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PLoS One ; 19(10): e0298703, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39356649

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Brain Complexity (BC) have successfully been applied to study the brain electroencephalographic signal (EEG) in health and disease. In this study, we employed recurrence entropy to quantify BC associated with the neurophysiology of movement by comparing BC in both resting state and cycling movement. We measured EEG in 24 healthy adults and placed the electrodes on occipital, parietal, temporal and frontal sites on both the right and left sides of the brain. We computed the recurrence entropy from EEG measurements during cycling and resting states. Entropy is higher in the resting state than in the cycling state for all brain regions analysed. This reduction in complexity is a result of the repetitive movements that occur during cycling. These movements lead to continuous sensorial feedback, resulting in reduced entropy and sensorimotor processing.


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Eletroencefalografia , Entropia , Humanos , Adulto , Masculino , Feminino , Córtex Cerebral/fisiologia , Neurônios/fisiologia , Adulto Jovem , Ciclismo/fisiologia , Movimento/fisiologia , Descanso/fisiologia
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Nat Commun ; 15(1): 7859, 2024 Sep 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39251574

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In recent years, predictive machine learning models have gained prominence across various scientific domains. However, their black-box nature necessitates establishing trust in them before accepting their predictions as accurate. One promising strategy involves employing explanation techniques that elucidate the rationale behind a model's predictions in a way that humans can understand. However, assessing the degree of human interpretability of these explanations is a nontrivial challenge. In this work, we introduce interpretation entropy as a universal solution for evaluating the human interpretability of any linear model. Using this concept and drawing inspiration from classical thermodynamics, we present Thermodynamics-inspired Explainable Representations of AI and other black-box Paradigms, a method for generating optimally human-interpretable explanations in a model-agnostic manner. We demonstrate the wide-ranging applicability of this method by explaining predictions from various black-box model architectures across diverse domains, including molecular simulations, text, and image classification.


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Inteligência Artificial , Aprendizado de Máquina , Termodinâmica , Humanos , Entropia , Algoritmos
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Physiol Rep ; 12(17): e70034, 2024 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39261975

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Standard cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) produces a rich dataset but its current analysis is often limited to a few derived variables such as maximal or peak oxygen uptake (V̇O2). We tested whether breath-by-breath CPET data could be used to determine sample entropy (SampEn) in 81 healthy children and adolescents (age 7-18 years old, equal sex distribution). To overcome challenges of the relatively small time-series CPET data size and its nonstationarity, we developed a Python algorithm for short-duration physiological signals. Comparing pre- and post-ventilatory threshold (VT1) CPET phases, we found: (1) SampEn decreased by 9.46% for V̇O2 and 5.01% for V̇CO2 (p < 0.05), in the younger, early-pubertal participants; and (2) HR SampEn fell substantially by 70.8% in the younger and 77.5% in the older participants (p < 0.001). Across all ages, females exhibited greater HR SampEn than males during both pre- and post VT1 CPET phases by 14.10% and 23.79%, respectively, p < 0.01. In females, late-pubertal had 17.6% lower HR SampEn compared to early-pubertal participants (p < 0.05). Breath-by-breath gas exchange and HR data from CPET are amenable to SampEn analysis that leads to novel insight into physiological responses to work intensity, and sex and maturational effects.


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Teste de Esforço , Frequência Cardíaca , Troca Gasosa Pulmonar , Humanos , Criança , Masculino , Adolescente , Feminino , Teste de Esforço/métodos , Teste de Esforço/normas , Troca Gasosa Pulmonar/fisiologia , Frequência Cardíaca/fisiologia , Consumo de Oxigênio/fisiologia , Entropia
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Physiol Meas ; 45(9)2024 Sep 24.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39270715

