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Chu J, Yang A, Wang Q, Yang X, Wang D, Wang X, Yuan H, Rong M. Multicomponent SF 6 decomposition product sensing with a gas-sensing microchip. MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING 2021; 7:18. [PMID: 34567732 PMCID: PMC8433328 DOI: 10.1038/s41378-021-00246-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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A difficult issue restricting the development of gas sensors is multicomponent recognition. Herein, a gas-sensing (GS) microchip loaded with three gas-sensitive materials was fabricated via a micromachining technique. Then, a portable gas detection system was built to collect the signals of the chip under various decomposition products of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). Through a stacked denoising autoencoder (SDAE), a total of five high-level features could be extracted from the original signals. Combined with machine learning algorithms, the accurate classification of 47 simulants was realized, and 5-fold cross-validation proved the reliability. To investigate the generalization ability, 30 sets of examinations for testing unknown gases were performed. The results indicated that SDAE-based models exhibit better generalization performance than PCA-based models, regardless of the magnitude of noise. In addition, hypothesis testing was introduced to check the significant differences of various models, and the bagging-based back propagation neural network with SDAE exhibits superior performance at 95% confidence.
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- Jifeng Chu
- State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049 Xi’an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049 Xi’an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049 Xi’an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049 Xi’an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049 Xi’an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049 Xi’an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049 Xi’an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049 Xi’an, China
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The Impact of Indoor Malodor: Historical Perspective, Modern Challenges, Negative Effects, and Approaches for Mitigation. ATMOSPHERE 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos11020126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Malodors, odors perceived to be unpleasant or offensive, may elicit negative symptoms via the olfactory system’s connections to cognitive and behavioral systems at levels below the known thresholds for direct adverse events. Publications on harm caused by indoor malodor are fragmented across disciplines and have not been comprehensively summarized to date. This review examines the potential negative effects of indoor malodor on human behavior, performance and health, including individual factors that may govern such responses and identifies gaps in existing research. Reported findings show that indoor malodor may have negative psychological, physical, social, and economic effects. However, further research is needed to understand whether the adverse effects are elicited via an individual’s experience or expectations or through a direct effect on human physiology and well-being. Conversely, mitigating indoor malodor has been reported to have benefits on performance and subjective responses in workers. Eliminating the source of malodor is often not achievable, particularly in low-income communities. Therefore, affordable approaches to mitigate indoor malodor such as air fresheners may hold promise. However, further investigations are needed into the effectiveness of such measures on improving health outcomes such as cognition, mood, and stress levels and their overall impact on indoor air quality.
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Haviland-Jones JM, McGuire TR, Wilson P. Testing for Individual Differences in the Identification of Chemosignals for Fear and Happy: Phenotypic Super-Detectors, Detectors and Non-Detectors. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0154495. [PMID: 27149084 PMCID: PMC4858204 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2015] [Accepted: 03/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Mood odor identification, explicit awareness of mood odor, may be an important emotion skill and part of a complex dual processing system. It has already been shown that mood odors have significant implicit effects, effects that occur without awareness. This study applies methods for examining human individual differences in the identification of chemosignals for fear and happy, important in itself, and a key to understanding the dual processing of emotion in the olfactory system. Axillary mood odors had been collected from 14 male donors during a mood induction task. Pads were collected after 12 and 24 minutes, creating two doses. Sixty -one participants (41 females) identified the mood odor chemosignals. On a single trial, participants identified 2 doses of fear, 2 doses of happy, and a sterile control. There were 15 trials. The first analysis (rtt) showed that the population was phenotypically heterogeneous, not homogeneous, in identification accuracy. It also showed that a minimum of 10 trials was needed for test reliability. The second analysis, Growth Mixture Modeling, found three distinct groups of detectors: (1) 49.49% were consistently accurate super detectors, (2) 32.52% were accurate above chance level detectors, and (3) 17.98% were non-detectors. Bayesian Posterior Analyses showed reliability of groups at or above 98%. No differences related to mood odor valence (fear or happy), dose (collection at 12 or 24 minutes) or gender were found. Implications for further study of genetic differences, learning and function of identification are noted. It appears that many people can be reliable in explicitly identifying fear and happy mood odors but this skill is not homogeneous.
