To provide a scientific basis for controlling mulberry bacterial blight in Bazhong,Sichuan,China(BSC),this study aimed to isolate and purify pathogenic bacteria from diseased branches of mulberry trees in the region a...To provide a scientific basis for controlling mulberry bacterial blight in Bazhong,Sichuan,China(BSC),this study aimed to isolate and purify pathogenic bacteria from diseased branches of mulberry trees in the region and to clarify their taxonomic status using morphological observation,physiological and biochemical detection,molecular-level identification,and the construction of a phylogenetic tree.A total of 218 bacterial strains were isolated from samples of diseased mulberry branches.Of these,7 strains were identified as pathogenic bacteria based on pathogenicity tests conducted in accordance with Koch’s postulates.Preliminary findings from the analysis of the 16S rRNA sequence indicated that the 7 pathogenic bacteria are members of Klebsiella spp.Morphological observation revealed that the pathogenic bacteria were oval-shaped and had capsules but no spores.They could secrete pectinase,cellulase,and protease and were able to utilize D-glucose,D-mannose,D-maltose,and D-Cellobiose.The 7 strains of pathogenic bacteria exhibited the highest homology with Klebsiella oxytoca.This study identifies Klebsiella oxytoca as the causative agent of mulberry bacterial blight in BSC,laying the foundation for the prevention and control of this pathogen and further investigation into its pathogenic mechanism.展开更多
Perennial grasses have developed intricate mechanisms to adapt to diverse environments,enabling their resistance to various biotic and abiotic stressors.These mechanisms arise from strong natural selection that contri...Perennial grasses have developed intricate mechanisms to adapt to diverse environments,enabling their resistance to various biotic and abiotic stressors.These mechanisms arise from strong natural selection that contributes to enhancing the adaptation of forage plants to various stress conditions.Methods such as antisense RNA technology,CRISPR/Cas9 screening,virus-induced gene silencing,and transgenic technology,are commonly utilized for investigating the stress response functionalities of grass genes in both warm-season and cool-season varieties.This review focuses on the functional identification of stress-resistance genes and regulatory elements in grasses.It synthesizes recent studies on mining functional genes,regulatory genes,and protein kinase-like signaling factors involved in stress responses in grasses.Additionally,the review outlines future research directions,providing theoretical support and references for further exploration of(i)molecular mechanisms underlying grass stress responses,(ii)cultivation and domestication of herbage,(iii)development of high-yield varieties resistant to stress,and(iv)mechanisms and breeding strategies for stress resistance in grasses.展开更多
Existingfirefighting robots are focused on simple storage orfire sup-pression outside buildings rather than detection or recognition.Utilizing a large number of robots using expensive equipment is challenging.This study ...Existingfirefighting robots are focused on simple storage orfire sup-pression outside buildings rather than detection or recognition.Utilizing a large number of robots using expensive equipment is challenging.This study aims to increase the efficiency of search and rescue operations and the safety offirefigh-ters by detecting and identifying the disaster site by recognizing collapsed areas,obstacles,and rescuers on-site.A fusion algorithm combining a camera and three-dimension light detection and ranging(3D LiDAR)is proposed to detect and loca-lize the interiors of disaster sites.The algorithm detects obstacles by analyzingfloor segmentation and edge patterns using a mask regional convolutional neural network(mask R-CNN)features model based on the visual data collected from a parallelly connected camera and 3D LiDAR.People as objects are detected using you only look once version 4(YOLOv4)in the image data to localize persons requiring rescue.The point cloud data based on 3D LiDAR cluster the objects using the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise(DBSCAN)clustering algorithm and estimate the distance to the actual object using the center point of the clustering result.The proposed artificial intelligence(AI)algorithm was verified based on individual sensors using a sensor-mounted robot in an actual building to detectfloor surfaces,atypical obstacles,and persons requiring rescue.Accordingly,the fused AI algorithm was comparatively verified.展开更多
