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Antigen discrimination by T cells relies on size-constrained microvillar contact.
Edward Jenkins, Markus Körbel, Caitlin O'Brien-Ball, James McColl, Kevin Y Chen, Mateusz Kotowski, Jane Humphrey, Anna H Lippert, Heather Brouwer, Ana Mafalda Santos, Steven F Lee, Simon J Davis, David Klenerman
Apr 17, 2023
T cells use finger-like protrusions called 'microvilli' to interrogate their targets, but why they do so is unknown. To form contacts, T cells must overcome the highly charged, barrier-like layer of large molecules forming a...
T-Lymphocytes microvilli Receptors Antigen T-Cell Antigens Lymphocyte Activation Signal Transduction
Published by: Nature Communications
Circular LBP Prior-Based Enhanced GAN for Image Style Transfer
Image style transfer (IST) has drawn broad attention recently. At present, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods and generative adversarial network (GAN)-based methods have been broadly utilized in IST. However, the...
Published by: IGI Global
An Antecedent Study of Mobile Social Game Addiction vs. Virtual Goods Purchase
This study aims to investigate how cognitive antecedents impact on social game addiction and virtual properties purchase among Generation Y players in Malaysia. Using a quantitative method with 341 Generation Y gamers and...
Published by: IGI Global
Analyzing the Omni-Channel Shopper Journey Configuration of Generations Y and Z
Omni-channel retailing has been an essential issue to enterprises nowadays. This research applies goal theory to Engel-Kollat-Blackwell model in the omni-channel context and adapt the concept of Harris, Riley & Hand (2018) to...
Published by: IGI Global
Effects of Frequent Interaction with Non-Native Speakers on English Dialect
Keiko Hirano
Nov 19, 2013
/T,d/ deletion was chosen as a speech token to test modifications to usage by native speakers of English due to frequent interactions with non-native anglophones in Japan. Approximately 250 tokens per each of thirty-nine...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Statistical Downscaling of Rainfall using Large-Scale Predictors
A warmer climate is expected to lead to more serious natural disasters, such as heavy storms, prolonged droughts and frequent floods. For a high-density urban region, the flash flood problem may become worse due to possible...
Influence of Soil Drought Stress on C, N and P Stoichiometry of Tamarix Chinensis Lour. in Yellow River Delta, China
Qiangqiang Rong, Jingtao Liu, Yanpeng Cai, Zhaohua Lu, Zhenzhen Zhao, Wencong Yue, Jiangbao Xia
Aug 04, 2014
Taking the one-year-old T. chinensis (Tamarix chinensis Lour.) in Yellow River Delta as the study object, the variations of C, N and P stoichiometry in T. chinensis under drought stress was studied using pot experiments. The...
The Domain of Gliding in French
Walcir Cardoso
Sep 10, 2013
Gliding is a domain-sensitive phonological process of European French in which the high vowels /i/, /y/, /u/ become their corresponding glides [j], [y], [w] in the presence of a following vowel, within the domain of the Prosodic...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Detection and Identification of Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds of the Green Mold Disease
Button mushrooms are one of the most commonly cultivated mushroom species facing different risks e.g.: viral, bacterial and fungal diseases. One of the most common problems is caused by Trichoderma aggressivum, or ‘green mould'...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
An Evaluation of E-Learning and User Satisfaction
E-learning controlling quality ready to demonstrate the achievement of the conveyance and plan of the framework by understanding the user satisfaction. Besides, the qualification between learning substance and site content...
Published by: IGI Global
C/T Merge Locations for Focus
Virginia Motaoanyane
Sep 10, 2013
Romanian constructions with preverbal focus compared with English clefts point to a parametric approach: languages display different strategies for overt movement to focus according to their parametric setting for [wh/focusl or...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
One Wild and Precious Life
James Duffy
Mar 16, 2022
James Duffy received his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Currently he teaches English as a second language at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also coordinating a series of ongoing...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Functional Collaboration
James Duffy
Nov 12, 2022
James Duffy received his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Currently he teaches English as a second language at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also coordinating a series of ongoing...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Digital Barriers and Individual Coping Behaviors in Distance Education During COVID-19
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have played a pivotal role in facilitating knowledge acquisition and enabling distance education. Yet, knowledge about digital divide in distance education remains limited. This...
