Upregulation of sperm-associated antigen 5 expression in endometrial carcinoma was associated with poor prognosis and immune dysregulation, and promoted cell migration and invasion.

Sperm-associated antigen 5 (SPAG5) regulates cancer cell invasion and is involved in the progression of many cancers. However, the role of SPAG5 in endometrial carcinoma (EC) is still unknown. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of SPAG5 in EC and its potential molecular mechanism.

Molecular Simulation of Surfactant Displacement of Residual Oil in Nanopores: Formation of Water Channels and Electrostatic Interaction.

The water-oil-rock system's surfactant and electrostatic interactions are essential for removing oil droplets from rock substrates. Our work illustrates the impact of surface charge on the oil contact angle in an ideal system comprising silica, water, and dodecane; smaller contact angles are observed for more polar substrates. Modifying the polarity of the model silica surface allows for the observation of the creation of heteromolecule channels and the process of stripping crude oil while accounting for the impacts of water flow and different types of surfactant molecules.

GAMMA challenge: Glaucoma grAding from Multi-Modality imAges.

Glaucoma is a chronic neuro-degenerative condition that is one of the world's leading causes of irreversible but preventable blindness. The blindness is generally caused by the lack of timely detection and treatment. Early screening is thus essential for early treatment to preserve vision and maintain life quality.

Spherical DNNs and Their Applications in 360 Images and Videos.

Spherical images or videos, as typical non-euclidean data, are usually stored in the form of 2D panoramas obtained through an equirectangular projection, which is neither equal area nor conformal. The distortion caused by the projection limits the performance of vanilla Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) designed for traditional euclidean data. In this paper, we design a novel Spherical Deep Neural Network (DNN) to deal with the distortion caused by the equirectangular projection.

A novel gene LbHLH from the halophyte Limonium bicolor enhances salt tolerance via reducing root hair development and enhancing osmotic resistance.

Background: Identifying genes involved in salt tolerance in the recretohalophyte Limonium bicolor could facilitate the breeding of crops with enhanced salt tolerance. Here we cloned the previously uncharacterized gene LbHLH and explored its role in salt tolerance.

Results: The 2,067-bp open reading frame of LbHLH encodes a 688-amino-acid protein with a typical helix-loop-helix (HLH) domain.

Importin-β From the Recretohalophyte Enhances Salt Tolerance in by Reducing Root Hair Development and Abscisic Acid Sensitivity.

Aims: To elucidate the genetics underlying salt tolerance in recretohalophytes and assess its relevance to non-halophytes, we cloned the homolog of (Arabidopsis) () and named it , an importin-β gene associated with trichome initiation and reduced abscisic acid (ABA) sensitivity, and then we assessed the heterologously expressed in Arabidopsis.

Methods: We examined expression and assessed the effect of heterologous expression in Arabidopsis on root hair/trichome induction; the expression levels of possible related genes in trichome/root hair development; some physiological parameters involved in salt tolerance including germination rate, root length, and contents of Na, proline, and malondialdehyde; and the response of ABA at the germination stage.

Results: The gene is highly expressed in the salt gland development stage and salt treatment, especially located in the salt gland by hybridization, and the LbSAD2 protein contains some special domains compared with AtSAD2, which may suggest the involvement of LbSAD2 in salt tolerance.

Beneficial Effects of Salt on Halophyte Growth: Morphology, Cells, and Genes.

Halophytes can survive and complete their life cycle in the presence of ≥200 mM NaCl. These remarkable plants have developed various strategies to tolerate salinity and thrive in high-salt environments. At the appropriate levels, salt has a beneficial effect on the vegetative growth of halophytes but inhibits the growth of non-halophytes.

Multiview Multitask Gaze Estimation With Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

Gaze estimation, which aims to predict gaze points with given eye images, is an important task in computer vision because of its applications in human visual attention understanding. Many existing methods are based on a single camera, and most of them only focus on either the gaze point estimation or gaze direction estimation. In this paper, we propose a novel multitask method for the gaze point estimation using multiview cameras.

Personalized Saliency and Its Prediction.

Nearly all existing visual saliency models by far have focused on predicting a universal saliency map across all observers. Yet psychology studies suggest that visual attention of different observers can vary significantly under specific circumstances, especially a scene is composed of multiple salient objects. To study such heterogenous visual attention pattern across observers, we first construct a personalized saliency dataset and explore correlations between visual attention, personal preferences, and image contents.