The global pandemic of novel coronavirus that started in 2019 has ser-iously affected daily lives and placed everyone in a panic condition.Widespread coronavirus led to the adoption of social distancing and people avo...The global pandemic of novel coronavirus that started in 2019 has ser-iously affected daily lives and placed everyone in a panic condition.Widespread coronavirus led to the adoption of social distancing and people avoiding unneces-sary physical contact with each other.The present situation advocates the require-ment of a contactless biometric system that could be used in future authentication systems which makesfingerprint-based person identification ineffective.Periocu-lar biometric is the solution because it does not require physical contact and is able to identify people wearing face masks.However,the periocular biometric region is a small area,and extraction of the required feature is the point of con-cern.This paper has proposed adopted multiple features and emphasis on the periocular region.In the proposed approach,combination of local binary pattern(LBP),color histogram and features in frequency domain have been used with deep learning algorithms for classification.Hence,we extract three types of fea-tures for the classification of periocular regions for biometric.The LBP represents the textual features of the iris while the color histogram represents the frequencies of pixel values in the RGB channel.In order to extract the frequency domain fea-tures,the wavelet transformation is obtained.By learning from these features,a convolutional neural network(CNN)becomes able to discriminate the features and can provide better recognition results.The proposed approach achieved the highest accuracy rates with the lowest false person identification.展开更多
Radio frequency fingerprint(RFF)identification is a promising technique for identifying Internet of Things(IoT)devices.This paper presents a comprehensive survey on RFF identification,which covers various aspects rang...Radio frequency fingerprint(RFF)identification is a promising technique for identifying Internet of Things(IoT)devices.This paper presents a comprehensive survey on RFF identification,which covers various aspects ranging from related definitions to details of each stage in the identification process,namely signal preprocessing,RFF feature extraction,further processing,and RFF identification.Specifically,three main steps of preprocessing are summarized,including carrier frequency offset estimation,noise elimination,and channel cancellation.Besides,three kinds of RFFs are categorized,comprising I/Q signal-based,parameter-based,and transformation-based features.Meanwhile,feature fusion and feature dimension reduction are elaborated as two main further processing methods.Furthermore,a novel framework is established from the perspective of closed set and open set problems,and the related state-of-the-art methodologies are investigated,including approaches based on traditional machine learning,deep learning,and generative models.Additionally,we highlight the challenges faced by RFF identification and point out future research trends in this field.展开更多
User Equipment(UE)authentication holds paramount importance in upholding the security of wireless networks.A nascent technology,Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification(RFFI),is gaining prominence as a means to bols...User Equipment(UE)authentication holds paramount importance in upholding the security of wireless networks.A nascent technology,Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification(RFFI),is gaining prominence as a means to bolster network security authentication.To expedite the integration of RFFI within fifth-generation(5G)networks,this research undertakes the creation of a comprehensive link-level simulation platform tailored for 5G scenarios.The devised platform emulates various device impairments,including an oscillator,IQ modulator,and power amplifier(PA)nonlinearities,alongside simulating channel distortions.Consequent to this,a plausibility analysis is executed,intertwining transmitter device impairments with 3rd Generation Partnership Project(3GPP)new radio(NR)protocols.Subsequently,an exhaustive exploration is conducted to assess the impact of transmitter impairments,deep neural networks(DNNs),and channel effects on RF fingerprinting performance.Notably,under a signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)of 15 d B,the deep learning approach demonstrates the capability to accurately classify 100 UEs with a commendable 91%accuracy rate.Through a multifaceted evaluation,it is ascertained that the Attention-based network architecture emerges as the optimal choice for the RFFI task,serving as the new benchmark model for RFFI applications.展开更多
