The Ethical Significance of Brain-Computer Interfaces as Enablers of Communication by Toma Gruica

“…Intracortical BCIs, by contrast, can restore communicative capacity by directly decoding neural signals associated with intended speech or movement.[5] One landmark study documented an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient who, after entering CLIS, learned to use an implanted BCI speller to construct sentences at a rate of approximately one character per minute. The patient’s communications ranged from the mundane, such as requesting music, to expressions of existential significance involving care preferences.[6] Importantly, when researchers were asked how they would respond if the patient spelled “unplug my ventilator,” they emphatically stated that BCI output would not determine decisions regarding life support withdrawal. …”
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THE IMPACT OF ADEQUATE PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY ON THE EFFICIENCY OF TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS by A. A. Abramkin, T. A. Lisitsyna, D. Yu. Veltishchev, O. F. Seravina, O. B. Kovalevskaya, E. L. Nasonov

“…The diagnosis of MDs was based on the ICD-10 codes, by applying a semi-structured interview and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Changes in the pattern and severity of ADS were evaluated using the Hamilton Anxiety Scale and the Montgomery–Asberg Depression Rating Scale. …”
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Pentacene-Based Thin Film Transistor with Inkjet-Printed Nanocomposite High-K Dielectrics by Chao-Te Liu, Wen-Hsi Lee, Jui-Feng Su

“…The nanocomposite gate insulating film of a pentacene-based thin film transistor was deposited by inkjet printing. …”
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Theory-Driven EEG Indexes for Tracking Motor Recovery and Predicting the Effects of Hybridizing tDCS With Mirror Therapy in Stroke Patients by Chia-Lun Liu, Ken-Hsien Su, Yi-Shiung Horng, Chia-Ling Chen, Shou-Hsien Huang, Ching-Yi Wu

“…Three months after training, only the premotor tDCS group maintained the gains in FMA, with these improvements correlated with the EEG indexes. Again, this pattern was specific to premotor tDCS. Since the gating-by-inhibition model suggests that EEG index reflects an individual’s psychomotor efficiency, we also found that the baseline EEG index could predict FMA retention. …”
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Security Paper Design with Frequency-Selective Structure for X-Band Electromagnetic Detection System by Sang-Hwa Lee, Min-Sik Kim, Jong-Kyu Kim, Jong-In Lim, Ic-Pyo Hong

“…When a functional paper embedded with a frequency-selective pattern that selectively reflects a specific frequency is being leaked out of a security zone, the electromagnetic detection system receives and detects the intensity of the electromagnetic wave reflected from the security paper passing through an antenna gate, which transmits/receives RF signals. …”
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De novo assembly of a transcriptome for Calanus finmarchicus (Crustacea, Copepoda)--the dominant zooplankter of the North Atlantic Ocean. by Petra H Lenz, Vittoria Roncalli, R Patrick Hassett, Le-Shin Wu, Matthew C Cieslak, Daniel K Hartline, Andrew E Christie

“…A key environmental challenge for C. finmarchicus is the seasonal exposure to the dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense with high concentrations of saxitoxins, neurotoxins that block voltage-gated sodium channels. Multiple contigs encoding putative voltage-gated sodium channels were identified. …”
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Wordline Input Bias Scheme for Neural Network Implementation in 3D-NAND Flash by Hwiho Hwang, Gyeonghae Kim, Dayeon Yu, Hyungjin Kim

“…The approach leverages the velocity saturation effect in short-channel MOSFETs, which enables a linear increase in drain current with respect to gate voltage in the saturation region. A NAND flash array with a TANOS (TiN/Al₂O₃/Si₃N₄/SiO₂/poly-Si) gate stack was fabricated, and its electrical and reliability characteristics were evaluated. …”
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Determination of the current-phase relation of an InAs 2DEG Josephson junction with a microwave resonator by Zoltán Scherübl, Máté Sütő, Dávid Kóti, Endre Tóvári, Csaba Horváth, Tamás Kalmár, Bence Vasas, Martin Berke, Magdhi Kirti, Giorgio Biasiol, Szabolcs Csonka, Péter Makk, Gergő Fülöp

“…With the application of an in-plane magnetic field, we induced asymmetry in the interference pattern, which was found to be anisotropic in the device plane.…”
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Brain Effective Connectivity Analysis Facilitates the Treatment Outcome Expectation of Sound Therapy in Patients With Tinnitus by Han Lv, Jinduo Liu, Qian Chen, Zuozhen Zhang, Zhaodi Wang, Shusheng Gong, Junzhong Ji, Zhenchang Wang

