The nitrous acid depolymerization of chitosan enables the synthesis of singular chitosan oligosaccharides (COS) since their reducing-end unit is composed of 2,5-anhydro-d-mannofuranose (amf). In the present study, we describe a chemical method for th...
Axial cracking and circumferential wrinkling are found at the end of seamless steel tubes during multi-pass large deformations pushing diameter-reducing (PDR), which seriously affects product quality. However, the cracking and wrinkling mechanism of...
In the field of high-end equipment, the synergistic effect of friction-reducing agents plays an important role in the performance study of gel grease. Exploring its tribological and rheological properties can not only significantly reduce the coeffic...
In order to synthesize a promising material for developing a novel peptide/protein delivery system, guanidinylation of chitooligosaccharides with 1-amidinopyrazole hydrochloride was investigated herein. The production of guanidinylated chitooligosacc...
Powdered cellulose-reinforced (20 wt%) polypropylene composites were prepared by melt compounding and subsequent injection moldings. We assessed the effect of cellulose reducing ends on the capacity of powdered cellulose to reinforce polypropylene co...
Manufacturing-induced gear deviations can generate ghost orders, but direct validation from measured geometry to assembled-drive end-of-line (EOL) vibration remains scarce. This study tests an EOL-blind, falsification-oriented workflow for an electri...
L-theanine, a non-protein amino acid naturally occurring in tea leaves, is recognized for its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and neuroprotective properties. Despite its known benefits, the mechanisms by which L-theanine influences lifespan extension...
Background/Objectives: Levels of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), arachidonic acid (AA), and advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are higher in the brain of subjects affected by cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), compared to a health...
In an end-to-end authentication (E2EA) scheme, the physician, patient, and sensor nodes authenticate each other through the healthcare service provider in three phases: the long-term authentication phase (LAP), short-term authentication phase (SAP),...
Heparins are linear sulfated polysaccharides widely used as anticoagulant drugs. Their nonreducing-end (NRE) has been little investigated due to challenges in their characterization, but is known to be partly generated by enzymatic cleavage with hepa...
Digital twin technology puts forward higher requirements on the real-time performance of simulations. In order to realize the online simulation of the heat treatment process, a transient temperature field-microstructure field coupling calculation met...
A convergent synthetic route to a tetrasaccharide related to PI-88, which allows the incorporation of a fluorescent BODIPY-label at the reducing-end, has been developed. The strategy, which features the use of 1,2-methyl orthoesters (MeOEs) as glycos...
Chitooligosaccharide with one 2,5-anhydro-d-mannofuranose unit at the reducing end (COSamf) was prepared by nitrous acid depolymerization of chitosan. The reducing-end functionalization of COSamf by reductive amination with octanoic hydrazide in the...
Background/Objectives: An increasing number of older individuals require general anaesthesia for major non-cardiac surgery, with 20% displaying postoperative complications. Regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO2) correlates with the gold standard...
Excessive consumption of cookies has been linked to harmful health outcomes owing to the presence of refined carbohydrates and heat-induced toxicants including end products of lipid peroxidation and dietary advanced glycation end products (dAGEs). To...
A large amount of data transmission is one of the challenges faced by communication systems. In this paper, we revisit the intelligent receiver consisting of a neural network, and we find that the intelligent receiver can reduce the data at the trans...
The novel glycosphingolipid, b-D-GalNAcp(1®4)[a-D-Fucp(1®3)]-b-D-GlcNAcp(1®)Cer (A), isolated from the marine sponge Aplysinella rhax has a unique structure, with D-fucose and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine moieties attached to a reducing-end N-acetyl-D-gl...
To study the coupling mechanism and dynamic responses of an end-face-movable gear transmission system under complex excitation, a specific configuration of end-meshing, movable-gear reduction mechanism was used to achieve predetermined rigid-thrust-t...
Recently, convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to lossy image compression. End-to-end optimized autoencoders, possibly variational, are able to dramatically outperform traditional transform coding schemes in terms of rate-dist...
Stem-end rot (SER) is a serious postharvest disease of mango fruit grown in semi-dry area. Pathogenic and non-pathogenic microorganisms endophytically colonize fruit stem-end. As fruit ripens, some pathogenic fungi switch from endophytic colonization...
The Internet of Things enables experts of given domains to create smart user experiences for interacting with the environment. However, development of such experiences requires strong programming skills, which are challenging to develop for non-techn...
Diverse members of the Bacteroidetes phylum have general protein O-glycosylation systems that are essential for processes such as host colonization and pathogenesis. Here, we analyzed the function of a putative fucosyltransferase (FucT) family that i...
This study investigates the cyclic behaviour of demountable steel–concrete composite extended end-plate reduced web section (RWS) connections for the first time, aiming to facilitate post-seismic beam replacement. A validated high-fidelity fini...
Background: Progressive atelectasis regularly occurs during general anaesthesia; hence, positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is often applied. Individualised PEEP titration may reduce the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) a...
