Magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are suitable candidates for various medical and biological applications, despite some concerns that they may have negative impacts on human health. In this study, the toxicity effects of m...
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Magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are suitable candidates for various medical and biological applications, despite some concerns that they may have negative impacts on human health. In this study, the toxicity effects of magnetic NPs consisting of α”-Fe16N2captured and bioaccumulated by the nematodeCaenorhabditis elegans(C. elegans) in the early larval stage are evaluated. The choice of α”-Fe16N2NPs is based on their good structural stability when stored in saline solution and high magnetic performance. The uptake and bioaccumulation of α”-Fe16N2NPs in intestinal cells ofC. eleganswas evidenced by transmission electron microscopy. After exposure to NPs up to 40 mg mL−1,C. eleganslarval development, survival, feeding behavior, defecation cycles, movement and reproduction were monitored.C. eleganssurvival and other monitored behavioral evolutions do not show significant changes, except for a slight statistical reduction in the reproductive profile. Therefore, the present results are promising and very encouraging for investigations of applications of α”-Fe16N2NPs in the biomedical area.
The prevalence of multicellular organisms is due in part to their ability to form complex structures. How cells pack in these structures is a fundamental biophysical issue, underlying their functional properties. Howe...
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Graph-theoretic methods have seen wide use throughout the literature on multi-agent control and optimization. When communications are intermittent and unpredictable, such networks have been modeled using random commun...
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ABSTRACTThis research proposes a novel semi-parametric elliptical distribution model for application in semi-supervised learning tasks. We use labelled and unlabelled data to develop a pseudo maximum likelihood method...
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ABSTRACTThis research proposes a novel semi-parametric elliptical distribution model for application in semi-supervised learning tasks. We use labelled and unlabelled data to develop a pseudo maximum likelihood method for estimation and classification. The proposed estimator outperforms the estimator based solely on labelled data and achieves the semi-parametric efficiency bound with a suitable size of unlabelled data. We efficiently maximise the objective function by utilising low-dimensional groupwise pseudo-likelihood functions in a block coordinate descent manner while ensuring numerical stability and convergence through appropriate bandwidth selectors and initial parameter estimates. Additionally, the study comprehensively investigates the impact of labelled and unlabelled data on the pseudo maximum likelihood estimator and classifier. Simulation studies and empirical data applications illustrate the superiority of our methodology.
Osteocytes regulate the response of osteoclasts and osteoblasts to mechanical loading through signaling molecules, the levels of which are controlled by post-translational modification or degradation and by differenti...
Osteocytes regulate the response of osteoclasts and osteoblasts to mechanical loading through signaling molecules, the levels of which are controlled by post-translational modification or degradation and by differential gene transcription and translation. The magnitude and mode of bone tissue deformation that elicits a transcriptional response in individual osteocytes in situ has been difficult to quantify. We measured SOST, Wnt11, TNF, and FRZB gene expression in osteocytes within loaded and unloaded control porcine trabecular bone explants using RNAScope® and compared the local tissue level strain and strain gradient-which we used as an indicator of potential poroelastic fluid flow-in the tissue surrounding osteocytes with high vs. low gene expression. The measured expression of all four genes differed between loaded and unloaded explants, on average, with the mean SOST expression level decreasing by 45%. In the loaded explants, gene expression was altered from baseline in about 30% of the osteocytes, and they were surrounded by tissue with higher strain and strain gradient than the 20 to 25% of osteocytes that remained near baseline expression. Both deviatoric strain and hydrostatic strain gradient were sensitive and specific predictors of the mechanobiological response for individual genes as well as combinations. SOST expression was highly related to elevated strain gradient, providing evidence that osteocytes respond to fluid flow in the lacunar-canalicular system.
This study investigated the dosimetric effects of varying beam numbers (9, 11, and 13) in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) using the Halcyon linear accelerator at ShingMark University Hospital. IMRT plans ...
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This paper considers the asymptotic theory of a semiparametric M-estimator that is generally applicable to models that satisfy a monotonicity condition in one or several parametric indexes. We call this estimator the ...
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Sentiment analysis is one part of natural language processing. Sentiment analysis can be done by lexicon based, or machine learning based. Sentiment analysis based on machine learning has advantage of dynamism to meet...
Sentiment analysis is one part of natural language processing. Sentiment analysis can be done by lexicon based, or machine learning based. Sentiment analysis based on machine learning has advantage of dynamism to meet with new language datasets or new vocabulary. Sentiment analysis seeks to understand the sentiments contained in a sentence. A sentence can be positive, neutral or negative, based on its sentiments. A sentence can have positive, neutral or negative sentiments. However, the fact is each sentence does not always have positive, negative or neutral sentiment clearly. We try to develop a sentiment analysis method that can show the sentiment degree of a sentence. Fuzzy sentiment analysis using convolutional neural network are introduced in this paper to produce more accurate sentiment analysis results. Convolutional neural networks are a popular machine learning method for sentiment analysis. The concept of fuzzy sets is used to express the sentiment degree of a sentence. Euclidean distance analysis to determine the proximity of two vectors is used to show that this method is better than the standard method. The method we propose successfully produces a value that indicates the degree of sentiment of a sentence. Comparison of the euclid distance between the results of the standard sentiment analysis and our method shows that the results of the fuzzy sentiment analysis using convolutional neural network have a distance that is relatively close to the true sentiment value. Fuzzy convolutional neural network analysis sentiment is proven to be able to produce better and smoother sentiment analysis results than standard methods.
In order to predict the occurrence of extreme climate events, forecasting and describing dynamic changes in temperature are essential. Understanding these events will allow action to be taken in order to minimize thei...
In order to predict the occurrence of extreme climate events, forecasting and describing dynamic changes in temperature are essential. Understanding these events will allow action to be taken in order to minimize their associated effects. In this paper, we present a feasible model for estimating daily average temperatures in Bangkok, Thailand. The daily maximum and minimum temperature observations between 2006 and 2021 were collected from the Thai Meteorological Department for the study. The Fourier series was then applied to the average daily temperature as the mean function, and then the auto-regressive integrated moving average, ARIMA (4,1,1), was used to predict the residuals that occurred from the mean function to describe the evolution of the temperature. Analysis of the root mean square error (RMSE) value from the models, which is 0.9536, revealed that the methods fitted the data quite well.
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