We investigate whether the heart rate can be treated as a semi-random source with the aim of amplification by quantum devices. We use a semi-random source model called
Aptamers are nucleic acid ligands which exhibit specific binding to a desired target. Oligonucleotides are limited in their ability to form hydrophobic interactions. The affinity of aptamers can be improved with the introduction of hydrophobic modifi...
Clinical metagenomics is a broad-range agnostic detection method of pathogens, including novel microorganisms. A major limit is the low pathogen load compared to the high background of host nucleic acids. To overcome this issue, several solutions exi...
Soft stories in buildings are well-known to present structural vulnerabilities during seismic events, and the failure of non-structural components (NSCs) has been evident in past earthquakes, along with structural damage. This study seeks to investig...
Privacy amplification is an important step in the post-processing of quantum communication, which plays an indispensable role in the security of quantum key distribution systems. In this paper, we propose a Cellular Automata-based privacy amplificati...
Privacy amplification is an indispensable procedure for key generation in the quantum key distribution system and the physical layer key distribution system. In this paper, we propose a high-speed privacy amplification algorithm that saves hardware m...
In this work, we develop a vectorial model, for optical communications, using distributed Raman amplification (DRA) applied to vectorial soliton pulses in monomode fiber optics. The main result, a dependent polarization effective Raman gain coefficie...
The accurate prediction of extreme dynamic amplification factor (DAF) values is significantly important to ensure a long-term safety assessment of bridges under stochastic vehicular loading. However, predicting extreme DAFs is challenging due to traf...
Calcium ions (Ca2+) are abundantly present in the human body; they perform essential roles in various biological functions. In this study, we propose a highly sensitive and selective biosensor platform for Ca2+ detection, which comprises a dual-gate...
Background/Objectives: Hearing aids can be used as a treatment for tinnitus. There are indications that this treatment is most effective when the tinnitus pitch falls in the frequency range of amplification of the hearing aid. Then, the hearing aid p...
Based on Biot’s theory and the indirect boundary element method (IBEM), the Monte Carlo method is utilized to generate random samples to calculate the displacement response of a saturated sedimentary valley under SV wave incidence. The purpose...
Avian infectious bronchitis (IB) is among the major viral respiratory and reproductive diseases of chickens caused by Avian coronavirus. In the African continent, IB was first described in countries located in the Mediterranean basin. In other parts...
Cellular automata are mathematical models that represent systems with complex behavior through simple interactions between their individual elements. These models can be used to study unconventional computational systems and complexity. One notable a...
Studying the luminescent properties and the light amplification capabilities are fundamental investigations for newly synthesized organic compounds intended to act as chromophores. These studies are conducted for compounds in the form of solutions, s...
Weak fluorescence signals, which are important in research and applications, are often masked by the background. Different amplification techniques are actively investigated. Here, a broadband, geometry-independent and flexible feedback scheme based...
Viruses are the most abundant ‘biological entities’ in the world’s oceans. However, technical and methodological constraints limit our understanding of their diversity, particularly in benthic abyssal ecosystems (>4000 m depth)....
The dynamic response characteristics of a two-dimensional submerged floating tunnel (SFT) under random and freak waves were investigated in the present study. The results demonstrate that (1) the dynamic responses of the SFT under the freak wave are...
The values of the physical–mechanical properties of any soil are affected by uncertainties both due to experimental measurements and the impossibility of knowing them, in detail, at every point of the spatial domain. Accordingly, this work focu...
In this study, a rubber vibration isolator is designed for certain aerospace equipment, and a finite element simulation is carried out to obtain the modal frequency and random vibration response, and to verify the accuracy of the design. The test ver...
In this paper, we study the asymptotic and transient dynamics of a predator–prey model with square root functional responses and random perturbation. Firstly, the mean square stability matrix is obtained from the stability theory of stochastic...
Mycoplasma synoviae (MS) and Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) strains were isolated at 39.5 °C to rule out temperature-sensitive strains (ts+) and identified using random amplification of polymorphic DNA. Then, their minimum inhibitory concentration...
We report a thin-film optical amplifier integrated on a fiber facet based on polymer-coated distributed feedback (DFB) microcavities, which are fabricated on a planar substrate and then transferred onto fiber tips by means of a flexible transfer tech...
Antibody discovery by phage display consists of two phases, i.e., the binding phase and the amplification phase. Ideally, the selection process is dominated by the former, and all the retrieved clones are amplified equally during the latter. In reali...
Intentional mistuning is a common procedure to decrease the uncontrolled vibration amplification effects of the (unavoidable) random mistuning, and to reduce the sensitivity to it. The idea is to introduce an intentional mistuning pattern that is sma...
A total of 1327 platinum-quality mitochondrial DNA haplotypes from United States (U.S.) populations were generated using a robust, semi-automated next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflow with rigorous quality control (QC). The laboratory workflow in...