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Objective.The association between muscle damage and skin temperature is controversial. We hypothesize that including metrics that are more sensitive to individual responses by considering variability and regions representative of higher temperature could influence skin temperature outcomes. Here, the objective of the study was to determine whether using alternative metrics (TMAX, entropy, and pixelgraphy) leads to different results than mean, maximum, minimum, and standard deviation (SD) skin temperature when addressing muscle damage using infrared thermography.Approach.Thermal images from four previous investigations measuring skin temperature before and after muscle damage in the anterior thigh and the posterior lower leg were used. The TMAX, entropy, and pixelgraphy (percentage of pixels above 33 °C) metrics were applied.Main results.On 48 h after running a marathon or half-marathon, no differences were found in skin temperature when applying any metric. Mean, minimum, maximum, TMAX, and pixelgraphy were lower 48 h after than at basal condition following quadriceps muscle damage (p< 0.05). Maximum skin temperature and pixelgraphy were lower 48 h after than the basal condition following muscle damage to the triceps sural (p< 0.05). Overall, TMAX strongly correlated with mean (r= 0.85) and maximum temperatures (r= 0.99) and moderately with minimum (r= 0.66) and pixelgraphy parameter (r= 0.64). Entropy strongly correlates with SD (r= 0.94) and inversely moderately with minimum temperature (r= -0.53). The pixelgraphy moderately correlated with mean (r= 0.68), maximum (r= 0.62), minimum (r= 0.58), and TMAX (r= 0.64).Significance.Using alternative metrics does not change skin temperature outcomes following muscle damage of lower extremity muscle groups.


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Raios Infravermelhos , Músculo Esquelético , Temperatura Cutânea , Termografia , Humanos , Termografia/métodos , Temperatura Cutânea/fisiologia , Músculo Esquelético/lesões , Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Músculo Esquelético/fisiopatologia , Músculo Esquelético/fisiologia , Masculino , Adulto , Corrida/lesões , Corrida/fisiologia , Entropia
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PLoS One ; 19(9): e0311194, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39348423

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This study focuses on improving short-term power load forecasting, a critical aspect of power system planning, control, and operation, especially within the context of China's "dual-carbon" policy. The integration of renewable energy under this policy has introduced complexities such as nonlinearity and instability. To enhance forecasting accuracy, the VMD-SE-BiSATCN prediction model is proposed. This model improves computational efficiency and reduces prediction errors by analyzing and reconstructing sequence component complexity using sample entropy (SE) following variational mode decomposition (VMD). Additionally, a self-attention mechanism is integrated into the temporal convolutional network (TCN) to overcome the traditional TCN's limitations in capturing long-term dependencies. The model was evaluated using data from the China Ninth Electrical Attribute Modeling Competition and validated with real-world data from a specific county in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, China. Results indicate that the VMD-SE-BiSATCN model outperforms other models, achieving a mean absolute error (MAE) of 92.87, a root mean square error (RMSE) of 126.906, and a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 0.81%.


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Previsões , Redes Neurais de Computação , China , Previsões/métodos , Entropia , Energia Renovável
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PLoS One ; 19(9): e0311129, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39348418

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This article explores the estimation of Shannon entropy and Rényi entropy based on the generalized inverse exponential distribution under the condition of stepwise Type II truncated samples. Firstly, we analyze the maximum likelihood estimation and interval estimation of Shannon entropy and Rényi entropy for the generalized inverse exponential distribution. In this process, we use the bootstrap method to construct confidence intervals for Shannon entropy and Rényi entropy. Next, we select the gamma distribution as the prior distribution and apply the Lindley approximation algorithm to calculate `estimates of Shannon entropy and Rényi entropy under different loss functions including Linex loss function, entropy loss function, and DeGroot loss function respectively. Afterwards, simulation is used to calculate estimates and corresponding mean square errors of Shannon entropy and Rényi entropy in GIED model. The research results show that under DeGroot loss function, estimation accuracy of Shannon entropy and Rényi entropy for generalized inverse exponential distribution is relatively high, overall Bayesian estimation performs better than maximum likelihood estimation. Finally, we demonstrate effectiveness of our estimation method in practical applications using a set of real data.


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Algoritmos , Teorema de Bayes , Entropia , Modelos Estatísticos , Funções Verossimilhança , Humanos , Simulação por Computador
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Phys Rev E ; 110(2-1): 024401, 2024 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39294971

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An important working hypothesis to investigate brain activity is whether it operates in a critical regime. Recently, maximum-entropy phenomenological models have emerged as an alternative way of identifying critical behavior in neuronal data sets. In the present paper, we investigate the signatures of criticality from a firing rate-based maximum-entropy approach on data sets generated by computational models, and we compare them to experimental results. We found that the maximum entropy approach consistently identifies critical behavior around the phase transition in models and rules out criticality in models without phase transition. The maximum-entropy-model results are compatible with results for cortical data from urethane-anesthetized rats data, providing further support for criticality in the brain.


