An online communicative translation assessment model in an Indonesian EFL translation class: Students’ perceptions by Soni Tantan Tandiana, Fuad Abdullah, Dede Anwar, Emmas Maspupah

“…The findings revealed that OCTAM provided students with an effective translation assessment model, coped with their limited English vocabulary, guided them to focus on knowledge of form, function, and meaning of both source and target texts, offered them a more contextual translation test, raised their awareness of translating as a meaning-making practice, facilitated them to correct grammatical errors, created a less anxious test atmosphere, and generated their multimodal communicative competence. …”
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Potential Applicability of Air-Cooled Ladle Furnace Slag Fine Aggregate in Concrete Production by Jeongmin Ra, Sunmi Choi, Sangchul Shin, Jinman Kim

“…Electric arc furnace oxidizing slag (EAFOS) represents 80% of the electric arc furnace slag generated. Recently, EAFOS has been utilized as high value-added functional aggregate in a growing number of cases for the construction of air-cooling technology that turns EAFOS into fine aggregate-sized particles by spraying it into the air using high-pressure compressed air. …”
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Metal-Cation-Induced Tiny Ripple on Graphene by Yingying Huang, Hanlin Li, Liuyuan Zhu, Yongshun Song, Haiping Fang

“…In this study, we report that tiny ripples in graphene can be generated by the adsorption of a single metal cation (Na⁺, K⁺, Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, Cu²⁺, Fe³⁺) onto a graphene sheet, based on the density functional theory calculations. …”
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Multistep Degradation Tendency Prediction for Aircraft Engines Based on CEEMDAN Permutation Entropy and Improved Grey–Markov Model by Wei Jiang, Jianzhong Zhou, Yanhe Xu, Jie Liu, Yahui Shan

“…Aiming at the complexity of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) generated by CEEMDAN, an IMFs reconstruction strategy based on permutation entropy is developed to better characterize the degradation states. …”
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HnRNPM modulates alternative splicing in germ cells by recruiting PTBP1 by Peng Lv, Wenchao Xu, Sheng Xin, Yuanxuan Deng, Bin Yang, Dengjianyi Xu, Jian Bai, Deilin Ma, Tao Wang, Jihong Liu, Xiaming Liu

“…Alternative splicing is widely involved in the process of spermatogenesis. However, the function of hnRNPM as a splicing factor during spermatogenesis remains unknown. …”
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Search for molecular descriptors and computer prediction of biological activity in a series of S-derivatives (1,2,4-triazole-3(2H)-yl)methyl)thiopyrimidines by Yu. V. Karpenko, O. I. Panasenko, A. P. Litun

“…Furthermore, during biotransformation, they may generate one or more metabolites with potent bioactive properties. …”
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Formulated Mathematical Model for Delayed Particle Flow in Cascaded Subsurface Water Reservoirs with Validation on River Flow by Richard Ombaki, Joash Kerongo

“…Hence, longer values of time t will imply more pollution in the water reservoir and vice versa. …”
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Modeling Collective Behavior for Fish School With Deep Q-Networks by Pengyu Chen, Fang Wang, Shuo Liu, Yifan Yu, Shengzhi Yue, Yanan Song, Yuanshan Lin

“…An individual’s action is represented with discretized turning angle. Then, the reward function is constructed with the change in the number of neighbors. …”
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Myoglobin regulates fatty acid trafficking and lipid metabolism in mammary epithelial cells. by Julia Armbruster, Mostafa A Aboouf, Max Gassmann, Angela Egert, Hubert Schorle, Veit Hornung, Tobias Schmidt, Jonathan L Schmid-Burgk, Glen Kristiansen, Anne Bicker, Thomas Hankeln, Hao Zhu, Thomas A Gorr

“…We conclude that MB can function in mammary epithelia as intracellular O2-dependent shuttle of oxidizable fatty acid substrates. …”
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Federated stochastic gradient averaging ring homomorphism based learning for secure data aggregation in WSN by Saravanakumar Pichumani, T. V. P. Sundararajan, S. M. Ramesh

“…Following which fine tune weights are generated using Stochastic Gradient Averaging function. …”
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Effect of Low-Temperature Plasma Activated Water with Different Treatment Times on Myofibrillar Proteins of Thawed Pork by Manting Du, Fangge Hao, Shunyang Sun, Ke Li, Qisen Xiang, Junguang Li, Lichuang Cao, Yanhong Bai

