Employee attendance system using face recognition and GPS using local binary pattern histogram by Narahari Vigraha Prasada, Ikrimach

“…Tracking employee attendance is an integral part of running a company in an organized and economical manner. Conventional approaches such as manual sign-ins and RFID cards or fingerprint scanning have shown important weaknesses, especially with regard to proxy attendance (buddy punching). …”
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An Easy-to-Understand Method to Construct Desired Distance-Like Measures by Wen Qing Fu, Sheng Gang Li, Harish Garg, Heng Liu, Ahmed Mostafa Khalil, Jingjing Zhao

“…This paper recommends in a plausible reasoning manner an easy-to-understand method to construct desired distance-like measures: to fuse easy-to-obtain (or easy to be coined by practitioners) pseudo-semi-metrics, pseudo-metrics, or metrics by making full use of well-known t-norms, t-conorms, aggregation operators, and similar operators (easy to be coined by practitioners). …”
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Noninvasive Monitoring of Pneumococcal Meningitis and Evaluation of Treatment Efficacy in an Experimental Mouse Model by Jagath L. Kadurugamuwa, Kshitij Modi, Jun Yu, Kevin P. Francis, Carlos Orihuela, Elaine Tuomanen, Anthony F. Purchio, Pamela R. Contag

“…This methodology is especially appealing because it allows detecting infected mice as early as 3 hr after inoculation, provide temporal, sequential, and spatial distribution of bacteria within the brain and spinal cord throughout the entire disease process and the rapid monitoring of treatment efficacy in a nondestructive manner. Moreover, it avoids the need to sacrifice the animals for CSF sampling and the potential manipulative damage that can occur with other conventional methods.…”
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Pomisleki in dileme o normativnem okviru instituta pomilostitve [Scruples and Dilemmas of the Institute of Clemency Regulatory Framework] by Anton Olaj

“…For the avoidance of doubt, it would require an amendment of the Constitution in the sixth line of the first paragraph of Article 107 with the provision that the President of the Republic decides on the granting of clemency ‘in the manner provided by law.’ It is, therefore, possible to understand the valid Pardon Act through historical objectivist interpretation in such a way that the President of the Republic is not restricted by law in the implementation of his original constitutional powers on the granting of clemency. …”
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Learning Automata Based Incremental Learning Method for Deep Neural Networks by Haonan Guo, Shilin Wang, Jianxun Fan, Shenghong Li

“…However, in the real-world scenario, the labeled data associated with the assigned classes are always gathered incrementally over time, since it is cumbersome work to collect and annotate the training data manually. This suggests the manner of sequentially training on a series of datasets with gradually added training samples belonging to new classes, which is called incremental learning. …”
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PlantLayout pipeline to model tissue patterning by M. S. Savina, V. V. Mironova

“…This problem is essential for the developmental regulators (morphogens) that distribute over the tissues anisotropically, forming there maxima and gradients and guiding cellular processes in a dose-dependent manner. Here we present the PlantLayout pipeline for MATLAB software, which facilitates the computational studies of tissue patterning. …”
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Proinflammatory Cytokine Gene Expression by Murine Macrophages in Response to Brugia malayi Wolbachia Surface Protein by Chantima Porksakorn, Surang Nuchprayoon, Kiwon Park, Alan L. Scott

“…Interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) mRNAs were all upregulated by the rWSP stimulation in a dose-dependant manner. TNF transcription peaked at 3 hours, whereas IL-1β and IL-6 transcription peaked at 6 hours post-rWSP exposure. …”
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Literary seduction: Minds, bodies and non-textual phenomena by Michael BURKE

“…Deliberations into what makes a literary text persuasive, what seduces readers to continue reading once the act of reading started, is often a combination of (a) what is written (the themes), (b) the order and manner in which the events of the story are presented (the narrative structure and how the text is filtered, and (c) how a story is written (the style and rhetoric of the text). …”
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CONSTRUCTION SAFETY THROUGH HOUSEKEEPING: THE HAWTHORNE EFFECT by Emmanuel Aboagye-Nimo, Fidelise EMUZE

“…Housekeeping also contributes to projects being finished in a timely manner, due to fewer distractions being created by what would otherwise be a chaotic situation. …”
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Blood culture bottle shortage mitigation efforts: analysis of impact on ordering and patient impact by Christopher D. Doern, Melissa Whitman, Michelle Doll, Suzanne Lavoie, David Friedel, Gonzalo Bearman, Jeffrey Kim, Heather Masters, Susan Roseff, Jim Willis, Roxanne Mercer, Aaron Hill, Ramana Feeser, Harinder Dhindsa, Frank Petruzella, Anne Jackson, Michael Vitto, Josh Plauny, Alexandra Bryson

“…Conclusions: These findings strongly suggest that some basic stewardship interventions can significantly change blood culture practice in a manner that minimizes the impact on patient care. …”
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Alternative splicing in the DBD linker region of p63 modulates binding to DNA and iASPP in vitro by Rebecca Lotz, Christian Osterburg, Apirat Chaikuad, Sabrina Weber, Masato Akutsu, Anne Christin Machel, Ulrike Beyer, Jakob Gebel, Frank Löhr, Stefan Knapp, Matthias Dobbelstein, Xin Lu, Volker Dötsch

