population variabili...
One of the most important parameters in fetal monitoring is the fetal heart rate (fHR). However, due to the nature of this signal, several non-invasive techniques have been developed for fetal monitoring, including Cardiotocography (CTG), Doppler Ech...
The polycomb group (PcG) proteins are a class of transcriptional repressors that mediate gene silencing through histone post-translational modifications. They are involved in the maintenance of stem cell self-renewal and proliferation, processes that...
Due to their immobility and possession of underground parts, plants have evolved various mechanisms to endure and adapt to abiotic stresses such as extreme temperatures, drought, and salinity. However, the contribution of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs...
Mitochondria regulate cellular metabolism, signaling, and cell fate, yet the biological significance of coordinated mitochondrial genome transcription in lower-grade glioma (LGG) remains unclear. We integrated transcriptomic and clinical data from th...
The fierce competition in international markets and the rapid advancements in information technology result in shorter lead times, lower transportation capacity, and higher demand. The supply chain network is one of the most crucial areas of concentr...
The purpose was to illustrate how system developed for measurement of the aural vital signs such as patient’s heart and lung sounds in the hospital. For heart sounds measurement must operate the frequency response between 20 – 800 Hz, and lung sounds...
Nuclear mitochondrial DNA sequences (NUMTs) are mitochondrial DNA fragments in the nuclear genome, and their unclear distribution in Chrysomelidae species hinders the selection of accurate molecular markers for species identification and phylogenetic...
Clinical fetal monitoring devices can only be operated by medical professionals and are overly costly, prone to detrimental false positives, and emit radiation. Thus, highly accurate, easily accessible, simplified, and cost-effective fetal monitoring...
AA6111 aluminum automotive body-sheet alloy has been formulated from 100% Taint Tabor scrap aluminum. Direct chill casting with and without high shear melt conditioning (HSMC) was used to produce the AA6111 alloy billets. Both homogenized and non-hom...
Leeches hold significant medical and pharmaceutical value for antithrombotic treatments, yet their genetic diversity patterns remain poorly understood. We performed population genetic analyses on seven Hirudinaria manillensis populations from souther...
The polycomb group (PcG) proteins are a subset of transcription regulators highly conserved throughout evolution. Their principal role is to epigenetically modify chromatin landscapes and control the expression of master transcriptional programs to d...
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Assessment of heart sounds which are generated by the beating heart and the resultant blood flow through it provides a valuable tool for cardiovascular disease (CVD) diagnostics. The cardiac auscultation using the classical stethoscope phonological c...
After nearly two decades of development, transient electromagnetic (TEM) 3D forward modeling technology has significantly improved both numerical precision and computational efficiency, primarily through advancements in mesh generation and the optimi...
Semi-rigid base asphalt pavements, a common highway structure in China, often suffer from debonding defects which reduce road stability and shorten service life. In this study, a new method of road debonding detection based on the acoustic vibration...
Early diagnosis is essential for the effective management of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Although conventional auscultation is the primary screening method, its reliance on subjective interpretation and susceptibility to clinical background noise...
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