Downstream migration (DSM) of fish through the different types of water intakes is not a random process, but rather a selective removal from the limnetic to the lotic parts of river–lake systems. Selectivity means that the assemblage of migrant...
Sea ice segmentation based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images has become an important technical means for polar climate change monitoring and navigation safety guarantee. However, the existing methods have limitations in the utilization of SAR...
Depression persists as one of the illnesses described relentlessly through the centuries because it affects a large group of people. Background/Objectives: The treatment of depression consists of various therapeutic agents, among which selective sero...
Nowadays, with the advancement of the Internet and personal mobile devices, many interactive media are prevailing, where viewers make their own decisions on the story of the media based on their interactions. The interaction that the user can make is...
The overall efficiency of combining denitrification and volatile organic compound (VOC) removal through selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology is currently mainly limited by the VOC removal aspect. However, existing studies have not studied t...
Polylactic acid (PLA) is a biodegradable polymer suitable for selective laser sintering, yet the atomic-level sintering mechanisms of plant-fiber-reinforced PLA remain largely unclear. Here, all-atom molecular dynamics simulations are used to investi...
Feature interaction is a newly proposed feature relevance relationship, but the unintentional removal of interactive features can result in poor classification performance for this relationship. However, traditional feature selection algorithms mainl...
Collective cell migration plays essential roles in morphogenesis, wound healing, angiogenesis, and cancer invasion, yet quantitative measurement of leader–follower interaction strength and range remains challenging due to the lack of direct and...
Project portfolio selection is essential for a company to achieve its strategic goals. Due to constraints such as budget and manpower, companies cannot undertake all projects simultaneously and must prioritize those offering the highest value. Projec...
Experimental mito-nuclear introgression lines (MNILs) were established by backcrossing isofemale lines of D. subobscura originating from the same populations. MNILs were subjected to a series of life-history experiments designed to test the fitness o...
The modes of interaction (e.g., mouse and touch) between maps and users affect the effectiveness and efficiency of transmitting cartographic information. Recent advances in eye tracking technology have made eye trackers lighter, cheaper and more accu...
Software defect prediction (SDP) aims to identify defect-prone modules before testing, but severe class imbalance and redundant software metrics often limit prediction performance. Many conventional feature selection methods estimate feature relevanc...
The primary mechanism of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is inhibition of prostaglandin production mediated by cyclooxygenase. Given the possible association of cyclooxygenase-2, but not cyclooxygenase-1, with membrane lipid rafts, we...
As part of the so-called interfacial separation techniques, selective particle agglomeration is one of the few options that are suitable for the separation of heterogeneous, multicomponent systems of particles smaller than 1 μm. In this regard, th...
Sustainable supplier selection has become a strategic activity to enhance the competitiveness of sustainable supply chain management. Research on sustainable supplier selection is considering increasingly more practical factors, such as the uncertain...
Drug-target interaction prediction provides important information that could be exploited for drug discovery, drug design, and drug repurposing. Chemogenomic approaches for predicting drug-target interaction assume that similar receptors bind to simi...
In supply chain management, selecting the right supplier is one of the most important decision-making processes for improving corporate competitiveness. In particular, when a buyer considers selecting multiple suppliers, one should consider the issue...
Bacterial interactions with eukaryotic hosts are complex processes which vary from pathogenic to mutualistic. Identification of bacterial genes differentially expressed in the host, promises to unravel molecular mechanisms driving and maintaining suc...
Picture fuzzy numbers (PFNs), as the generalization of fuzzy sets, are good at fully expressing decision makers’ opinions with four membership degrees. Since aggregation operators are simple but powerful tools, this study aims to explore some a...
Lipid species are critical components of eukaryotic membranes. They play key roles in many biological processes such as signal transduction, cell homeostasis, and energy storage. Investigations of lipid–environment interactions, in addition to...
As the most common psychiatric symptom, depression represents a subject of high interest for the medical community. Background/Objectives: International guidelines consider selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) the first-line treatment of d...
Understanding the adsorption mechanisms of anions onto functional monomers is crucial for various applications in environmental remediation and chemical separation. In this study, we investigated the interactions of ReO4−, Cl−, SO42&minus...
Overlapping structures of protein–protein interaction networks are very prevalent in different biological processes, which reflect the sharing mechanism to common functional components. The overlapping community detection (OCD) algorithm based...
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) regulate a plethora of cellular processes and NMR spectroscopy has been a leading technique for characterizing them at the atomic resolution. Technically, however, PPIs characterization has been challenging due to...
Faces and voices in live remote interactions are often treated as identity evidence, but advances in synthetic media generation weaken that inference. An attacker needs one feasible route to an incorrect identity or action decision; a defense must co...
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) plays a key role in the infection of potyviruses in susceptible plants by interacting with viral genome-linked protein (VPg). Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) production is threatened by mosaic disease ca...
Hyaluronic acid (HA), through its interactions with the cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44), acts as a potent modulator of the tumor microenvironment, creating a wide range of extracellular stimuli for tumor growth, angiogenesis, invasion, and metas...
