Farshid GOLSHANI1, Barat Ali FAKHERI¹, Mahmood SOLOUKI¹, Nafiseh MAHDINEZHAD¹, Majid Reza KIANI FERIZ²

BIOCELL, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 225-232, 2019, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2019.07547

Abstract ITS (Internal Transcription Spacer of nuclear ribosomal DNA) regions method was applied to identify and study the phylogenetic relationships existing between 41 individuals of Crocus, including 8 species collected in Iran (4 crop and 8 wild individuals) and 16 species (2 crop and 27 wild individuals) already registered in GenBank (NCBI). PCR amplifications were performed using the primer designed on the nucleotide sequence of nuclear region (ITS). A total of 12 sequences were obtained and registered in NCBI database. In particular, 4 of these sequences were not already present in the scientific library. Nucleotide polymorphic sites were counted for ITS… More >

Xixiang Chen¹, Yu Chen^{2, *}, Kang He², Fernando Palacios Galarza³

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.12, No.4, pp. 299-322, 2018, DOI: doi:10.32604/sdhm.2018.04625

Abstract In order to studythe web-crippling behavior of aluminum hollow section subjected toconcentrated load, sixteen aluminum hollow tubes withdifferent loading conditions, bearing lengthandweb slenderness ratioswere tested. This paperalso discusseda method to improve the web crippling strength of the aluminum hollow sections byinfilling the mortar as composite section, and four aluminum composite sections were tested. The literature has reported lots of web crippling tests, butthere isfew reportson web crippling behavior of aluminum composite sections. Interior-Ground(IG) and End-Ground(EG)loading conditions were adopted, with the specimens placed on the ground to simulate the load of floor joists. Specimens were also placed on a bearing plate… More >

Mohammad UBAIDILLAH^1,2, Miswar FAPERTA^1,2, Kyung-Min KIM¹

BIOCELL, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 215-224, 2019, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2019.07549

Abstract Abiotic stresses, such as drought and salinity, adversely affect plant growth and productivity. Comparison between non transgenic and transgenic rice harboring CaMsrB2 gene, which induces tolerance to abiotic stress, is important to observe response of gene under abiotic stress. Phytohormone showed a tendency to increase under the drought stress or salinity stress in the transgenic plant. RT-PCR analysis showed that gene expression and phytohormone levels under abiotic stress, to be closely related. The CaMsrB2 gene is related to the expression of JA and ABA hormones. Therefore, the level of expression of these genes and hormones was observed. The transcription levels… More >

Chunhua YANG^1,2,3, Ye TIAN^1,2,3

BIOCELL, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 207-214, 2019, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2019.07258

Abstract Sperm-associated antigen 9 (SPAG9) expression is increased in prostate tissues of prostate cancer patients. This experimental study aimed to investigate the role of SPAG9 in bone metastasis of prostate cancer. Immunohistochemical analysis showed that SPAG9 staining was positive in 81.67% of 240 cases of prostatic carcinoma but only in 6.67% of 120 cases of benign prostate hyperplasia. Strong PAG9 staining was positively correlated with Gleason score and bone metastasis in 240 prostate cancer patients (p < 0.05), but not with the age or serum prostatespecific antigen level (p > 0.05). PC-3 cells were transfected with shRNA against SPAG9, and CCK-8… More >

Jie REN¹, Qian LIANG²

BIOCELL, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 199-206, 2019, DOI: 10.32604/biocell.2019.07128

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the role of high mobility group box-1 (HMGB1) expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma; HMGB1 promoted the proliferation and invasion of oral squamous cell carcinoma via activating epithelial-mesenchymal transformation (EMT). In this study, RNA transfection was used to silence the expression of HMGB1 in oral squamous cell carcinoma cells. CCK-8, cell clone formation and trans-well assays were used to detect the proliferation and invasion of cells before and after HMGB1 silencing. qRT-PCR and Western blot were used to detect changes in EMT marker protein expression before and after transfection. HMGB1 was significantly higher in OSCC… More >

Tong MA^{1, §}, Fafen WANG^{2, §}, Xiaohui WANG¹

BIOCELL, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 191-198, 2019, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2019.06989

Abstract Cervical cancer (CC), has been identified as one of the most frequent malignant tumors all over the world, with high mortality in females. A growing number of investigations have confirmed that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a crucial role in the progression of multiple cancers. Nonetheless, the biological function and regulatory mechanism of LINC01772 in CC haven’t been explored so far. In this study, LINC01772 expression was found to be upregulated in tissues and cells of CC. Knocking down LINC01772 suppressed CC cell proliferation, migration and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process. Through molecular mechanism assays, LINC01772 was verified to be bound… More >

Xu Zhang¹, Wenpeng Lu^1,*, Fangfang Li^2,3, Xueping Peng³, Ruoyu Zhang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.2, pp. 601-616, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06045

Abstract Sentence semantic matching (SSM) is a fundamental research in solving natural language processing tasks such as question answering and machine translation. The latest SSM research benefits from deep learning techniques by incorporating attention mechanism to semantically match given sentences. However, how to fully capture the semantic context without losing significant features for sentence encoding is still a challenge. To address this challenge, we propose a deep feature fusion model and integrate it into the most popular deep learning architecture for sentence matching task. The integrated architecture mainly consists of embedding layer, deep feature fusion layer, matching layer and prediction layer.… More >

Jing Liu^1,5, Jingbing Li^1,*, Jieren Cheng¹, Jixin Ma², Naveed Sadiq³, Baoru Han⁴, Qiang Geng⁵, Yang Ai⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.2, pp. 889-910, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06034

Abstract In order to solve the problem of patient information security protection in medical images, whilst also taking into consideration the unchangeable particularity of medical images to the lesion area and the need for medical images themselves to be protected, a novel robust watermarking algorithm for encrypted medical images based on dual-tree complex wavelet transform and discrete cosine transform (DTCWT-DCT) and chaotic map is proposed in this paper. First, DTCWT-DCT transformation was performed on medical images, and dot product was per-formed in relation to the transformation matrix and logistic map. Inverse transformation was undertaken to obtain encrypted medical images. Then, in… More >

Lili Yan^1,*, Yan Chang¹, Shibin Zhang¹, Qirun Wang², Zhiwei Sheng¹, Yuhua Sun¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.2, pp. 877-887, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06222

Abstract Quantum private comparison is an important topic in quantum cryptography. Recently, the idea of semi-quantumness has been often used in designing private comparison protocol, which allows some of the participants to remain classical. In this paper, we propose a semi quantum private comparison scheme based on Greenberge-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) class states, which allows two classical participants to compare the equality of their private secret with the help of a quantum third party (server). In the proposed protocol, server is semi-honest who will follow the protocol honestly, but he may try to learn additional information from the protocol execution. The classical participants’… More >

Xiaoying Chen^{1, 2, *}, Shijun Zhao², Xiaolei Wang², Xuejin Sun², Jing Feng², Nan Ye³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.2, pp. 861-875, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06230

Abstract It is important to extract texture feature from the ground-base cloud image for cloud type automatic detection. In this paper, a new method is presented to capture the contour edge, texture and geometric structure of cloud images by using Contourlet and the power spectrum analysis algorithm. More abundant texture information is extracted. Cloud images can be obtained a multiscale and multidirection decomposition. The coefficient matrix from Contourlet transform of ground nephogram is calculated. The energy, mean and variance characteristics calculated from coefficient matrix are composed of the feature information. The frequency information of the data series from the feature vector… More >