The impact of landscape and prey on psyllophagous ladybird communities in a tropical environment. by Marine Baujeu, Laura Moquet, Frederic Chiroleu, Antoine Becker-Scarpitta, Bernard Reynaud

“…Ladybirds and psyllids were regularly collected during two years using a thermal aspirator, and visual inspection was conducted at eleven sites visited monthly. …”
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British and American Political Cartoons in Sociocultural Context by Svetlana Yu. Pavlina

“…To shape their messages the authors employ verbal, iconic, graphical and colour codes which interact with each other and broad contexts building intersemiotic and intertextual ties. …”
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COMMUNICATION TOPICS AND STRATEGIES IN E-MAIL CONSULTATION: COMPARISON BETWEEN AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS by Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas

“…Findings also show that messages from both groups of students contained substantial relational communication, perhaps in an attempt to compensate for the lack of visual and paralinguistic clues in the e-mail medium.…”
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The Intelligent Work of Art: How the Narcissus Theme Echoes in New Media Art by Daniel Becker

“…This paper will deal with the mythological figure of Narcissus in new media art. In visual arts in general, this myth is usually used to reflect on the relationship between the artist and his actual work. …”
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User Experience of a Semi-Immersive Musical Serious Game to Stimulate Cognitive Functions in Hospitalized Older Patients: Questionnaire Study by Laurent Samson, Lena Carcreff, Frédéric Noublanche, Sophie Noublanche, Hélène Vermersch-Leiber, Cédric Annweiler

“…UX mean scores were computed and presented graphically. Verbal feedbacks were reported to support the quantitative results. …”
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An End-to-End Secure Communication Framework for Smart Homes Environment Using Consortium Blockchain System by Suresh Babu Erukala, Dimitar Tokmakov, Aswani Devi Aguru, Rajesh Kaluri, Anna Bekyarova-Tokmakova, Nevena Mileva

“…A secure prototype has been developed to visualize and engage with a smart home environment. …”
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Percepciones estudiantiles en los años 2006 y 2007 sobre el proceso de formación farmacéutico en la Universidad de Costa Rica / Students’ perception in the 2006 and 2007 of the pha... by Tatiana Aguiar Montealegre, Luis Guillermo Jiménez Herrera

“…With this approach, new strategies for the development of professionals in Pharmacy can be visualized, arranged to acquire leadership in the health field, promotion of wellbeing and the prevention of disease. …”
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Postural responses to cute animal pictures: The effect of image size by Nonoka Nakamura, Akihiko Gobara, Hiroshi Nittono

“…Forty-one university students were asked to stand on a force plate while viewing animal pictures presented in large or small size, with instructions to imagine interacting with the animals. …”
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Materialese as Border Thinking: The Multimodal Voice of Bilingual Learning Materials by Yeraldine Aldana

“…Data collection instruments were images or visual data along with field notes taken during the application of the didactic resource in a simulated experience. …”
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Development of a Networked Multi-Participant Driving Simulator with Synchronized EEG and Telemetry for Traffic Research by Poorendra Ramlall, Ethan Jones, Subhradeep Roy

“…This paper presents a multi-participant driving simulation framework designed to support traffic experiments involving the simultaneous collection of vehicle telemetry and cognitive data. …”
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Cognition and chronic pain: an analysis on community-dwelling elderly caregivers and non-caregivers by Marielli TERASSI, Ana Carolina OTTAVIANI, Érica Nestor de SOUZA, Francisco José FRAGA, Pedro MONTOYA, Sofia Cristina Iost PAVARINI, Priscilla HORTENSE

“…There were no effects between subjects or interactions (caregiving and pain factors) either on P300 amplitude or on P300 latency. …”
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A real-time virtual liver simulator using position based dynamics with compliant constraints for medical applications by Yufan Guo, Dongliang Kou, Xukun Zhang, Lihua Zhang, Kai Cao

“…This imbalance restricts their utility in dynamic surgical environments that demand both accuracy and real-time interaction. To overcome this limitation, we present a novel real-time liver simulation algorithm leveraging Extended Position-Based Dynamics (XPBD). …”
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Regarding certain stages of the development of quantum chemistry in Russia: Experience from the Ya.K. Syrkin Department of Physical Chemistry of the M.V. Lomonosov Institute of Fin... by K. V. Bozhenko

