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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A Novel Double Cluster and Principal Component Analysis-Based Optimization Method for the Orbit Design of Earth Observation Satellites by Yunfeng Dong, Xiaona Wei, Lu Tian, Fengrui Liu, Guangde Xu

“…The test results from a multiobjective numerical benchmark function and the orbit design results of an Earth observation satellite show that DCPC-based OM converges more efficiently than WSGA-based HM. …”
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A New Cipher Based on Feistel Structure and Chaotic Maps by Al-Bahrani et al.

“…The proposed cipher operates on more than 500 bytes (4000-bit) readable text blocks by six round computing. …”
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Fine structure of the doublet P levels of boron by Saeed Nasiri, Dmitry Tumakov, Monika Stanke, Andrzej Kędziorski, Ludwik Adamowicz, Sergiy Bubin

“…The nonrelativistic wave function of each of the states is generated in an independent variational calculation by expanding it in terms of a large number, 12000–17000, of all-electron explicitly correlated Gaussian (ECG) functions whose nonlinear parameters are extensively optimized with a procedure that employs analytic energy gradient determined with respect to these parameters. …”
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Computational simulation study of the impact of isotropic GDL thermal conductivity on PEMFC characteristics by Mahmut Kaplan

“…The maximum current density of 1.38 A/cm² with the more homogeneous temperature distribution and lower temperature across PEMFC is obtained at 100 W/mK. …”
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Towards Explainable Graph Embeddings for Gait Assessment Using Per-Cluster Dimensional Weighting by Chris Lochhead, Robert B. Fisher

“…The latent graph embeddings produced by this framework led to a novel semi-supervised weighting function which quantifies and ranks the most important joint features, which are used to provide a description for each pathology. …”
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Unveiling the potential of far-UVC: Assessing irradiance and dose-response for microbial inactivation in UV systems by Sudhanshu Pandey, Aku Karvinen, Jani Hakala

“…These parameters include diffuse irradiance (UV lamp efficiency), UV transmittance (UVT), and Reynolds number. An user-defined function calculates UV dosages received by microbes traversing the system. …”
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The role of radial head morphology in proximal radioulnar joint congruency during forearm rotation by Hailong Zhang, Guang Yang, Yi Lu

“…The hypothesis is that the PRUJ is more congruent in the maximal pronation and supination positions than in the neutral position. …”
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Exploring Image Decolorization: Methods, Implementations, and Performance Assessment by Ivana Žeger, Ivan Šetka, Domagoj Marić, Sonja Grgic

“…This paper discusses the decolorization process and provides an overview of the methods based on the different principles used: basic conversion from RGB to YUV format using ITU Recommendations 601, 709, and 2020; basic conversion from RGB to LAB color space; the method using cumulative distribution function of color channels; one global decolorization method; and one based on deep learning. …”
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Performance Study of Random Layout Light Source for Visible Light Communication System by Xizheng Ke, Yuwei Zheng, Jingyuan Liang, Huanhuan Qin

“…A particle swarm optimization algorithm is introduced based on the Matern hardcore point process, where the points generated under the Matern hardcore point process are used as the initial positions of the particles, and optimization adjustments are made according to the objective function to find the optimal layout. …”
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Stock Price Pumping and Dumping Manipulation Detection Using Deep Learning Methods in Tehran Stock Exchange by meysam amiri, moslem peymany, Mohammad Ali Dehghan Dehnavi, Reza Jahanbin

“…In the following, by using the adversarial generative network, misbalancing of data has been solved, and by using multi-layer perceptron neural network models, recurrent neural network, long-short-term memory neural network, and radial basis function network, price manipulation has been detected. …”
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Hybrid attention transformer integrated YOLOV8 for fruit ripeness detection by Jianyin Tang, Zhenglin Yu, ChangShun Shao

“…In addition, during the feature fusion stage, the Hybrid Attention Transformer (HAT) module is integrated into TopDownLayer2 to enhance the capture of long-term dependencies and the recovery of detailed information in the input data. To more accurately evaluate the similarity between the prediction box and the real bounding box, this paper uses the EIoU loss function instead of CIoU, thereby improving detection accuracy and accelerating model convergence. …”
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