The type and intensity of ocean background noise vary with time and location. Deployed sensors therefore often encounter noise conditions that differ from those represented in the training and validation data for ship-type recognition. When a sensor...
Fact verification aims to evaluate the authenticity of a given claim based on the evidence sentences retrieved from Wikipedia articles. Existing works mainly leverage the natural language inference methods to model the semantic interaction of claim a...
Cognitive control is adaptive in that it rapidly adjusts attention in response to changing contexts and shifting goals. Research provides evidence that cognitive control can rapidly adjust attention to focus on task-relevant information based on prio...
Mitochondrial complex I—the largest enzyme complex of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation machinery—has been proposed to contribute to a variety of age-related pathological alterations as well as longevity. The enzyme complex-cons...
Accurate 3D medical image segmentation requires effective integration of encoder details and decoder semantics. However, their relative contributions vary across decoding stages and spatial locations, and attention based only on the current feature p...
This study presents a dual-module architecture for image forgery detection in the context of cyber fraud investigation, designed to provide interpretable and court-admissible forensic evidence. The forgery segmentation module built on an encoder&ndas...
Tentoxin, a cyclic tetrapeptide produced by several Alternaria species, inhibits the F1-ATPase activity of chloroplasts, resulting in chlorosis in sensitive plants. In this study, we report two clustered genes, encoding a putative non-ribosome peptid...
The most famous role of mitochondria is to generate ATP through oxidative phosphorylation, a metabolic pathway that involves a chain of four protein complexes (the electron transport chain, ETC) that generates a proton-motive force that in turn drive...
The ATP synthase is a mitochondrial inner membrane complex whose function is essential for cell bioenergy, being responsible for the conversion of ADP into ATP and playing a role in mitochondrial cristae morphology organization. The enzyme is compose...
Stress can modulate episodic memory in various ways. The present study asks how post-encoding stress affects visual context memory. Participants encoded object images centrally positioned on background scenes. After encoding, they were either exposed...
Different neuromodulatory systems are involved in long-term energy balance and body weight and, among these, evidence shows that the endocannabinoid system, in particular the activation of type-1 cannabinoid receptor, plays a key role. We here review...
The vestibular system contributes to cardiovascular regulation during changes in gravitational load (e.g., postural transitions, microgravity), in vestibular disorders, and during vestibular stimulations. Studies employing sinusoidal galvanic vestibu...
What is the significance of a touch encoded by slow-conducted unmyelinated C-tactile (CT) fibers? It is the so-called affiliative touch, which has a fundamental social impact. In humans, it has been demonstrated that the affiliative valence of this k...
In the Attentional Boost Effect (ABE), stimuli encoded with to-be-responded targets are later recognized more accurately than stimuli encoded with to-be-ignored distractors. While this effect is robust in young adults, evidence regarding healthy olde...
License plate recognition is a critical perception module in intelligent transportation systems, yet severe occlusion remains a fundamental challenge in unconstrained traffic scenes because the missing visual evidence is physically absent rather than...
Considering the evidence that essential oils, as well as safrole, could modulate bacterial growth in different resistant strains, this study aims to characterize the phytochemical profile and evaluate the antibacterial and antibiotic-modulating prope...
ALSC (Aspect-level Sentiment Classification) is a fine-grained task in the field of NLP (Natural Language Processing) which aims to identify the sentiment toward a given aspect. In addition to exploiting the sentence semantics and syntax, current ALS...
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) establishes persistent, latent infection in hosts, causing diseases in immunocompromised patients, transplant recipients, and neonates. CMV infection modifies the host chemokine axis by modulating chemokine and chemokine recepto...
We propose that ribosomal RNA (rRNA) formed the basis of the first cellular genomes, and provide evidence from a review of relevant literature and proteonomic tests. We have proposed previously that the ribosome may represent the vestige of the first...
Keyword spotting (KWS) systems based on Spike Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising solution for always-on voice interfaces. However, achieving a favorable trade-off between computational footprint and recognition accuracy remains challenging for...
Nowadays, the majority of the progress in the development of implantable neuroprostheses has been achieved by improving the knowledge of brain functions so as to restore sensorial impairments. Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) is a widely used te...
There is a large unmet medical need to develop disease-modifying treatment options for individuals with age-related degenerative diseases of the central nervous system. The sigma-2 receptor (S2R), encoded by TMEM97, is expressed in brain and retinal...
In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures are gaining significant attention for their ability to ground language generation in reliable knowledge sources. Despite their effectiveness, RAG systems b...
Background: Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women, and earlier diagnosis significantly improves treatment outcomes. However, traditional mammography-based systems rely on single-modality image analysis and lack inte...
This article presents an adaptive neural network method for the automated detection, reconstruction, and prioritisation of multi-stage criminal operations in the digital environment, aiming to protect human rights and ensure the legal security of dig...
