696 research outputs found
Analisis Kualitas Pelayanan Di Balai Penempatan Dan Perlindungan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (Bp3tki) Semarang Provinsi Jawa Tengah
BP3TKI Semarang is one Unit located in Central Java. KTKLN manufacture services have established procedures to obtain KTKLN, satisfaction CTKI / TKI will service KTKLN manufacture can be fulfilled. KTKLN-making services are still not as expected CTKI / workers. This can be seen from several things, among others: the online system used often trobel, queue numbers available does not guarantee CTKI / TKI directly dilayanani. For the waiting room available in BP3TKI also inadequate. Employees are less vigilant attitude, and competent in providing services. This study aims to: 1) How is the quality of service manufacture BP3TKI KTKLN in Semarang? 2) what are the factors that cause the quality of service to less well in the service BP3TKI KTKLN in Semarang? The study states: Quality of Service contained in Semarang BP3TKI less maximal, it is seen in: 1) The procedure was appropriate service standards of service, but the procedure is too long and should be simplified. 2) Suitability period given to the products CTKI / migrant workers in the service KTKLN are in accordance with the needs. However, the card can not be extended, making it less effective and efficient. 3) online monitoring tool can make a solution for the repair or continuous improvement, but because it has not applied to make less good. 4) product in the form of smart card services are free of damage but it is not free from errors in typing, but can be said is good because it rarely happens. 5) The need CTKI / migrant workers in terms of information contained in BP3TKI Semarang has been good, but there is no other information provided there, such as the cost of insurance information, or information about CTKI / other migrant workers. 6) Design services available has been good, but the facilities need to be supported by good physical infrastructure that makes CTKI / TKI feel comfortable. Dimensions cause menajadi poor service quality can be seen below: 1) Facility located in BP3TKI less good, because inadequate. 2) skills possessed by each officer has been good, but needs to be balanced with extensive knowledge. 3) Responsiveness of employees in giving attention to the applicant has been good because in accordance with what is expected by the applicant. 4) Warranty service is good, timeliness of service, and also manufacture KTKLN is free of charge. 5) Empathy care workers is not good, because there are still complaints coming from CTKI / TKI
Protein-ligand binding representation learning from fine-grained interactions
The binding between proteins and ligands plays a crucial role in the realm of
drug discovery. Previous deep learning approaches have shown promising results
over traditional computationally intensive methods, but resulting in poor
generalization due to limited supervised data. In this paper, we propose to
learn protein-ligand binding representation in a self-supervised learning
manner. Different from existing pre-training approaches which treat proteins
and ligands individually, we emphasize to discern the intricate binding
patterns from fine-grained interactions. Specifically, this self-supervised
learning problem is formulated as a prediction of the conclusive binding
complex structure given a pocket and ligand with a Transformer based
interaction module, which naturally emulates the binding process. To ensure the
representation of rich binding information, we introduce two pre-training
tasks, i.e.~atomic pairwise distance map prediction and mask ligand
reconstruction, which comprehensively model the fine-grained interactions from
both structure and feature space. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the
superiority of our method across various binding tasks, including
protein-ligand affinity prediction, virtual screening and protein-ligand
docking
SSIN: Self-Supervised Learning for Rainfall Spatial Interpolation
The acquisition of accurate rainfall distribution in space is an important
task in hydrological analysis and natural disaster pre-warning. However, it is
impossible to install rain gauges on every corner. Spatial interpolation is a
common way to infer rainfall distribution based on available raingauge data.
However, the existing works rely on some unrealistic pre-settings to capture
spatial correlations, which limits their performance in real scenarios. To
tackle this issue, we propose the SSIN, which is a novel data-driven
self-supervised learning framework for rainfall spatial interpolation by mining
latent spatial patterns from historical observation data. Inspired by the Cloze
task and BERT, we fully consider the characteristics of spatial interpolation
and design the SpaFormer model based on the Transformer architecture as the
core of SSIN. Our main idea is: by constructing rich self-supervision signals
via random masking, SpaFormer can learn informative embeddings for raw data and
then adaptively model spatial correlations based on rainfall spatial context.
