Investigating the Impact of Mental Stress on Electrocardiological Signals through the Use of Virtual Reality by Penio Lebamovski, Evgeniya Gospodinova

“…The results show that the application of immersive VR generates higher mental stress levels than non-immersive VR, but in both cases, HRV changes (decreases), but more significantly in immersive VR. …”
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Modulation of network excitability by persistent activity: how working memory affects the response to incoming stimuli. by Elisa M Tartaglia, Nicolas Brunel, Gianluigi Mongillo

“…Neurons more active will be more excitable, and thus more responsive to external inputs. …”
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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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Knockout of the mitoribosome rescue factors Ict1 or Mtrfr is viable in zebrafish but not mice: compensatory mechanisms underlying each factor's loss by Nobukazu Nameki, Chika Tomisawa, Soichiro Hoshino, Hidehiko Shimizu, Masashi Abe, Sho Arai, Kanako Kuwasako, Naoki Asakawa, Yusuke Inoue, Takuro Horii, Izuho Hatada, Masakatsu Watanabe

“…Here, attempts to generate Mtrfr knockout mice were unsuccessful. However, knockout zebrafish lines were successfully generated for both ict1 and mtrfr (ict1−/− and mtrfr−/−). …”
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Exploring public sector workforce attitudes toward AI competence and its impact on AI competence self-assessment by Gatis Lāma, Agnese Lastovska

“…Additionally, more than half of the respondents expressed limited trust in AI-generated information, with only seven participants fully trusting AI. …”
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Plasma membrane-coated nanoparticles and membrane vesicles to orchestrate multimodal antitumor immunity by Yang Li, Toshiaki Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ito, Satoshi Inoue, Takahiro Nakashima, Noriko Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsukawa, Seiichi Ohta, Yuki Kagoya, Hitomi Kasuya, Mirei Kataoka, Haosong Zhang, Chitose Oneyama

“…Here, we hypothesized that the simultaneous input of more comprehensive signals would elicit more robust and durable effector T-cell functions.Methods We genetically engineered the leukemia cell line K562 to express BsAbs, costimulatory ligands, cytokines, and blocking antibodies against immune checkpoint molecules on the cell surface, from which we obtained plasma membrane fractions by mechanical homogenization and subsequent isolation steps. …”
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Patient characteristics and pharmacologic treatment patterns in antifibrotic-treated patients with fibrosing interstitial lung diseases: real-world results from a claims database by Yasuhiro Kondoh, Tomohiro Ito, Hana Kimura, Haikun Bao, Masataka Kuwana

“…Abstract Background Antifibrotics have been approved for use in many countries, including Japan, based on the results of several phase III clinical trials in patients with IPF, SSc-ILD, and PPF, which showed slower lung function decline with antifibrotic treatment. There is a paucity of information on the real-world use of antifibrotics in clinical practice. …”
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Open reduction, internal fixation of Vancouver B1, C & D type periprosthetic femoral fractures with use of an antiglide plate at fracture apex - The “Apex Plate” by Roland Bell, Mohammed Remtulla, Bryan Riemer

“…The lateral tension-banding plate method can exploit the latter function of this smaller plate to improve the stability of the fixed construct, and thereby encourage more reliable bone healing. …”
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Ganoderma Disease in Oil Palm Trees Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning by Chee Seng Kwang, Siti Fatimah Abdul Razak, Sumendra Yogarayan, M. Z. Adli Zahisham, Tze Huey Tam, M. K. Anuar Mohd Noor, Haryati Abidin

“…Future research will focus on collecting more data, incorporating temporal information for disease stage classification, and implementing a more robust machine learning (ML) model for performance enhancement. …”
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Land cover classification for Siberia leveraging diverse global land cover datasets by Munseon Beak, Kazuhito Ichii, Yuhei Yamamoto, Ruci Wang, Beichen Zhang, Ram C. Sharma, Tetsuya Hiyama