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- Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones
- Psychology Department, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Genetics Department, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Psychology Department, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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van Schooten B, Jiggins CD, Briscoe AD, Papa R. Genome-wide analysis of ionotropic receptors provides insight into their evolution in Heliconius butterflies. BMC Genomics 2016; 17:254. [PMID: 27004525 PMCID: PMC4804616 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2572-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2015] [Accepted: 03/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In a world of chemical cues, smell and taste are essential senses for survival. Here we focused on Heliconius, a diverse group of butterflies that exhibit variation in pre- and post-zygotic isolation and chemically-mediated behaviors across their phylogeny. Our study examined the ionotropic receptors, a recently discovered class of receptors that are some of the most ancient chemical receptors. RESULTS We found more ionotropic receptors in Heliconius (31) than in Bombyx mori (25) or in Danaus plexippus (27). Sixteen genes in Lepidoptera were not present in Diptera. Only IR7d4 was exclusively found in butterflies and two expansions of IR60a were exclusive to Heliconius. A genome-wide comparison between 11 Heliconius species revealed instances of pseudogenization, gene gain, and signatures of positive selection across the phylogeny. IR60a2b and IR60a2d are unique to the H. melpomene, H. cydno, and H. timareta clade, a group where chemosensing is likely involved in pre-zygotic isolation. IR60a2b also displayed copy number variations (CNVs) in distinct populations of H. melpomene and was the only gene significantly higher expressed in legs and mouthparts than in antennae, which suggests a gustatory function. dN/dS analysis suggests more frequent positive selection in some intronless IR genes and in particular in the sara/sapho and melpomene/cydno/timareta clades. IR60a1 was the only gene with an elevated dN/dS along a major phylogenetic branch associated with pupal mating. Only IR93a was differentially expressed between sexes. CONCLUSIONS All together these data make Heliconius butterflies one of the very few insects outside Drosophila where IRs have been characterized in detail. Our work outlines a dynamic pattern of IR gene evolution throughout the Heliconius radiation which could be the result of selective pressure to find potential mates or host-plants.
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- Bas van Schooten
- Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Hayden S, Teeling EC. The molecular biology of vertebrate olfaction. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2015; 297:2216-26. [PMID: 25312375 DOI: 10.1002/ar.23031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2014] [Accepted: 06/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The importance of chemosensation for vertebrates is reflected in the vast and variable nature of their chemosensory tissues, neurons, and genes, which we explore in this review. Immense progress has been made in elucidating the molecular biology of olfaction since the discovery of the olfactory receptor genes by Buck and Axel, which eventually won the authors the Nobel Prize. In particular, research linking odor ligands to olfactory receptors (ORs) is truly revolutionizing our understanding of how a large but limited number of chemosensory receptors can allow us to perceive the massive diversity of odors in our habitat. This research is providing insight into the evolution of genomes and providing the raw data needed to explore links between genotype and phenotype, still a grand challenge in biology. Research into olfaction is still developing and will no doubt continue until we have a clear understanding of how all odors are detected and the evolutionary forces that have molded the chemosensory subgenome in vertebrates. This knowledge will not only be a huge step in elucidating olfactory function, advancing scientific knowledge and techniques, but there are also commercial applications for this research. This review focuses on the molecular basis of chemosensation, particularly olfaction, its evolution across vertebrates and the recent molecular advances linking odors to their cognate receptors.
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- Sara Hayden
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Apps PJ, Weldon PJ, Kramer M. Chemical signals in terrestrial vertebrates: search for design features. Nat Prod Rep 2015; 32:1131-53. [DOI: 10.1039/c5np00029g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We review current information on intraspecific chemical signals and search for patterns in signal chemistry among modern terrestrial vertebrates (Amniota), including tortoises, squamate reptiles (amphisbaenians, lizards, and snakes), birds, and mammals.
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- Peter J. Apps
- Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Laboratory for Wildlife Chemistry
- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust
- Maun
- Botswana
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- Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
- National Zoological Park
- Front Royal
- USA
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Ibarra-Soria X, Levitin MO, Logan DW. The genomic basis of vomeronasal-mediated behaviour. Mamm Genome 2013; 25:75-86. [PMID: 23884334 PMCID: PMC3916702 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-013-9463-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2013] [Accepted: 06/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is a chemosensory subsystem found in the nose of most mammals. It is principally tasked with detecting pheromones and other chemical signals that initiate innate behavioural responses. The VNO expresses subfamilies of vomeronasal receptors (VRs) in a cell-specific manner: each sensory neuron expresses just one or two receptors and silences all the other receptor genes. VR genes vary greatly in number within mammalian genomes, from no functional genes in some primates to many hundreds in rodents. They bind semiochemicals, some of which are also encoded in gene families that are coexpanded in species with correspondingly large VR repertoires. Protein and peptide cues that activate the VNO tend to be expressed in exocrine tissues in sexually dimorphic, and sometimes individually variable, patterns. Few chemical ligand–VR–behaviour relationships have been fully elucidated to date, largely due to technical difficulties in working with large, homologous gene families with high sequence identity. However, analysis of mouse lines with mutations in genes involved in ligand–VR signal transduction has revealed that the VNO mediates a range of social behaviours, including male–male and maternal aggression, sexual attraction, lordosis, and selective pregnancy termination, as well as interspecific responses such as avoidance and defensive behaviours. The unusual logic of VR expression now offers an opportunity to map the specific neural circuits that drive these behaviours.
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- Ximena Ibarra-Soria
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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