Published by: IGI Global
Do housing rental and sales markets incentivise energy-efficient retrofitting of western Germany's post-war apartments? Challenges for property owners, tenants, and policymakers.
Ray Galvin
Apr 17, 2023
A post-World War 2 building boom in western Germany (the original Bundesrepublik) produced a cohort of some 8 million apartments, built in 1946-1979, that are relatively homogeneous in design and materials. On average...
Policy interventions Economic viability Market for energy efficiency Sales and rental premiums Western Germany’s post-war apartments
Published by: Energy efficiency
Hybrid Genetic Algorithm With Haar Wavelet for Maximum Target Coverage Node Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are used in industrial applications and focused on target coverage and node connectivity based WSNs. The set of sensors and targets is placed in optimal position the target coverage and node...
Published by: IGI Global
Two-Step Image-in-Image Steganography via GAN
Recently, convolutional neural network has been introduced to information hiding and deep net- work has shown great potential in steganography. However, one drawback of deep network is that it’s sensitive to small fluctuations....
Published by: IGI Global
A Review on SRAM Memory Design Using FinFET Technology
An innovative technology named FinFET (Fin Field Effect Transistor) has been developed to offer better transistor circuit design and to compensate the necessity of superior storage system (SS). As gate loses control over the...
Published by: IGI Global
Hybrid Approach for Enhancing Performance of Genomic Data for Stream Matching
In gene expression analysis, the expression levels of thousands of genes are analyzed, such as separate stages of treatments or diseases. Identifying particular gene sequence pattern is a challenging task with respect to...
Published by: IGI Global
Hidden Service Circuit Reconstruction Attacks Based on Middle Node Traffic Analysis
Traffic analysis is widely considered as an attack posing a threat to anonymity of the communication and may reveal the real identity of the users. In this paper, a novel anonymous circuit reconstruction attack method that...
Published by: IGI Global
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William T. Fagan
Nov 19, 2013
Literacy is sometimes narrowly defined as a level of reading and writing below which a certain percentage of the population falls. This is the interpretation based on literacy surveys. Literacy may also be defined from a broader...
Published by: Faculty of Education
A Multi-Model Framework for Grading of Human Emotion Using CNN and Computer Vision
Emotion analysis is an area which is been widely used in the forensic crime detection domain, a mentoring device for depressed students, psychologically affected patient treatment. The current system helps only in identifying...
Computer Vision & Image Processing Computer Science and Information Technology Artificial Intelligence
Published by: IGI Global
Quantum structural fluxion in superconducting lanthanum polyhydride.
Hui Wang, Pascal T Salzbrenner, Ion Errea, Feng Peng, Ziheng Lu, Hanyu Liu, Li Zhu, Chris J Pickard, Yansun Yao
Apr 17, 2023
The discovery of 250-kelvin superconducting lanthanum polyhydride under high pressure marked a significant advance toward the realization of a room-temperature superconductor. X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies reveal a...
Published by: Nature Communications
A New Framework for Matching Forensic Composite Sketches With Digital Images
Face sketch recognition is considered as a sub-problem of face recognition. Matching composite sketches with its corresponding digital image is one of the challenging tasks. A new convolution neural network (CNN) framework for...
Published by: IGI Global
Classification of Gene Expression Data Using Feature Selection Based on Type Combination Approach Model With Advanced Feature Selection Technology
A key step in addressing the classification issue was the selection of genes for removing redundant and irrelevant genes. The proposed Type Combination Approach –Feature Selection(TCA-FS) model uses the efficient feature...
Published by: IGI Global
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