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AimsThe incremental usefulness of circulating biomarkers from different pathological pathways for predicting mortality has not been evaluated in acute Type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) patients. We aim to develop a risk prediction model and investigate the impact of arch repair strategy on mortality based on distinct risk stratifications.Methods and resultsA total of 3771 ATAAD patients who underwent aortic surgery retrospectively included were randomly divided into training and testing cohorts at a ratio of 7:3 for the development and validation of the risk model based on multiple circulating biomarkers and conventional clinical factors. Extreme gradient boosting was used to generate the risk models. Subgroup analyses were performed by risk stratifications (low vs. middle–high risk) and arch repair strategies (proximal vs. extensive arch repair). Addition of multiple biomarkers to a model with conventional factors fitted an ABC risk model consisting of platelet–leucocyte ratio, mean arterial pressure, albumin, age, creatinine, creatine kinase-MB, haemoglobin, lactate, left ventricular end-diastolic dimension, urea nitrogen, and aspartate aminotransferase, with adequate discrimination ability {area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC): 0.930 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.906–0.954] and 0.954, 95% CI (0.930–0.977) in the derivation and validation cohort, respectively}. Compared with proximal arch repair, the extensive repair was associated with similar mortality risk among patients at low risk [odds ratio (OR) 1.838, 95% CI (0.559–6.038); P = 0.316], but associated with higher mortality risk among patients at middle–high risk [OR 2.007, 95% CI (1.460–2.757); P < 0.0001].ConclusionIn ATAAD patients, the simultaneous addition of circulating biomarkers of inflammatory, cardiac, hepatic, renal, and metabolic abnormalities substantially improved risk stratification and individualized arch repair strategy.

In this paper, we are concerned with nonlinear interaction detection based on partial dimension reduction with missing response data. The covariates are grouped through linear combinations in a general class of semi-parametric models to detect their joint interaction effects. The joint interaction effects are estimated by a profile least squares approach with the help of the inverse probability weighted technique. The asymptotic properties of the resulting estimate for the central partial mean subspace are established. In addition, a Wald type test is proposed to detect the interactions between the covariates. A BIC-type criterion is applied to determine the structural dimension of the central partial mean subspace and its consistency is also obtained. Simulations are conducted to examine the finite sample performances of our proposed method and a real data set is analyzed for illustration.

To develop an inflammation-based risk stratification tool for operative mortality in patients with acute type A aortic dissection.Between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2021, 3124 patients from Beijing Anzhen Hospital were included for derivation, 571 patients from the same hospital were included for internal validation, and 1319 patients from other 12 hospitals were included for external validation. The primary outcome was operative mortality according to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons criteria. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression were used to identify clinical risk factors. A model was developed using different machine learning algorithms. The performance of the model was determined using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for discrimination, calibration curves, and Brier score for calibration. The final model (5A score) was tested with respect to the existing clinical scores.Extreme gradient boosting was selected for model training (5A score) using 12 variables for prediction-the ratio of platelet to leukocyte count, creatinine level, age, hemoglobin level, prior cardiac surgery, extent of dissection extension, cerebral perfusion, aortic regurgitation, sex, pericardial effusion, shock, and coronary perfusion-which yields the highest AUC (0.873 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.845-0.901]). The AUC of 5A score was 0.875 (95% CI 0.814-0.936), 0.845 (95% CI 0.811-0.878), and 0.852 (95% CI 0.821-0.883) in the internal, external, and total cohort, respectively, which outperformed the best existing risk score (German Registry for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection score AUC 0.709 [95% CI 0.669-0.749]).The 5A score is a novel, internally and externally validated inflammation-based tool for risk stratification of patients before surgical repair, potentially advancing individualized treatment.clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT04918108.

