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2 Citations
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Comparative Genomics of Closely-Related Gordonia Cluster DR Bacteriophages

  • Cyril J. Versoza,
  • Abigail A. Howell,
  • Tanya Aftab,
  • Madison Blanco,
  • Akarshi Brar,
  • Elaine Chaffee,
  • Nicholas Howell,
  • Willow Leach,
  • Jackelyn Lobatos and
  • Michael Luca
  • + 10 authors

27 July 2022

Bacteriophages infecting bacteria of the genus Gordonia have increasingly gained interest in the scientific community for their diverse applications in agriculture, biotechnology, and medicine, ranging from biocontrol agents in wastewater management...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,756 Views
33 Pages

MAS-DR: An ML-Based Aggregation and Segmentation Framework for Residential Consumption Users to Assist DR Programs

  • Petros Tzallas,
  • Alexios Papaioannou,
  • Asimina Dimara,
  • Napoleon Bezas,
  • Ioannis Moschos,
  • Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos,
  • Stelios Krinidis,
  • Dimosthenis Ioannidis and
  • Dimitrios Tzovaras

13 February 2025

The increasing complexity of energy grids, driven by rising demand and unpredictable residential consumption, highlights the need for efficient demand response (DR) strategies and data-driven services. This paper proposes a machine learning-based fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,233 Views
18 Pages

13 March 2020

Due to the heterogeneity of demand response behaviors among customers, selecting a suitable segment is one of the key factors for the efficient and stable operation of the demand response (DR) program. Most utilities recognize the importance of targe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,516 Views
37 Pages

The TRAIL (TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) apoptotic pathway is extensively exploited in the development of targeted antitumor therapy due to TRAIL specificity towards its cognate receptors, namely death receptors DR4 and DR5. Although therapi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,390 Views
15 Pages

Disentangling Unusual Catalytic Properties and the Role of the [4Fe-4S] Cluster of Three Endonuclease III from the Extremophile D. radiodurans

  • Filipe Rollo,
  • Patricia T. Borges,
  • Célia M. Silveira,
  • Margarida T. G. Rosa,
  • Smilja Todorovic and
  • Elin Moe

Endonuclease III (EndoIII) is a bifunctional DNA glycosylase with specificity for a broad range of oxidized DNA lesions. The genome of an extremely radiation- and desiccation-resistant bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans, possesses three genes encodin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,164 Views
17 Pages

19 October 2023

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes, which can lead to vision loss. Early diagnosis is crucial to prevent the progression of DR. In recent years, deep learning approaches have shown promising results in the development of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,323 Views
10 Pages

20 February 2022

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the most important microvascular complications associated with diabetes mellitus. The early signs of DR are microaneurysms, which can lead to complete vision loss. The detection of DR at an early stage can help to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
951 Views
20 Pages

9 September 2025

Transfer RNA-derived small RNAs (tDRs) are increasingly being recognized as versatile regulators, yet their physiological landscape remains poorly charted. We analyzed tDR expression in seven adult mouse tissues to explore tissue-specific tDR enrichm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,168 Views
20 Pages

An Approach to Identify HLA Class II Immunogenic Epitopes in the Greek Population through Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Asimina Fylaktou,
  • Georgios Lioulios,
  • Katerina Tarassi,
  • Alexandra Siorenta,
  • George Ch Petasis,
  • Demetris Gerogiannis,
  • Ioannis Theodorou,
  • Aliki G. Iniotaki and
  • Angeliki G. Vittoraki

29 November 2022

Current pre-transplantation routine matching involves serum anti-HLA antibodies quantification but cannot always preclude unfavorable graft outcomes. Epitope-based matching is proposed as a more precise approach, but to date no epitope-matching algor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,381 Views
23 Pages

25 March 2025

With the increasing demand for electricity, it is causing a growing burden on the power grid. In order to alleviate the pressure on the power system, a series of demand response (DR) strategies have emerged. This paper studied the DR potential and en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,434 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2024

Background: The global push to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) as a public health threat is increasingly urgent, particularly in high-burden areas like the Oliver Reginald Tambo District Municipality, South Africa. Drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) poses a signi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,711 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of the Open Cluster NGC 2281

