Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) cause health and environmental effects worldwide. Cyanophage is a virus that exclusively infects cyanobacteria. Using cyanophages to control blooms is the latest biological control method. However, litt...
Proteomics research has become one of the most important topics in the field of life science and natural science. At present, research on protein–protein interaction networks (PPIN) mainly focuses on detecting protein complexes or function modules. H...
The use of physical unclonable functions (PUFs) linked to the manufacturing process of the electronic devices supporting applications that exchange critical data over the Internet has made these elements essential to guarantee the authenticity of sai...
This paper presents a new method for parameter identification based on the modulating function method for commensurable fractional-order models. The novelty of the method lies in the automatic determination of a specific modulating function by contro...
Background: A feature of higher plants is the modular principle of body organisation. One of these conservative morphological modules that regulate plant growth, histogenesis and organogenesis is meristems—structures that contain pools of stem...
Functional modules of metabolic networks are essential for understanding the metabolism of an organism as a whole. With the vast amount of experimental data and the construction of complex and large-scale, often genome-wide, models, the computer-aide...
Recent fMRI and fTCD studies have found that functional modules for aspects of language, praxis, and visuo-spatial functioning, while typically left, left and right hemispheric respectively, frequently show atypical lateralisation. Studies with incre...
Many systems with distributed dynamics are described by partial differential equations (PDEs). Coupled reaction-diffusion equations are a particular type of these systems. The measurement of the state over the entire spatial domain is usually require...
The detection of composite miRNA functional module (CMFM) is of tremendous significance and helps in understanding the organization, regulation and execution of cell processes in cancer, but how to identify functional CMFMs is still a computational c...
Modulation of the allergic immune response through alternative therapies is a field of study that aims to address allergic reactions differently from traditional approaches. These therapies encompass the utilization of natural functional foods, which...
Comparison of metabolic pathways provides a systematic way for understanding the evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships in systems biology. Although a number of phylogenetic methods have been developed, few efforts have been made to provide a un...
In this study, functional coating film was fabricated on glass for photovoltaic (PV) modules to improve the anti-pollution characteristics of PV modules. The functional coating film applied to a glass substrate through the spray coating method was an...
Rapid progress in high-throughput -omics technologies moves us one step closer to the datacalypse in life sciences. In spite of the already generated volumes of data, our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying complex genetic diseases remai...
In this paper, a novel modulation function-based method including analyses of the modulation index and phase is proposed for operation of modular multilevel converters (MMCs) in high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems. The proposed mo...
Background: To date, no consistent data are available on the possible impact of CFTR modulators on glucose metabolism. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that treatment with CFTR modulators is associated with an improvement in the key d...
Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) have an important influence on human physiology and pathology. They are members of the degenerin/epithelial sodium channel family. Four genes encode at least six subunits, which combine to form a variety of homotrime...
Functional modules can be predicted using genome-wide protein–protein interactions (PPIs) from a systematic perspective. Various graph clustering algorithms have been applied to PPI networks for this task. In particular, the detection of overlapping...
Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) are proton-gated, voltage-independent sodium channels widely expressed throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems. They are involved in synaptic plasticity, learning/memory, fear conditioning and pain. Zin...
It is well-known that activation functions are crucial in determining spectral expressiveness, training dynamics, and reconstruction accuracy in implicit neural representations (INRs), which employ coordinate-based multilayer perceptrons to represent...
In remote-sensing imaging, the modulation transfer function (MTF) for image motion relevant to the mixing of multiple forms of motions is hard to calculate because of the complicated image motion expression. In this paper, a new method for calculatin...
In this study, the characteristics of functional films were investigated according to the number of coatings and their heat treatment times. The functional coating films were deposited on glass substrates made of the same material as the cover glass...
Brachial plexus avulsion (BPA) causes peripheral nerve injury complications with motor and sensory dysfunction of the upper limb. Growing evidence has shown an active role played by cold-water swimming (CWS) in alleviating peripheral neuropathic pain...
We aim to introduce the quadratic-additive functional equation (shortly, QA-functional equation) and find its general solution. Then, we study the stability of the kind of Hyers-Ulam result with a view of the aforementioned functional equation by uti...
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The Washington Group/UNICEF Child Functioning Module (CFM) represents progress in identifying and measuring disability among children and adolescents in censuses and surveys. This paper reports from a study among school children in Ghana and Niger ai...
Bayer filter color cameras are more and more widely used in the field of aerospace remote sensing, but the Bayer filter causes great degradation in image quality; therefore, obtaining a means of achieving the high-precision measurement of the modulat...
In inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging system for targets with complex motion, such as ships fluctuating with oceanic waves and high maneuvering airplanes, the multi-component quadratic frequency modulation (QFM) signals are more suitable...
Background. Cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) is a novel device-based therapy for patients with heart failure with reduced and mild reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF/HFmrEF). CCM increases cardiac performance and produces reverse left ventricular...
In this paper, a comparison of the simple firing angle modulation method (FAM) and the more advanced torque sharing function (TSF)-based control of switched reluctance motor (SRM) is presented. The off-line procedure to tailor and optimize the parame...
Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents a heterogeneous group of malignancies that are the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Although many NSCLC-related genes and pathways have been identified, there remains an urgent need to mec...
Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM) is an electrical therapy based on an implantable device. This device is approved for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Randomized clinical trials and thousands of described case...
In this paper, a robust nonlinear approach for control of liquid levels in a quadruple tank system (QTS) is developed based on the design of an integrator backstepping super-twisting controller, which implements a multivariable sliding surface, where...
Here we theoretically and experimentally demonstrated the arbitrary phase modulation of a general transmittance function (GTF) of the first-order optical comb filter based on a polarization-diversity loop structure, which employed two ordered wavepla...
To address the issues of image blurring and color distortion in hazy conditions, an image restoration method based on a parametric analytical modulation transfer function model is proposed under turbid atmospheric conditions. A source database is est...
In this paper, we propose a zoom auxiliary imaging lens based on the four-component mechanical zoom method for a modulation transfer function (MTF) test system. The auxiliary imaging lenses of the current MTF test system typically use fixed-focus opt...
The dairy industry is increasingly seeking natural alternatives to synthetic additives to meet the growing demand for clean-label and functional foods. Bee-derived products (BDPs), including propolis, honey, bee pollen, bee bread, and royal jelly, re...
In this paper, the explicit equation of the single diode model (SDM) expressed by the Lambert W function was reduced to its simplified form through variable replacement; then the simplified explicit equation was combined with an intelligent optimizat...
In this study, we developed a numerical model of the coupled modulation transfer function (coupled-MTF) based on the discrete sampling system from the perspective of optical system imaging quality evaluation for coupled two-dimensional discrete sampl...
Product performance, function, cost, and the level of module generalization are all significantly influenced by product modular design, but different goods require different division indicators and techniques. The purpose of this study is to provide...
Modern logo design is characterized by its ability to convey information through the use of various images and text compositions. These designs often use simple elements such as lines to capture the essence of a product. When using thermochromic inks...
This article examines the positioning features of polycrystalline, monocrystalline, and amorphous silicon modules relative to the focus points of concentrator photovoltaic modules under real meteorological conditions using a dual tracking system. The...
In the optical satellite on-orbit imaging quality estimation system, the calculation of Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) is not fully standardized, and the influence of atmosphere is often simplified, making it difficult to obtain completely consis...
The intranasal delivery of exogenous mitochondria is a potential therapy for Parkinson’s disease (PD). The regulatory mechanisms and effectiveness in genetic models remains uncertain, as well as the impact of modulating the mitochondrial permea...
In the field of new-energy electric vehicles, lithium battery cells need to be connected in series and parallel to meet the requirements of high voltage and high power. Aiming at the high cost of traditional active equalizer, a half/full-bridge conve...
Endoscopes are widely used in medicine, making objective evaluation of imaging performance essential for device development and quality assurance. Image resolution is commonly characterized by the modulation transfer function (MTF); however, its inte...
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This paper explores the validity (sensitivity and specificity) of different cut-off levels of the UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module (CFM) and the inter-rater reliability between teachers and parents as proxy respondents, for disaggrega...
Maize leaf disease detection is an essential project in the maize planting stage. This paper proposes the convolutional neural network optimized by a Multi-Activation Function (MAF) module to detect maize leaf disease, aiming to increase the accuracy...
Conventionally, indirect calorimetry has been used to estimate oxygen consumption in an effort to accurately measure human body energy expenditure. However, calorimetry requires the subject to wear a mask that is neither convenient nor comfortable. T...
Nanoplastics (NPs) represent a major challenge in environmental contamination resulting from the physical, chemical, and biological degradation of plastics. Their characterization requires advanced and expensive methods, which limit routine analyses....
Sorting out the requirements for intelligent functions is the prerequisite and foundation of the top-level design for the development of intelligent ships. In light of the development of inland intelligent ships for 2030, 2035, and 2050, based on the...
Morphological microwave imaging has shown interesting results on reconstructing biological objects inside the human body, and these parameters represent their actual biological condition, but not their biological activity. In this paper, we propose a...
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