Protein structure prediction represents a significant challenge in the field of bioinformatics, with the prediction of protein structures using backbone dihedral angles recently achieving significant progress due to the rise of deep neural network re...
The genetic material in living systems is mainly stored in DNA molecules, which in turn play a dominant biological role in relation to the coding and transfer of genetic information, the biosynthesis of proteins and RNA and the packaging and regulati...
Protein structure prediction (PSP) is concerned with the prediction of protein tertiary structure from primary structure and is a challenging calculation problem. After decades of research effort, numerous solutions have been proposed for optimisatio...
Protein molecules show varying degrees of flexibility throughout their three-dimensional structures. The flexibility is determined by the fluctuations in torsion angles, specifically phi (φ) and psi (ψ), which define the protein backbone. The...
Members of the fungal genus Fusarium can produce numerous secondary metabolites, including the nonribosomal mycotoxins beauvericin (BEA) and enniatins (ENNs). Both mycotoxins are synthesized by the multifunctional enzyme enniatin synthetase (ESYN1) t...
It has been shown that the thermodynamics of bicontinuous microemulsions can be tailored via the addition of various different amphiphilic polymers. In this manuscript, we now focus on comb-type polymers consisting of hydrophobic backbones and hydrop...
A porphyrin appended norbornenyl building block 8 has been isolated and coupled, using a 1,3-dipolar ACE reaction, to yield bis-porphyrin compounds in which the porphyrin moietes are angled upward relative to the norbornane backbone.
A Cable-Driven Continuum Robot (CDCR) that consists of a set of identical Cable-Driven Continuum Joint Modules (CDCJMs) is proposed in this paper. The CDCJMs merely produce 2-DOF bending motions by controlling driving cable lengths. In each CDCJM, a...
Despite significant progress in object detection tasks, remote sensing image target detection is still challenging owing to complex backgrounds, large differences in target sizes, and uneven distribution of rotating objects. In this study, we conside...
Protein model refinement a the crucial step in improving the quality of a predicted protein model. This study presents an NMR refinement protocol called TrioSA (torsion-angle and implicit-solvation-optimized simulated annealing) that improves the acc...
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear, structurally diverse, conformationally complex carbohydrate polymers that may contain up to 200 monosaccharides. These characteristics present a challenge for studying GAG conformational thermodynamics at atomic...
Bottlebrush (BB) elastomers with water-soluble side chains and tissue-mimetic mechanical properties are promising for biomedical applications like tissue implants and drug depots. This work investigates the microstructure and phase transitions of BB...
A method is described to deconstruct the network of hydropathic interactions within and between a protein’s sidechain and its environment into residue-based three-dimensional maps. These maps encode favorable and unfavorable hydrophobic and pol...
The interaction of Neuropilin-1 (NRP-1) with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been shown to promote angiogenesis under physiological and pathological conditions. Angiogenesis around tumors is a major factor allowing for their growth and...
Leaf age and plant centre are important phenotypic information of weeds, and accurate identification of them plays an important role in understanding the morphological structure of weeds, guiding precise targeted spraying and reducing the use of herb...
Ribitol (C5H12O5) is an acyclic sugar alcohol that was recently identified in O-mannose glycan on mammalian
Remote sensing of rotated objects often encounters numerous small and dense objects. To tackle small-object neglect and inaccurate angle predictions in elongated objects, we propose SA3Det, a novel method employing Pixel-Level Attention and Adaptive...
Four insect orders have flight muscles that are both asynchronous and indirect; they are asynchronous in that the wingbeat frequency is decoupled from the frequency of nervous stimulation and indirect in that the muscles attach to the thoracic exoske...
The ball penetrometer is a full-flow penetrometer used as an alternative to the traditional cone penetrometer for characterizing the strength of soft sediments, particularly for offshore engineering, due to its large projection area. However, if the...
Side-chain liquid crystal polymers have been mixed with ferromagnetic particles, and the formation of a monodomain in magnetic fields studied. At relatively low concentrations, the presence of ferroparticles substantially speeds up the rate of format...
Multi-rotor drones have a wide range of applications in practical scenarios; however, the use of multi-rotor drones for illegal acts is also on the rise, in order to improve the recognition accuracy of multi-rotor drones. A new multi-rotor drone dete...
In this work, antioxidant hydrogels were prepared by the construction of an interpenetrating chitosan network and functionalization with gallic acid. The poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) p(HEMA)-based hydrogels were first synthesized and subsequentl...
The synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of the glutaric acid-amide derivative, 2,4-Cl2C6H3N(H)C(=O)(CH2)3C(=O)OH (1), are described. The X-ray crystal structure determination of (1) shows the backbone of the molecule to be kinked about the m...
Recently, polycyclic arenes with positive curvature have gained increasing significance in the field of material chemistry. This study specifically explores the inversion barriers of a series of positively curved circulenes by using five-membered het...
We addressed the frequent occurrence of mixed-chain lipids in biological membranes and their impact on membrane structure by studying several chain-asymmetric phosphatidylcholines and the highly asymmetric milk sphingomyelin. Specifically, we report...
