An as-grown domain structure in nominally pure and Mn-doped calcium orthovanadate (CVO) crystals was studied by several methods of domain imaging: optical microscopy, piezoelectric force microscopy, and Cherenkov-type second harmonic generation. The...
Predicting biological properties of unseen proteins is shown to be improved by the use of protein sequence embeddings. However, these sequence embeddings have the caveat that biological metadata do not exist for each amino acid, in order to measure t...
While the number of solved 3D protein structures continues to grow rapidly, the structural rules that distinguish protein-protein interactions between different structural families are still not clear. Here, we classify and analyse the secondary stru...
The field-induced evolution of as-grown domain structure was studied in an annealed calcium orthovanadate (CVO) crystal under application of the electric field pulses at elevated temperature using various domain imaging methods. It was shown that the...
Fe-based amorphous microwires were studied to examine the effect of partial surface nanocrystallization on their magnetic and electrical properties. Controlled annealing was used to induce nanocrystallization within the surface layer of the metallic...
Recently, unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) segmentation of remote sensing images (RSIs) has attracted a lot of attention. However, the performance of such methods still lags far behind that of their supervised counterparts. To this end, this pape...
AAA+ ATPase p97/valosin-containing protein (VCP)/Cdc48 is a key player in various cellular stress responses in which it unfolds ubiquitinated proteins to facilitate their degradation by the proteasome. P97 works in different cellular processes using...
S1 domain, a structural variant of one of the “oldest” OB-folds (oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding fold), is widespread in various proteins in three domains of life: Bacteria, Eukaryotes, and Archaea. In this study, it was shown tha...
Building segmentation for remote sensing images usually requires pixel-level labels which is difficult to collect when the images are in low resolution and quality. Recently, weakly supervised semantic segmentation methods have achieved promising per...
Traditional linear time-domain analysis is used widely for predicting the motions of floating structures. When it comes to a wave energy structure, which usually is subjected to larger relative (to their geometric dimensions) wave and motion amplitud...
Heterogeneous domain adaptation (HDA) utilizes the knowledge of the source domain to model the target domain. Although the two domains are semantically related, the problem of feature and distribution differences in heterogeneous data still needs to...
SET (Suppressor of variegation, Enhancer of Zeste, Trithorax) and MYND (Myeloid-Nervy-DEAF1) domain-containing proteins (SMYD) have been found to methylate a variety of histone and non-histone targets which contribute to their various roles in cell r...
In this paper, the predictive power of diffracxtive magneto-optics concerning domain structure and reversal mechanisms in ordered arrays of magnetic elements is demonstrated. A simple theoretical model based on Fraunhoffer diffraction theory is used...
We found that a high-strength elastomer was obtained by the heat elongation of a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) film consisting of a high content of crystalline hard segments (HS). The stress upturn continuously increased with the elongation ratio...
Microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) are essential for the accurate division of a cell into two daughter cells. These proteins target specific microtubules to be incorporated into the spindle midzone, which comprises a special array of microtubules...
Modern solutions in materials engineering are designed not just for the improvement in the mechanical or electromagnetic properties of materials but also to begin to fulfill specific functional roles. A good example of such a modern solution is a com...
Rho GTPase signaling promotes proliferation, invasion, and metastasis in a broad spectrum of cancers. Rho GTPase activity is regulated by the deleted in liver cancer (DLC) family of bona fide tumor suppressors which directly inactivate Rho GTPases by...
The polarization and elastrocaloric effect of chiral barium titanate (BaTiO3) with an Ising–Bloch-type domain wall under stress was investigated using the Landau–Ginzburg–Devonshire (LGD) theory. It has been shown that tensile stres...
The fabrication of stable, tailored domain patterns in ferroelectric crystals has wide applications in optical and electronic industries. All-optical ferroelectric poling by pulse laser irradiation has been developed recently. In this work, we studie...
A tuned rolling mass damper system (TRMD) is newly combined with structural hollow slabs to act as an ensemble passive damping device to mitigate structural responses. The main advantage of this controlled configuration lies in its capacity to mainta...
Domain adaptation methods have been extensively studied for rolling bearing fault diagnosis under various conditions. However, some existing methods only consider the one-way embedding of original space into a low-dimensional subspace without backwar...
The nanosecond speed of information writing and reading is recognized as one of the main advantages of next-generation non-volatile ferroelectric memory based on hafnium oxide thin films. However, the kinetics of polarization switching in this materi...
During the water entry process of a trans-domain morphing aircraft, significant impact forces are generated when the aircraft hits the water surface, which will potentially cause the deformation of the cabin structure and might damage the structure o...
Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) belongs to the nuclear receptor (NR) superfamily. Whereas the structure of the ligand binding domain (LBD) of VDR has been determined in great detail, the role of its amino acid residues in stabilizing the structure and ligan...
This paper focuses on the frequency domain fluid–structure interaction (FSI) vibration characteristics of aircraft hydraulic pipe with complex constraints. The linear partial differential fourteen-equation model is applied to describe the nonli...
