A novel hybrid model of Bagging-based Naïve Bayes Trees for landslide susceptibility assessment

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment - Landslide susceptibility assessment was performed using the novel hybrid model Bagging-based Naïve Bayes Trees (BAGNBT) at Mu Cang Chai...     

Hidden Relationships between N-Glycosylation and Disulfide Bonds in Individual Proteins

N-Glycosylation (NG) and disulfide bonds (DBs) are two prevalent co/post-translational modifications (PTMs) that are often conserved and coexist in membrane and secreted proteins involved in a large number of diseases. Both in the past and in recent times, the enzymes and chaperones regulating these PTMs have been constantly discovered to directly interact with each other or colocalize in the ER. However, beyond a few model proteins, how such cooperation affects N-glycan modification and disulfide bonding at selective sites in individual proteins is largely unknown. Here, we reviewed the literature to discover the current status in understanding the relationships between NG and DBs in individual proteins. Our results showed that more than 2700 human proteins carry both PTMs, and fewer than 2% of them have been investigated in the associations between NG and DBs. We summarized both these proteins with the reported relationships in the two PTMs and the tools used to discover the relationships. We hope that, by exposing this largely understudied field, more investigations can be encouraged to unveil the hidden relationships of NG and DBs in the majority of membranes and secreted proteins for pathophysiological understanding and biotherapeutic development.     

Mac-A-Mal: macOS malware analysis framework resistant to anti evasion techniques

Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques - With macOS increasing popularity, the number, and variety of macOS malware are rising as well. Yet, very few tools exist for dynamic analysis...     

On the secrecy outage probability and performance trade-off of the multi-hop cognitive relay networks

Telecommunication Systems - We study the physical-layer security of multi-hop secondary network under spectrum sharing constraint caused by the primary, which consists of many simultaneously...     

Syntheses and characterizations of new copolymers of vinylidene cyanide with para substituted α acetoxystyrenes

Summary Vinylidene cyanide has been copolymerized in solution by radical reaction with equal initial mole fraction of para substituted acetoxystyrenes. The copolymers have been characterized by means of DSC, TGA and GPC. These products are stable up to 220° and have no visible glass transition temperature. The microstructure of these new copolymers has been studied by ¹³CNMR; they have an alternating structure and monomers units are arranged in head-to-tail placements.     

FA and tocopherol composition of Vietnamese oilseeds

Seeds of 40 oilseed species from 23 different plant families (Brassicaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Fabaceae, Sapindaceae, Malvaceae, Gnetaceae, Clusiaceae, Bruseraceae, Ranunculaceae, Convolvulaceae, Amaranthaceae, Tiliaceae, Basellaceae, Solanaceae, Umbelliferae, Labiatae, Compositae, Theaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Sapotaceae, Anacardiaceae, and Connaraceae) grown in Vietnam were analyzed for oilseed oil content, FA, and vitamin E. The seed oil content varied between 0.2 g/100 g for Mangifera indica and 75.7 g/100 g for Calophyllum inophyllum, whereas only nine seeds contained more than 40% oil. The tocopherol content ranged from 26 (Sapindus mukorossi) to 9361 mg/kg (Litchi chinensis). In nine seed oils unusual FA such as conjugated, cyclopropenoic, or epoxy FA were found.     

Hydrogen Generation from CO2 Reforming of Biomass-Derived Methanol on Ni/SiO2 Catalyst

Topics in Catalysis - CO2 reforming of methanol for producing hydrogen was experimentally carried out in a fixed-bed reactor on 10%Ni/SiO2. The 10%Ni/SiO2 was completely reduced during H2...