background: stearoyl-coa desaturase (scd) is a key enzyme that converts saturated fatty acids (sfas) to monounsaturated fatty acids (mufas) in fat biosynthesis. despite being crucial for interpreting scds’ roles across species, the evolutionary relationship of scd proteins across species has yet to be elucidated. this study aims to present this evolutionary relationship based on amino acid sequ...

The quantity, size and distribution of pinning centers are key factors in determining the Jc of Nb-Ti-based superconductors. In Artificial Pinning Center, APC composites large strains must be applied between the assembly of the pinning structure and the final strand, which can result in large changes and variations in pinning center size and shape. In order to correctly interpret the properties...

A protein local substructure (descriptor) is a set of several short non-overlapping fragments of the polypeptide chain. Each substructure describes local environment of a particular residue and includes only those segments of the main chain that are located in the proximity of that residue. Similar descriptors from the representative set of proteins were analyzed to reveal links between the sub...

We had recently shown that every positive integer can be represented uniquely using a recurrence sequence, when certain restrictions on the digit strings are satisfied. We present the details of how such representations can be used to build a knapsack-like public key cryptosystem. We also present new disguising methods, and provide arguments for the security of the code against known methods of...

A recently proposed public key cryptosystem based on Chebyshev polynomials suggests a new approach to data encryption. But the security of the cryptosystem has not been investigated in depth, for lack of an appropriate analysis method. In this paper, a new representation of Chebyshev polynomial is introduced to study security issues of the cryptosystem. The properties of Chebyshev polynomial se...

Background: Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) is a key enzyme that converts saturated fatty acids (SFAs) to monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) in fat biosynthesis. Despite being crucial for interpreting SCDs’ roles across species, the evolutionary relationship of SCD proteins across species has yet to be elucidated. This study aims to present this evolutionary relationship based on amino aci...

Multimedia scrambling technologies ensure that multimedia content is only used by authorized users by transforming multimedia data into an unintelligible format. This paper introduces a new P-recursive sequence and two multimedia scrambling algorithms based on the P-recursive sequence. The P-recursive sequence is a more generalized sequence which can derive many well-known sequences such as the...