Prmt5 is essential for intestinal stem cell maintenance and homeostasis by Li Yang, Xuewen Li, Chenyi Shi, Bing Zhao

“…Mechanistically, Prmt5 sustains a high level of H3K27ac accumulation by inhibiting Hdac9 expression in the intestinal epithelium, and maintains the stemness of ISCs in a cell-autonomous manner. Notably, inhibition of histone deacetylases can rescue both self‐renewal and differentiation capacities of Prmt5‐depleted ISCs. …”
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Globalisation and media ethics in Africa by Isaac Phiri

“…The enthusiasm was fuelled by promises of freedom of speech and prospects of the media becoming an autonomous fourth actor on the public stage. It was envisioned by many that the media would reject the ethos prevailing under hegemonic rule and adopt international norms. …”
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Evaluating territorial management of integrated development region (RIDE-DF) and its effect on land use land cover transformation by Eder Renato Merino, Daniel A. de Azevedo, Mathias Omar T. Alvarez, Allan da Silva Ramalho

“…In Brazil, the decentralized federative structure of the State, consisting of four autonomous political levels – Union, states, Federal District, and municipalities – alongside its vast territory, necessitates innovative strategies for territorial management. …”
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The Social Organization of Honey Bees by Ashley N. Mortensen, Bryan Smith, James D. Ellis

“…Colonies reproduce by swarming to create new daughter colonies that in turn thermoregulate, breathe, and reproduce just as a single autonomous animal does. In three pages this fact sheet explains the intricate caste system and age-based division of labor that allows colonies of humankind’s best-loved pollinators to function and thrive. …”
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La création du CAPES de langues kanak et les problématiques qu’elle pose sur la gestion des langues dites régionales by Yann Bévant

“…These Accords led to a period of appeasement and to autonomous consociational politics, which put an end to a situation nearing civil war at the beginning of the 1980s. …”
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Cooperative trajectory prediction system for intelligent and automated connected convoy based on blockchain by Rensheng WANG, Tianhao WU, Lin ZHANG, Konglin ZHU

“…Autonomous vehicles have been extensively researched and developed rapidly in recent years.However,these vehicles may be not able to avoid collision with vehicles that appear suddenly.To solve this problem,a cooperative trajectory prediction system for intelligent and automated connected convoy based on blockchain was proposed.In the proposed system,each node in the intelligent and automated connected convoy and roadside infrastructure predict the trajectory of vehicles around them with the LSTM model,and they share the information they get.Using blockchain,the intelligent and automated connected convoy and roadside infrastructure rate the received messages.The summarized rating will be stored as a block in the blockchain that stores the trust values.Vehicles in the intelligent and automated connected convoy are able to judge whether the other nodes in the Conroy are credible according to their trust value,and messages from the low trust value sender will be ignored,thus achieving cooperative driving.Experiment shows that the proposed system plays a significant role in improving driving safety of the intelligent connected platoon.…”
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Walking into the wild. A transition to a co-evolutionary landscape by Adriano Dessì

“… This research paper attempts to shift the approach and the possible attitudes of architectural and landscape design towards an interpretation of ecological transition based on the dimension of the ‘wild’, that is, on the possibility that the transformation of places by man contemplates other and the most diverse forms of life, spheres of proximity in which human activities give way to third and fourth natures, which develop their own habitats in an autonomous, dynamic and vital manner. In this reflection, thinking about a ‘landscape of the wild’ means thinking again about the relationship between human and natural habitats, which develops on many levels that cannot be reduced and simplified in the impending phenomenon of ‘rewilding’, ranging from the possibility of giving shape to the spaces of nature, of creating new forms of shared spaces between man and living things, to the conception of minimal architectures necessary to stimulate ancient human practices (such as walking) and which are capable of developing new ecologies.   …”
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Collective Awareness and Lyrical Poetry: The Emergence of Creole Literary Culture in the Archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe by Ewa A. Łukaszyk

“… The problem discussed in the article is the emergence of the autonomous literary system on the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, a former Portuguese slave emporium, as well as coffee and cocoa producing colony. …”
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Self-driving lab for the photochemical synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles with targeted structural and optical properties by Tianyi Wu, Sina Kheiri, Riley J. Hickman, Huachen Tao, Tony C. Wu, Zhi-Bo Yang, Xin Ge, Wei Zhang, Milad Abolhasani, Kun Liu, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Eugenia Kumacheva

“…Here, we introduce the Autonomous Fluidic Identification and Optimization Nanochemistry (AFION) self-driving lab that integrates a microfluidic reactor, in-flow spectroscopic nanoparticle characterization, and machine learning for the exploration and optimization of the multidimensional chemical space for the photochemical synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles. …”
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Lithuania’s Binary Worker Classification Vs. A Teleological Interpretation of the EU’s ‘Worker’ Concept by Germany and the UK by Lauschke Hans

“…These approaches influence both countries’ understanding of an autonomous EU ‘worker’ concept, particularly evident in connection with Council Directive 89/391/EEC, which introduced measures to enhance the safety and health of workers at work and was adopted more than 30 years ago.…”
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Trajectory planning of UUV-assisted UWOC systems based on DQN by Jiawei HU, Xiaoqian LIU, Xinke TANG, Yuhan DONG

