44 research outputs found
Understanding the Role of Anisotropy on the Optoelectronic and Colloidal Properties of Quantum Rods for Programmable Self-Assembly with DNA Origami
Semiconductor nanocrystals, like quantum dots (QDs) and quantum rods (QRs), have tunable optoelectronic properties that depend on their composition, size and asymmetry. A small change in size or aspect ratio can lead to measurable changes in optical absorption and photoluminescence emission energies, as well as varied degrees of polarized optical behaviors at those energies. My dissertation research focuses on investigating the role of anisotropy on the optoelectronic and colloidal properties of quantum rods, as well as using DNA-mediated self-assembly to align these quantum rods on DNA origami for energy transfer applications in biocompatible systems. First, CdSe of systematically varied aspect ratios and emission colors, as well as core/shell CdSe/CdS of different microstructures were synthesized and characterized. Next, the surface ligand chemistry of these nanocrystals with increasing aspect ratios was investigated. Specifically, the binding strength and surface coverage of phosphonic acid capping ligand was studied using a series of solution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) techniques, including the traditional one-dimensional 1H, as well as the more advanced two-dimensional diffusion ordered spectroscopy (DOSY) and relaxation ordered spectroscopy (ROSY). My work revealed that as the aspect ratio increases, thereâs a transition of ligand binding from a tightly bound and close-packed monolayer model to a sparse, weakly bound, flat and wrapping system. To harness the unique anisotropic optical properties of these QRs in DNA-mediated assemblies, I modified their surface with both lipoic acid-appended zwitterion (LA-ZW) ligands using a photo-ligation route, and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) using a protection-deprotection strategy. The resulted rods had good colloidal stabilities with the optical properties well-preserved in aqueous environments. Lastly, the functionalized QRs were assembled on DNA origami substrate in pre-designated patterns based on the design of capture strand arrays on DNA origami. As the QRs had different emission colors and were assembled into different QR-binding zones on origami with controlled orientations and distances. The morphologies and the optical characteristics of the assemblies were explored in light of potential Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) gains
Enhancing Sentiment Analysis Results through Outlier Detection Optimization
When dealing with text data containing subjective labels like speaker
emotions, inaccuracies or discrepancies among labelers are not uncommon. Such
discrepancies can significantly affect the performance of machine learning
algorithms. This study investigates the potential of identifying and addressing
outliers in text data with subjective labels, aiming to enhance classification
outcomes. We utilized the Deep SVDD algorithm, a one-class classification
method, to detect outliers in nine text-based emotion and sentiment analysis
datasets. By employing both a small-sized language model (DistilBERT base model
with 66 million parameters) and non-deep learning machine learning algorithms
(decision tree, KNN, Logistic Regression, and LDA) as the classifier, our
findings suggest that the removal of outliers can lead to enhanced results in
most cases. Additionally, as outliers in such datasets are not necessarily
unlearnable, we experienced utilizing a large language model -- DeBERTa v3
large with 131 million parameters, which can capture very complex patterns in
data. We continued to observe performance enhancements across multiple
datasets.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Prompt to GPT-3: Step-by-Step Thinking Instructions for Humor Generation
Artificial intelligence has made significant progress in natural language
processing, with models like GPT-3 demonstrating impressive capabilities.
However, these models still have limitations when it comes to complex tasks
that require an understanding of the user, such as mastering human comedy
writing strategies. This paper explores humor generation using GPT-3 by
modeling human comedy writing theory and leveraging step-by-step thinking
instructions. In addition, we explore the role of cognitive distance in
creating humor.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure; ICCC '23 preprin
NIST Interlaboratory Study on Glycosylation Analysis of Monoclonal Antibodies: Comparison of Results from Diverse Analytical Methods
Glycosylation is a topic of intense current interest in the
development of biopharmaceuticals because it is related
to drug safety and efficacy. This work describes results of
an interlaboratory study on the glycosylation of the Primary
Sample (PS) of NISTmAb, a monoclonal antibody
reference material. Seventy-six laboratories from industry,
university, research, government, and hospital sectors
in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia submit-
Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993; 22Glycoscience Research Laboratory, Genos, Borongajska cesta 83h, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia;
23Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, A. KovacË icÂŽ a 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia; 24Department of Chemistry, Georgia
State University, 100 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia 30303; 25glyXera GmbH, Brenneckestrasse 20 * ZENIT / 39120 Magdeburg, Germany;
26Health Products and Foods Branch, Health Canada, AL 2201E, 251 Sir Frederick Banting Driveway, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K9 Canada;
27Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama Higashi-Hiroshima 739â8530 Japan; 28ImmunoGen,
830 Winter Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451; 29Department of Medical Physiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College,
ul. Michalowskiego 12, 31â126 Krakow, Poland; 30Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, 400 N. Broadway Street Baltimore,
Maryland 21287; 31Mass Spec Core Facility, KBI Biopharma, 1101 Hamlin Road Durham, North Carolina 27704; 32Division of Mass
Spectrometry, Korea Basic Science Institute, 162 YeonGuDanji-Ro, Ochang-eup, Cheongwon-gu, Cheongju Chungbuk, 363â883 Korea
(South); 33Advanced Therapy Products Research Division, Korea National Institute of Food and Drug Safety, 187 Osongsaengmyeong 2-ro
Osong-eup, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, 363â700, Korea (South); 34Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden
University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; 35Ludger Limited, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon,
Oxfordshire, OX14 3EB, United Kingdom; 36Biomolecular Discovery and Design Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale
BioPhotonics (CNBP), Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia; 37Proteomics, Central European Institute for Technology, Masaryk
University, Kamenice 5, A26, 625 00 BRNO, Czech Republic; 38Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstrasse
