As blind and low-vision (BLV) players engage more deeply with games, accessibility features have become essential. While some research has explored tools and strategies to enhance game accessibility, the specific expe...
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Dark patterns and deceptive designs (DPs) refer to user interfaces (UIs) that trick people into interactions that benefit the service providers. Today, academic research, legal action, and media coverage has raised aw...
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Thermal imaging can greatly enhance the application of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in challenging environments. However, the inherent low resolution of thermal sensors leads to insufficient details and ...
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Sensemaking with large multimedia dataset is a cognitively intensive task that requires analysts to understand the underlying stories that the dataset tells. Often, analysts use tools in order to offload cognition as ...
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Virtual Reality (VR) has become a mainstream opportunity to develop immersive environments where people are exposed to relevant stimuli in a systematic but safe way. Besides the controlled exposure to stimuli, VR syst...
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Data processing is an important step in various natural language processing tasks. As the commonly used datasets in named entity recognition contain only a limited number of samples, it is important to obtain addition...
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Checkpoint averaging is a simple and effective method to boost the performance of converged neural machine translation models. The calculation is cheap to perform and the fact that the translation improvement almost c...
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Previous research pays attention to how users strategically understand and consciously interact with algorithms but mainly focuses on an individual level, making it difficult to explore how users within communities co...
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Hepatic encephalopathy(HE) is a neurological condition that occurs as a complication of liver dysfunction that involves sensorimotor symptoms in addition to cognitive and behavioral changes, particularly in cases of s...
Hepatic encephalopathy(HE) is a neurological condition that occurs as a complication of liver dysfunction that involves sensorimotor symptoms in addition to cognitive and behavioral changes, particularly in cases of severe liver disease or cirrhosis. Previous studies have reported spatially distributed structural and functional abnormalities related to HE, but the exact relationship between the structural and functional alterations with respect to disease progression remains unclear. In this study, we performed surface-based cortical thickness comparisons and functional connectivity(FC) analyses between three cross-sectional groups: healthy controls(HC, N = 51), patients with minimal hepatic encephalopathy(MHE, N = 50), patients with overt hepatic encephalopathy(OHE, N = 51). In addition to the distributed cortical thinning that is extensively thought to be associated with cognitive decline in HE, we found significant cortical thickening in the left parahippocampal gyrus cortex in the OHE group(p < 0.001, p = 0.009) as compared to the HC and MHE group respectively, which is further corroborated by the significant correlation between the cortical thickness and digit symbol test(DST) scores. Furthermore, the decreased FC between the right postcentral gyrus and several sensory regions(bilateral somatosensory and visual cortices) was found to be significant in MHE patients as compared to the HC group. Our results revealed cross-sectional structural and functional variations concerning disease progression across different subsystems(e.g., visual, motor and sensory), providing evidence that can potentially explain the mechanisms underlying the sensorimotor and cognitive deficits related to HE.
Instant messaging (IM) communication has been widely studied due to its prevalence in our everyday communication. Numerous factors that contribute to (un)responsiveness have been identified. Yet an integrated view of ...
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