Background: The regulatory function of transcription factors on genes is not only related to the location of binding genes and its related functions, but is also related to the methods of binding. Objective: It is necessary to study the regulation effects in different binding methods on target genes. Methods: In this study, we provided a reliable theoretical basis for studying gene expression regulation of co-binding transcription factors and further revealed the specific regulation of transcription factor co-binding in cancer cells. Results: Transcription factors tend to combine with other transcription factors in the regulatory region to form a competitive or synergistic relationship to regulate target genes accurately. Conclusion: We found that up-regulated genes in cancer cells were involved in the regulation of their own immune system related to the normal cells.

Measurement errors and missing data are often arise in practice. Under this circumstance, we focus on using jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) and adjust jackknife empirical likelihood (AJEL) met...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we investigate estimations in varying-coefficient partially linear errors-in-variables models with covariates missing at random. However, the estimators...

For the partially linear errors-in-variables panel data models with fixed effects, we, in this paper, study asymptotic distributions of a corrected empirical log-likelihood ratio and maximum empirical likelihood estimator of the regression parameter. In addition, we propose penalized empirical likelihood (PEL) and variable selection procedure for the parameter with diverging numbers of parameters. By using an appropriate penalty function, we show that PEL estimators have the oracle property. Also, the PEL ratio for the vector of regression coefficients is defined and its limiting distribution is asymptotically chi-square under the null hypothesis. Moreover, empirical log-likelihood ratio for the nonparametric part is also investigated. Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to illustrate the finite sample performance of the proposed estimators.

The purpose of this paper is two fold. First, we investigate estimation for varying coefficient partially linear models in which covariates in the nonparametric part are measured with errors. As there would be some spurious covariates in the linear part, a penalized profile least squares estimation is suggested with the assistance from smoothly clipped absolute deviation penalty. However, the estimator is often biased due to the existence of measurement errors, a bias correction is proposed such that the estimation consistency with the oracle property is proved. Second, based on the estimator, a test statistic is constructed to check a linear hypothesis of the parameters and its asymptotic properties are studied. We prove that the existence of measurement errors causes intractability of the limiting null distribution that requires a Monte Carlo approximation and the absence of the errors can lead to a chi-square limit. Furthermore, confidence regions of the parameter of interest can also be constructed. Simulation studies and a real data example are conducted to examine the performance of our estimators and test statistic.

This paper develops a varying-coefficient approach to the estimation and testing of regression quantiles under randomly truncated data. In order to handle the truncated data, the random weights are introduced and the weighted quantile regression (WQR) estimators for nonparametric functions are proposed. To achieve nice efficiency properties, we further develop a weighted composite quantile regression (WCQR) estimation method for nonparametric functions in varying-coefficient models. The asymptotic properties both for the proposed WQR and WCQR estimators are established. In addition, we propose a novel bootstrap-based test procedure to test whether the nonparametric functions in varying-coefficient quantile models can be specified by some function forms. The performance of the proposed estimators and test procedure are investigated through simulation studies and a real data example.

Based on the inverse probability weight method, we, in this article, construct the empirical likelihood (EL) and penalized empirical likelihood (PEL) ratios of the parameter in the linear quantile ...

In this paper, we investigate the problem of testing nonparametric function in partial linear errors-in-variables models with response missing at random. In order to overcome the bias produced by measurement errors, two bias-corrected test statistics based on the quadratic conditional moment method are proposed. The limiting null distributions of the test statistics are established respectively and p values can be easily determined which show that the proposed test statistics have similar theoretical properties. Moreover, our tests can detect the alternatives distinct from the null hypothesis at the optimal nonparametric rate for local smoothing-based methods in this area. Simulation studies are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed test methods and the proposed two tests give similar performances. A real data set from the ACTG 175 study is used for illustrating the proposed test methods.

In this article, we consider a partially linear panel data models with fixed effects. In order to accommodate the within-group correlation, we apply the block empirical likelihood procedure to partially linear panel data models with fixed effects, and prove a nonparametric version of Wilks’ theorem which can be used to construct the confidence region for the parametric. By the block empirical likelihood ratio function, the maximum empirical likelihood estimator of the parameter is defined and the asymptotic normality is shown. A simulation study and a real data application are undertaken to assess the finite sample performance of our proposed method.

