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Emotional Orientation in Peer Assessment: Impact on College Student Performance
The aim of this study is to investigate how the emotional orientations in peer assessment affect student performance. Given that the emotional data in peer comments exist in the form of unstructured text, this...
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Highly Bendable Ionic Electro-responsive Artificial Muscles Using Microfibrillated Cellulose Fibers Combined with Polyvinyl Alcohol
For promising applications such as soft robotics, flexible haptic monitors, and active biomedical devices, it is important to develop ultralow voltage, highly-performant artificial muscles with high bending st...
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Treatment of Syringomyelia Characterized by Focal Dilatation of the Central Canal Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Neural Stem Cells
Syringomyelia is a progressive chronic disease that leads to nerve pain, sensory dissociation, and dyskinesia. Symptoms often do not improve after surgery. Stem cells have been widely explored for the treatmen...
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Transformer-Based Multi-layer Feature Aggregation and Rotated Anchor Matching for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images
Object detection has made significant progress in computer vision. However, challenges remain in detecting small, arbitrarily oriented, and densely distributed objects, especially in aerial remote sensing imag...
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Open AccessSpeaking without vocal folds using a machine-learning-assisted wearable sensing-actuation system
Voice disorders resulting from various pathological vocal fold conditions or postoperative recovery of laryngeal cancer surgeries, are common causes of dysphonia. Here, we present a self-powered wearable sensi...
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Open AccessInvolvement of DJ-1 in the pathogenesis of intervertebral disc degeneration via hexokinase 2-mediated mitophagy
Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is an important pathological basis for degenerative spinal diseases and is involved in mitophagy dysfunction. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying mitophagy regul...
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Open AccessGrafted human-induced pluripotent stem cells-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells combined with human umbilical vein endothelial cells contribute to functional recovery following spinal cord injury
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating disease that causes extensive damage to oligodendrocytes and neurons leading to demyelination and axonal degeneration. In this study, we co-transplanted cell grafts co...
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Open AccessMutual communication between radiosensitive and radioresistant esophageal cancer cells modulates their radiosensitivity
Radiotherapy is an important treatment modality for patients with esophageal cancer; however, the response to radiation varies among different tumor subpopulations due to tumor heterogeneity. Cancer cells that...
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Upregulation of CELSR1 expression promotes ovarian cancer cell proliferation, migration, and invasion
Cadherin epidermal growth factor and laminin-G seven-pass G-type receptor 1 (CELSR1) is a planar cell polarity protein involved in the transmission of directional cues to align either individual cells within a...
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Open AccessConsensus decision-making in artificial swarms via entropy-based local negotiation and preference updating
This paper presents an entropy-based consensus algorithm for a swarm of artificial agents with limited sensing, communication, and processing capabilities. Each agent is modeled as a probabilistic finite state...
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Open AccessEvaluating the value of 18F-PSMA-1007 PET/CT in the detection and identification of prostate cancer using histopathology as the standard
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT is a highly regarded radionuclide imaging modality for prostate cancer (PCa). This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of 18F-PSMA-1007 PET/CT in de...
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A pan-coronavirus peptide inhibitor prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice by intranasal delivery
Coronaviruses (CoVs) have brought serious threats to humans, particularly severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which continually evolves into multiple variants. These variants, especia...
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DJ-1-mediated p62 degradation delays intervertebral disc degeneration by inhibiting apoptosis of nucleus pulposus cells
Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is the most important pathological basis of degenerative spinal diseases, for which effective interventions are still lacking. Oxidative stress is considered to be one of...
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Open AccessIntegrated system architecture with mixed-reality user interface for virtual-physical hybrid swarm simulations
This paper introduces a hybrid robotic swarm system architecture that combines virtual and physical components and enables human–swarm interaction through mixed reality (MR) devices. The system comprises three...
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Examination of an extended sociocultural model of lifestyle physical activity among men and women
Previously, lots of evidence has supported that sociocultural pressure and body image can predict people’s participation of exercise, yet only a few studies have examined their impact on lifestyle physical act...
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Triple-level relationship enhanced transformer for image captioning
Region features and grid features are often used in the field of image captioning. As they are often extracted by different networks, fusing them for image captioning needs connections between them. However, t...
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Open AccessClinical and genetic characteristics of 42 Chinese paediatric patients with X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita
X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita (AHC) is a rare disorder characterized by primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH), with limited clinical and genetic characterization.
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Association between weather and hip fracture in adults: a nationwide study in China 198 cities
Hip fractures represent a significant public health issue due to high incidence in aging society. Our study further proved that increased risk for hip fractures in adults is associated with weather conditions.
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Ecofriendly electroactive AMPS-mediated functional carboxylated cellulose nanocrystals for high-performance ionic artificial muscles
Ecofriendly high-performance ionic artificial muscles have received great interest in wearable electronics, active medical devices, flexible sensors, biomimetic robots, and smart devices. Herein, a novel ecofr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Chatbots’ Anthropomorphism Affects User Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Perceived Warmth and Competence
Chatbots are widely employed in various areas as an important product of artificial intelligence techniques because they can simulate human conversations and satisfy business demands in various circumstances. ...
