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Persona-PhysioSync AV: Personalized Interaction through Personality and Physiology Monitoring in Autonomous Vehicles

The emergence of autonomous vehicles (AVs) marks a transformative leap in transportation technology. Central to the success of AVs is ensuring user safety, but this endeavor is accompanied by the challenge of establishing trust and acceptance of this novel technology. The traditional “one size fits all” approach to AVs may limit their broader societal, economic, and cultural impact. Here, we introduce the Persona-PhysioSync AV (PPS-AV). It adopts a comprehensive approach by combining personality traits with physiological and emotional indicators to personalize the AV experience to enhance trust and comfort. A significant aspect of the PPS-AV framework is its real-time monitoring of passenger engagement and comfort levels within AVs. It considers a passenger’s personality traits and their interaction with physiological and emotional responses. The framework can alert passengers when their engagement drops to critical levels or when they exhibit low situational awareness, ensuring they regain attentiveness promptly, especially during Take-Over Request (TOR) events. This approach fosters a heightened sense of Human–Vehicle Interaction (HVI), thereby building trust in AV technology. While the PPS-AV framework currently provides a foundational level of state diagnosis, future developments are expected to include interaction protocols that utilize interfaces like haptic alerts, visual cues, and auditory signals. In summary, the PPS-AV framework is a pivotal tool for the future of autonomous transportation. By prioritizing safety, comfort, and trust, it aims to make AVs not just a mode of transport but a personalized and trusted experience for passengers, accelerating the adoption and societal integration of autonomous vehicles.
The Semantics Research of UML2.0 Sequence Diagram Based on Temporal Description Logic

UML sequence diagrams have been widely applied in modeling the interactive behavior among objects. However, the lack of formal semantics makes it difficult to analyze and validate the described system. To solve these problems, a novel formalization method of UML2.0 sequence diagram based on the temporal description logics(TDLs) is proposed in this paper. TDLs is a dynamic and temporal extension of description logics(TDs) which can represent both static and dynamic domain knowledge. This method presents a precise description of UML2.0 sequence diagram. Finally, the example is given to verify the feasibility of this method.
A Comprehensive Overview of Micro-Influencer Marketing: Decoding the Current Landscape, Impacts, and Trends

This research provides a comprehensive overview of micro-influence marketing, analyzing the characteristics of influencers and the mechanisms of their impact. A systematic review was conducted, encompassing 2091 citing articles and references across 74 studies involving 95 research institutions and over 12,000 samples. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from computer science, information science, communication, culture, psychology, sociology, education, business, and management, this study outlines the distinct features of micro-influencers. These features include performable authenticity, affinity expressed through consistency and transparency, musical and artistic media talent, and competitive individual traits. The research synthesizes antecedents of trust and attachment mechanisms commonly employed in influencer theory, taking an objective standpoint and minimizing emphasis on audience engagement and perception to trigger influence. The findings highlight that followers’ pursuit of self-branding, driven by self-consciousness, social consciousness, credibility, and social presence, significantly influences the impact of self-expressive products on the audience’s purchase intention. The research contributes to micro-influence marketing theory by integrating mechanics, offering practical implications for micro-influencers, and suggesting future research agendas.
A functional central limit theorem for the jump counts of Markov processes with an application to Jackson networks

Each feasible transition between two distinct states i and j of a continuous-time, uniform, ergodic, countable-state Markov process gives a counting process counting the number of such transitions executed by the process. Traffic processes in Markovian queueing networks can, for instance, be represented as sums of such counting processes. We prove joint functional central limit theorems for the family of counting processes generated by all feasible transitions. We characterize which weighted sums of counts have zero covariance in the limit in terms of balance equations in the transition diagram of the process. Finally, we apply our results to traffic processes in a Jackson network. In particular, we derive simple formulas for the asymptotic covariances between the processes counting the number of customers moving between pairs of nodes in such a network.
Paroxysmal spontaneous nystagmus and vertigo evoked by lateral eye position

Prolonged lateral eye position to the extrleme left for 5 to 20 seconds, without vestibular stimulation, induced intense attacks of nystagmus and rotational vertigo lasting 50–90 seconds in a patient. During the attacks the nystagmus beat to the right and counterclockwise, while the patient could look freely around. Clinical data were suggestive of repeated strokes in the vertebrobasilar territory, mainly affecting the right dorsolateral medulla oblongata including, the vestibular nuclei. A paroxysmal attack of nystagmus and vertigo evoked by voluntary lateral eye position is an unusual clinical finding. This is discussed in the light of multisensory integration within the vestibular system, which also includes eye position information.
Optimal Pricing for Improving Efficiency of Taxi Systems

