Emergence of Self-Identity in Artificial Intelligence: A Mathematical Framework and Empirical Study with Generative Large Language Models by Minhyeok Lee

“…The model was trained on a synthetic dataset containing temporally structured memories, designed to capture the complexity of coherent self-identity formation. …”
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Perioperative outcomes of video-assisted versus right anterior thoracotomy mitral valve replacement: an observational study by Gehad Awad, Fetoh Alaaeldin Fetoh, Noureldin Noaman Gwely, Usama Hamza, Sameh Amer, Yomna Mohammed Yehya, Amr Abdellateef

“…This observational study has been designed to evaluate and compare operative and short-term postoperative outcomes of video-assisted versus right anterior thoracotomy mitral valve replacement. …”
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Effectiveness of Frequent Point-of-Care Molecular COVID-19 Surveillance in a Rural Workplace: Nonrandomized Controlled Clinical Trial Among Miners by Akshay Sood, William “Cotton” Jarrell, Xin W Shore, Nestor Sosa, Alisha Parada, Nicholas Edwardson, Alexandra V Yingling, Teah Amirkabirian, Qiuying Cheng, Ivy Hurwitz, Linda S Cook, Shuguang Leng, Orrin B Myers, Douglas J Perkins

“…These findings extend beyond this study, providing valuable insights for designing interventions to maintain employees’ safety at other essential workplaces during an infectious disease outbreak.…”
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Using the CIPP Model to elicit perceptions of health professions faculty and students about virtual learning by Sakineh Gerayllo, Mohammadali Vakili, Leila Jouybari, Zahra Moghadam, Ali Jafari, Alireza Heidari

“…Results The scale items for each of the CIPP components that elicited the highest levels of agreement by both professors and students were as follows based on a five point scale where higher scores indicated higher levels of respondent agreement: Context: Topics presented in the virtual training are determined according to the course plan (3.63), and virtual education reduces the teacher's control over class (3.56); Input: Designated hours are suitable for virtual learning classes (3.29); Process: Professors have less commitment and responsibility in providing virtual courses (3.48); and Product: Student participation in virtual classes is low (3.78), and virtual learning saves time (3.67).” …”
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Biomechanical Analysis and Solution Suggestions of Screw Replacement Scenarios in Femoral Neck Fracture Surgeries: Finite Element Method by Yılmaz Güvercin, Murat Yaylacı, Ayberk Dizdar, Mehmet Emin Özdemir, Sevil Ay, Ecren Uzun Yaylacı, Umitcan Karahasanoğlu, Hüseyin Uygun, Gökhan Peker

“…Dynamic hip screws (DHS), cannulated screws (CCS), and medial buttress plates (MBP) were obtained by making three‐dimensional designs. The required elements for the models were assigned, and the material properties of the elements were defined. …”
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Case report: PD-L1-targeted high-affinity natural killer cells and IL-15 superagonist N-803-based therapy extend overall survival of advanced metastatic pancreatic cancer patients by Tara Seery, Lennie Sender, Omid Jafari, Frank Jones, Patricia Spilman, Sandeep B. Reddy, Patrick Soon-Shiong

“…Induction of immunogenic cell death (ICD) by use of relatively low-dose chemo- or radiation therapy, enhancement of immune responses by the IL-15 superagonist N-803 (Anktiva®), and targeting of programmed death receptor ligand 1 (PD-L1)-expressing cells may offer a therapeutic approach to refractory mPC with the potential to increase overall survival (OS).MethodsFrom late 2019 to 2021, single-patient Investigational New Drug (spIND) protocols for five mPC patients were designed and approved that generally comprised combined Abraxane (nab-paclitaxel) and gemcitabine therapy with experimental therapeutics N-803, PD-L1-targeted high-affinity natural killer (PD-L1 t-haNK) cells, and aldoxorubicin, a serum albumin-binding doxorubicin prodrug. …”
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Empresarios, capitales e industrias en la región Caribe colombiana bajo el despegue del modelo agroexportador a comienzos del siglo XX by SEGIO PAOLO SOLANO

“…We believe that the monopoly for decades were entrepreneurs in the Caribbean region on exports and imports serving most of the time as mere middlemen and commission agents were disrupted with the agro-export model off of the early twentieth century, designed so that traders and producers in the hinterland of the country are related directly and without intermediaries with foreign markets. …”
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Unanchored simulated treatment comparison on survival outcomes using parametric and Royston-Parmar models with application to lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab in renal cell carcinoma by Christopher G. Fawsitt, Janice Pan, Philip Orishaba, Christopher H. Jackson, Howard Thom

“…Pending investigation with a simulation study or further examples, this methodology could be used for clinical decision-making and, if long-term data are available, inform economic models designed to extrapolate outcomes for the evaluation of lifetime cost-effectiveness. …”
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Alloplasmic recombinant lines (H. vulgare)-T. aestivum with 1RS.1BL translocation: initial genotypes for production of common wheat varieties by L. A. Pershina, L. I. Belova, N. V. Trubacheeva, T. S. Osadсhaya, V. K. Shumny, I. A. Belan, L. P. Rosseeva, V. V. Nemchenko, S. N. Abakumov

“…Earlier, recombinant alloplasmic lines (H. vulgare)-T. aestivum designated as L-17(1)–L-17(37) were formed from a plant with partially restored fertility of the BC3 generation of barley-wheat hybrid H. vulgare (cv. …”
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USSR in World War II by M. Yu. Myagkov

“…Nazism, racial theory, mixed with far-reaching geopolitical designs, became the combustible mixture that ignited the fire of glob­al conflict. …”
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On liability for stalking in the context of the Istanbul convention implementation by Dudorov O., Dudorova K.