Orography strongly interacts with the atmospheric circulation, especially during frontal events, generating an enhanced spatial variability of the rainfall field. Regional models of extreme rainfall have to deal with these circumstances in order to p...
Information-theoretically provable unique true random numbers, which cannot be correlated or controlled by an attacker, can be generated based on quantum measurement of vacuum state and universal-hashing randomness extraction. Quantum entropy in the...
Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) phase modulation is an effective method for suppressing the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) effect generated by narrow-linewidth fiber lasers during amplification. We noticed that backward time-domain pulses...
On 22 May 2012, a magnitude Mw 5.6 earthquake struck the Pernik region of western Bulgaria, causing structural damage in nearby cities, including Sofia. This study assesses the seismic response of a six-story reinforced concrete building in central S...
We study an oracle operation, along with its circuit design, which combined with the Grover diffusion operator boosts the probability of finding the minimum or maximum solutions on a weighted directed graph. We focus on the geometry of sequentially c...
According to pigeon racing rules in Taiwan, the pigeon raiser must decide which juveniles will be chosen as soon as possible. Differentiating the sex of young pigeons based on appearances, and other traditional methods, can be time-consuming and requ...
Genetic analysis of plants relies on high yields of pure DNA. For the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) this represents a great challenge since leaves can accumulate large amounts of polysaccharides, polyphenols and secondary metabolites, which co-puri...
From 2006 to 2011, an average of 15 novel recombinant protein therapeutics have been approved by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) annually. In addition, the expiration of blockbuster biologics has also spurred the emergence of biosimilars. The i...
We study the dynamics of a partially incoherent optical pulse that propagates in a slowly responding nonlinear Kerr medium. We show that irrespective of the sign of the dispersion (either normal or anomalous), the incoherent pulse as a whole exhibits...
The manuscript presents a novel non-gradient and non-iterative method for mapping two 3D objects by matching extrema. This innovative approach utilizes the amplification of extrema through the summation of dependent random values, accompanied by a co...
QuickStep is a cloning method that allows seamless point integration of a DNA sequence at any position within a target plasmid using only Q5 High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase and DpnI endonuclease. This efficient and cost-effective method consists of two...
Anti-HER2 therapies have dramatically improved the prognosis of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-overexpressing cancers. However, the correlation between the HER2 copy number and the response rate to anti-HER2 remains unclear. Here, fo...
In this paper, we propose a novel Maxwell dynamic vibration absorber (DVA) with lever, inerter, and grounded stiffness. Firstly, the governing equation of the coupled system is established. The analytical formula of the amplitude amplification factor...
Light propagation in multimode fibers is known to experience various nonlinear effects, which are being actively studied. One of the interesting effects is the brightness enhancement at the Raman conversion of the multimode beam in graded index (GRIN...
Phage display is one of the most frequently used platform technologies utilized to screen and select therapeutic antibodies, and has contributed to the development of more than 10 therapeutic antibodies used in the clinic. Despite advantages like eff...
Background. SIOP PNET5 MB was initiated in 2014 as the first European trial using clinical, histological, and molecular parameters to stratify treatments for children and adolescents with standard-risk medulloblastoma. Methods. Stratification by upfr...
Modern cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures face increasingly sophisticated and diverse cyber threats that challenge traditional detection systems in terms of scalability, adaptability, and explainability. In this paper, we present (H...
The sensitivity of immunoassays is generally limited by the low signal reporter/recognition element ratio. Nanomaterials serving as the carriers can enhance the loading number of signal reporters, thus improving the detection sensitivity. However, th...
The compositive passive control (CPC) method of “interlayer seismic isolation “plus “shock absorption between adjacent towers” was applied to a multi-tower building (MTB) with a large podium. The interaction between adjacent t...
Systemic treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) has improved considerably over the past 20 years. First- and second-line combinations of 5FU, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan, with or without anti-angiogenic and/or anti-EGFR antibodies, were app...
In this paper, the temperature dependence of single event upset (SEU) cross-section in 28 nm embedded Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) of System in Package (SiP) was investigated. An atmospheric neutron beam with an energy range of MeV~GeV was util...
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In an effort towards adapting new and defensible methods for assessing and managing the risk posed by microbial pollution, we evaluated the utility of oligonucleotide microarrays for bacterial source tracking (BST) of environmental Enterococcus sp. i...
The research in optical sensors has been largely encouraged by the demand for low-cost and less or non-invasive new detection strategies. The invention of the random laser has opened a new frontier in optics, providing also the opportunity to explore...
Bugs, especially those in concurrent systems, are often hard to reproduce because they manifest only under rare conditions. Testers frequently encounter failures that occur only under specific inputs, often at low probability. We propose an approach...
In device-independent (DI) quantum protocols, security statements are agnostic to the internal workings of the quantum devices—they rely solely on classical interactions with the devices and specific assumptions. Traditionally, such protocols a...
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