In Beijing, most taxi drivers intentionally avoid working during peak hours despite of the huge customer demand within these peak periods. This dilemma is mainly due to the fact that taxi drivers' congestion costs are not reflected in the current taxi fare structure. To resolve this problem, we propose a new pricing scheme to provide taxi drivers with extra incentives to work during peak hours. This differs from previous studies of taxi market by considering market variance over multiple periods, taxi drivers' profit-driven decisions, and their scheduling constraints regarding the interdependence among different periods. The major challenge of this research is the computational intensiveness to identify optimal strategy due to the exponentially large size of a taxi driver's strategy space and the scheduling constraints. We develop an atom schedule method to overcome these issues. It reduces the magnitude of the problem while satisfying the constraints to filter out infeasible pure strategies. Simulation results based on real data show the effectiveness of the proposed methods, which opens up a new door to improving the efficiency of taxi market in megacities (e.g., Beijing).
Inositol-Exchange Activity in Human Primordial Placenta

Human placenta is an intensively growing tissue. Phosphatidylinositol (PI) and its derivatives are part of the signaling pathway in the regulation of trophoblast cell differentiation. There are two different enzymes that take part in the direct PI synthesis: phosphatidylinositol synthase (PIS) and inositol exchange enzyme (IE). The presence of PIS is known in the human placenta, but IE activity has not been documented before. In our study, we describe the physiological properties of the two enzymes in vitro. PIS and IE were studied in different Mn2+ and Mg2+ concentrations that enabled us to separate the individual enzyme activities. Enzyme activity was measured by incorporation of 3[H]inositol in human primordial placenta tissue or microsomes. Optimal PIS activity was achieved between 0.5 and 2.0 mM Mn2+ concentration, but higher concentrations inhibit enzyme activity. In the presence of Mg2+, the enzyme activity increases continuously up to a concentration of 100 mM. PIS was inhibited by nucleoside di- and tri-phosphates. PI production increases between 0.1 and 10 mM Mn2+ concentration. The incorporation of [3H]inositol into PI increased by 57% when adding stabile GTP analog. The described novel pathway of inositol synthesis may provide an additional therapeutic approach of inositol supplementation before and during pregnancy.
Results and discussion : Production of antibody ( IgG ) against aflatoxin B 1 :

Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is a mycotoxin produced mainly by fungus Aspergillus flavus in food and feed . It is considered as a carcinogenic toxin for human and animals. The current study was designed for produce antibody (IgG) against aflatoxin B1.It was achieved by immunization of experimental animals (New Zealand White rabbits) with prepared antigen consist of aflatoxin B1-BSA Conjugate (100 and 200 μg ) concentrations, and detection of produced antibody using Ouchterlony double immunodiffusion and ELISA techniques,. Ochterlony and ELISA techniques revealed that, high titer of IgG antibody was obtained by rabbit’s immunize, and the titer of antibody was increased steadily during the immunization schedule. The highest titer of antibody reached up to 12800.
Socioeconomic differential in self-assessment of health and happiness in 5 African countries: Finding from World Value Survey

Objective Factors that contribute to wealth related inequalities in self-rated health (SRH) and happiness remains unclear most especially in sub-Saharan countries (SSA). This study aims to explore and compare socioeconomic differentials in SRH and happiness in five SSA countries. Methods Using the 2010/2014 World Values Survey (WVS), we obtained a sample of 9,869 participants of age 16 and above from five SSA countries (Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda and Zimbabwe). Socioeconomic inequalities were quantified using the concentration index. The contribution of each predictor to concentration index’s magnitude was obtained by means of regression based decomposition analysis. Results Poor SRH ranges from approximately 9% in Nigeria to 20% in Zimbabwe, whereas unhappiness was lower in Rwanda (9.5%) and higher in South Africa (23.3%). Concentration index was negative for both outcomes in all countries, which implies that poor SRH and unhappiness are excessively concentrated among the poorest socioeconomic strata. Although magnitudes differ across countries, however, the major contributor to wealth-related inequality in poor SRH is satisfaction with financial situation whereas for unhappiness the major contributors are level of income and satisfaction with financial situation. Conclusions This study underscores an association between wealth related inequalities and poor SRH and unhappiness in the context of SSA. Improving equity in health, as suggested by the commission of social determinants of health may be useful in fighting against the unfair distribution of resources. Thus, knowledge about the self-rating of health and happiness can serve as proxy estimates for understanding the distribution of health care access and economic resources needed for well-being in resident countries.
Frizzled signalling and cell polarisation in Drosophila and vertebrates

