Abstract Land use change (LUC) is the leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. However, global understanding LUC's impact on mainly based comparisons land endpoints (habitat vs non-habitat) in forest ecosystems. Hence, it may not generalise to savannas, which are ecologically distinct from forests, as they inherently patchy, and disturbance adapted. Endpoint also cannot inform management i...

In this paper, we present a neural-network (NN) based approach to represent a nonlinear Tagagi-Sugeno (T-S) system. A linear differential inclusion (LDI) state-space representation is utilized to deal with the NN models. Taking advantage of the LDI representation, the stability conditions and controller design are derived for a class of nonlinear structural systems. Moreover, the concept of uti...

Landscape Development Intensity (LDI) values were calculated for selected land uses within the Bayou Meto Watershed (BMW), Arkansas, USA, using existing land use data and annual measures of non-renewable energy use per unit area, as part of an effort to assess the effect of the surrounding land use on the condition of floodplain forested wetlands. Level 2 land use categories from the 1999 Arkan...

BACKGROUND Despite widespread beliefs regarding the use of topical tocotrienol in the prevention of hypertrophic scars, there is very little evidence from well controlled and randomised clinical trials to justify its benefits for surgical scars. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of topical tocotrienol in preventing the development of hypertrophic scars. METHODS A p...

A high-resolution sea surface temperature (SST) reconstruction of the western Mediterranean was accomplished using two independent, algae-based molecular organic proxies, i.e., the U37 index based on long-chain unsaturated ketones and the novel long-chain diol index (LDI) based on the relative abundances of C28 and C30 1,13and 1,15-diols. Twomarine records, from the western and eastern Alboran ...

We for the first time demonstrate multi-functional magnetic particles based rare cell isolation combined with the downstream laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (LDI-MS) to measure the metabolism of enriched circulating tumor cells (CTCs). The characterization of CTCs metabolism plays a significant role in understanding the tumor microenvironment, through exploring the diverse cellula...

Experimental studies revealed that the elements of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) 5'-untranslated leader region (5'-UTR) can fold in vitro into two alternative conformations, branched (BMH) and 'linearized' (LDI) and switch between them to achieve different functionality. In this study we computationally explored in detail, with our massively parallel genetic algorithm (MPGAfol...

The multi-view video is a collection of multiple videos, capturing the same scene at different viewpoints. If we acquire multi-view videos from multiple cameras, it is possible to generate scenes at arbitrary view positions. It means that users can change their viewpoints freely and can feel visible depth with view interaction. Therefore, the multi-view video can be used in a variety of applica...

The gene for the maturation protein of the single-stranded RNA coliphage MS2 is preceded by an untranslated leader of 130 nt, which folds into a cloverleaf, i.e., three stem-loop structures enclosed by a long distance interaction (LDI). This LDI prevents translation because its 3' moiety contains the Shine-Dalgarno sequence of the maturation gene. Previously, several observations suggested that...