The paper presents an ongoing investigation into the feasibility of distinguishing between healthy young and older adults, but more specifically into the nature of the features that would provide this distinction. The present study compared the performance of forward, backward, and branch and bound feature selection algorithms when applied to electroencephalography and electromyography data. The results showed that the forward selection algorithm outperformed the other techniques for this particular problem. In addition, time domain features were primarily selected over frequency domain features. Validation of the selected subset suggests the approach is appropriate for future investigation.
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RSC Chem Biol
January 2025
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison Wisconsin 53706 USA
Cyanobacteria are widespread, photosynthetic, gram-negative bacteria that generate numerous bioactive secondary metabolites complex biosynthetic enzymatic machinery. The model cyanobacterium sp. strain PCC 7002, hereafter referred to as PCC 7002, contains a type I polyketide synthase (PKS), termed olefin synthase (OlsWT), that synthesizes 1-nonadecene and 1,14-nonadecadiene: α-olefins that are important for growth at low temperatures.
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January 2023
Université Paris Saclay, CNRS UMR 9198-CEA, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif sur Yvette, France.
Rhoptries and micronemes are essential for host cell invasion and survival of all apicomplexan parasites, which are composed of numerous obligate intracellular protozoan pathogens including (malaria) and (toxoplasmosis) that infect humans and animals causing severe diseases. We identified SORT as an essential cargo receptor, which drives the transport of rhoptry (ROP) and microneme (MIC) proteins to ensure the biogenesis of these secretory organelles. The luminal domain of 752 amino acid long situated at the N-terminus end of TgSORT has been described to bind to MIC and ROP proteins.
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December 2024
Surgical and Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS.
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Front Child Adolesc Psychiatry
March 2024
Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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