Fresh juices of colourful wild berries: cornelian cherry, blackthorn, white beam and elderberry are considered as valuable, highly nutritive beverages and characterized by the high level of vitamins and antioxidant capacity. The concentration process of these juices by membrane osmotic distillation was studied, where only water vapour is eliminated, while the heat sensitive, valuable compounds ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that inflammation, demyelination, oligodendrocyte loss, gliosis, axonal injury and neurodegeneration are the main histopathological hallmarks of the disease. Although MS was classically thought as a demyelinating disease, but axonal injury occurs commonly in acute inflammatory lesions. In MS mi...

Information cascades in large social networks are complex phenomena governed by such diverse forces as the diffusion medium, user trends, and the information content itself. While these influences might be difficult to understand and model directly, the structure and evolution of the cascade can be used as a proxy for the sum effect. To this end, we study information cascades on Twitter and foc...

Modification of proteins by the reversible covalent addition of the small ubiquitin like modifier (SUMO) protein has important consequences affecting target protein stability, sub-cellular localization, and protein-protein interactions. SUMOylation involves a cascade of enzymatic reactions, which resembles the process of ubiquitination. In this study, we characterized the SUMOylation system fro...

This study was conducted to (1) characterize coagulation cascade and complement system in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); (2) evaluate the associations between coagulation cascade, complement system, inflammatory response and SLE disease severity; (3) test the diagnostic value of a combination of D-dimer and C4 for lupus activity. Transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics were performed ...

Neural network ensembles are widely use for classification and regression problems as an alternative to the use of isolated networks. In many applications, ensembles has proven a performance above the performance of just one network. In this paper we present a new approach to neural network ensembles that we call “cascade ensembles”. The approach is based on two ideas: (i) the ensemble is creat...

Cascade Hashing is a new dynamic hashing scheme which is based on Spiral Storage. The purpose of this paper is first to give a unified exposition of Linear Hashing, Spiral Storage and other dynamic hashing schemes, and second to describe a new method for storing overflow records. The method stores the overflow records in the main file itself and clusters overflow records from each primary bucke...

Effective utilization of scarce water resources has presented a significant challenge to respond to the needs created by rapid economic growth in China. In this study, the efficiency of the joint operation of the Three Gorges and Gezhouba cascade hydropower plants in terms of power generation was evaluated on the basis of a precise simulation-optimization technique. The joint operation conditio...

Emerging evidences exhibit that mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK/MPK) signaling pathways are connected with many aspects of plant development. The complexity of MAPK cascades raises challenges not only to identify the MAPK module in planta but also to define the specific role of an individual module. So far, our knowledge of MAPK signaling has been largely restricted to a small subset of ...

The flow in a linear compressor cascade with tip gap is simulated using wall-resolved compressible Large-Eddy Simulation. based on the Virginia Tech Low Speed Cascade Wind Tunnel. Reynolds number chord 3.88 x 10? and Mach 0.07. considered this study 4.0 mm (2.9% of axial chord). An aerodynamic analysis tip-leakage allow us identifying main mechanisms responsible for development convection vorte...