Time-dependent pH sensing phenomena of the core-shell CdSe/ZnS quantum dot (QD) sensors in EIS (electrolyte insulator semiconductor) structure have been investigated for the first time. The quantum dots are immobilized by chaperonin GroEL protein, which are observed by both atomic force microscope and scanning electron microscope. The diameter of one QD is approximately 6.5 nm. The QDs are not ...

The application of positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) in mechanically ventilated (MV) patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) decreases cardiac output (CO). Accurate measurement of CO is highly invasive and is not ideal for all MV critically ill patients. However, the link between the PEEP used in MV, and CO provides an opportunity to assess CO via MV therapy and other exi...

Ectoenzymes are cell surface molecules, which represent functional bridges between the environment and the cytoplasm. One set of ectoenzymes-CD39, CD38, CD203a, and CD73-leads to the generation of adenosine (ADO) by metabolizing ATP and NAD+. While ADO is known to control inflammation and suppress immune responses, other aspects of ADO function are still obscure, mainly due to its short half-li...

This paper is an attempt at developing a theory of algebraic systems that would correspond in a natural fashion to the N0-valued prepositional calculus^). For want of a better name, we shall call these algebraic systems MV-algebras where MV is supposed to suggest many-valued logics. It is known that the classical two-valued logic gives rise to the study of Boolean algebras and, as can be expect...

Hyper-spectral Atmospheric Infrared Sounder has many channels. Although, it has been carried out channel selection in the actual application process, but compared with the previous detector, the channel also seems more and thus easy to weak correlation between channels, which is not obey classical variational assimilation theory requires observation error is not related. Hyper-spectral sounder ...

1. Results. Scattered results about countably2 generated ideals in C(X) are established in [2] and [4] : Op is countably generated if and only if pEX and p has a countable base of neighborhoods; Op is both prime and countably generated if and only if Mp is principal, and if and only if pEX and p is isolated; no lower prime ideal is countably generated. We generalize these as follows: if Mp is c...

We present a new mechanical design for a compact three degrees-of-freedom joint mechanism. This joint design is ideal for use in robotic devices, especially hyper-redundant or snake-like robots. This joint exhibits an unprecedented range of motion: the origin of a coordinate frame attached to the output link of the joint can move on a spherical cone whose apex angle is 120 and this coordinate f...

To date, exploring an efficient method for optimizing Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LSSVM) hyperparameters has been an enthusiastic research area among academic researchers. LSSVM is a practical machine learning approach that has been broadly utilized in numerous fields. To guarantee its convincing performance, it is crucial to select an appropriate technique in order to obtain the opt...