E. Hain, J. Gharios, R. Sindayigaya, S. Gaujoux

Oncologie, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 91-96, 2019, DOI:10.3166/onco-2019-0048

Abstract Neuroendocrine tumors (NET) are rare and can occur in all parts of the digestive tract. They can be functional or non-functional. All patients presenting NET should be discussed for the surgical management within the RENATEN tumor board. For sporadic pancreatic NET, surgery is recommended for non-functional lesion >2 cm in size and/or associated with ductal dilatation. For non-aggressive tumor, parenchyma-sparing surgery should be preferred to avoid exocrine and endocrine pancreatic insufficiency. For small bowel NET, surgery must always be considered to avoid complications such as small bowel obstruction. Lymphadenectomy must include at least 8 noded. Surgery must avoid short bowel… More >

Xiaohang He¹, Minjie Liu², Zhengwu Fang¹, Dongfang Ma^1,2,3,*, Yilin Zhou^1,3,*, Junliang Yin¹

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.3, pp. 971-986, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.012726

Abstract Plant AT-rich sequence and zinc-binding protein (PLATZ) is a plant transcription factor that has been studied in corn. PLATZ can non-specifically bind to sequences rich in A/T bases to induce transcriptional repression. It is involved in the regulation of dehydration tolerance in seeds. In this study, we performed bioinformatics analysis to identify and characterize wheat PLATZ(TaPLATZ)genes. We identified 49 wheat PLATZ genes by searching the wheat genome by using known PLATZ gene sequences from rice, Arabidopsis, and maize. Phylogenetic analysis on PLATZ gene sequences from different species was performed. We found that PLATZs could be divided into three groups. The… More >

Arun Kumar¹, Manoj Gupta¹, Dac-Nhuong Le^2,3,*, Ayman A. Aly⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.27, No.3, pp. 713-722, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.015793

Abstract Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) will play an imperative part in an advanced 5G radio arrangement, owing to its numerous benefits such as improved spectrum adeptness, fast data rate, truncated spectrum leakage, and, so on. So far, NOMA undergoes from peak to average power ratio (PAPR) problem, which shrinks the throughput of the scheme. In this article, we propose a hybrid method, centered on the combination of advanced Partial transmission sequence (PTS), Selective mapping (SLM), and bacteria foraging optimization (BFO), known as PTS-BFO and SLM-PTS. PTS and SLM are utilized at the sender side and divide the NOMA into several sub-blocks.… More >

Arun Kumar¹, Mahmoud A. Albreem², Mohammed H. Alsharif³, Abu Jahid⁴, Peerapong Uthansakul^5,*, Jamel Nebhen⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3283-3292, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015470

Abstract Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a strong contender multicarrier waveform technique for the fifth generation (5G) communication system. The high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is a serious concern in designing the NOMA waveform. However, the arrangement of NOMA is different from the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. Thus, traditional reduction methods cannot be applied to NOMA. A partial transmission sequence (PTS) is commonly utilized to minimize the PAPR of the transmitting NOMA symbol. The choice phase aspect in the PTS is the only non-linear optimization obstacle that creates a huge computational complication due to the respective non-carrying sub-blocks in the unitary… More >

REN FANG^#, WEIXIONG HUANG^#, JINYAN YAO, XING LONG, JI ZHANG, SHUANGYUN ZHOU, BIAO DENG, WENZHONG TANG, ZHENYU AN^*

BIOCELL, Vol.44, No.4, pp. 737-750, 2020, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2020.012933

Abstract Annona squamosa is a multipurpose fruit tree employed in nutritional, medicinal, and industrial fields. Its fruit is significantly enriched in sugars, making it an excellent species to study sugar accumulation in fruit. However, the scarcity of genomic resources hinders genetic studies in this species. This study aimed at generating large-scale genomic resources in A. squamosa and deciphering the molecular basis of its high sugar content. Herein, we sequenced and characterized the full-length transcriptome of A. squamosa fruit using PacBio Iso-seq. In addition, we analyzed the changes in sugar content over five fruit growth and ripening stages, and we applied RNA-sequencing… More >

