This paper presents the construction and analysis of a novel class of alternant codes over Gaussian integers, aimed at enhancing error correction capabilities in high-reliability communication systems. These codes are constructed using parity-check m...
Alternative splicing (AS) is the process of combining different parts of the pre-mRNA to produce diverse transcripts and eventually different protein products from a single gene. In computational biology field, researchers try to understand AS behavi...
We report high rates of detection (35.36%, 29/82) of genogroup-I (GI) picobirnaviruses (PBVs) in non-diarrheic fecal samples from the small Indian mongoose (Urva auropunctata). In addition, we identified a novel PBV-like RNA-dependent RNA polymerase...
Numerous dynamic and complicated processes characterize development from the oocyte to the embryo. However, given the importance of functional transcriptome profiles, long non-coding RNAs, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, and alternative splicing dur...
As environmental regulations to stall global warming are strengthened around the world, studies using newly developed low global warming potential (GWP) alternative refrigerants are increasing. In this study, substitute refrigerants, R-1234ze (E) and...
It is of significance to mine the structural genes related to the biosynthetic pathway of fatty acid (FA) and cellulose as well as explore the regulatory mechanism of alternative splicing (AS), microRNAs (miRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in...
The molecular mechanisms underlying bipolar disorder (BPD) have remained largely unknown. Postmortem brain tissue studies comparing BPD patients with healthy controls have produced a heterogeneous array of potentially implicated protein-coding RNAs....
In heritage language acquisition studies, it has been observed that heritage speakers may experience a shift of language dominance from the heritage language to the majority language due to input quantity and quality factors. The appearance of code-s...
The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has proven to be an efficient approach for implementing linear programming (LP) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. By introducing penalty terms into the LP decoding model’s...
Alternative splicing (AS) is a tightly regulated mechanism that generates the complex human proteome from a small number of genes. Cis-regulatory RNA motifs in exons and introns control AS, recruiting positive and negative trans-acting splicing regul...
Alternative splicing is a highly fine-tuned regulated process and one of the main drivers of proteomic diversity across eukaryotes. The vast majority of human multi-exon genes is alternatively spliced in a cell type- and tissue-specific manner, and d...
Alternative splicing and the expression of intron-containing mRNAs is one hallmark of HIV gene expression. To facilitate the otherwise hampered nuclear export of non-fully processed mRNAs, HIV encodes the Rev protein, which recognizes its intronic re...
Future wireless networks require channel coding schemes that can provide high reliability, low latency, and strong adaptability under finite-blocklength and structurally heterogeneous transmission scenarios. Globally coupled low-density parity-check...
During infection, Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) produces a non-coding subgenomic RNA referred to as low-molecular-weight tristeza 1 (LMT1), which for a long time has been considered as a by-product of the complex CTV replication machinery. In this stud...
Recent developments in our understanding of the interactions between long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and cellular components have improved treatment approaches for various human diseases including cancer, vascular diseases, and neurological diseases....
Fibrosing disorders including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are progressive irreversible diseases, often with poor prognoses, characterized by the accumulation of excessive scar tissue and extracellular matrix. Translational regulation has emer...
We recently identified a novel dataset of snRNA-like trascriptional units in the human genome. The investigation of a subset of these elements showed that they play relevant roles in physiology and/or pathology. In this work we expand our collection...
Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) is a linear representation learning method that seeks maximally correlated variables in multi-view data. Nonlinear CCA extends this notion to a broader family of transformations, which are more powerful in many re...
When access to natural speech is limited or challenging, as is the case for people with complex communication needs, self-created digital film can be practical to use as one of the resources within a multimodal conversation about a personal experienc...
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The study material was comprised of 23 samples of ashes generated after the combustion of conventional and alternative fuels combined with selected fractions of municipal waste. The analyses performed involved determining the total concentration of A...
The rules that specify how the information contained in DNA is translated into amino acid “language” during protein synthesis are called “the genetic code”, commonly called the “Standard” or “Universal” Genetic Code Table. As a matter of fact, this c...
Probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) is a coded modulation strategy in which constellation shaping and channel coding are combined. PAS has attracted considerable attention in both wireless and optical communications. Achievable information rates (A...
Synonymous codon usage can be influenced by mutations and/or selection, e.g., for speed of protein translation and correct folding. However, this codon bias can also be affected by a general selection at the amino acid level due to differences in the...
The contemporary media landscape has sustained a substantial transformation with the rise of AI-driven algorithmic platforms that enable activist organizations to produce and disseminate their own forms of political communication and campaigns. This...
The ability of plants to protect themselves from stress-related damages is termed “adaptability” and the phenomenon of showing better performance in subsequent stress is termed “stress memory”. This phenomenon has been reporte...