“…We hypothesized that the pattern of directional functional connectivity can provide key information on treatment outcomes. …”
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Time-Series Forecasting Method Based on Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Attention Mechanism by Zhiguo Xiao, Junli Liu, Xinyao Cao, Ke Wang, Dongni Li, Qian Liu

“…Breaking through traditional structural designs, the model employs a Squeeze-and-Excitation Network (SENet) to reconstruct the convolutional layers of the Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN), strengthening the feature expression of key time steps through dynamic channel weight allocation to address the redundancy issue of traditional causal convolutions in local pattern capture. A Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU) variant based on a global attention mechanism is designed, leveraging the collaboration between gating units and attention weights to mine cross-period long-distance dependencies and effectively alleviate the gradient disappearance problem of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN-like) models in multi-scale time-series analysis. …”
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Two‐Terminal MoS2‐Based Retinomorphic Devices with Enhanced Synaptic Plasticity by Younghoon Lim, Taehun Kim, Jaesik Eom, Onsik Harm, Junsung Byeon, Jungmoon Lim, Juwon Lee, Sangyeon Pak, SeungNam Cha

“…Furthermore, pattern recognition results confirm that the retinomorphic devices effectively emulate the functions of the retina with a low device‐to‐device variation. …”
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Spintronic Memtransistor Leaky Integrate and Fire Neuron for Spiking Neural Networks by Aijaz H. Lone, Meng Tang, Daniel N. Rahimi, Xuecui Zou, Dongxing Zheng, Hossein Fariborzi, Xixiang Zhang, Gianluca Setti

“…Based on the ferromagnetic multilayer spintronic devices, a magnetic field‐gated and current‐controlled spintronic Leaky Integrate‐and‐Fire (LIF) neuron with memtransistor properties is showcased. …”
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The quantity, quality and findings of network meta-analyses evaluating the effectiveness of GLP-1 RAs for weight loss: a scoping review by Michael Nunns, Samantha Febrey, Jill Buckland, Rebecca Abbott, Rebecca Whear, Alison Bethel, Kate Boddy, Liz Shaw, Jo Thompson Coon, GJ Melendez-Torres

“…Results Of 22 systematic reviews identified, 14 were prioritised for analysis as the remaining 8 reviews were rated as low or critically low quality. We focused on network meta-analyses of weight loss outcomes measured at 6 months, 12 months, longer than 12 months or over a mix of time points. …”
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An Efficient RTL Design for a Wearable Brain–Computer Interface by Tahereh Vasei, Mohammad Ali Saber, Alireza Nahvy, Zainalabedin Navabi

“…To further illustrate the outperformance of our design, the proposed architecture is implemented on Virtex-7 field program gate array as a prototyping platform consuming 6 μJ energy with 1.52% area utilization.…”
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Landau–Kleffner Syndrome Can Herald the Diagnosis of GRIN2A Gene Mutation by Ayman Khalil Ebrahim, Jaafar Jawad Makhlooq, Maryam Yusuf Busehail

“…N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are glutamate-gated channels that are essential for synaptic transmission and plasticity in the central nervous system. …”
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A novel deep learning-based 1D-CNN-optimized GRU approach for heart disease prediction by Jini Mol G., Ajith Bosco Raj T.

“…To identify the irregularities in the cardiac data pattern, a gated recurrent unit (GRU) classifier and a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) are introduced. …”
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Improving the Performance of Charge Trapping Memtransistor as Synaptic Device by Ti-Doped HfO₂ by Yu-Che Chou, Wan-Hsuan Chung, Chien-Wei Tsai, Chin-Ya Yi, Chao-Hsin Chien

“…The content of Ti was quantified and the energy band structures of the gate stack was constructed with the aid of transmission electron microscope (TEM) images and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. …”
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Regulation of Nav1.7: A Conserved SCN9A Natural Antisense Transcript Expressed in Dorsal Root Ganglia. by Jennifer Koenig, Robert Werdehausen, John E Linley, Abdella M Habib, Jeffrey Vernon, Stephane Lolignier, Niels Eijkelkamp, Jing Zhao, Andrei L Okorokov, C Geoffrey Woods, John N Wood, James J Cox

“…The NAT has a similar tissue expression pattern to the sense gene and is alternatively spliced within dorsal root ganglia. …”
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Translating weighted probabilistic bits to synthetic genetic circuits by Matthew D. Ciccone, Carlos D. Messina

“…We analyze the necessary requirements for assuring Boolean logic gate sequences can function in unpredictable intracellular conditions, followed by interpreted pathways by which a mathematical representation of probabilistic circuits can be translated to biological implementation. …”
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Opinions of school administrators in high image schools on external pressure groups by Vildan Yılmaz Ortadağ, Soner Polat

“…In this study, the phenomenology pattern, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. …”
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