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Can gamification enhance online learning? Evidence from a meta-analysis
As gamification is introduced into education, researchers believe it has the potential to improve online learning. However, the effects of gamified online learning (GOL) are mixed. Is it more effective than on...
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Open AccessNeuroprotective effects of quinpirole on lithium chloride pilocarpine-induced epilepsy in rats and its underlying mechanisms
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that presents with challenging mechanisms and treatment strategies. This study investigated the neuroprotective effects of quinpirole on lithium chloride pilocarpine-...
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Deconfounded classification by an intervention approach
For an automatic system, image classification is much challenging, partly due to noises that obscure or reduce the clarity of data. Thus, noise suppression has become one of the core tasks of classification. T...
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Neural Network-based Event-triggered Adaptive Asymptotic Tracking Control for Switched Nonlinear Systems
In this paper, an adaptive event-triggered asymptotic tracking control problem is addressed for switched nonlinear systems with unknown control directions. In existing control schemes, the proposed controller ...
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Open AccessCorrection to: A multicenter retrospective cohort study of ketogenic diet therapy in 481 children with infantile spasms
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Open AccessA multicenter retrospective cohort study of ketogenic diet therapy in 481 children with infantile spasms
Ketogenic diet (KD) therapy is one of the main treatments for drug-resistant epilepsy. However, the KD therapy has been applied in only a small number of infantile spasm cases. In this large multicenter study,...
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Event-Triggered Adaptive Fuzzy Tracking Control for Nonlinear Systems
In this paper, the problem of event-triggered adaptive fuzzy tracking control for nonlinear systems with external disturbance is explored. The fuzzy logic system method is utilized to design the event-triggere...
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Open AccessVagus nerve stimulation for pediatric patients with intractable epilepsy between 3 and 6 years of age: study protocol for a double-blind, randomized control trial
Recent clinical observations have reported the potential benefit of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) as an adjunctive therapy for pediatric epilepsy. Preliminary evidence suggests that VNS treatment is effective ...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Novel and de novo mutations in pediatric refractory epilepsy
Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that one of the authors’ names is spelled incorrectly.
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Open AccessNovel and de novo mutations in pediatric refractory epilepsy
Pediatric refractory epilepsy is a broad phenotypic spectrum with great genetic heterogeneity. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) combined with Sanger sequencing could help to understand the genetic diversity an...
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An Across-Target Study on Visual Attentions in Facial Expression Recognition
As a simulation of human expression recognition, the studies on automatic expression recognition expect to draw useful enlightenment through close, accurate observation on human expression processing via advan...
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An Intelligent Question Answering System for University Courses Based on BiLSTM and Keywords Similarity
The application of intelligent question answering system in college assistant teaching is an effective way to reduce the workload of university teachers and improve students’ learning efficiency. With the rapi...
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Friction and wear performances of cathodic arc ion plated TiAlSiN coating under oil lubricated condition
TiAlSiN coating was deposited on H13 hot work mould steel using cathodic arc ion plating (CAIP). The surface-interface morphologies and phases of the obtained coating were analyzed using field emission scannin...
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Open AccessA Study of the Dynamic Relation between Physiological Changes and Spontaneous Expressions
Recent progress in Affective Computing (AC) has enabled integration of physiological cues and spontaneous expressions to reveal a subject’s emotional state. Due to the lack of an effective technique for evalua...
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Improvement of Hypoxia–Ischemia-Induced White Matter Injury in Immature Rat Brain by Ethyl Pyruvate
Ethyl pyruvate (EP) has been reported to be neuroprotective in several models of brain injury, yet its influence on periventricular leukomalacia still remains elusive. Here we investigated whether repeated adm...
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Open AccessLipopolysaccharide promotes lipid accumulation in human adventitial fibroblasts via TLR4-NF-κB pathway
Atherosclerosis is a chronic degenerative disease of the arteries and is thought to be one of the most common causes of death globally. In recent years, the functions of adventitial fibroblasts in the developm...
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Unsupervised learning of spatial structures shared among images
Learning from unlabeled images that contain various objects that change in pose, scale, and degree of occlusion is a challenging task in computer vision. Shared structures embody the consistence and coherence ...
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The premature ageing syndrome protein, WRN, is a 3′→5′ exonuclease