  • Dirk Terrell,
  • John Gross and
  • Walter R. Cooney

21 January 2021

BV observations of an approximately 68′×48′ field centered on the open cluster NGC 2281 and covering more than 400 nights from 2013 to 2018 are presented. The photometric observations were transformed to the standard system using standards from the A...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
11,124 Views
30 Pages

9 February 2022

The unprecedented quality of the astrometric measurements obtained with the ESA Gaia spacecraft have initiated a revolution in Milky Way astronomy. Studies of star clusters in particular have been transformed by the precise proper motions and paralla...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,427 Views
12 Pages

New Method to Detect and Characterize Active Be Star Candidates in Open Clusters

  • Anahí Granada,
  • Maziar R. Ghoreyshi,
  • Carol E. Jones and
  • Tõnis Eenmäe

19 February 2023

With the aim of better understanding the physical conditions under which Be stars form and evolve, it is imperative to further investigate whether poorly studied young open clusters host Be stars. In this work, we explain how data from Gaia DR2 and D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,607 Views
13 Pages

Phylogenetic Network Analyses Reveal the Influence of Transmission Clustering on the Spread of HIV Drug Resistance in Quebec from 2002 to 2022

  • Bluma G. Brenner,
  • Ruxandra-Ilinca Ibanescu,
  • Maureen Oliveira,
  • Guillaume Margaillan,
  • Bertrand Lebouché,
  • Réjean Thomas,
  • Jean Guy Baril,
  • René-Pierre Lorgeoux,
  • Michel Roger and
  • Jean-Pierre Routy
  • + 1 author

31 July 2024

Background: HIV drug resistance (HIV-DR) may jeopardize the benefit of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in treatment and prevention. This study utilized viral phylogenetics to resolve the influence of transmission networks on sustaining the spread of HIV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,334 Views
14 Pages

A Method for Evaluating Demand Response Potential of Industrial Loads Based on Fuzzy Control

  • Yan Li,
  • Zhiwen Liu,
  • Chong Shao,
  • Bingjun Lin,
  • Jiayu Rong,
  • Nan Dong,
  • Buyun Su and
  • Yuejia Hong

16 October 2024

Demand response (DR) can ensure electricity supply security by shifting or shedding loads, which plays an important role in a power system with a high proportion of renewable energy sources. Industrial loads are vital participants in DR, but it is di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,592 Views
17 Pages

1 December 2024

A demand response (DR) aggregator is a specialized entity designed to collaborate with electricity producers, facilitating the exchange of energy for numerous stakeholders. This application is a pivotal development within the Russian Energy System as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
781 Views
18 Pages

Yam (Dioscorea spp.) provides various nutritional and medicinal benefits, including a high starch content, dietary fiber, essential micronutrients, and bioactive compounds. The molecular mechanisms underlying tuber expansion have not yet been clarifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,752 Views
19 Pages

Unsupervised Cluster-Wise Hyperspectral Band Selection for Classification

  • Mateus Habermann,
  • Elcio Hideiti Shiguemori and
  • Vincent Frémont

27 October 2022

A hyperspectral image provides fine details about the scene under analysis, due to its multiple bands. However, the resulting high dimensionality in the feature space may render a classification task unreliable, mainly due to overfitting and the Hugh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,644 Views
13 Pages

Thymoquinone Effect on Monocyte-Derived Macrophages, Cell-Surface Molecule Expression, and Phagocytosis

  • Nuha A. Alkhattabi,
  • Sowsan A. Hussein,
  • Nesrin I. Tarbiah,
  • Reem Y. Alzahri and
  • Reham Khalifa

8 December 2022

Macrophages are one of the most important cells in the immune system. They act as links between innate and adaptive immunities. In this study, the aim was to examine thymoquinone effects on the immunological properties of different macrophages. Perip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,358 Views
15 Pages

Mapping Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in Hunan Province, China

  • Temesgen Yihunie Akalu,
  • Archie C. A. Clements,
  • Zuhui Xu,
  • Liqiong Bai and
  • Kefyalew Addis Alene