Extensive experiments on two real-world raingauge datasets show that our method
outperforms the state-of-the-art solutions. In addition, we take traffic
spatial interpolation as another use case to further explore the performance of
our method, and SpaFormer achieves the best performance on one large real-world
traffic dataset, which further confirms the effectiveness and generality of our
method.Comment: SIGMOD 2023 Data-intensive Applications (DIA) Track; Code is
available at https://github.com/jlidw/SSI
Regulatory mechanism of ferroptosis, a new mode of cell death
Ferroptosis is a newly discovered process of cell death that differs from apoptosis, autophagy, and pyroptosis. It is closely related to tumor formation, diseases that damage tissue, and neurodegenerative diseases. Activation of the extracellular regulated protein kinase (EPK) pathway and acylCOA synthetase long-chain family member 4 (ACSL4) are indicative of ferroptosis. During ferroptosis, the mitochondrial volume becomes smaller and the double membrane density increases. The process of ferroptosis involves disruption of the material redox reaction, and changes in the levels of cystine, glutathione, NADPH, and increase of GPX4, NOX, and ROS. Iron increases significantly in ferroptosis. Divalent iron ions can greatly promote lipid oxidation, ROS accumulation, and thus promote ferroptosis. The occurrence and progress of ferroptosis are influenced by multiple factors and signaling pathways.Keywords: Ferroptosis, Iron; Lipid, Active oxygen, Inhibitor, Induce
DrugCLIP: Contrastive Protein-Molecule Representation Learning for Virtual Screening
Virtual screening, which identifies potential drugs from vast compound
databases to bind with a particular protein pocket, is a critical step in
AI-assisted drug discovery. Traditional docking methods are highly
time-consuming, and can only work with a restricted search library in real-life
applications. Recent supervised learning approaches using scoring functions for
binding-affinity prediction, although promising, have not yet surpassed docking
methods due to their strong dependency on limited data with reliable
binding-affinity labels. In this paper, we propose a novel contrastive learning
framework, DrugCLIP, by reformulating virtual screening as a dense retrieval
task and employing contrastive learning to align representations of binding
protein pockets and molecules from a large quantity of pairwise data without
explicit binding-affinity scores. We also introduce a biological-knowledge
inspired data augmentation strategy to learn better protein-molecule
representations. Extensive experiments show that DrugCLIP significantly
outperforms traditional docking and supervised learning methods on diverse
virtual screening benchmarks with highly reduced computation time, especially
in zero-shot setting
A novel pathogenic avipoxvirus infecting oriental turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis) in China shows a high genomic and evolutionary proximity with the pigeon avipoxviruses isolated globally
Avipoxviruses are considered as significant viral pathogen infecting a wide range of domestic and wild bird species globally, yet the majority of avipoxviruses that infect the wild bird species remain uncharacterized and their genetic diversities remain unclear. In this study, we present a novel pathogenic avipoxvirus isolated from the cutaneous pox lesions of a wild oriental turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis), tentatively named as turtle dovepox virus (TDPV). The avipoxvirus was isolated by using the chorioallantoic membranes of specific pathogen-free chicken embryos which showed characteristic focal pock lesions, followed by cytopathic effects in host cells infected with oriental turtle dovepox virus. An effort in sequencing the whole genome of the poxvirus using next-generation sequencing was given, and the first whole genome sequence of TDPV was obtained. The TDPV genome was 281,386 bp in length and contained 380 predicted open reading frames (ORFs). While 336 of the predicted ORFs showed homology to other characterized avipoxviruses, the other 44 ORFs were unique. Subsequent phylogenetic analyses showed that the novel TDPV shared the closest genetic evolutionary linkage with the avipoxviruses isolated from pigeon in South Africa and India, of which the TDPV genome had the highest sequence similarity (92.5%) with South African pigeonpox virus (FeP2). In conclusion, the sequenced TDPV is significantly different from any other avipoxviruses isolated from avian or other natural host species considering genomic architecture and observed sequence similarity