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Tytuł:
MGF360-12L of ASFV-SY18 is an immune-evasion protein that inhibits host type I IFN, NF-κB, and JAK/STAT pathways
Autorzy:
Chen, Q.
Wang, X.X.
Jiang, S.W.
Gao, X.T.
Huang, S.Y.
Liang, Y.
Jia, H.
Zhu, H.F.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/16647496.pdf
Data publikacji:
2023
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Czasopisma i Monografie PAN
Tematy:
African swine fever virus
MGF360-12L
type I IFN
NF-κB
JAK/STAT
Opis:
African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes feverous and hemorrhagic disease of domestic pigs and European wild boars with high mortality, yet no commercial vaccine is currently available. Several ASFV strains with natural deletion or gene-targeted knockout of multiple MGF360 and MGF505 genes are attenuated in vitro and in vivo, and can offer full protection against homologous challenge. However, the mechanisms underlying the protection are not fully understood. This study aims to investigate the effects of MGF360-12L of ASFV-SY18 on the cGAS-STING signaling pathway and explore the potential mechanisms. We identified that ASFV-SY18 MGF360-12L could inhibit cGAS-STING, TBK1, or IRF3-5D-stimulated IFN-β expression and ISRE activation. Specifically, MGF360-12L inhibits both the activation of PRD(III-I) in a dose-dependent manner, and suppresses the exogenous expression of TBK1 and IRF3-5D. MGF360-12L could block NF-κB activation induced by overexpression of cGAS-STING, TBK1, IKKβ. Downstream of the IFN-β signaling, MGF360-12L blocks the ISRE promoter activation by reducing total protein level of IRF9. Moreover, MGF360-12L protein can inhibit IFN-β-mediated antiviral effects. In conclusion, our findings suggest that MGF360-12L is a multifunctional immune-evasion protein that inhibits both the expression and effect of IFN-β, which could partially explain the attenuation of relevant gene-deleted ASFV strains, and shed light on the development of efficient ASFV live attenuated vaccines in the future.
Źródło:
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences; 2023, 26, 1; 119-130
1505-1773
Pojawia się w:
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Effects of organic supplementation to reduced rates of chemical fertilization on soil fertility of Zanthoxylum armatum
Autorzy:
Saba, T.
Liu, W.
Wang, J.
Saleem, F.
Kang, X.
Hui, W.
Gong, W.
Li, H.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2130175.pdf
Data publikacji:
2022
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Dendrologii PAN
Tematy:
fertilization
soil fertility
nutrient availability
organic manure
culturable microbes
Opis:
Soil acidification, fertility depletion, food insecurity, and environmental pollution all are consequences of the extensive use of chemical fertilizers (CF) in intensively managed plantations. Recent studies have shown that incorporating organic manure (OM) to partially replace CF can help to maintain productivity and soil health. There are no reports on integrated fertilizer management of Zanthoxylum armatum, for optimal ecological services and economic profitability. A pot experiment with Z. armatum was performed to investigate the possibility of incorporating OM in reducing CF use, enhancing soil fertility, and increasing plant growth. For this, seven treatments were designed: NPK, PK, NP, NK, OM, MNPK (50%NPK+50%OM), and control (CK, no fertilizer application). The results showed that NPK application significantly (P < 0.05) increased plant growth, soil nitrate-N, ammonium-N and available K compared to CK. However conventional CF application induced soil acidification. OM application raised the soil pH from 5.50 (CK) to 6.58 and significantly enhanced soil fertility by increasing alkali-hydrolysable N (2.3 times), ammonium-N (1.4 times), available P (4.3 times), the activity of invertase (1.5 times), catalase (2.8 times), acid phosphatase (1.5 times), and count of soil culturable microbes (2.9 times) compared to CK. Conversely, sole OM application did not result in optimum plant growth. Integrating OM with NPK (MNPK), on the other hand, not only provided the highest growth comprehensive value (0.84), but also substantially higher soil fertility comprehensive value (0.71) than traditional CF treatments. Correlation analysis also indicated a positive and significant correlation between soil microbes, enzyme activities and available nutrients. Therefore, OM+NPK could be an optimum measure to get maximum benefits regarding soil fertility, growth of Z. armatum, fertilizer savings and sustainable agroecology.
