Infection control / Modes of transmission

Machine learning modeling of plant phenology based on coupling satellite and gridded meteorological dataset.

Changes in the timing of plant phenological phases are important proxies in contemporary climate research. However, most of the commonly used traditional phenological observations do not give any coherent spatial information. While consistent spatial data can be obtained from airborne sensors and preprocessed gridded meteorological data, not many studies robustly benefit from these data sources. T...

Robotic Patterning a Superhydrophobic Surface for Collective Cell Migration Screening.

Collective cell migration, in which cells migrate as a group, is fundamental in many biological and pathological processes. There is increasing interest in studying the collective cell migration in high throughput. Cell scratching, insertion blocker, and gel-dissolving techniques are some methodologies used previously. However, these methods have the drawbacks of cell damage, substrate surface alt...

Computational Sensing of Staphylococcus aureus on Contact Lenses Using 3D Imaging of Curved Surfaces and Machine Learning.

We present a cost-effective and portable platform based on contact lenses for noninvasively detecting Staphylococcus aureus, which is part of the huma...

Virtual Sensors for Advanced Controllers in Rehabilitation Robotics.

In order to properly control rehabilitation robotic devices, the measurement of interaction force and motion between patient and robot is an essential...

A New Remote Health-Care System Based on Moving Robot Intended for the Elderly at Home.

Nowadays, due to the growing need for remote care and the constantly increasing popularity of mobile devices, a large amount of mobile applications fo...

Bipedal robotic walking control derived from analysis of human locomotion.

This paper proposes the design of a bipedal robotic controller where the function between the sensory input and motor output is treated as a black box...

Body-terrain interaction affects large bump traversal of insects and legged robots.

Small animals and robots must often rapidly traverse large bump-like obstacles when moving through complex 3D terrains, during which, in addition to l...

Dew point temperature affects ascospore release of allergenic genus Leptosphaeria.

The genus Leptosphaeria contains numerous fungi that cause the symptoms of asthma and also parasitize wild and crop plants. In search of a robust and ...

Artificial intelligence exploration of unstable protocells leads to predictable properties and discovery of collective behavior.

Protocell models are used to investigate how cells might have first assembled on Earth. Some, like oil-in-water droplets, can be seemingly simple mode...

Inhalation of Bacterial Cellulose Nanofibrils Triggers an Inflammatory Response and Changes Lung Tissue Morphology of Mice.

In view of the growing industrial use of Bacterial cellulose (BC), and taking into account that it might become airborne and be inhaled after industri...

Meta-Analysis of Expression Datasets: Comparing Virus Infection and Blood-Fed Transcriptomes to Identify Markers of Virus Presence.

The mosquito (L.) is vector of several arboviruses including dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and more recently zika. Previous transcriptomic studi...

A new approach to detect the coding rule of the cortical spiking model in the information transmission.

Investigation of the role of the local field potential (LFP) fluctuations in encoding the received sensory information by the nervous system remains l...

A sparse autoencoder-based deep neural network for protein solvent accessibility and contact number prediction.

BACKGROUND: Direct prediction of the three-dimensional (3D) structures of proteins from one-dimensional (1D) sequences is a challenging problem. Signi...

Framework for Infectious Disease Analysis: A comprehensive and integrative multi-modeling approach to disease prediction and management.

The impact of infectious disease on human populations is a function of many factors including environmental conditions, vector dynamics, transmission ...

Evaluation of a peroxygen-based disinfectant for inactivation of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus at low temperatures on metal surfaces.

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) spread rapidly across the United States in part due to contaminated livestock trailers. The objective of this s...

Carbon dots-modified chitosan based electrochemical biosensing platform for detection of vitamin D.

Here in, a carbon dots (CDs)-modified chitosan (CH) based biosensing platform was fabricated for vitamin D detection. Carbon dots were synthesized thr...

Modeling and prediction of copper removal from aqueous solutions by nZVI/rGO magnetic nanocomposites using ANN-GA and ANN-PSO.

Reduced graphene oxide-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI/rGO) magnetic nanocomposites were prepared and then applied in the Cu(II) removal fr...

[Surveillance of Sensitivity to Penicillin in streptococcus Agalactiae recovered from pregnant women between 35-37 weeks of gestation].

Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) cause severe infections in newborns under three months. Meningitis, pneumonia and sepsis are the main infectious diseas...

Enhancing Evolutionary Couplings with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

While genes are defined by sequence, in biological systems a protein's function is largely determined by its three-dimensional structure. Evolutionary...

Verification and large scale clinical evaluation of a national standard protocol for Salmonella spp./Shigella spp. screening using real-time PCR combined with guided culture.

Salmonella spp./Shigella spp. are often associated with food poisoning and fecal-oral transmission of acute gastroenteritis that requires strict monit...