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Dbswpt: A Novel Distance-Based Switch For Efficient Wireless Power Transfer In Battery-Less Wireless Capsule Endoscopy, Marwa Elsawy

Journal of Engineering Research

The restricted power supply of batteries hampered the development of capsule endoscopy. Accordingly, a distance-based switch is proposed for efficient wireless power transfer (WPT) system. It targets battery-less wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE). The proposed system consists of two separate coils with distance significant impact. To tackle problem, a distance-based switch configuration is proposed between two variable load resistances according to distance between transmitting and receiving circuits. Results proved high efficiency at short distances using potentiometer in decreasing direction which starts with high resistance values and then decreases to a certain value of resistance according to measured distance whereas the other …

Dbswpt: A Novel Distance-Based Switch For Efficient Wireless Power Transfer In Battery-Less Wireless Capsule Endoscopy, Marwa Elsawy

Journal of Engineering Research

The restricted power supply of batteries hampered the development of capsule endoscopy. Accordingly, a distance-based switch is proposed for efficient wireless power transfer (WPT) system. It targets battery-less wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE). The proposed system consists of two separate coils with distance significant impact. To tackle problem, a distance-based switch configuration is proposed between two variable load resistances according to distance between transmitting and receiving circuits. Results proved high efficiency at short distances using potentiometer in decreasing direction which starts with high resistance values and then decreases to a certain value of resistance according to measured distance whereas the other …

Preparation And Characterization Of The Nanosized Cofe2o4 Prepared By Citrate Precursor Auto Combustion Method, A M. Elshihaby,

Journal of Engineering Research

CoFe2O4 nanoparticles were prepared using the auto combustion citrate precursor method. The sample has been investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD) to investigate structural properties such as lattice constant and crystallite size. Particle size analyzer (PSA) and “transmission electron microscopy (TEM)” confirm that it has a nanostructure of the sample and a wide distribution in the nanoscale in which the values of their D(311) are included in this range. From the FTIR results, the sample exhibits the two distinct absorption bands known as v1 and v2, often attributed to the spinel lattice's tetrahedral (A-site) and octahedral (B-site), respectively. The magnetic behavior …

Promoting Thermal Comfort For Indoor Office Spaces Through Biomimetic Facades Retrofitting, Mai Wahba Madkour

Journal of Engineering Research

The premise of this study is to explore biomimicry as an environmental approach and solution for improving thermal comfort for users of different indoor workspaces in office buildings, consequently reducing energy consumption in these spaces. Delta University for Science and Technology in Egypt had been chosen as a case study. The use of biomimetic indicators on the facade of office spaces at Delta University is the basis for this paper to test the premise. The living organisms that live in the same environment according to their adaptations and response to climate will be examined, investigated, and mimicked in the adaptive …

Promoting Thermal Comfort For Indoor Office Spaces Through Biomimetic Facades Retrofitting, Mai Wahba Madkour

Journal of Engineering Research

The premise of this study is to explore biomimicry as an environmental approach and solution for improving thermal comfort for users of different indoor workspaces in office buildings, consequently reducing energy consumption in these spaces. Delta University for Science and Technology in Egypt had been chosen as a case study. The use of biomimetic indicators on the facade of office spaces at Delta University is the basis for this paper to test the premise. The living organisms that live in the same environment according to their adaptations and response to climate will be examined, investigated, and mimicked in the adaptive …

Preparation And Characterization Of The Nanosized Cofe2o4 Prepared By Citrate Precursor Auto Combustion Method, A M. Elshihaby,

Journal of Engineering Research

CoFe2O4 nanoparticles were prepared using the auto combustion citrate precursor method. The sample has been investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD) to investigate structural properties such as lattice constant and crystallite size. Particle size analyzer (PSA) and “transmission electron microscopy (TEM)” confirm that it has a nanostructure of the sample and a wide distribution in the nanoscale in which the values of their D(311) are included in this range. From the FTIR results, the sample exhibits the two distinct absorption bands known as v1 and v2, often attributed to the spinel lattice's tetrahedral (A-site) and octahedral (B-site), respectively. The magnetic behavior …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - October 5, 2023, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the October 5, 2023 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• Meet a Med Student: Alexander Polski
• Simpkins selected as AAFP emerging leader institute scholar
• Bauer named assistant dean for admissions at Whiddon college of medicine

