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Using neuroevolution for designing soft medical devices (2024)
Journal Article

Soft robots can exhibit better performance in specific tasks compared to conventional robots, particularly in healthcare related tasks. However, the field of soft robotics is still young, and designing them often involves mimicking natural organisms... Read More about Using neuroevolution for designing soft medical devices.

Evaluating the effectiveness and acceptability of two positive body image media micro-interventions among children aged 4–6 years old – a study protocol (2024)
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Background: Children’s online media perpetuates appearance idealised images and can negatively impact the way children feel about their own and other people’s bodies (e.g., weight bias) at a young age. The development and evaluation of body image int... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness and acceptability of two positive body image media micro-interventions among children aged 4–6 years old – a study protocol.

Inferring structure of cortical neuronal networks from activity data: A statistical physics approach (2024)
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Understanding the relation between cortical neuronal network structure and neuronal activity is a fundamental unresolved question in neuroscience, with implications to our understanding of the mechanism by which neuronal networks evolve over time, sp... Read More about Inferring structure of cortical neuronal networks from activity data: A statistical physics approach.

Supporting individuals with a visible difference: A UK survey of needs and preferences (2024)
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Individuals with visible differences, resulting from injuries, health conditions, or treatment, can face varied and lasting psychosocial effects. Existing psychosocial interventions are limited, with inconsistent support noted by specialists. Improve... Read More about Supporting individuals with a visible difference: A UK survey of needs and preferences.

A roadmap for integrating sustainability into software engineering education (2024)
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The world faces escalating crises: record-breaking temperatures, widespread fires, severe flooding, increased oceanic microplastics, and unequal resource distribution. Academia introduces courses around sustainability to meet the new demand, but soft... Read More about A roadmap for integrating sustainability into software engineering education.

Optical recognition of the English alphabet using proteinoids (2024)
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We introduce a new abiotic-protein-based substrate for identifying English alphabet characters optically using proteinoids. Proteinoids, which are amino acid polymers produced under thermal stress conditions, have demonstrated promise as materials th... Read More about Optical recognition of the English alphabet using proteinoids.

Zero-day Android botnet detection using neural networks (2024)
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Android devices have evolved to offer a diverse array of services, spanning applications related to banking, business, health, and entertainment. The widespread adoption of Android devices, coupled with the open-source architecture of the Android ope... Read More about Zero-day Android botnet detection using neural networks.

Understanding the emergency medical service response to patients who are at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (2024)
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Study Aim: To understand the survival and emergency medical service call triage and response to patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest after the emergency medical service call is connected.
Methods: A descriptive retrospective data a... Read More about Understanding the emergency medical service response to patients who are at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Quantum blockchain: Trends, technologies, and future directions (2024)
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AbstractBlockchain technology is a highly developed database system that shares information within a business web. It stores details in blocks connected chronologically, ensuring information integrity through consensus mechanisms that prevent unautho... Read More about Quantum blockchain: Trends, technologies, and future directions.

Living electronics in cellulose zoogleal mats (2024)
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The review starts by investigating the concepts that underpin the use of kombucha in electronic systems, such as its conducting properties, self-healing properties, and capacity to form long-lasting biofilms. The research explores the diverse uses of... Read More about Living electronics in cellulose zoogleal mats.

Re-routing game: The inadequacy of mean-field approach in modeling the herd behavior in path switching (2024)
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Coordination of vehicle routes is a feasible way to ease traffic congestion issues amid a fixed road infrastructure. Nevertheless, even when optimal route configurations are provided to individual drivers, it is hard to achieve due to the fact that g... Read More about Re-routing game: The inadequacy of mean-field approach in modeling the herd behavior in path switching.

On emergence of spontaneous oscillations in kombucha and proteinoids (2024)
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An important part of studying living systems is figuring out the complicated steps that lead to order from chaos. Spontaneous oscillations are a key part of self-organisation in many biological and chemical networks, including kombucha and proteinoid... Read More about On emergence of spontaneous oscillations in kombucha and proteinoids.

Modulation of electrical activity of proteinoid microspheres with chondroitin sulfate clusters (2024)
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Proteinoids—thermal proteins—are produced by heating amino acids to their melting point and initiation of polymerisation to produce polymeric chains. Proteinoids swell in aqueous solution into hollow microspheres. The proteinoid microspheres produce... Read More about Modulation of electrical activity of proteinoid microspheres with chondroitin sulfate clusters.

DNA methylation mediates the link between adversity and depressive symptoms (2024)
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Experiences of childhood adversity can double risk for depression. Although the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear, DNA methylation (DNAm) has emerged as a potential pathway to explain the link between adversity and depression. Th... Read More about DNA methylation mediates the link between adversity and depressive symptoms.

Privacy-enhanced sentiment analysis in mental health: Federated learning with data obfuscation and bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (2024)
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This research aims to find an optimal balance between privacy and performance in forecasting mental health sentiment. This paper investigates federated learning (FL) augmented with a novel data obfuscation (DO) technique, where synthetic data is used... Read More about Privacy-enhanced sentiment analysis in mental health: Federated learning with data obfuscation and bidirectional encoder representations from transformers.

Does intermittent nutrition enterally normalise hormonal and metabolic responses to feeding in critically ill adults? A protocol for the dine-normal proof-of-concept randomised parallel group study (2024)
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Introduction
Over half of patients who spend >48 hours in the intensive care unit (ICU) are fed via a nasogastric (NG) tube. Current guidance recommends continuous delivery of feed throughout the day and night. Emerging evidence from healthy human s... Read More about Does intermittent nutrition enterally normalise hormonal and metabolic responses to feeding in critically ill adults? A protocol for the dine-normal proof-of-concept randomised parallel group study.

A review of large language models in healthcare: Taxonomy, threats, vulnerabilities, and framework (2024)
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Due to the widespread acceptance of ChatGPT, implementing large language models (LLMs) in real-world applications has become an important research area. Such productisation of technologies allows the public to use AI without technical knowledge. LLMs... Read More about A review of large language models in healthcare: Taxonomy, threats, vulnerabilities, and framework.

Neurons as autoencoders (2024)
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This letter presents the idea that neural backpropagation is exploiting dendritic processing to enable individual neurons to perform autoencoding. Using a very simple connection weight search heuristic and artificial neural network model, the effects... Read More about Neurons as autoencoders.

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of p-type BiSbTe through incorporation of magnetic CrSb (2024)
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There is evidence that magnetism can potentially increase the thermopower of materials , most likely due to magnon scattering, suggesting the incorporation of intrinsic magnetic semiconductors in non-magnetic thermoelectric materials. Here, samples o... Read More about Enhanced thermoelectric performance of p-type BiSbTe through incorporation of magnetic CrSb.

ONDL: An optimized Neutrosophic Deep Learning model for classifying waste for sustainability (2024)
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Sustainability has become a key factor on our planet. If this concept is applied correctly, our planet will be greener and more eco-friendly. Nowadays, waste classification and management practices have become more evident than ever. It plays a cruci... Read More about ONDL: An optimized Neutrosophic Deep Learning model for classifying waste for sustainability.