In Vitro Models of Cardiovascular Disease: Embryoid Bodies, Organoids and Everything in Between by Theodora M. Stougiannou, Konstantinos C. Christodoulou, Dimos Karangelis

“…Not only can they recapitulate 3D form and function, but the developmental programs governing the self-organization of cell populations into more complex tissues as well. …”
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Upper-Bound Analysis of Slope Reliability Considering Anisotropic Spatial Variability and Reinforcement with Anti-slide Piles by ZHAO Zi-hao, WANG Jia-rui, FU Tao-tao, ZHU En-lin

“…To ensure that the random field demonstrates general rotational anisotropy, the autocorrelation function was transformed through a coordinate system conversion before the decomposition of the autocorrelation coefficient matrix. …”
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VISUALIZATION AND QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF SMALL OBJECTS IN A LENS ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPE WITH A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY by S. A. Titov, A. N. Bogachenkov

“…On the basis of the paraxial approximation it was found that the recorded spatio-temporal signal of the microscope ultrasonic array can be treated as an estimation of the scattering function of visualized objects. It was theoretically established that the scattering functions of the observed inhomogeneities can be used for the interpretation of the generated acoustic images. …”
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Experimental Investigation on Damage Characteristics and Early Warning of Frozen Coal under Uniaxial Compression by Xiang Sun, Bin Liu, Qi Dong, Feng Shi

“…The test results showed that the compressive strength of the frozen coal samples decreased significantly, and the strength of the saturated frozen coal samples was the lowest; more acoustic emissions were generated at the initial loading stage. …”
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An intelligent prediction method of gas concentration in coal mines based onimproved TCN-TimeGAN by Qingsong HU, Shuo ZHENG, Shiyin LI, Yanjing SUN

“…The experiment results show that the data generated by the proposed model can cover the original data distribution more comprehensively, and the mean square error (MSE), root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) of the results predicted from the generated data by the improved model are much smaller than those of the comparison model, and the prediction can be stable and accurate in all time periods.…”
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Tie-Breaking Rule Based on Partial Proof of Work in a Blockchain by Akira Sakurai, Kazuyuki Shudo

“…Our method is a tie-breaking rule that uses partial proof of work, which does not function as a block, as a time standard with finer granularity. …”
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Research on acoustic emission characteristics and mechanical properties of shale under uniaxial and conventional triaxial compression by Wenjie Wu, Chee-Ming Chan, Xiaopeng Su, Yilei Gu, Mingqing Liu, Weijia Shao

“…In the residual stage, the AE signals generated under low confining pressure are more than those under high confining pressure. …”
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Exploring cognitive strategies in human-AI interaction: ChatGPT's role in creative tasks by Jelle Boers, Terra Etty, Martine Baars, Kim van Boekhoven

“…This study investigated the cognitive strategies employed by dyads when utilizing ChatGPT's examples to generate ideas in creative tasks. Fourteen university students generated ideas for both function-first and form-first creative tasks in interaction with ChatGPT. …”
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Analyse d'une formation plurilingue à distance : actions et interactions by Jean-Jacques Quintin, Monica Masperi

“…Galanet" learning schemes assemble large groups of students (from one to two hundred in general) who are geographically located in different universities and committed to completing common tasks the final objective of which is to create a quadrilingual press file publication online.The present study will be developed along two complementary axes:1. a quantitative analysis of the messages posted on the forum page of the platform for each session.2. a qualitative analysis of sample interventions generated in one of these sessions.On the one hand, the quantitative approach will allow for the highlighting of certain salient features of the e-learning experience as a whole, including how sessions function and their impact on both students and tutors.On the other hand, the qualitative approach will allow to examine and understand more fully the discursive practices elicited by the learning scenario and the plurilinguistic dimension of the forum exchanges.…”
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The Role of Inflammation in Diabetes: Current Concepts and Future Perspectives by Sotirios Tsalamandris, Alexios S Antonopoulos, Evangelos Oikonomou, George-Aggelos Papamikroulis, Georgia Vogiatzi, Spyridon Papaioannou, Spyros Deftereos, Dimitris Tousoulis

