Phidianidines A and B are two novel marine indole alkaloids bearing an uncommon 1,2,4-oxadiazole ring and exhibiting various biological activities. Our previous research showed that the synthesized phidianidine analogs had the potential to inhibit th...
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful technique for the discrimination, identification, and potential quantification of certain compounds/organisms. However, its real application is challenging due to the multiple interference from...
Habitat selection and daily activity patterns of large herbivores might be affected by inter- and intra-specific interaction, changes of spatial scale, and seasonal temperature. To reveal what factors were driving the habitat selection of moose, we c...
Specific emitter identification (SEI) is a technique to distinguish among different emitters of the same type using weak individual characteristics instead of conventional modulation parameters. The biggest challenge in SEI is to not only distinguish...
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a high-risk mental illness that severely affects individuals across all age groups. However, existing research lacks comprehensive analysis and utilization of brain topological features, making it challenging to red...
The emergence of biomimetic nanotechnology has seen an exponential rise over the past decade with applications in regenerative medicine, immunotherapy and drug delivery. In the context of nanomedicines activated by near infrared (NIR) photodynamic pr...
Label Distribution Learning (LDL) is a general learning framework that assigns an instance to a distribution over a set of labels rather than to a single label or multiple labels. Current LDL methods have proven their effectiveness in many real-life...
With the rapid development of modern society, the consumption of fossil fuels during the industrial production process produces a significant amount of carcinogens. Converting the highly toxic biphenyl (BP) to the valuable product cyclohexylbenzene (...
Tigecycline (TGC), a third-generation tetracycline, is characterized by a more potent and broad antibacterial activity, and the ability to overcome different mechanisms of tetracycline resistance. TGC has proven to be of value in treatment of multidr...
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...
In recent years, digital frame cameras have been increasingly used for remote sensing applications. However, it is always a challenge to align or register images captured with different cameras or different imaging sensor units. In this research, a n...
Short-horizon equity forecasting remains challenging because daily prices are noisy, heavy-tailed, and subject to structural breaks and regime shifts. We develop a fully automated, reproducible, and leakage-controlled multi-model pipeline for daily f...
This paper presents the design and multi-domain evaluation of three chaos-based excitation strategies for brushless DC (BLDC) motor drives implemented using Chua circuit-generated deterministic chaotic signals injected at three distinct control point...
The sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus is an important aquaculture species in artificial reef areas. Understanding the bacterial communities in its different tissues and their relationship with the environment is of great ecological significance for...
NiO-loaded SnO2 powders were prepared involving two chemical procedures. The mesoporous SnO2 support was synthesized by a hydrothermal route using Brij 35 non-ionic surfactant as a template. The nickel loadings of 1 and 10 wt.%. NiO were deposited by...
Thyroid hormones (THs) and TH receptor-beta (TRβ) reduce hepatic triglycerides, indicating a therapeutic potential for TH analogs in liver steatosis. To avoid adverse extrahepatic, especially TRα-mediated effects such as tachycardia and bo...
The integration of essential oils (EOs) with biological control agents offers a promising alternative to synthetic pesticides, though compatibility remains unclear. This study evaluated nutmeg (Myristica fragrans, NM), cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum, CIN...
This study focuses on the modification of ion-exchange membranes by incorporating a phosphorylated dendrimer into sulfonated polytetrafluoroethylene membranes to enhance the specific selectivity between mono-/divalent ions, using the Ca2+/Na+ pair as...
Gene duplications generate new genes that can contribute to expression changes and the evolution of new functions. Genomes often consist of gene families that undergo expansions, some of which occur in specific lineages that reflect recent adaptive d...
Given the rapid mutation and high transmissibility of coronaviruses, especially SARS-CoV-2, comparative genomic studies are crucial for understanding viral evolution, transmission dynamics, and therapeutic development. In prior work, we analyzed and...
Identifying the genetic basis of improvement in pigs contributes to our understanding of the role of artificial selection in shaping the genome. Here we employed the Cross Population Extended Haplotype Homozogysity (XPEHH) and the Wright’s fixa...
Sex chromosomes are unique genomic regions with sex-specific or sex-biased inherent patterns and are expected to be more frequently subject to sex-specific selection. Substantial knowledge on the evolutionary patterns of sex-linked genes have been ga...
Metal detoxification is crucial for animals to cope with environmental exposure. In snails, a pivotal role in protection against cadmium (Cd) is attributed to metallothioneins (MTs). Some gastropod species express, in a lineage-specific manner, Cd-se...
Bisphenol A (BPA) is an estrogen-mimicking chemical that can be selectively detected in water using a chemical sensor based on molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs). However, the utility of BPA-MIPs in sensor applications is limited by the presence o...
Site-specific antibody conjugations generate homogeneous antibody-drug conjugates with high therapeutic index. However, there are limited examples for producing the site-specific conjugates with a drug-to-antibody ratio (DAR) greater than two, especi...
