Academic Articles & Research Papers

Learning and Evolution in Neural Networks

This article describes simulations on populations of neural networks that both evolve at the population level and learn at the individual level. Unlike other simulations, the evolutionary task (finding food in the environment) and the learn...

Neural networks: an introduction

In this chapter, neural networks are discussed. The present field of neural networks links a number of closely related areas, such as parallel distributed processing, connectionism and neural computing, these being brought together with the...

A Heuristic Home Electric Energy Management System Considering Renewable Energy Availability

This paper presents the development of a heuristic-based algorithm for a Home Electric Energy Management System (HEEMS). The novelty of the proposal resides in the fact that solutions of the Pareto front, minimizing both the energy consumpt...

Bridging Deep Learning and Quantum Computing for EEG-Driven P300 Targeted ASD Response Detection

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition whose diagnosis relies heavily on subjective behavioral assessments. Electroencephalography (EEG) provides an inexpensive and non-invasive method of objective biomarker detect...

Blind spots of randomized benchmarking under temporal correlations

Randomized benchmarking (RB) is a widely adopted protocol for estimating the average gate fidelity in quantum hardware. However, its standard formulation relies on the assumption of temporally uncorrelated noise, an assumption often violate...

Transgenerational inheritance of ethanol preference is caused by maternal NPF repression

Rapid or even anticipatory adaptation to environmental conditions can provide a decisive fitness advantage to an organism. The memory of recurring conditions could also benefit future generations; however, neuronally-encoded behavior isn’t ...

Physical Activity and Public Health

In 1995 the American College of Sports Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published national guidelines on Physical Activity and Public Health.The Committee on Exercise and Cardiac Rehabilitation of the American Hea...

Prediction of cardiorrespiratory fitness by screen time in schoolchildrens

The time spent in front of the screens, results in accumulations of sedentary behavior, which is related to health damages to adolescents, such as a low cardiorespiratory fitness. In this sense, this study aimed to predict cardiorespiratory...

On the Biopolitics of Suicide

This essay critically examines the biopoliticization of suicide, challenging its framing as a public health issue which obscures its cultural and philosophical significance. Drawing from Michel Foucault’s theories of biopower, this essay ar...

LASIK Surgery

Photo by Scott Van Daalen on Unsplash INTRODUCTION LASIK surgery, one of the most common elective procedures worldwide, aims to decrease or eliminate the need to wear glasses or contact lenses by reshaping the cornea’s curvature to re...

Wild immunology

In wild populations, individuals are regularly exposed to a wide range of pathogens. In this context, organisms must elicit and regulate effective immune responses to protect their health while avoiding immunopathology. However, most of our...

Effects of Multicomponent Training on Body Composition and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Evidence of aberrant anti-epstein-barr virus antibody response, though no viral reactivation, in people with post-stroke fatigue

Abstract Background Fatigue is a common complication of stroke that has a significant impact on quality of life. The biological mechanisms that underly post-stroke fatigue are currently unclear, however, reactivation of latent viruses and t...

Efficacy and safety of biofilm dispersal by glycoside hydrolases in wounds

Novel anti-biofilm and dispersal agents are currently being investigated in an attempt to combat biofilm-associated wound infections. Glycoside hydrolases (GHs) are enzymes that hydrolyze the glycosidic bonds between sugars, such as those f...

The prevalence and trends of waterpipe tobacco smoking: A systematic review.

IntroductionWaterpipe tobacco smoking is harmful to health however its prevalence estimates remain uncertain. We aimed to systematically review the medical literature on waterpipe tobacco prevalence and trends.MethodsWe searched Medline, Em...

Utilization of mobile health applications and determinant factors among health science students at Debre Markos University, northwest Ethiopia in 2022.

BackgroundHigh penetration of smartphones and ownership among the young generation increased the utilization of mobile health applications for health management among university students more than ever. Compared to other health service prov...

Paradigm Shift in Natural Language Processing

Abstract In the era of deep learning, modeling for most natural language processing (NLP) tasks has converged into several mainstream paradigms. For example, we usually adopt the sequence labeling paradigm to solve a bundle of tasks such as...

EFhd2 regulates microtubule-dependent mitochondrial fitness at the B cell immune synapse.

Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing

The classic supervised machine learning paradigm is based on learning in isolation, a single predictive model for a task using a single dataset. This approach requires a large number of training examples and performs best for well-defined a...

Culling Double Counting in Sequence Images for Fruit Yield Estimation

Exact yield estimation of fruits on plants guaranteed fine and timely decisions on harvesting and marketing practices. Automatic yield estimation based on unmanned agriculture offers a viable solution for large orchards. Recent years have w...