“…It has been proven that the article on persecution can be placed either in Chapter III of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (given that personal freedom as the generic object of the relevant criminal offenses, not limited to the physical freedom of a person, includes the freedom of a person in terms of the possibility of choice behavior, the freedom to manage oneself independently and is consistent with the civilized understanding of personal freedom as personal non-proprietor good of an individual), or in Chapter V of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – along with similar in their scope provisions, which are designed to ensure privacy protection and with the help of which separate manifestations of persecution can be considered today. …”
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FABLDroid: Malware detection based on hybrid analysis with factor analysis and broad learning methods for android applications by Kazım Kılıç, İsmail Atacak, İbrahim Alper Doğru

“…The Kronodroid dataset is a dataset consisting of malware and benign applications, specifically designed to examine and explore the concept drift and cross-device detection issues in the problem domain. …”
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Beyond support: exploring the dynamic and static biomechanical changes induced by preventive ankle taping: a novel cross-sectional study by María Bravo-Aguilar, Vanesa Abuín-Porras, María Blanco-Morales, Carlos Romero Morales, Jaime Almazán-Polo, Jorge Hugo Villafañe, Lorena Canosa-Carro

“…Methods An observational, analytic, cross-sectional study was designed. Data from static and dynamic plantar pressures with a pressure platform and balance data assessed with the Y Balance Test (YBT) were analysed in 50 participants (age = 21.00 ± 2.34 years, weight = 71.11 ± 13.12 kg, height = 1.75 ± 00.9 m, BMI = 22.94 ± 2.50 kg/m2, foot size = 41.60 ± 3.00) with and without preventive functional taping for lateral ankle sprain (LAS). …”
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Cost-utility and cost–benefit analysis of a multi-component intervention (NEXpro) for neck-related symptoms in Swiss office workers by Beatrice Brunner, Andrea Martina Aegerter, Venerina Johnston, Thomas Volken, Manja Deforth, Gisela Sjøgaard, Achim Elfering, Markus Melloh, the NEXpro Collaboration Group

“…Methods The study was designed as a stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial and assessed using an employer’s perspective. …”
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Long-term impact of different prevalent cropping systems on soil physico-chemical characteristics under subtropical climate conditions of Punjab, Pakistan by Fahad Ali Fayyaz, Irfan Aziz, Muhammad Ansar, Muhammad Akmal, Saud Alamri, Alanoud T. Alfagham, Renata Gamrat, Abdul Qayyum

“…Therefore, the study was designed to assess and quantify soil physico-chemical characteristics, crop yield and economic feasibility of different cropping systems (CS), including groundnut-wheat (G-W), rice-wheat (R-W), fallow-gram/wheat (F-G/W), mix cropping (Mix C) and cotton-wheat (C-W). …”
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In silico development of a multi-epitope-based vaccine against Burkholderia cepacia complex using reverse vaccinology by Donya Ghorbani, Donya Ghorbani, Masoumeh Beig, Masoumeh Beig, Narjes Noori Goodarzi, Mohammad Sholeh, Mohammad Sholeh, Behzad Shahbazi, Behzad Shahbazi, Yaser Moghaddam, Farzad Badmasti

“…An optimized MEV was explicitly designed for B. multivorans and B. cenocepacia. The novel MEV platform exhibited high binding affinity to immune receptors and favorable molecular docking characteristics. …”
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Combining several indicators to assess the effectiveness of tailor-made health plans in pig farms by Levallois, Pierre, Leblanc-Maridor, Mily, Scollo, Annalisa, Ferrari, Paolo, Belloc, Catherine, Fourichon, Christine

“…This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of tailor-made health plans in pig farms, designed in various situations after a systematic biosecurity and herd health audit. …”
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Which dietary shifts to improve nutritional quality while reducing diet cost in the French West Indies? by Marlène Perignon, Rozenn Gazan, Viola Lamani, Zoé Colombet, Caroline Méjean, Florent Vieux, Nicole Darmon

“…Individual optimized diets respecting all nutritional recommendations with minimized departure from the initial diet were designed under different scenarios of cost constraint: none, not exceeding the initial diet cost (COSTinit), and 10%-step reductions (COST-X%); the initial diet cost referring to the cost of the diet based on initial dietary intakes and mean food prices. …”
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FBMC vs. PAM and DMT for High-Speed Wireline Communication by Jeremy Cosson-Martin, Jhoan Salinas, Hossein Shakiba, Ali Sheikholeslami

“…This paper demonstrates the first silicon-verified FBMC encoder and decoder designed to emulate beyond <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$224Gb/s$ </tex-math></inline-formula> wireline communication. …”
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PlaceField2BVec: A bionic geospatial location encoding method for hierarchical temporal memory model by Zugang Chen, Shaohua Wang, Kai Wu, Guoqing Li, Jing Li, Jian Wang

“…However, all these geospatial location encoders were designed to generate a real number vector. So, when applied to some of the brain-inspired neural networks, such as Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), which required the input of a binary vector, the existing methods failed. …”
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