Źródło:
Dendrobiology; 2022, 87; 123-136
1641-1307
Pojawia się w:
Dendrobiology
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Rapid screening of monoclonal antibodies against porcine circovirus type 2 using colloidal gold-based paper test
Autorzy:
Jin, Q.Y.
Feng, L.L.
Wang, Y.B.
Li, P.
Yang, J.F.
Teng, M.
Chai, S.J.
Xing, G.X.
Zhang, G.P.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/16539073.pdf
Data publikacji:
2022
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Czasopisma i Monografie PAN
Tematy:
porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2)
screening of MAbs
paper test
Opis:
A proof of concept for using paper test as a suitable method in the production of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) is reported. The paper test which detects antibodies against porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) using colloidal gold-labelled capsid protein as the antigen probe was applied exclusively in the screening of anti-PCV2 MAbs. It allowed the detection of 118 single cell clones within 30 min using naked eyes. MAbs with specific binding to authentic epitopes on the virus were selected using a blocking strategy in which the antibody was pre-incubated with PCV2 viral sample before applying to the test paper. Five hybridomas secreting MAbs against the capsid protein were obtained, with only three of them capable of binding to PCV2. The results were validated and confirmed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunofluorescence assay. The paper test is simple, rapid, and independent on professional technicians and proves to be an excellent approach for the screening of MAbs against specific targets.
Źródło:
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences; 2022, 25, 1; 27-34
1505-1773
Pojawia się w:
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Antibacterial spectrum of four compounds from yeasts in koumiss
Autorzy:
Chen, Y.J.
Du, C.G.
Guo, Y.Q.
Zhao, Y.F.
Aorigele, C.
Wang, C.J.
Simujide, H.
Aqima, W.
Zhang, X.Y.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2087160.pdf
Data publikacji:
2021
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
Tematy:
Kluyveromyces marxianus
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Escherichia coli
minimum inhibition concentration
minimum bactericidal concentration
Źródło:
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences; 2021, 24, 2; 167-173
1505-1773
Pojawia się w:
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
The Bending, Impact Fracture Behavior and Characteristics of Stainless Steel Clad Plates with Different Rolling Temperature
Autorzy:
An, Q.
Fan, K. Y.
Ge, Y. F.
Liu, B. X.
He, J.
Wang, S.
Chen, C. X.
Ji, P. G.
Tolochko, O.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2049433.pdf
Data publikacji:
2021
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
Tematy:
stainless steel clad plate
interface characteristics
bending behavior
impact morphologies
delamination crack
Opis:
The interface characteristics, bending and impact behavior, as well as fracture characteristics of stainless steel clad plates fabricated by vacuum hot rolling at different rolling temperatures of 1100°C, 1200°C and 1300°C are investigated in detail. The interface bonding strength is gradually increased with the increasing rolling temperature due to the sufficient diffusion behavior of alloy element. The bending toughness and impact toughness are gradually decreased, while the bending strength increase with the increase of the rolling temperature, which is attributed to mechanisms of matrix softening and interface strengthening at high rolling temperature. Due to the weak interface at 1100°C, the bending and impact crack propagation path was displaced by delamination cracks, which in turn lead to reduction in stress intensity of the main crack, playing an effective role in toughening the stainless steel clad plates. Moreover, the impact fracture morphologies of clad plates show a typical ductile-brittle transition phenomenon, which is attributed to the matrix softening behavior with the increasing rolling temperature.
Źródło:
Archives of Metallurgy and Materials; 2021, 66, 1; 229-239
1733-3490
Pojawia się w:
Archives of Metallurgy and Materials
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
n-sided polygonal hybrid finite elements involving element boundary integrals only for anisotropic thermal analysis
Autorzy:
Cao, R. F.
Zhao, X. J.
Lin, W. Q.