A key aspect of animal development is the appropriate polarisation of different cell types in the right place at the right time. Such polarisation is often precisely coordinated relative to the axes of a tissue or organ, but the mechanisms underlying this coordination are still poorly understood. Nevertheless, genetic analysis of animal development has revealed some of the pathways involved. For example, a non-canonical Frizzled signalling pathway has been found to coordinate cell polarity throughout the insect cuticle, and recent work has implicated an analogous pathway in coordinated polarisation of cells during vertebrate development. This review discusses recent findings regarding non-canonical Frizzled signalling and cell polarisation.
IMPACT OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS ON JOB SATISFACTION AMONG ERP SYSTEM USERS

ERP is an industrial term for the broad set of activities support by multi-module application software that help a manufacturing or the other business mange the important parts of its business. ERP can also include application modules for the human resource aspects of a business. Any changes in a technology such as ERP that directly controls business processes, work rhythm, information content, and decision scope will affect job satisfaction and job performance. The satisfaction of the employees is very important for a successful user acceptance of the technology in order to bring out a good performance output from them. It was during 1980’s when Hackman developed the job characteristics model when technology was slowly blooming in certain fields of industries. ERP system implementations have the potential to drastically alter jobs, thereby changing people’s reactions to their work situation, so there is a possibility that job perceptions and the implementation of an ERP system can interact to influence employees’ job satisfaction. Although prior research on job characteristics and job outcomes has extensively related these two sets of constructs, the role of technology implementation or the context in which the technology implementation occurs has not been explicitly modeled to understand how and why various job characteristics influence job satisfaction. For this reason the study is carried out to find out the impact of ERP system over the job characteristics model and its influence over the job satisfaction of ERP using employees is examined.
Mobility management meets privacy: the failure of existing proposals and a new, future-proof approach

Protection of user privacy will gain increasing importance in future mobile systems. To meet the users' privacy needs the approach to reveal different amounts of personal data under several different pseudonyms is promising. This approach can still be undermined with application knowledge as well as with information originating from the communication process itself. Here, mobility management plays a central role as it reflects the user's behavior. Thus, the approach of multiple pseudonyms can only be successful if the communication system is designed for it. In this paper, the respective threats resulting from IP-based mobility management are analyzed. As existing proposals do not protect against these threats, a new approach to mobility management protecting multiple pseudonyms is outlined.
Towards a Low-Complexity Dynamic Decode-and-Forward Relay Protocol

The dynamic decode-and-forward (DDF) relaying protocol is a relatively new cooperative scheme which has been shown to achieve promising theoretical results in terms of diversity-multiplexing gain tradeoff and error rates. The case of a single relay has been extensively studied in the literature and several techniques to approach the optimum performance have been proposed. Until recently, however, a practical implementation for the case of several relays had been considered to be much more challenging. A rotation-based DDF technique, suitable for any number of relays, has been recently proposed which promises to overcome important implementation hurdles. This article provides an overview of the DDF protocol, describes different implementation techniques and compares their performance.
Existence of Similarity Transformation Converting BMIs to LMIs

Under a mild condition, we investigate the existence of a similarity transformation regarding robust Hinfin stability analysis and observer-controller synthesis problems. The observer-based controller is capable of disturbance-rejection in the presence of unknown but bounded disturbance. We present results, which illustrate plainly the role of the similarity transformation in converting a BMI problem into an LMI problem in a unified fashion applicable to both continuous- and discrete-time problems with or without uncertainty. Finally the validity and applicability of the approach are illuminated by examples.
A finite-time approach to formation control of multiple mobile robots with terminal sliding mode

In this study, a new finite-time synchronised approach is developed for multiple mobile robots formation control based on terminal sliding mode control principle and system synchronisation theory. Associated stability analysis is presented to lay a foundation for analytical understanding in generic theoretical aspects and safe operation for real systems. An illustrative example of multiple mobile robots formation control is bench tested to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Stomatin-Like Protein 2 Binds Cardiolipin and Regulates Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Function

ABSTRACT Stomatin-like protein 2 (SLP-2) is a widely expressed mitochondrial inner membrane protein of unknown function. Here we show that human SLP-2 interacts with prohibitin-1 and -2 and binds to the mitochondrial membrane phospholipid cardiolipin. Upregulation of SLP-2 expression increases cardiolipin content and the formation of metabolically active mitochondrial membranes and induces mitochondrial biogenesis. In human T lymphocytes, these events correlate with increased complex I and II activities, increased intracellular ATP stores, and increased resistance to apoptosis through the intrinsic pathway, ultimately enhancing cellular responses. We propose that the function of SLP-2 is to recruit prohibitins to cardiolipin to form cardiolipin-enriched microdomains in which electron transport complexes are optimally assembled. Likely through the prohibitin functional interactome, SLP-2 then regulates mitochondrial biogenesis and function.
Antiphagocytic Effect of Slime from a Mucoid Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Mucoid strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa produce a viscid slime when grown on the surface of agar media. These strains are known to colonize persistently the tracheobronchial tree of children with cystic fibrosis. Colonization may result from inhibition of phagocytosis due to slime produced by the organism. Slime separated from one mucoid strain was examined to determine whether it possessed antiphagocytic activity in vitro. Cells of P. aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus were rapidly phagocytized by rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes when mixtures were rotated for 2 hr at 37 C in the absence of slime. The addition of relatively small amounts of slime to bacteria and leukocytes inhibited phagocytosis as measured by phagocytic killing of the organisms. Inhibition was found to be most complete with P. aeruginosa.
Do Users Benefit from Controlled Vocabularies in Search Interfaces?

