Phytochemicals like pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) can affect the health of humans and animals. PAs can occur for example in tea, honey or herbs. Some PAs are known to be cytotoxic, genotoxic, and carcinogenic. Upon intake of high amounts, hepatotoxic...
Although many families of integration methods have been successfully developed with desired numerical properties, such as second order accuracy, unconditional stability and numerical dissipation, they are generally implicit methods. Thus, an iterativ...
The structural dependence of self-propelled motion in micro/nanomotors is essential for effectively predicting and controlling their dynamic behaviors. In this study, platinum–silica (Pt-SiO2) micromotors, with structures ranging from spherical...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by severe brain damage and dementia. There are currently few therapeutics to treat this disease, and they can only temporarily alleviate some of the symptoms. The pathogenesis of A...
The drive at the center of gravity (DCG) concept-based twin-ball-screw drive mechanism (TBSDM) is vital in automated factories for its robustness and reliability. However, changes in the worktable mass or position result in changes in the center of g...
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are a group of secondary plant metabolites being contained in various plant species. The consumption of contaminated food can lead to acute intoxications in humans and exert severe hepatotoxicity. The development of jaun...
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Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are a group of secondary metabolites produced in various plant species as a defense mechanism against herbivores. PAs consist of a necine base, which is esterified with one or two necine acids. Humans are exposed to PAs...
1,2-unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are secondary plant metabolites occurring as food contaminants that can cause severe liver damage upon metabolic activation in hepatocytes. However, it is yet unknown how these contaminants enter the cell...
Although the risk management of agricultural firms is important, studies on the extreme risk dependence among agribusiness firms are minimal due to the diversity and complexity of the risks faced by agricultural firms. In this study, we developed a h...
Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) can be divided into two types according to the type of complexity: questions with constraints and questions with multiple hops of relationships. Previous work on knowledge base question answering have mostly f...
Efficient workflow scheduling is essential for improving testing efficiency in large-scale Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) protocol conformance testing. Existing directed acyclic graph (DAG) schedulers treat all test components uniformly, overlooking the...
In recent years, the use of functionally graded materials has been the focus of several studies due to their intrinsic ability to be tailored according to the requirements of structures while minimising abrupt stress transitions commonly found in lam...
This paper presents the important features of structure-dependent model predictive control (MPC)-based approaches for automatic generation control (AGC) considering network topology. Since power systems have various generators under different topolog...
With the growing global emphasis on sustainable development goals, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors have emerged as critical considerations in shaping economic policies and strategies. This study employs the ARMA-eGARCH-skewed t an...
Odorants present a persistent challenge in drinking water treatment due to their low odor threshold concentrations (OTCs) and their resistance to conventional processes. This study investigated the seasonal occurrence of eight odorants across 20 surf...
Plant proteins are constantly gaining attention as potential substitutes for dairy proteins, due to their suitable functionality and nutritional value. This study was designed to compare the structural and functional responses of different plant prot...
Nonlinear drag force has been a research frontier in complex gas-solid systems. The literature has reported that the commonly-used drag correlations often overestimate drag force and, thus, cause unrealistic homogeneous flow structures in gas-solid f...
Fe2O3–ZrO2 catalysts with different morphologies (nanoplates (HZNPs), nanorods (HZNRs), nanocubes (HZNCs), and nanotubes (HZNTs)) were prepared by a hydrothermal method to investigate the effect of the morphology on the catalytic performance in...
Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based networks have wide applications, in which structural design and control are important to achieve the desired performance. This paper focuses on the mechanism behind the structure-dependent mechanical performance of a CNT-b...
Objective: Self-assembling peptide nanomaterials are increasingly investigated as modular platforms for vaccine delivery and immune modulation. However, their structure-dependent interactions with immune cells remain insufficiently defined, limiting...
The photonic structures of butterfly wing scales are widely known to cause angle-dependent colours by light interference with nanostructures present in the wing scales. Here, we quantify the relevance of the horizontal alignment of the butterfly wing...
Consumers are heterogeneous in their inertial responses to previous consumptions. Information on consumers’ structural state-dependence is valuable for evaluating consumers’ habit-forming strength and thus can be used for encouraging more...
This paper presents, for the first time, the structure-dependent parameter trade-off optimization on figure-of-merit (RonCoff) and power compression of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) for radio frequency (RF) switch applications....
We study the dependence structure of share price returns among the Beijing Bank, Ningbo Bank, and Nanjing Bank using copula models. We use the normal, Student’s t, rotated Gumbel, and symmetrized Joe-Clayton (SJC) copula models to estimate the...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent, structurally diverse contaminants whose ecological hazard assessment remains challenging, particularly for primary producers. Conventional growth-based algal bioassays often overlook subletha...
Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) is predominantly characterized by alternating CH2 and CF2 units in a polymer backbone, originating from the head-to-tail addition of monomers or regular propagation. Due, to a small extent, to inverse monomer addition...
Deep learning methods for RNA secondary structure prediction have shown higher performance than traditional methods, but there is still much room to improve. It is known that the lengths of RNAs are very different, as are their secondary structures....
The molecular design of short peptides to achieve a tailor-made functional architecture has attracted attention during the past decade but remains challenging as a result of insufficient understanding of the relationship between peptide sequence and...
RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is one of the most versatile enzymes of RNA viruses that is indispensable for replicating the genome as well as for carrying out transcription. The core structural features of RdRps are conserved, despite the diver...
Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a structured technique for identifying risks that may occur during a given stage of a system’s life cycle. However, the use of the risk priority number (RPN) in traditional FMEA results in difficulties...
This paper aims to study the intricate interplay among the digital economy, industrial structure, and the degree of dependence on foreign trade. We utilize panel data from 284 prefecture-level cities in China spanning from 2011 to 2019 to comprehensi...
The reliability of structural safety assessments for offshore wind turbines is often compromised by time-dependent corrosion effects and the high computational cost of fluid–structure interaction analysis. This study proposes a data-driven fram...
TiAl-based alloys are promising light weight structural materials for high temperature applications in the field of aerospace. Recently, fabrication technologies starting from powders including powder metallurgy and additive manufacturing have been d...
Aspect-based sentiment analysis is a fine-grained task where the key goal is to predict sentiment polarities of one or more aspects in a given sentence. Currently, graph neural network models built upon dependency trees are widely employed for aspect...
The exploration of the dependency structure of the Chinese and EU carbon trading markets is crucial to the construction of a globally harmonized carbon market. In this paper, we studied the characteristics of structural interdependency between China&...
Due to the enhanced piezoelectric properties, excellent mechanical properties and tunable electric properties, one-dimensional (1D) piezoelectric materials have shown their promising applications in nanogenerators (NG), sensors, actuators, electronic...
Besides the design freedom offered by additive manufacturing, another asset lies within its potential to accelerate product development processes by rapid fabrication of functional prototypes. The premise to fully exploit this benefit for lightweight...
Vegetable tannin is widely applied in various industries, in agriculture, and in water treatment as a natural polyphenolic compound; however, little data has been collected concerning the relationship between structure and eco-toxicity. Here, the tox...
This study examines the structural drivers of Hungary’s electricity import dependence and assesses how domestic generation, regional trade exposure, and system-level constraints shape electricity security. The analysis combines a targeted liter...
An integrated model that considers multiphysics is necessary to accurately analyze the time-dependent response of hydraulic structures on soft foundations. This study develops an integrated superstructure–foundation–backfills model and in...
Testosterone deficiency may increase the risk of sexual dysfunction and the failure of spermatogenesis. Oxidative stress that is derived from the destruction of homeostasis, disease, and exposure to contaminants can damage the steroidogenicity proces...
Mechanical interfaces are prevalent in industries like aerospace and maritime, where the normal contact stiffness on these surfaces is a crucial component of the overall stiffness of mechanical structures. From the perspective of structural mechanics...
Diverse domain patterns significantly influence the nonlinear electromechanical behaviors of ferroelectric nanomaterials, with polarization switching under strong electric fields being inherently a frequency-dependent phenomenon. Nevertheless, resear...
We propose a simple three-factor pricing model, consisting of a local stock market index, a global REIT market index, and a global stock market index, to examine the dependence structure of conditional volatilities in the real estate investment trust...
Distributed passive vibration control systems (VCSs) offer an attractive solution for improving the seismic response of multi-story buildings, particularly in seismic retrofit applications and when soil–structure interaction (SSI) effects are e...
This study investigates whether external terms of trade (TOT) and mining-sector GDP in Peru share a stable long-run relationship. Although mining has played a central role in the country’s growth trajectory, its performance remains highly expos...
This paper examines the joint movement and tail dependence structure between the pair of foreign exchange rates (EUR, USD and GBP) against the GHS, using daily exchange rates data expressed in GHS per unit of foreign currencies (EUR, USD and GBP) bet...
Long-term care (LTC) encompasses a set of services provided to impaired and dependent elderly people. To assess the level of the dependence several scales are used, including activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental ADL (IADL) and functional li...
Understanding material behavior is key to discovering innovative applications in any field. Regardless of the exciting mechanical properties of polyurea, there has been a limited effort in studying the use of polyurea for structural retrofit and stre...
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