Radio frequency fingerprint identification(RFFI)shows great potential as a means for authenticating wireless devices.As RFFI can be addressed as a classification problem,deep learning techniques are widely utilized in...Radio frequency fingerprint identification(RFFI)shows great potential as a means for authenticating wireless devices.As RFFI can be addressed as a classification problem,deep learning techniques are widely utilized in modern RFFI systems for their outstanding performance.RFFI is suitable for securing the legacy existing Internet of Things(IoT)networks since it does not require any modifications to the existing end-node hardware and communication protocols.However,most deep learning-based RFFI systems require the collection of a great number of labelled signals for training,which is time-consuming and not ideal,especially for the Io T end nodes that are already deployed and configured with long transmission intervals.Moreover,the long time required to train a neural network from scratch also limits rapid deployment on legacy Io T networks.To address the above issues,two transferable RFFI protocols are proposed in this paper leveraging the concept of transfer learning.More specifically,they rely on fine-tuning and distance metric learning,respectively,and only require only a small amount of signals from the legacy IoT network.As the dataset used for transfer is small,we propose to apply augmentation in the transfer process to generate more training signals to improve performance.A Lo Ra-RFFI testbed consisting of 40 commercial-off-the-shelf(COTS)Lo Ra IoT devices and a software-defined radio(SDR)receiver is built to experimentally evaluate the proposed approaches.The experimental results demonstrate that both the fine-tuning and distance metric learning-based RFFI approaches can be rapidly transferred to another Io T network with less than ten signals from each Lo Ra device.The classification accuracy is over 90%,and the augmentation technique can improve the accuracy by up to 20%.展开更多
AIM: To classify the histological severity of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection-associated gastritis by confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE). METHODS: Patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms or individual...AIM: To classify the histological severity of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection-associated gastritis by confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE). METHODS: Patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms or individuals who were screened for gastric cancer were enrolled in this study. Histological severity of H. pylori infection-associated gastritis was graded according to the established CLE criteria. Diagnostic value of CLE for histo-logical gastritis was investigated and compared with that of white light endoscopy (WLE). Targeted biopsies from the sites observed by CLE were performed. RESULTS: A total of 118 consecutive patients with H. pylori infection-associated gastritis were enrolled in this study. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showedthat the sensitivity and specifi city of CLE were 82.9% and 90.9% for the diagnosis of H. pylori infection, 94.6% and 97.4% for predicting gastric normal mucosa, 98.5% and 94.6% for predicting histological active inflammation, 92.9% and 95.2% for predicting glan-dular atrophy, 98.6% and 100% for diagnosing intes-tinal metaplasia, respectively. Post-CLE image analysis showed that goblet cells and absorptive cells were the two most common parameters on the CLE-diagnosed intestinal metaplasia (IM) images (P < 0.001). More his-tological lesions of the stomach could be found by CLE than by WLE (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: CLE can accurately show the histological severity of H. pylori infection-associated gastritis. Mapping IM by CLE has a rather good diagnostic accuracy.展开更多
目的:对HL60细胞在NSC67657作用下向单核系分化前后,双向电泳分离的表达差异蛋白β-catenin相关蛋白1(Beta-catenin-interacting protein 1,ICAT)进行验证,并对ICAT在细胞分化中的功能进行研究.方法:通过RT-PCR和Western blot方法验证...目的:对HL60细胞在NSC67657作用下向单核系分化前后,双向电泳分离的表达差异蛋白β-catenin相关蛋白1(Beta-catenin-interacting protein 1,ICAT)进行验证,并对ICAT在细胞分化中的功能进行研究.方法:通过RT-PCR和Western blot方法验证药物作用细胞前后ICAT基因和蛋白的表达差异;通过免疫荧光协同分析目的蛋白的表达水平,并对其进行初步定位.构建pDsRed-ICAT真核表达载体,转染HL60细胞,筛选阳性克隆.对ICAT基因重组质粒转染细胞作细胞形态学、细胞增殖改变的观察和细胞周期检测以及超微结构观察.结果:NSC67657诱导HL60细胞向单核系分化,ICAT蛋白表达上调,其主要定位于细胞核和胞质.真核表达载体构建成功,电转后G418筛选可得90%以上阳性克隆.转染重组质粒的HL60细胞增殖受抑,电镜下胞核异染色质密集,核质比减小,表面抗原CD14表达和对照组无差异,但在药物处理后24h即可表达71.3%,明显高于对照组,瑞氏染色可见明显分化细胞.结论:ICAT蛋白在NSC67657诱导HL60细胞分化中表达上调,但仅是过表达的ICAT基因并不能诱导HL60细胞向单核系分化,却能提高HL60细胞对NSC67657诱导作用的敏感性.展开更多
基金supported by Key Scientific and Technological Grant of Zhejiang for Breeding New Agricultural Varieties(2021C02072-6)the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Provincial Education Department(KJ2019A0574).
