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Embodied artificial agents for understanding human social cognition.

In this paper, we propose that experimental protocols involving artificial agents, in particular the embodied humanoid robots, provide insightful information regarding social cognitive mechanisms in the human brain. Using artificial agents allows for manipulation and control of various parameters of behaviour, appearance and expressiveness in one of the interaction partners (the artificial agent),...

Classifying prostate cancer patients based on total prostate-specific antigen and free prostate-specific antigen features by support vector machine.

AIMS OF STUDY: In this work, we enhanced the role of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test by examining the relation between free PSA (fPSA) and total PSA (tPSA) value and other biological information such as age and volume of prostate. Our primary goal is to find an approach that improves the sensitivity but still give a reasonable specificity.

VH-VL orientation prediction for antibody humanization candidate selection: A case study.

Antibody humanization describes the procedure of grafting a non-human antibody's complementarity-determining regions, i.e., the variable loop regions ...

A Novel Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization for Improved Mutagenic Primer Design in Mismatch PCR-RFLP SNP Genotyping.

Many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for complex genetic diseases are genotyped by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymo...

Water quality of Danube Delta systems: ecological status and prediction using machine-learning algorithms.

Environmental issues have a worldwide impact on water bodies, including the Danube Delta, the largest European wetland. The Water Framework Directive ...

Predictive model of synovial membrane degradation using semi-automated morphometry and artificial neural networks.

Gonarthrosis is a degenerative disease that affects mainly older people, but whose incidence has increased significantly in the last decade in populat...

: Evaluation of PCR as a Laboratory Tool to Follow up the Evolution of Parasite Load.

BACKGROUND: The study evaluated qualitative PCR, primers 121-122 as a tool to follow up evolution parasite load of .

Cocaine-induced vasculitis with cutaneous manifestation: A recurrent episode after 2 years.

Cocaine is a popular recreational drug in the United States, and up to 70% of the seized cocaine contains levamisole which is an antihelminthic that c...

Electroencephalographic markers of robot-aided therapy in stroke patients for the evaluation of upper limb rehabilitation.

Stroke is the leading cause of permanent disability in developed countries; its effects may include sensory, motor, and cognitive impairment as well a...

Analytical assessment of the novel Maglumi squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCCA) immunoluminometric assay.

BACKGROUND: The demand for routine measurement of squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCCA) is rapidly increasing in clinical laboratories, due to the ce...

[Reference values of antistreptolysin O and asymptomatic carriers of β-hemolytic streptococci in adolescents and adults at Municipality Francisco Linares Alcántara, Venezuela].

INTRODUCTION: β-hemolytic streptococci (Streptococcus pyogenes) groups A, C or G, secretes streptolysin O, toxin which causes in the infected individu...

[Long-Term Survival of a Patient with Colon Cancer with Peritoneal Dissemination].

This case involves a 76 year-old woman. A sigmoidectomy was performed for sigmoid colon cancer in August 2006. On histological examination, the cancer...

[Characterization of Serial Passage of 1b/2a Chimera Hepatitis C Virus Cell Culture System Carrying Envelope E1E2 Coding Gene from Hebei Strain of China].

To character a novel chimera(1b/2a) hepatitis C virus cell culture (HCVcc) system carrying envelope E1E2 coding gene from Hebei strain of China, chime...

[Experimental study on effect of model on hepatic fibrosis with Aralia chinesis].

Hepatic fibrosis models were induced by CCl4 in rats. To explore vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGFβ1) m...

Comparison of Droplet Digital PCR and Real Time PCR Method for HBV DNA Quantification.

BACKGROUND: HBV infection causes a potential serious public health problem. The ability to detect HBV DNA concentration is an important issue that had...

Characterization of complexity in the electroencephalograph activity of Alzheimer's disease based on fuzzy entropy.

In this paper, experimental neurophysiologic recording and statistical analysis are combined to investigate the nonlinear characteristic and the cogni...

Support vector machines using EEG features of cross-frequency coupling can predict treatment outcome in Mecp2-deficient mice.

Anti-convulsive drug treatments of epilepsy typically produce varied outcomes from one patient to the next, often necessitating patients to go through...

Training and operation of an integrated neuromorphic network based on metal-oxide memristors.

Despite much progress in semiconductor integrated circuit technology, the extreme complexity of the human cerebral cortex, with its approximately 10(1...

Use of artificial neural networks in the QSAR prediction of physicochemical properties and toxicities for REACH legislation.

With the introduction of the REACH legislation in the European Union, there is a requirement for property and toxicity data on chemicals produced in o...

Machine learning from concept to clinic: reliable detection of BRAF V600E DNA mutations in thyroid nodules using high-dimensional RNA expression data.

The promise of personalized medicine will require rigorously validated molecular diagnostics developed on minimally invasive, clinically relevant samp...