Dietary polyphenols are the most abundant antioxidants in daily diet and widely distributed in plants and plant-based foods,including vegetables,fruits,cereals,nuts,and beverages(e.g.,tea,coffee,red wine).Over the pas...
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Dietary polyphenols are the most abundant antioxidants in daily diet and widely distributed in plants and plant-based foods,including vegetables,fruits,cereals,nuts,and beverages(e.g.,tea,coffee,red wine).Over the past decades,there has been rising scientific interest in their diverse benefits to human health,since dietary polyphenols display various bioactivities,such as antioxidant activity,anti-inflammatory activity,anticancer,anti-microbial activity,neuro-protective activity,among *** studies have demonstrated that diet with polyphenols is strongly related to decrease the risk of chronic *** this review,firstly,we systematically summarize classification and sources of dietary polyphenols,and focus on the current evidences defining their function and mechanism on improving chronic diseases,including diabetes,obesity,hypertension,***,future directions of dietary polyphenols are ***,despite the physiological effects of dietary polyphenols have been widely convinced in vitro and in vivo,human trials show inconsistent evidence with their beneficial effects in chronic diseases administration,so as to their unclear molecular *** clinical studies are needed to provide clear evidence on dietary polyphenols against chronic *** general,this paper provides comprehensive review of the sources and compositions of dietary polyphenols from plant materials,and presents an overview of the evidence on dietary polyphenols against chronic diseases,which may offer some constructive inspirations for further research on dietary polyphenols and industrial application in the food and medicine industry.
Essential oils (EOs) seem to be more versatile and consist of a variety of volatile and organic biological active substances that are also employed as the better substitutes in the bacteria,fungal and various food ***...
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Essential oils (EOs) seem to be more versatile and consist of a variety of volatile and organic biological active substances that are also employed as the better substitutes in the bacteria,fungal and various food *** researchers have done detailed research about the antibacterial property of essential oils and their respective *** several pioneering works in the past have explained the mode of action of some compounds,an extensive understanding of most of the substances and their molecular mechanisms is still *** particular,the bioactivity characteristics of EOs were evaluated by the main components found in *** components were commonly utilized in the applications of bactericidal,fungicidal,medicinal and antioxidant *** oils bioactivity can be contrasted with the behavior of pharmaceutical formulations which are produced ***,essential oils are showing promise organic extracts that require further analysis in the nutrition or pharmaceutical companies for potential applications as supplements,additives or *** of their diverse activities like antifungal and antibacterial characteristics,essential oils may be utilized as alternate additives to improve the grain and seed shelf *** review aims to provide a summary of existing information on the antibacterial and antifungal properties of EOs,their mechanism,and ingredients in identifying the areas of study that can promote the implementation in various bacterial and fungal properties.
Quantitative markets are characterized by swift dynamics and abundant uncertainties, making the pursuit of profit-driven stock trading actions inherently challenging. Within this context, Reinforcement Learning (RL) ...
Quantitative markets are characterized by swift dynamics and abundant uncertainties, making the pursuit of profit-driven stock trading actions inherently challenging. Within this context, Reinforcement Learning (RL) — which operates on a reward-centric mechanism for optimal control — has surfaced as a potentially effective solution to the intricate financial decision-making conundrums presented. This paper delves into the fusion of two established financial trading strategies, namely the constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) and the time-invariant portfolio protection (TIPP), with the multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient (MADDPG) framework. As a result, we introduce two novel multi-agent RL (MARL) methods: CPPI-MADDPG and TIPP-MADDPG, tailored for probing strategic trading within quantitative markets. To validate these innovations, we implemented them on a diverse selection of 100 real-market shares. Our empirical findings reveal that the CPPI-MADDPG and TIPP-MADDPG strategies consistently outpace their traditional counterparts, affirming their efficacy in the realm of quantitative trading.
Thermal ablation is a method used to cause tumor cell death by heating the tissue, and one way to achieve this is to use the heating properties of ultrasound with High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU). Thermal abla...