“…We trained the RF classifiers with multiple land cover products to produce a more precise land cover product for Siberia. The validations showed that: (a) the generated new land cover data achieved the highest overall accuracy (85.04%) and kappa coefficient (82.62%); (b) the classifications of mixed forest (user accuracy: 97.85%) and grasses (user accuracy: 94.85%) demonstrated improvements, showing higher performance compared to most other types; and (c) by comparing the distribution of land cover across climate zones, we discovered that temperature is a critical factor throughout Siberia. …”
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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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Positivity bounds in scalar Effective Field Theories at one-loop level by Yunxiao Ye, Bin He, Jiayin Gu

“…In particular, the one-loop generated dimension-8 operator coefficients (that would be positive if generated at the tree level), as well as their β-functions are generally not subject to positivity bounds as they might correspond to interference terms of the cross sections under the optical theorem, which could have either sign. …”
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Differentiation of glioma and radiation injury in rats using in vitro produce magnetically labeled cytotoxic T-cells and MRI. by Ali S Arbab, Branislava Janic, Kourosh Jafari-Khouzani, A S M Iskander, Sanath Kumar, Nadimpalli R S Varma, Robert A Knight, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Stephen L Brown, Joseph A Frank

“…Cells positive for CD25, CD4, CD8 were determined in generated CTLs. Specificity of cytotoxicity of the generated CTLs was also determined by lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release assay. …”
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Improved Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Underwater Localization Algorithm by Logistic Chaos Mapping and Differential Evolution by Jiaxing CHEN, Yang LIU, Xiaoqian LIU, Zhihua LIU

“…The chaotic sequence generated by the mapping function was employed as a replacement for the random number generator, with the objective of achieving a more uniform distribution of the population during the initial distribution phase. …”
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G2Grad-CAMRL: An Object Detection and Interpretation Model Based on Gradient-Weighted Class Activation Mapping and Reinforcement Learning in Remote Sensing Images by Shoulin Yin, Liguo Wang, Muhammad Shafiq, Lin Teng, Asif Ali Laghari, Muhammad Faizan Khan

“…The reinforcement learning method is used to optimize the generated region generation network. At the same time, we improve the reward function of reinforcement learning to improve the effectiveness of the region generation network. …”
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Parameterizing the Tip Effects of Submerged Vegetation in a VARANS Solver by Lai Jiang, Jisheng Zhang, Hao Chen, Chenglin Liu, Mingzong Zhang

“…The two-scale <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mfenced open="⟨" close="⟩" separators="|"><mrow><mi>k</mi></mrow></mfenced><mo>−</mo><mfenced open="⟨" close="⟩" separators="|"><mrow><mi>ε</mi></mrow></mfenced></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> turbulence model is further modified with the inclusion of a new damping function to capture the suppression of wake generation. …”
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Harnessing TGF-β signaling to improve testicular organoid development from dissociated testicular cells by Seyedeh-Faezeh Moraveji, Saiedeh Erfanian, Mohammad Hossein Ghanian, Hossein Baharvand

“…However, current TOs mostly fail to recapitulate the native testicular architecture and function, likely due to an imbalance between the spermatogonia and functional niche cells. …”
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Smoke and Fire-You Only Look Once: A Lightweight Deep Learning Model for Video Smoke and Flame Detection in Natural Scenes by Chenmeng Zhao, Like Zhao, Ka Zhang, Yinghua Ren, Hui Chen, Yehua Sheng

“…Then, a two-channel loss function (W-SIoU) based on dynamic tuning and intelligent focusing is designed to enhance loss computation in the boundary regions, thus improving the YOLOv11 model’s ability to recognize targets with ambiguous boundaries. …”
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Neural-enhanced motion-to-EMG: refining simulated muscle activity from musculoskeletal models using a Seq2Seq approach by Tatsuya Teramae, Takamitsu Matsubara, Takamitsu Matsubara, Tomoyuki Noda, Jun Morimoto, Jun Morimoto

“…Electromyography (EMG) is essential for accurate assessment of motor function in rehabilitation, sports science, and robotics. …”
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Novel Aggregation Framework for Electric Bus Fleet Scheduling by Maros Janovec, Milan Straka, Michal Kohani, Lubos Buzna

“…In recent years, electric buses have become a more environmentally friendly alternative to combustion buses. …”
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