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The findings from the past works and the insight into the existing challenges in this work should benefit the further development of reactors, high-performance catalysts, and PARM routes.The lateral eyes of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, are the largest compound eyes within recent Arthropoda. The cornea of these eyes contains hundreds of inward projecting elongated cuticular cones and concentrate light onto proximal photoreceptor cells. Although this visual system has been extensively studied before, the precise mechanism allowing vision has remained controversial. Correlating high-resolution quantitative refractive index (RI) mapping and structural analysis, it is demonstrated how gradients of RI in the cornea stem from structural and compositional gradients in the cornea. In particular, these RI variations result from the chitin-protein fibers architecture, heterogeneity in protein composition, and bromine doping, as well as spatial variation in water content resulting from matrix cross-linking on the one hand and cuticle porosity on the other hand. Combining the realistic cornea structure and measured RI gradients with full-wave optical modeling and ray tracing, it is revealed that the light collection mechanism switches from refraction-based graded index (GRIN) optics at normal light incidence to combined GRIN and total internal reflection mechanism at high incident angles. The optical properties of the cornea are governed by different mechanisms at different hierarchical levels, demonstrating the remarkable versatility of arthropod cuticle.Mitomycin C, (MC), an antitumor drug used in the clinics, is a DNA alkylating agent. Inert in its native form, MC is reduced to reactive mitosenes in cellulo which undergo nucleophilic attack by DNA bases to form monoadducts as well as interstrand crosslinks (ICLs). These properties constitute the molecular basis for the cytotoxic effects of the drug. The mechanism of DNA alkylation by mitomycins has been studied for the past 30 years and, until recently, the consensus was that drugs of the mitomycins family mainly target CpG sequences in DNA. However, that paradigm was recently challenged. Here, we relate the latest research on both MC and dicarbamoylmitomycin C (DMC), a synthetic derivative of MC which has been used to investigate the regioselectivity of mitomycins DNA alkylation as well as the relationship between mitomycins reductive activation pathways and DNA adducts stereochemical configuration. We also review the different synthetic routes to access mitomycins nucleoside adducts and oligonucleotides containing MC/DMC DNA adducts located at a single position. Finally, we briefly describe the DNA structural modifications induced by MC and DMC adducts and how site specifically modified oligonucleotides have been used to elucidate the role each adduct plays in the drugs cytotoxicity.Heat and stress transfer at an interface are crucial for the contact-based tactile sensing to measure the temperature, morphology, and modulus. However, fabricating a smart sensing material that combines high thermal conductivity, elasticity, and good adhesion is challenging. In this study, a composite is fabricated using a directional template of vertically aligned folded graphene (VAFG) and a copolymer matrix of poly-2-[[(butylamino)carbonyl]oxy]ethyl ester and polydimethylsiloxane, vinyl-end-terminated polydimethylsiloxane (poly(PBAx-ran-PDMS)). With optimized chemical cross-linking and supermolecular interactions, the poly(PBA-ran-PDMS)/VAFG exhibits high thermal conductivity (15.49 W m-1 K-1 ), an high elastic deformation, and an interfacial adhesion of up to 6500 N m-1 . Poly(PBA-ran-PDMS)/VAFG is highly sensitive to temperature and pressure and demonstrates a self-learning capacity for manipulator applications. The smart manipulator can distinguish and selectively capture unknown materials in the dark. Thermally conductive, elastic, and adhesive poly(PBA-ran-PDMS)/VAFG can be developed into core materials in intelligent soft robots.Hydrogen (H2 ) is a geological source of reducing electrons that is thought to have powered the metabolism of the last universal common ancestor to all extant life, and that is still metabolized by various modern organisms. It has been suggested that H2 drove a geochemical analogue of some or all of the reverse Krebs cycle at the emergence of the metabolic network, catalyzed by metals, but this has yet to be demonstrated experimentally. Herein, we show that three consecutive steps of the reverse Krebs cycle, converting oxaloacetate into succinate, can be driven without enzymes and in one-pot by H2 as the reducing agent under mild conditions compatible with biological chemistry. Low catalytic amounts of nickel (10-20 mol %) or platinum group metals (0.1-1 mol %) or even small amounts of ground meteorites were found to promote the reductive chemistry at temperatures between 5 and 60 °C and over a wide pH range, including pH 7. These results lend additional support to the hypothesis that geologically produced hydrogen and metal catalysts could have initiated early metabolic networks.This paper examines the debates around the "miracle of Maglavit", a shepherd's vision of God that took place in 1935 in Romania and attracted much contemporary popular and intellectual interest. The debates drew in arguments from doctors and theologians, who discussed the psychology of divine revelation and tried to elaborate the implications that such an event could have for the life of the Romanian nation. The paper places these debates in the context of wider contemporary discussions about psychology and religion. I argue that what Maglavit shows is that, in Romania at least, public debates about visionary experience in the 1930s were not only debates about its psychology, but of a psychology thoroughly imbricated with political concerns.Histopathology as a diagnostic mainstay for tissue evaluation is strictly a 2D technology. Combining and supplementing this technology with 3D imaging has been proposed as one future