The local and global order in dense packings of linear, semi-flexible polymers of tangent hard spheres are studied by employing extensive Monte Carlo simulations at increasing volume fractions. The chain stiffness is controlled by a tunable harmonic...
The definition of vehicle viewpoint annotations is ambiguous due to human subjective judgment, which makes the cross-domain vehicle re-identification methods unable to learn the viewpoint invariance features during source domain pre-training. This wi...
Waste detection is one of the main problems preventing the realization of automated waste classification, which is a basic function for robotic arms. In addition to object identification in general image analysis, a waste-sorting robotic arm not only...
Rice lodging not only brings trouble to harvesting but also reduces yield. Therefore, the effective identification of rice lodging is of great significance. In this paper, we have designed a bilinear interpolation upsampling feature fusion module (BI...
Eight kinds of chiral diacid monomers were prepared with amino acids with different side groups or configurations. Polyester-imides (PEIs) were synthesized from these diacid monomers and diphenol monomers through polycondensation reaction, and the pe...
In the semiconductor manufacturing process, precise control of wafer notch angles during ion implantation is critical to prevent channeling effects that can lead to defects. Current detection methods face challenges in identifying wafer notches accur...
The kinetostatic compliance method (KCM) models protein molecules as nanomechanisms consisting of numerous rigid peptide plane linkages. These linkages articulate with respect to each other through changes in the molecule dihedral angles, resulting i...
Nematic elastomer balloons with inflation-induced axial contraction and shear/torsion effect can be used as actuators for soft robots, artificial muscles, and biomedical instruments. The nematic elastomer can also generate drastic shape changes under...
In this study, centrifuge model tests were used to examine the lateral behavior of a monopile embedded in dry sand through cyclic lateral loading tests. The soil specimens used in the tests were dry Jumunjin sand with a relative density of 80% and a...
Organogel adsorbents are widely used for the adsorption of hard-to-degrade organic pollutants in wastewater due to their natural affinity to the organic phase in water. In this study, phenolic xerogels (PF) synthesised in the ethylene glycol inorgani...
Waterborne polyurethane-urea dispersions (WPUD), which are based on fully biobased amorphous polyester polyol and isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI), have been successfully synthesized obtaining a finishing agent that provides textiles with an enhanced h...
Maximizing the energy output of photovoltaic (PV) systems is becoming increasingly important. Consequently, numerous approaches have been developed over the past few years that utilize remote sensing data to predict or map solar potential. However, t...
Enhancing the detection capabilities of rotated objects in aerial imagery is a vital aspect of the burgeoning field of remote sensing technology. The objective is to identify and localize objects oriented in arbitrary directions within the image. In...
Size exclusion chromatography equipped with a multi-angle, light-scattering online detector (SEC-MALS) measurements were carried out on a hydrophobically modified pullulan (PUL-OSA) with degrees of substitution (DS) of 0.14, 0.2, and 0.3 in 0.01 M aq...
To solve the problem of scale variation in insulator images captured by drones, caused by the lack of control over angle and distance, which makes it hard to detect subtle defects, this paper proposes an instance segmentation method based on an impro...
Polymeric binders serve to stabilize the morphology of electrodes by providing adhesion and binding between the various components. Successful binders must serve multiple functions simultaneously, including providing strong adhesion, improving conduc...
The X-ray crystal structure determination of the glutaric acid-amide derivative, 4-ClC6H4N(H)C(=O)(CH2)3C(=O)OH (1), is described. The backbone of the molecule adopts an extended, all-trans configuration but the terminal carboxylic acid and phenyl re...
Allyl alcohol polyoxyethylene ether (APEG), hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and styrene sodium sulfonate (SSS) were used as monomers to obtain a APEG-HEMA-SSS comb-like polymer, which was employed as the polysulfonate dispersant for pendimethalin su...
Monitoring the thermal state of windings of electrical machines is a backbone for protection from unacceptable overheating. A large number of different methods and systems aim to solve this problem. This article discusses the main known methods of th...
The detection of arbitrarily rotated objects in aerial images is challenging due to the highly complex backgrounds and the multiple angles of objects. Existing detectors are not robust relative to the varying angle of objects because the CNNs do not...
Instance segmentation is crucial to modern agriculture and the management of pig farms. In practical farming environments, challenges arise due to the mutual adhesion, occlusion, and dynamic changes in body posture among pigs, making accurate segment...
Recent breakthroughs in the determination of atomic resolution 3-D cryo-electron microscopy structures of membrane proteins present an unprecedented opportunity for drug discovery. Structure-based drug discovery utilizing in silico methods enables th...
Three new aromatic poly(imides) containing benzimidazole units in the backbone were synthesized and characterized by several spectroscopic techniques. Flexible spacer groups were incorporated into the poly(imides) structure to improve their solubilit...
2′-(hexyloxy)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-2-yl 5-(dimethylamino)naphthalene-1-sulfonate (KC1) was synthesized by using biphenol and dansyl chloride as starting materials. The KC1 was characterized via single X-ray diffraction, FTIR, HRMS and 1H and 1...
This work presents the analysis of the conformation of albumin in the temperature range of
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