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Potenciais de Ação , Entropia , Modelos Neurológicos , Neurônios , Neurônios/fisiologia , Neurônios/citologia , Animais , Ratos
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Phys Rev E ; 110(2-1): 024403, 2024 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39295026

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How the human brain processes information during different cognitive tasks is one of the greatest questions in contemporary neuroscience. Understanding the statistical properties of brain signals during specific activities is one promising way to address this question. Here we analyze freely available data from implanted electrocorticography (ECoG) in five human subjects during two different cognitive tasks in the light of information theory quantifiers ideas. We employ a symbolic information approach to determine the probability distribution function associated with the time series from different cortical areas. Then we utilize these probabilities to calculate the associated Shannon entropy and a statistical complexity measure based on the disequilibrium between the actual time series and one with a uniform probability distribution function. We show that an Euclidian distance in the complexity-entropy plane and an asymmetry index for complexity are useful for comparing the two conditions. We show that our method can distinguish visual search epochs from blank screen intervals in different electrodes and patients. By using a multiscale approach and embedding time delays to downsample the data, we find important timescales in which the relevant information is being processed. We also determine cortical regions and time intervals along the 2-s-long trials that present more pronounced differences between the two cognitive tasks. Finally, we show that the method is useful to distinguish cognitive processes using brain activity on a trial-by-trial basis.


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Cognição , Eletrocorticografia , Humanos , Encéfalo/fisiologia , Modelos Neurológicos , Teoria da Informação , Entropia
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J Chem Phys ; 161(12)2024 Sep 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39319659

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The response of a biological network to ligand binding is of crucial importance for regulatory control in various cellular biophysical processes that is achieved with information transmission through the different ligand-bound states of such networks. In this work, we address a vital issue regarding the link between the information content of such network states and the experimentally measurable binding statistics. Several fundamental networks of cooperative ligand binding, with the bound states being adjacent in time only and in both space and time, are considered for this purpose using the chemical master equation approach. To express the binding characteristics in the language of information, a quantity denoted as differential information index is employed based on the Shannon information. The index, determined for the whole network, follows a linear relationship with (logarithmic) ligand concentration with a slope equal to the size of the system. On the other hand, the variation of Shannon information associated with the individual network states and the logarithmic sensitivity of its slope are shown to have generic forms related to the average binding number and variance, respectively, the latter yielding the Hill slope, the phenomenological measure of cooperativity. Furthermore, the variation of Shannon information entropy, the average of Shannon information, is also shown to be related to the average binding.


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Entropia , Ligantes , Modelos Biológicos , Ligação Proteica
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PLoS One ; 19(9): e0301240, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39331654

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In the present work we use maximum entropy methods to derive several theorems in probabilistic number theory, including a version of the Hardy-Ramanujan Theorem. We also provide a theoretical argument explaining the experimental observations of Y.-H. He about the learnability of primes, and posit that the Erdos-Kac law would very unlikely be discovered by current machine learning techniques. Numerical experiments that we perform corroborate our theoretical findings.


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Aprendizado de Máquina , Entropia , Algoritmos , Modelos Teóricos
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Physiol Meas ; 45(9)2024 Sep 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39231471

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Objective.The present study investigated how breathing stimuli affect both non-linear and linear metrics of the autonomic nervous system (ANS).Approach.The analysed dataset consisted of 70 young, healthy volunteers, in whom arterial blood pressure (ABP) was measured noninvasively during 5 min sessions of controlled breathing at three different frequencies: 6, 10 and 15 breaths min-1. CO2concentration and respiratory rate were continuously monitored throughout the controlled breathing sessions. The ANS was characterized using non-linear methods, including phase-rectified signal averaging (PRSA) for estimating heart acceleration and deceleration capacity (AC, DC), multiscale entropy, approximate entropy, sample entropy, and fuzzy entropy, as well as time and frequency-domain measures (low frequency, LF; high-frequency, HF; total power, TP) of heart rate variability (HRV).Main results.Higher breathing rates resulted in a significant decrease in end-tidal CO2concentration (p< 0.001), accompanied by increases in both ABP (p <0.001) and heart rate (HR,p <0.001). A strong, linear decline in AC and DC (p <0.001 for both) was observed with increasing breathing rate. All entropy metrics increased with breathing frequency (p <0.001). In the time-domain, HRV metrics significantly decreased with breathing frequency (p <0.01 for all). In the frequency-domain, HRV LF and HRV HF decreased (p= 0.038 andp= 0.040, respectively), although these changes were modest. There was no significant change in HRV TP with breathing frequencies.Significance.Alterations in CO2levels, a potent chemoreceptor trigger, and changes in HR most likely modulate ANS metrics. Non-linear PRSA and entropy appear to be more sensitive to breathing stimuli compared to frequency-dependent HRV metrics. Further research involving a larger cohort of healthy subjects is needed to validate our observations.