index. Thus, it likely should be considered a separate species. IMPORTANCE Over the past few decades, avipoxviruses have been found in a number of wild bird species including the oriental turtle dove. However, there is no whole genome sequence information on avipoxviruses isolated from oriental turtle dove, leaving us unclear about the evolutionary linkage of avipoxviruses in oriental turtle dove and other wild bird species. Thus, we believe that our study makes a significant contribution because it is the first report of the whole genome sequence of TDPV isolated from a wild oriental turtle dove, which enriches the genomic information of the genus Avipoxvirus, furthermore, contributes to tracking the genetic evolution of avipoxviruses-infected oriental turtle dove species
Long Short-Term Memory Projection Recurrent Neural Network Architectures for Piano’s Continuous Note Recognition
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is a kind of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) relating to time series, which has achieved good performance in speech recogniton and image recognition. Long Short-Term Memory Projection (LSTMP) is a variant of LSTM to further optimize speed and performance of LSTM by adding a projection layer. As LSTM and LSTMP have performed well in pattern recognition, in this paper, we combine them with Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) to study piano’s continuous note recognition for robotics. Based on the Beijing Forestry University music library, we conduct experiments to show recognition rates and numbers of iterations of LSTM with a single layer, LSTMP with a single layer, and Deep LSTM (DLSTM, LSTM with multilayers). As a result, the single layer LSTMP proves performing much better than the single layer LSTM in both time and the recognition rate; that is, LSTMP has fewer parameters and therefore reduces the training time, and, moreover, benefiting from the projection layer, LSTMP has better performance, too. The best recognition rate of LSTMP is 99.8%. As for DLSTM, the recognition rate can reach 100% because of the effectiveness of the deep structure, but compared with the single layer LSTMP, DLSTM needs more training time
Global profiling of the proteome, phosphoproteome, and N-glycoproteome of protoscoleces and adult worms of Echinococcus granulosus
IntroductionCystic echinococcosis (CE) is a chronic zoonosis caused by infection with the metacestode of the Echinococcus granulosus. A unique characteristic of E. granulosus protoscolex (PSC) is their ability to develop bidirectionally into an adult worm in the definitive host or a secondary hydatid cyst in the intermediate host. Furthermore, cestodes have a complex life cycle involving different developmental stages; however, the mechanisms underlying this development remain unknown. Several studies have demonstrated that certain matrix proteins undergo posttranslational modifications (PTMs), including phosphorylation and glycosylation, which have important regulatory effects on their functional properties.MethodsSystematic analyses of the proteome, phosphorylated modified proteome, and glycosylated modified proteome of protoscoleces (PSCs) and adult worms were performed using a proteomic strategy. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD043166.ResultsIn total, 6,407 phosphorylation sites and 1757 proteins were quantified. Of these, 2032 phosphorylation sites and 770 proteins were upregulated, and 2,993 phosphorylation sites and 1,217 proteins were downregulated in adult worms compared to PSCs. A total of 612 N-glycosylation sites were identified in the 392 N-glycoproteins. Of these, 355 N-glycosylation sites and 212 N-glycoproteins were quantified. Of these, 90 N-glycosylation sites and 64 N-glycoproteins were upregulated, and 171 N-glycosylation sites and 126 N-glycoproteins were downregulated in adult worms compared to PSCs. GO enrichment analysis indicated that the differentially expressed phosphoproteins were mainly enriched in the regulation of oxidoreduction coenzyme metabolic processes, myelin sheath, and RNA helicase activity, whereas the differentially expressed N-glycoproteins were enriched in the cellular response to unfolded proteins, endoplasmic reticulum lumen, and nucleic acid binding. KEGG enrichment analysis indicated that the differently expressed phosphoproteins were mainly enriched in RNA transport, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, HIF-1 signaling pathway and pyruvate metabolism. Differentially expressed N-glycoproteins were enriched in the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, ECM-receptor interactions, and protein processing in the endoplasmic reticulum.DiscussionTo our knowledge, this study is the first global phosphoproteomic and N-glycoproteomic analysis of E. granulosus, which provides valuable information on the expression characteristics of E. granulosus and provides a new perspective to elucidate the role of protein phosphorylation and N-glycosylation in the development of E. granulosus
