Transcriptome analysis and genome-wide identification of the dehydration-responsive element binding gene family in jackfruit under cold stress.

Background: Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) is the world's largest and heaviest fruit and adapts to hot, humid tropical climates. Low-temperature injury in winter is a primary abiotic stress, which affects jackfruit growth and development.

Gaze Estimation by Attention-Induced Hierarchical Variational Auto-Encoder.

Appearance-based gaze estimation has been widely studied recently with promising performance. The majority of appearance-based gaze estimation methods are developed under the deterministic frameworks. However, the deterministic gaze estimation methods suffer from large performance drop upon challenging eye images in low-resolution, darkness, partial occlusions, etc.

MetaKernel: Learning Variational Random Features With Limited Labels.

Few-shot learning deals with the fundamental and challenging problem of learning from a few annotated samples, while being able to generalize well on new tasks. The crux of few-shot learning is to extract prior knowledge from related tasks to enable fast adaptation to a new task with a limited amount of data. In this paper, we propose meta-learning kernels with random Fourier features for few-shot learning, we call MetaKernel.

Variational Abnormal Behavior Detection With Motion Consistency.

Abnormal crowd behavior detection has recently attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications in computer vision research areas. However, it is still an extremely challenging task due to the great variability of abnormal behavior coupled with huge ambiguity and uncertainty of video contents. To tackle these challenges, we propose a new probabilistic framework named variational abnormal behavior detection (VABD), which can detect abnormal crowd behavior in video sequences.

Conditional Variational Image Deraining.

Image deraining is an important yet challenging image processing task. Though deterministic image deraining methods are developed with encouraging performance, they are infeasible to learn flexible representations for probabilistic inference and diverse predictions. Besides, rain intensity varies both in spatial locations and across color channels, making this task more difficult.

[Telomere Length, Expression of MRE11 and Ku80 in Patients with Aplastic Anemia and Their Correlation with Pathogenesis].

Objective: To detect the expression levels of MRE11 and Ku80 mRNA, and telomere length in bone marrow mononuclear cells of aplastic anemia(AA) patients, and to explore their correlation with pathogenesis of aplastic anemia.

Methods: Bone marrow mononuclear cells were collected from 40 cases of AA and 20 normal controls for detecting mRNA expression of MRE11 and Ku80 and telomere length by using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), then MRE11, Ku80 and telomere length were analyzed for their correlation.

Results: As compared with controls, the expression levels of MRE11 and Ku80 in patients with AA were significantly reduced, and the telomere length in patients with AA was obviously shortened, respectively (P<0.

[Effects of ultraviolet-C irradiation on membrane lipid peroxidation and activity of PS II electron transport in chloroplasts of Taxus cuspidata needles].

The isolated chloroplasts of Taxus cuspidata needles treated with 12 W.m-2 of ultraviolet-C (UV-C, 254 nm) irradiation were studied under laboratory conditions. The results showed that with the increase of UV-C irradiation, the carotenoids (Car) and glutathione (GSH) contents and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity were decreased, while the malondialdehyde content (MDA) and the relative permeability of chloroplasts membrane were increased to various extents.

[Freezing injury of plant and oxidative stress--superoxide generation in freeze-thaw cycles of cabbage leaf tissues].

To test the hypothesis that oxidative stress is involved in inducing freezing injury of plants, nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) was infiltrated into cabbage leaf tissues before they were frozen. NBT was reduced to formazans in freeze-thaw cycles. The ethanol-extractable mono-formazan was measured by a spectrophotometer, and used as a quantitative indicator of oxidative stress that developed during a freeze-thaw cycle.