ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Genetic interaction networks that underlie most human diseases are highly complex and poorly defined. Better-defined networks will allow identification of a greater number of therapeutic targets. Here we introduce our Yeast Augmented Network Analysis (YANA) approach and test it with the X-linked spinal ...
Background High coverage of the bed nets can reduce mortality and morbidity of mosquito-borne diseases including malaria. Although the migrant workers are at high risk of malaria, there are many hidden challenges in universal coverage and utilization of the insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in this populations. Methods Cross ...
Bacteria capable of producing different extracellular enzymes of potential relevance in digestive processes were isolated from the stomach, hepatopancreas and intestine of Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. A total of 64 strains with proteolytic activity were isolated and grouped into 16 clusters ...
Indigenous microbiota play a critical role in the lives of their vertebrate hosts. In human and mouse models it is increasingly clear that innate and adaptive immunity develop in close concert with the commensal microbiome. Furthermore, several aspects of digestion and nutrient metabolism are governed ...
The recent increase in seaborne piracy attacks on the important sea lanes such as Straits of Malacca and Gulf of Aden significantly affects to not only security of the crews but also economy around the marine transportation. In addition to that, the issues of illegal fishing boats around Exclusive economic ...
An evolutionary algorithm for multiobjective optimization of the structural elements of the large spatial sections of ships is presented. The evolutionary algorithm where selection takes place based on the aggregated objective function combined with domination attributes as well as distance to the asymptotic ...
Ultra-low temperature tuna demands a high temperature standard during transportation. In order to ensure its quality, it must be maintained at a low temperature and the temperature change must be small. This paper presents a system based on RFID technology which can assists the information processing ...
SAR imagery of exposed intertidal flats in the German Wadden Sea have been analyzed in order to retrieve location and distribution of oyster and mussel beds. TerraSAR-X and Radarsat-2 images of five test areas along the German North Sea coast form the basis for the present investigation. Multi-polarized, ...
Hemoglobin is a porphyrin containing protein with an α2β2 tetrameric structure and like other porphyrin compounds shows spectral behavior of species specific characteristics. Researchers tend to relate bands in the hemoglobin spectra to certain structural and/or functional features. Given the fact th↔at ...
Background: Vitiligo is one of the autoimmune skin diseases that destroy the melanocytes of the skin. Moreover, its prevalence varies in different countries and regions. Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the effect of Nigella sativa and fish oil on vitiligo lesions of the patients ...
Myoglobin (Mb) is the classic vertebrate oxygen-binding protein present in aerobic striated muscles. It functions principally in oxygen delivery and provides muscle with its characteristic red colour. Members of the Antarctic icefish family (Channichthyidae) are widely thought to be extraordinary for ...
The measurements of valve activity in a population of bivalves under natural environmental conditions (16 oysters in the Bay of Arcachon, France) are used for a physiological model identification. A nonlinear auto-regressive exogenous (NARX) model is designed and tested. The model takes into account ...
As anticipated in my first message in January, the President's Pages in the February through June issues will be devoted to the presentation of the five ComSoc Vice Presidents, who will describe their sector activities and programs for the next two years. The June issue concerns the Vice President for ...
We present a novel algorithm for collision free navigation of a non-holonomic robot in unknown complex dynamic environments with moving obstacles. Our approach is based on an integrated representation of the information about the environment which does not require to separate obstacles and approximate ...
Mounting evidence of climatic effects on riverine environments and adaptive responses of fishes have elicited growing conservation concerns. Measures to rectify population declines include assessment of local extinction risk, population ecology, viability, and genetic differentiation. While conservation ...
Despite their use in traditional storytelling, analogy-based narrative devices have not been sufficiently explored in computational narrative. In this paper, we present our analogy-based story generation (ASG) approach in the Riu system, focusing on analogical retrieval and projection. We report on ...
In this paper we engage with debates concerning people and their contact with the natural environment as part of everyday life drawing on Irwin’s ideas of co-construction and Gibson’s theory of affordances. We focus on peri-urban woodlands in England as important places where people can interact with ...
This paper presents the dynamic modeling and control of a rotary disc dryer used in fishing industry. The nonlinear model obtained from energy and mass balances, is validated with real data measured in two plants of fishmeal located in the north of Perú. A constrained nonlinear predictive controller ...
The integration of the classical Web (of documents) with the emerging Web of Data is a challenging vision. In this paper we focus on an integration approach during searching which aims at enriching the responses of non-semantic search systems (e.g. professional search systems, web search engines) with ...