This paper focuses on the problem of estimation and variable selection for quantile regression (QR) of partially linear model (PLM) where the response is subject to random left truncation. We propose a three-stage estimation procedure for parametric and nonparametric parts based on the weights which are random quantities and determined by the product-limit estimates of the distribution function of truncated variable. The estimators obtained in the second and third stages are more efficient than the initial estimators in the first stage. Furthermore, we propose a variable selection procedure for the QR of PLM by combining the estimation method with the smoothly clipped absolute deviation penalty to get sparse estimation of the regression parameter. The oracle properties of the variable selection approach are established. Simulation studies are conducted to examine the performance of our estimators and variable selection method.

In this paper, we focus on the empirical likelihood (EL) inference for high-dimensional partially linear model with martingale difference errors. An empirical log-likelihood ratio statistic of unknown parameter is constructed and is shown to have asymptotically normality distribution under some suitable conditions. This result is different from those derived before. Furthermore, an empirical log-likelihood ratio for a linear combination of unknown parameter is also proposed and its asymptotic distribution is chi-squared. Based on these results, the confidence regions both for unknown parameter and a linear combination of parameter can be obtained. A simulation study is carried out to show that our proposed approach performs better than normal approximation-based method.

Epigenetic factors are known to correlate with gene expression in the existing studies. However, quantitative models that accurately classify the highly and lowly expressed genes based on epigenetic factors are currently lacking. In this study, a new machine learning method combines histone modifications, DNA methylation, DNA accessibility, transcription factors, and trinucleotide composition with support vector machines (SVM) is developed in the context of human embryonic stem cell line (H1). The results indicate that the predictive accuracy will be markedly improved when the epigenetic features are considered. The predictive accuracy and Matthews correlation coefficient of the best model are as high as 95.96% and 0.92 for 10-fold cross-validation test, and 95.58% and 0.92 for independent dataset test, respectively. Our model provides a good way to judge a gene is either highly or lowly expressed gene by using genetic and epigenetic data, when the expression data of the gene is lacking. And a web-server GECES for our analysis method is established at http://202.207.14.87:8032/fuwu/GECES/index.asp, so that other scientists can easily get their desired results by our web-server, without going through the mathematical details.

Thermophilic proteins can thrive stalely at the high temperatures. Identification of thermophilic protein could be helpful to learn the function of protein. Automated prediction of thermophilic protein is an important tool for genome annotation. In this work, a powerful predictor is proposed by combining amino acid composition, evolutionary information, and acid dissociation constant. The overall prediction accuracy of 93.53% was obtained for using the algorithm of support vector machine. In order to check the performance of our method, two low-similarity independent testing datasets are used to test the proposed method. Comparisons with other methods show that the prediction results were better than other existing methods in literature. This indicates that our approach was effective to predict thermophilic proteins.

The empirical likelihood inference for semi-varying coefficient models for panel data with fixed effects is investigated in this paper. We propose an empirical log-likelihood ratio function for the regression parameters in the model under α-mixing condition. The empirical log-likelihood ratio is proven to be asymptotically chi-squared. We also obtain the maximum empirical likelihood estimator of the parameters of interest, and prove that it is the asymptotically normal under some suitable conditions. A simulation study and a real data application are undertaken to assess the finite sample performance of our proposed method.

For the high-dimensional partially linear varying coefficient models where covariates in the nonparametric part are measured with additive errors, we, in this paper, study asymptotic distributions of a corrected empirical log-likelihood ratio function and maximum empirical likelihood estimator of the regression parameter. At the same time, based on penalized empirical likelihood (PEL) approach, the parameter estimation and variable selection of the model are investigated, the proposed PEL estimators are shown to possess the oracle property. Also, we introduce the PEL ratio statistic to test a linear hypothesis of the parameter and prove it follows an asymptotically chi-square distribution under the null hypothesis. Simulation study and real data analysis are undertaken to evaluate the finite sample performance of the proposed methods.

