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  1. Article ; Online: Mechanosensor for Proprioception Inspired by Ultrasensitive Trigger Hairs of Venus Flytrap.

    Wang, Qian / Lu, Zezhong / Wang, Deshan / Wang, Kejun

    Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.)

    2024  Volume 5, Page(s) 65

    Abstract: Mechanosensors, as the core component of a proprioceptive system, can detect many types of mechanical signals in their surroundings, such as force signals, displacement signals, and vibration signals. It is understandable that the development of an all- ... ...

    Abstract Mechanosensors, as the core component of a proprioceptive system, can detect many types of mechanical signals in their surroundings, such as force signals, displacement signals, and vibration signals. It is understandable that the development of an all-new mechanosensory structure that can be widely used is highly desirable. This is because it can markedly improve the detection performance of mechanosensors. Coincidentally, in nature, optimized microscale trigger hairs of Venus flytrap are ingeniously used as a mechanosensory structure. These trigger hairs are utilized for tactile mechanosensilla to efficiently detect external mechanical stimuli. Biological trigger hair-based mechanosensilla offer an all-new bio-inspired strategy. This strategy utilizes the notch structure and variable stiffness to enhance the perceptual performance of mechanosensors. In this study, the structure-performance-application coupling relationship of trigger hair-based mechanosensors is explored through experiment and analysis. An artificial trigger hair-based mechanosensor is developed by mimicking the deformation properties of the Venus flytrap trigger hair. This bio-inspired mechanosensor shows excellent performance in terms of mechanical stability, response time, and sensitivity to mechanical signals.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2692-7632
    ISSN (online) 2692-7632
    DOI 10.34133/cbsystems.0065
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  2. Article ; Online: Underwater single-channel acoustic signal multitarget recognition using convolutional neural networks.

    Sun, Qinggang / Wang, Kejun

    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

    2022  Volume 151, Issue 3, Page(s) 2245

    Abstract: The radiated noise from ships is of great significance to target recognition, and several deep learning methods have been developed for the recognition of underwater acoustic signals. Previous studies have focused on single-target recognition, with ... ...

    Abstract The radiated noise from ships is of great significance to target recognition, and several deep learning methods have been developed for the recognition of underwater acoustic signals. Previous studies have focused on single-target recognition, with relatively few reports on multitarget recognition. This paper proposes a deep learning-based single-channel multitarget underwater acoustic signal recognition method for an unknown number of targets in the specified category. The proposed method allows the two subproblems of recognizing the unique class and duplicate categories of multiple targets to be solved. These two tasks are essentially multilabel binary classification and multilabel multiple value classification, respectively. In this paper, we describe the use of real-valued and complex-valued ResNet and DenseNet convolutional networks to recognize synthetic mixed multitarget signals, which was superimposed from individual target signals. We compare the performance of various features, including the original audio signal, complex-valued short-time Fourier transform (STFT) spectrum, magnitude STFT spectrum, logarithmic mel spectrum, and mel frequency cepstral coefficients. The experimental results show that our method can effectively recognize synthetic multitarget ship signals when the magnitude STFT spectrum, complex-valued STFT spectrum, and log-mel spectrum are used as network inputs.
    MeSH term(s) Acoustics ; Neural Networks, Computer
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 219231-7
    ISSN 1520-8524 ; 0001-4966
    ISSN (online) 1520-8524
    ISSN 0001-4966
    DOI 10.1121/10.0009852
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  3. Article ; Online: A study on the aerodynamic behaviors learned from microscopy imaging of beetle corrugated hindwing.

    Liu, Chao / Chen, Guodong / Wang, Qian / Sun, Lining / Wang, Kejun

    Microscopy research and technique

    2024  

    Abstract: Beetle hindwings have the unique advantages of lightweight and high strength, which play a key role in flight. In this study, the beetle hindwings were cut along the chordal direction, then the first groove microstructure of different vein cross sections ...