“…In this study, myofibrillar proteins (MPs) of thawed pork were treated with plasma-activated water (PAW) generated at different times (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 s) to investigate whether the function of MPs is improved through PAW and the corresponding regulatory mechanism. …”
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Conmemorar sin festejar: exclusión y polarización en las fiestas del bicentenario de Honduras en 2021 by Miguel Gomis

“…Have the commemorations of the bicentennial of independence in Honduras generated more inclusive processes and stories? This text analyzes the events, speeches and content of the bicentennial of Honduras to understand the exclusion of certain actors. …”
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Developing artificial intelligence tools for institutional review board pre-review: A pilot study on ChatGPT's accuracy and reproducibility. by Yasuko Fukataki, Wakako Hayashi, Naoki Nishimoto, Yoichi M Ito

“…First, we compared the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-4o using custom agents developed via OpenAI's Custom GPT functionality (hereafter "GPTs"). Then, using GPT-4o alone, we compared outputs generated by GPTs optimized with customized Japanese prompts to those generated by standard prompts. …”
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Establishment of subcutaneous transplantation platform for delivering induced pluripotent stem cell-derived insulin-producing cells. by Hong Thuan Tran, Watchareewan Rodprasert, Irma Padeta, Saranyou Oontawee, Steven Dwi Purbantoro, Anatcha Thongsit, Parkpoom Siriarchavatana, Sayamon Srisuwatanasagul, Hiroshi Egusa, Thanaphum Osathanon, Chenphop Sawangmake

“…With a multi-step induction protocol, the functional and matured IPCs were generated by 13 days with a long-term survival capability. …”
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Multilingual education

“… [Summary generated by ChatGPT] Overview: This issue of Babylonia explores “Language Awareness” (Éveil aux langues), a pedagogical approach aimed at introducing students to linguistic and cultural diversity. …”
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Low-Rank Representation and Data Compression of Full-Field Displacement Maps for Structural Modal Analysis and Damage Identification by Yankun Li, Yu Huang, Ziguang Li, Zhiping Yin, Shancheng Cao

“…For the purpose of resolving those issues, a complete method is proposed, consisting of (1) an adaptive kernel function construction method for low-rank-representing the full-field displacement maps while retaining both global and local shape features, (2) an enhanced frequency domain decomposition approach for noise-robust mode shape estimation based on the kernel functions, and (3) extracting and fusing local shape features of multiple mode shapes for more accurate damage localization. …”
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Single-cell chromatin accessibility landscape profiling reveals the diversity of epigenetic regulation in the rat nervous system by Peiyao Ma, Shanshan Duan, Wen Ma, Qiuting Deng, Yeya Yu, Peng Gao, Yue Yuan, Chuanyu Liu

“…Single-cell sequencing can provide information on cell-type-specific chromatin structure and regulatory elements, revealing differences in chromatin organization between different cell types and their potential roles of these differences in brain function. Here, we generated a chromatin accessibility dataset through single-cell ATAC-seq of 174,593 high-quality nuclei from 16 adult rat brain regions. …”
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Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) in cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L., Solanaceae) by Jaime A. Osorio-Guarín, Francy L. García-Arias, Roxana Yockteng

“…More than half of the treated plants showed photo-bleaching, indicating an efficiency rate of 50 % of the VIGS protocol. …”
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Identification of a general O-linked protein glycosylation system in Acinetobacter baumannii and its role in virulence and biofilm formation. by Jeremy A Iwashkiw, Andrea Seper, Brent S Weber, Nichollas E Scott, Evgeny Vinogradov, Chad Stratilo, Bela Reiz, Stuart J Cordwell, Randy Whittal, Stefan Schild, Mario F Feldman

“…Although A. baumannii is considered as one of the more threatening "superbugs" for our healthcare system, little is known about the factors contributing to its pathogenesis. …”
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Denoising and deconvolving CT images of unknown origin: comparing linear Wiener-deconvolution with deep convolutional neural network Noise2Inverse by Simon Zabler, Antoine Klos, Pierre Lhuissier, Luc Salvo, Maziyar Farahmandi, Simon Wittl

“…Unlike Wiener filtering, N2I is far more effective in removing pixel noise. Yet, these models give the vague impression that they might generate ghosts of small features (pores or spots) in the object. …”
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