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Deepika M. Malini Raajan N. R. Srinivasan A. 《Multimedia Tools and Applications》2022,81(9):12701-12724
Multimedia Tools and Applications - The three-dimensional models of brain tumors serve as diagnostic assistance for physicians, surgeons, and radiologists. The proposed system establishes an... 相似文献
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Nhan Dai Thien Tram Jian Xu Devika Mukherjee Antonio Eduardo Obanel Venkatesh Mayandi Vanitha Selvarajan Xiao Zhu Jeanette Teo Veluchamy Amutha Barathi Rajamani Lakshminarayanan Pui Lai Rachel Ee 《Advanced functional materials》2023,33(5):2210858
Bacterial trapping using nanonets is a ubiquitous immune defense mechanism against infectious microbes. These nanonets can entrap microbial cells, effectively arresting their dissemination and rendering them more vulnerable to locally secreted microbicides. Inspired by this evolutionarily conserved anti-infective strategy, a series of 15 to 16 residue-long synthetic β-hairpin peptides is herein constructed with the ability to self-assemble into nanonets in response to the presence of bacteria, enabling spatiotemporal control over microbial killing. Using amyloid-specific K114 assay and confocal microscopy, the membrane components lipoteichoic acid and lipopolysaccharide are shown to play a major role in determining the amyloid-nucleating capacity as triggered by Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria respectively. These nanonets displayed both trapping and killing functionalities, hence offering a direct improvement from the trap-only biomimetics in literature. By substituting a single turn residue of the non-amyloidogenic BTT1 peptide, the nanonet-forming BTT1-3A analog is produced with comparable antimicrobial potency. With the same sequence manipulation approach, BTT2-4A analog modified from BTT2 peptide showed improved antimicrobial potency against colistin-resistant clinical isolates. The peptide nanonets also demonstrated robust stability against proteolytic degradation, and promising in vivo efficacy and biosafety profile. Overall, these bacteria-responsive peptide nanonets are promising clinical anti-infective alternatives for circumventing antibiotic resistance. 相似文献
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This paper explores the increasing trend towards the commodification of public research and development (R&D) and the impact
of this on social wellbeing. In many developed countries, the changes introduced by governments to funding mechanisms for
universities and public research institutions has led to a fundamental shift in the focus of public R&D. The focus has shifted
from creating useful public, codifiable knowledge to creating a knowledge commodity driven by commercial imperatives. Although
there may be an economic argument to be made for the virtues of such change, we argue here that the potential costs to social
wellbeing have been largely, and dangerously, ignored.
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Chil-Hoon Doh Chul-Wan Park Hye-Min Shin Dong-Hun Kim Young-Dong Chung Seong-In Moon Bong-Soo Jin Hyun-Soo Kim Angathevar Veluchamy 《Journal of power sources》2008
A new anode composition comprising SiO and graphite(C) is prepared through a high-energy ball milling process. During the first cycle, the anode delivers high discharge and charge capacity values of 1556 and 693 mAh g−1, respectively. The electrode shows a reversible charge capacity value of 688 mAh g−1 at the 30th cycle with 99% Coulombic efficiency. X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that ball milling does not produce any new compound, but only causes a reduction in particle size. The irreversible and reversible capacities appear to be interdependent. 相似文献
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Raaja Raajan Angathevar Veluchamy Haluk Beyenal Zbigniew Lewandowski 《Water science and technology》2008,57(12):1867-1872
