Chandrasekar Thaventhiran, K. R. Sekar^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.1, pp. 495-506, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.019546

Abstract Prediction of lung cancer at early stages is essential for diagnosing and prescribing the correct treatment. With the continuous development of medical data in healthcare services, Lung cancer prediction is the most concerning area of interest. Therefore, early prediction of cancer helps in reducing the mortality rate of humans. The existing techniques are time-consuming and have very low accuracy. The proposed work introduces a novel technique called Target Projection Feature Matched Deep Artificial Neural Network with LSTM (TPFMDANN-LSTM) for accurate lung cancer prediction with minimum time consumption. The proposed deep learning model consists of multiple layers to learn the given… More >

Mohammadrafie Khorgami¹, Ali Sadeghpour Tabaei^2,*, Elio Caruso^3,*, Silvia Farruggio³, Negar Omidi⁴, Maryam Moradian¹, Behzad Mohammadpour Ahranjani⁵, Zahra Khajali6 and Rahele Zamani¹

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.16, No.6, pp. 573-584, 2021, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2021.016271

Abstract Background: Most children in need of cardiac pacemakers remain dependent on the function of the permanent from childhood to adulthood. We sought to evaluate and compare the function between epicardial and endocardial pacemakers in pediatric groups with different conditions. Methods: Between 2012 and 2018, this single-canter study evaluated 44 pediatric patients with indications for epicardial or endocardial pacemakers. Results: The 2 groups, at a median age of 5 (0.1–16) years, were compared concerning the characteristics of the leads used (n = 80: bipolar, unipolar, steroid-eluting, and non–steroid-eluting), survival data, and complications. The reason for pacemaker implantation was congenital complete heart… More >

Fenni Lv^1,2,#, Sen Wang^3,#, Ruiping Tian¹, Peng Wang², Kang Liu^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.6, pp. 1645-1660, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.016947

Abstract Villin (VLN) is considered to be one of the most important actin-binding proteins, participates in modulating the actin cytoskeleton dynamics, plays essential role in plant development and resisting adverse environments. However, systematic studies of the VLN gene family have not been reported in cotton (Gossypium). In this study, 14 GhVLNs were identified in G. hirsutum. These GhVLN genes were distributed in 6 A-subgenome chromosomes and 6 D-subgenome chromosomes of the allotetraploid upland cotton and classified into three phylogenetical groups based on the classification model of AtVLNs. In addition, the 14 GhVLN genes have highly conserved gene structure and motif architecture.… More >

Marie Laure Yammine^#,*, Camilla Calvieri^#, Marcello Chinali, Salvatore Giannico, Giulia Cafiero, Ugo Giordano

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.16, No.5, pp. 457-467, 2021, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2021.015896

Abstract Background: In recent decades, aortic stenting has become a promising alternative to surgery for both native aortic coarctation and re-stenosis in children and adults. However, comparative long-term outcomes have poorly been investigated. Methods: We included 212 patients with previous aortic repair (19 ± 8.7 years) divided into 3 groups: 139 with single-time surgical repair (CoA-S group); 18 with single-time percutaneous stenting (CoA-PS group); and 55 hybrid patients with multiple aortic procedures because of re-coarctation occurrence (CoA-H group). All patients underwent 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and trans-thoracic echocardiography. Results: After a median follow-up of 17 years after aortic repair, antihypertensive… More >

Qiaoguang Li¹, Xuming Yan¹, Jialong Chen¹, Xugang Shu^1,*, Puyou Jia^2,*, Xiangjun Liang³

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.9, No.10, pp. 1673-1684, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2021.014695

Abstract Environmental cleaning is an important aspect of bacteria control. Ethyl cellulose microcapsules containing potassium monopersulfate (PMCM) were prepared by emulsified solvent diffusion method. The chemical structure and microstructure of the obtained PMCM was characterized by methods of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and X-ACT energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The SEM micrographs of the PMCM containing 21.6% of C, 46.8% of O, 10.7% of S and 19.4% of K was relatively smooth. Thermal stability, sustained release performance, and antimicrobial activity of PMCM were investigated. The results showed that the drug loading and encapsulation efficiency of PMCM… More >

Weize Sun¹, Peng Zhang^1,*, Jingxin Xu², Huochao Tan³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 2111-2126, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016804

