Electrogeneration of non-electroactive and non-conducting materials: a counterintuitive concept for the functionalization and nanostructuration of electrode surfaces by Walcarius, Alain

“…It is mainly based on electrochemically induced redox reactions involving electroactive precursors, which are intended to form solid deposits onto the electrode surface. More recently, a rather counterintuitive approach has emerged by exploiting electrochemistry to generate non-electroactive and non-conductive thin films (e.g., sol–gel derived materials), based on the electrogeneration of a catalyst that is likely to induce indirectly the formation of a thin film (i.e., without direct electron transfer with the precursors). …”
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Investigation of System Stability and the Design of a Controller based on the Transfer Function of a Quadcopter’s BLDC Motor by Barnabás Kiss, Áron Ballagi, Miklós Kuczmann

“…Additionally, how the LQ controller and the PID controller respond to a randomly generated white noise is examined. The results are compared with those implemented with a PID controller presented in a separate article.…”
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Hyperspectral Data Can Classify Plant Functional Groups Within New Zealand Hill Farm Pasture by Thomas A. Cushnahan, Miles C. E. Grafton, Diane Pearson, Thiagarajah Ramilan

“…We validated a farm scale map generated using support vector machines (SVMs), with ground reference data, to an overall accuracy of 88.75%. …”
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Direct conversion of urine-derived cells into functional motor neuron-like cells by defined transcription factors by Hiroaki Nagai, Masayo Saito, Hidehisa Iwata

“…Herein, induced motor neuron-like cells (iMNs) were generated from UDCs by transducing transcription factors involved in motor neuron (MN) differentiation. iMNs exhibited neuronal morphology, upregulation of pan-neuron and MN markers, and MN functionality, including spontaneous calcium oscillation and bungarotoxin-positive neuromuscular junction formation, when co-cultured with myotubes. …”
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Intra-abdominal pressure and residual renal function decline in peritoneal dialysis: a threshold-based investigation by Jingjing Zhang, Lei Song, Zhongwei Ma, Lina Sun, Xiaoqing Wang, Duanyan Liu, Feng Huang, Yulin Man

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated to determine the optimal threshold value. …”
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Combined transcriptome and proteome profiling reveal cell-type-specific functions of Drosophila garland and pericardial nephrocytes by Heiko Meyer, Judith Bossen, Maren Janz, Xenia Müller, Sven Künzel, Thomas Roeder, Achim Paululat

“…Factor-specific comparisons identified novel candidate proteins either expressed and secreted by the nephrocytes or sequestered by them. The data generated in this study represent a valuable basis for a more specific application of the Drosophila model in analysing renal cell function in health and disease.…”
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Large-scale urban building function mapping by integrating multi-source web-based geospatial data by Wei Chen, Yuyu Zhou, Eleanor C. Stokes, Xuesong Zhang

“…Due to the limited availability of socio-economic geospatial data, it is more challenging to map building functions than building morphological information, especially over large areas. …”
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Narrowing the gap between machine learning scoring functions and free energy perturbation using augmented data by Ísak Valsson, Matthew T. Warren, Charlotte M. Deane, Aniket Magarkar, Garrett M. Morris, Philip C. Biggin

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Transplantation of decellularized porcine kidney grafts repopulated with primary human cells demonstrates filtration function in pigs by David Y. Lo, Boyukkhanim Ahmadzada, MacKenna A. Stachel, Melia Schaefer, Usman Ashraf, John I. Wagner, Ethan J. Vanderslice, Madie Tornquist, Kendra Mariakis, Peggy Halsten, Christopher D. Lindsay, Emily C. Beck, Scott L. Nyberg, Jeffrey J. Ross

“…Podocytes along with endothelial cells were then used to recapitulate glomeruli within decellularized porcine kidney scaffolds to generate bioengineered kidneys grafts. These bioengineered kidney grafts were functionally assessed via normothermic perfusion which compared kidney grafts recellularized with only endothelial cells as a control to bi-culture kidney grafts comprised of endothelial cells and podocytes. …”
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Investigating the causal pathways among psychopathological variables, cognitive impairment, and real-life functioning in people with schizophrenia by Luigi Giuliani, Francesco Sanmarchi, Armida Mucci, Paola Rucci, Edoardo Caporusso, Paola Bucci, Giulia M. Giordano, Mario Amore, Paola Rocca, Alessandro Rossi, Alessandro Bertolino, Silvana Galderisi, Mario Maj