文摘To provide a scientific basis for controlling mulberry bacterial blight in Bazhong,Sichuan,China(BSC),this study aimed to isolate and purify pathogenic bacteria from diseased branches of mulberry trees in the region and to clarify their taxonomic status using morphological observation,physiological and biochemical detection,molecular-level identification,and the construction of a phylogenetic tree.A total of 218 bacterial strains were isolated from samples of diseased mulberry branches.Of these,7 strains were identified as pathogenic bacteria based on pathogenicity tests conducted in accordance with Koch’s postulates.Preliminary findings from the analysis of the 16S rRNA sequence indicated that the 7 pathogenic bacteria are members of Klebsiella spp.Morphological observation revealed that the pathogenic bacteria were oval-shaped and had capsules but no spores.They could secrete pectinase,cellulase,and protease and were able to utilize D-glucose,D-mannose,D-maltose,and D-Cellobiose.The 7 strains of pathogenic bacteria exhibited the highest homology with Klebsiella oxytoca.This study identifies Klebsiella oxytoca as the causative agent of mulberry bacterial blight in BSC,laying the foundation for the prevention and control of this pathogen and further investigation into its pathogenic mechanism.
基金supported by the Chief Scientist Program of Qinghai Province(2024-SF-101).
文摘Perennial grasses have developed intricate mechanisms to adapt to diverse environments,enabling their resistance to various biotic and abiotic stressors.These mechanisms arise from strong natural selection that contributes to enhancing the adaptation of forage plants to various stress conditions.Methods such as antisense RNA technology,CRISPR/Cas9 screening,virus-induced gene silencing,and transgenic technology,are commonly utilized for investigating the stress response functionalities of grass genes in both warm-season and cool-season varieties.This review focuses on the functional identification of stress-resistance genes and regulatory elements in grasses.It synthesizes recent studies on mining functional genes,regulatory genes,and protein kinase-like signaling factors involved in stress responses in grasses.Additionally,the review outlines future research directions,providing theoretical support and references for further exploration of(i)molecular mechanisms underlying grass stress responses,(ii)cultivation and domestication of herbage,(iii)development of high-yield varieties resistant to stress,and(iv)mechanisms and breeding strategies for stress resistance in grasses.
基金supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education(No.2020R1I1A3068274),Received by Junho Ahn.https://www.nrf.re.kr/supported by the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement(KAIA)by the Ministry of Land,Infrastructure and Transport under Grant(No.22QPWO-C152223-04),Received by Chulsu Kim.https://www.kaia.re.kr/.
文摘Existingfirefighting robots are focused on simple storage orfire sup-pression outside buildings rather than detection or recognition.Utilizing a large number of robots using expensive equipment is challenging.This study aims to increase the efficiency of search and rescue operations and the safety offirefigh-ters by detecting and identifying the disaster site by recognizing collapsed areas,obstacles,and rescuers on-site.A fusion algorithm combining a camera and three-dimension light detection and ranging(3D LiDAR)is proposed to detect and loca-lize the interiors of disaster sites.The algorithm detects obstacles by analyzingfloor segmentation and edge patterns using a mask regional convolutional neural network(mask R-CNN)features model based on the visual data collected from a parallelly connected camera and 3D LiDAR.People as objects are detected using you only look once version 4(YOLOv4)in the image data to localize persons requiring rescue.The point cloud data based on 3D LiDAR cluster the objects using the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise(DBSCAN)clustering algorithm and estimate the distance to the actual object using the center point of the clustering result.The proposed artificial intelligence(AI)algorithm was verified based on individual sensors using a sensor-mounted robot in an actual building to detectfloor surfaces,atypical obstacles,and persons requiring rescue.Accordingly,the fused AI algorithm was comparatively verified.
