Abstract-The theory of fuzzy sets has been recognized as a suitable tool to model several kinds of patterns that can hold in data. In this paper, we are concerned with the development of a general model to discover association rules among items in a (crisp) set of fuzzy transactions. This general model can be particularized in several ways; each particular instance corresponds to a certain kind of pattern and/or repository of data. We describe some applications of this scheme, paying special attention to the discovery of fuzzy association rules in relational databases.
Peptide−π-conjugated
materials are important for biointerfacing
charge-transporting applications due to their aqueous compatibility
and formation of long-range π-electron networks. Perylene diimides
(PDIs), well-established charge-transporting π systems, can
self-assemble in aqueous solutions when conjugated with amino acids.
In this work, we leveraged computational guidance from our previous
work to access two different self-assembled architectures from PDI–amino
acid conjugates. Furthermore, we expanded the design rule to other
sequences to learn that the closest amino acids to the π core
have a significant effect on the photophysical properties of the resulting
assemblies. By simply altering glycine to alanine at the closest residue
position, we observed significantly different electronic properties
as revealed through UV–vis, photoluminescence, and circular
dichroism spectroscopies. Accompanying molecular dynamics simulations
revealed two distinct types of self-assembled architectures: cofacial
structures when the smaller glycine residue is at the closest residue
position to the π core versus rotationally shifted structures
when glycine is substituted for the larger alanine. This study illustrates
the use of tandem computations and experiments to unearth and understand
new design rules for supramolecular materials and exposes a modest
amino acid substitution as a means to predictably modulate the supramolecular
organization and engineer the photophysical properties of π-conjugated
peptidic materials.
Temporal databases offer a common framework to those database applications that need to store or handle different types of temporal data from a variety of sources. They allow the concept of time to be handled from the point of view of meaning, representation, and manipulation. Although at first sight the incorporation of time into a database might appear to be a direct and simple task, it is, however, quite complex: not only must new structures and specific operators be included, but the semantics of conventional DML sentences (insert, update, or delete) and queries must be appropriately changed. In addition, temporal information is not always as precise as desired since it might be affected by imprecision due to the use of natural language or to the nature of the information source. In this paper, we deal with the problem of the update (and, implicitly, insert and delete) and query operations when time is expressed by means of a fuzzy interval of dates.
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