“…We speculate that, through the formation of hetero-complexes of both isoforms, the affinity to DNA, as well as the interaction with iASPP, can be fine-tuned in a tissue-specific manner.…”
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Isolation of PCSK9-specific nanobodies from synthetic libraries using a combined protein selection strategy by Apisitt Thaiprayoon, Yodpong Chantarasorn, Worrapoj Oonanant, Anongnard Kasorn, Phoomintara Longsompurana, Satita Tapaneeyakorn, Pinpunya Riangrungroj, Fabien Loison, Andrew C. Kruse, Matthew P. DeLisa, Dujduan Waraho-Zhmayev

“…Overall, our combined protein selection method enables rapid and straightforward identification of potent antigen-specific Nbs in a manner that can be executed in a basic laboratory setting without the need for specialized equipment. …”
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The in vitro anticancer effects of FS48 from salivary glands of Xenopsylla cheopis on NCI-H460 cells via its blockage of voltage-gated K+ channels by Xiong Weichen, Fan Huizhen, Zeng Qingye, Deng Zhenhui, Li Guanhui, Lu Wancheng, Zhang Bei, Lai Shian, Chen Xin, Xu Xueqing

“…The results demonstrated that FS48 can be effective in suppressing the Kv currents, migration, and invasion of NCI-H460 cells in a dose-dependent manner, despite the failure to inhibit the proliferation. …”
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Unlocking the diversification benefits of DeFi for ASEAN stock market portfolios: a quantile study by Shoaib Ali, Youssef Manel

“…Therefore, portfolio managers and investors should readjust their portfolio allocation in a timely manner according to different market states to build additional effective hedging and diversification strategies to avoid large losses and to reduce portfolio risk exposure.…”
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Cannabidiol attenuates lipid metabolism and induces CB1 receptor-mediated ER stress associated apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells by Xuanhe Fu, Zhixiong Yu, Fang Fang, Weiping Zhou, Yuxin Bai, Zhongjia Jiang, Biao Yang, Ye Sun, Xing Tian, Guangyan Liu

“…In this study, we have demonstrated that CBD significantly inhibits the proliferation of OCs through a cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1R)-mediated manner. Fatty acid metabolic profiling and flow cytometry analysis revealed that CBD has the ability to decrease fatty acid levels and significantly suppress the transcription of genes involved in fatty acid uptake and synthesis in ES-2 cells. …”
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Follistatin-Like 1: A Potential Mediator of Inflammation in Obesity by Nengguang Fan, Haiyan Sun, Yufan Wang, Yifei Wang, Lijuan Zhang, Zhenhua Xia, Liang Peng, Yanqiang Hou, Weiqin Shen, Rui Liu, Jiajing Yin, Yongde Peng

“…The expression of proinflammatory mediators including IL-6, TNF-α, and MCP-1 was upregulated by recombinant FSTL1 in a dose-dependent manner, paralleled with activation of the IKKβ-NFκB and JNK signaling pathways in the two cell lines. …”
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Advancing forest carbon projections requires improved convergence between ecological and economic models by Madisen R. Fuller, Manaswini Ganjam, Justin S. Baker, Robert C. Abt

“…However, forest carbon modeling frameworks are often developed and applied in a highly disciplinary manner, e.g., with ecological and economic modeling communities typically operating in silos or through soft model linkages through input–output parametric relationships. …”
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The Effect of SP/NK1R on the Expression and Activity of Catalase and Superoxide Dismutase in Glioblastoma Cancer Cells by Faranak Korfi, Hossein Javid, Reza Assaran Darban, Seyed Isaac Hashemy

“…Aprepitant significantly reduced the viability of U87 cells in a concentration-dependent manner. ROS production was significantly reduced, and the activity of catalase and SOD increased after treatment with aprepitant. …”
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Chlorogenic Acids Inhibit Adipogenesis: Implications of Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway by Mengting Liu, Jian Qin, Jing Cong, Yubin Yang

“…In addition, CGA repressed the induction of adipocyte differentiation biomarkers as PPAR-γ, adipocyte protein 2 (aP2), fatty acid synthase (FAS), and lipoprotein lipase (LPL), and the secretion of GSK-3β in a dose-dependent manner upregulated the expression of β-catenin and Wnt10b both in gene and protein levels. …”
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The zebrafish moonshine gene encodes transcriptional intermediary factor 1gamma, an essential regulator of hematopoiesis. by David G Ransom, Nathan Bahary, Knut Niss, David Traver, Caroline Burns, Nikolaus S Trede, Noelle Paffett-Lugassy, Walter J Saganic, C Anthoney Lim, Candace Hersey, Yi Zhou, Bruce A Barut, Shuo Lin, Paul D Kingsley, James Palis, Stuart H Orkin, Leonard I Zon

“…Transplantation studies reveal that tif1gamma functions in a cell-autonomous manner during the differentiation of erythroid precursors. …”
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