We used artificial neural networks (ANN) to compute parameters characterising biofilm structure from biofilm images and to interpolate a limited number of experimental data characterising the effects of nutrient concentration and flow velocity on the areal porosity of biofilms. ANN were trained using a set of experimental data characterising structural parameters of biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC #700829), Pseudomonas fluorescens (ATCC #700830) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (ATCC #700831) for various flow velocities and glucose concentrations. We used 80% of the data to train ANN and 10% of the data to validate the results, which is routinely carried out as a countermeasure against overtraining. Trained ANN were used to interpolate into the data set and evaluate the missing 10% of the data. To compare ANN accuracy in evaluating the missing data with the accuracies achieved using other interpolation algorithms, we used spline, cubic, linear and nearest-neighbour interpolation algorithms to evaluate the missing data. ANN estimates were consistently closer to the experimental data than the estimates made using the other methods. 相似文献
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Merry Gunawan Choonbing Low Kurt Neo Siawey Yeo Candice Ho Veluchamy A. Barathi Anita Sookyee Chan Najam A. Sharif Masaaki Kageyama 《International journal of molecular sciences》2021,22(14)
We recently demonstrated that chemical proteasome inhibition induced inner retinal degeneration, supporting the pivotal roles of the ubiquitin–proteasome system in retinal structural integrity maintenance. In this study, using beclin1-heterozygous (Becn1-Het) mice with autophagic dysfunction, we tested our hypothesis that autophagy could be a compensatory retinal protective mechanism for proteasomal impairment. Despite the reduced number of autophagosome, the ocular tissue morphology and intraocular pressure were normal. Surprisingly, Becn1-Het mice experienced the same extent of retinal degeneration as was observed in wild-type mice, following an intravitreal injection of a chemical proteasome inhibitor. Similarly, these mice equally responded to other chemical insults, including endoplasmic reticulum stress inducer, N-methyl-D-aspartate, and lipopolysaccharide. Interestingly, in cultured neuroblastoma cells, we found that the mammalian target of rapamycin-independent autophagy activators, lithium chloride and rilmenidine, rescued these cells against proteasome inhibition-induced death. These results suggest that Becn1-mediated autophagy is not an effective intrinsic protective mechanism for retinal damage induced by insults, including impaired proteasomal activity; furthermore, autophagic activation beyond normal levels is required to alleviate the cytotoxic effect of proteasomal inhibition. Further studies are underway to delineate the precise roles of different forms of autophagy, and investigate the effects of their activation in rescuing retinal neurons under various pathological conditions. 相似文献
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N. RajeshKumar D. Yuvaraj G. Manikandan R. BalaKrishnan B. Karthikeyan D. Narasimhan N. R. Raajan 《计算机、材料和连续体(英文)》2020,65(2):1283-1301
Visual cryptographic scheme is specially designed for secret image sharing in
the form of shadow images. The basic idea of visual cryptography is to construct two or
more secret shares from the original image in the form of chaotic image. In this paper, a
novel secret image communication scheme based on visual cryptography and Tetrolet
tiling patterns is proposed. The proposed image communication scheme will break the
secret image into more shadow images based on the Tetrolet tiling patterns. The secret
image is divided into 4×4 blocks of tetrominoes and employs the concept of visual
cryptography to hide the secret image. The main feature of the proposed scheme is the
selection of random blocks to apply the tetrolet tilling patterns from the fundamental
tetrolet pattern board. Single procedure is used to perform both tetrolet transform and the
scheme of visual cryptography. Finally, the experimental results showcase the proposed
scheme is an extraordinary approach to transfer the secret image and reconstruct the
secret image with high visual quality in the receiver end. 相似文献
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Angathevar Veluchamy Chil-Hoon Doh Dong-Hun Kim Jung-Hun Lee Duck-Jun Lee Kyung-Hwa Ha Hye-Min Shin Bong-Soo Jin Hyun-Soo Kim Seong-In Moon Cheol-Wan Park 《Journal of power sources》2009
A new anode composite material is prepared by thermal treatment of a blend made of silicon monoxide (SiO) and lithium hydroxide (LiOH) at 550 °C followed by ball milling with graphite. X-ray diffraction pattern confirms the presence of Li4SiO4 in the thermally treated (SiO + LiOH) material. The electrode appears to be smooth and glassy as evident from observation with a scanning electron microscope (SEM), possibly due to the presence of nano-silicon and Li4SiO4 particles, and exhibits superior performance with a charge capacity of ∼333 mAh g−1 at the 100th cycle with a low-capacity fade on cycling. Cyclic voltammograms of the electrode predict high power capability. On the other hand, the electrode comprising of only SiO and C prepared through ball milling, devoid of Li4SiO4, shows hard crust particulates in the electrode exhibiting low charge–discharge capacities with cycling. 相似文献
