In this paper we first show some of the bifurcation properties of Potts mean-field-theory annealing applied to traveling salesman problems. Due to these bifurcation properties, this approach, in general, produces non-optimal and non-unique solutions. As an alternative approach, we propose a nonequilibrium version of the Potts spin neural network, called chaotic Potts spin (CPS). CPS has several...

Several bacterial pathogens have evolved the means to escape immune detection by mimicking host cell surface carbohydrates that are crucial for self/non-self recognition. Sialic acid, a terminal residue on these carbohydrates, inhibits activation of the alternate pathway of complement by recruiting the immune modulating molecule factors H, I, and iC3b. Sialylation of capsular polysaccharide (CP...

The processing of prosodic phrase boundaries in language is immediately reflected by a specific event-related potential component called the Closure Positive Shift (CPS). A component somewhat reminiscent of the CPS in language has also been reported for musical phrases (i.e., the so-called 'music CPS'). However, in previous studies the quantification of the music-CPS as well as its morphology a...

Virulence of Vibrio vulnificus correlates with changes in colony morphology that are indicative of a reversible phase variation for expression of capsular polysaccharide (CPS). Encapsulated variants are virulent with opaque colonies, whereas phase variants with reduced CPS expression are attenuated and are translucent. Using TnphoA mutagenesis, we identified a V. vulnificus CPS locus, which inc...

Cyber Physical System (CPS) is extensively used in various fields like critical infrastructure control, vehicular system and transportation, social networking, medical and healthcare systems. The security concern for CPS is of utmost importance. CPS is vulnerable to many kinds of attacks that may cause major loss and potential security risk. In this paper, we will elaborate the requirement of s...

The capsular polysaccharide (CPS) of the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis is an important virulence factor for this organism. We purified P. gingivalis CPS, immunized mice with this antigen, and assessed the vaccine potential of P. gingivalis CPS by using the murine oral challenge model. Animals immunized with P. gingivalis CPS developed elevated levels of immunoglobulin M (IgM) an...

In recent years, the modeling and verifying of Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is now an important aspect of CPS researches. Because of the CPS’ complex architecture, it may suffer from the state-space explosion problem when we verify CPS models by model checking methods. Therefore, we offer a method which models CPS with Component Services. The method treats the CPS components as a service provide...

In spite of their high potency and specificity, few protein drugs have advanced to the clinical settings due to lack of safe and efficient delivery vehicles. Here, novel anisamide-decorated pH-sensitive degradable chimaeric polymersomes (Anis-CPs) were designed, prepared, and investigated for efficient and targeted delivery of apoptotic protein, granzyme B (GrB), to lung cancer cells. Anis-CPs ...

Chlorophenols (CPs) and their derivatives are persistent environmental pollutants which are used in the manufacture of dyes, drugs, pesticides and other industrial products. CPs, which include monochlorophenols, polychlorophenols, chloronitrophenols, chloroaminophenols and chloromethylphenols, are highly toxic to living beings due to their carcinogenic, mutagenic and cytotoxic properties. Sever...