Mobile operators are now facing the challenges posed by a huge data demand from users, mainly due to the introduction of modern portable devices and the success of mobile applications. Moreover, users are now capable to connect from different access networks and establish several active sessions simultaneously, while being mobile. This triggered the introduction of a new paradigm: the distribut...

stained by Fast Green and Safranin-O, and assessed by OARSI recommendation for histological scoring of OA in mice. Results: IAI-HA groups showed similar gait patterns to that of sham group, while saline injected group showed gait disturbance at 12 and 16 weeks after the DMM surgery. In saline group, stand phase and single stance phase were statistically shorter, and swing phase was statisticall...

The gas-phase carbonylation of dimethoxymethane (DMM) to form methyl methoxyacetate (MMAc) can be catalyzed by acid zeolites. This reaction is a critical step in the synthesis of monoethylene glycol (MEG), a widely used chemical, from synthesis gas. The mechanism of DMM carbonylation occurring on H-MFI and H-FAU zeolites has been investigated using density functional theory. We find that the re...

Privacy protecting is a direct manifestation of information confidentiality, such as the perception of the terminal location information. Data collection is an important information resource of things, and it is also one of the needs for protecting sensitive information. Privacy protecting has a significant role in application of the Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). As a part of the Internet Techn...

OBJECTIVES A key clinical paradox in osteoarthritis (OA), a prevalent age-related joint disorder characterised by cartilage degeneration and debilitating pain, is that the severity of joint pain does not strictly correlate with radiographic and histological defects in joint tissues. Here, we determined whether protein kinase Cδ (PKCδ), a key mediator of cartilage degeneration, is critical to th...

AIMS Pentacyclic triterpenes are a group of molecules with promising anticancer potential, although their precise molecular target remains elusive. The current work aims to investigate the antiproliferative and associated mechanisms of triterpenes in breast cancer cells in vitro. MAIN METHODS Effect of triterpenes on cell cycle distribution, ROS and key regulatory proteins were analyzed in th...

A computational model of auditory localization based on processing spectral amplitude cues for localizing broadband high frequency sound sources is presented. The cues extracted are binaural spectral level di erence patterns of the Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTF) corresponding to the direction of the sound source. Four di erent pattern classi ers are used to evaluate the feasibility of l...

With the emerging of massive short texts, e.g., social media posts and question titles from Q&A systems, discovering valuable information them is increasingly significant for many real-world applications content analysis. The family topic modeling can effectively explore hidden structures documents through assumptions latent topics. However, due to sparseness existing models, Dirichlet allocati...

In this paper, a stochastic-meta-heuristic model (SMM) for multi-criteria allocation of wind turbines (WT) in distribution network is performed minimizing the power losses, enhancing voltage profile and stability, reliability defined as energy not-supplied cost (ENSC) incorporating uncertainty resource production demand. The proposed methodology has been implemented using SMM, considering model...

The ability to assess and select new suppliers quickly and efficiently is a critical requirement for improving the agility of manufacturing supply chains. The Digital Manufacturing Market (DMM) is a web-based platform for intelligent supply chain configuration. This research enhances the DMM’s performance by developing a column generation method for solving the supplier selection problem. The o...