Peptides designed to interfere with specific steps of viral infection mechanisms have shown promising antiviral potential. In this study, we investigated the ability of a synthetic peptide (peptide 303), derived from the fusion protein sequence of th...
An integrated divertor simulation code, SONIC, has been developed in order to predict a self-consistent transport solution of the plasma, neutral and impurities in the scrape-off layer (SOL) and divertor. SONIC code has contributed to determining the...
The objective image quality assessment (IQA) method was developed to replace subjective observer image quality evaluations in various applications. A reliable full reference color IQA method that allows reference and distorted images to be compared i...
The reliability of complex or safety critical systems is of increasing importance in several application fields. In many cases, decisions evaluating situations or conditions are made. To ensure the high accuracy of these decisions, the assignments fr...
This study assesses how different anode materials influence neutron production rates (NPRs) in multi-state fusion (MSF) reactors, with a particular focus on the effects of deuterium (D) pre-loading on the anode surface. Three types of mesh anodes wer...
Enveloped viruses include the most dangerous human and animal pathogens, in particular coronavirus, influenza virus, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). For these viruses, receptor binding and entry are accomplished by a single viral envelope pro...
With the development of multi-sensor collaborative detection technology, radar track fusion has become a key means to improve target tracking accuracy. Traditional fusion methods based on Kalman filtering and weighted averaging have the problem of in...
Remote sensing provides rich sources of data for the monitoring of land surface dynamics. However, single-sensor systems are constrained from providing spatially high-resolution images with high revisit frequency due to the inherent sensor design lim...
Infrared and visible image fusion methods based on feature decomposition are able to generate good fused images. However, most of them employ manually designed simple feature fusion strategies in the reconstruction stage, such as addition or concaten...
Both single infrared and visible images have respective limitations. Fusion technology has been developed to conquer these restrictions. It is designed to generate a fused image with infrared information and texture details. Most traditional fusion m...
Aiming at addressing the problem whereby existing image fusion models cannot reflect the demand of diverse attributes (e.g., type or amplitude) of difference features on algorithms, leading to poor or invalid fusion effect, this paper puts forward th...
The study of enveloped animal viruses has greatly advanced our understanding of the general properties of membrane fusion and of the specific pathways that viruses use to infect the host cell. The membrane fusion proteins of the alphaviruses and flav...
Infrared (IR) and visible image fusion has become an important technology for maritime environment awareness. In this study, we employed refined features fusion and Sobel loss for maritime IR and visible image fusion. First, we used the encoder in De...
Transforaminal interbody fusion (TLIF) has gained increased popularity over recent decades and is being employed as an established surgical treatment for several lumbar spine pathologies, including degenerative spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, infecti...
Multi-sensor defect detection technology is a research hotspot for monitoring the powder bed fusion (PBF) processes, of which the quality of the captured defect images and the detection capability is the vital issue. Thus, in this study, we utilize v...
Background and Objectives: Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) plays a crucial role in addressing various spinal disorders. The success of PLIF is contingent upon achieving bone fusion, as failure can lead to adverse clinical outcomes. Demineral...
The physical entry of virus particles into cells triggers an innate immune response that is dependent on both calcium and nucleic acid sensors, with particles containing RNA or DNA genomes detected by RNA or DNA sensors, respectively. While membrane...
Multi-modality three-dimensional (3D) object detection is a crucial technology for the safe and effective operation of environment perception systems in autonomous driving. In this study, we propose a method called context clustering-based radar and...
Preoperative pathology requiring fusion surgery has a great impact on postoperative outcomes. However, the previous clinical and meta-analysis studies did not control for the pathology. In this systematic review, the authors aimed to compare oblique...
Background: Duloxetine, a serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, is widely used both preoperatively and postoperatively in patients with neuropathic low back pain. This study aimed to determine the impact of duloxetine administration on p...
Membrane fusion proteins are responsible for viral entry into host cells—a crucial first step in viral infection. These proteins undergo large conformational changes from pre-fusion to fusion-initiation structures, and, despite differences in v...
Spinal fusions are performed to treat congenital skeletal malformations, spondylosis, degenerative disk diseases, and other pathologies of the vertebrae that can be resolved by reducing motion between neighboring vertebrae. Unfortunately, up to 100,0...
Automatic data fusion is an important field of machine learning that has been increasingly studied. The objective is to improve the classification performance from several individual classifiers in terms of accuracy and stability of the results. This...
The fusion of traditional HSI mainly involves the fusion of HSI with MSI or PAN. Nevertheless, the combination of the former is constrained by the inadequate spatial resolution of MSI, and therefore the enhancement of the spatial resolution of HSI is...
Multisource and multimodal data fusion plays a pivotal role in large-scale artificial intelligence applications involving big data. However, the choice of fusion strategies for different scenarios is often based on experimental comparisons, which lea...
