Mast cells (MC) are present in most vascularized tissues around the vasculature likely exerting immunomodulatory functions. Endowed with diverse mediators, resident MC represent first-line fine-tuners of local microenvironment. Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) functions as a pluripotent signaling sphingolipid metabolite in health and disease. S1P formation occurs at low levels in resting MC and is...

Context. Recently, much attention has been paid to the magnetic coupling (MC) process, which is supported by very high emissivity indexes observed in Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15 and GBHC XTE J1650-500. But the rotational energy transferred from a black hole is simply assumed to be radiated away from the surrounding accretion disk in black-body spectrum, which is obviously not consistent with t...

In this paper, an improved hybrid optimization model based on grey GM (1,1) model is proposed to develop the prediction model in power systems. To realize more accurate prediction, the regression model is firstly integrated into GM (1,1) through compensation for the residual error series. The improved model is defined as RGM (1,1). Furthermore, Markov chain model is applied to RGM (1,1) to enha...

This paper presents COOL-MC, a tool that integrates state-of-the-art reinforcement learning (RL) and model checking. Specifically, the builds upon OpenAI gym probabilistic checker Storm. COOL-MC provides following features: (1) simulator to train RL policies in for Markov decision processes (MDPs) are defined as input Storm, (2) new builder which uses callback functions verify (neural network) ...

Numerical studies of the interplanetary “shock overtaking magnetic cloud (MC)” event are continued by a 2.5 dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model in heliospheric meridional plane. Interplanetary direct collision (DC)/oblique collision (OC) between an MC and a shock results from their same/different initial propagation orientations. For radially erupted MC and shock in solar corona, the or...

We have tested the theoretical values of critical exponents, predicted for the three–dimensional Heisenberg model, based on the published Monte Carlo (MC) simulation data for the susceptibility. Two different sets of the critical exponents have been considered – one provided by the usual (perturbative) renormalization group (RG) theory, and another predicted by grouping of Feynman diagrams in φ...

Introduction: Microcystin-leucine arginine (MC-LR) is a toxin with harmful effects on the liver, kidney, heart, and gastrointestinal tract. So, effective removal of MC-LR from water resources is of great importance. The aim of this study was to remove microcystin-LR (MC-LR) from aqueous solution by Titanium Dioxide (TiO2). Materials and Methods: In the present study, TiO2, as a semiconductor, ...

We have developed a multi-region spherical Monte Carlo (MC) model to simulate the dynamic changes in light intensity measured during laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT). Model predictions were validated experimentally in tissue-simulating albumen phantoms with well-characterized optical properties that vary dynamically with LITT in a way similar to tissue. For long treatments (2.5 W, appr...

This letter introduces an analytical model that gives the expected asymptotic cumulative number of molecules absorbed by each spherical receiver in a diffusive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) molecular communication (MC) system with pointwise transmitters. The reciprocal effect among fully absorbing (FA) receivers is taken into account using recently introduced concept fictitious negative...

The adsorption of Cu2+ from aqueous solution by magnetite-immobilised chitin (MC) was studied in batch mode. Two conventional adsorbents, cation exchange resin (CER) and activated carbon (AC) were used for the comparison. The physicochemical parameters including pH, concentration of adsorbent, temperature and initial Cu2+ concentration were optimised. Under the optimised conditions, the removal...