“…As a key submarine-based communication platform, unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) can facilitate underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC).However, fluctuating characteristics of water body, different water qualities, multi-user access present challenges to UUV-assisted UWOC systems, which could be alleviated by an appropriate path planning to maximize the system and each user performance.Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) technology was applied in the path planning of autonomous vehicles, a trajectory planning scheme for UUV-assisted UWOC systems was proposed.The UUV automatically decides the navigation direction through deep Q-network (DQN) method, thereby improving the communication capacity of the system and each user.The impact of distinct water qualities on the capacity enhancement was also investigated.Simulation results suggest that the outputted strategy of DQN can improve the link capacity of the system and each user.This capacity improvement in clear seawater is better than that in pure seawater but lower than that in coastal water.…”
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Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa by Sepetla Molapo

“…Cut off from participation in divine will, the autonomous will of Protestant Christian missionaries became the basis for organizing the world of the 19th-century Sotho speakers. …”
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Wearable microfluidic biosensors with haptic feedback for continuous monitoring of hydration biomarkers in workers by Julia C. Spinelli, Brandon J. Suleski, Donald E. Wright, Joseph L. Grow, Gabriel R. Fagans, Maura J. Buckley, Da Som Yang, Kaitao Yang, Steven M. Beil, Jessica C. Wallace, Thomas S. DiZoglio, Jeffrey B. Model, Shirley Love, David E. Macintosh, Alan P. Scarth, Matthew T. Marrapode, Corinna Serviente, Raudel Avila, Barrak K. Alahmad, Michael A. Busa, John A. Wright, Weihua Li, Douglas J. Casa, John A. Rogers, Stephen P. Lee, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Alexander J. Aranyosi

“…Data is stored onboard in memory and autonomously transmitted via Bluetooth to a smartphone and cloud portal. …”
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Fuel Economy in Truck Platooning: A Literature Overview and Directions for Future Research by Linlin Zhang, Feng Chen, Xiaoxiang Ma, Xiaodong Pan

“…Specifically, it summarized the methodologies, the contributing factors of fuel consumption, the coordination methods to improve the platooning rate, and the look-ahead control strategies to generate fuel-efficient speed profiles for each vehicle driving in a platoon over different road grades. After that, the autonomous truck platooning was introduced, and we raised and discussed a couple of outstanding questions to be addressed in future work.…”
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Multitarget Search of Swarm Robots in Unknown Complex Environments by You Zhou, Anhua Chen, Hongqiang Zhang, Xin Zhang, Shaowu Zhou

“…When searching for multiple targets in an unknown complex environment, swarm robots should firstly form a number of subswarms autonomously through a task division model and then each subswarm searches for a target in parallel. …”
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Les Kurdes en Irak : une communauté linguistique qui protège son identité nationale by Nigar Ali Hussein

“…The Kurdish speech community in Iraq, autonomous since 1991, has witnessed an important situation of multilingualism due to the existence of a large number of refugees (more than two million). …”
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Le revivaliste et ses sources by Cyril Isnart, Pierre Carouge, Jérôme Casalonga, Olivier Durif, Manu Théron

“…On the contrary, by postulating that revivalism has constructed an ethnography, or rather ethnographies, that are plural and experimental, collaborative and autonomous, collective and individual, we can see the singular paths that musicians, enamored of other aesthetics and driven by political passions, have taken in France. …”
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Nord Stream methane leaks spread across 14% of Baltic waters by Martin Mohrmann, Louise C. Biddle, Gregor Rehder, Henry C. Bittig, Bastien Y. Queste

“…We use sustained high-resolution observations of methane concentrations from autonomous gliders and an instrumented ship of opportunity to reveal the timing and spread of dissolved methane across different Baltic regions and marine protected areas. …”
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Design of Motion Controller for Satellite-Borne Data Transmission Antenna by Lijiao Li, Ran Shi, Xiaohui Zhang, Jiyu Ma, Jun Zhang

“…The controller receives commands through the RS-422 asynchronous transmission serial port and performs speed planning autonomously. The controller also performs closed-loop position control with the collected resolver angle and controls two antennas synchronously or independently in a subdivision driving method. …”
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A survey of cybersecurity for intelligent connected-automated vehicle by Yufeng LI, Xiaoyuan LU, Chenhong CAO, Jiangtao LI, Hongyi ZHU, Nan MENG

“…The automotive industry is experiencing a shift to an intelligent and connected paradigm.(Semi-) Autonomous vehicles use a new generation of information and communication technologies to realize a full range of interactions between vehicles and cloud,vehicles and vehicles,vehicles and roads,and vehicles and pedestrian,etc.When cars started to become connected computers on wheels,network security became a major challenge,and because the scope of cyber threats extended from virtual space to physical space,the harm of cybersecurity had risen to human life.The electronic/electrical structure,in-vehicle network structure,and out-of-vehicle network structure of intelligent vehicles were introduced,the security requirements of vehicle networks were elaborated,several cyber-attacks against connected-automated vehicle (CAV) were pointed out,the available defense measures against these attacks were addressed.The advantages and disadvantages of these measures were summarized.Finally,possible defense measures and directions in the future were discussed to further ensure the security of CAV.…”
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