The construction of a prognostic model of cervical cancer based on four immune-related LncRNAs and an exploration of the correlations between the model and oxidative stress
Introduction: The immune-related lncRNAs (IRLs) are critical for the development of cervical cancer (CC), but it is still unclear how exactly ILRs contribute to CC. In this study, we aimed to examine the relationship between IRL and CC in detail.Methods: First, the RNAseq data and clinical data of CC patients were collected from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, along with the immune genes from the Import database. We used univariate cox and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (lasso) to obtain IRLs for prediction after screening the variables. According to the expression levels and risk coefficients of IRLs, the riskscore were calculated. We analyzed the relationship between the model and oxidative stress. We stratified the risk model into two as the high and low-risk groups. We also evaluated the survival differences, immune cell differences, immunotherapeutic response differences, and drug sensitivity differences between the risk groups. Finally, the genes in the model were experimentally validated.Results: Based on the above analyses, we further selected four IRLs (TFAP2A.AS1, AP000911.1, AL133215.2, and LINC02078) to construct the risk model. The model was associated with oxidative-stress-related genes, especially SOD2 and OGG1. Patients in the high-risk group had a lower overall survival than those in the low-risk group. Riskscore was positively correlated with resting mast cells, neutrophils, and CD8+ T-cells. Patients in the low-risk group showed a greater sensitivity to immunosuppression therapy. In addition, we found that patients with the PIK3CA mutation were more sensitive to chemotherapeutic agents such as dasatinib, afatinib, dinaciclib and pelitinib. The function of AL133215.2 was verified, which was consistent with previous findings, and AL133215.2 exerted a pro-tumorigenic effect. We also found that AL133215.2 was closely associated with oxidative-stress-related pathways.Discussion: The results suggested that risk modeling might be useful for prognosticating patients with CC and opening up new routes for immunotherapy
Optimization of Extraction Process of Elaeagnus angustifolia Flower Polysaccharide and Its Proliferation on Probiotic
The study aimed to explore the optimal conditions for the extraction of polysaccharide from Elaeagnus angustifolia flower and its effect on probiotic proliferation in vitro. Polysaccharide was extracted from Elaeagnus angustifolia flower using hot water and ultrasonication. The effects of the material-liquid ratio, duration of ultrasonication, extraction time and extraction temperature on the polysaccharide yield were analyzed. The extraction conditions were optimized by response surface methodology, and the effects of different polysaccharide concentrations (0, 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5%, 2.0%, and 3.0%) on the proliferation and acid production of three probiotics were compared. The results showed that the optimal extraction conditions of Elaeagnus angustifolia flower polysaccharide were as follows: Material-liquid ratio, 1:25 g/mL, duration of ultrasonication, 21 min, extraction temperature, 72℃, extraction time, 62 min. The polysaccharide yield was 12.45%±0.15%, which was close to the theoretical predicted yield (12.587%). The highest OD values of Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium bifidum, and Bifidobacterium adolescentis were obtained at a polysaccharide mass concentration of 2%, being 1.23±0.01, 1.06±0.02, and 1.22±0.02, respectively, and the lowest pH values (5.17±0.04, 5.95±0.04, and 5.52±0.02, respectively). The growth of the three probiotics stabilized after the incubation time reached to 40 h. It indicated that Elaeagnus angustifolia flower polysaccharide promoted the proliferation and acid production of three probiotics. These findings indicate the potential of the polysaccharide from Elaeagnus angustifolia flower as a prebiotic and provide a theoretical basis for further research and the utilization of Elaeagnus angustifolia flower resources
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