A Multi-Objective Approach for Drug Repurposing in Preeclampsia

Preeclampsia is a hypertensive disorder that occurs during pregnancy. It is a complex disease with unknown pathogenesis and the leading cause of fetal and maternal mortality during pregnancy. Using all drugs currently under clinical trial for preeclampsia, we extracted all their possible targets from the DrugBank and ChEMBL databases and labeled them as “targets”. The proteins labeled as “off-targets” were extracted in the same way but while taking all antihypertensive drugs which are inhibitors of ACE and/or angiotensin receptor antagonist as query molecules. Classification models were obtained for each of the 55 total proteins (45 targets and 10 off-targets) using the TPOT pipeline optimization tool. The average accuracy of the models in predicting the external dataset for targets and off-targets was 0.830 and 0.850, respectively. The combinations of models maximizing their virtual screening performance were explored by combining the desirability function and genetic algorithms. The virtual screening performance metrics for the best model were: the Boltzmann-Enhanced Discrimination of ROC (BEDROC)_α=160.9 = 0.258, the Enrichment Factor (EF)_1% = 31.55 and the Area Under the Accumulation Curve (AUAC) = 0.831. The most relevant targets for preeclampsia were: AR, VDR, SLC6A2, NOS3 and CHRM4, while ABCG2, ERBB2, CES1 and REN led to the most relevant off-targets. A virtual screening of the DrugBank database identified estradiol, estriol, vitamins E and D, lynestrenol, mifrepristone, simvastatin, ambroxol, and some antibiotics and antiparasitics as drugs with potential application in the treatment of preeclampsia.     

Discrimination of Beers by Cyclic Voltammetry Using a Single Carbon Screen-printed Electrode

A fast, simple and costless methodology without sample pre-treatment is proposed for the discrimination of beers. It is based on cyclic voltammetry (CV) using commercial carbon screen-printed electrodes (SPCE) and includes a correction of the signals measured with different SPCE units. Data are submitted to partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS−DA) and support vector machine discriminant analysis (SVM−DA), which allow a reasonable classification of the beers. Also, CV data from beers can be used to predict their alcoholic degree by partial least squares (PLS) and artificial neural networks (ANN). In general, non-linear methods provide better results than linear ones.     

自适应环境的机器人视觉伺服控制方法

机器人和机器视觉的迅速发展,使得基于视觉的智能机器人得到更加广泛的应用。机器视觉提高了机器人控制系统对环境的适应程度,但其适应程度也受到周围环境对机器视觉算法的影响。针对这一情况,本文对机器人视觉伺服控制系统中的机器视觉算法进行了改进,提出了一种基于帧间差分法的自适应环境的机器人视觉伺服控制方法,从而提高了控制系统对环境的自适应程度,提高了对机器人控制的精确度,实验和理论分析证明,该方法具有较大的应用前景和实用价值。     

基于RTW的双向充放电机实时控制技术

随着智能电网和绿色能源技术的快速发展,双向充放电机也越来越受到关注;文章主要研究双向充放电机充电过程中电压的稳定性和放电过程中并网电流波形的畸变率;提出了一种基于RTW的matlab/simulink控制方法,在simulink环境下搭建仿真模型和控制模型,然后将达到预期效果的仿真模型所对应的控制模型编译为代码并烧写到DSP中;此种方法在能够保证在恒流源和恒压源两种充电模式中电流和电压的稳定性,在放电过程中并网谐波电流总畸变率小于5%,功率因数基本为1;仿真结果和基于DSP2812的硬件平台实验都证明了这种方法的有效性。     