Background: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains a major public health challenge in China, with varying treatment outcomes across different regions. Understanding the spatial distribution of DR-TB treatment outcomes is crucial for targeted int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,335 Views
14 Pages

Prevalence of Pretreatment HIV-1 Drug Resistance in Armenia in 2017–2018 and 2020–2021 following a WHO Survey

  • Alina Kirichenko,
  • Dmitry Kireev,
  • Ilya Lapovok,
  • Anastasia Shlykova,
  • Alexey Lopatukhin,
  • Anastasia Pokrovskaya,
  • Natalya Ladnaya,
  • Trdat Grigoryan,
  • Arshak Petrosyan and
  • Tatevik Sarhatyan
  • + 6 authors

22 October 2022

The increased antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage of patients in the absence of routine genotyping tests and in the context of active labor migration highlight the importance of HIV-1 drug resistance (DR) surveillance in Armenia. We conducted a two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,751 Views
25 Pages

13 July 2021

Dimensionality reduction (DR) plays an important role in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Unsupervised DR (uDR) is more practical due to the difficulty of obtaining class labels and their scarcity for HSIs. However, many existing uDR algorit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Citations
17,926 Views
20 Pages

Retinal Image Analysis for Diabetes-Based Eye Disease Detection Using Deep Learning

  • Tahira Nazir,
  • Aun Irtaza,
  • Ali Javed,
  • Hafiz Malik,
  • Dildar Hussain and
  • Rizwan Ali Naqvi

5 September 2020

Diabetic patients are at the risk of developing different eye diseases i.e., diabetic retinopathy (DR), diabetic macular edema (DME) and glaucoma. DR is an eye disease that harms the retina and DME is developed by the accumulation of fluid in the mac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,931 Views
21 Pages

Data-Driven Baseline Estimation of Residential Buildings for Demand Response

  • Saehong Park,
  • Seunghyoung Ryu,
  • Yohwan Choi,
  • Jihyo Kim and
  • Hongseok Kim

17 September 2015

The advent of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) generates a large volume of data related with energy service. This paper exploits data mining approach for customer baseline load (CBL) estimation in demand response (DR) management. CBL plays a si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,972 Views
19 Pages

Watering Shapes a Robust and Stable Microbial Community under Fusarium Crown Rot Infection

  • Runlai Xu,
  • Chenghang Du,
  • Yutian Gao,
  • Xiaohan Zhou,
  • Irsa Ejaz,
  • Jieru Guo,
  • Kunhu Chen,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Yinghua Zhang and
  • Zhimin Wang
  • + 1 author

12 May 2023

Wheat crown rot, caused by Fusarium pseudograminearum, is an emerging soil-borne fungal disease and causes serious damage in areas where water is scarce. However, the interactions between plant, microbiome, and pathogen under different watering regim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
2,214 Views
14 Pages

28 November 2022

Blood vessels are harmed in diabetic retinopathy (DR), a condition that impairs vision. Using modern healthcare research and technology, artificial intelligence and processing units are used to aid in the diagnosis of this syndrome and the study of d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,450 Views
15 Pages

7 February 2024

Demand response (DR) can improve the accommodation of renewable energy and further affect the distributed generation (DG) allocation strategy. In this context, this paper proposes a stochastic optimal allocation model of DG, considering DR. Firstly,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,017 Views
17 Pages

A Cluster-Based Baseline Load Calculation Approach for Individual Industrial and Commercial Customer

  • Tianli Song,
  • Yang Li,
  • Xiao-Ping Zhang,
  • Jianing Li,
  • Cong Wu,
  • Qike Wu and
  • Beibei Wang

26 December 2018

Demand response (DR) in the wholesale electricity market provides an economical and efficient way for customers to participate in the trade during the DR event period. There are various methods to measure the performance of a DR program, among which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,571 Views
11 Pages

Third-Generation Calibrations for MeerKAT Observation

  • Viral Parekh,
  • Robert Kincaid,
  • Benjamin Hugo,
  • Athanaseus Ramaila and
  • Nadeem Oozeer

