Rapid adaptation to the environment is the long-term task of reinforcement learning. However, reinforcement learning faces great challenges in dynamic environments, especially with continuous state-action spaces. In t...
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Faults on distribution networks due to abnormal weather events can lead to disruption and can cause high socio-economic losses. In line with the rising frequency of such events, the paper proposes an algorithm for the...
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Recent years have seen a rising interest in distributed optimization problems because of their widespread applications in power grids, multi-robot control, and regression *** the last few decades, many distributed alg...
Recent years have seen a rising interest in distributed optimization problems because of their widespread applications in power grids, multi-robot control, and regression *** the last few decades, many distributed algorithms have been developed for tackling distributed optimization problems. In these algorithms, agents over the network only have access to their own local functions and exchange information with their neighbors.
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Renwen TianYan SunDepartment of Biochemical Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering and Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology(Ministry of Education)Tianjin UniversityTianjin 300350China
Extensive use of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) has brought about global environmental problems. Arecently reported PET hydrolase (PETase) discovered from Ideonella sakaiensis showed high potentialfor degrading PET ...
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Extensive use of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) has brought about global environmental problems. Arecently reported PET hydrolase (PETase) discovered from Ideonella sakaiensis showed high potentialfor degrading PET at moderate temperatures, but its activity and stability need further improvementfor practical applications. Herein, we proposed to use a-synuclein (aS) as a fusion chaperone and createdsix PETase-aS fusion enzymes with linkers of different types and lengths. All the fusion enzymes exhibited improved enzymatic performance, presenting 1.5 to 2.6-fold higher activity towards bis-2(hydroxyethyl) terephthalate than PETase, as well as significantly increased stabilities. Fluorescencespectroscopy indicated that the chaperone fusion tightened the overall conformation and resulted inthe opening of the substrate binding pocket, which led to the improved thermal stability and catalyticactivity of the fusion enzymes. Remarkably, one of the fusion proteins, PETase-[(GS)(EK)]10-aS, showed3.2 to 5.1 times higher PET degradation capability than PETase. The significantly boosted PET degradationperformance was not only attributed to the enhanced enzymatic activity and stability, but also possiblydue to the binding affinity of the fused aS domain for PET. These findings demonstrated that aS was aneffective fusion chaperone for significantly enhancing the enzymatic performance of PETase.
Oriented immobilization of enzymes helps to maintain their native structure and proper orientation for high-performance engineering to meet extensive biocatalysis ***,the supporting materials used for orientated immob...
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Oriented immobilization of enzymes helps to maintain their native structure and proper orientation for high-performance engineering to meet extensive biocatalysis ***,the supporting materials used for orientated immobilization are usually costly or complicated in preparation,affecting their practical *** this work,a facile purification and immobilization method was proposed for enzyme immobilization based on organic-inorganic hybrid calcium phosphate nanocrystal(Ca Ps)induced by Cu^(2+) modified bovine serum albumin(BSA-Cu).Then,the as-prepared hybrid calcium phosphate nanosheet,BSA-Cu@Ca Ps,was utilized for one-pot purification and immobilization of His-tagged organophosphorus hydrolase(OPH)by metal-affinity binding to the incorporated ***-Cu@Ca PsOPH exhibited enhanced p H stability and thermal stability compared to the free ***,BSA-Cu@Ca Ps-OPH could retain more than 75%and 56%of initial activity after reuse 5 and 10 times,*** results demonstrated that this facile strategy was promising for the effective biodegradation of organophosphorus pesticides with the immobilized enzyme.
Deposition of β-amyloid protein(Aβ) is the main hallmark of Alzheimer's disease(AD), and it has been well recognized that Cu^(2+)-mediated Aβ aggregation plays a crucial role in AD pathological ***^(2+)binding ...
