Sensors (Basel)
December 2024
Effective network intrusion detection using anomaly scores from unsupervised machine learning models depends on the performance of the models. Although unsupervised models do not require labels during the training and testing phases, the assessment of their performance metrics during the evaluation phase still requires comparing anomaly scores against labels. In real-world scenarios, the absence of labels in massive network datasets makes it infeasible to calculate performance metrics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt Immunopharmacol
January 2025
Hedyotis diffusa Willd. (HDW), a traditional Chinese medicinal plant, exhibits a variety of pharmacological effects and has anticancer potential for a wide range of cancer types; Ferroptosis is a non-apoptosis-regulated cell death induced by iron accumulation and subsequent lipid peroxidation; and there is currently an increasing interest in the therapeutic role of ferroptosis in cancer. However, the effects of HDW on bladder cancer and its underlying molecular mechanisms remain largely unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-energy nuclear collisions create a quark-gluon plasma, whose initial condition and subsequent expansion vary from event to event, impacting the distribution of the eventwise average transverse momentum [P([p_{T}])]. Disentangling the contributions from fluctuations in the nuclear overlap size (geometrical component) and other sources at a fixed size (intrinsic component) remains a challenge. This problem is addressed by measuring the mean, variance, and skewness of P([p_{T}]) in ^{208}Pb+^{208}Pb and ^{129}Xe+^{129}Xe collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA fraction of patients (approximately 10%) undergoing heart transplantation require permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation due to sinus node dysfunction or atrioventricular block, occurring either shortly after surgery or later. The incidence of PPM implantation has declined to less than 5% with the introduction of bicaval anastomosis transplantation surgery. Pacing dependency during follow-up varies among recipients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The significance of circular RNA in tumour biology is increasingly recognized. This study aims to explore the value of circFAM64A(3) in the proliferation and immune evasion of bladder cancer.
Methods: Bioinformatics were used to identify the differentially expressed circular RNAs in bladder cancer.
Infection is among the most common causes of death in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) after chemotherapy. The anti-tumor effect of the intestinal microbiota in patients with AML is increasingly being recognized. Tigecycline, a broad-spectrum antibiotics, plays a vital role in the anti-infection treatment of AML patients with neutropenia and accompanying infections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProstatic cysts are common in the adult male population with intervention of these cysts typically reserved for symptomatic patients. However, current literature is limited on the diagnosis and management of prostatic cysts in the pediatric population. We report the case of a 13-year-old boy with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) who presented with an incidentally discovered prostatic cyst.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The objective of this study was to gain insight into the nature of cognitive fatigue and to identify future trends of objective assessment techniques in this field.
Methods: One thousand and eighty-five articles were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database. R version 4.
Sensors (Basel)
October 2024
Due to the uncertainty of the subsurface environment and the complexity of parameters, particularly in feature extraction from input data and when seeking to understand bidirectional temporal information, the evaluation and prediction of the rate of penetration (ROP) in real-time drilling operations has remained a long-standing challenge. To address these issues, this study proposes an improved LSTM neural network model for ROP prediction (CBT-LSTM). This model integrates the capability of a two-dimensional convolutional neural network (2D-CNN) for multi-feature extraction, the advantages of bidirectional long short-term memory networks (BiLSTM) for processing bidirectional temporal information, and the dynamic weight adjustment of the time pattern attention mechanism (TPA) for extracting crucial information in BiLSTM, effectively capturing key features in temporal data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo explore the efficacy of domestic single-hole robotic surgery system in the treatment of pediatric urological diseases. A prospective review of clinical data of children who underwent laparoscopic surgery in the Department of Urology, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was conducted from July to November 2023. All surgeries were performed using the sharp single-port serpentine arm robotic surgery system, with an umbilical access route.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant Cell Environ
February 2025
Manganese (Mn) is an indispensable mineral for plant growth and development. However, plants cultivated in acidic and poorly drained soils are vulnerable to Mn toxicity due to its heightened increased bioavailability. Despite the crucial roles of the Rho of plant (ROP) GTPases in various cellular processes, their precise function in regulating Mn homeostasis remains elusive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUrol Clin North Am
November 2024
Sacral spinal cord injury (SSCI) can disrupt bladder neuromodulation and impair detrusor function. Current studies provide limited information on the histologic and genetic changes associated with SSCI-related neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (NLUTD), resulting in few treatment options. This study aimed to establish a simple animal model of SSCI to better understand the disease progression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTopological modes (TMs) are typically localized at boundaries, interfaces and dislocations, and exponentially decay into the bulk of a large enough lattice. Recently, the non-Hermitian skin effect has been leveraged to delocalize the wave functions of TMs from the boundary and thus to increase the capacity of TMs dramatically. Here, we explore the capability of nonlinearity in designing and configuring the wave functions of TMs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis Letter presents results from a combination of searches for Higgs boson pair production using 126-140 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector. At 95% confidence level (CL), the upper limit on the production rate is 2.9 times the standard model (SM) prediction, with an expected limit of 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis Letter presents the first study of the energy dependence of diboson polarization fractions in WZ→ℓνℓ^{'}ℓ^{'}(ℓ,ℓ^{'}=e,μ) production. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector. Two fiducial regions with an enhanced presence of events featuring two longitudinally polarized bosons are defined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn native tissues, cells encounter a diverse range of stiffness, which can significantly affect their behavior and function. The ability of cells to sense and respond to these mechanical cues is essential for various physiological processes, including cell migration. Cell migration is a complex process influenced by multiple factors, with substrate stiffness emerging as a critical determinant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) are vital in converting insoluble phosphorus into a soluble form that plants can readily absorb and utilize in soil. While previous studies have mainly focused on the extracellular secretion of microorganisms, few have explored the intricate intracellular metabolic processes involved in PSB-mediated phosphorus solubilization.
Results: Here, we uncovered that Ca(PO) could serve as a source of insoluble phosphorus for the PSB, Pseudomonas sp.
This study aims to elucidate the mechanism of lipid metabolism disorder in intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) pigs and the potential alleviating effects of dimethylglycine sodium salt (DMG-Na). A total of 60 male newborn piglets were selected for this study. Within each litter, one normal birth weight (NBW) male piglet (1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe method of preparing borax by low-temperature soda roasting and water leaching of boron-rich blast furnace slag (BRBFS) is a novel method for extracting boron from BRBFS. In order to further improve the water leaching rate of boron, this article mainly studied the low-temperature soda roasting kinetics of BRBFS. The effects of roasting temperature and NaCO addition on the water leaching rate of boron were investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the efficacy of bispectral index (BIS) to reduce intra-operative awareness (IOA) have reported conflicting results. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to consolidate results from RCTs to assess the efficacy of BIS in reducing IOA when compared to controls. Secondary outcomes included time to extubation, time to spontaneous and/or verbal eye opening, PACU discharge time, and utilization of inhaled anesthetics.
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