Power Optimization in Mobile Robots Using a Real-Time Heuristic by Tamer Abukhalil, Harbi Almahafzah, Malek Alksasbeh, Bassam A. Y. Alqaralleh

“…The limitation of energy resources requires human intervention for recharging the batteries. …”
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The TIR Domain Containing Locus of Enterococcus faecalis Is Predominant among Urinary Tract Infection Isolates and Downregulates Host Inflammatory Response by Thomas Daniel Kraemer, Orlando Daniel Quintanar Haro, Eugen Domann, Trinad Chakraborty, Svetlin Tchatalbachev

“…Screening of E. faecalis samples revealed that tcpF is more common in isolates from urinary tract infections (UTIs) than in human faecal flora. tcpF alleles showed moderate single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) among UTI isolates. …”
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Early life gut microbiome and its impact on childhood health and chronic conditions by Harold Nunez, Pamela A. Nieto, Ruben A. Mars, Maryam Ghavami, Cheryl Sew Hoy, Kimberley Sukhum

“…The development of the gut microbiome is crucial to human health, particularly during the first three years of life. …”
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Retrovirus Entry by Endocytosis and Cathepsin Proteases by Yoshinao Kubo, Hideki Hayashi, Toshifumi Matsuyama, Hironori Sato, Naoki Yamamoto

“…Retroviruses include infectious agents inducing severe diseases in humans and animals. In addition, retroviruses are widely used as tools to transfer genes of interest to target cells. …”
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Antigenic Complementarity in the Origins of Autoimmunity: A General Theory Illustrated With a Case Study of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura by Robert Root-Bernstein, Jacob Couturier

“…Finally, we argue that Koch's postulates are inadequate for establishing disease causation for multiple-antigen diseases and discuss the possibility that current research has failed to elucidate the causes of human autoimmune diseases because we are using the wrong criteria.…”
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Spatio-Temporal Joint Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Based on Improved Constrained Iterative LQR by Qin Li, Hongwen He, Manjiang Hu, Yong Wang

“…The experiment’s results demonstrate a significant increase in human-like driving indicators by 16.35% and a 12.65% average increase in traffic efficiency, reducing computation time by 39.29%.…”
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Qualitative and quantitative knowledge of metasynthesis based on fuzzy system by CHEN Dewang, LIU Lili, ZHAO Wendi, OU Jixiang, SUN Yanyan, ZHENG Nan

“…The metasynthesis has been widely used to solve complex system problems, and its core is the combination of human and machine, from qualitative to quantitative iterative solving. …”
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Specialists and generalists by I. V. Anokhov

“…A qualitatively new difference may be the difference between the values and meanings of humanity, on the one hand, and the dehumanized technosphere, on the other. …”
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A planetary health perspective on the translation of climate change research into public health policy and practice: A scoping review protocol. by Chanelle Mulopo, Samuel Abimbola, Nyamongo Onkoba, Bey-Marrie Schmidt

“…<h4>Background</h4>Climate Change (CC) emanating from anthropocentric human activities is a great threat to the quality of human life and well-being worldwide. …”
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A Car-Following Driver Model Capable of Retaining Naturalistic Driving Styles by Jie Hu, Sheng Luo

“…Then, the car-following driver model is established by imitating human driving maneuver during real-world car following. …”
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Bolt’s Farm Cave System dans le Cradle of Humankind (Afrique du Sud) : un exemple d’approche multidisciplinaire dans l’étude des sites à primates fossiles by Dominique Gommery, Frank Sénégas, Lazarus Kgasi, Nonhlanhla Vilakazi, Brian Kuhn, James Brink, Martin Pickford, Andy IR Herries, John Hancox, Thibaud Saos, Loïc Ségalen, Julie Aufort, John Francis Thackeray

“…Research only became regular in 2006 with the creation of the HRU (Hope (Human Origins and Past Environment) Research Unit). …”
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Microarray Profiling of Lymphocytes in Internal Diseases With an Altered Immune Response: Potential and Methodology by Anatoliy Gladkevich, S. Adriaan Nelemans, Henk F. Kauffman, Jakob Korf

“…Lymphocytes express more than 75% of the human genome, and, being an important part of the immune system, they play a central role in the pathogenesis of asthma, RA, and SLE. …”
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Using Participatory Crowdsourcing in South Africa to Create a Safer Living Environment by Bhaveer Bhana, Stephen Flowerday, Aharon Satt

“…Data collected through observations (utilising humans as sensors) of the city surroundings can be used to improve decision making in terms of managing these resources. …”
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Organotin Compound Derived from 3-Hydroxy-2-formylpyridine Semicarbazone: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Antiproliferative Activity by Joanna Wiecek, Dimitra Kovala-Demertzi, Zbigniew Ciunik, Joanna Wietrzyk, Maria Zervou, Mavroudis A. Demertzis

“…Compounds 1 and 2 have been evaluated for antiproliferative activity in vitro against the cells of three human tumor cell lines: MCF-7 (human breast cancer cell line), T24 (bladder cancer cell line), A549 (nonsmall cell lung carcinoma), and a mouse fibroblast L-929 cancer cell line.…”
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A Multi-granularity Decomposition Mechanism of Complex Tasks Based on Density Peaks by Ziling Pang, Guoyin Wang, Jie Yang

“…Inspired by the idea of granular computing and the characteristics of human cognitive process, this paper proposes a complex tasks decomposition mechanism based on Density Peaks Clustering (DPC) to address complex tasks with an unsupervised process, which simulates the multi-granular observation and analysis of human being. …”
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The End of History? by Jean-Marc Chadelat

“…The assertion of free will articulated by several characters is more often than not belied by the retrospective awareness that human agency was instrumental in achieving a design beyond human control and intelligence. …”
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Targeted correction of megabase-scale CNTN6 duplication in induced pluripotent stem cells and impacts on gene expression by Maria Gridina, Polina Orlova, Oleg Serov

“…Copy number variations of the human CNTN6 gene, resulting from megabase-scale microdeletions or microduplications in the 3p26.3 region, are frequently implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders such as intellectual disability and developmental delay. …”
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Form and Function of Sleep Spindles across the Lifespan by Brittany C. Clawson, Jaclyn Durkin, Sara J. Aton

“…Despite a broad general understanding of mechanisms of spindle generation gleaned from animal studies, the mechanisms underlying certain features of spindles in the human brain, such as “global” versus “local” spindles, are largely unknown. …”
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Poetry as Pagan Pilgrimage: the ‘Animative Impulse’ of Thomas Hardy’s Verse by Laurence Estanove

“…Hardy’s interest in the fusion of Pagan and Christian beliefs, present in the surfacing traces of the past, actually depends on the human associations to be found there. Hardy’s ‘survivals’ do not help reconstruct the past stages of an obsolescent culture or society so much as they stimulate artistic creation. …”
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The Effects of Disturbance on Plant–Pollinator Interactions in the Native Forests of an Oceanic Island (Terceira, Azores) by Mário Boieiro, Mariana Ferreira, Ana Ceia-Hasse, Fabiana Esposito, Renata Santos, Gabor Pozsgai, Paulo A. V. Borges, Carla Rego

“…The native biodiversity of oceanic islands is threatened by human-driven disturbance and by the growing number of species introductions which often interfere with natural ecological processes. …”
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