Identification of the proteins secreted by the malaria parasite is important for developing effective drugs and vaccines against infection. Therefore, we developed an improved predictor called "DSPMP" (Discriminating Secretory Proteins of Malaria Parasite) to identify the secretory proteins of the malaria parasite by integrating several vector features using support vector machine-based methods. DSPMP achieved an overall predictive accuracy of 98.61%, which is superior to that of the existing predictors in this field. We show that our method is capable of identifying the secretory proteins of the malaria parasite and found that the amino acid composition for buried and exposed sequences, denoted by AAC(b/e), was the most important feature for constructing the predictor. This article not only introduces a novel method for detecting the important features of sample proteins related to the malaria parasite but also provides a useful tool for tackling general protein-related problems. The DSPMP webserver is freely available at http://202.207.14.87:8032/fuwu/DSPMP/index.asp.

This paper addresses the problem of hypothesis test on response mean with various inequality constraints in the presence of covariates when response data are missing at random. The various hypotheses include to test single point, two points, set of inequalities as well as two-sided set of inequalities of the response mean. The test statistics is constructed by the weighted-corrected empirical likelihood function of the response mean based on the approach of weighted-corrected imputation for the response variable. We investigate limiting distributions and asymptotic powers of the proposed empirical likelihood ratio test statistics with auxiliary information. The results show that the test statistics with auxiliary information is more efficient than that without auxiliary information. A simulation study is undertaken to investigate the finite sample performance of the proposed method.

A semivarying coefficient model with measurement error in the nonparametric part was proposed by Feng and Xue (Ann Inst Stat Math 66:121–140, 2014), but its inferences have not been systematically studied. This paper applies empirical likelihood method to construct confidence regions/intervals for the regression parameter and coefficient function. When some auxiliary information about the parametric part is available, the empirical log-likelihood ratio statistic for the regression parameter is introduced based on the corrected local linear estimator of the coefficient function. Furthermore, corrected empirical log-likelihood ratio statistic for coefficient function is also investigated with the use of auxiliary information. The limiting distributions of the resulting statistics both for the regression parameter and coefficient function are shown to have standard Chi-squared distribution. Simulation experiments and a real data set are presented to evaluate the finite sample performance of our proposed method.

In this paper, we construct a nonparametric regression quantile estimator by using the local linear fitting for left-truncated data, and establish the Bahadur-type representation and asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator when the observations form a stationary α -mixing sequence. Finite-sample performance of the estimator is investigated via simulation studies.

The chemical shift is sensitive to changes in the local environments and can report the structural changes. The structure information of a protein can be represented by the average chemical shifts (ACS) composition, which has been broadly applied for enhancing the prediction accuracy in protein subcellular locations and protein classification. However, different kinds of ACS composition can solve different problems. We established an online web server named acACS, which can convert secondary structure into average chemical shift and then compose the vector for representing a protein by using the algorithm of auto covariance. Our solution is easy to use and can meet the needs of users.

This paper considers the estimation of a linear EV (errors-in-variables) regression model under martingale difference errors. The usual least squares estimations lead to biased estimators of the unknown parametric when measurement errors are ignored. By correcting the attenuation we propose a modified least squares estimator for a parametric component and construct the estimators of another parameter component and error variance. The asymptotic normalities are also obtained for these estimators. The simulation study indicates that the modified least squares method performs better than the usual least squares method.

Multivariate response data often arise in practice and they are frequently subject to missingness. Under this circumstance, the standard sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) methods cannot be used directly. To reduce the dimension and estimate the central mean subspace, a profile least squares estimation method is proposed based on an inverse probability weighted technique. The profile least squares method does not need any distributional assumptions on the covariates and hence differs from existing SDR methods. The resulting estimator of the central mean subspace is proved to be asymptotically normal and root n consistent under some mild conditions. The structural dimension is determined by a BIC-type criterion and the consistency of its estimator is established. Comprehensive simulations and a real data analysis show that the proposed method works promisingly.

