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The NRAMP (natural resistance–associated macrophage protein) gene family is a group of metal ion transmembrane transporters widely found in animals and plants. Poplar trees present fast growth properties ideal...
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Arterial baroreflex (ABR) dysfunction has previously been associated with neuroinflammation, the most common pathological feature of neurological disorders. However, the mechanisms mediating ABR dysfunction-in...
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Cinnamon essential oil (CNO) is a natural and renewable antibacterial agent. However, CNO is highly volatile and unstable, which limits its practical application as a long-term and wide antibacterial agent. In...
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A Bagging Strategy-Based Multi-scale Texture GLCM-CNN Model for Differentiating Malignant from Benign Lesions Using Small Pathologically Proven Dataset
The application of deep learning (DL) methodology in the differentiation of benign and malignant lesions has drawn wide attention. However, it is extremely hard to acquire medical images with biopsy labeling, ...
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Open AccessA dynamic lesion model for differentiation of malignant and benign pathologies
Malignant lesions have a high tendency to invade their surrounding environment compared to benign ones. This paper proposes a dynamic lesion model and explores the 2nd order derivatives at each image voxel, wh...
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Event-based triggering mechanisms for nonlinear control systems
This study examines triggered implementations of stabilizing controllers for general nonlinear systems. By using perturbation theory and Taylor’s theorem, we propose new event-triggering and self-triggering me...
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Texture features have played an essential role in the field of medical imaging for computer-aided diagnosis. The gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM)-based texture descriptor has emerged to become one of the...
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Open AccessImproved computer-aided detection of pulmonary nodules via deep learning in the sinogram domain
Computer aided detection (CADe) of pulmonary nodules plays an important role in assisting radiologists’ diagnosis and alleviating interpretation burden for lung cancer. Current CADe systems, aiming at simulati...
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Open AccessEnergy enhanced tissue texture in spectral computed tomography for lesion classification
Tissue texture reflects the spatial distribution of contrasts of image voxel gray levels, i.e., the tissue heterogeneity, and has been recognized as important biomarkers in various clinical tasks. Spectral com...
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Pseudoginsenoside-F11 Attenuates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Acute Lung Injury by Suppressing Neutrophil Infiltration and Accelerating Neutrophil Clearance
Pseudoginsenoside-F11 (PF11), an ocotillol-type saponin, has been reported to have anti-inflammatory properties, but the effects of PF11 on acute lung inflammation were unknown. The present study aimed to inve...
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Photonic crystals containing graphene nanolayers have been attracting increasing attention due to their distinctive properties. In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis on the transmission properties o...
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Populus bolleana Lauche. (P. bolleana) and Populus euphratica Oliv. (P. euphratica) separately survive in mild and moderate alkaline soil conditions. The aim of this study was to explore the underlying mechanism ...
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Open AccessTomato UV-B receptor SlUVR8 mediates plant acclimation to UV-B radiation and enhances fruit chloroplast development via regulating SlGLK2
Plants utilize energy from sunlight to perform photosynthesis in chloroplast, an organelle that could be damaged by solar UV radiation. The ultraviolet-B (UV-B) photoreceptor UVR8 is required for UV-B percepti...
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A method of optimizing the shape of the driving electrode for switching application is proposed. This method increases the driving force, and decreases the driving voltage of the in-plane electrostatic MEMS sw...
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The problem of decentralized adaptive output tracking control of a class of interconnected stochastic nonlinear systems is considered. In the control design, decentralized state observers and backstep** tech...
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Electrostatic Comb-Drived Actuator for MEMS Relay/Switch
A method of optimizing the shape of the driving electrode for switching application is proposed. This method increases the driving force, and decreases the driving voltage of the in-plane electrostatic MEMS sw...
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Stimuli-responsive polymers have the extraordinary ability to change their physical and/or chemical state after they “detect” a change in their environment; their response depends dramatically on their chemica...
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