Recently, a new strong optimization algorithm called marine predators (MPA) has been proposed for tackling the single-objective problems and could dramatically fulfill good outcomes in comparison to other compared algorithms. Those dramatic outcomes, addition our recently-proposed strategies helping meta-heuristic algorithms fulfilling better multi-objective problems, motivate us make comprehen...

STarMir web server predicts microRNA (miRNA) binding sites on a target ribonucleic acid (RNA). STarMir is an implementation of logistic prediction models developed with miRNA binding data from crosslinking immunoprecipitation (CLIP) studies (Liu,C., Mallick, B., Long, D., Rennie, W.A., Wolenc, A., Carmack, C.S. and Ding, Y. (2013). CLIP-based prediction of mammalian microRNA binding sites. Nucl...

Near-infrared spectrometry (NIRS) is a well-known method used to measure in vivo tissue oxygenation and hemodynamics. This method is used to derive relative measures of hemoglobin (Hb) + myoglobin (Mb) oxygenation and total Hb (tHb) accumulation from measurements of optical attenuation at discrete wavelengths. We present the design and validation of a new NIRS oxygenation analyzer for the measu...

Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) assays are a popular means of monitoring adrenocortical activity (i.e., physiological stress response) in wildlife. Species-specific differences in glucocorticoid metabolism and excretion require assay validation, including both laboratory and biological components, before assay use in new species. We validated a commercially available radioimmunoassay (MP ...

Knowledge of animal energetics is based largely upon indirect calorimetry, which is estimation of metabolic heat production by an organism from measurement of indices such as oxygen consumption or carbon dioxide production. Remarkably, indirect calorimetry has been validated by comparison to direct measurements of metabolic heat production (direct calorimetry) only for highly restricted conditi...

A mean-value model of a diesel engine with a variable-geometry turbocharger (VGT) and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is developed, parameterized, and validated. The intended model applications are system analysis, simulation, and development of modelbased control systems. The goal is to construct a model that describes the gas flow dynamics including the dynamics in the manifold pressures, tur...