Promising efforts are ongoing to extend genomics resources for pikeperch (Sander lucioperca), a species of high interest for the sustainable European aquaculture sector. Although previous work, including reference genome assembly, transcriptome seque...
Since the specific energy consumption (SEC) required for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination has been steeply reduced over the past few decades, there is an increasing demand for high-selectivity membranes. However, it is still hard to find research pa...
The aim of this study was to determine if specific physical tests are sufficiently discriminant to differentiate players of similar anthropometric characteristics, but of different playing levels. Physical tests were conducted analyzing specific stre...
The coexistence of Cu in copper sulfate electrolyte significantly affects the microstructure and performance of the copper foil. So far, there has been little quantitative analysis of Cu+ in the electrolyte during the copper foil production process....
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Medium optimization and development for selective bacterial cultures are essential for isolating and functionalizing individual bacteria in microbial communities; nevertheless, it remains challenging due to the unknown mechanisms between bacterial gr...
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are one of the largest superfamilies of membrane proteins, but little is known about the structural and evolutionary features of their non-domain regions. To clarify the diversity of these non-canonical regions...
Sexual selection involving female choice or female preference (‘inter-sexual’ selection) and/or male–male competition (‘intra-sexual’ selection) is one of the key mechanisms for evolutionary diversification and speciatio...
Powdery mildew (PM) of wheat caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici is among the most important wheat diseases, causing significant yield and quality losses in many countries worldwide. Considerable progress has been made in resistance breeding t...
Indirect Immuno-Fluorescence (IIF) microscopy imaging of human epithelial (HEp-2) cells is a popular method for diagnosing autoimmune diseases. Considering large data volumes, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems, based on image-based classificatio...
Due to the increasing reports of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) from livestock in recent years, the European Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistances (EURL-AR) provided a protocol for their recovery from caecum and meat sa...
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This paper compares two models predicting gender differences in information processing to determine if either of the models is more pertinent to goal-oriented Internet searches. The Selectivity Model (Meyers-Levy 1989) proposes that women make more c...
The plant SABATH gene family is a group of O-methyltransferases (O-MTs), which belongs to the S-adenosyl-l-methionine-dependent methyltransferases (SAM-MTs). The resulting reaction products of SABATH genes play an important role in various processes...
During circuit assembly it is essential that neurons connect with their specific synaptic partners. To facilitate this process, a common strategy in many organisms is the organization of brain regions, including the fly visual system, in layers and c...
Effective and versatile screening of the peptide ligands capable of selectively binding to diverse receptors is in high demand for the state-of-the-art technologies in life sciences, including probing of specificity of the cell surface receptors and...
Cryptosporidiumparvum is a clinically important eukaryotic parasite that causes the disease cryptosporidiosis, which manifests with gastroenteritis-like symptoms. The protist has mitosomes, which are organelles of mitochondrial origin that have only...
The female-specific W chromosomes of most Neognathae birds are highly degenerated and gene-poor. Previous studies have demonstrated that the gene repertoires of the Neognathae bird W chromosomes, despite being in small numbers, are conserved across b...
Hyperspectral images are characterized by hundreds of spectral bands and rich information. However, there exists a large amount of information redundancy among adjacent bands. In this study, a spatial–spectral combination method for hyperspectr...
The rapid increase in end-of-life lithium-ion batteries demands sustainable recycling routes for lithium recovery. This work presents a novel integrated hydrometallurgical–electrodialysis process designed specifically for recovering lithium fro...
This study explored language control in phonological encoding during L1 (Chinese) and L2 (English) production via two retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) experiments and two bilingual picture–word interference (PWI) experiments with Chinese&ndas...
The Tibet Autonomous Region presents immense potential for concentrated solar power (CSP) development, driven by its exceptional solar irradiance levels (e.g., a peak DNI exceeding 2100 kWh/m2/day). This positions it as a strategic contributor to Chi...
Common bunt of wheat (Tilletia spp.) remains a significant threat to wheat production in low-input and organic farming systems, where chemical seed treatments are restricted or avoided. Host resistance represents a key component of sustainable diseas...
ECG monitoring is central to the early detection of cardiac abnormalities. We compared 28 manually selected signal-specific features with 159 automatically extracted signal-independent descriptors from the MIT BIH Arrhythmia Database. ANOVA reduced f...
Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) is a major viral disease adversely affecting cassava production in Africa and Asia. Genomic regions conferring resistance to the disease have been mapped in African cassava germplasm through biparental quantitative trait...
Messenger RNA (mRNA) and long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) are two main subgroups of RNAs participating in transcription regulation. With the development of next generation sequencing, increasing lncRNAs are identified. Many hidden functions of lncRNAs are...
The prior knowledge of protein structural class may offer useful clues on understanding its functionality as well as its tertiary structure. Though various significant efforts have been made to find a fast and effective computational approach to addr...
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