Mo Hou^1,*, Weiyu Kevin Chiang^2,*, Weiqiang Hong¹, Maoyun Yang¹, Wenhua Yu^3,4

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/mcb.2020.010805

Abstract To achieve the image registration/fusion and perfect the quality of the integration, with dual modality contrast agent (DMCA), a novel multi-scale representation registration method between ultrasound imaging (US) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is presented in the paper, and how DMCA influence on registration accuracy is chiefly discussed. Owing to US’s intense speckle noise, it is a tremendous challenge to register US with any other modality images. How to improve the algorithms for US processing has become the bottleneck, and in the short term it is difficult to have a breakthrough. In that case, DMCA is employed in both US… More >

Bin Wang¹, Dayong Li², Yuxin Qin^3,*

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/mcb.2020.011050

Abstract Swimming, as a sport beneficial to body and mind, also has a place in international sports. For swimmers and coaches, it is always the most important to improve the propulsion and reduce the resistance during swimming. This paper briefly introduced the resistance of human body in swimming, described the dynamic resistance of human body in arm stroke, and then introduced the principle of micro disturbance method which was used for measuring the dynamic resistance in swimming. Finally, ten swimmers from school team and ten beginners were tested for the dynamic resistance in freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke when they swam with… More >

So Yeon Yoo¹, Yun-Jung Choi^2,*, Youn-Joo Um^2,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2020.011299

Abstract As the demand for high-quality mental health services increases, producing expert nurses with the skills and expertise to deal with various complex mental health situations involving diverse subjects is critical. Nursing programs should be prepared to provide education that can improve mental health professional competence. Using a qualitative study and focus group interviews, we focused on the experiences of nursing students who voluntarily participated in campaign activities to prevent gambling problems. The respondents were 23 nursing students who participated in the campaign for more than four months. Data were analyzed using Downe-Wamboldt’s eight steps of content analysis. The experiences of… More >

Rie Ueno^1,*, Darryl Maybery², Andrea Reupert³, Hirokazu Osada⁴

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2020.011180

Abstract Children of parents with mental illness are more likely to experience mental health concerns, compared to other children in the community. Thus, it is important mental health professionals identify and intervene appropriately in these families. To develop professional development activities, practice guidelines and organizational supports, it is important to first identify those practices that professionals employ and do not employ. Accordingly, a Japanese version of the Family-Focused Mental Health Practice Questionnaire was developed. In the first instance, the Questionnaire was translated into Japanese and disseminated to mental health workers in various Japanese settings. Based on 212 participants’ data, exploratory factor… More >

Eun-Joo Choi¹, So Yeon Yoo^2,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2020.011059

Abstract Chronic pain has a high prevalence rate and is difficult to treat because it is associated with personality, socio-psychological problems as well as physical pain, and thereby degrades one’s quality of life. This study aimed to determine whether psychosocial factors are associated with quality of life among outpatients with chronic pain. The subjects were selected from patients with chronic pain who were receiving outpatient treatment at the mental health department of a university hospital in Seoul, Korea. The participants were 100 patients and the data were collected using structured questionnaires. Patients’ quality of life was significantly positively correlated with pain… More >

Daoxi Li^1,*, Ruitao Lou¹, Yanbin Li¹, Zepeng Bian¹, Ya’nan Zhu²

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/phyton.2020.010661

Abstract A drought event can cause entire crops to fail or yield loss. In order to study the effects of continuous drought on photosynthetic characteristics, yield, and water use efficiency (WUE) of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), the winter wheat variety “Aikang 58” was selected as test material with controlling the water of the pot-planted winter wheat under a mobile rainout shelter. Based on foot planting and safe wintering, winter wheat was evaluated under different drought conditions, including light, moderate and severe drought at the jointing (B), heading (C), and filling (G) stages. The soil water content was controlled in a… More >

Shuai Li, Jianming Zhou, Shibo Xiang, Songhong Wei^*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/phyton.2020.010671

Abstract Ustilaginoidea virens, which causes rice false smut (RFS), is one of the most detrimental rice fungal diseases and poses a severe threat to rice production and quality. Effectors in U. virens often act as a group of essential virulence factors that play crucial roles in the interaction between host and the pathogen. Thus, the functions of individual effectors in U. virens need to be further explored. Here, we found a small secreted hypersensitive response-inducing protein UVI_02019870 was highly conserved in fungi. Furthermore, we performed Y2H and BiFC assay to demonstrated UVI_02019870 interacted with OsCPL1, which was predicted as a chloroplast… More >

Qin Wan^1,2,*, Xiaolin Zhu¹, Yueping Xiao¹, Jine Yan¹, Guoquan Chen¹, Mingui Sun³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.09397

Abstract Detecting moving objects in the stationary background is an important problem in visual surveillance systems. However, the traditional background subtraction method fails when the background is not completely stationary and involves certain dynamic changes. In this paper, according to the basic steps of the background subtraction method, a novel non-parametric moving object detection method is proposed based on an improved ant colony algorithm by using the Markov random field. Concretely, the contributions are as follows: 1) A new nonparametric strategy is utilized to model the background, based on an improved kernel density estimation; this approach uses an adaptive bandwidth, and… More >

Xintao Duan^{1, *}, Daidou Guo¹, Chuan Qin²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.09463

Abstract Image steganography is a technique that hides secret information into the cover image to protect information security. The current image steganography is mainly to embed a smaller secret image in an area such as a texture of a larger-sized cover image, which will cause the size of the secret image to be much smaller than the cover image. Therefore, the problem of small steganographic capacity needs to be solved urgently. This paper proposes a steganography framework that combines image compression. In this framework, the Vector Quantized Variational AutoEncoder (VQ-VAE) is used to achieve the compression of the secret image. The… More >

Rashid Iqbal Khan^1,*, Mazhar Abbas¹, Khurram Goraya², Muhammad Zafar-ul-Hye³, Subhan Danish³

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol., , DOI:10.32604/phyton.2020.010972

Abstract COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is declared global pandemic. The virus owing high resemblance with SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV has been placed in family of beta-coronavirus. However, transmission and infectivity rate of COVID-19 is quite higher as compared to other members of family. Effective management strategy with potential drug availability will break the virus transmission chain subsequently reduce the pressure on the healthcare system. Extensive research trials are underway to develop novel efficient therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2. In this review, we have discussed the origin and family of coronavirus, structure, genome and pathogenesis of virus SARS-CoV-2 inside human host cell; comparison among SARS,… More >