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R. Renuka L. Srinivasan S. Ramamurthy A. Veluchamy N. Venkatakrishnan 《Journal of Applied Electrochemistry》2001,31(6):655-661
The behaviour of zinc and zinc oxide in 5.3 M KOH in the presence of alkaline earth oxides, SnO, Ni(OH)2 and Co(OH)2 was examined by cyclic voltammetry. The influence of the alkaline earth oxides was compared with additives of established effects (Bi2O3, LiOH, Na2CO3 and CdO). The alkaline earth oxide each exhibits a distinct behaviour towards zincate. Whereas, a single process of interaction with zincate was shown by CaO; two modes of reaction were obtained with SrO and BaO. Solid solution formation was noticed with BeO and MgO. The other additives forming solid solution with ZnO were CdO, SnO. The ionic sizes of Ni(OH)2 and Co(OH)2 allow solid solution formation with Zn(OH)2. Both Bi2O3 and Na2CO3 enter into complexation with zincate. LiOH forms two distinct zincates, of which one is an oxo zincate leaching the `hydroxyl' functionality. Cyclic voltammetry revealed the deposition of the oxide/hydroxide additives as metal prior to the onset of zinc deposition and the potential range for this additive metal deposition is almost the same for different additives (SnO, CdO, Ni(OH)2). The beneficial action of these additives to zinc alkaline cells is associated with a substrate effect. The implication of this electrocatalytic deposition of metals on a zinc oxide electrode is also discussed. 相似文献
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Procedure for determining maximum sustainable power generated by microbial fuel cells 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Menicucci J Beyenal H Marsili E Veluchamy RA Demir G Lewandowski Z 《Environmental science & technology》2006,40(3):1062-1068
Power generated by microbial fuel cells is computed as a product of current passing through an external resistor and voltage drop across this resistor. If the applied resistance is very low, then high instantaneous power generated by the cell is measured, which is not sustainable; the cell cannot deliver that much power for long periods of time. Since using small electrical resistors leads to erroneous assessment of the capabilities of microbial fuel cells, a question arises: what resistor should be used in such measurements? To address this question, we have defined the sustainable power as the steady state of power delivery by a microbial fuel cell under a given set of conditions and the maximum sustainable power as the highest sustainable power that a microbial fuel cell can deliver under a given set of conditions. Selecting the external resistance that is associated with the maximum sustainable power in a microbial fuel cell (MFC) is difficult because the operator has limited influence on the main factors that control power generation: the rate of charge transfer at the current-limiting electrode and the potential established across the fuel cell. The internal electrical resistance of microbial fuel cells varies, and it depends on the operational conditions of the fuel cell. We have designed an empirical procedure to predict the maximum sustainable power that can be generated by a microbial fuel cell operated under a given set of conditions. Following the procedure, we change the external resistors incrementally, in steps of 500 omega every 10, 60, or 180 s and measure the anode potential, the cathode potential, and the cell current. Power generated in the microbial fuel cell that we were using was limited by the anodic current. The anodic potential was used to determine the condition where the maximum sustainable power is obtained. The procedure is simple, microbial fuel cells can be characterized within an hour, and the results of the measurements can serve many purposes, such as: (1) estimating power generation in various MFCs, (2) comparing power generation in MFCs using different electroactive reactants, (3) quantifying the effects of the operational regime on the power generation in MFCs, and finally, (4) the purpose for which the procedure was designed, optimizing the performance of existing MFCs. 相似文献