This paper explores the interaction mechanism between the conjugated polyelectrolyte {[9,9-bis(6'-N,N,N-trimethylammonium)hexyl]fluorene-phenylene}bromide (HTMA-PFP) and model lipid membranes. The study was carried out using different biophysical tec...
Small interfering RNA (siRNA) has been recognized as a powerful gene-silencing tool. For therapeutic application, chemical modification is often required to improve the properties of siRNA, including its nuclease resistance, activity, off-target effe...
Background/Objectives: Selective inhibition of JAK1 remains a major challenge in cytokine-signaling therapeutics due to the high structural similarity of the JAK family. Here, we present an integrated computational framework that combines large-scale...
Highly cis-1,4 selective (up to 98%) coordination–insertion polymerization of 1,3-butadiene (BD) has been achieved herein using acenaphthene-based α-diimine cobalt complexes. Due to the presence of intra-ligand π-π stacking interactions, the complexe...
In this study, GX2 was applied as a new high-efficiency chalcopyrite depressant to selectively separate molybdenite from Cu-Mo sulfide ores. The flotation performance and its interaction mechanisms with chalcopyrite and molybdenite were investigated...
In this study, the performance of 2-hydroxy-3-naphthylmethyl hydroxamic acid (NHA) in cassiterite flotation was investigated. The aim was to understand the mechanism of action of NHA for the first time. The effect of NHA as a collector in the flotati...
The interaction between oral bacteria and dental implant surfaces is a critical factor in the success and longevity of dental implants. With advancements in additive manufacturing technologies, selective laser melting (SLM) has emerged as a prominent...
Remote sensing imagery is characterized by complex backgrounds, substantial scale variation, and numerous small targets, placing greater demands on semantic modeling of high-spatial-resolution features and feature integration across multiple scales....
Various supported Ir/TiO2 catalysts were prepared using different Ir precursors (i.e., H2IrCl6, (NH4)2IrCl6 and Ir(acac)3) and tested for vapor phase selective hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde. The choice of Ir precursor significantly altered the Ir-T...
Molecular imprinting is a technique for creating artificial recognition sites on polymer matrices that complement the template in terms of size, shape, and spatial arrangement of functional groups. The main advantage of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers...
The purpose of the study was to investigate whether the co-administration of Mg2+ and Zn2+ with selective A1 and A2A receptor antagonists might be an interesting antidepressant strategy. Forced swim, tail suspension, and spontaneous locomotor motilit...
Voltage-gated Na+ (Nav) channels are the primary molecular determinant of the action potential. Among the nine isoforms of the Nav channel α subunit that have been described (Nav1.1-Nav1.9), Nav1.1, Nav1.2, and Nav1.6 are the primary isoforms e...
The concept of ranked sparsity, originally introduced in the context of penalized regression, arises in modeling applications when an expected disparity exists in the quality of information between different feature sets. Its presence can cause tradi...
The Kv1.2 channel plays an important role in the maintenance of resting membrane potential and the regulation of the cellular excitability of neurons, whose silencing or mutations can elicit neuropathic pain or neurological diseases (e.g., epilepsy a...
This paper introduces organic phases with aligned carbonyl groups derived from l-aspartic acid, l-glutamic acid, and l-α-aminoadipic acid; their stationary phases are denoted as Sil-Asp-2Cn, Sil-Glu-2Cn, and Sil-Adi-2Cn, respectively. The stationary...
This paper presents ITap, a novel interaction method utilizing hand tracking to create a virtual touchpad on a tabletop. ITap facilitates touch interactions such as tapping, dragging, and swiping using the index finger. The technique combines gaze-ba...
Voice- and gaze-based hands-free input are increasingly used in human-machine interaction. Attempts to combine them into a hybrid technology typically employ the voice channel as an information-rich channel. Voice seems to be “overqualified&rdq...
Gaze, as a sole input modality must support complex navigation and selection tasks. Gaze interaction combines specific eye movements and graphic display objects (GDOs). This paper suggests a unifying taxonomy of gaze interaction principles. The taxon...
Selective inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) may reduce the hematologic toxicity associated with dual PARP1/PARP2 inhibition. We performed molecular dynamics simulations for five selective inhibitors in complexes with PARP1 and PARP2...
Terminal drought is the main stress limiting pea (Pisum sativum L.) grain yield in Mediterranean environments. This study aimed to investigate genotype × environment (GE) interaction patterns, define a genomic selection (GS) model for yield und...
Gene-environment (G×E) interaction is critical for understanding the genetic basis of complex disease beyond genetic and environment main effects. In addition to existing tools for interaction studies, penalized variable selection emerges as a...
Selection is a fundamental interaction element in virtual reality (VR) and 3D user interfaces (UIs). Raycasting, one of the most common object selection techniques, is known to have difficulties in selecting small or distant objects. Meanwhile, recen...
The understanding of the interaction between non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and human serum albumin plays a fundamental role in the development of new drugs and new therapeutic strategies. Several studies have been performed, nevertheless, the...
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