Recent major advancements in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have enabled high-resolution structural analysis, accompanied by developments in image processing software packages for single-particle analysis (SPA). SPA facilitates the 3D reconstruct...
The cap-binding protein complex (CBC), comprising Cbp20 and Cbp80, is crucial for gene expression, yet its role in the notorious crop pathogen Botrytis cinerea remains unclear. Immunoprecipitation coupled with LC-MS/MS demonstrated that BcCbp20 inter...
Changing water supplies and demands, inherent to climate fluctuations and human activities, are pushing for a paradigm shift in water management worldwide. The occurrence of extreme hydrometeorological and climate events such as extended wet periods...
This paper proposes two kinds of approaches of angular rate sensing for micro-spacecraft with a gyrowheel (GW), which can combine attitude sensing with attitude control into one single device to achieve a compact micro-spacecraft design. In this impl...
Interpretation of bowel sounds (BS) provides a convenient and non-invasive technique to aid in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) conditions. However, the approach’s potential is limited by variation between BS and their irregular occurrenc...
Sequencing of the human genome has permitted the development of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to analyze the genetics of a number of complex disorders such as depression, anxiety and substance abuse. Thanks to their ability to analyze huge c...
For time dependent Hamiltonians like the parametric oscillator with time-dependent frequency, the energy is no longer a constant of motion. Nevertheless, in 1880, Ermakov found a dynamical invariant for this system using the corresponding Newtonian e...
A valid diet quality assessment scale has not been investigated in hemodialysis patients. We aimed to adapt and validate the alternative healthy eating index in hemodialysis patients (AHEI-HD), and investigate its associations with all-cause mortalit...
In the face of the combined effects of economic development and climate change, ecosystems are experiencing unprecedented pressures. It is imperative to diagnose changes in the quantity and quality of ecosystems, as well as identify the integrated na...
Modeling is a useful way to understand human and climate change impacts on the water resources of agricultural watersheds. Calibration and validation methodologies are crucial in forecasting assessments. This study explores the best calibration metho...
This paper presents an analytical study of the air-gap magnetic field of a Surface Permanent Magnet (SPM) linear machine under no load. By means of the method of images, the complex expression of the magnetic field of a conductor, inside the air gap...
The effects of large wood (LW) presence in streams on river ecology and morphology are becoming widely researched and nowadays their ecological benefits are undisputed. Yet LW presence in most Swiss plateau streams is poor mainly due to anthropologic...
This study focuses on biochemical pathways of complex biochemical formation, taking into account various thermodynamic parameters that change as the complexity and molecular weight of complex molecules increase. We conducted a study of the co-directi...
Background and aims: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedures can result in significant patient radiation exposure. This retrospective multicenter study aimed to assess the influence of procedural complexity and other clinical...
Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition has attracted significant attention. Deep learning methods are widely used to achieve feature representation and activity sensing. While more learnable parameters in the neural networks model lead to richer feat...
Sleep is one of the basic physiological processes for human survival. Both sleep quantity and sleep quality are fundamental components of sleep. This review looks at both sleep quantity and sleep quality, considering how to manage the complex but pro...
The joint replenishment problem has been extensively studied and the joint replenishment strategy has been adopted by a large variety of retailers in recent years. However, the joint replenishment problem under minimum order quantity and other constr...
Recent empirical evidence for complex cognition in elephants suggests that greater attention to comparative studies between non-human primates and other animals is warranted. We have previously shown that elephants possess the ability to judge the di...
Given the increasingly serious nature of environmental problems, many countries have recently declared carbon neutrality policies and expended efforts to implement them. The domestic building industry aims to reduce its environmental impact using lif...
Why quantum? Why spacetime? We find that the key idea underlying both is uncertainty. In a world lacking probes of unlimited delicacy, our knowledge of quantities is necessarily accompanied by uncertainty. Consequently, physics requires a calculus of...
Background/Objectives: The tumour microenvironment (TME) plays an important role in the development and progression of cancer and it differs among lymphomas, both with respect to the composition and quantity of specific tumour-infiltrating immune cel...
When describing the behaviour and modelling of real systems, which are characterized by considerable complexity, great difficulty, and often the impossibility of their formal mathematical description, and whose operational monitoring and measurement...
Classical forbidden processes paved the way for the description of mechanical systems with the help of complex Hamiltonians. Fractional integrals of complex order appear as a natural generalization of those of real order. We propose the complex fract...
This article focuses on solving the order quantity allocation problem for retailers. It considers factors such as quality constraints, nonlinear quantity discounts, and price-dependent demand. By formulating it as a nonlinear maximization problem, th...
In this paper, we revisit the notion of the “minus logarithm of stationary probability” as a generalized potential in nonequilibrium systems and attempt to illustrate its central role in an axiomatic approach to stochastic nonequilibrium thermodynami...
