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Ankle push-off generates more than 80% positive power at the end of the stance phase during human walking. In this paper, the influence of impulsive ankle push-off on the walking speed of a biped robot is studied by simulation. When the push-off height of the ankle joint is 13 cm based on the ground (the height of the ankle joint of the swing leg) and the ankle push-off torque increases from 17 to 20.8 N·m, the duration of the swinging leg actually decreases from 50 to 30% of the gait cycle, the fluctuation amplitude of the COM (center of mass) instantaneous speed of the robot decreases from 95 to 35% of the maximum speed, and the walking speed increases from 0.51 to 1.14 m/s. The results demonstrate that impulsive ankle push-off can effectively increase the walking speed of the planar biped robot by accelerating the swing leg and reducing the fluctuation of the COM instantaneous speed. Finally, a comparison of the joint kinematics of the simulation robot and the human at a normal walking speed shows similar motion patterns.Pomelo is an important agricultural product in southern China. Near-infrared hyperspectral imaging (NIRHI) technology is applied to the rapid detection of pomelo fruit quality. Advanced chemometric methods have been investigated for the optimization of the NIRHI spectral calibration model. The partial least squares (PLS) method is improved for non-linear regression by combining it with the kernel Gaussian radial basis function (RBF). In this study, the core parameters of the PLS latent variables and the RBF kernel width were designed for grid search selection to observe the minimum prediction error and a relatively high correlation coefficient. A deep learning architecture was proposed for the parametric scaling optimization of the RBF-PLS modeling process for NIRHI data in the spectral dimension. The RBF-PLS models were established for the quantitative prediction of the sugar (SU), vitamin C (VC), and organic acid (OA) contents in pomelo samples. Experimental results showed that the proposed RBF-PLS method performed well in the parameter deep search progress for the prediction of the target contents. The predictive errors for model training were 1.076% for SU, 41.381 mg/kg for VC, and 1.136 g/kg for OA, which were under 15% of their reference chemical measurements. The corresponding model testing results were acceptably good. Therefore, the NIRHI technology combined with the study of chemometric methods is applicable for the rapid quantitative detection of pomelo fruit quality, and the proposed algorithmic framework may be promoted for the detection of other agricultural products.The stressed cultivations are widely used in microalgae R&D for the biofuel production with the repress on growth to a certain degree, which limits the overall productivity. The balance between the growth and energy storage compounds accumulation is a target needing the combination of both strain selection or construction and culture optimization. Selleck CUDC-907 Here, an engineered strain of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, in which the chloroplast type glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (cGAPDH) was overexpressed and named as P3-GAPDH, was cultured on the Algal Station platform. Compared with wild type (WT), C. reinhardtii CC137c, in Tris-acetate-phosphate (TAP) medium, the highest density of WT and P3-GAPDH were 1.23 ± 0.13 and 1.74 ± 0.09 g L-1 within 96 h, and the maximum biomass productivity was 24.30 ± 1.65 and 28.54 ± 1.43 mg L-1 h-1, respectively. In terms of the energy storage compounds, both carbohydrate and fatty acids content doubled in P3-GAPDH, from 0.13 ± 0.02 to 0.26 ± 0.04 g L-1 for carbohydrate and from 0.08 ± 0.01 to 0.16 ± 0.01 g L-1 for fatty acids, among which poly unsaturated fatty acids increased by 65.8%. Together with the continuous monitor of the chlorophyll fluorescence dynamics parameters Fv/Fm and Fv'/Fm' and pH of culture, enhanced Calvin cycle by overexpressed cGAPDH promoted the carbon conversion and subsequent energy storage compounds accumulation. C. reinhardtii P3-GAPDH strain showed the potential as a good chassis with high carbon conversion ability.Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused massive disruptions to society and the economy, and the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms behind the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are poorly understood. Herein, we determined the crystal structure of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein C-terminal domain (CTD) at a resolution of 2.0 Å, and demonstrated that the CTD has a comparable distinct electrostatic potential surface to equivalent domains of other reported CoVs, suggesting that the CTD has novel roles in viral RNA binding and transcriptional regulation. Further in vitro biochemical assays demonstrated that the viral genomic intergenic transcriptional regulatory sequences (TRSs) interact with the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein CTD with a flanking region. The unpaired adeno dinucleotide in the TRS stem-loop structure is a major determining factor for their interactions. Taken together, these results suggested that the nucleocapsid protein CTD is responsible for the discontinuous viral transcription mechanism by recognizing the different patterns of viral TRS during transcription.Diverse classes of anion transporters have been developed, most of which focus on the transmembrane chloride transport due to its significance in living systems. Fluoride transport has, to some extent, been overlooked despite the importance of fluoride channels in bacterial survival. Here, we report the design and synthesis of a cyclic azapeptide (a peptide-based N-amidothiourea, 1), as a transporter for fluoride transportation through a confined cavity that encapsulates fluoride, together with acyclic control compounds, the analogs 2 and 3. Cyclic receptor 1 exhibits more stable β-turn structures than the control compounds 2 and 3 and affords a confined cavity containing multiple inner -NH protons that serve as hydrogen bond donors to bind anions. It is noteworthy that the cyclic receptor 1 shows the capacity to selectively transport fluoride across a lipid bilayer on the basis of the osmotic and fluoride ion-selective electrode (ISE) assays, during which an electrogenic anion transport mechanism is found operative, whereas no transmembrane transport activity was found with 2 and 3, despite the fact that 2 and 3 are also able to bind fluoride via the thiourea moieties.