Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Mar 1, 2023
Jumping animals launch themselves from surfaces that vary widely in compliance from grasses and shrubs to tree branches. However, studies of robotic jumpers have been largely limited to those jumping from rigid substrates. In this paper, we leverage ...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Feb 28, 2023
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used in the field of medical imaging diagnosis but have the disadvantages of slow training speed and low diagnostic accuracy due to the initialization of parameters before training. In this article, a C...
Academic radiology
Feb 27, 2023
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Animal modeling of infectious diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is important for exploration of natural history, understanding of pathogenesis, and evaluation of countermeasures. Preclinical studies enable...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Feb 27, 2023
Due to technological developments, wearable sensors for monitoring the behavior of farm animals have become cheaper, have a longer lifespan and are more accessible for small farms and researchers. In addition, advancements in deep machine learning me...
Genes
Feb 25, 2023
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) N4-methylcytosine (4mC), a kind of epigenetic modification of DNA, is important for modifying gene functions, such as protein interactions, conformation, and stability in DNA, as well as for the control of gene expression ...
Cell reports methods
Feb 24, 2023
Quantifying animal behavior is important for biological research. Identifying behaviors is the prerequisite of quantifying them. Current computational tools for behavioral quantification typically use high-level properties such as body poses to ident...
Nature communications
Feb 23, 2023
Humans and other animals demonstrate a remarkable ability to generalize knowledge across distinct contexts and objects during natural behavior. We posit that this ability to generalize arises from a specific representational geometry, that we call ab...
Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
Feb 22, 2023
The silk fiber is increasingly being sought for its superior mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and eco-friendliness, making it promising as a base material for various applications. One of the characteristics of protein fibers, such as silk, i...
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie
Feb 21, 2023
Aneuploidy is the loss or gain of one or more chromosomes. Although it is a rare phenomenon in liveborn individuals, it is observed in livestock breeding populations. These breeding populations are often routinely genotyped and the genotype intensity...
Biology open
Feb 21, 2023
The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) has generated a large repository of three-dimensional (3D) imaging data from mouse embryos, providing a rich resource for investigating phenotype/genotype interactions. While the data is freely av...