    Abstract Beetle hindwings have the unique advantages of lightweight and high strength, which play a key role in flight. In this study, the beetle hindwings were cut along the chordal direction, then the first groove microstructure of different vein cross sections was investigated using the 3D microscope system and the laser scanning confocal microscope. It was found that the position of the first groove relative to the entire chordal cross section of the wing gradually moves backward, which has an effect on the flying aerodynamic behaviors of the beetle. Next, three corrugated airfoils learned from the microscopy imaging of the ladybird beetle hindwing were designed. Then, aerodynamic behaviors were calculated by the ANSYS Fluent software, and it was confirmed that the position of the first groove microstructure affects the aerodynamic performance of the airfoil. For further study, the influence of corrugated structural and motion parameters on the aerodynamic, 2D 'simplified' airfoil models with triangular wave airfoil models (TWA models) was developed and studied. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: The position of the first groove microstructure affects the aerodynamic performance of the airfoil. The pressure difference of different corrugation patterns shows significantly asymmetric during the upstroke and downstroke. The aerodynamic is optimal of 2D-TWA models, when the number of corrugations is five, the corrugation is right angle, and the flapping frequency is 75 Hz.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-26
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1099714-3
    ISSN 1097-0029 ; 1059-910X
    ISSN (online) 1097-0029
    ISSN 1059-910X
    DOI 10.1002/jemt.24562
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  4. Article ; Online: Study on driver's active emergency response in dangerous traffic scenes based on driving simulator.

    Ma, Shuai / Xu, Shucai / Song, Jiafeng / Wang, Kejun / Qin, Haoyi / Wang, Ruixiang

    Traffic injury prevention

    2024  Volume 25, Issue 2, Page(s) 116–121

    Abstract: Objective: A driver's active emergency response in dangerous traffic scenes consists of two parts, including reaction behavior and physiological state. In dangerous traffic scenes, the driver's active emergency response has an important impact on human ... ...

    Abstract Objective: A driver's active emergency response in dangerous traffic scenes consists of two parts, including reaction behavior and physiological state. In dangerous traffic scenes, the driver's active emergency response has an important impact on human collision injury. Clarifying the driver's active emergency response is an important prerequisite for the study of human collision injury under nonstandard posture. Therefore, this study investigates the driver's active emergency response in different inevitable collision scenes using driving simulator.
    Methods: A driving simulator with a high-speed camera system and human physiological signal acquisition system was first built. Then, three typical vehicle dangerous collision scenes were developed, including frontal collision, side collision, and rear-end collision. Finally, twenty participants (15 males and 5 females) were recruited for a driving experiment, and their active emergency responses were recorded and analyzed.
    Results: All subjects would rotate the steering wheel to the left or right in the active emergency state, and the rotation of the hand would also cause the subject's upper body to tilt in the same direction. The maximum angle for male subjects to rotate the steering wheel was 59.98°, while for the female subjects, it was 44.28°. In addition, the maximum grip force between the male subjects and the steering wheel was 280.5 N, compared to 192.5 N for female subjects. Compared to the female participants, the male participants not only have a greater rotation angle and a greater grip force on the steering wheel, but also have greater pressure on the brake pedal, and the foot moves quickly from the accelerator pedal to the brake pedal and presses the brake pedal.
    Conclusions: Drivers have different active emergency responses to different vehicle collision scenes. Quantitative statistics of driver's active emergency response will have important guiding significance for the analysis of the impact of human active emergency response on human injury characteristics in subsequent vehicle collision experiments.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Male ; Female ; Automobile Driving ; Accidents, Traffic/prevention & control ; Reaction Time/physiology ; Lower Extremity/physiology ; Dangerous Behavior
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-02
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2089818-6
    ISSN 1538-957X ; 1538-9588
    ISSN (online) 1538-957X
    ISSN 1538-9588
    DOI 10.1080/15389588.2023.2282948
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  5. Book ; Online: Source Separation of Unknown Numbers of Single-Channel Underwater Acoustic Signals Based on Autoencoders

    Sun, Qinggang / Wang, Kejun

    2022  

    Abstract: The separation of single-channel underwater acoustic signals is a challenging problem with practical significance. In view of the signal separation problem with unknown numbers of signals, we propose a solution with a fixed number of output channels, ... ...

    Abstract The separation of single-channel underwater acoustic signals is a challenging problem with practical significance. In view of the signal separation problem with unknown numbers of signals, we propose a solution with a fixed number of output channels, enabling it to avoid the dimensional disaster caused by the permutation problem induced by the alignment of outputs to targets. Specifically, we modify two algorithms developed for known numbers of signals based on autoencoders, which are highly explainable. We also propose a new performance evaluation method for situations with mute channels. Experiments conducted on simulated mixtures of radiated ship noise show that the proposed solution can achieve similar separation performance to that attained with a known number of signals. The mute channel output is also good.

    Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures,3 tables. For codes, see https://github.com/QinggangSUN/unknown_number_source_separation. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible
    Keywords Computer Science - Sound ; Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence ; Computer Science - Machine Learning ; Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing ; I.2.6 ; I.5.4 ; J.2
    Subject code 004
    Publishing date 2022-07-24
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: Efficacy and influencing factors of the four‐step approach combining the situational simulation teaching method in the clinical practice of standardized training for residents

    Tong Shan / Wang Kejun / Feng Ying / Huang Jia / Jiang Hongyan

    Health Science Reports, Vol 5, Iss 5, Pp n/a-n/a (2022)

    2022  

    Abstract: Abstract Background and Aims Clinical skills practice is an essential component in standardized residency training. However, traditionally skill training methods are dogmatic and not all residents are exposed to such prescribed situations during their ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Background and Aims Clinical skills practice is an essential component in standardized residency training. However, traditionally skill training methods are dogmatic and not all residents are exposed to such prescribed situations during their residency. The aims of this study were to evaluate the effectiveness and influence factors of a four‐step approach combining situational simulation teaching methods in clinical practice for residents. Methods Enrolled all second‐year residents from the internal medicine base between May 2017 and May 2018 (n = 94), randomly divided into two groups. Forty‐eight residents were selected as experimental group, while the others 46 as the control group. Adopted traditional clinical practice method in the teaching and assessment of the control group, while used four‐step approach combining situational simulation teaching method in experimental group. We compared the theoretical and skill assessment scores in preclass and postclass. Conducted a satisfaction survey after class and analyzed the influencing factors of the teaching effect evaluation. Results There were no significant differences in the theoretical and skill assessment scores between experimental group and control group at the beginning. After the class, both the average skill assessment and Direct Observation of Procedural Skills scores of the experimental group were higher than those of the control. Satisfaction survey findings identified that the experimental group expressed higher satisfaction. Logistic regression showed that educational background, “situational simulation mode helps to improve clinical skills training,” “helps to maintain attention during learning,” and “helps improve the ability to exercise analysis and solve problems” were the influencing factors of learners' satisfaction. Conclusion The application of four‐step approach combining situational simulation teaching methods in the clinical practice of residents can significantly improve skills, thinking ability, decision‐making ability, and ...
    Keywords clinical practice ; four‐step teaching method ; situational simulation teaching method ; standardized training for residents ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 370
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Wiley
    Document type Article ; Online
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  7. Article ; Online: Effect of cloprostenol on luteolysis in jennies

    Yang, Feng / Wang, Kejun / Li, Nan / Wu, Shuaihuai / Zeng, Shenming

    Journal of Equine Veterinary Science. 2023 June, v. 125 p.104757-

    2023  

    Abstract: An intensive farm system has progressively emerged with the rapid development of the donkey industry. One of the primary challenges impeding the development of the donkey industry and the preservation of endangered donkey species is the low reproductive ... ...