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Deposition of β-amyloid protein(Aβ) is the main hallmark of Alzheimer's disease(AD), and it has been well recognized that Cu^(2+)-mediated Aβ aggregation plays a crucial role in AD pathological ***^(2+)binding to Aβ can promote the production of reactive oxygen species(ROS) through Fenton-like reactions and produce more toxic Aβ-Cu^(2+)species under Cu^(2+)stimulation. Thus, the development of nanomaterials that can inhibit Cu^(2+)-mediated Aβ aggregation and degrade Aβ-Cu^(2+)complexes is considered an effective strategy for the prevention and treatment of AD. In this study, polydopamine nanoparticles(PDA NPs) were prepared and the results reveal that PDA NPs potently inhibit Cu^(2+)-mediated Aβaggregation and effectively reduce the formation of Aβ-Cu^(2+)complexes. In vitro experiments show that PDA NPs efficiently eliminate ROS generation catalyzed by Cu^(2+)or Aβ-Cu^(2+)complexes, thus rescuing cultured cells by reducing intracellular ROS levels. More importantly, PDA NPs can depolymerize Aβ-Cu^(2+)complexes, and the degradation of Aβ-Cu^(2+)complexes is promoted by near-infrared light irradiation due to their high photothermal conversion ability. In vivo studies reveal that PDA NPs significantly reduce the deposition of Aβ plaques in the presence of Cu^(2+)and extend the lifespan of AD nematodes from 11 to 14 d. Thus, the PDA NPs developed herein are multifunctional against Cu^(2+)-mediated Aβ aggregation for the potential prevention and treatment of AD.
To enable successful multi-phase particle-in-cell(MP-PIC)simulations of circulating fluidized beds(CFBs),both the interphase drag force and interparticle collisions need to be carefully *** collisions are usually repr...
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To enable successful multi-phase particle-in-cell(MP-PIC)simulations of circulating fluidized beds(CFBs),both the interphase drag force and interparticle collisions need to be carefully *** collisions are usually represented by the solid stress consisting of the normal and shear components,in which the normal stress was found to have a leading role in the numerical stability of MP-PIC simulations,whereas the impact of the shear stress has seldom been *** this work,the effects of the solid shear stress are investigated by using two-dimensional simulations of the moderately dense laboratory-scale CFB riser with in-house MP-PIC code implemented on MFIX open-source *** including only normal solid stress and those considering both normal and shear solid stresses are *** results of solids flux,axial and radial solids profiles are compared with available experimental *** results show that the solid shear stress plays a minor role on the accuracy of simulation,and the increase of PPP(number particles per parcel)leads to a lower accuracy of simulation.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an age-related, persistent, painless eye disease that impairs central vision. The central area (macula) of the retina, located at the back of the eye, sustains damage that is ...
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This paper develops distributed algorithms for solving Sylvester *** authors transform solving Sylvester equations into a distributed optimization problem,unifying all eight standard distributed matrix *** the authors...
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This paper develops distributed algorithms for solving Sylvester *** authors transform solving Sylvester equations into a distributed optimization problem,unifying all eight standard distributed matrix *** the authors propose a distributed algorithm to find the least squares solution and achieve an explicit linear convergence *** results are obtained by carefully choosing the step-size of the algorithm,which requires particular information of data and Laplacian *** avoid these centralized quantities,the authors further develop a distributed scaling technique by using local information *** a result,the proposed distributed algorithm along with the distributed scaling design yields a universal method for solving Sylvester equations over a multi-agent network with the constant step-size freely chosen from configurable ***,the authors provide three examples to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.
Developing a well-predictive machine learning model that also offers improved interpretability is a key challenge to widen the application of artificial intelligence in various application domains. In this work, we pr...
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Developing a well-predictive machine learning model that also offers improved interpretability is a key challenge to widen the application of artificial intelligence in various application domains. In this work, we present a Data Information integrated Neural Network (DINN) algorithm that incorporates the correlation information present in the dataset for the model development. The predictive performance of DINN is also compared with a standard artificial neural network (ANN) model. The DINN algorithm is applied on two case studies of energy systems namely energy efficiency cooling (ENC) & energy efficiency heating (ENH) of the buildings, and power generation from a 365 MW capacity industrial gas turbine. For ENC, DINN presents lower mean RMSE for testing datasets (RMSE_test = 1.23 %) in comparison with the ANN model (RMSE_test = 1.41 %). Similarly, DINN models have presented better predictive performance to model the output variables of the two case studies. The input perturbation analysis following the Gaussian distribution for noise generation reveals the order of significance of the variables, as made by DINN, can be better explained by the domain knowledge of the power generation operation of the gas turbine. This research work demonstrates the potential advantage to integrate the information present in the data for the well-predictive model development complemented with improved interpretation performance thereby opening avenues for industry-wide inclusion and other potential applications of machine learning.
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