On-demand app-based shared mobility services have created new opportunities for complementing traditional fixed-route transit through transit agencies' efforts to incorporate them into their service provision. Thi...
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On-demand app-based shared mobility services have created new opportunities for complementing traditional fixed-route transit through transit agencies' efforts to incorporate them into their service provision. This paper presents one of the first studies that rigorously examine riders' responses to a pilot aimed at providing such a transit-supplementing service. The study conducts latent class analysis on riders of the Via to Transit program, a mobility pilot in the Seattle region where on-demand service was offered to connect transit riders to light rail stations. The analysis identifies three distinct rider groups with heterogenous responses to the on-demand service: (1) riders who previously used private cars or ride-hailing;(2) riders who were pedestrians and bikers but switched likely because of safety concern;(3) mostly socio-economically disadvantaged riders who previously relied on the bus, but switched to the new service for the convenience and speed. These results point to rich transportation policy implications, which can inform decision-making by public transit agencies as they are exploring alternative ways to deliver the mobility services.
Introduction: The metabolome of plants is influenced by various factors, especially environmental, as the season in which they are grown. So, distinct varieties of the identical plant might show an increase or decreas...
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Introduction: The metabolome of plants is influenced by various factors, especially environmental, as the season in which they are grown. So, distinct varieties of the identical plant might show an increase or decrease in metabolites. The diversity of content of primary and secondary metabolites can also determine the variation in their biological properties. Due to the current occurrence of various fennel varieties, the crop can now be grown for the entire year. Objective: This work used an integrated approach of LC/MS and NMR analysis to characterize the metabolome of fennel waste of different varieties by multivariate statistical analysis. Methods: The extracts were investigated by NMR and LC/MS analysis to focus attention on the primary and secondary metabolites. Both LC-HRMS and NMR data were analyzed by principal component analysis (PCA). Results: The H-1-NMR analysis led to the identification of 15 primary metabolites, such as amino acids, carbohydrates, and organic acid derivatives. The secondary metabolites identified by LC/MS analysis mainly belong to the phenolic, lipid, and fatty acid compounds classes. Conclusion: This integrated approach guarantees a precise and complete overview of the variations in the metabolic expression of the fennel varieties grown in different seasons.
Anatomical studies have revealed a prominent role for feedback projections in the primate visual cortex. Theoretical models suggest that these projections support important brain functions such as attention, predictio...
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Anatomical studies have revealed a prominent role for feedback projections in the primate visual cortex. Theoretical models suggest that these projections support important brain functions such as attention, prediction, and learning. However, these models make different predictions about the relationship between feedback connectivity and neuronal stimulus selectivity. We have therefore performed simultaneous recordings in different regions of the primate dorsal visual pathway. Specifically, we recorded neural activity from the medial superior temporal (MST) area, and one of its main feedback targets, the middle temporal (MT) area. We estimated functional connectivity from correlations in the single-neuron spike trains and performed electrical microstimulation in MST to determine its causal influence on MT. Both methods revealed that inhibitory feedback occurred more commonly when the source and target neurons had very different stimulus preferences. At the same time, the strength of feedback suppression was greater for neurons with similar preferences. Excitatory feedback projections, in contrast, showed no consistent relationship with stimulus preferences. These results suggest that corticocortical feedback could play a role in shaping sensory responses according to behavioral or environmental context. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Here, we show that corticocortical feedback influences are often determined by the selectivity of the individual neurons. A common motif is the occurrence of inhibitory feedback among neurons with very different stimulus preferences. This results in strong suppression of responses in area MT when MST is electrically stimulated. Interestingly, this feedback shows a complex interaction with ongoing visual stimulation, being powerfully suppressive when visual inputs are strong, yet excitatory when visual inputs are weak.
Early detection of developmental delays is crucial for improving children's cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes through timely interventions. This study explores the potential of machine learning (ML) and de...
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Early detection of developmental delays is crucial for improving children's cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes through timely interventions. This study explores the potential of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) to classify Electroencephalography (EEG) data from an oddball task, distinguishing between children with and without developmental delays. Participants underwent language assessments and EEG recordings, with subsequent analysis using Event-Related Potentials (ERPs), Event-Related Spectral Perturbations (ERSPs), and functional connectivity to characterize group differences. Three methodologies were employed in this research to classify EEG data. Firstly, statistical features are extracted from the EEG data and various ML algorithms are applied for classification, with feature selection techniques utilized to identify the most relevant features and enhance classification accuracy. Secondly, brain dynamics is utilized to incorporate ERP, ERSP, and functional connectivity measures as features for developmental delay detection. Similar to the first approach, feature selection techniques are again employed to enhance classification accuracy. Lastly, DL approaches are explored by implementing multiple convolutional neural networks (CNNs), including a 2D CNN (EEGNet), various hybrid CNN architectures integrating LSTM, GRU, and attention mechanisms, and a novel 1D CNN with a standardized convolutional layer (SCL) for improved stability and training performance. The effectiveness of each approach in accurately classifying EEG data for developmental delay detection is independently analyzed. The results demonstrate that the proposed 1D convolutional neural network outperforms both EEGNet and the employed ML classifiers. This model achieves an impressive accuracy of 96.4% and an F1 score of 96.6%, underscoring its potential as a valuable tool for early and accurate developmental delay detection using EEG data.
