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ACE2 expression and sex disparity in COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) death rate differs depending on sex. Some hypotheses can be put forward on the basis of current knowledge on gender differences in respiratory viral diseases.

Applied variational SAR image segmentation

Vaccine protocols optimization: in silico experiences

Sixth post-Newtonian nonlocal-in-time dynamics of binary systems

We complete our previous derivation, at the sixth post-Newtonian (6PN) accuracy, of the local-in-time dynamics of a gravitationally interacting two-body system by giving two gauge-invariant characterizations of its complementary nonlocal-in-time dynamics. On the one hand, we compute the nonlocal…

Structural analysis of protein Z gene variants in patients with foetal losses

The role of protein Z (PZ) in the etiology of human disorders is unclear. A number of PZ gene variants, sporadic or polymorphic and found exclusively in the serine protease domain, have been observed. Crystal structures of PZ in complex with the PZ-dependent inhibitor (PZI) have been recently…

Polynomial functors and opetopes

We give an elementary and direct combinatorial definition of opetopes in terms of trees, well-suited for graphical manipulation and explicit computation. To relate our definition to the classical definition, we recast the Baez-Dolan slice construction for operads in terms of polynomial monads: our…

Security in wireless ad-hoc networks - A survey

Pervasive mobile and low-end wireless technologies, such as radio-frequency identification (RFID), wireless sensor networks and the impending vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), make the wireless scenario exciting and in full transformation. For all the above (and similar) technologies to fully…

A Numerical Comparison Between Degenerate Parabolic and Quasilinear Hyperbolic Models of Cell Movements Under Chemotaxis

We consider two models which were both designed to describe the movement of eukaryotic cells responding to chemical signals. Besides a common standard parabolic equation for the diffusion of a chemoattractant, like chemokines or growth factors, the two models differ for the equations describing the…

Discrete Simulation in Fluid Dynamics: Methods

Intracellular signal propagation in a two-dimensionalauto-catalytic reaction model