avenue towards refining comprehensive tissue analysis. To this end, we have developed a laboratory-based X-ray method allowing for the investigation of tissue samples in three dimensions with isotropic volume information. CB-839 Glutaminase inhibitor To assess the potential of our method for micro-morphology evaluation, we selected several kidney regions from three patients with cystic kidney disease, obstructive nephropathy and diabetic glomerulopathy. Tissue specimens were processed using our in-house-developed X-ray eosin stain and investigated with a commercial microCT and our in-house-built NanoCT. The microCT system provided overview scans with voxel sizes of [Formula see text] and the NanoCT was employed for higher resolutions including voxel sizes from [Formula see text] to 210 nm. We present a methodology allowing for a precise micro-morphologic investigation in three dimensions which is compatible with conventional histology. Advantages of our methodology are its versatility with respect to multi-scale investigations, being laboratory-based, allowing for non-destructive imaging and providing isotropic volume information. We believe, that after future developmental work this method might contribute to advanced multi-modal tissue diagnostics.Few-shot learning (FSL) is promising in the field of medical image analysis due to high cost of establishing high-quality medical datasets. Many FSL approaches have been proposed in natural image scenes. However, present FSL methods are rarely evaluated on medical images and the FSL technology applicable to medical scenarios need to be further developed. Meta-learning has supplied an optional framework to address the challenging FSL setting. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-learner based FSL method for multiple medical image classification tasks, combining meta-learning with transfer-learning and metric-learning. Our designed model is composed of three learners, including auto-encoder, metric-learner and task-learner. In transfer-learning, all the learners are trained on the base classes. In the ensuing meta-learning, we leverage multiple novel tasks to fine-tune the metric-learner and task-learner in order to fast adapt to unseen tasks. Moreover, to further boost the learning efficiency of our model, we devised real-time data augmentation and dynamic Gaussian disturbance soft label (GDSL) scheme as effective generalization strategies of few-shot classification tasks. We have conducted experiments for three-class few-shot classification tasks on three newly-built challenging medical benchmarks, BLOOD, PATH and CHEST. Extensive comparisons to related works validated that our method achieved top performance both on homogeneous medical datasets and cross-domain datasets.Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most critical health problems in the world. For proper treatment, it is important to identify the grade of cancer morbidity from HCC biopsy image. The diagnostic work is not only time-consuming but also subjective. The same biopsy image may be diagnosed as of different grades by different doctors, due to lack of experience or difference in opinion. In this work, we proposed an automatic grading system with classification accuracy matching to an experienced doctor, to help augment the diagnosis process. First, we proposed a segmentation method to isolate all nucleus-like objects present in a biopsy image. Non-target objects (here the target is a single HCC nucleus) present in the biopsy image are isolated too in the segmentation process. To eliminate such non-target objects, we proposed clustering of segmented images and a novel method to filter out target objects. Next, we proposed a two track neural network, where input consists of 2 different images. It combines a single segmented nucleus and a random cropped texture patch of the biopsy image to which the nucleus belongs. At this classifier output, we grade the single nucleus. Finally, a majority voting method is used to identify the grade of the whole biopsy image. We achieved an accuracy of 99.03% for nucleus image grading and 99.67% accuracy for grading biopsy images.Accurate volumetric segmentation of brain tumors and tissues is beneficial for quantitative brain analysis and brain disease identification in multi-modal Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. Nevertheless, due to the complex relationship between modalities, 3D Fully Convolutional Networks (3D FCNs) using simple multi-modal fusion strategies hardly learn the complex and nonlinear complementary information between modalities. Meanwhile, the indiscriminative feature aggregation between low-level and high-level features easily causes volumetric feature misalignment in 3D FCNs. On the other hand, the 3D convolution operations of 3D FCNs are excellent at modeling local relations but typically inefficient at capturing global relations between distant regions in volumetric images. To tackle these issues, we propose an Aligned Cross-Modality Interaction Network (ACMINet) for segmenting the regions of brain tumors and tissues from MR images. In this network, the cross-modality feature interaction module is first designed to adaptively and efficiently fuse and refine multi-modal features. Secondly, the volumetric feature alignment module is developed for dynamically aligning low-level and high-level features by the learnable volumetric feature deformation field. Thirdly, we propose the volumetric dual interaction graph reasoning module for graph-based global context modeling in spatial and channel dimensions. Our proposed method is applied to brain glioma, vestibular schwannoma, and brain tissue segmentation tasks, and we performed extensive experiments on BraTS2018, BraTS2020, Vestibular Schwannoma, and iSeg-2017 datasets. Experimental results show that ACMINet achieves state-of-the-art segmentation performance on all four benchmark datasets and obtains the highest DSC score of hard-segmented enhanced tumor region on the validation leaderboard of the BraTS2020 challenge.
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