Dietary Effect Of Soybean Lecithin On The Growth Performance, Digestive Enzyme Activity, Blood Biomarkers, And Antioxidative Status Of Striped Catfish, Pangasianodon Hypophthalmus, Abdel-Rahman Amer, Nabil M. Eweedah, Asem A. Amer, Mahmoud S. Gewaily

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Kluyveromyces Marxianus Prepared As A Ready To Use Supplemental Food (Rusf), Zachary Christman

Applied Science Program: Theses

Ready to Use Supplemental Food (RUSF) is a nutrient dense paste or compressed bar used to supplement a person’s nutritional needs because of malnutrition or due to food shortages. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate some methods of how the dairy organism Kluyveromyces marxianus can be used to enrich the protein value of bread or ferment a substrate such as wheat bran into a more digestible form.

Évaluation De L’Impact De La Coexposition Sur Les Biomarqueurs D’Exposition Aux Pesticides Pyréthrinoïdes Chez Les Travailleurs Agricoles, Michèle Bouchard, Marc Bossou, Jonathan Côté

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Il existe peu de données publiées sur l'impact de la coexposition sur la toxicocinétique des pesticides chez les travailleurs agricoles, nécessaires pour une interprétation adéquate des données de biosurveillance de l’exposition. La présente recherche a visé à évaluer l’impact de la coexposition sur les niveaux de biomarqueurs d’exposition aux pesticides pyréthrinoïdes chez les travailleurs agricoles. Le pyréthrinoïde lambda-cyhalothrine (LCT) et le fongicide captane ont été utilisés comme pesticides sentinelles, puisqu’ils sont largement employés en culture agricole.

Dans le volet 1, les profils temporels individuels des biomarqueurs d'exposition à la lambda-cyhalothrine ont été comparés chez des opérateurs après un épisode …

Seed Coatings Containing Capsaicin Reduce Seed Removal In Temperate Woody Species, Brian M. Connolly, Francesca Lanni, John L. Orrock, Peter W. Guiden

Biology Faculty Scholarship

Coating seeds in taste-averting chemical defenses (e.g., capsaicin from Capsicum spp.) can reduce rodent seed predation, and thus might promote plant establishment and forest regeneration. However, the efficacy of such seed coatings remains unknown for many woody plant species, and seed coatings have not been evaluated across different habitats where forest managers might seek to promote forest regeneration. We used two complementary seed-removal experiments in closed-canopy forests (Michigan) and an old field undergoing reforestation (New York) to examine whether coating seeds of four native tree species (Acer rubrum, Fagus grandifolia, Pinus banksiana, and Pinus resinosa) with chili …

October 5, 2023, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Local, National Talent To Sing The Blues At Annual Festival, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The 12th annual Oxford Blues Festival will kick off three days of blues music with a free-to-the-public event at the University of Mississippi Blues Archive.

Spectator 2023-10-05, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

Seasonally Optimized Calibrations Improve Low-Cost Sensor Performance: Long-Term Field Evaluation Of Purpleair Sensors In Urban And Rural India, Mark Joseph Campmier, Jonathan D. Gingrich, Saumya Singh, Nisar Baig, Shahzad Gani, Adithi Upadhya, Pratyush Agrawal, Meenakshi Kushwaha, Harsh Raj Mishra, Ajay Pillarisetti, Sreekanth Vakacherla, Ravi Kant Pathak, Joshua S. Apte

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Lower-cost air pollution sensors can fill critical air quality data gaps in India, which experiences very high fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution but has sparse regulatory air monitoring. Challenges for low-cost PM2.5 sensors in India include high-aerosol mass concentrations and pronounced regional and seasonal gradients in aerosol composition. Here, we report on a detailed long-time performance evaluation of a popular sensor, the Purple Air PA-II, at multiple sites in India. We established three distinct sites in India across land use categories and population density extremes (in urban Delhi and rural Hamirpur in north India and urban Bengaluru in south …

Neutrosophic Sets And Systems, Vol.58,2023, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Said Broumi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Sparx: Elucidate Single-Cell Spatial Heterogeneity Of Drug Responses For Personalized Treatment, Ziyang Tang, Xiang Liu, Zuotian Li, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang, Jing Su, Qianqian Song