Abstract This paper addresses the problem of tensor completion from limited samplings. Generally speaking, in order to achieve good recovery result, many tensor completion methods employ alternative optimization or minimization with SVD operations, leading to a high computational complexity. In this paper, we aim to propose algorithms with high recovery accuracy and moderate computational complexity. It is shown that the data to be recovered contains structure of Kronecker Tensor decomposition under multiple patterns, and therefore the tensor completion problem becomes a Kronecker rank optimization one, which can be further relaxed into tensor Frobenius-norm minimization with a constraint of a maximum number… More >

Qi Zhang^1,#, Pengtao Li^2,#, Aiying Liu¹, Shaoqi Li¹, Quanwei Lu², Qun Ge¹, Junwen Li¹, Wankui Gong¹, Xiaoying Deng¹, Haihong Shang^1,3, Yuzhen Shi^1,*, Youlu Yuan^1,3,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.3, pp. 837-858, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.014437

Abstract Cotton is the most widely cultivated commercial crop producing natural fiber around the world. As a critical trait for fiber quality, fiber strength principally determined during the secondary wall thickening period. Based on the developed BC₅F_3:5 CSSLs (chromosome segment substitution lines) from Gossypium hirsutum CCRI36 × G. barbadense Hai 1, the superior MBI9915 was chosen to construct the secondary segregated population BC₇F₂ with its recurrent parent CCRI36, which was subsequently subjected to Bulk segregant RNA-sequencing (BSR-seq) for rapid identification of candidate genes related to fiber strength. A total of 4 fiber-transcriptome libraries were separately constructed and sequenced, including two parents… More >

Kathrine Rydén Suther^1,*, Charlotte de Lange^1,2, Henrik Brun³, Rolf Svendsmark¹, Bac Nguyen¹, Stig Larsen⁴, Bjarne Smevik¹, Arnt Eltvedt Fiane^5,6, Harald Lauritz Lindberg⁶, Einar Hopp¹

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.16, No.2, pp. 107-121, 2021, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2021.014164

Abstract Background: Patency of the coronary arteries is an issue after reports of sudden cardiac death in patients with transposition of the great arteries (TGA) operated with arterial switch (ASO). Recent studies give rise to concern regarding the use of ionising radiation in congenital heart disease, and assessment of the coronary arteries with coronary MR angiography (CMRA) might be an attractive non-invasive, non-ionising imaging alternative in these patients. Theoretically, the use of 3.0T CMRA should improve the visualisation of the coronary arteries. The objective of this study was to assess feasibility of 3.0T CMRA at the coronary artery origins by comparing… More >

Norjihan Binti Abdul Ghani¹, Muneer Ahmad¹, Zahra Mahmoud¹, Raja Majid Mehmood^2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 1217-1231, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.011731

Abstract Achievement of sustainable privacy preservation is mostly very challenging in a resource shared computer environment. This challenge demands a dedicated focus on the exponential growth of big data. Despite the existence of specific privacy preservation policies at the organizational level, still sustainable protection of a user’s data at various levels, i.e., data collection, utilization, reuse, and disclosure, etc. have not been implemented to its spirit. For every personal data being collected and used, organizations must ensure that they are complying with their defined obligations. We are proposing a new clustered-purpose based access control for users’ sustainable data privacy protection in… More >

Chunping Lu^1,#, Liye Zou^2,#, Benjamin Becker³, Mark D. Griffiths⁴, Qian Yu², Si-Tong Chen⁵, Zsolt Demetrovics⁶, Can Jiao⁷, Xinli Chi⁷, Aiguo Chen⁸, Albert Yeung⁹, Shijie Liu¹⁰, Yanjie Zhang^2,11,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.22, No.4, pp. 271-282, 2020, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2020.014419

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of mind-body exercise (ME) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on addiction level and psychological well-being among college students with problematic smartphone use (PSU). Methods: A 12-week randomized controlled study was carried out at a university in central China. A total of 95 PSU college students who met the inclusion criteria were randomly assigned to a ME group (ME, n = 31), CBT group (CBT, n = 30), or control group (CG, n = 34). Both ME intervention and CBT, twice per week for 90 min per session, lasting… More >