Yersinia enterocolitica, a bacterial enteropathogen that produces a variety of clinical manifestations in humans, includes six biotypes (B), called 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and about 70 serotypes. The biotypes exhibit diverse pathogenic potential; while 1B and 2-5 may show ability to produce clinical symptoms due to the presence of chromosomal and plasmid (pYV) virulence genes, B1A is supposed a non-pathogenic biotype since it lacks pYV plasmid. Therefore, although B1A strains cause diarrhea in humans, their pathogenic potential has not yet been extensively studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCooperative MIMO communication systems play an important role in the development of future sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems incorporating new technologies such as massive MIMO relay systems, dual-polarized antenna arrays, millimeter-wave communications, and, more recently, communications assisted using intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In a companion paper, we provided an overview of cooperative communication systems from a tensor modeling perspective. The objective of the present paper is to provide a comprehensive tutorial on semi-blind receivers for MIMO one-way two-hop relay systems, allowing the joint estimation of transmitted symbols and individual communication channels with only a few pilot symbols.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) directed to the chromosomal gene (-PCR) was used as a rapid, sensitive, and specific method to detect strains belonging to different biotypes in foods; a competitive Internal Amplification Control (cIAC) is also developed. The cIAC had a molecular weight of 417 bp and was detected until a concentration of 0.85 ng/μL.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to increasingly strong and varied performance requirements, cooperative wireless communication systems today occupy a prominent place in both academic research and industrial development. The technological and economic challenges for future sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems are considerable, with the objectives of improving coverage, data rate, latency, reliability, mobile connectivity and energy efficiency. Over the past decade, new technologies have emerged, such as massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay systems, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS), unmanned aerial vehicular (UAV)-assisted communications, dual-polarized (DP) antenna arrays, three dimensional (3D) polarized channel modeling, and millimeter-wave (mmW) communication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to the increase in the number of mobile stations in recent years, cooperative relaying systems have emerged as a promising technique for improving the quality of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks with an extension of the coverage area. In this paper, we propose a two-hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing and code-division multiple-access (OFDM-CDMA) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay system, which combines, both at the source and relay nodes, a tensor space-time-frequency (TSTF) coding with a multiple symbol matrices Kronecker product (MSMKron), called TSTF-MSMKron coding, aiming to increase the diversity gain. It is first established that the signals received at the relay and the destination satisfy generalized Tucker models whose core tensors are the coding tensors.
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