1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany; 39Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14424
Potsdam, Germany; 40AstraZeneca, Granta Park, Cambridgeshire, CB21 6GH United Kingdom; 41Merck, 2015 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth,
New Jersey 07033; 42Analytical R&D, MilliporeSigma, 2909 Laclede Ave. St. Louis, Missouri 63103; 43MS Bioworks, LLC, 3950 Varsity Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108; 44MSD, Molenstraat 110, 5342 CC Oss, The Netherlands; 45Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living
Systems (ExCELLS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5â1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444â8787 Japan; 46Graduate School of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, 3â1 Tanabe-dori, Mizuhoku, Nagoya 467â8603 Japan; 47Medical & Biological Laboratories
Co., Ltd, 2-22-8 Chikusa, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464â0858 Japan; 48National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Blanche Lane, South
Mimms, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 3QG United Kingdom; 49Division of Biological Chemistry & Biologicals, National Institute of Health
Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158â8501 Japan; 50New England Biolabs, Inc., 240 County Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts
01938; 51New York University, 100 Washington Square East New York City, New York 10003; 52Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department
of Medicine, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, United Kingdom; 53GlycoScience Group, The National Institute for
Bioprocessing Research and Training, Fosters Avenue, Mount Merrion, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland; 54Department of Chemistry, North
Carolina State University, 2620 Yarborough Drive Raleigh, North Carolina 27695; 55Pantheon, 201 College Road East Princeton, New Jersey
08540; 56Pfizer Inc., 1 Burtt Road Andover, Massachusetts 01810; 57Proteodynamics, ZI La Varenne 20â22 rue Henri et Gilberte Goudier 63200
RIOM, France; 58ProZyme, Inc., 3832 Bay Center Place Hayward, California 94545; 59Koichi Tanaka Mass Spectrometry Research Laboratory,
Shimadzu Corporation, 1 Nishinokyo Kuwabara-cho Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604 8511 Japan; 60Childrenâs GMP LLC, St. Jude Childrenâs
Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place Memphis, Tennessee 38105; 61Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., 1â5 Muromati 1-Chome, Nishiku,
Kobe, 651â2241 Japan; 62Synthon Biopharmaceuticals, Microweg 22 P.O. Box 7071, 6503 GN Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 63Takeda
Pharmaceuticals International Co., 40 Landsdowne Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139; 64Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Texas Tech University, 2500 Broadway, Lubbock, Texas 79409; 65Thermo Fisher Scientific, 1214 Oakmead Parkway Sunnyvale, California
94085; 66United States Pharmacopeia India Pvt. Ltd. IKP Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Shamirpet, Turkapally Village, Medchal District,
Hyderabad 500 101 Telangana, India; 67Alberta Glycomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2 Canada; 68Department
of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2 Canada; 69Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Ave,
Davis, California 95616; 70HorvaÂŽ th Csaba Memorial Laboratory for Bioseparation Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Doctoral
School of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Egyetem ter 1, Hungary; 71Translational Glycomics
Research Group, Research Institute of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering, University of Pannonia, Veszprem, Egyetem ut 10, Hungary;
72Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, 15 Innovation Way Newark, Delaware 19711; 73Proteomics Core Facility, University
of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 1G SE 41390 Gothenburg, Sweden; 74Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of
Gothenburg, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Medicinaregatan 9A, Box 440, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden; 75Department of
Clinical Chemistry and Transfusion Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Bruna Straket 16, 41345 Gothenburg,
Sweden; 76Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Martin Luther King Pl. 6 20146 Hamburg, Germany; 77Department of Chemistry,
University of Manitoba, 144 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2; 78Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry of Interactions and
Systems, University of Strasbourg, UMR Unistra-CNRS 7140, France; 79Natural and Medical Sciences Institute, University of Tuš bingen,
Markwiesenstrae 55, 72770 Reutlingen, Germany; 80Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands; 81Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Amsterdam Institute for
Molecules, Medicines and Systems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 82Department
of Chemistry, Waters Corporation, 34 Maple Street Milford, Massachusetts 01757; 83Zoetis, 333 Portage St. Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007
Authorâs ChoiceâFinal version open access under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license.
Received July 24, 2019, and in revised form, August 26, 2019
Published, MCP Papers in Press, October 7, 2019, DOI 10.1074/mcp.RA119.001677
ER: NISTmAb Glycosylation Interlaboratory Study
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ted a total of 103 reports on glycan distributions. The
principal objective of this study was to report and compare
results for the full range of analytical methods presently
used in the glycosylation analysis of mAbs. Therefore,
participation was unrestricted, with laboratories
choosing their own measurement techniques. Protein glycosylation
was determined in various ways, including at
the level of intact mAb, protein fragments, glycopeptides,
or released glycans, using a wide variety of methods for
derivatization, separation, identification, and quantification.
Consequently, the diversity of results was enormous,
with the number of glycan compositions identified by
each laboratory ranging from 4 to 48. In total, one hundred
sixteen glycan compositions were reported, of which 57
compositions could be assigned consensus abundance
values. These consensus medians provide communityderived
values for NISTmAb PS. Agreement with the consensus
medians did not depend on the specific method or
laboratory type. The study provides a view of the current
state-of-the-art for biologic glycosylation measurement
and suggests a clear need for harmonization of glycosylation
analysis methods. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
19: 11â30, 2020. DOI: 10.1074/mcp.RA119.001677.L
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Comparison of hyperdry amniotic membrane transplantation and conjunctival autografting for primary pterygium
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Dynamic Inverse Design of Broadband Metasurfaces with Synthetical Neural Networks
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