Peptide secondary structures can be harnessed to design monomers capable of self-assembling into supramolecular polymers in aqueous media. Decorating the surface with immunogenic molecular patterns results in pathogen-mimicking entities and potential vaccine candidates. In the context of antitumor vaccines, the challenge is to overcome self-tolerance mechanisms to enforce an immune response...
The presentation focuses on Generative Image Algorithms based on AI approaches, comparing their performance in various fields such as art, design, entertainment, and many others. By evaluating different models with common prompts, the study aims to assess the quality and realism of generated images. Results indicate that models producing images with greater detail and realism are considered...
This presentation argues that it is important that children develop their scientific skills and scientific thought since early ages. It is also relevant to connect them with nature developing positive attitudes and values towards the environment. In this sense, museums that create educational activities for children under the age of three use different strategies and methodologies to approach...
In this talk, we are partially motivated by the problem of non-convex optimization in Machine Learning and by applications of Morse theory in Data Science. We aim to introduce Poincaré-Reeb graphs. Encoding both quantitative geometrical aspects of the shape and qualitative topological properties, these graphs are meant to measure the non-convexity of a real algebraic plane curve. Our main goal...
The use of biological indicators *biomonitoring) is an alternative method to classical air quality monitoring.
The study aimed to evaluate air pollution in urban areas using active moss biomonitoring. The examples involved the analysis of air pollution by elements and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Experiments were performed during the launching of fireworks on New Year's Eve, the...
Our study proposes a novel and multidisciplinary approach of studying the spatial distribution of insects and spiders in mire habitats. In this approach we used the “traditional” ecological methods which are extensively utilized by ecologists to examine ecological communities, and we coupled these methods with the ones that are rather unfamiliar and quite new to ecologists – the geospatial...
The future of Europe relies on solutions that address both health and economic challenges. With an increasingly health-conscious population and growing concerns about food sustainability, there is a demand for innovative food products that offer both nutritional value and environmental benefits.
Brassica is a key agricultural genus in the Brassicaceae family, which comprises a large number...
Plant-derived nanovesicles (PDNVs) are lipoproteic nanostructures naturally produced by cells involved in intra- and interspecies cell-cell communication. They concentrate and carry a multitude of healthful compounds naturally present in plants, simultaneously protecting them from external degradative and oxidative events; for these reasons, they can lead to phenotypic changes also in...
We study the linear operators on Hilbert spaces having dilations to quasi-isometries. This class of operators that can be dilated to quasi-isometries is exactly the class of operators similar to contractions.
We would like to generalize, from the dilation theory point of view, the study of operators that are isometric with respect to the first-order covariance.We highlight the conditions under which an operator admits a dilation satisfying $S^*\Delta_SS=\Delta_S$, where $\Delta_S$ is a generalized covariance for S.
Otsu's Method is a widely used image segmentation technique designed to automatically determine the optimal threshold for separating objects from the background in a grayscale image. Developed by Nobuyuki Otsu in 1979, this algorithm aims to maximize the inter-class variance between foreground and background pixels while minimizing the intra-class variance within each region. The method...
Background. Ecological succession is one of the basic and important concepts in ecology, yet poorly understood in many aspects, especially when concerning ground-dwelling invertebrates. These organisms are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems and can be a reliable tool for ecological restauration.
Aim. The aim of the current study was to highlight the mechanisms underlying secondary...