Environmental effects in excitation energy transfer have mostly been modeled by baths of harmonic oscillators, but to what extent such modeling provides a reliable description of actual interactions between molecular ...
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Environmental effects in excitation energy transfer have mostly been modeled by baths of harmonic oscillators, but to what extent such modeling provides a reliable description of actual interactions between molecular systems and environments remains an open issue. We address this issue by investigating fluctuations in the excitation energies of the light harvesting 2 complex using a realistic all-atomistic simulation of the potential energy surface. Our analyses reveal that molecular motions exhibit significant anharmonic features, even for underdamped intramolecular vibrations. In particular, we find that the anharmonicity contributes to the broadening of spectral densities and substantial overlaps between neighboring peaks, which complicates the meaning of mode frequencies constituting a bath model. Thus, we develop a strategy to construct a minimally underdamped harmonic bath that has a clear connection to all-atomistic dynamics by utilizing actual normal modes of molecules but optimizing their frequencies such that the resulting bath model can best reproduce the all-atomistic simulation results. By subtracting the underdamped contribution from the entire fluctuations, we also show that identifying a residual spectral density representing all other contributions with overdamped behavior is possible. We find that this can be fitted well with a well-established analytic form of a spectral density function or, alternatively, modeled as explicit time dependent fluctuations with muti-exponential or power law type correlation functions. We provide an assessment and the implications of these possibilities. The approach presented here can also serve as a general strategy to construct a simplified bath model that can effectively represent the underlying all-atomistic bath dynamics.
BackgroundTo investigate the association between tooth loss and oral potentially malignant disorders and oral squamous cell carcinoma, focusing on epidemiological factors and genetic ***-control study, including histo...
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BackgroundTo investigate the association between tooth loss and oral potentially malignant disorders and oral squamous cell carcinoma, focusing on epidemiological factors and genetic ***-control study, including histologically confirmed oral potentially malignant disorders and oral squamous cell carcinoma cases and healthy controls. Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios for this association were calculated. Single-nucleotides polymorphisms were tested for individuals with and without missing *** individuals were more edentulous while controls had fewer missing teeth (p = 0.006). There was an increased risk for the outcomes associated with edentulism (OR = 6.95, p = 0.000), even after adjustments for educational level (OR = 4.7, p = 0.034) and smoking habits (OR = 5.01, p = 0.022). Among individuals with tooth loss, rs1533767 (WNT11), rs3923087, and rs11867417 (AXIN2) were associated with the outcomes (OR = 1.67, p = 0.03, OR = 0.53, p = 0.05, and OR = 0.42, p = 0.00, respectively).ConclusionsTooth loss could increase the risk for oral potentially malignant disorders and oral squamous cell carcinoma.
BackgroundMolecular interactions between proteins and their ligands are important for drug design. A pharmacophore consists of favorable molecular interactions in a protein binding site and can be utilized for virtual...
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BackgroundMolecular interactions between proteins and their ligands are important for drug design. A pharmacophore consists of favorable molecular interactions in a protein binding site and can be utilized for virtual screening. Pharmacophores are easiest to identify from co-crystal structures of a bound protein-ligand complex. However, designing a pharmacophore in the absence of a ligand is a much harder *** this work, we develop a deep learning method that can identify pharmacophores in the absence of a ligand. Specifically, we train a CNN model to identify potential favorable interactions in the binding site, and develop a deep geometric Q-learning algorithm that attempts to select an optimal subset of these interaction points to form a pharmacophore. With this algorithm, we show better prospective virtual screening performance, in terms of F1 scores, on the DUD-E dataset than random selection of ligand-identified features from co-crystal structures. We also conduct experiments on the LIT-PCBA dataset and show that it provides efficient solutions for identifying active molecules. Finally, we test our method by screening the COVID moonshot dataset and show that it would be effective in identifying prospective lead molecules even in the absence of fragment screening *** addresses the need for automated methods in pharmacophore design, particularly in cases where a cognate ligand is unavailable. Experimental results demonstrate that PharmRL generates functional pharmacophores. Additionally, we provide a Google Colab notebook to facilitate the use of this method.
