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    Essentializing Humor and Implications for Pursuing Happiness

    To what extent an individual holds an essentialist belief about a sense of humor may influence their use of humor and subsequently subjective well-being. We conducted three studies with Chinese adults to exami...

    Yi Cao, Yuanze Liu, Yubo Hou, Li-Jun Ji in Journal of Happiness Studies (2024)

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    Automatic assessment of divergent thinking in Chinese language with TransDis: A transformer-based language model approach

    Language models have been increasingly popular for automatic creativity assessment, generating semantic distances to objectively measure the quality of creative ideas. However, there is currently a lack of an ...

    Tianchen Yang, Qifan Zhang, Zhaoyang Sun, Yubo Hou in Behavior Research Methods (2023)

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    Micromagnetic realization of energy-based models using stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions

    Energy-based models (EBMs) can bridge physics, machine learning, and statistics. EBMs provide a unified and powerful platform to describe, learn, and optimize complex systems. In this paper, we propose a neuro...

    Bing** Chen, Yubo Hou, Chee Kwan Gan, Minggang Zeng in Applied Physics A (2023)

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    Correction to: what lies ahead of us? Collective future thinking in Turkish, Chinese, and American adults

    Nazike Mert, Yubo Hou, Qi Wang in Memory & Cognition (2023)

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    What lies ahead of us? Collective future thinking in Turkish, Chinese, and American adults

    Collective future thinking, namely the anticipation of events for a group, is a relatively new research area in memory studies. Research to date with predominantly Western populations suggests that people tend...

    Nazike Mert, Yubo Hou, Qi Wang in Memory & Cognition (2023)

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    Gingipain of Porphyromonas gingivalis manipulates M1 macrophage polarization through C5a pathway

    Gingipains secreted by Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis, Pg) play an important role in maintaining macrophage infiltrating. And, this study is to evaluate effects of gingipain on M1 macrophage polarization...

    Yubo Hou, Haiyan Yu, **nchan Liu, Gege Li in In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology … (2017)

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    Maintenance of electrostatic stabilization in altered tubulin lateral contacts may facilitate formation of helical filaments in foraminifera

    Microtubules in foraminiferan protists (forams) can convert into helical filament structures, in which longitudinal intraprotofilament interactions between tubulin heterodimers are thought to be lost, while la...

    David M. Bassen, Yubo Hou, Samuel S. Bowser, Nilesh K. Banavali in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Effect of Porphyromonas gingivalis lipopolysaccharide (Pg-LPS) on the expression of EphA2 in osteoblasts and osteoclasts

    Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) as the major pathogenic bacterium of chronic periodontitis can cause alveolar bone resorption. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is its main virulence factor. The Eph...

    Aichao Gao, **chao Wang, Haiyan Yu, Na Li in In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology … (2016)

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    High-throughput sequencing of Astrammina rara: Sampling the giant genome of a giant foraminiferan protist

    Foraminiferan protists, which are significant players in most marine ecosystems, are also genetic innovators, harboring unique modifications to proteins that make up the basic eukaryotic cell machinery. Despit...

    Andrea Habura, Yubo Hou, Andrew A Reilly, Samuel S Bowser in BMC Genomics (2011)

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    Why I remember that: The influence of contextual factors on beliefs about everyday memory

    In the present study, we examined the role of contextual factors in beliefs about remembering personal experiences. Specifically, we examined why individuals think that they remember experiences in everyday li...

    Sarah Kulkofsky, Qi Wang, Yubo Hou in Memory & Cognition (2010)