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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen with a large repertoire of virulence factors that allow it to cause acute and chronic infections. Treatment of P. aeruginosa infections often fail due to its antibiotic resistance mechanisms, thus novel strategies aim at targeting virulence factors instead of growth-related features. Although the elements of the virulence networks of P. aeruginosa have been identified, how they interact and influence the overall virulence regulation is unclear. In this study, we reconstructed the signaling and transcriptional regulatory networks of 12 acute and 8 chronic virulence factors, and the 4 quorum sensing systems of P. aeruginosa. Using Boolean modelling, we showed that the static interactions and the time when they take place are important features in the quorum sensing network. We also found that the virulence factors of the acute networks are under strict repression or non-strict activation, while those of most of the chronic networks are under repression. In conclusion, Boolean modelling provides a system-level view of the P. aeruginosa virulence and quorum sensing networks to gain new insights into the various mechanisms that support its pathogenicity. Thus, we suggest that Boolean modelling could be used to guide the design of new treatments against P. aeruginosa.Molecular data systems have the potential to store information at dramatically higher density than existing electronic media. Some of the first experimental demonstrations of this idea have used DNA, but nature also uses a wide diversity of smaller non-polymeric molecules to preserve, process, and transmit information. In this paper, we present a general framework for quantifying chemical memory, which is not limited to polymers and extends to mixtures of molecules of all types. Mivebresib supplier We show that the theoretical limit for molecular information is two orders of magnitude denser by mass than DNA, although this comes with different practical constraints on total capacity. We experimentally demonstrate kilobyte-scale information storage in mixtures of small synthetic molecules, and we consider some of the new perspectives that will be necessary to harness the information capacity available from the vast non-genomic chemical space.The ability to predict wrist and hand motions simultaneously is essential for natural controls of hand protheses. In this paper, we propose a novel method that includes subclass discriminant analysis (SDA) and principal component analysis for the simultaneous prediction of wrist rotation (pronation/ supination) and finger gestures using wearable ultrasound. We tested the method on eight finger gestures with concurrent wrist rotations. Results showed that SDA was able to achieve accurate classification of both finger gestures and wrist rotations under dynamic wrist rotations. When grouping the wrist rotations into three subclasses, about 99.2 ±1.2% of finger gestures and 92.8 ± 1.4% of wrist rotations can be accurately classified. Moreover, we found that the first principal component (PC1) of the selected ultrasound features was linear to the wrist rotation angle regardless of finger gestures. We further used PC1 in an online tracking task for continuous wrist control and demonstrated that a wrist tracking precision (R2) of 0.954 ± 0.012 and a finger gesture classification accuracy of 96.5 ± 1.7% can be simultaneously achieved, with only two minutes of user training. Our proposed simultaneous wrist/hand control scheme is training-efficient and robust, paving the way for musculaturedriven artificial hand control and rehabilitation treatment.The objective assessment of motor impairment resulting from neurological disorders forms the basis for effective rehabilitation and therapeutic programs. Such assessments conducted through the engagement of suitable daily activities can serve as an effective surrogate measure for the assessment of independent living. This study considers an instrumented spoon in the assessment of upper-limb functionality through the self-feeding activity of a group of individuals clinically diagnosed with the debilitating condition, Friedreich ataxia (FRDA). Thirty-five subjects with FRDA (34±14 years old) and 14 age-matched healthy subjects performed three cycles of self-feeding consisting of grasping, scooping, transferring food to mouth and returning the spoon. Parameters relating to the feeding rate, trajectory of the rotation, range of motion and movement variability with specific attention to each segment were considered for the capture of ataxia pertaining to the disability. Movement variability measured by Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) resulted in an average accuracy of 96% in the diagnosis of ataxia (separation of the two cohorts). The severity of ataxia estimated using a combination of features from Random Forest (RF) increased the correlation with the clinical estimates of ataxia by 13% and achieved higher coefficient (0.72 in patient scale) than the currently used tests (Box & Block, Pegboard). While the overall results provided an objective, daily activity based means of capturing intrinsic abnormalities, the different segments of the task demonstrated the presence of ataxia in a spatial context concurring with relevant clinical observations.This paper describes the implementation of a movement control method for lower limb exoskeletons with single-joint actuation. In such applications, the single-joint must coordinate movement with other non-controlled joints. The authors have previously proposed a multi-joint control method called a flow controller, which provides several desirable characteristics for such assistance. In this paper, the authors adapt the fundamentally multi-joint flow control approach to a system with a single actuated joint, but with multiple movement degrees of freedom. The single degree of actuation flow control method was implemented on a representative system, specifically a knee exoskeleton that coordinates assistance with ipsilateral thigh movement during walking. The ability of the controller and knee exoskeleton to appropriately influence knee movement was evaluated in level walking experiments on three subjects with unilateral lower-limb impairment. Results show the device and controller provide improvements in knee movement in all subjects.
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