Wang, H.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/38597074.pdf
Data publikacji:
2020
Wydawca:
Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN
Tematy:
hybrid finite element
polygon
non-conforming mesh
fundamental solution
anisotropic material
heat conduction
Opis:
As a combination of the traditional finite element method and boundary element method, the n-sided polygonal hybrid finite element method with fundamental solution kernels, named as HFS-FEM, is thoroughly studied in this work for two-dimensional heat conduction in fully anisotropic media. In this approach, the unknown temperature field within the polygon is represented by the linear combination of anisotropic fundamental solutions of problem to achieve the local satisfaction of the related governing equations, but not the specific boundary conditions and the continuity conditions across the element boundary. To tackle such a shortcoming, the frame temperature field is independently defined on the entire boundary of the polygonal element by means of the conventional one-dimensional shape function interpolation. Subsequently, by the hybrid functional with the assumed intra- and inter-element temperature fields, the stiffness equation can be obtained including the line integrals along the element boundary only, whose dimension is reduced by one compared to the domain integrals in the traditional finite elements. This means that the higher computing efficiency is expected. Moreover, any shaped polygonal elements can be constructed in a unified form with the same fundamental solution kernels, including convex and non-convex polygonal elements, to provide greater flexibility in meshing effort for complex geometries. Besides, the element boundary integrals endow the method higher versatility with a non-conforming mesh in the pre-processing stage of the analysis over the traditional FEM. No modification to the HFS-FEM formulation is needed for the non-conforming mesh and the element containing hanging nodes is treated normally as the one with more nodes. Finally, the accuracy, convergence, computing efficiency, stability of non-convex element, and straightforward treatment of non-conforming discretization are discussed for the present n-sided polygonal hybrid finite elements by a few applications in the context of anisotropic heat conduction.
Źródło:
Archives of Mechanics; 2020, 72, 2; 109-137
0373-2029
Pojawia się w:
Archives of Mechanics
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Assessing soil environmental capacity on different land uses in a suburban area of Chengdu, China
Autorzy:
Yang, W.-L.
Zhou, W.-Y.
Wan, W.-X.
Gou, S.-Z.
Zhang, J.
Deng, S.-H.
Shen, F.
Wang, Y.-J.
Yang, H.
Luo, L.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/207670.pdf
Data publikacji:
2019
Wydawca:
Politechnika Wrocławska. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej
Tematy:
China
soil pollution
heavy metals
soil
vegetables
Chiny
zanieczyszczenie gleby
metale ciężkie
gleba
warzywa
Opis:
Wenjiang (China) is the area which undertakes high-intensity planting activities. Additionally, the soil environmental capacity has been a hot area of research as it plays a key role in environmental protection planning, environmental impact assessment and sustainable development. In this paper, the static model of soil environmental capacity is employed to investigate the distribution of residual soil environmental capacity in Wenjiang. The results show that the soil environmental capacity of mercury is the largest for industrial land while it is the lowest in garlic-rice planting areas; the soil environmental capacity of arsenic is the largest in city construction land while it is the lowest in ecological conservation zone; the soil environmental capacity of lead is the largest in city construction land while it is the lowest in garlic-rice planting areas; and the soil environmental capacity of chromium is the largest in city construction land while it is the lowest in garlic-rice planting areas.
Źródło:
Environment Protection Engineering; 2019, 45, 2; 55-67
0324-8828
Pojawia się w:
Environment Protection Engineering
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Catalytic oxidation of lignin to aromatics over salen-porphyrin complex as a biomimetic catalyst
Autorzy:
Lu, X.-J.
Zhou, X.-F.
Zhu, Z.-L.
Sun, Y.
Tang, K.
Lei, F.-H.
Liu, Z.-G.
Wang, T.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/52771.pdf
Data publikacji:
2019
Wydawca:
Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz - Instytut Technologii Drewna
Źródło:
Drewno. Prace Naukowe. Doniesienia. Komunikaty; 2019, 62, 203
1644-3985
Pojawia się w:
Drewno. Prace Naukowe. Doniesienia. Komunikaty
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Isolation and sequence analysis of the complete VP2 gene of canine parvovirus from Chinese domestic pets and determination of the pathogenesis of these circulating strains in beagles
Autorzy:
Chen, M.R.
Guo, X.Y.
Wang, Z.Y.
Jiang, Y.T.
Yuan, W.F.
Xin, T.
Hou, S.H.
Song, T.Q.
Lin, W.D.
Zhu, H.F.
Jia, H.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2087542.pdf
Data publikacji:
2019
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
Tematy:
canine parvovirus
molecular epidemiology
phylogenetic analysis
pathogenesis
Źródło:
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences; 2019, 2; 287-296
1505-1773
Pojawia się w:
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Quantitative processing of situation awareness for autonomous ships navigation
Autorzy:
Zhou, X. Y.
