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Agents, Believability and Embodiment in Advanced Learning Environments [PDF]

, 2001
On the World Wide Web we see a growing number of general HCI interfaces, interfaces to educational or entertainment systems, interfaces to professional environments, etc., where an animated face, a cartoon character or a human-like virtual agent has the ...
Nijholt, A.
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Calpain small subunit homodimerization is robust and calcium‐independent

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Calpains dimerize via penta‐EF‐hand (PEF) domains. Using single‐molecule force spectroscopy, we measured the strength and kinetics of PEF–PEF homodimer binding. The interaction is robust, shows a transient conformational step before dissociation, and remains largely insensitive to Ca2+.
Nesha May O. Andoy, Trina Dykstra‐MacPherson, Mathias A. Bell, Peter L. Davies, Ruby May A. Sullan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of the Kirkendall effect as a mechanism responsible for thermal decomposition of the InGaN/GaN MQWs system

New Journal of Physics, 2022
A drop in the efficiency of light-emitting diodes based on InGaN/GaN QWs known as the ‘green gap’ has been studied intensively over the past dozen years. Several factors were revealed to contribute to its origin, such as random fluctuations in the indium
Roman Hrytsak, Pawel Kempisty, Michal Leszczynski, Malgorzata Sznajder   +3 more
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Interfacing consciousness

Frontiers in Psychology
The current stage of consciousness science has reached an impasse. We blame the physicalist worldview for this and propose a new perspective to make progress on the problems of consciousness. Our perspective is rooted in the theory of conscious agents. We thereby stress the fundamentality of consciousness outside of spacetime, the importance of agency,
Robert Prentner, Robert Prentner, Donald D. Hoffman   +2 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

CH3NH3PbBr3 is not pyroelectric, excluding ferroelectric-enhanced photovoltaic performance

APL Materials, 2016
To experimentally (dis)prove ferroelectric effects on the properties of lead-halide perovskites and of solar cells, based on them, we used second-harmonic-generation spectroscopy and the periodic temperature change (Chynoweth) technique to detect the ...
Yevgeny Rakita, Elena Meirzadeh, Tatyana Bendikov, Vyacheslav Kalchenko, Igor Lubomirsky, Gary Hodes, David Ehre, David Cahen   +7 more
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The Oxidative Stress Agent Hypochlorite Stimulates c-di-GMP Synthesis and Biofilm Formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
The opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is able to survive under a variety of often harmful environmental conditions due to a multitude of intrinsic and adaptive resistance mechanisms, including biofilm formation as one important survival
Nikola Strempel, Michael Nusser, Anke Neidig, Gerald Brenner-Weiss, Joerg Overhage, Joerg Overhage   +5 more
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3D‐Zipped Interface: In Situ Covalent‐Locking for High Performance of Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Advanced Science, 2021
Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells can generate high power using a potentially green fuel (H2) and zero emissions of greenhouse gas (CO2). However, significant mass transport resistances in the interface region of the membrane electrode assemblies ...
Xian Liang, Xiaolin Ge, Yubin He, Mai Xu, Muhammad A. Shehzad, Fangmeng Sheng, Rachida Bance‐Soualhi, Jianjun Zhang, Weisheng Yu, Zijuan Ge, Chengpeng Wei, Wanjie Song, Jinlan Peng, John R. Varcoe, Liang Wu, Tongwen Xu   +15 more
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Critical domain walls in the Ashkin-Teller model

, 2011
We study the fractal properties of interfaces in the 2d Ashkin-Teller model. The fractal dimension of the symmetric interfaces is calculated along the critical line of the model in the interval between the Ising and the four-states Potts models.
Adams D A, Baake M, Baxter R J, Chatelain C, Chelkak D Smirnov S, Di Francesco P, Gamsa A, Giudice P, Ikhlef Y, Lottini S, M A Rajabpour, M Caselle, Picco M, Picco M Santachiara R, S Lottini, Saleur H, Schramm O, Von Gehlen G, Wu F Y, Zamolodchikov A B, Zatelepin A Shchur L   +20 more
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Valosin‐containing protein counteracts ATP‐driven dissolution of FUS condensates through its ATPase activity in vitro

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Biomolecular condensates formed by fused in sarcoma (FUS) are dissolved by high ATP concentrations yet persist in cells. Using a reconstituted system, we demonstrate that valosin‐containing protein (VCP), an AAA+ ATPase, counteracts ATP‐driven dissolution of FUS condensates through its D2 ATPase activity.
Hitomi Kimura, Shin‐ichi Tate, Kyota Yasuda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source