Shadows in hyperspectral images lead to reduced spectral intensity and changes in spectral characteristics, significantly hindering analysis and applications. However, current shadow compensation methods face the issue of nonlinear attenuation at dif...
We demonstrate that the potential bias in the scores generated by individual classifiers negatively affects their fusion. Consequently, we present an algorithm to improve the effectiveness of score fusion in classification. The algorithm corrects the...
Fusion RNAs are a hallmark of some cancers. They result either from chromosomal rearrangements or from splicing mechanisms that are non-chromosomal rearrangements. Chromosomal rearrangements that result in gene fusions are particularly prevalent in s...
Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) has emerged as a leading additive manufacturing (AM) process for producing complex metal components. Despite its advantages, the inherent LPBF process complexity leads to challenges in achieving consistent quality and r...
The fusion process considers the boundary between correct and conflict records. It has been a fundamental component in ensuring the accuracy of many mathematical algorithms that utilize multiple input sources. Fusion techniques give priority and high...
Nuclear fusion is essential for the sexual reproduction of various organisms, including plants, animals, and fungi. During the life cycle of flowering plants, nuclear fusion occurs three times: once during female gametogenesis and twice during double...
Cell fusion (fusogenesis) occurs in natural and pathological conditions in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Cells of monocyte–macrophage lineage are highly fusogenic. They create syncytial multinucleated giant cells (MGCs) such as osteoclasts (OCs),...
Remote sensing image fusion technology integrates observational data from multiple satellite platforms to leverage the complementary advantages of the different types of remote sensing images. High-quality fused remote sensing images provide detailed...
Multimodal biometric systems are considered a way to minimize the limitations raised by single traits. This paper proposes new schemes based on score level, feature level and decision level fusion to efficiently fuse face and iris modalities. Log-Gab...
Background: Biportal endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (BESS-TLIF) is an emerging minimally invasive technique. This study aimed to evaluate the two-year radiological fusion outcomes of single-level BESS-TLIF using a specific banana-s...
Gene fusion structure is a class of common somatic mutational events in cancer genomes, which are often formed by chromosomal mutations. Identifying the driver gene(s) in a fusion structure is important for many downstream analyses and it contributes...
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between relay fusion frames and standard fusion frames in finite-dimensional real Hilbert spaces. We propose an optimal design method for tight relay fusion frames in the setting of orthogonal subspaces. Add...
Background/Objectives: Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) and lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) are widely utilized techniques for degenerative lumbar diseases. This study compared radiological and clinical outcomes of LLIF and TLIF i...
Sensors, and also actuators or external sources such as databases, serve as data sources in order to realise condition monitoring of industrial applications or the acquisition of characteristic parameters like production speed or reject rate. Modern...
Model fusion is a technique of growing interest in the field of machine learning, which constructs a generalized model by merging the parameters of multiple independent models with different capabilities without the need to access the original traini...
Concepts of dynamic oscillations of positive and negative ions to enhance fusion reactions are examined in this paper. Collective oscillations of positive and negative ions produce large oscillating electrostatic fields and could provide a significan...
This work proposed a computationally efficient analytical modeling strategy to calculate the product porosity in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) induced by a lack-of-fusion defect, with the consideration of cap area in solidified molten pools, influen...
Fusion genes arise from gross chromosomal rearrangements and have been closely linked to oncogenesis. In myeloid malignancies, fusion genes play an integral role in the establishment of diagnosis and prognostication. In the clinical management of pat...
Cell fusion is a physiological cellular process essential for fertilization, viral entry, muscle differentiation and placental development, among others. In this review, we will highlight the different cancer cell-cell fusions and the advantages obta...
Histopathological image analysis remains the cornerstone of cancer diagnosis; however, manual assessment is challenged by stain variability, differences in imaging magnification, and complex morphological patterns. The proposed multi-pretrained deep...
Fusion of cellular membranes during normal biological processes, including proliferation, or synaptic transmission, is mediated and controlled by sophisticated protein machinery ensuring the preservation of the vital barrier function of the membrane...
CD74 is a type II cell surface receptor found to be highly expressed in several hematological and solid cancers, due to its ability to activate pathways associated with tumor cell survival and proliferation. Over the past 16 years, CD74 has emerged a...
In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for video fusion of multi-sensor sequences applicable to real-time night vision systems. We employ the Laplacian pyramid fusion of a block of successive frames to add temporal robustness to the fused result...
As an important branch in the field of image fusion, the multi-focus image fusion technique can effectively solve the problem of optical lens depth of field, making two or more partially focused images fuse into a fully focused image. In this paper,...
Multi-focus image fusion is the process of combining focused regions of two or more images to obtain a single all-in-focus image. It is an important research area because a fused image is of high quality and contains more details than the source imag...
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