    Abstract An intensive farm system has progressively emerged with the rapid development of the donkey industry. One of the primary challenges impeding the development of the donkey industry and the preservation of endangered donkey species is the low reproductive efficiency of jennies (Feng Yang et.al. Equine Veterinary Journal 2021, 53: 1218-1226). In donkeys, luteolysis occurs between days 15 and 17 after ovulation (Carluccio A. et.al. Theriogenology, 2007, 68(6): 914-919). To shorten the estrus cycle, a new estrus cycle may start after luteolysis is induced by the PGF2α analog (Duccio P. et.al. Theriogenology, 2018, 121: 175-180). Treatment of mares and cattle with PGF2α analogs from the fifth day after ovulation induces luteolysis (Bergfelt DR. et.al. Theriogenology, 2006, 65(8): 1605-1619). However, information regarding luteolysis in jennies is limited. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of cloprostenol on luteolysis in jennies. The PGF2α analog used in the experiment was cloprostenol (0.2 mg/2 ml, Ningbo Second Hormone Factory, Zhejiang, China). To study the effects of different cloprostenol doses on the estrus cycle, jennies were treated with 0.2 mg (n=30), 0.4 mg (n=30), or 0.6 mg (n=30)cloprostenol (PGF2α), respectively. The time of luteolysis, ovulation interval, follicular size at ovulation, and ovulation rates were compared between the groups. The results showed that luteolysis rates in the jennies within 72 h of treatment were higher than 90% in the three treatment groups. The time required for luteolysis was not statistically different among the three groups. In addition, the estrus interval, ovulation interval, ovulation diameter, and ovulation rate did not differ among the three groups. To examine the timing effect of cloprostenol treatment on the estrus cycle, jennies were treated with 0.4 mg cloprostenol on the third (D 3, n=30), fifth (D 5, n=30), or seventh (D 7, n=30) day following ovulation, respectively. The results showed that the luteal phase of the D 3 treatment group was shorter than that of the D 5 and D 7 treatment groups, and in the D 5 treatment group was shorter than that of the D 7 group (P < 0.05). In can be concluded that treatment with 0.4 mg cloprostenol on the third day following ovulation shortens the length of the luteal phase and estrus cycle considerably.
    Keywords asses ; cattle ; cloprostenol ; estrus ; farming systems ; horses ; industry ; luteolysis ; menstrual cycle ; ovulation ; reproductive efficiency ; veterinary medicine ; China
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2023-06
    Publishing place Elsevier Inc.
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 2102631-2
    ISSN 1542-7412 ; 0737-0806
    ISSN (online) 1542-7412
    ISSN 0737-0806
    DOI 10.1016/j.jevs.2023.104757
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  8. Article ; Online: Effects on the intestinal morphology, inflammatory response and microflora in piglets challenged with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli K88

    Zhang, Kun / Shen, Xiaoyang / Han, Lu / Wang, Mengyun / Lian, Shaoqiang / Wang, Kejun / Li, Chunli

    Research in Veterinary Science. 2023 Feb. 28,

    2023  

    Abstract: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important cause of diarrhea in piglets, which leads to great economic losses. In this study, the ternary crossbred weaned piglets were orally administered with 1.5 × 10¹¹ CFU ETEC K88 for three days. The ... ...

    Abstract Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important cause of diarrhea in piglets, which leads to great economic losses. In this study, the ternary crossbred weaned piglets were orally administered with 1.5 × 10¹¹ CFU ETEC K88 for three days. The results showed the ratio of villus length to crypt depth decreased in the duodenum and ileum after ETEC K88 infection. The expression of tight junction proteins ZO-1 in the jejunum and ileum, occludin in the jejunum and colon, and claudin-1 in the colon were down-regulated. The expression of IL-8 in the duodenum and jejunum, IL-13 in the colon, and TNF-α in the jejunum and colon were up-regulated. The expression of pBD1 in the colon, pBD2 in the jejunum, and pBD3 in the duodenum increased after infection. Meanwhile, the expression of TLR4, p38 MAPK and NF-κB p65 increased in all intestinal segments. Moreover, the expression of IL-8 in superficial cervical lymph nodes (SCLN), TNF-α in mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN), and IL-13 in inguinal lymph nodes (ILN) and MLN were up-regulated. The expression of pBD1 and pBD2 in SCLN and MLN, and pBD3 in SCLN were up-regulated. Acidobacteria and Proteobacteria were the most abundant phyla in both groups by analysis of intestinal microflora using 16 s rRNA sequencing, and the relative abundances of bacteria were found to be changed by Metastats software and LEfSe analysis. Our results indicated that cytokines and pBDs had different roles in different intestinal segments or different lymph nodes against ETEC K88, and gut microbiota was influenced after infection.
    Keywords Acidobacteria ; colon ; computer software ; crossbreds ; diarrhea ; duodenum ; enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli ; ileum ; inflammation ; interleukin-13 ; interleukin-8 ; intestinal microorganisms ; jejunum ; lymph ; mitogen-activated protein kinase ; occludins ; research ; tight junctions ; veterinary medicine ; villi ; ETEC K88 infection ; Intestinal morphology ; Cytokines ; Porcine beta defensins ; Toll-like receptors signaling pathway ; Intestinal microflora
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2023-0228
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
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    ZDB-ID 840961-4
    ISSN 1532-2661 ; 0034-5288
    ISSN (online) 1532-2661
    ISSN 0034-5288
    DOI 10.1016/j.rvsc.2023.02.011
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  9. Article ; Online: Integrated analysis strategy of genome-wide functional gene mining reveals DKK2 gene underlying meat quality in Shaziling synthesized pigs.

