Electrocardiograph (ECG) is one of the most critical physiological signals used for arrhythmia diagnosis. In recent years, ECG arrhythmia classification devices consisting of multi-module sensors, clustering algorithms and neural networks play an important role in monitoring and diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. However, the commonly used ECG arrhythmia classification methods are still facing some problems such as the complex model structure and long running time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurrent therapies against pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) have limited clinical benefits owing to tumor heterogeneity and their unique immunosuppressive microenvironments. The eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) 4F complex is involved in regulating translation and various downstream carcinogenic signaling pathways. We report that eIF4G1, one of the subunits of eIF4F, is overexpressed in cancer cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts, and this correlates with poor prognosis in patients with PDAC.
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November 2024
Capsid assembly modulators (CAMs) have the potential to cure chronic hepatitis B, as demonstrated in clinical trials. Lead compounds NVR3-778 and 5a were found to exist in normal and flipped conformations through induced fit docking. Therefore, we designed and synthesized series I and II compounds by interchanging the amide and sulfonamide bonds of 5a to modify both the tolerance region and solvent-opening region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatitis B virus (HBV) capsid assembly modulators (CAMs) represent a promising therapeutic approach for the treatment of HBV infection. In this study, we designed and synthesized five series of benzamide derivatives based on a multisite-binding strategy at the tolerant region and diversity modification in the solvent-exposed region. Among them, thioureidobenzamide compound exhibited significantly increased anti-HBV activity in HepAD38 (EC = 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFast-neutrons play a critical role in a range of applications, including medical imaging, therapy, and nondestructive inspection. However, direct detecting fast-neutrons by semiconductors has proven to be challenging due to their weak interaction with most matter and the requirement of high carrier mobility-lifetime (µτ) product for efficient charge collection. Herein, a novel approach is presented to direct fast-neutron detection using 2D Dion-Jacobson perovskite semiconductor BDAPbBr .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLead halide perovskites have recently emerged as promising X/γ-ray scintillators. However, the small Stokes shift of exciton luminescence in perovskite scintillators creates problems for the light extraction efficiency and severely impedes their applications in hard X/γ-ray detection. Dopants have been used to shift the emission wavelength, but the radioluminescence lifetime has also been unwantedly extended.
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June 2023
Background And Objective: As a representative type of cardiovascular disease, persistent arrhythmias can often become life-threatening. In recent years, machine learning-based ECG arrhythmia classification aided methods have been effective in assisting physicians with their diagnosis, but these methods have problems such as complex model structures, poor feature perception ability, and low classification accuracy.
Methods: In this paper, a self-adjusting ant colony clustering algorithm for ECG arrhythmia classification based on a correction mechanism is proposed.
Sensors (Basel)
February 2023
Perovskite CsPbBr semiconductors exhibit unusually high defect tolerance leading to outstanding and unique optoelectronic properties, demonstrating strong potential for γ-radiation and X-ray detection at room temperature. However, the total dose effects of the perovskite CsPbBr must be considered when working in a long-term radiation environment. In this work, the Schottky type of perovskite CsPbBr detector was fabricated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerovskite materials have demonstrated great potential for ultrafast scintillators with high light yield. However, the decay time of perovskite still cannot be further minimized into sub-nanosecond region, while sub-nanosecond scintillators are highly demanded in various radiation detection, including high speed X-ray imaging, time-of-flight based tomography or particle discrimination, and timing resolution measurement in synchrotron radiation facilities, etc. Here, a rational design strategy is showed to shorten the scintillation decay time, by maximizing the dielectric difference between organic amines and Pb-Br octahedral emitters in 2D organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites (OIHP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectric energy, as an economical and clean energy, plays a significant role in the development of science and technology and the economy. The motor is the core equipment of the power station; therefore, monitoring the motor vibration and predicting time series of the bearing vibration can effectively avoid hazards such as bearing heating and reduce energy consumption. Time series forecasting methods of motor bearing vibration based on sliding window forecasting, such as CNN, LSTM, etc.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCapsid assembly modulators (CAMs) have recently been revealed to be effective in blocking HBV replication. HBV capsid protein inhibitors reduce and ultimately eliminate HBV by inhibiting virus replication and blocking hepatocyte infection. Sulfonamides are synthetic functional groups in development of different kinds of drugs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo improve the radioluminescence (RL) performance of ZnO:Ga (GZO) crystal scintillators and overcome the challenge of their self-absorption, we proposed a two-layer composite scintillator consisting of a GZO wafer and a 70 nm lead halide perovskite film(CsPbBr, CHNHPbBr). The effects of the perovskite film on the RL properties were studied. The results showed that the perovskite quantum dot film substantially changed the RL spectrum of GZO and prevented self-absorption.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSilicon carbide radiation detectors are attractive in the measurement of the total numbers of pulsed fast neutrons emitted from nuclear fusion and fission devices because of high neutron-gamma discrimination and good radiation resistance. A fast-neutron detection system was developed based on a large-area 4H-SiC Schottky diode detector and a U fission target. Excellent pulse-height spectra of fission fragments induced by mono-energy deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion neutrons and continuous energy fission neutrons were obtained.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSilicon carbide (SiC) is a wide band-gap semiconductor material with many excellent properties, showing great potential in fusion neutron detection. The radiation resistance of 4H-SiC Schottky diode detectors was studied experimentally by carefully analyzing the detectors' properties before and after deuterium-tritium fusion neutron irradiation with the total fluence of 1.31 × 10 n/cm and 7.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSilicon carbide (SiC) detectors of an Ni/4H-SiC Schottky diode structure and with sensitive areas of 1-4 cm² were fabricated using high-quality lightly doped epitaxial 4H-SiC material, and were tested in the detection of alpha particles and pulsed X-rays/UV-light. A linear energy response to alpha particles ranging from 5.157 to 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is intuitively expected that an enhanced light extraction of a scintillator can be easily achieved by photonic crystal structures. Here, we demonstrate a modified timing characteristic for a detection system induced by enhanced light extraction with photonic crystal structures. Such improvement is due to the enhanced light extraction which can be clearly proven by the independent measurements of the light output and the timing resolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new compact magnetic proton recoil (MPR) neutron spectrometer has been designed for precise measurement of deuterium-tritium (DT) neutrons. This design is presented emphasizing the magnetic analyzing system, which is based on a compact quadrupole-dipole (QD) electromagnet. The focal plane detector (FPD) is also discussed with respect to application for the next step.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA detector setup based on polycrystalline chemical-vapor-deposition diamond film is developed with great characteristics: low dark current (lower than 60 pA within 3 V/mum), fast pulsed response time (rise time: 2-3 ns), flat spectral response (3-5 keV), easy acquisition, low cost, and relative large sensitive area. The characterizing data on Qiangguang-I accelerator show that this detector can satisfy the practical requirements in Z-pinch plasma diagnosis very well, which offers a promising prototype for the x-ray detection in Z-pinch diagnosis.
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