The local polynomial quasi-likelihood estimation has several good statistical properties such as high minimax efficiency and adaptation of edge effects. In this paper, we construct a local quasi-likelihood regression estimator for a left truncated model, and establish the asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator when the observations form a stationary and α-mixing sequence, such that the corresponding result of Fan et al. [Local polynomial kernel regression for generalized linear models and quasilikelihood functions, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 90 (1995), pp. 141–150] is extended from the independent and complete data to the dependent and truncated one. Finite sample behaviour of the estimator is investigated via simulations too.

The purpose of this article is to use the empirical likelihood method to study construction of the confidence region for the parameter of interest in semiparametric varying-coefficient heteroscedastic partially linear errors-in-variables models. When the variance functions of the errors are known or unknown, we propose the empirical log-likelihood ratio statistics for the parameter of interest. For each case, a nonparametric version of Wilks’ theorem is derived. The results are then used to construct confidence regions of the parameter. A simulation study is carried out to assess the performance of the empirical likelihood method.

Knowledge of the adaptation mechanism of enzymes to extreme pH values and distinguishing them from one another are necessary in the proteomics field, and would help in the drug design of stable enzymes. In this work, we have systematically analyzed the information of 105 acidic and 112 alkaline enzymes, and propose an approach for distinguishing acidic enzymes from alkaline enzymes by combining the amino acid composition, reduced amino acid composition, gene ontology, evolutionary information, and auto covariance of averaged chemical shift (acACS). The overall prediction accuracy is 94.01% by 10-fold cross-validation using the algorithm of support vector machine. This result is better than that obtained by other existing methods. The improvement of the overall prediction accuracy reaches up to 3.3% higher than those of the random forest algorithm and secondary structure amino acid composition. The acACS performance is excellent, indicating that our approach is better than other existing methods in the literature. A user-friendly web-server pred-enzymes for predicting acidic and alkaline enzymes has been established, which is accessible to the public.

This paper studies the partially time-varying coefficient models where some covariates are measured with additive errors. In order to overcome the bias of the usual profile least squares estimation when measurement errors are ignored, we propose a modified profile least squares estimator of the regression parameter and construct estimators of the nonlinear coefficient function and error variance. The proposed three estimators are proved to be asymptotically normal under mild conditions. In addition, we introduce the profile likelihood ratio test and then demonstrate that it follows an asymptotically χ 2 distribution under the null hypothesis. Finite sample behavior of the estimators is investigated via simulations too.

The successful prediction of thermophilic proteins is useful for designing stable enzymes that are functional at high temperature. We have used the increment of diversity (ID), a novel amino acid composition-based similarity distance, in a 2-class K-nearest neighbor classifier to classify thermophilic and mesophilic proteins. And the KNN-ID classifier was successfully developed to predict the thermophilic proteins. Instead of extracting features from protein sequences as done previously, our approach was based on a diversity measure of symbol sequences. The similarity distance between each pair of protein sequences was first calculated to quantitatively measure the similarity level of one given sequence and the other. The query protein is then determined using the K-nearest neighbor algorithm. Comparisons with multiple recently published methods showed that the KNN-ID proposed in this study outperforms the other methods. The improved predictive performance indicated it is a simple and effective classifier for discriminating thermophilic and mesophilic proteins. At last, the influence of protein length and protein identity on prediction accuracy was discussed further. The prediction model and dataset used in this article can be freely downloaded from http://wlxy.imu.edu.cn/college/biostation/fuwu/KNN-ID/index.htm .

The properties of long-wavelength optical phonons in mixed crystals are discussed within the framework of a model similar to modified random-element-isodisplacement (MREI) model. This model can be applied to the one-mode behavior, the two-mode behavior and that of the third category. The frequency and the electron-phonon coupling constants varying with the concentration ratio x is obtained.

