MOTIVATION Pairing between the target sequence and the 6-8 nt long seed sequence of the miRNA presents the most important feature for miRNA target site prediction. Novel high-throughput technologies such as Argonaute HITS-CLIP afford meanwhile a detailed study of miRNA:mRNA duplices. These interaction maps enable a first discrimination between functional and non-functional target sites in a bul...

Many decades ago, Japanese professional Go-Moku players stated that Go-Moku (Five-in-a-row on a horizontally placed 15×15 board) is a won game for the player to move first. So far, this claim has never been substantiated by (a tree of) variations or by a computer program. Meanwhile many variants of Go-Moku with slightly different rules have been developed. This paper shows that for two common v...

Though having achieved some progresses, the hand-crafted texture features, e.g., LBP [23], LBP-TOP [11] are still unable to capture the most discriminative cues between genuine and fake faces. In this paper, instead of designing feature by ourselves, we rely on the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to learn features of high discriminative ability in a supervised manner. Combined with some...

An adaptive speaker identification system is presented in this paper, which aims to recognize speakers in feature films by exploiting both audio and visual cues. Specifically, the audio source is first analyzed to identify speakers using a likelihood-based approach. Meanwhile, the visual source is parsed to recognize talking faces using face detection/recognition and mouth tracking techniques. ...

Octahedral transition metal complexes have been shown to have tremendous applications in chemical biology and medicinal chemistry. Meanwhile, structural transition metals can be replaced by inert octahedral silicon in a proof-of-principle study. We here introduce the first example of octahedral silicon complexes, which can very well serve as an efficient antimicrobial agent. The typical silicon...

Blind source separation technology refers to the process for observing the recovery of source signals by mixed signals through statistical analysis on the characteristics of source signals under the situation that the source signals and signal transmission signals are unknown, which is applied in many fields, particularly used extensively in processing speech signals, array signals, images and ...

A mathematical model describing the interaction of nutrient-plankton is investigated in this paper. In order to account for the time needed by the phytoplankton to mature after which they can release toxins, a discrete time delay is incorporated into the system. Moreover, it is also taken into account discrete time delays which indicates the partially recycled nutrient decomposed by bacteria af...

Conventionally, mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) inactivated by mitomycin C or irradiation were applied to support the self-renew and proliferation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). To avoid the disadvangtages of mitomycin C and irradiation, here MEFs were treated by ethanol (ET). Our data showed that 10% ET-inactivated MEFs (eiMEFs) could well maintain the self-renew and proliferation o...

Waterborne fluoropolymer emulsions were synthesized using the one-step semi-continuous seed emulsion polymerization of chlorotrifluoroethylene (CTFE), vinyl acetate (VAc), n-butyl acrylate (BA), Veova 10, and acrylic acid (AA). The main physical parameters of the polymer emulsions were tested and analyzed. Characteristics of the polymer films such as thermal stability, glass transition temperat...

Three-dimensional accurate positioning algorithm, using RSSI-based (Received Signal Strength Indication) positioning method, which constructs an attenuation model of wireless signal between beacon node and unknown node in three-dimensional space, and compensates for the loss of wireless signal on the basis of their material, thickness and other factors when there are obstacles or walls being in...