Recent advances in the development of novel methods for the local characterization of ferroelectric domains open up new opportunities not only to image, but also to control and to create desired domain configurations (domain engineering). The morphot...
Invertebrates do not possess adaptive immunity but have evolved a variety of unique repertoires of innate immune sensors. In this study, we explored the immune diversity and specificity of invertebrates based on the lophotrochozoan RLRs, a major comp...
Magnetic structure of functional magnetic dielectrics is traditionally of high interest. Here, we use the magnetic force microscopy (MFM) and nonlinear-optical probe of second harmonic generation for studies of surface domain structure of monocrystal...
T cells that are genetically engineered to express chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) have a strong potential to eliminate tumor cells, yet the CAR-T cells may also induce severe side effects due to an excessive immune response. Although optimization of...
A series of multiblock polyurethane-ureas (PUU) based on polycaprolactone diol (PCL) with a molecular mass of 530 or 2000 g/mol, as well as hard segments of different lengths and structures, were synthesized by the step-growth polymerization method....
This study investigated the effects of varying film thicknesses and annealing temperatures on the surface roughness and magnetic domain structure of CoFeSm thin films. The results revealed that as the film thickness increased, both the crystalline si...
The lipopolysaccharide binding domain (LBD) in anti-lipopolysaccharide factor (ALF) is the main functional element of ALF, which exhibits antimicrobial activities. Our previous studies show that the peptide LBDv, synthesized based on the modified seq...
Living bodies comprise approximately 55–75% water to maintain homeostasis. However, little is known about the comprehensive differences in in vivo water molecule dynamics (water structure dynamics; WSD) between physiological and pathophysiologi...
The systematic imaging of the damaged tracks and domain patterns created in the MgOLN plates by one-step fs-laser irradiation at different depths was carried out. It is shown that the domains in the bulk have a spindle-like shape and start to grow in...
The effect of relative humidity on the domain structure imaging and polarization switching process of Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-x%PbTiO3 (PZN-x%PT) ferroelectric single crystals has been investigated by means of the piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and pi...
The cold-shock domain has a deceptively simple architecture but supports a complex biology. It is conserved from bacteria to man and has representatives in all kingdoms of life. Bacterial cold-shock proteins consist of a single cold-shock domain and...
Eukaryotic cilia are microtubule-based organelles that protrude from the cell surface to fulfill sensory and motility functions. Their basic structure consists of an axoneme templated by a centriole/basal body. Striking differences in ciliary ultra-s...
The design optimization of structures can be conducted in either the time domain or the frequency domain. The frequency domain approach is advantageous compared to its time domain counterpart, especially if the degree of freedom is large, the objecti...
This review covers methods and recent developments of the theoretical study of domain structures in ultrathin ferroelectric films. The review begins with an introduction to some basic concepts and theories (e.g., polarization and its modern theory, f...
Alignment of nematic liquid crystals on polycarbonate films obtained with the use of solvents with different solvations is studied. Domain structures occurring during the growth on the polymer surface against the background of the initial thread-like...
SGT1 (the suppressor of the G2 allele of Skp1) functions as an adaptor protein that positively regulates plant defense and developmental processes. It comprises three functional domains: the tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) domain, Chord SGT1 motif (CS...
Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) are a group of clostridial toxins that cause the potentially fatal neuroparalytic disease botulism. Although highly toxic, BoNTs are utilized as therapeutics to treat a range of neuromuscular conditions. Several serotypes...
We demonstrate the application of confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) for nondestructive imaging of ferroelectric domains both at the surface and in the bulk of lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT) ferroelectric single crystals. The studied mode...
Collagen-binding proteins (CBP), Cnm and Cbm, from Streptococcus mutans are involved in infective endocarditis caused by S. mutans because of their collagen-binding ability. In this study, we focused on the collagen-binding domain (CBD), which is res...
Welded structures under random loadings are usually susceptible to fatigue-induced failures that lead to significant economic and safety effects. However, accurately predicting these structures’ fatigue damage and life in the frequency domain r...
Time-domain structures (TDS), manifested as ≥ 1 ms pulses with significant parallel electric fields, play an important role in accelerating electrons in the field-aligned direction. These precipitated electrons contribute to the formation of auror...
Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) cause the potentially fatal neuroparalytic disease botulism that arises due to proteolysis of a SNARE protein. Each BoNT is comprised of three domains: a cell binding domain (HC), a translocation domain (HN), and a cataly...
The phosphoprotein P of Mononegavirales (MNV) is an essential co-factor of the viral RNA polymerase L. Its prime function is to recruit L to the ribonucleocapsid composed of the viral genome encapsidated by the nucleoprotein N. MNV phosphoproteins of...
Detecting and controlling illegal websites (gambling and pornography sites) through illegal domain names has been an unsolved problem. Therefore, how to mine and discover potential illegal domain names in advance has become a current research hotspot...
Archaea-specific D-family DNA polymerase (PolD) forms a dimeric heterodimer consisting of two large polymerase subunits and two small exonuclease subunits. According to the protein-protein interactions identified among the domains of large and small...
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