In this paper, we apply the empirical likelihood method to study the partially time-varying coefficient models with a random design and a fixed design under dependent assumptions. A nonparametric version of Wilks’ theorem is derived for the fixed-design case. For the random-design case, it is proved that the empirical log-likelihood ratio of the regression parameters admits a limiting distribution with a weighted sum of independent chi-squared distributions. In order that Wilks’ phenomenon holds, we propose an adjusted empirical log-likelihood (ADEL) ratio for the regression parameters. The ADEL is shown to have a standard chi-squared limiting distribution. Simulation studies are undertaken to indicate that the proposed methods work better than the normal approximation-based approach.

The lattices motion equation and Born-Huang equation was established with the framework of modified random-element-isodisplacement (MREI) model, and the relationship of dielectric constants of lattice vibration and FT-IR reflectivity spectra in ternary mixed crystals ZnS1-xSex with the changes of composition x are discussed. The two-mode behavior of long-wave length optical phonon was studied, and the relation of TO-phonon frequency and LO-phonon frequency with composition was obtained.

The central control modular of liquid level data acquisition and transmission system based on CAN bus was introduced. The modular was controlled by PC for transmitting and receiving data to CAN units through the USB port by the USB2.0-CAN High Speed adapter card designed by CP2102 and SJAl000, and the CAN bus controller SJA1000 and CP2102 was controlled by single chip computer (SCC) AT89C51. The hardware interface circuits was introduced, and the software flowchart and PC application program was also designed. The result shows that the system has the advantages of strong real-time, high speed, high reliability, easily extending communication devices, Plug and Play supporting, and automatic configuration. Its communications quality is better than the traditional ones, such as RS232, RS485 et al., and it can be used as real-time monitor in industrial multiple devices.

The purpose of this article is to use the empirical likelihood method to study construction of the confidence region for the parameter of interest in heteroscedastic partially linear errors-in-variables model with martingale difference errors. When the variance functions of the errors are known or unknown, we propose the empirical log-likelihood ratio statistics for the parameter of interest. For each case, a nonparametric version of Wilks’ theorem is derived. The results are then used to construct confidence regions of the parameter. A simulation study is carried out to assess the performance of the empirical likelihood method.

Effect of polaron on the spin triplet state (p-like) of the center is discussed by means of variational principle and second-order perturbation theory. Numerical results are produced for heterostructures of InP(GaP) in a magnetic field. We find that the polaron correction is very important. The contribution of the polaron is not negligible.

In this paper, we apply the empirical likelihood method to heteroscedastic partially linear errors-in-variables model. For the cases of known and unknown error variances, the two different empirical log-likelihood ratios for the parameter of interest are constructed. If the error variances are known, the empirical log-likelihood ratio is proved to be asymptotic chi-square distribution under the assumption that the errors are given by a sequence of stationary α-mixing random variables. Furthermore, if the error variances are unknown, we show that the proposed statistic is asymptotically standard chi-square distribution when the errors are independent. Simulations are carried out to assess the performance of the proposed method.

In this article, we establish strong uniform convergence and asymptotic normality of estimators of conditional quantile and conditional distribution function for a left truncated model when the data exhibit some kind of dependence. It is assumed that the observations form a stationary α-mixing sequence. The results of Lemdani et al. (2009) are relaxed from the i.i.d. assumption to α-mixing setting. Finite sample behavior of the estimators is investigated via simulations as well.

Consider the heteroscedastic regression model , where , β is a p × 1 column vector of unknown parameter, (X i , T i , Z i ) are random design points, Y i are the response variables, g(·) is an unknown function defined on the closed interval [0, 1], {e i , ℱ i } is a sequence of martingale differences. When f is known and unknown cases, we propose the empirical log-likelihood ratio statistics for the parameter β. For each case, a nonparametric version of Wilks' theorem is derived. The results are then used to construct confidence regions of the parameter. Simulation study shows that the empirical likelihood method performs better than a normal approximation-based approach.