纯电动汽车磷酸铁锂电池组的建模及优化

鉴于传统神经网络和支持向量机机理复杂、计算量大的缺陷,很难实时跟踪磷酸铁锂电池组复杂快速的内部反应,影响电池荷电状态的估算精度,提出应用一种简单、有效的极限学习机对一额定容量为100Ah、额定电压为72V的纯电动汽车磷酸铁锂电池组建模,并分别与BP神经网络、RBF神经网络、支持向量机进行对比。随后,以学习时间和泛化性能为优化目标,应用粒子群方法寻找最佳隐层节点个数。结果表明,基于极限学习机的磷酸铁锂电池组模型的学习时间、泛化性能优于BP神经网络、RBF神经网络、支持向量机;隐层节点优化后,模型的学习时间和泛化性能达到最优。     

糖厂澄清工段生产指标建模及操作参数优化

针对亚法糖厂澄清工段清汁色值和清汁残硫量难以在线测量的问题,提出了一种基于人工蜂群优化的在线极限学习机软测量方法。先用核主元分析法确定影响清汁质量的关键参数,建立基于在线极限学习机的软测量模型。同时利用人工蜂群算法对在线极限学习机的隐层参数进行寻优,优化所建模型。最后,使用带约束的粒子群对软测量模型进行优化求解,得到典型工况下的最优操作设定值,为后续工况操作提供参考依据。仿真结果表明,基于人工蜂群优化的在线极限学习机模型能够准确地预测清汁色值和残硫量,同时基于此模型优化的操作参数设定值能够达到期望的指标。     

基于AHP权重和灰色服务器负载预测的云计算On-line迁移策略

为了克服云计算环境下由于实时用户任务的不确定性到来和服务器性能差异而导致的云计算环境的负载不均衡问题,提出了一种AHP权重获取和灰度算法预测服务器负载的云计算on-line虚拟机迁移策略。首先,设计了基于AHP和灰色服务器预测的虚拟机on-line迁移模型,提出了采用AHP获取虚拟机各资源需求权重,然后,采用灰色模型预测下一时刻的服务器负载,采用此权值向量与各无需迁移的服务器的空闲资源向量进行加权得到加权和,将具有最小加权和的物理服务器作为迁移的目标宿主机。最后,定义了基于AHP权重和灰色服务器负载预测的云计算on-line迁移算法。在CloudSim环境下进行实验,结果表明文中的迁移策略使得云计算在响应用户任务时,具有任务失败次数少、SLA违约率低和迁移成功率高的优点,同时与其它方法相比,具有负载均衡程度高的优点,具有较强的可行性。     

基于Web的实时漆包线材生产设备监控平台设计

为了实现漆包机生产的远程监控,设计了一款基于Web的实时漆包机远程监控平台。该平台使用模块化,可扩展的设计方案,采用了Spring MVC的后台Web应用程序框架,基于Modbus协议的数据交互,Ajax方式的网络数据异步提交以及无刷新的图表显示技术。传统的监控平台只能通过以太网在企业内部访问,而该平台可接入互联网,可实现随时随地通过电脑及或者移动终端对生产设备各部分的温度点、电机风机转速、耗电量统计的实时监视,对温度的上下限及电机转速进行远程控制,接收设备状态异常的实时报警,数据存储分析。实验测试表明,该平台的实时性和稳定性均能达到车间生产的要求。     

Predicting Regioselectivity in Radical C−H Functionalization of Heterocycles through Machine Learning

Radical C−H bond functionalization provides a versatile approach for elaborating heterocyclic compounds. The synthetic design of this transformation relies heavily on the knowledge of regioselectivity, while a quantified and efficient regioselectivity prediction approach is still elusive. Herein, we report the feasibility of using a machine learning model to predict the transition state barrier from the computed properties of isolated reactants. This enables rapid and reliable regioselectivity prediction for radical C−H bond functionalization of heterocycles. The Random Forest model with physical organic features achieved 94.2 % site accuracy and 89.9 % selectivity accuracy in the out-of-sample test set. The prediction performance was further validated by comparing the machine learning results with additional substituents, heteroarene scaffolds and experimental observations. This work revealed that the combination of mechanism-based computational statistics and machine learning model can serve as a useful strategy for selectivity prediction of organic transformations.