Liu, Z. J.
Wu, Z. L.
Wang, F. W.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/117424.pdf
Data publikacji:
2019
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Morski w Gdyni. Wydział Nawigacyjny
Tematy:
autonomous vessel
autonomous ship
autonomous ships navigation
situation awareness (SA)
quantitative processing
navigation safety
remotely controlled vessel
maritime unmanned navigation through intelligence in networks (MUNIN)
Opis:
The first ever attempt at fully autonomous dock-to-dock operation has been tested and demonstrated successfully at the end of 2018. The revolutionary shift is feared to have a negative impact on the safety of navigation and the getting of real-time situation awareness. Especially, the centralized context onboard could be changed to a distributed context. In navigation safety domain, monitoring, control, assessment of dangerous situations, support of operators of decision-making support system should be implemented in real time. In the context of autonomous ships, decision-making processes will play an important role under such ocean autonomy, therefore the same technologies should consist of adequate system intelligence. At the same time, situation awareness is the key element of the decision-making processes. Although there is substantial research on situation awareness measurement techniques, they are not suitable to directly execute quantitative processing for the situation awareness of autonomous ships navigation. Hence, a novel quantitative model of situation awareness is firstly proposed based on the system safety control structure of remotely controlled vessel. The data source is greatly limited, but the main result still indicates that the probability of operator lose adequate situation awareness of the autonomous ship is significantly higher than the conventional ship. Finally, the paper provides a probabilistic theory and model for high-level abstractions of situation awareness to guide future evaluation of the navigation safety of autonomous ships.
Źródło:
TransNav : International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation; 2019, 13, 1; 25-31
2083-6473
2083-6481
Pojawia się w:
TransNav : International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Ship recognition and tracking system for intelligent ship based on deep learning framework
Autorzy:
Liu, B.
Wang, S. Z.
Xie, Z. X.
Zhao, J. S.
Li, M. F.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/117419.pdf
Data publikacji:
2019
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Morski w Gdyni. Wydział Nawigacyjny
Tematy:
intelligent ship
deep learning framework
ship recognition system
ship tracking system
ship recognition and tracking system
intelligent navigation
autonomous ship
maritime safety
Opis:
Automatically recognizing and tracking dynamic targets on the sea is an important task for intelligent navigation, which is the prerequisite and foundation of the realization of autonomous ships. Nowadays, the radar is a typical perception system which is used to detect targets, but the radar echo cannot depict the target’s shape and appearance, which affects the decision-making ability of the ship collision avoidance. Therefore, visual perception system based on camera video is very useful for further supporting the autonomous ship navigational system. However, ship’s recognition and tracking has been a challenge task in the navigational application field due to the long distance detection and the ship itself motion. An effective and stable approach is required to resolve this problem. In this paper, a novel ship recognition and tracking system is proposed by using the deep learning framework. In this framework, the deep residual network and cross-layer jump connection policy are employed to extract the advanced ship features which help enhance the classification accuracy, thus improves the performance of the object recognition. Experimentally, the superiority of the proposed ship recognition and tracking system was confirmed by comparing it with state of-the-art algorithms on a large number of ship video datasets.
Źródło:
TransNav : International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation; 2019, 13, 4; 699-705
2083-6473
2083-6481
Pojawia się w:
TransNav : International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Trophic connectivity between intertidal and offshore food webs in Mirs Bay, China
Autorzy:
Ning, J.
Du, F.
Wang, X.
Wang, L.
Li, Y.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/47613.pdf
Data publikacji:
2019
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Oceanologii PAN
Tematy:
intertidal zonation
offshore zone
food web
different habitat
trophic interaction
stable isotope
carbon isotope composition
Mirs Bay
China
Źródło:
Oceanologia; 2019, 61, 2
0078-3234
Pojawia się w:
Oceanologia
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
A novel DOPO-g-KH550 modification wood fibers and its effects on the properties of composite phenolic foams
Autorzy:
Ma, Y.
Geng, X.
Zhang, X.
Wang, C.