3 November 2021

Superclusters and galaxy clusters offer a wide range of astrophysical science topics with regards to studying the evolution and distribution of galaxies, intra-cluster magnetization mediums, cosmic ray accelerations and large scale diffuse radio sour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,382 Views
20 Pages

Designing the Architecture of a Convolutional Neural Network Automatically for Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis

  • Fahman Saeed,
  • Muhammad Hussain,
  • Hatim A. Aboalsamh,
  • Fadwa Al Adel and
  • Adi Mohammed Al Owaifeer

6 January 2023

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness in middle-aged diabetic patients. Regular screening for DR using fundus imaging aids in detecting complications and delays the progression of the disease. Because manual screening takes time a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,244 Views
17 Pages

Although the observation of major histocompatibility complex II (MHCII) receptors on T cells is longstanding, the explanation for this occurrence remains enigmatic. Reports of an inducible, endogenous expression exist, as do studies demonstrating a p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
926 Views
21 Pages

14 November 2025

STRange and Odd Morphology Extragalactic Radio Sources (STROMERSs) is a new category of radio galaxies that shows extremely peculiar anatomy. A purely manual visual search is carried out for the identification of such interesting sources. We reported...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,395 Views
17 Pages

CuO Nanoparticles and Microaggregates: An Experimental and Computational Study of Structure and Electronic Properties

  • Lorenzo Gontrani,
  • Elvira Maria Bauer,
  • Alessandro Talone,
  • Mauro Missori,
  • Patrizia Imperatori,
  • Pietro Tagliatesta and
  • Marilena Carbone

3 July 2023

The link between morphology and properties is well-established in the nanoparticle literature. In this report, we show that different approaches in the synthesis of copper oxide can lead to nanoparticles (NPs) of different size and morphology. The st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,639 Views
17 Pages

13 July 2016

The roof-leased business mode is an important development method for the distributed photovoltaic (PV) systems. In this paper, the benefits of the PV energy are considered in a PV cluster (PVC) consisting of a certain number of prosumers and a PVC op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,131 Views
30 Pages

12 February 2022

As on many other European islands, the energy system of Mayotte suffers from low reliability of supply, low share of renewable energies, and high costs of supply. Residential Demand Response (DR) schemes can significantly increase the flexibility of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,653 Views
14 Pages

1 November 2021

The 54 kb GC-rich prophage region of Mycoplasma bovirhinis HAZ141_2 contains three structural ‘compartments’, one of which is a highly transmittable cluster of three genes, aadE-like (aadE*), sat4, and aphA-3. In this study, we characterized recombin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,450 Views
16 Pages

Optical Differentiation of Brain Tumors Based on Raman Spectroscopy and Cluster Analysis Methods

  • Anuar Ospanov,
  • Igor Romanishkin,
  • Tatiana Savelieva,
  • Alexandra Kosyrkova,
  • Svetlana Shugai,
  • Sergey Goryaynov,
  • Galina Pavlova,
  • Igor Pronin and
  • Victor Loschenov

22 September 2023

In the present study, various combinations of dimensionality reduction methods with data clustering methods for the analysis of biopsy samples of intracranial tumors were investigated. Fresh biopsies of intracranial tumors were studied in the Laborat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,151 Views
14 Pages

Quality of Service Based NOMA Group D2D Communications

  • Asim Anwar,
  • Boon-Chong Seet and
  • Xue Jun Li

1 November 2017

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) provides superior spectral efficiency and is considered as a promising multiple access scheme for fifth generation (5G) wireless systems. The spectrum efficiency can be further enhanced by enabling device-to-devi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,500 Views
24 Pages

Description and Genome Characterization of Three Novel Fungal Strains Isolated from Mars 2020 Mission-Associated Spacecraft Assembly Facility Surfaces—Recommendations for Two New Genera and One Species

  • Atul Munish Chander,
  • Marcus de Melo Teixeira,
  • Nitin K. Singh,
  • Michael P. Williams,
  • Anna C. Simpson,
  • Namita Damle,
  • Ceth W. Parker,
  • Jason E. Stajich,
  • Christopher E. Mason and
  • Tamas Torok
  • + 1 author