The properties of long wavelength optical phonons in mixed crystals AB 1-x C x is discussed by a model similar to Modified Random Element Isodisplacement (MREI). Using this method we investigate the frequencies, the dielectric functions, and the reflectivity of several mixed crystals. It is found that this model can be applied to the one-mode behavior, the two-mode behavior, and that of the third category. So the model provides a possible way to understand the optical character of the ternary mixed crystal. Based on it, we can discuss other problems similar to electron–phonon interaction and so on.

In this paper, we establish the strong consistency and asymptotic normality for the least square (LS) estimators in simple linear errors-in-variables (EV) regression models when the errors form a stationary α-mixing sequence of random variables. The quadratic-mean consistency is also considered.

The purpose of this article is to use the empirical likelihood method to study the confidence regions construction for the parameters of interest in semiparametric model with linear process errors under martingale difference. It is shown that the adjusted empirical log-likelihood ratio at the true parameters is asymptotically chi-squared. A simulation study indicates that the adjusted empirical likelihood works better than a normal approximation-based approach.

A series of complex oxide Cu1-xKxFe2O4 fibers have been prepared via a sol-gel process related electron-spinning procedure, in which x is among 0, 0.05, 0.1 and 0.2 corresponding to the quantity of Cu2+ partial substitution by K+. The average diameter of the fiber was 500 nm. The catalytic activity of the catalysts in removal of NOx and carbon black from diesel exhaust gases were examined in detail using temperature-programmed reaction technique. The results show that after partial substitution of Cu2+ with K+, the catalytic activities have been improved. Cu0.95K0.05Fe2O4 as an optimal catalyst can significantly decrease the ignition temperature (Tig) of the PM, and has high catalytic activity on the removal of NOx.

Two-dimensional negative donor ion in magnetic fields are investigated. Using a variational method, we calculated the binding energies of D- center for the spin-triplet states of L = -2 and L = -3 in this structure. The threshold values of the magnetic field which turn unbound state into bound state were obtained.

La0.9K0.1CoO3 perovskite type oxide fibers have been prepared by a sol−gel process combined with electrospinning procedure. The reactions during the calcination process of fibers have been tracked ...

Defensins as one of the most abundant classes of antimicrobial peptides are an essential part of the innate immunity that has evolved in most living organisms from lower organisms to humans. To identify specific defensins as interesting antifungal leads, in this study, we constructed a more rigorous benchmark dataset and the iDPF-PseRAAAC server was developed to predict the defensin family and subfamily. Using reduced dipeptide compositions were used, the overall accuracy of proposed method increased to 95.10% for the defensin family, and 98.39% for the vertebrate subfamily, which is higher than the accuracy from other methods. The jackknife test shows that more than 4% improvement was obtained comparing with the previous method. A free online server was further established for the convenience of most experimental scientists at http://wlxy.imu.edu.cn/college/biostation/fuwu/iDPF-PseRAAAC/index.asp. A friendly guide is provided to describe how to use the web server. We anticipate that iDPF-PseRAAAC may become a useful high-throughput tool for both basic research and drug design.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the radiation-enhancing effect of sodium glycididazole, and the corresponding mechanisms of action on laryngeal cancer cells. Two laryngeal cancer cell lines (Hep-2 and UT-SCC-19A) were irradiated with X-rays in the presence or absence of sodium glycididazole. Cell survival, DNA damage and repair, cell apoptosis, cell cycle distribution, expression of proteins related to cell cycle checkpoint, and apoptosis were measured. Significantly increased DNA damages, decreased cells in the G1 phase, arrested cells at G2/M phase, decreased DNA repair protein XRCC1 foci formation, and enhanced cell apoptosis were observed in laryngeal cell lines treated by sodium glycididazole combined with irradiation compared with the irradiation alone. The combined treatment downregulated the protein expressions of ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM), p-ATM, CHK2, and P53 but upregulated the protein expressions of MDM2 and Cdk2. This study indicates that sodium glycididazole enhances the radiosensitivity of laryngeal cancer cells through downregulation of ATM signaling pathway in vitro and in vivo.