Tabrej Khan¹, Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan^1,2,3,*, Mohammad Jawaid², Syafiqah Nur Azrie Safri², Ain Umaira Md Shah², Mohd Shukry Abdul Majid^4,5,*, Nik Noriman Zulkepli⁶, Haliza Jaya⁶

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.9, No.1, pp. 73-84, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2021.011385

Abstract This research focused on the dynamic mechanical and thermal properties of woven mat jute/kenaf/jute (J/K/J) and kenaf/jute/kenaf (K/J/K) hybrid composites. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and Thermo-gravimetric Analysis (TGA) were used to study the effect of layering sequence on the thermal properties of kenaf/jute hybrid composites. The DMA results; it was found that the differences in the stacking sequence between the kenaf/jute composites do not affect their storage modulus, loss modulus and damping factor. From the TGA and DMA results, it has been shown that stacking sequence has given positive effect to the kenaf/jute hybrid composite compared to pure epoxy composite.… More >

SOHEILA HASANIAN¹, NOUR AMIRMOZAFARI², AHMAD FARAJZADEH SHEIKH^3,*, IRAJ MEHREGAN¹

BIOCELL, Vol.44, No.3, pp. 411-419, 2020, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2020.08976

Abstract Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains are the essential cause of infections in communities and hospitals. The present study was conducted to determine the molecular typing of MRSA, isolated from hospitalized patients, using the double-locus sequence typing (DLST). In total, 280 S. aureus isolated from clinical specimens by phenotypic (catalase, coagulase, DNase, oxacillin, vancomycin screening agar and antibiotic disk diffusion), and molecular methods (PCR for determining the mecA, vanA and nuc genes). The DLST and sequencing was performed for MRSA containing mecA. Out of 280 specimens, confirmed as Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), 123 (43.9%) strains were MRSA. The highest resistance toward… More >

Jia Yang¹, Haiyuan Liu^1,*, Hao He²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.125, No.1, pp. 111-123, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.010347

Abstract The prediction of intrinsically disordered proteins is a hot research area in bio-information. Due to the high cost of experimental methods to evaluate disordered regions of protein sequences, it is becoming increasingly important to predict those regions through computational methods. In this paper, we developed a novel scheme by employing sequence complexity to calculate six features for each residue of a protein sequence, which includes the Shannon entropy, the topological entropy, the sample entropy and three amino acid preferences including Remark 465, Deleage/Roux, and Bfactor(2STD). Particularly, we introduced the sample entropy for calculating time series complexity by mapping the amino… More >

Malik Javed Akhtar¹, Zahur Ahmad¹, Rashid Amin^{1, *}, Sultan H. Almotiri², Mohammed A. Al Ghamdi², Hamza Aldabbas³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 2639-2663, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011485

Abstract A large amount of data is present on the web which can be used for useful purposes like a product recommendation, price comparison and demand forecasting for a particular product. Websites are designed for human understanding and not for machines. Therefore, to make data machine-readable, it requires techniques to grab data from web pages. Researchers have addressed the problem using two approaches, i.e., knowledge engineering and machine learning. State of the art knowledge engineering approaches use the structure of documents, visual cues, clustering of attributes of data records and text processing techniques to identify data records on a web page.… More >

Nan Pan^1*, Dilin Pan², Yi Liu², Gang Li³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 367-373, 2019, DOI:10.31209/2019.100000098

Abstract A set of laser detection system for shearing tools is developed, By holding breakage of the cable, firstly, using single-point laser displacement sensors to pick up surface features signal of line trace, then wavelet decomposition is used to reduce the noise, and the signal after noise reduction is obtained. After that, the threshold based sequence comparison method is used to achieve matches of similar coincidence for trace features, and then using a gradient descent method to getting the minimum cost of cost function value through continuous iterative, and finally realizing the fast traceability of corresponding shearing tool. More >