    He, Shuaihan / Wang, Yubei / Luo, Yabiao / Xue, Mingming / Wu, Maisheng / Tan, Hong / Peng, Yinglin / Wang, Kejun / Fang, Meiying

    BMC genomics

    2024  Volume 25, Issue 1, Page(s) 30

    Abstract: Background: Shaziling pig is a well-known indigenous breed in China who has superior meat quality traits. However, the genetic mechanism and genomic evidence underlying meat quality characteristics of Shaziling pigs are still unclear. To explore and ... ...

    Abstract Background: Shaziling pig is a well-known indigenous breed in China who has superior meat quality traits. However, the genetic mechanism and genomic evidence underlying meat quality characteristics of Shaziling pigs are still unclear. To explore and investigate the germplasm characteristics of Shaziling pigs, we totally analyzed 67 individual's whole genome sequencing data for the first time (20 Shaziling pigs [S], 20 Dabasha pigs [DBS], 11 Yorkshire pigs [Y], 10 Berkshire pigs [BKX], 5 Basha pigs [BS] and 1 Warthog).
    Results: A total of 2,538,577 SNPs with high quality were detected and 9 candidate genes which was specifically selected in S and shared in S to DBS were precisely mined and screened using an integrated analysis strategy of identity-by-descent (IBD) and selective sweep. Of them, dickkopf WNT signaling pathway inhibitor 2 (DKK2), the antagonist of Wnt signaling pathway, was the most promising candidate gene which was not only identified an association of palmitic acid and palmitoleic acid quantitative trait locus in PigQTLdb, but also specifically selected in S compared to other 48 Chinese local pigs of 12 populations and 39 foreign pigs of 4 populations. Subsequently, a mutation at 12,726-bp of DKK2 intron 1 (g.114874954 A > C) was identified associated with intramuscular fat content using method of PCR-RFLP in 21 different pig populations. We observed DKK2 specifically expressed in adipose tissues. Overexpression of DKK2 decreased the content of triglyceride, fatty acid synthase and expression of relevant genes of adipogenic and Wnt signaling pathway, while interference of DKK2 got contrary effect during adipogenesis differentiation of porcine preadipocytes and 3T3-L1 cells.
    Conclusions: Our findings provide an analysis strategy for mining functional genes of important economic traits and provide fundamental data and molecular evidence for improving pig meat quality traits and molecular breeding.
    MeSH term(s) Swine/genetics ; Animals ; Meat ; Quantitative Trait Loci ; Phenotype ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; China
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-04
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2041499-7
    ISSN 1471-2164 ; 1471-2164
    ISSN (online) 1471-2164
    ISSN 1471-2164
    DOI 10.1186/s12864-023-09925-x
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  10. Article ; Online: Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition Based on Depthwise Separable Convolution Neural Networks.

    Hu, Gang / Wang, Kejun / Liu, Liangliang

    Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

    2021  Volume 21, Issue 4

    Abstract: Facing the complex marine environment, it is extremely challenging to conduct underwater acoustic target feature extraction and recognition using ship-radiated noise. In this paper, firstly, taking the one-dimensional time-domain raw signal of the ship ... ...

    Abstract Facing the complex marine environment, it is extremely challenging to conduct underwater acoustic target feature extraction and recognition using ship-radiated noise. In this paper, firstly, taking the one-dimensional time-domain raw signal of the ship as the input of the model, a new deep neural network model for underwater target recognition is proposed. Depthwise separable convolution and time-dilated convolution are used for passive underwater acoustic target recognition for the first time. The proposed model realizes automatic feature extraction from the raw data of ship radiated noise and temporal attention in the process of underwater target recognition. Secondly, the measured data are used to evaluate the model, and cluster analysis and visualization analysis are performed based on the features extracted from the model. The results show that the features extracted from the model have good characteristics of intra-class aggregation and inter-class separation. Furthermore, the cross-folding model is used to verify that there is no overfitting in the model, which improves the generalization ability of the model. Finally, the model is compared with traditional underwater acoustic target recognition, and its accuracy is significantly improved by 6.8%.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-18
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2052857-7
    ISSN 1424-8220 ; 1424-8220
    ISSN (online) 1424-8220
    ISSN 1424-8220
    DOI 10.3390/s21041429
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