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Sistema Nervoso Autônomo , Entropia , Frequência Cardíaca , Respiração , Processamento de Sinais Assistido por Computador , Humanos , Frequência Cardíaca/fisiologia , Sistema Nervoso Autônomo/fisiologia , Masculino , Feminino , Adulto Jovem , Adulto , Taxa Respiratória/fisiologia , Dinâmica não Linear
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Int J Mol Sci ; 25(17)2024 Aug 29.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39273310

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By performing differential scanning calorimetry(DSC) measurements on RNase A, we studied the stabilization provided by the addition of potassium aspartate(KAsp) or potassium glutamate (KGlu) and found that it leads to a significant increase in the denaturation temperature of the protein. The stabilization proves to be mainly entropic in origin. A counteraction of the stabilization provided by KAsp or KGlu is obtained by adding common denaturants such as urea, guanidinium chloride, or guanidinium thiocyanate. A rationalization of the experimental data is devised on the basis of a theoretical approach developed by one of the authors. The main contribution to the conformational stability of globular proteins comes from the gain in translational entropy of water and co-solute ions and/or molecules for the decrease in solvent-excluded volume associated with polypeptide folding (i.e., there is a large decrease in solvent-accessible surface area). The magnitude of this entropic contribution increases with the number density and volume packing density of the solution. The two destabilizing contributions come from the conformational entropy of the chain, which should not depend significantly on the presence of co-solutes, and from the direct energetic interactions between co-solutes and the protein surface in both the native and denatured states. It is the magnitude of the latter that discriminates between stabilizing and destabilizing agents.


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Ácido Aspártico , Ácido Glutâmico , Desnaturação Proteica , Ácido Aspártico/química , Desnaturação Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Ácido Glutâmico/química , Ribonuclease Pancreático/química , Ribonuclease Pancreático/metabolismo , Termodinâmica , Varredura Diferencial de Calorimetria , Entropia , Estabilidade Proteica , Guanidina/química , Guanidina/farmacologia , Ureia/química , Ureia/farmacologia , Conformação Proteica
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Trop Anim Health Prod ; 56(8): 290, 2024 Sep 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39331161

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Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an economically important highly serious transboundary disease that mainly occurs in small ruminants such as sheep and goats. The aim of this study was to identify the probability of risk and and space-time clusters of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in Türkiye. The occurrence of PPR in Türkiye from 2017 to 2019 was investigated in this study using spatial analysis based on geographic information system (GIS). Between these dates, it was determined that 337 outbreaks and 18,467 cases. The highest number of outbreaks were detected in the Central Anatolia region. It was determined that PPR is seen more intensely in sheep compared to goats in Türkiye. In this study, 34 environmental variables (19 bioclimatic, 12 precipitation, altitude and small livestock density variables) were used to explore the environmental influences on PPR outbreak by maximum entropy modeling (Maxent). The clusters of PPR in Türkiye were identified using the retrospective space-time scan data that were computed using the space-time permutation model. A PPR prediction model was created using data on PPR outbreaks combination with environmental variables. Nineteen significant (p < 0.001) space-time clusters were determined. It was discovered that the variables altitude, sheep density, precipitation in june, and average temperature in the warmest season made important contributions to the model and the PPR outbreak may be strongly related with these variables. In this study, PPR in Türkiye has been characterized significantly spatio-temporal and enviromental factors. In this context, the disease pattern and obtained these findings will contribute to policymakers in the prevention and control of the disease.