Conventionally, eukaryotic mRNAs were thought to be monocistronic, leading to the translation of a single protein. However, large-scale proteomics have led to a massive identification of proteins translated from mRNAs of alternative ORF (AltORFs), in...
In recent years, the knowledge generated by decoding the human genome has allowed groundbreaking genetic research to better understand genomic architecture and heritability in healthy and disease states. The vast amount of data generated over time an...
The 18-exon human TKFC gene codes for dual-activity triokinase and FMN cyclase (TKFC) in an ORF, spanning from exon 2 to exon 18. In addition to TKFC-coding transcripts (classified as tkfc type by their intron-17 splice), databases contain evidence f...
Objective: Motivational Interviewing may be an ideal communication style to use in conjunction with Collaborative Care to address opioid risk, as it can facilitate the discussion of alternative pain care strategies (APCSs) that are pharmacological (A...
Metagenomics provides detection of phage genome sequences in various microbial communities. However, the use of alternative genetic codes by some phages precludes the correct analysis of their genomes. In this study, the unusual phage genome (phAss-1...
The human genome encodes thousands of natural antisense long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs); they play the essential role in regulation of gene expression at multiple levels, including replication, transcription and translation. Dysregulation of antisense...
Non-coding RNAs show relevant implications in various biological and pathological processes. Thus, understanding the biological implications of these molecules in stem cell biology still represents a major challenge. The aim of this work is to study...
The human immune response is a complex process that responds to numerous exogenous antigens in preventing infection by microorganisms, as well as to endogenous components in the surveillance of tumors and autoimmune diseases, and a great number of mo...
Insulin receptor (IR) and IR-related signaling defects have been shown to trigger insulin-resistance in insulin-dependent cells and ultimately to give rise to type 2 diabetes in mammalian organisms. IR expression is ubiquitous in mammalian tissues, a...
In this paper, algorithms for different types of trigonometric power sums are developed and presented. Although interesting in their own right, these trigonometric power sums arise during the creation of an algorithm for the four types of twisted tri...
A series of recent studies demonstrated an unexpectedly high frequency of intronic RNA polymerase (pol) III transcription units spread throughout the human genome. The investigation of a subset of these transcripts revealed their tissue/cell-specific...
The decarbonization of international shipping has accelerated interest in ammonia as a zero-carbon marine fuel. However, its acute toxicity poses safety challenges fundamentally different from those associated with LNG. This study presents a structur...
The quail is a valuable model organism for avian developmental biology and genetic improvement; however, the full-length transcriptomic landscape and regulatory networks underlying critical embryonic developmental stages remain poorly characterized....
The global economic impact of termites is estimated to be approximately USD 40 billion annually, and subterranean termites are responsible for about 80% of the total impact. Twenty-eight species of termites have been described as invasive, and these...
Temperature is a critical environmental signal in the regulation of plant growth and development. The temperature signal varies across a daily 24 h period, between seasons and stochastically depending on local environmental events. Extracting importa...
Chinese Shitou goose is a type of large goose with high meat yield. Understanding the genetic regulation of muscle development in Shitou goose would be beneficial to improve the meat production traits of geese. Muscle development is regulated by gene...
Homomorphic Encryption (HE) allows secure and privacy-protected computation on encrypted data without the need to decrypt it. Since Shor’s algorithm rendered prime factorisation and discrete logarithm-based ciphers insecure with quantum computa...
We recently observed that errors in gene replication and translation could be seen qualitatively to behave analogously to the impedances in acoustical and electronic energy transducing systems. We develop here quantitative relationships necessary to...
Many modern ionospheric studies rely on incoherent scatter radars (ISR) since this kind of radar is able to detect various ionospheric parameters over very long ranges. The performance of ISR significantly depends on its coding system. In recent deca...
In the era of the Internet of Things, there are many applications where numerous devices are deployed to acquire information and send it to analyse the data and make informed decisions. In these applications, the power consumption and price of the de...
The plasma lines observed by Sanya incoherent scatter radar (SYISR) are dependent on the enhancement of Langmuir waves due to superthermal photoelectrons generated by solar EUV radiation. The plasma line power spectrum can be obtained using long-puls...
Alternative splicing is essential for the generation of various protein isoforms that are involved in cell differentiation and tissue development. In addition to internal coding exons, alternative splicing affects the exons with translation initiatio...
The advent of quantum computing threatens the long-term security of classical public-key cryptosystems: RSA and standard elliptic-curve cryptography are vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm, making quantum-resistant alternatives a priority for modern...
Reliable data transmission over noisy channels requires effective error-correcting codes. While classical algebraic constructions, such as Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) codes, remain industry standards, structured alternatives based on...
Linear codes with complementary duals, or LCD codes, have recently been applied to side-channel and fault injection attack-resistant cryptographic countermeasures. We explain that over characteristic two fields, they exist whenever the permanent of a...
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