Publications

Spatial cellular authors heterogeneity contributes to differential drug responses in a tumor lesion and potential therapeutic resistance. Recent emerging spatial technologies such as CosMx, MERSCOPE and Xenium delineate the spatial gene expression patterns at the single cell resolution. This provides unprecedented opportunities to identify spatially localized cellular resistance and to optimize the treatment for individual patients. In this work, we present a graph-based domain adaptation model, SpaRx, to reveal the heterogeneity of spatial cellular response to drugs. SpaRx transfers the knowledge from pharmacogenomics profiles to single-cell spatial transcriptomics data, through hybrid learning with dynamic adversarial adaption. Comprehensive benchmarking demonstrates the …

The Cowl - V. 88 N. 20 - October 5, 2023

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 88 No. 20 - October 5, 2023. 20 pages.

A Novel Of Domination In Neutrosophic Over Graphs, R. Narmadadevi, M. Meenu, G. Muthumari

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Κ-Structures In An Ag-Groupoid, G. Muhiuddin, K. Porselvi, B. Elavarasan

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic-Based Correlation Analysis For Fingerprint Image Pattern Recognition And Matching, Vinoth D, Ezhilmaran Devarasan

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Novel Single Valued Neutrosophic Prioritized Aczel Alsina Aggregation Operators And Their Applications In Multiattribute Decision Making, Sajid Latif, Kifayat Ullah, Abrar Hussain

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Storytelling For Asian–White Multiracial American College Students’ Racial Identity, Paige Thale Sonoda, Yunkyoung Loh Garrison

All Faculty Scholarship

This pilot study aims to explore how participatory digital storytelling can be used as an intervention to address race-based stress stemming from White supremacy and monoracism and describe the potential experiential effects on racial identity among Asian–White multiracial American college students. Specifically, we employed testimonio, or a liberation psychology-informed approach in a sample of 10 Asian–White multiracial American college students. The intervention consisted of four group sessions: (a) orienting (overview of liberation psychology and storytelling), (b) creating (self-reflection on personal stories and group discussion), (c) narrating (story sharing and filming), and (d) reflecting (watching and reacting to digital stories). Using …

Immune Cell Deconvolution Reveals Possible Association Of Γδ T Cells With Poor Survival In Head And Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Anuraag S Parikh, Yize Li, Angela Mazul, Wade Thorstad, Jason Rich, Randal C Paniello, Ryan S Jackson, Patrik Pipkorn, Paul Zolkind, Zongtai Qi, Douglas Adkins, Li Ding, Sidharth V Puram, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

(1) Background: The role of rare immune cell subtypes in many solid tumors, chief among them head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), has not been well defined. The objective of this study was to assess the association between proportions of common and rare immune cell subtypes and survival outcomes in HNSCC. (2) Methods: In this cohort study, we utilized a deconvolution approach based on the CIBERSORT algorithm and the LM22 signature matrix to infer proportions of immune cell subtypes from 517 patients with untreated HPV-negative HNSCC from The Cancer Genome Atlas. We performed univariate and multivariable survival analysis, integrating …

Literature-Based Predictions Of Mendelian Disease Therapies, Cole A Deisseroth, Won-Seok Lee, Jiyoen Kim, Hyun-Hwan Jeong, Ryan S Dhindsa, Julia Wang, Huda Y Zoghbi, Zhandong Liu

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

In the effort to treat Mendelian disorders, correcting the underlying molecular imbalance may be more effective than symptomatic treatment. Identifying treatments that might accomplish this goal requires extensive and up-to-date knowledge of molecular pathways-including drug-gene and gene-gene relationships. To address this challenge, we present "parsing modifiers via article annotations" (PARMESAN), a computational tool that searches PubMed and PubMed Central for information to assemble these relationships into a central knowledge base. PARMESAN then predicts putatively novel drug-gene relationships, assigning an evidence-based score to each prediction. We compare PARMESAN's drug-gene predictions to all of the drug-gene relationships displayed by the Drug-Gene Interaction …

Disease-Modifying Therapies And Features Linked To Treatment Response In Type 1 Diabetes Prevention: A Systematic Review, Jamie L Felton, Kurt J Griffin, Richard A Oram, Cate Speake, S Alice Long, Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, Stephen S Rich, Gabriela S F Monaco, Carmella Evans-Molina, Linda A Dimeglio, Heba M Ismail, Andrea K Steck, Dana Dabelea, Randi K Johnson, Marzhan Urazbayeva, Stephen Gitelman, John M Wentworth, Maria J Redondo, Emily K Sims, Ada/Easd Pmdi

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from immune-mediated destruction of insulin-producing beta cells. Prevention efforts have focused on immune modulation and supporting beta cell health before or around diagnosis; however, heterogeneity in disease progression and therapy response has limited translation to clinical practice, highlighting the need for precision medicine approaches to T1D disease modification.