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Surtos de Doenças , Doenças das Cabras , Cabras , Peste dos Pequenos Ruminantes , Doenças dos Ovinos , Animais , Peste dos Pequenos Ruminantes/epidemiologia , Peste dos Pequenos Ruminantes/virologia , Doenças das Cabras/epidemiologia , Doenças das Cabras/virologia , Doenças dos Ovinos/epidemiologia , Doenças dos Ovinos/virologia , Ovinos , Surtos de Doenças/veterinária , Turquia/epidemiologia , Conglomerados Espaço-Temporais , Análise Espaço-Temporal , Estudos Retrospectivos , Vírus da Peste dos Pequenos Ruminantes/fisiologia , Sistemas de Informação Geográfica , Entropia , Análise por Conglomerados
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Physiol Meas ; 45(9)2024 Sep 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39260403

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Background and Objective.Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) affects an estimated 936 million people worldwide, yet only 15% receive a definitive diagnosis. Diagnosis of OSA poses challenges due to the dynamic nature of physiological signals such as oxygen saturation (SpO2) and heart rate variability (HRV). Linear analysis methods may not fully capture the irregularities present in these signals. The application of entropy of routine physiological signals offers a promising method to better measure variabilities in dynamic biological data. This review aims to explore entropy changes in physiological signals among individuals with OSA.Approach.Keyword and title searches were performed on Medline, Embase, Scopus, and CINAHL databases. Studies had to analyse physiological signals in OSA using entropy. Quality assessment used the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Evidence was qualitatively synthesised, considering entropy signals, entropy type, and time-series length.Main results.Twenty-two studies were included. Multiple physiological signals related to OSA, including SpO2, HRV, and the oxygen desaturation index (ODI), have been investigated using entropy. Results revealed a significant decrease in HRV entropy in those with OSA compared to control groups. Conversely, SpO2and ODI entropy values were increased in OSA. Despite variations in entropy types, time scales, and data extraction devices, studies using receiver operating characteristic curves demonstrated a high discriminative accuracy (>80% AUC) in distinguishing OSA patients from control groups.Significance. This review highlights the potential of SpO2entropy analysis in developing new diagnostic indices for patients with OSA. Further investigation is needed before applying this technique clinically.


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Entropia , Frequência Cardíaca , Apneia Obstrutiva do Sono , Apneia Obstrutiva do Sono/fisiopatologia , Apneia Obstrutiva do Sono/diagnóstico , Humanos , Processamento de Sinais Assistido por Computador , Saturação de Oxigênio
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Cereb Cortex ; 34(9)2024 Sep 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39235378

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Early childhood marks a pivotal period in the maturation of executive function, the cognitive ability to consciously regulate actions and thoughts. Mindfulness-based interventions have shown promise in bolstering executive function in children. This study used the functional near-infrared spectroscopy technique to explore the impact of mindfulness-based training on young children. Brain imaging data were collected from 68 children (41 boys, aged 61.8 ± 10.7 months) who were randomly assigned to either an intervention group (N = 37, aged 60.03 ± 11.14 months) or a control group (N = 31, aged 59.99 ± 10.89 months). Multivariate and multiscale sample entropy analyses were used. The results showed that: (1) brain complexity was reduced in the intervention group after receiving the mindfulness-based intervention in all three executive function tasks (ps < 0.05), indicating a more efficient neural processing mechanism after the intervention; (2) difference comparisons between the intervention and control groups showed significant differences in relevant brain regions during cognitive shifting (left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and medial prefrontal cortex) and working memory tasks (left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex), which corroborates with improved behavioral results in the intervention group (Z = -3.674, P < 0.001 for cognitive shifting; Z = 2.594, P < 0.01 for working memory). These findings improve our understanding of early brain development in young children and highlight the neural mechanisms by which mindfulness-based interventions affect executive function. Implications for early intervention to promote young children's brain development are also addressed.