“…State-of-the-art instruments were used to assess the study variables. Two PAGs were generated at baseline and after 4 years of follow-up to model the nature of the causal relationships linking psychopathology, cognition, and functioning. …”
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Synergistic effects of alginate oligosaccharide and cyanidin-3-O-glucoside on the amelioration of intestinal barrier function in mice by Jie Li, Yuanjie Guo, Liyuan Ma, Yixiang Liu, Chao Zou, Huiying Kuang, Bing Han, Yingliang Xiao, Yanbo Wang

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Aging modulates the immunosuppressive, polarizing and metabolic functions of blood-derived myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) by Emma Keltsch, Jennifer Greiner, Lena Wahl, Ingrid Knape, Daniel Tews, Michael Denkinger, Klaus-Michael Debatin, Gudrun Strauss

“…Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are potent inhibitors of T cell activation and function, whose induction requires chronic inflammation. …”
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Functional properties and toxicological analysis of nanocellulose-based aerogels loaded with polyphenols from Hyeronima macrocarpa berries by Andrés Felipe Alzate-Arbeláez, Farid B. Cortés, Benjamín A. Rojano

“…The differences found in samples for the different functional assays can be explained by the various types of interactions generated between the antioxidant molecules and aerogels, in the various media where the analyses are carried out. …”
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An efficient spectrum sensing of mixed kernel SVM based on sampling covariance matrix by Jianyuan NIE, Jianrong BAO, Bin JIANG, Chao LIU, Fang ZHU, Jianhai HE

“…In recent years,with the blind detection algorithms were proposed,more and more blind algorithms based on sampling covariance matrix were applied to spectrum sensing.The detection threshold was an approximation,and the detection performance would be affected for this algorithms.Thus,the mixed kernel function support vector machine (SVM) efficient spectrum sensing based on sampling covariance matrix was proposed.The statistics which were maximum minimum eigenvalue (MME) and covariance absolute value (CAV) of sensing signal sampling covariance matrices were used as the feature vectors of SVM and were trained to generate a spectrum sensing classifier.The advantage of this algorithm was that it needn’t calculate the detection threshold and the extraction of features reduces size of the sample set.The genetic algorithm (GA) was used to optimize the parameters of mixed kernel function SVM algorithm.The experimental results show that the proposed method has higher detection probability than MME and CAV algorithms,and has less sensing time than SVM,which has good practicability.…”
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FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY OF IFNα- AND IL-4-INDUCED HUMAN DENDRITIC CELLS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY by O. Yu. Leplina, M. A. Tikhonova, T. V. Tyrinova, E. A. Alyamkina, S. S. Bogachev, A. A, Ostanin, E. R. Chernykh

“…It was shown that IL-4-DCs and IFN-DCs didnot differ in their key functional characteristics, i.e., in their ability to stimulate proliferation of T-cells inresponse to alloantigens, and to induce generation of T-regulatory cells in mixed leukocyte culture. …”
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Recent advances on biogenesis, functions and therapeutic potential of long noncoding RNAs in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia by Parminder Kaur, Pankaj Sharma, Prateek Bhatia, Minu Singh

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Reference Function Based Spatiotemporal Fuzzy Logic Control Design Using Support Vector Regression Learning by Xian-Xia Zhang, Ye Jiang, Shiwei Ma, Bing Wang

“…The concept of reference function is introduced to 3D FLC for the generation of 3D membership functions (MF), which enhance the capability of the 3D FLC to cope with more kinds of MFs. …”
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Estimation of Copula Density Using the Wavelet Transform by Fatimah Hashim Falhi, Munaf Yousif Hmood

“…To estimate the copula density function, simulation was used to generate data using five different copula functions, such as Gaussian, Frank, Tawn, Rotation Tawn, and Joe copulas. …”
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Effects of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Functions of Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Expressing T Lymphocytes and Natural Killer Cells by Vladislav Volarevic, Carl Randall Harrell, Aleksandar Arsenijevic, Valentin Djonov, Ana Volarevic

“…Additionally, MSCs may serve as vehicles for targeted delivery of immunomodulatory agents, and should be considered as active components in the design of next-generation CAR-based immunotherapies. Accordingly, in this review article we emphasize molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in MSC-dependent modulation of CAR-expressing immune cells, paving the way for more efficient CAR-based immunotherapy for malignant diseases.…”
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Increased functional potency of multi-edited CAR-T cells manufactured by a non-viral transfection system by Aine O’Sullivan, Sarah Case, Aisling McCrudden, Emer Hackett, Louise Gallagher, Darren Martin, Gillian P. Johnson, Kirti Mahadik, Thomas Kienzle, Jude Kevin Lim, Aya Nashat, Kartik Srinivasan, Mark W. Lowdell, Lisa O’Flynn, Jamie Frankish

“…However, to treat solid tumors and certain hematologic cancers, next-generation CAR-T cells require further genetic modifications to overcome some of the current limitations. …”
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