文摘The global pandemic of novel coronavirus that started in 2019 has ser-iously affected daily lives and placed everyone in a panic condition.Widespread coronavirus led to the adoption of social distancing and people avoiding unneces-sary physical contact with each other.The present situation advocates the require-ment of a contactless biometric system that could be used in future authentication systems which makesfingerprint-based person identification ineffective.Periocu-lar biometric is the solution because it does not require physical contact and is able to identify people wearing face masks.However,the periocular biometric region is a small area,and extraction of the required feature is the point of con-cern.This paper has proposed adopted multiple features and emphasis on the periocular region.In the proposed approach,combination of local binary pattern(LBP),color histogram and features in frequency domain have been used with deep learning algorithms for classification.Hence,we extract three types of fea-tures for the classification of periocular regions for biometric.The LBP represents the textual features of the iris while the color histogram represents the frequencies of pixel values in the RGB channel.In order to extract the frequency domain fea-tures,the wavelet transformation is obtained.By learning from these features,a convolutional neural network(CNN)becomes able to discriminate the features and can provide better recognition results.The proposed approach achieved the highest accuracy rates with the lowest false person identification.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62171120 and 62001106National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFE0200600)+2 种基金Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Network and Information Security No.BM2003201Guangdong Key Research and Development Program under Grant2020B0303010001Purple Mountain Laboratories for Network and Communication Security
文摘Radio frequency fingerprint(RFF)identification is a promising technique for identifying Internet of Things(IoT)devices.This paper presents a comprehensive survey on RFF identification,which covers various aspects ranging from related definitions to details of each stage in the identification process,namely signal preprocessing,RFF feature extraction,further processing,and RFF identification.Specifically,three main steps of preprocessing are summarized,including carrier frequency offset estimation,noise elimination,and channel cancellation.Besides,three kinds of RFFs are categorized,comprising I/Q signal-based,parameter-based,and transformation-based features.Meanwhile,feature fusion and feature dimension reduction are elaborated as two main further processing methods.Furthermore,a novel framework is established from the perspective of closed set and open set problems,and the related state-of-the-art methodologies are investigated,including approaches based on traditional machine learning,deep learning,and generative models.Additionally,we highlight the challenges faced by RFF identification and point out future research trends in this field.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No:62201172)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFE0136800)
文摘User Equipment(UE)authentication holds paramount importance in upholding the security of wireless networks.A nascent technology,Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification(RFFI),is gaining prominence as a means to bolster network security authentication.To expedite the integration of RFFI within fifth-generation(5G)networks,this research undertakes the creation of a comprehensive link-level simulation platform tailored for 5G scenarios.The devised platform emulates various device impairments,including an oscillator,IQ modulator,and power amplifier(PA)nonlinearities,alongside simulating channel distortions.Consequent to this,a plausibility analysis is executed,intertwining transmitter device impairments with 3rd Generation Partnership Project(3GPP)new radio(NR)protocols.Subsequently,an exhaustive exploration is conducted to assess the impact of transmitter impairments,deep neural networks(DNNs),and channel effects on RF fingerprinting performance.Notably,under a signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)of 15 d B,the deep learning approach demonstrates the capability to accurately classify 100 UEs with a commendable 91%accuracy rate.Through a multifaceted evaluation,it is ascertained that the Attention-based network architecture emerges as the optimal choice for the RFFI task,serving as the new benchmark model for RFFI applications.