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Encéfalo , Função Executiva , Atenção Plena , Espectroscopia de Luz Próxima ao Infravermelho , Humanos , Atenção Plena/métodos , Masculino , Feminino , Função Executiva/fisiologia , Pré-Escolar , Encéfalo/fisiologia , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Entropia , Memória de Curto Prazo/fisiologia , Análise Multivariada , Testes Neuropsicológicos
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Int J Biol Macromol ; 277(Pt 4): 134562, 2024 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39116982

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Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) can inhibit ice crystal growth. The ice-binding mechanism of AFPs remains unclear, yet the hydration shells of AFPs are thought to play an important role in modulating the binding of AFPs and ice. Here, we performed all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of an AFP from Choristoneura fumiferana (CfAFP) at four different temperatures, with a focus on analysis at 240 and 300 K, to investigate the dynamic and thermodynamic characteristics of hydration shells around ice-binding surfaces (IBS) and non-ice-binding surfaces (NIBS). Our results revealed that the dynamics of CfAFP hydration shells were highly heterogeneous, with its IBS favoring a less dense and more tetrahedral solvation shell, and NIBS hydration shells having opposite features to those of the IBS. The IBS of nine typical hyperactive AFPs were found to be in pure low-entropy hydration shell region, indicating that low-entropy hydration shell region of IBS and the tetrahedral arrangements of water molecules around them mediate the ice-binding mechanism of AFPs. It is because the entropy increase of the low-entropy hydration shell around IBS, while the higher entropy water molecules at NIBS most likely prevent ice crystal growth. These findings provide new mechanistic insights into the ice-binding of AFPs.


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Proteínas Anticongelantes , Proteínas de Insetos , Mariposas , Proteínas Anticongelantes/química , Proteínas Anticongelantes/metabolismo , Mariposas/química , Mariposas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Insetos/química , Proteínas de Insetos/metabolismo , Gelo , Entropia , Animais , Adsorção , Simulação por Computador
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Acta Biomater ; 187: 451-470, 2024 Oct 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39187145

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The present study adopts a multi-facet approach to design bio inspired concentrated alloys for potential application as articulating surfaces in joint replacements. A series of equiatomic, Nb rich and Ti rich TiMoNbZr based medium entropy alloys (MEAs) were processed via arc melting and their mechanical, in-vitro corrosion, wear, and in vitro and in vivo biocompatibility were investigated. Equiatomic MEA had primarily bcc with minor hcp phases where the single bcc was achieved with the addition of Nb. The single bcc Nb rich alloy resulted in 13 % elongation, much higher than equiatomic or Ti rich alloy. All the MEAs showed comparatively higher yield strength due to the climb of edge dislocations which is the main rate limiting mechanism at 300 K, as evident molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. The locally fluctuating energy landscape promotes kinks on edge dislocation, and at local minima nanoscale segments gets pinned. Upon yielding the entangled kink leaves a trail of vacancies/interstitials and escapes via climb motion to render high yield strength. The higher corrosion and pitting resistance of Nb enriched alloys can be attributed to the stable ZrO2, Nb2O5, TiO2, and MoO3 oxides, high polarization resistance (106-105 Ωcm-2), and low defect densities (1016-1018). In vitro cell-materials interaction using MC3T3-E1 showed bioinert but cytocompatible nature of the MEAs. The wear rate of the MEAs was in the range of 7-9 × 10-5 mm3N-1m-1. The wear debris did not show any tissue necrosis when implanted in rabbit femur rather new bone regeneration can be seen around the particles. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: In the present work, a noble Nb enriched MEAs with superior mechanical, in vitro wear, corrosion and cytocompatibility properties was designed for articulating surfaces in joint replacement.


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Ligas , Materiais Biocompatíveis , Teste de Materiais , Ligas/química , Animais , Corrosão , Materiais Biocompatíveis/química , Camundongos , Entropia , Coelhos , Prótese Articular , Linhagem Celular , Simulação de Dinâmica Molecular
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Neural Comput ; 36(9): 1854-1885, 2024 Aug 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39106455

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In reinforcement learning (RL), artificial agents are trained to maximize numerical rewards by performing tasks. Exploration is essential in RL because agents must discover information before exploiting it. Two rewards encouraging efficient exploration are the entropy of action policy and curiosity for information gain. Entropy is well established in the literature, promoting randomized action selection. Curiosity is defined in a broad variety of ways in literature, promoting discovery of novel experiences. One example, prediction error curiosity, rewards agents for discovering observations they cannot accurately predict. However, such agents may be distracted by unpredictable observational noises known as curiosity traps. Based on the free energy principle (FEP), this letter proposes hidden state curiosity, which rewards agents by the KL divergence between the predictive prior and posterior probabilities of latent variables. We trained six types of agents to navigate mazes: baseline agents without rewards for entropy or curiosity and agents rewarded for entropy and/or either prediction error curiosity or hidden state curiosity. We find that entropy and curiosity result in efficient exploration, especially both employed together. Notably, agents with hidden state curiosity demonstrate resilience against curiosity traps, which hinder agents with prediction error curiosity. This suggests implementing the FEP that may enhance the robustness and generalization of RL models, potentially aligning the learning processes of artificial and biological agents.