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Protein phosphorylation is a dynamic post-translational modification (PTM) that regulates protein function, signaling, and cellular behavior. Accumulating evidence indicates that combinations of phosphosites function as “phosphorylation codes,&...
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) participate in gene regulation and disease-associated processes. Computational prediction of circRNA–disease associations (CDAs) can help prioritize candidates for biological investigation. Here, we propose a multi-view...
To address the challenges of multi-scale target variation, complex background interference, and insufficient feature fusion quality in maritime remote sensing ship detection, this paper proposes MarShip-DET, a frequency-aware multi-scale fusion detec...
Herpesvirus-encoded microRNAs (miRNAs) have been discovered in infected cells; however, lack of a suitable animal model has hampered functional analyses of viral miRNAs in vivo. Marek’s disease virus (MDV) (Gallid alphaherpesvirus 2, GaHV-2) ge...
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) encodes 22 mature microRNAs (miRNAs), which regulate a myriad of cellular processes, including vesicular trafficking, cell cycle progression, apoptosis, and immune evasion, as well as viral gene expression. Recent evidenc...
Reticulocalbin-2 (RCN2), encoded by the human RCN2 gene (HGNC:9935) and historically identified as E6-binding protein, is a CREC-family EF-hand Ca2+-binding protein. Although first characterized as an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated protein, cu...
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the gene encoding for the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator (CFTR) protein, expressed on the apical surface of epithelial cells. CFTR absence/dysfunction...
Knowledge selection plays a crucial role in knowledge-driven dialogue generation methods, directly influencing the accuracy, relevance, and coherence of generated responses. Existing research often overlooks the handling of disparities between dialog...
Medical image segmentation still faces three critical challenges: insufficient joint modeling of local details and long-range dependencies, the high computational burden of transformer-based architectures for high-resolution inputs, and performance d...
Hypertension, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, is the world’s leading cause of preventable, premature death. A common polymorphism (677C→T) in the gene encoding the folate metabolizing enzyme methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHF...
The autism spectrum disorder-associated SCN2A, ANK2, and SHANK-family genes encode molecularly distinct proteins that converge functionally on dendritic integration. Recent work established that ankyrin-B, encoded by ANK2, acts as an obligate dendrit...
To solve the issue that existing yield prediction methods do not fully capture the interaction between multiple factors, we propose a winter wheat yield prediction framework with triple cross-attention for multi-source data fusion. This framework con...
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a novel class of regulatory RNA involved in many biological, physiological and pathological processes by functioning as a molecular sponge, transcriptional/epigenetic/splicing regulator, modulator of protein–protein...
Neurons are particularly susceptible to microtubule (MT) defects and deregulation of the MT cytoskeleton is considered to be a common insult during the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders. Evidence that dysfunctions in the MT system have a di...
The vesicle-associated membrane protein 7 (VAMP7) is a SNARE protein of the longin family involved in a wide range of subcellular trafficking events, including neurite sprouting and elongation. The expression of the human gene SYBL1, encoding VAMP7,...
There are multiple forms of knowledge about people. Whether diverse person-related data interact is of interest regarding the more general issue of integration of multi-source information about the world. Our goal was to examine whether perception of...
The trade-off between growth and defense is common in plants. We previously demonstrated that BnaA03.WRKY28 weakened resistance strength but promoted shoot branching in Brassica napus (rapeseed). However, the molecular mechanism by which WRKY28 promo...
Fabry disease is a lysosomal disease characterized by globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) accumulation. It may coexist with diabetes mellitus and both cause potentially lethal kidney end-organ damage. However, there is little information on their interaction...
Brain–computer interface (BCI) technology has shown potential for future rehabilitation-related and assistive control applications. Nevertheless, single-modality electroencephalography-based motor imagery (EEG-MI) signals are susceptible to interfere...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome encodes for one long polyprotein that is processed by cellular and viral proteases to generate 10 polypeptides. The viral structural proteins include the core protein, and the envelope glycoproteins E1 and E2, present a...
The role of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS) in the emergence and evolution of genetic coding poses challenging questions concerning their provenance. We seek evidence about their ancestry from curated structure-based multiple sequence alignments of...
Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) used in the treatment of hypertension and potentially in SARS-CoV-2 infection exhibit inverse agonist effects at angiotensin AR1 receptors, suggesting the receptor may have evolved to accommodate naturally occurri...
Background/Objectives: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Klebsiella pneumoniae poses a serious threat to healthcare, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To complement AMR infection control in Kenya, here, clinical and environmental genomes were i...
Having previously shown that soluble E-cadherin (sE-cad) is found in sera of Q fever patients and that infection of BeWo cells by C. burnetii leads to modulation of the E-cad/β-cat pathway, our purpose was to identify which sheddase(s) might cat...
This paper introduces Gabor scattering, a feature extractor based on Gabor frames and Mallat’s scattering transform. By using a simple signal model for audio signals, specific properties of Gabor scattering are studied. It is shown that, for ea...
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