“…The role of obesity, adipose tissue, gut microbiota and pancreatic beta cell function in diabetes are under intensive scrutiny with several clinical trials to have been completed while more are in development. …”
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Optimum Design of Fibre Orientation in Composite Laminate Plates for Out-Plane Stresses by Rasoul Khandan, Siamak Noroozi, Philip Sewell, John Vinney, Mehran Koohgilani

“…However, the methodologies utilised in these studies cannot be used for general analysis of such problems. In this research, an extra term is added to the optimisation penalty function in order to consider the transverse shear effect. …”
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Effect of cochlea damage on the detection of difference tone in signal envelope by M. Kordus

“…Results demonstrated that cochlear damage had no large effect on the nonlinearity in the AM envelope indicating that the distortion component must be generated by a more central non linear effects.…”
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A POSSIBILISTIC APPROACH TO CALCULATING THE INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN FOR INVESTMENT PROJECTS WITH FUZZY CASH FLOWS by E. S. Volkova, V. B. Gisin

“…The existence and applicability of the IRR may be guaranteed by rather general conditions, e.g. those of Norstrom theorem. …”
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THE FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD IN THE EUROPEAN UNION by Mihaela Iuliana DUMITRU, Diana Elena BRINZA

“…The totality of these actions is more and more extensive, given that the access to the Community financial support is currently facilitated, as a result of the particular conditions generated by the pandemic. …”
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Media Matters: How Information Release Shapes Monkeypox Vaccination Willingness by Huan Wang, Nan Wu

“…Furthermore, user-generated media exhibited a more negative effect on vaccination intentions during the Monkeypox epidemic, particularly when combined with episodic framing. …”
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Effect of lincRNA-EPS on osteoclastogenesis of RAW264.7 cells induced by RANKL and LPS: An experimental study by ZHANG Xu, WANG Yabing, SU Jiansheng

“…[Results:] RAW264.7 cell strain overexpressing lincRNA-EPS and its negative control strain were generated. Neither strain showed significant difference during osteoclastogenesis (P>0.05), either induced by RANKL or LPS; for osteoclastogenesis by LPS induction, TRAP staining showed that significantly more osteoclasts were generated from lincRNA-EPS OE strain (P<0.05), while phalloidin staining showed that larger F-actin rings were generated from lincRNA-EPS OE strain, and RT-qPCR also showed that the mRNA levels of 4 osteoclastogenesis-related genes (TRAP, CTSK, DC-STAMP and ATP6v0d2) after induction were significantly lower in lincRNA-EPS OE strain (P<0.05); however, those difference were not present (P>0.05) when osteoclastogenesis was induced by RANKL. …”
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Ship local path planning method based on three-dimensional potential field model by Qunpeng WANG, Longhao LI, Hongxu GUAN, Jialun LIU, Jianzhe CAI, Zhengrong SHA, Jinshui ZHANG

“…Objectives To make local path planning algorithms more consistent with the maneuvering characteristics of ships, thereby generating safer and more reliable reference paths, this paper proposes a three-dimensional potential field modeling method. …”
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A novel bivariate regression model derived from the clayton copula and the Odd Dagum-G family and its application by Julius Kwaku Adu-Ntim, Akoto Yaw Omari-Sasu, Maxwell Akwasi Boateng, Isaac Adjei Mensah

“…This study presents a new bivariate regression model that is generated from the Clayton Copula and the Odd Dagum-G (OddD-G) family. …”
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A Fast Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Saliency Map and Neutrosophic Set Theory by Sensen Song, Zhenhong Jia, Jie Yang, Nikola K. Kasabov

“…Then, the initial saliency map is generated. After the weighted superposition of the initial saliency map, the local entropy map and the gray scale map, the final saliency map can be generated using the nonlinear function, and it can effectively highlight the foreground information of the image. …”
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Perceptual Error Logarithm: An Efficient and Effective Analytical Method for Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Sergio A. C. Bezerra, Sergio A. C. Bezerra Junior, Jose L. De S. Pio, Jose R. H. Carvalho, Keiko V. O. Fonseca

“…Initially, luminance and chrominance maps are generated after the reduction and spatial color conversion applied to the input images. …”
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