Any industrial application that uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) requires initial data and resources in order to train the models. However, the selection of models must be appropriate to the quality and quantity of the available data and com...
The momentum wheel is a key component of the satellite attitude control system and has a direct impact on the reliability and overall life of the satellite. The momentum wheel has the characteristics of a high reliability, long life, and complex fail...
Accurate earthwork quantity estimation is essential for effective project planning and cost management in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Traditional methods for quantity takeoff are often time-consuming and susceptibl...
Pulses with different amplitudes occur when an inner partial discharge fault exists in SF6-gas-insulated DC high-voltage electrical equipment. SF6 decomposes following complex physical and chemical processes. Discussing and quantifying the mathematic...
Studies on small quantity, highly complex protein samples, such as salivary pellicle, have been enabled by recent major technological and analytical breakthroughs. Advances in mass spectrometry-based computational proteomics such as Multidimensional...
Within the framework of argument realization theory, Semantic Role Lists, Participant Roles, and Predicate–Argument Structures represent competing models of verb semantics, each yielding distinct predictions regarding mental representation and proces...
This paper analyzes the complex relationships of factors influencing residue biomass management in cereal–sheep production systems in semi-arid areas of Tunisia. The Bayesian belief network (BBN) methodology was applied to identify factors enabling t...
Thermogravimetry (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) are used broadly to study the kinetics of thermally stimulated processes such as thermal decomposition (pyrolysis) or thermal polymerization. These studies typically yield the activat...
This study compares time-based and quantity-based consolidation strategies within the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) framework to optimize supplier profitability and logistical efficiency. The time-based model consolidates deliveries at fixed interval...
Tilted fibre Bragg gratings are optical fibre structures used as sensors of various physical quantities. Their unique measurement capabilities result from the high complexity of the optical spectrum consisting of several dozen cladding mode resonance...
Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are designated as endotoxins, because they cause fever and a wide range of pathologies in humans. It is important to develop effective methodologies to detect trace quantities of LPS in aqueous systems. The present...
The prediction of the unit grouting quantity is one of the key points in the design and construction of karst curtain grouting. Because of the concealment and complexity of the karst curtain grouting project, there is no reliable solution to this pro...
The increasingly sophisticated investigations of complex systems require more robust estimates of the correlations between the measured quantities. The traditional Pearson correlation coefficient is easy to calculate but sensitive only to linear corr...
The increasingly sophisticated investigations of complex systems require more robust estimates of the correlations between the measured quantities. The traditional Pearson Correlation Coefficient is easy to calculate but is sensitive only to linear c...
By using complex quaternion, which is the system of quaternion representation extended to complex numbers, we show that the laws of electromagnetism can be expressed much more simply and concisely. We also derive the quaternion representation of rota...
The interactions between tannins and soluble and insoluble cell wall components are, in part, responsible for the low quantities of tannins found in wines compared with the quantities in grapes. The use of polysaccharides to compete with cell wall co...
We present a new metric estimating fitness of countries and complexity of products by exploiting a non-linear non-homogeneous map applied to the publicly available information on the goods exported by a country. The non homogeneous terms guarantee bo...
Numerical information plays an important role in various fields such as scientific, financial, social, statistics, and news. Most prior studies adopt unsupervised methods by designing complex handcrafted pattern-matching rules to extract numerical in...
This study researched the prediction of the BSR noise evaluation quantitative index, Loudness N10, for sound sources with noise using statistics and machine learning. A total of 1170 data points was obtained from 130 automotive seats measured at 9-po...
In recent years, tools from information theory have played an increasingly prevalent role in statistical machine learning. In addition to developing efficient, computationally feasible algorithms for analyzing complex datasets, it is of theoretical i...
The micro electrical discharge machining (micro-EDM) process is extensively used in aerospace, automotive, and biomedical industries for drilling small holes in difficult-to-machine materials. However, due to the complexity of the electrical discharg...
In this work, the one-parameter Fisher–Rényi measure of complexity for general d-dimensional probability distributions is introduced and its main analytic properties are discussed. Then, this quantity is determined for the hydrogenic systems in terms...
Background: We have determined previously that the water extract of sugar maple bark contained an important quantity of a complex sugar. In this study, we investigated the organosolv pulping of pre-extracted bark to follow the acid conversion of suga...
To comply with the increasing complexity of new mechatronic systems and stricter safety regulations, advanced estimation algorithms are currently undergoing a transformation towards higher model complexity. However, more complex models often face iss...
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Fertility, social status, and social trust are main social choice behaviors of Chinese farmers. This paper adopts the childbearing–value logic to establish a theoretical model of farmers’ childbearing–social status–social trus...
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