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Comportamento Exploratório , Reforço Psicológico , Recompensa , Comportamento Exploratório/fisiologia , Humanos , Entropia , Simulação por Computador
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Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39110555

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Upper extremity (UE) impairment is common after stroke resulting in reduced arm use in daily life. A few studies have examined the use of wearable feedback of the quantity of arm movement to promote recovery, but with limited success. We posit that it may be more effective to encourage an increase in beneficial patterns of movement practice - i.e. the overall quality of the movement experience - rather than simply the overall amount of movement. As a first step toward testing this idea, here we sought to identify statistical features of the distributions of daily arm movements that become more prominent as arm impairment decreases, based on data obtained from a wrist IMU worn by 22 chronic stroke participants during their day. We identified several measures that increased as UE Fugl-Meyer (UEFM) score increased: the fraction of movements achieved at a higher speed, forearm postural diversity (quantified by kurtosis of the tilt-angle), and forearm postural complexity (quantified by sample entropy of tilt angle). Dividing participants into severe, moderate, and mild impairment groups, we found that forearm postural diversity and complexity were best able to distinguish the groups (Cohen's D =1.1, and 0.99, respectively) and were also the best subset of predictors for UEFM score. Based on these findings coupled with theories of motor learning that emphasize the importance of variety and challenge in practice, we suggest that using these measures of diversity and complexity in wearable rehabilitation could provide a basis to test whether the quality of the daily movement experience is therapeutic.


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Braço , Movimento , Reabilitação do Acidente Vascular Cerebral , Acidente Vascular Cerebral , Dispositivos Eletrônicos Vestíveis , Humanos , Feminino , Masculino , Reabilitação do Acidente Vascular Cerebral/métodos , Reabilitação do Acidente Vascular Cerebral/instrumentação , Braço/fisiopatologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Idoso , Movimento/fisiologia , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/complicações , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/fisiopatologia , Adulto , Postura/fisiologia , Antebraço , Algoritmos , Entropia , Recuperação de Função Fisiológica
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Med Eng Phys ; 130: 104206, 2024 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39160030

RESUMO

Epilepsy is one of the most common brain diseases, characterised by repeated seizures that occur on a regular basis. During a seizure, a patient's muscles flex uncontrollably, causing a loss of mobility and balance, which can be harmful or even fatal. Developing an automatic approach for warning patients of oncoming seizures necessitates substantial research. Analyzing the electroencephalogram (EEG) output from the human brain's scalp region can help predict seizures. EEG data were analyzed to extract time domain features such as Hurst exponent (Hur), Tsallis entropy (TsEn), enhanced permutation entropy (impe), and amplitude-aware permutation entropy (AAPE). In order to automatically diagnose epileptic seizure in children from normal children, this study conducted two sessions. In the first session, the extracted features from the EEG dataset were classified using three machine learning (ML)-based models, including support vector machine (SVM), K nearest neighbor (KNN), or decision tree (DT), and in the second session, the dataset was classified using three deep learning (DL)-based recurrent neural network (RNN) classifiers in The EEG dataset was obtained from the Neurology Clinic of the Ibn Rushd Training Hospital. In this regard, extensive explanations and research from the time domain and entropy characteristics demonstrate that employing GRU, LSTM, and BiLSTM RNN deep learning classifiers on the All-time-entropy fusion feature improves the final classification results.


Assuntos
Aprendizado Profundo , Eletroencefalografia , Entropia , Epilepsia , Processamento de Sinais Assistido por Computador , Humanos , Eletroencefalografia/métodos , Epilepsia/diagnóstico , Epilepsia/fisiopatologia , Criança , Automação , Diagnóstico por Computador/métodos , Convulsões/diagnóstico , Convulsões/fisiopatologia , Masculino , Máquina de Vetores de Suporte , Pré-Escolar
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