METHODS: To understand the state of knowledge in this area, we performed a systematic review of randomized-controlled trials with ≥50 participants cataloged in PubMed or Embase from the past 25 years testing T1D disease-modifying therapies and/or identifying features linked to treatment response, analyzing bias using a …

Pls3 Missense Variants Affecting The Actin-Binding Domains Cause X-Linked Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia And Body-Wall Defects, Florence Petit, Mauro Longoni, Julie Wells, Richard S Maser, Eric L Bogenschutz, Matthew J Dysart, Hannah T M Contreras, Frederic Frénois, Barbara R Pober, Robin D Clark, Philip F Giampietro, Hilger H Ropers, Hao Hu, Maria Loscertales, Richard Wagner, Xingbin Ai, Harrison Brand, Anne-Sophie Jourdain, Marie-Ange Delrue, Brigitte Gilbert-Dussardier, Louise Devisme, Boris Keren, David J Mcculley, Lu Qiao, Rebecca Hernan, Julia Wynn, Tiana M Scott, Daniel G Calame, Zeynep Coban-Akdemir, Patricia Hernandez, Andres Hernandez-Garcia, Hagith Yonath, James R Lupski, Yufeng Shen, Wendy K Chung, Daryl A Scott, Carol J Bult, Patricia K Donahoe, Frances A High

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a relatively common and genetically heterogeneous structural birth defect associated with high mortality and morbidity. We describe eight unrelated families with an X-linked condition characterized by diaphragm defects, variable anterior body-wall anomalies, and/or facial dysmorphism. Using linkage analysis and exome or genome sequencing, we found that missense variants in plastin 3 (PLS3), a gene encoding an actin bundling protein, co-segregate with disease in all families. Loss-of-function variants in PLS3 have been previously associated with X-linked osteoporosis (MIM: 300910), so we used in silico protein modeling and a mouse model to address these seemingly disparate clinical …

Global Effect Of Modifiable Risk Factors On Cardiovascular Disease And Mortality, Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium, Christina Magnussen, Francisco M Ojeda, Darryl P Leong, Jesus Alegre-Diaz, Philippe Amouyel, Larissa Aviles-Santa, Dirk De Bacquer, Christie M Ballantyne, Antonio Bernabé-Ortiz, Martin Bobak, Hermann Brenner, Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco, James De Lemos, Annette Dobson, Marcus Dörr, Chiara Donfrancesco, Wojciech Drygas, Robin P Dullaart, Gunnar Engström, Marco M Ferrario, Jean Ferrières, Giovanni De Gaetano, Uri Goldbourt, Clicerio Gonzalez, Guido Grassi, Allison M Hodge, Kristian Hveem, Licia Iacoviello, M Kamran Ikram, Vilma Irazola, Modou Jobe, Pekka Jousilahti, Pontiano Kaleebu, Maryam Kavousi, Frank Kee, Davood Khalili, Wolfgang Koenig, Anna Kontsevaya, Kari Kuulasmaa, Karl J Lackner, David M Leistner, Lars Lind, Allan Linneberg, Thiess Lorenz, Magnus Nakrem Lyngbakken, Reza Malekzadeh, Sofia Malyutina, Ellisiv B Mathiesen, Olle Melander, Andres Metspalu, J Jaime Miranda, Marie Moitry, Joseph Mugisha, Mahdi Nalini, Vijay Nambi, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Karen Oppermann, Eleonora D'Orsi, Andrzej Pająk, Luigi Palmieri, Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Annette Peters, Hossein Poustchi, Andrew M Prentice, Eva Prescott, Ulf Risérus, Veikko Salomaa, Susana Sans, Satoko Sakata, Ben Schöttker, Aletta E Schutte, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Sanjib Kumar Sharma, Jonathan E Shaw, Leon A Simons, Stefan Söderberg, Abdonas Tamosiunas, Barbara Thorand, Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe, Raphael Twerenbold, Diego Vanuzzo, Giovanni Veronesi, Julia Waibel, S Goya Wannamethee, Masafumi Watanabe, Philipp S Wild, Yao Yao, Yi Zeng, Andreas Ziegler, Stefan Blankenberg

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Five modifiable risk factors are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality. The regional and sex-specific prevalence of these modifiable risk factors and their impact on CVD and all-cause mortality have not been evaluated using individual-level data.