23 December 2022

National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) spacecraft assembly facilities are monitored for the presence of any bacteria or fungi that might conceivably survive a transfer to an extraterrestrial environment. Fungi present a broad an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,189 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2022

Dimensionality reduction (DR) is an essential pre-processing step for hyperspectral image processing and analysis. However, the complex relationship among several sample clusters, which reveals more intrinsic information about samples but cannot be r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,420 Views
11 Pages

Occipital Nerve Stimulation for Pain Modulation in Drug-Resistant Chronic Cluster Headache

  • Javier Díaz-de-Terán,
  • Javier A. Membrilla,
  • José Paz-Solís,
  • Iñigo de Lorenzo,
  • Javier Roa,
  • Manuel Lara-Lara,
  • Alfonso Gil-Martínez and
  • Exuperio Díez-Tejedor

13 February 2021

Occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) is a surgical treatment proposed for drug-resistant chronic cluster headache (drCCH). Long-term series assessing its efficacy are scarce. We designed a retrospective observational study with consecutive sampling, eva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,867 Views
28 Pages

30 October 2019

This paper proposes an optimal energy management approach for a grid-connected microgrid (MG) by considering the demand response (DR). The multi-objective optimization framework involves minimizing the operating cost and maximizing the utility benefi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,910 Views
17 Pages

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of ~22 nt non-coding RNA molecules in metazoans capable of down-regulating target gene expression by binding to the complementary sites in the mRNA transcripts. Many individual miRNAs are implicated in a broad range of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
827 Views
18 Pages

22 March 2025

In this study, we utilized Gaia-DR3 astrometric data combined with the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm to thoroughly investigate the dynamics and extra-tidal members of the open cluster NGC 6705. We dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,561 Views
16 Pages

24 December 2022

Internet of things (IoT) nodes are deployed in large-scale automated monitoring applications to capture the massive amount of data from various locations in a time-series manner. The captured data are affected due to several factors such as device ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
7,350 Views
26 Pages

Machine Learning Based Automated Segmentation and Hybrid Feature Analysis for Diabetic Retinopathy Classification Using Fundus Image

  • Aqib Ali,
  • Salman Qadri,
  • Wali Khan Mashwani,
  • Wiyada Kumam,
  • Poom Kumam,
  • Samreen Naeem,
  • Atila Goktas,
  • Farrukh Jamal,
  • Christophe Chesneau and
  • Sania Anam
  • + 1 author

19 May 2020

The object of this study was to demonstrate the ability of machine learning (ML) methods for the segmentation and classification of diabetic retinopathy (DR). Two-dimensional (2D) retinal fundus (RF) images were used. The datasets of DR—that is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,262 Views
21 Pages

10 April 2023

Plants are sessile, and their ability to reprogram their metabolism to adapt to fluctuations in soil water level is crucial but not clearly understood. A study was performed to determine alterations in intermediate metabolites involved in central car...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,554 Views
25 Pages

Exploring the Potentialities of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Incentive-Based Demand Response in a Cluster of Small Commercial Buildings

  • Davide Deltetto,
  • Davide Coraci,
  • Giuseppe Pinto,
  • Marco Savino Piscitelli and
  • Alfonso Capozzoli

19 May 2021

Demand Response (DR) programs represent an effective way to optimally manage building energy demand while increasing Renewable Energy Sources (RES) integration and grid reliability, helping the decarbonization of the electricity sector. To fully expl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,331 Views
21 Pages

A Scattered Star Group in the Orion A Region of the Milky Way

  • Sergei Vereshchagin,
  • Natalya Chupina,
  • Kristina Lyzenko,
  • Anatoly Kalinkin,
  • Nikolay Kondratev,
  • Dana Kovaleva and
  • Sergei Sapozhnikov

19 September 2023

Using Gaia DR3 data, we identified an extended a ~60 pc group of stars sharing common motion but scattered in space, including from 150 to 300 probable members, named Group V. It can be associated with a group identified by Getman et al. (2019) and b...

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