Processing complex ore remains a challenge due to energy-intensive grinding and complex beneficiation and pyrometallurgical treatments that consume large amounts of water whilst generating significant waste and polluting the environment. Sensor-based...
The selective transport of proteins or lipids by vesicular transport is a fundamental process supporting cellular physiology. The budding process involves cargo sorting and vesicle formation at the donor membrane and constitutes an important process...
Despite the fact that much has been said about processing in computer science, it seems that there is still much to do. A classical approach assumes that the computations done by computers are a kind of mathematical operation (calculations of functio...
Non-dominated sorting, used to find pareto solutions or assign solutions to different fronts, is a key but time-consuming process in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). The best-case and worst-case time complexity of non-dominated sortin...
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Drug resistance is still one of the main challenges for the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC). Whilst some resistance mechanisms are well known, from the static therapy success rate, clearly, still much is undiscovered. Intracellular transport mec...
Visual sorting of express packages is faced with many problems such as the various types, complex status, and the changeable detection environment, resulting in low sorting efficiency. In order to improve the sorting efficiency of packages under comp...
In the requirement-driven forward design process of civil aircraft, the large number of design tasks of complex systems with varying difficulty and the complex relationships between design tasks lead to unnecessary repetitive design iterations. In or...
The endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) system consists of peripheral membrane protein complexes ESCRT-0, -I, -II, -III VPS4-VTA1, and ALIX homodimer. This system plays an important role in the degradation of non-essential or dan...
Numerous viruses hijack cellular protein trafficking pathways to mediate cell entry or to rearrange membrane structures thereby promoting viral replication and antagonizing the immune response. Adaptor protein complexes (AP), which mediate protein so...
The article presents two aspects of a project of high-resolution mapping of archaeological features in the southern region of Israel, which was conducted intermittently between 2003 and 2016. One aspect is archaeological, with emphasis on the dense f...
Mammalian cytokinesis proceeds by constriction of an actomyosin ring and furrow ingression, resulting in the formation of the midbody bridge connecting two daughter cells. At the centre of the midbody resides the Flemming body, a dense proteinaceous...
Data structures such as sets, lists, and arrays are fundamental in mathematics and computer science, playing a crucial role in numerous real-life applications. These structures represent a variety of entities, including solutions, conditions, and obj...
Abiotic stresses are considered the most deleterious factor affecting growth and development of plants worldwide. Such stresses are largely unavoidable and trigger adaptive responses affecting different cellular processes and target different compart...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus that causes chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The release of infectious HCV particles from infected hepatocytes is a crucial step in viral dissemina...
All living cells generate structurally complex and compositionally diverse spectra of glycans and glycoconjugates, critical for organismal evolution, development, functioning, defense, and survival. Glycosyltransferases (GTs) catalyze the glycosylati...
Shigella comprises four species of human-restricted pathogens causing bacillary dysentery. While Shigella possesses multiple genetic loci contributing to virulence, a type III secretion system (T3SS) is its primary virulence factor. The Shigella T3SS...
Quercetin (QRC), a flavonoid found in foods and plants such as red wine, onions, green tea, apples, and berries, possesses remarkable anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. These properties make it effective in combating cancer cells, reducing...
Community detection is a hot research direction of network science, which is of great importance to complex system analysis. Therefore, many community detection methods have been developed. Among them, evolutionary computation based ones with a singl...
Sorting nexin 27 (SNX27), a PDZ (Postsynaptic density-95/Discs large/Zonula occludens 1) domain-containing protein, cooperates with a retromer complex, which regulates intracellular trafficking and the abundance of membrane proteins. Since the carbox...
In eukaryotes, the retromer complex is critical for the transport of cargo proteins from endosomes to the trans-Golgi network (TGN). Despite its importance, there is a lack of research on the retromer-mediated transport of cargo proteins regulating t...
With the rapid development of intelligent maritime systems and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), accurate ship detection and multi-object tracking in complex maritime environments have become essential for autonomous perception and intelligent naviga...
Reliable multi-object tracking of fish is essential for individual-level behavior analysis and intelligent aquaculture monitoring. However, degraded underwater imagery, ambiguous boundaries in dense groups, and high inter-individual appearance simila...
In this article, a low-complexity and high-throughput sorted QR decomposition (SQRD) for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detectors is presented. To reduce the heavy hardware overhead of SQRD, we propose an efficient SQRD algorithm based on a no...
Industrial Automation has revolutionized the processing industry due to its high accuracy, the time it saves, and its ability to work without tiring. Being the most fundamental part of automation machines, robotic arms are being used as a fundamental...