METHODS: The Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium harmonized individual-level data from 112 cohort studies conducted in 34 countries and 8 geographic regions. Associations between body-mass index, systolic blood pressure, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, smoking, and diabetes with incident CVD and all-cause mortality were examined using Cox regression analyses and stratified by geographic region, age and sex. Population-attributable fractions were estimated for 10-year incident …

An Intrinsically Disordered Region Controlling Condensation Of A Circadian Clock Component And Rhythmic Transcription In The Liver, Kun Zhu, Isaac J Celwyn, Dongyin Guan, Yang Xiao, Xiang Wang, Wenxiang Hu, Chunjie Jiang, Lan Cheng, Rafael Casellas, Mitchell A Lazar

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Circadian gene transcription is fundamental to metabolic physiology. Here we report that the nuclear receptor REV-ERBα, a repressive component of the molecular clock, forms circadian condensates in the nuclei of mouse liver. These condensates are dictated by an intrinsically disordered region (IDR) located in the protein's hinge region which specifically concentrates nuclear receptor corepressor 1 (NCOR1) at the genome. IDR deletion diminishes the recruitment of NCOR1 and disrupts rhythmic gene transcription in vivo. REV-ERBα condensates are located at high-order transcriptional repressive hubs in the liver genome that are highly correlated with circadian gene repression. Deletion of the IDR disrupts transcriptional …

Rare Variants In Long Non-Coding Rnas Are Associated With Blood Lipid Levels In The Topmed Whole-Genome Sequencing Study, Yuxuan Wang, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Jacob A Holdcraft, Donna K Arnett, Joshua C Bis, John Blangero, Eric Boerwinkle, Donald W Bowden, Brian E Cade, Jenna C Carlson, April P Carson, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Joanne E Curran, Paul S De Vries, Susan K Dutcher, Patrick T Ellinor, James S Floyd, Myriam Fornage, Barry I Freedman, Stacey Gabriel, Soren Germer, Richard A Gibbs, Xiuqing Guo, Jiang He, Nancy Heard-Costa, Bertha Hildalgo, Lifang Hou, Marguerite R Irvin, Roby Joehanes, Robert C Kaplan, Sharon Lr Kardia, Tanika N Kelly, Ryan Kim, Charles Kooperberg, Brian G Kral, Daniel Levy, Changwei Li, Chunyu Liu, Don Lloyd-Jone, Ruth Jf Loos, Michael C Mahaney, Lisa W Martin, Rasika A Mathias, Ryan L Minster, Braxton D Mitchell, May E Montasser, Alanna C Morrison, Joanne M Murabito, Take Naseri, Jeffrey R O'Connell, Nicholette D Palmer, Michael H Preuss, Bruce M Psaty, Laura M Raffield, Dabeeru C Rao, Susan Redline, Alexander P Reiner, Stephen S Rich, Muagututi'a Sefuiva Ruepena, Wayne H-H Sheu, Jennifer A Smith, Albert Smith, Hemant K Tiwari, Michael Y Tsai, Karine A Viaud-Martinez, Zhe Wang, Lisa R Yanek, Wei Zhao, Nhlbi Trans-Omics For Precision Medicine (Topmed) Consortium, Jerome I Rotter, Xihong Lin, Pradeep Natarajan, Gina M Peloso

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are known to perform important regulatory functions in lipid metabolism. Large-scale whole-genome sequencing (WGS) studies and new statistical methods for variant set tests now provide an opportunity to assess more associations between rare variants in lncRNA genes and complex traits across the genome. In this study, we used high-coverage WGS from 66,329 participants of diverse ancestries with measurement of blood lipids and lipoproteins (LDL-C, HDL-C, TC, and TG) in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program to investigate the role of lncRNAs in lipid variability. We aggregated rare variants …