基金in part supported by UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under grant ID EP/V027697/1in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under grant ID 2020YFE0200600
文摘Radio frequency fingerprint identification(RFFI)shows great potential as a means for authenticating wireless devices.As RFFI can be addressed as a classification problem,deep learning techniques are widely utilized in modern RFFI systems for their outstanding performance.RFFI is suitable for securing the legacy existing Internet of Things(IoT)networks since it does not require any modifications to the existing end-node hardware and communication protocols.However,most deep learning-based RFFI systems require the collection of a great number of labelled signals for training,which is time-consuming and not ideal,especially for the Io T end nodes that are already deployed and configured with long transmission intervals.Moreover,the long time required to train a neural network from scratch also limits rapid deployment on legacy Io T networks.To address the above issues,two transferable RFFI protocols are proposed in this paper leveraging the concept of transfer learning.More specifically,they rely on fine-tuning and distance metric learning,respectively,and only require only a small amount of signals from the legacy IoT network.As the dataset used for transfer is small,we propose to apply augmentation in the transfer process to generate more training signals to improve performance.A Lo Ra-RFFI testbed consisting of 40 commercial-off-the-shelf(COTS)Lo Ra IoT devices and a software-defined radio(SDR)receiver is built to experimentally evaluate the proposed approaches.The experimental results demonstrate that both the fine-tuning and distance metric learning-based RFFI approaches can be rapidly transferred to another Io T network with less than ten signals from each Lo Ra device.The classification accuracy is over 90%,and the augmentation technique can improve the accuracy by up to 20%.
基金Supported by A Program from Clinical Projects of Ministry of Health of China (2007) and Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province
文摘AIM: To classify the histological severity of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection-associated gastritis by confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE). METHODS: Patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms or individuals who were screened for gastric cancer were enrolled in this study. Histological severity of H. pylori infection-associated gastritis was graded according to the established CLE criteria. Diagnostic value of CLE for histo-logical gastritis was investigated and compared with that of white light endoscopy (WLE). Targeted biopsies from the sites observed by CLE were performed. RESULTS: A total of 118 consecutive patients with H. pylori infection-associated gastritis were enrolled in this study. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showedthat the sensitivity and specifi city of CLE were 82.9% and 90.9% for the diagnosis of H. pylori infection, 94.6% and 97.4% for predicting gastric normal mucosa, 98.5% and 94.6% for predicting histological active inflammation, 92.9% and 95.2% for predicting glan-dular atrophy, 98.6% and 100% for diagnosing intes-tinal metaplasia, respectively. Post-CLE image analysis showed that goblet cells and absorptive cells were the two most common parameters on the CLE-diagnosed intestinal metaplasia (IM) images (P < 0.001). More his-tological lesions of the stomach could be found by CLE than by WLE (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: CLE can accurately show the histological severity of H. pylori infection-associated gastritis. Mapping IM by CLE has a rather good diagnostic accuracy.
文摘目的:对HL60细胞在NSC67657作用下向单核系分化前后,双向电泳分离的表达差异蛋白β-catenin相关蛋白1(Beta-catenin-interacting protein 1,ICAT)进行验证,并对ICAT在细胞分化中的功能进行研究.方法:通过RT-PCR和Western blot方法验证药物作用细胞前后ICAT基因和蛋白的表达差异;通过免疫荧光协同分析目的蛋白的表达水平,并对其进行初步定位.构建pDsRed-ICAT真核表达载体,转染HL60细胞,筛选阳性克隆.对ICAT基因重组质粒转染细胞作细胞形态学、细胞增殖改变的观察和细胞周期检测以及超微结构观察.结果:NSC67657诱导HL60细胞向单核系分化,ICAT蛋白表达上调,其主要定位于细胞核和胞质.真核表达载体构建成功,电转后G418筛选可得90%以上阳性克隆.转染重组质粒的HL60细胞增殖受抑,电镜下胞核异染色质密集,核质比减小,表面抗原CD14表达和对照组无差异,但在药物处理后24h即可表达71.3%,明显高于对照组,瑞氏染色可见明显分化细胞.结论:ICAT蛋白在NSC67657诱导HL60细胞分化中表达上调,但仅是过表达的ICAT基因并不能诱导HL60细胞向单核系分化,却能提高HL60细胞对NSC67657诱导作用的敏感性.