Oil-in-water emulsion-based adjuvants have demonstrated acceptable safety in many disease indica-tions, while their adjuvant activities for vaccines still need to be improved. Recently, the strategy of com-bining adju...
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Oil-in-water emulsion-based adjuvants have demonstrated acceptable safety in many disease indica-tions, while their adjuvant activities for vaccines still need to be improved. Recently, the strategy of com-bining adjuvants with multiple types of immunostimulants has been shown to enhance immune responses. In this study, astragalus polysaccharides were combined with simvastatin as an immunostim-ulant to construct a compound O/W emulsion adjuvant. The formulations were optimized according to the OVA-specific antibody responses induced in mice. For this reason, high (5 mg/mL), medium (2.5 mg/mL), and low (1.25 mg/mL) concentrations of astragalus polysaccharides and high (10 mg/mL), medium (1 mg/mL), and low (0.1 mg/mL) concentrations of simvastatin were selected. The final optimal formulation of the immunostimulant was a high concentration of astragalus polysaccharides combined with a medium concentration of simvastatin. The optimal compound O/W emulsion adjuvant could induce effective humoral and cellular immune responses that were stronger and more stable than those induced by aluminum adjuvant and Freund's adjuvant. The OVA/HAPS-MSim-OE induced dramatically strong and persistent IgG expressions and Th1-polarized immune responses. What's more, the highest CD4+/CD8+lymphocyte ratios were observed in OVA/HAPS-MSim-OE group. In addition, compound O/ W emulsion adjuvant groups significantly promoted the secretion of IFN-c and IL-6, which also indicated that the compound O/W emulsion adjuvants could induce both enhanced Th1 and Th2-mediated immune responses but prefer the Th1-mediated ones. This study would contribute to an interesting and promising direction in the development of emulsion-based adjuvants. (c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This letter deals with the knowledge-aided adaptive detection problem of radar targets in nonhomogeneous correlated compound Gaussian sea clutter. The lognormal distribution is used as the prior distribution of the cl...
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This letter deals with the knowledge-aided adaptive detection problem of radar targets in nonhomogeneous correlated compound Gaussian sea clutter. The lognormal distribution is used as the prior distribution of the clutter texture to match the non-Gaussianity of sea clutter. In addition, in order to ensure the estimation accuracy of the covariance matrix structure of sea clutter, a convex combination estimator (CCE) is proposed by jointly exploiting the prior information and the current secondary data. Then, a knowledge-aided adaptive detector is designed on the basis of the complex parameter Gradient test and the CCE. Numerical experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed CCE and adaptive detector in comparison with their counterparts, respectively.
In modern radar applications, data-driven sea-land segmentation of complex environments based directly on radar returns without the help of electronic charts and other information has attracted researchers' attent...
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In modern radar applications, data-driven sea-land segmentation of complex environments based directly on radar returns without the help of electronic charts and other information has attracted researchers' attention due to the solidification of exogenous information and defect of nonreal timeness. However, the sea-land segmentation based on radar echoes still faces two problems: first, complex clutter environment with mixed ground and sea clutter leads to a large dynamic range of clutter power, which makes power-based segmentation unreliable;and second, stable segmentation features are difficult to obtain when echoes in a single scan period are limited. In the case of multiframe radar echoes, this article first unwraps the phases of two adjacent echo sequences and extracts a new similarity measure for sea-land segmentation based on the covariance of phase difference sequences between sea clutter and ground clutter. Then, inspired by the idea of iteration, this article proposes a method to iterate the covariance matrix by iterating the clutter map of the characteristic differences of multiframe echoes to distinguish between sea and ground clutter more effectively. Experimental results based on the measured data show that the proposed sea-land segmentation method based on multiframe echoes can effectively separate sea and land areas and ensure the quality of the segmentation results, and after several consecutive scan periods, the proposed sea-land segmentation method is more accurate and robust than other sea-land segmentation methods.
Graph signal processing (GSP) is a field that deals with data residing on irregular domains, i.e. graph signals. In this field, the graph filter bank is one of the most important developments, owing to its ability to ...
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Graph signal processing (GSP) is a field that deals with data residing on irregular domains, i.e. graph signals. In this field, the graph filter bank is one of the most important developments, owing to its ability to provide multiresolution analysis of graph signals. However, most of the current research on graph filter bank focuses on static graph signals. The research does not exploit the temporal correlations of time-varying signals in real-world applications, such as in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, the theory and design of joint time-vertex nonsubsampled filter bank are developed, using a generalized product graph framework. Several methods are proposed to design the filter bank with perfect reconstruction, while still achieving filters with good spectral characteristics. A notable feature of the designed filter bank is that it can be completely realized in a distributed manner. The subband filters are either of polynomial type or defined implicitly via iterative equations. In either case, implementing the subband filters requires only the exchange of information between neighboring nodes. The filter banks are therefore of low implementation complexity and suitable for processing large time-varying datasets. Numerical examples will demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed designed methods. Application in time-varying graph signal denoising will show the superiority of joint time-vertex filter bank over other methods.
This article addresses the detection problem of radar targets embedded in nonhomogeneous and non-Gaussian sea clutter. Nonhomogeneity leads to insufficiency of secondary data for estimating the clutter speckle covaria...
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This article addresses the detection problem of radar targets embedded in nonhomogeneous and non-Gaussian sea clutter. Nonhomogeneity leads to insufficiency of secondary data for estimating the clutter speckle covariance matrix, and non-Gaussianity causes sea clutter to become spiky. In this article, the persymmetry of the clutter covariance matrix is adopted to alleviate the requirement of secondary data, and the prior distribution of clutter texture is exploited to tackle the clutter non-Gaussianity. Based on such clutter knowledge, three adaptive detectors are proposed according to the principles of the generalized likelihood ratio test, the Wald test, and the Rao test. It is proven that three detectors ensure constant false alarm rate (CFAR) properties with respect to both the clutter speckle covariance matrix and the clutter power mean. Simulation experiments show that three detectors outperform their competitors.
This paper addresses the problem of polarimetric adaptive coherent detection for maritime radar targets in the non-Gaussian sea clutter background. First, the radar sea clutter data at multiple polarimetric channels a...
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