Imagine being a native English speaker and being presented with a three-consonant skeleton like STR and asked to produce an English word with a length between 5 and 7 letters that incorporates these consonants in order, inserting only vowels in…
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Learning from outcomes shapes reliance on moral rules versus cost–benefit reasoning
All experiments were carried out in accordance with approved ethics protocols and complied with pertinent laws and regulations. We obtained informed consent from all participants. Our experiments received ethical approval from the Independent…
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Design of a novel and robust 2-DOF PIDA controller based on enzyme action optimizer for ball position regulation in magnetic levitation systems
Magnetic levitation systems are characterized by their inherent instability and nonlinear dynamics, presenting significant challenges in achieving precise and robust control of ball position1,2. Parameter uncertainties due to environmental…
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Prevalence and predictors of carcinophobia among the non cancer population in Saudi Arabia
This study provides new evidence on the psychological burden of cancer fear among non-cancer adults in Saudi Arabia. The prevalence of high cancer fear (7.75%) is noteworthy and warrants attention from public health authorities. This percentage…
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A simulated dataset for proactive robot task inference from streaming natural language dialogues
We followed a prompt engineering approach, which has been successfully used in previous studies utilizing large language models for dataset generation37,38,39,40,41. Building on prior prompt-based generation work, our method introduces a highly…
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A targeted tiled amplicon sequencing approach for clade and subclade level differentiation of monkeypox virus from wastewater
Wastewater sample collection
Twenty-four hour composite influent wastewater from four different wastewater treatment plant sites in a large Canadian city with a combined catchment population nearing three million were used in this study (Fig. 1)….
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Miniaturized scalable arrayed CRISPR screening in primary cells enables discovery at the single donor resolution
Primary human skeletal muscle myoblast culturing
Primary human skeletal muscle myoblasts from a male, non-smoking donor was obtained from Zen-Bio and cultured according to protocols provided by the vendor. Briefly, cells were cultured at 37 °C,…
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Ground truth and demographic data for ultrasound assessment of thoracolumbar fascia deformation and shearing
Ferreira, M. L. et al. Global, regional, and national burden of low back pain, 1990–2020, its attributable risk factors, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Rheumatology 5,…
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Dish swap across a weekly menu can deliver health and sustainability gains
Many population-level approaches to demand-side behaviour change fall under one of four broad categories: they educate and inform1, they change choice architecture within a single event1,2, they restrict choice options through regulatory measures…
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How does a forest return to abandoned land? I travel to find out
“In this picture, I’m working with my four-legged companion, Yang Mei (Little Sheep) near a small village called Nanxi on the eastern coast of Taiwan. I’m an ecologist studying lowland evergreen subtropical forests. I’ve been conducting…
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