JESSICA CRISTINA MARÍN-LLERA^*, CARLOS AMAURY JIMÉNEZ-CÁRDENAS, JESÚS CHIMAL-MONROY^*

BIOCELL, Vol.47, No.3, pp. 465-471, 2023, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2023.024625

Abstract The molecular cascade underlying tendon formation starts when progenitor cells begin to express the Scleraxis (Scx) gene. Scx knockout mice develop some but not all tendons, suggesting that additional factors are necessary for tendon commitment, maintenance, and differentiation. Other transcription factors, such as Mohawk (Mkx) or early growth response (Egr), maintain Scx expression and extracellular matrix formation during fibrillogenesis. The inhibition of wingless and int-related protein signaling is necessary and sufficient to induce the expression of Scx. Once the commitment of tenogenic lineage occurs, transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ) induces the Scx gene expression, becoming involved in the maintenance of tendon… More >

Abdulaziz Almazyad, Laila Halman, Alaa Alsaeed^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 4769-4784, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033382

Abstract The novel Software Defined Networking (SDN) architecture potentially resolves specific challenges arising from rapid internet growth of and the static nature of conventional networks to manage organizational business requirements with distinctive features. Nevertheless, such benefits lead to a more adverse environment entailing network breakdown, systems paralysis, and online banking fraudulence and robbery. As one of the most common and dangerous threats in SDN, probe attack occurs when the attacker scans SDN devices to collect the necessary knowledge on system susceptibilities, which is then manipulated to undermine the entire system. Precision, high performance, and real-time systems prove pivotal in successful goal… More >

Subhajit Chatterjee¹, Yung-Cheol Byun^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 5507-5525, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032843

Abstract The increasing penetration rate of electric kickboard vehicles has been popularized and promoted primarily because of its clean and efficient features. Electric kickboards are gradually growing in popularity in tourist and education-centric localities. In the upcoming arrival of electric kickboard vehicles, deploying a customer rental service is essential. Due to its free-floating nature, the shared electric kickboard is a common and practical means of transportation. Relocation plans for shared electric kickboards are required to increase the quality of service, and forecasting demand for their use in a specific region is crucial. Predicting demand accurately with small data is troublesome. Extensive… More >

Mahima Dahiya^*, Nitin Nitin

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 4183-4201, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032430

Abstract Intrusion detection is critical to guaranteeing the safety of the data in the network. Even though, since Internet commerce has grown at a breakneck pace, network traffic kinds are rising daily, and network behavior characteristics are becoming increasingly complicated, posing significant hurdles to intrusion detection. The challenges in terms of false positives, false negatives, low detection accuracy, high running time, adversarial attacks, uncertain attacks, etc. lead to insecure Intrusion Detection System (IDS). To offset the existing challenge, the work has developed a secure Data Mining Intrusion detection system (DataMIDS) framework using Functional Perturbation (FP) feature selection and Bengio Nesterov Momentum-based… More >

David Graf, Philipp Neuner, Reinhard Rauch^*

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.6, pp. 2169-2192, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.022759

Abstract The number of annually registered internal-combustion vehicles still exceeds electric-driven ones in most regions, e.g., Germany. Ambitious goals are disclosed with the European Green Deal, which calls for new technical approaches and greenhouse gas neutral transition technologies. Such bridging technologies are synthetic fuels for the transportation sector, e.g., using the bioliq^® process for a CO₂-neutral gasoline supply. Fuels must meet the applicable national standards to be used in existing engines. Petrochemical parameters can be variably adapted to their requirements by hydroprocessing. In this work, we considered the upgrading of aromatic-rich DTG gasoline from the bioliq^® process. The heavy gasoline was… More >

Hyoe Hatakeyama^1,*, Tatsuko Hatakeyama²

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 113-123, 2013, DOI:10.7569/JRM.2012.634111

Abstract Lignin and saccharides are two major components of plants. Huge amounts of plant residues are obtained as by-products of large-scale industries, such as pulp and paper, bio-fuel and the food industry. In this paper, preparation of polyurethane (PU) foam directly from various kinds of industrial lignin and molasses, which have scarcely been utilized, is summarized based on our results obtained by recent investigation. A onestep reaction using hydroxyl groups of plant materials as an active site makes it possible to produce a wide variety of PU, such as foams, sheets, gels and composite matrix. In this paper, PU foams receive… More >

Mohamed Ali Rakrouki^1,*, Nawaf Alharbe¹, Mashael Khayyat², Abeer Aljohani¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 395-408, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.029032

Abstract Recently, automation is considered vital in most fields since computing methods have a significant role in facilitating work such as automatic text summarization. However, most of the computing methods that are used in real systems are based on graph models, which are characterized by their simplicity and stability. Thus, this paper proposes an improved extractive text summarization algorithm based on both topic and graph models. The methodology of this work consists of two stages. First, the well-known TextRank algorithm is analyzed and its shortcomings are investigated. Then, an improved method is proposed with a new computational model of sentence weights.… More >

Jacob Thottathil Varghese^1,2,*, Sajan Thomas^1,2,3, Joselin Herbert⁴, Chacko Preno Koshy^1,2, Arjun Venugopal^1,2

Sound & Vibration, Vol.56, No.3, pp. 255-274, 2022, DOI:10.32604/sv.2022.016180

Abstract The arrangement of natural and physical features on the earth’s surface are a few among the countless items that govern the airborne acoustic transmission at boundary layers. In particular, if the acoustic waves are attributes of live concerts at open-air theatres, without losing the sheen and quality, the audience should certainly receive the unbroken depth of the performance. Hence, at all times, it is advisable to analyse the auditory receptiveness, particularly in all intended recreational spaces. The current pandemic circumstances and the mandated COVID-19 prevention protocols encourage gatherings in naturally ventilated outdoor regions than confined indoors. This work predicts and… More >

Mouna Bedoui^1,*, Belgacem Bouallegue^1,2, Abdelmoty M. Ahmed², Belgacem Hamdi^1,3, Mohsen Machhout¹, Mahmoud¹, M. Khattab²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.3, pp. 2177-2193, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.026516

Abstract Since the end of the 1990s, cryptosystems implemented on smart cards have had to deal with two main categories of attacks: side-channel attacks and fault injection attacks. Countermeasures have been developed and validated against these two types of attacks, taking into account a well-defined attacker model. This work focuses on small vulnerabilities and countermeasures related to the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) algorithm. The work done in this paper focuses on protecting the ECDSA algorithm against fault-injection attacks. More precisely, we are interested in the countermeasures of scalar multiplication in the body of the elliptic curves to protect against… More >

CHANG CHEN^1,#, LIMIN QIAO^2,#, KAIJUN GUO¹, YINGQIU WANG¹, MENGYI YUAN³, BOFAN FU⁴, XIAOBO GAO³, HEMIN NI¹, LONGFEI XIAO^1,*, XIANGGUO WANG^1,*

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.11, pp. 2415-2423, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2022.021510

Abstract Endometritis affects the reproductive capacity of dairy cows and leads to serious economic losses in dairy farming. Clarification of the pathogenesis of endometritis is necessary to improve the reproductive efficiency of dairy cows. Exosomes and their miRNAs have been proven to play an important role in inflammatory regulation. Exosomal miR-218 is a differentially expressed miRNA found in endometrial epithelial cells (EECs) under endometrial inflammation. Therefore, we investigated the expression of miR-218 in the uterine tissue of dairy cows, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treated EECs, exosomal vesicles, and regulation of exosomal miR-218 by targeting TGIF-2 inducible factor homology frame 2 (TGIF2)/transforming growth factor-beta… More >