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Phase aberration is an inherent side effect of ultrasound imaging due to the speed of sound inhomogeneity nature of human tissues, resulting in focusing error and reduced image contrast. This work introduces a phase a...
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We demonstrate real time distributed strain sensing by slope-assisted Brillouin optical time domain analysis using both loss and gain spectra, where the system is simplified by using deep intensity modulation and serr...
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Thermal ablation is a method used to cause tumor cell death by heating the tissue, and one way to achieve this is to use the heating properties of ultrasound with High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU). Thermal abla...
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Thermal ablation is a method used to cause tumor cell death by heating the tissue, and one way to achieve this is to use the heating properties of ultrasound with High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU). Thermal ablation with HIFU has been shown to be a noninvasive and effective approach to tumor treatment. There are different approaches to the application of HIFU, two of which are continuous and pulsed. To characterize these two modalities, a comparative analysis of the thermal dose (TD) achieved by continuous and pulsed HIFU is performed, keeping all the other parameters constant. The thermal dose is calculated from the temperatures measured using thermocouples inserted in ex vivo skeletal muscle tissue (SMT) samples, exposed to both modalities. A single element HIFU transducer with a f = 1.1 MHz (Sonic Concepts H-104 Transducer Series, Ø64 mm, WA, USA) is used to generate the ultrasound pulses. The continuous mode used consists of a single pulse of 20 s of duration; whereas the pulsed mode consists of two pulses of 10 s of duration separated by 5 s of dead time, during which there is no sonification. Both are excited with an input of 350 mV, resulting in an output power of 31 ± 1 W, this way the same amount of energy is deposited in the sample by both modalities. The TD model CEM43 was used to analyze the response of the sample to the continuous and pulsed HIFU, which is one of the most widely accepted for thermal dosimetry. The results show that the use of continuous HIFU achieves slightly higher temperatures than pulsed HIFU, but the difference becomes more notable in the calculated TD, being the dose of continuous HIFU several times the dose of pulsed HIFU.
biomedical hydrogels that undergo a rapid liquid-to-solid phase transition often use a photopolymerization strategy to crosslink the polymer network. In applications such as 3D bioprinting or tissue engineering that i...
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biomedical hydrogels that undergo a rapid liquid-to-solid phase transition often use a photopolymerization strategy to crosslink the polymer network. In applications such as 3D bioprinting or tissue engineering that involve cell-laden hydrogels, or where in-vivo polymerization is desired (i.e., in-situ), cytotoxicity of the hydrogel crosslinking reaction becomes an important issue. There are only a few cytocompatible photoinitiators (PIs) that are commonly used for crosslinking biomedical hydrogels, including Irgacure2959 (I2959), lithium phenyl-2,4,6-trimethylbenzoylphosphinate (LAP) and EosinY (EY). These PIs are illuminated at 365nm, 405nm and 525nm, respectively. The photopolymerization conditions, including PI concentration and illumination intensity may affect both the cytotoxicity of the reaction and the crosslinking of the hydrogel. Herein we tested these three PIs to optimize the maximum crosslinking efficiency while minimizing cell death associated with the photochemical reaction. Testing was performed on three different types of cell-compatible hydrogels used for cell encapsulation and 3D cell growth, including a synthetic material (poly(ethylene glycol)-diacrylate, PEG-DA), a semi-synthetic material (PEG-fibrinogen, PF) and a modified biological material (methacrylated fibrinogen, FibMA). Strain-rate controlled rheology was used to characterize the crosslinking reaction efficiency, both in terms of maximum shear storage modulus, G’, and crosslinking kinetics. Viability was examined on human dermal fibroblasts in 3D culture within photopolymerized PF hydrogels crosslinked using each of the PIs. The results showed that PI concentration and the illumination intensity had significant impact on the crosslinking efficiency, with each material system demonstrating different responses to the PI parameters. Optimal photo-crosslinking conditions, considering both crosslinking efficiency and cell viability were not the same for the modified protein hydrogels, as co
This article discusses how to create an interactive virtual training program at the intersection of neuroscience, robotics, and computer science for high school students with equity of access. A four-day microseminar,...
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