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Periodontitis is prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is also associated with kidney function decline. It is unclear whether dental scaling treatment prevents the progression of CKD. In a nationwide cohort study, Taiwan’s Natio...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common cancer in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients in Taiwan. Whether statin therapy associated with the HCC risk in hyperlipidemic patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and ESRD is unclear. Using...
Background/Objectives: Emergence delirium (ED) is common after sevoflurane anesthesia in children undergoing otolaryngologic surgery. Remimazolam is an ultra-short-acting benzodiazepine that may reduce ED without delaying recovery. This study evaluat...
To improve the dc-bus voltage utilization while reducing the commutation burden of an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)-based open-end winding permanent magnet synchronous motor (OEW-PMSM) drive, this paper proposes an improved alternate sub-h...
24 November 2022
The aim of the current study is to evaluate the different degrees of hospice care in improving patients’ autonomy in decision-making and reducing aggressiveness of cancer care in terminal-stage cancer patients, especially in reducing polypharma...
In this paper, we propose and analyze a novel interposer channel structure with vertical tabbed vias to achieve high-speed signaling and low-power consumption in high-bandwidth memory (HBM). An analytical model of the self- and mutual capacitance of...
The incidence of hypocalcemia is high in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing denosumab treatment. Since 2018, we have carried out a “multidisciplinary integrated care program for osteoporosis...
Among hemodialysis patients aged more than 40 years old, previous large-scale studies showed statin treatment had no effect on reducing cardiovascular adverse events. However, young-adult-onset end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients have different p...
Asthma is a heterogeneous chronic inflammatory airway disease that imposes a great burden on public health worldwide. In the past two years, fundamental changes have been addressed in the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) recommendations focusing m...
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from sanitary waste (SW) are not usually quantified in institutional inventories, which limits the ability to assess its management and associated carbon footprint. This study establishes emission factors (EF) for SW ge...
As the focus on climate action and sustainable development of the shipping industry intensifies, the maritime sector has intensified its focus on decarbonization. Although the ferry sector accounts for a small part of the global fleet, it plays a cru...
Steel moment-resisting frames rely on strength and ductility to perform under seismic loads. Conventional techniques such as reduced beam section (RBS) and reduced web section (RWS) improve ductility by relocating plastic hinges but can suffer from l...
Background/Objectives: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its macro- and microvascular complications are major health concerns with multiple factors, like advanced end glycation products (AGEs), in the background. AGEs induce long-lasting functional...
Tomato production faces challenges such as high input costs, pests, diseases, and climate change. Biostimulants like Nurspray®, based on hydroxycinnamic acid oligomers, offer a promising solution. This study evaluated the impact of different appl...
Due to their lower production cost compared with monoclonal antibodies, single-chain variable fragments (scFvs) have potential for use in several applications, such as for diagnosis and treatment of a range of diseases, and as sensor elements. Howeve...
Studies indicate that genetic factors only account for approximately thirty percent of all autoimmune diseases, while the rest of autoimmune pathogenesis is attributed to environmental factors including toxic chemicals. To understand if and how envir...
A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a technology in which moving cars are used as routers (nodes) to establish a reliable mobile communication network among the vehicles. Some of the drawbacks of the routing protocol, Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vect...
End plates are located at both ends of a proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) stack. If the end plates are thin, clamping pressure is not uniform and the performance of PEMWE can deteriorate from leakage and high electrical contact res...
The RPL (Routing Protocol for LLN) protocol is a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks. In such a network, energy is a very scarce resource, so many studies are focused on minimizing global energy consumption. End-to-end latency is anothe...
Energy efficiency and end-to-end delay are two of the major requirements for the monitoring and detection applications based on resource-constrained wireless sensor networks (WSNs). As new advanced technologies for accurate monitoring and detection&m...
Inappropriate repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) leads to genomic instability, cell death, or malignant transformation. Cells minimize these detrimental effects by selectively activating suitable DSB repair pathways in accordance with their un...
Data transmission and storage are inseparable from compression technology. Compressed sensing directly undersamples and reconstructs data at a much lower sampling frequency than Nyquist, which reduces redundant sampling. However, the requirement of d...
Organ fibrosis, particularly of the lungs, causes significant morbidity and mortality. Effective treatments are needed to reduce the health burden. A fragment of the carboxyl-terminal end of collagen XVIII/endostatin reduces skin and lung fibrosis. T...
Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the primary source of natural textile fiber in the U.S. and a major crop in the Southeastern U.S. Despite constant efforts to increase the cotton fiber yield, the yield gain has stagnated. Therefore, we undertook a novel ap...
Carbon emission is a prominent issue, and smart urban solutions have the technological capabilities to implement change. The technologies for creating smart energy systems already exist, some of which are currently under wide deployment globally. By...
Transferring emergent target tracking data to sinks is a major challenge in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), because inefficient data transmission can cause significant personnel and property loss. For tracking a constantly moving mobile tar...
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