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Marciano, YaronNayeem, NaziaDave, DhwanitUlijn, Rein V.Contel, MariaCUNY
Brooklyn Coll Dept Chem Brooklyn NY 11210 USA CUNY
Grad Ctr Adv Sci Res Ctr New York NY 10031 USA CUNY
Grad Ctr PhD Program Chem New York NY 10016 USA CUNY
Grad Ctr PhD Program Biol New York NY 10016 USA CUNY
Hunter Coll Dept Chem New York NY 10065 USA CUNY
Grad Ctr PhD Program Biochem New York NY 10016 USA
Peptidematerials are promising for various biomedical applications;however, a significant concern is their lack of stability and rapiddegradation in vivo due to non-specific *** materials specifically designed to resp...
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Peptidematerials are promising for various biomedical applications;however, a significant concern is their lack of stability and rapiddegradation in vivo due to non-specific *** materials specifically designed to respond to disease-specificproteases, it would be desirable to retain high susceptibility totarget proteases while minimizing the impact of non-specific *** describe N-terminal acetylation as a simple synthetic modificationof amphiphilic self-assembling peptides that contain an MMP-9-cleavablesegment and form soluble, nanoscale filaments. We found that the N-terminuscapping of these peptides did not significantly impact their self-assemblybehavior, critical aggregation concentration, or ability to encapsulatehydrophobic payloads. By contrast, their proteolytic stability inhuman plasma (especially for anionic peptide sequences) was considerablyincreased while susceptibility to hydrolysis by MMP-9 was retainedwhen compared to non-acetylated peptides, especially during the first12 h. We note, however, that due to the longer time scale requiredfor in vitro studies (72 h), non-specific proteolysisof both anionic acetylated peptides leads to similar activity in vitro despite differing MMP-9 kinetics during the earlystages. Overall, the enhanced stability against non-specific proteases,combined with the ability of these nanofilaments to enhance the effectivenessof gold-based drugs toward cancerous cells compared to healthy cells,brings these acetylated peptide filaments a step closer toward clinicaltranslation.
This article analyzes a series of encounters between the Black Panther Party and the U.S. government's War on Poverty, beginning with the Party's foundation in a North Oakland anti-poverty office in 1966, and ...
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This article analyzes a series of encounters between the Black Panther Party and the U.S. government's War on Poverty, beginning with the Party's foundation in a North Oakland anti-poverty office in 1966, and culminating with the resignation of six Party members from elected positions on a West Oakland anti-poverty board in 1973. The essay theorizes these encounters as moments in an antagonistic process whereby the Party sought to separate from and launch incursions into the state's anti-poverty apparatus, which had been established in the mid-1960s by a discrete stratum of state managers who sought to transform riotous energy into labor-power. This essay understands articles published in the Party's newspaper, documents from its archive, and records of its community service practice as components of an ideological struggle which sought to reproduce anti-capitalist social relations on an extended scale. On the basis of this historical case study, the essay argues that the autonomy of radical social movement organizations from the state should be understood as a process rather than a status. It shows how social movements which view the state as an enemy can struggle in "close-quarters antagonism" within and against it. It situates this argument in relation to debates within the critical social sciences and state theory, and it considers the political and theoretical repercussions of this hypothesis for radical movements which confront the state apparatus of non-profit organizations today.
In today's highly competitive manufacturing environment, continuous improvements in production efficiency play a crucial role in enhancing engineering value. This research paper presents a case study of Company S,...
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In today's highly competitive manufacturing environment, continuous improvements in production efficiency play a crucial role in enhancing engineering value. This research paper presents a case study of Company S, a global leader in the production of gallium arsenide, to investigate methods for improving production efficiency. The study utilizes the eliminate, combine, rearrange, and simplify methods along with the line balancing rate to identify bottlenecks and minimize abnormalities in the manufacturing process. Furthermore, process management theories are employed to develop and implement the production value (PV) chart, which visualizes process management for improved production balance rates and reduced operating costs. The results indicate a significant increase in monthly production capacity (42%), a reduction in labor costs (20%), and a decrease in lead time (5 working days) through the adoption of the PV chart. This research demonstrates that the combination of the PV chart and process management theories provides a valuable tool for visualizing and improving process management not only in the semiconductor industry but also in other industries. The proposed method offers opportunities for reducing lead time, direct processing costs, direct material costs, and increasing productivity.
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