Chu, F.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/949373.pdf
Data publikacji:
2018
Wydawca:
Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie. Wydawnictwo Uczelniane ZUT w Szczecinie
Tematy:
DOPO
Wood Fiber
Γ-amino propyl triethoxy silane
Composites
Characterization
Opis:
A novel 9, 10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide (DOPO) graft γ-amino propyl triethoxy silane (KH550) was synthesized and introduced on the surface of wood fi ber. Finally DOPO-g-KH550 treated wood fi ber (DKTWF) was used to prepare DKTWF composite phenolic foams (DKTWFCPF). The structures of DOPO-g- KH550 was acknowledged by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (1 H-NMR). The structures of DKTWF were confirmed by FT-IR. Compared with wood fi ber, the diffraction peaks’ position was basically unchanged, but the crystallinity was slightly increased and thermal stability were dramatically improved, T5%  and Tmax  increased by 21.9° and 36.1° respectively. But the char yield (800°) was slightly reduced. With the dosage of DKWF, there were different degrees of improvement including the mechanical properties, flame retardancy and microstructure of DKTWFCPF. Comprehensive analysis, the interfacial compatibility was signifi cantly improved between DKTWF and phenolic resin, and the suitable content of DKTWF was 4%.
Źródło:
Polish Journal of Chemical Technology; 2018, 20, 2; 47-53
1509-8117
1899-4741
Pojawia się w:
Polish Journal of Chemical Technology
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
A polarization filter at 1550 nm based on photonic crystal fiber with symmetry around gold-coated holes
Autorzy:
Zha, F.
Li, J.
Sun, P.
Wang, X.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/173897.pdf
Data publikacji:
2018
Wydawca:
Politechnika Wrocławska. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej
Tematy:
photonic crystal fiber
polarization filter
finite element method
surface plasmon resonance
Opis:
A polarization photonic crystal fiber based on surface plasmon resonance is proposed in this paper. The photonic crystal fiber with gold coated holes is studied through using the finite element method. The impacts of structural parameters on the resonance characteristics are discussed. Numerical simulations show that the resonance wavelength can be modulated by changing the parameters of the air holes and thickness of gold layer. At the resonance wavelength 1550 nm, the loss is 3.8045 dB/m in x-polarization and the loss is 28464 dB/m in y-polarization by adjusting the size of the gold-coated holes and the place of air holes. Results show that the loss of y-polarized mode is much larger than the loss of x-polarized mode. The y-polarized mode is suppressed, and only x-polarized mode can be guided at the resonance wavelength of y-polarized mode. The results indicate that the mode polarized in one direction can be filtered out selectively by adjusting the diameter of air holes, and the filtering effect in a communication band is achieved.
Źródło:
Optica Applicata; 2018, 48, 4; 609-620
0078-5466
1899-7015
Pojawia się w:
Optica Applicata
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
A Visual Detection Method of Longitudinal Crack Based on Computer Image Processing During Slab Continuous Casting
Autorzy:
Liu, Y.
Wang, X.
Sun, Y.
Du, F.
Gao, Y.
Wang, F.
Wang, J.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/351636.pdf
Data publikacji:
2018
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
Tematy:
longitudinal crack
visual detection
image processing
continuous casting
Opis:
Based on the mould temperature measured by thermocouples during slab continuous casting, a difference of temperature thermograph is developed to detect slab cracks. In order to detect abnormal temperature region caused by longitudinal crack, the suspicious regions are extracted and divided by virtue of computer image processing algorithms, such as threshold segmentation, connected region judgement and boundary tracing. The abnormal regions are then determined and labeled with the eight connected component labeling algorithm. The boundary of abnormal region is also extracted to depict characteristics of longitudinal crack. Based on above researches, longitudinal crack with abnormal temperature region can be detected and is different from other abnormalities. Four samples of temperature drop are picked up to compare with longitudinal crack on the abnormal region formation, length, width, shape, et al. The results show that the abnormal region caused by longitudinal crack has a linear and vertical shape. The height of abnormal region is more than the width obviously. The ratio of height to width is usually larger than that of other temperature drop regions. This method provides a visual and easy way to detect longitudinal crack and other abnormities. Meanwhile it has a positive meaning to the intelligent and visual mould monitoring system of continuous casting.
Źródło:
Archives of Metallurgy and Materials; 2018, 63, 2; 673-680
1733-3490
Pojawia się w:
Archives of Metallurgy and Materials
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł

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