Nucleophagy, the selective subtype of autophagy that targets nuclear material for autophagic degradation, was not only shown to be a model system for the study of selective macroautophagy, but also for elucidating the role of the core autophagic mach...
The trans-Golgi network (TGN) is responsible for selectively recruiting newly synthesized cargo into transport carriers for delivery to their appropriate destination. In addition, the TGN is responsible for receiving and recycling cargo from endosome...
One third of all human proteins are either transmembrane or soluble secretory proteins that first target the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). These proteins subsequently leave the ER and enter the Golgi apparatus via ER-Golgi intermediate vesicular struct...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 and HIV-2 originated from cross-species transmission of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs). Most of these transfers resulted in limited spread of these viruses to humans. However, one transmission event involv...
This review extensively reports data from the literature concerning the complex relationships between the stress-induced c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs) and the four main cytoskeleton elements, which are actin filaments, microtubules, intermediate fi...
Membrane trafficking is essential for processing and transport of proteins and lipids and to establish cell compartmentation and tissue organization. Cells respond to their needs and control the quantity and quality of protein secretion accordingly....
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is a fundamental process for the regulated internalization of transmembrane cargo and ligands via the formation of vesicles using a clathrin coat. A vesicle coat is initially created at the plasma membrane by clath...
The performance of several Database Management Systems (DBMSs) and Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) queries is dominated by the cost of the sorting algorithm. Sorting is an integral component of most database management systems. Stable sorting...
Radiation source signal sorting in complex environments is currently a hot issue in the field of electronic countermeasures. The pulse repetition interval (PRI) can provide stable and obvious parametric features in radiation source identification, wh...
Sorting networks are of prime importance as circuits, with applications in sorting small data chunks, big data analytics, permuting packets, and system interconnects. Finding optimal sorting networks is a highly complex problem, and knowledge on opti...
Sorting particles or cells of specific sizes in complex systems has long been a focus of many researchers. Acoustic surface waves, which generate acoustic radiation forces on particles or cells and, thus, influence their motion, are commonly used for...
Radio frequency (RF) stealth anti-sorting technology is a research hotspot in the radar field. In this study, the signal design principles of anti-cluster and anti-SDIF sorting were investigated for processes of clustering pre-sorting and sequence-di...
TwinArray Sort is a non-comparison integer sorting algorithm designed for non-negative integers with relatively dense key ranges, offering competitive runtime performance and reduced memory usage relative to other counting-based methods. The algorith...
The precise and efficient sorting of microscopic particles is critical in diverse fields, including biomedical diagnostics, drug development, and environmental monitoring. Fluorescence imaging-activated sorting refers to a strategy where fluorescence...
Visual sorting of express parcels in complex scenes has always been a key issue in intelligent logistics sorting systems. With existing methods, it is still difficult to achieve fast and accurate sorting of disorderly stacked parcels. In order to ach...
Effective collision risk reduction in autonomous vehicles relies on robust and straightforward pedestrian tracking. Challenges posed by occlusion and switching scenarios significantly impede the reliability of pedestrian tracking. In the current stud...
To address the sorting challenge of multiple stations and multiple networking modes (networks with inconsistent features and networks with similar features but asynchrony) in complex electromagnetic environments, this paper proposes a full-network st...
Self-organization and self-sorting processes are responsible for the regulation and control of the vast majority of biological processes that eventually sustain life on our planet. Attempts to unveil the complexity of these systems have been devoted...
Aiming at the problem of reliability reduction of signal sorting in terms of the traditional five parameters and intrapulse feature in a complex electromagnetic environment, a new signal sorting method based on radar coherent characteristics is propo...
Accurate spike sorting to the appropriate neuron is crucial for neural activity analysis. To improve spike sorting performance, it is essential to fully leverage each processing step, including filtering, spike detection, feature extraction, and clus...
In modern livestock, the demand for sperm sex selection technologies is high, as the ability to deliberately produce offspring of a specific sex offers significant economic advantages. Traditionally, sperm sorting is performed using Fluorescence-Acti...
The popularity of online shopping in China has increased significantly, creating new development opportunities for the express delivery industry. However, the rapid expansion of the express industry has also created challenges in the parcel sorting p...
Due to the complexity of shipyards’ operating scenes and the inconsistency of ship parts’ type and size, current sorting operations for ship parts mainly rely on laborers, resulting in weak control over the production process and key node...
Sorting in sequential data mining is significantly improved through hardware acceleration, which becomes essential as data volume and complexity increase. This paper presents a scalable hybrid sorting network that maintains or improves performance wh...
The sorting of machine-picked fresh tea leaves after mechanized harvesting remains a challenge because of the complex morphological characteristics and physicochemical properties of fresh tea leaves. First, the recognition results of four types of mo...
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