“…The physical significance of the exchange interaction constant is given a visual meaning: it establishes the change in spin density on the metals forming complexes of the type in question when passing from isolated cations in the composition of the complexes. …”
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Alternative communication technologies for correcting speech impairment in children with autism spectrum disorders by S.N. Komarova, I.A. Nigmatullina

“…Recommendations for choosing an appropriate means of communication based on the children's initial fine motor skills, primary communication skills (if any), level of visual perception, motivational factors, and interests are presented.…”
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Learning Style Preferences, Strategy Use and Chinese Undergraduate EFL Students’ English Achievements by Meihua Liu

“…Yet, studies on learning style preferences and their interaction with strategy in relation to SL/FL learning outcomes are limited. …”
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Ecological Observations of Native Geocoris pallens and G. punctipes Populations in the Great Basin Desert of Southwestern Utah by Meredith C. Schuman, Danny Kessler, Ian T. Baldwin

“…For these reasons, Geocoris spp. have become models for the study of tritrophic plant-herbivore-predator interactions. Here, we present detailed images and ecological observations of G. pallens Stål and G. punctipes (Say) native to the Great Basin Desert of southwestern Utah, including observations of their life histories and color morphs, dynamics of their predatory feeding behavior and prey choice over space and time, and novel aspects of Geocoris spp.’s relationships to their host plants. …”
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Transcriptomic profiling of Schlemm’s canal cells reveals a lymphatic-biased identity and three major cell states by Revathi Balasubramanian, Krishnakumar Kizhatil, Taibo Li, Nicholas Tolman, Aakriti Bhandari, Graham Clark, Violet Bupp-Chickering, Ruth A Kelly, Sally Zhou, John Peregrin, Marina Simón, Christa Montgomery, W Daniel Stamer, Jiang Qian, Simon WM John

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scMINER: a mutual information-based framework for clustering and hidden driver inference from single-cell transcriptomics data by Qingfei Pan, Liang Ding, Siarhei Hladyshau, Xiangyu Yao, Jiayu Zhou, Lei Yan, Yogesh Dhungana, Hao Shi, Chenxi Qian, Xinran Dong, Chad Burdyshaw, Joao Pedro Veloso, Alireza Khatamian, Zhen Xie, Isabel Risch, Xu Yang, Jiyuan Yang, Xin Huang, Jason Fang, Anuj Jain, Arihant Jain, Michael Rusch, Michael Brewer, Junmin Peng, Koon-Kiu Yan, Hongbo Chi, Jiyang Yu

“…In addition, we establish scMINER Portal, an interactive visualization tool to facilitate exploration of scMINER results.…”
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Mixed Reality Ultrasound-Guided Mini-ECIRS with Apple Vision Pro™ - First Case Report by Roberto Montoro Neto, Fabio C. Vicentini, Ricardo T.S. Ugino, Alexandre Danilovic, Giovanni S. Marchini, Fabio C.M. Torricelli, Carlos A. Batagello, Anderson B. Pellanda, Alexandre Silva, William C. Nahas, Eduardo Mazzucchi

“…ABSTRACT Introduction: Some endourological surgeries require multiple screens to perform combined procedures, which can present ergonomic challenges (1, 2). Apple Vision Pro (AVP) is a spatial computing device developed by Apple that incorporates virtual reality (VR) for life-like simulations, realistic medical scenarios, interactive anatomical models, and augmented reality (AR) technologies (3). …”
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LINC01322 may serve as a potential diagnostic marker for advanced stage tumors in renal cell carcinoma patients eligible for total nephrectomy by Amirhosein Maharati, Negin Taghehchian, Fatemeh Taghavinia, Alireza Golshan, Azadeh Aarabi, Mohammad Reza Abbaszadegan, Meysam Moghbeli

“…Methods: we visualized LINC01322 expression data using the online tool Gene Expression Profiling Interactive Analysis (GEPIA2) across different cancers and normal tissues. …”
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