Search providers in domains from medicine to news have long labelled documents with controlled vocabularies, to help users explore their collections. These vocabularies are expensive to build and use, however, and seem to be useful mostly for domain experts. This paper describes an on-going gaze-tracking study which asks whether users notice controlled vocabularies when they are exposed in a search interface; whether they make use of them; and whether this improves search. We also hope to learn what eect several standard search interfaces have on the use of controlled vocabularies.
Stereological estimates of number and length of capillaries in subdivisions of the human hippocampal region

The hippocampal formation is a neuroanatomically well‐defined region of the brain involved in memory processes. In view of the functional importance of the region and its involvement in a number of brain pathologies, including Alzheimer's disease and temporal lobe epilepsy, a quantitative description of its vascular supply represents an important first step in evaluating the involvement of vascular changes in these phenomena. Unbiased estimates of the length and connectivity of the vascular supply of brain regions have not been described previously. The total number, total length, and distribution of the diameters of capillaries were estimated in the five major subdivisions of the hippocampal formation (fascia dentata, hilus, CA3‐2, CA1, and subiculum) in 5 normal males, 52–84 years of age. These estimates were used to derive several other structural parameters. Both the primary and the derived parameters were used to make inter‐ and intra‐individual comparisons. For each of the five major subdivisions from each individual, the volume was estimated using the Cavalieri principle. The total capillary length was estimated on 3‐μm‐thick plastic isotropic uniform random sections. Using a topological definition of a capillary unit and the optical disector, total capillary number was estimated in 40‐μm‐thick plastic sections. Length‐ and number‐weighted three‐dimensional diameter distributions were obtained from the thin and thick plastic sections, respectively. In each subdivision the total length of capillaries was correlated with previously obtained data on the number of neurons in the same subdivisions of the same individuals. Intersubdivisional differences were observed, in that the hilus of the dentate gyrus had fewer capillaries per unit volume than the other four subdivisions. Interindividual comparisons indicate that the interindividual variances are of a magnitude suitable for sensitive group comparisons. The design‐based stereological methods that were used in the analyses can provide a basis for a new unbiased approach to the estimation of vascular parameters in well‐defined regions of the brain. Hippocampus 2001;11:726–740. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Integration of Signals from Receptor Tyrosine Kinases and G Protein-Coupled Receptors

Activation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) leads to stimulation of classical G protein signaling pathways. In addition, GPCRs can activate the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) such as the extracellular signal-regulated kinases, c-Jun NH2-terminal kinases (JNKs), and p38 MAPKs, and thereby influence cell proliferation, cell differentiation and mitogenesis. Cross talk between GPCRs and receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) is an incredibly complex process, and the exact signaling molecules involved are largely dependent on the cell type and the type of receptor that is activated. In this review we investigate recent advances that have been made in understanding the mechanisms of cross talk between GPCRs and RTKs, with a focus on GPCR-mediated activation of the Ras/MAPK pathway, GPCR-induced transactivation of RTKs, GPCR-mediated activation of JNK, and p38 MAPK, integration of signals by RhoGTPases, and activation of G protein signaling pathways by RTKs.
In Vivo Detection of Metabolic Fluctuations in Real Time Using the NanoBiT Technology Based on PII Signalling Protein Interactions

New protein-fragment complementation assays (PCA) have successfully been developed to characterize protein–protein interactions in vitro and in vivo. Notably, the NanoBiT technology, employing fragment complementation of NanoLuc luciferase, stands out for its high sensitivity, wide dynamic range, and straightforward read out. Previously, we explored the in vitro protein interaction dynamics of the PII signalling protein using NanoBiT, revealing significant modulation of luminescence signals generated by the interaction between PII and its receptor protein NAGK by 2-oxoglutarate levels. In the current work, we investigated this technology in vivo, to find out whether recombinantly expressed NanoBiT constructs using the NanoLuc large fragment fused to PII and PII-interaction partners NAGK or PipX-fused to the NanoLuc Small BiT are capable of detecting the metabolic fluctuations in Escherichia coli. Therefore, we devised an assay capable of capturing the metabolic responses of E. coli cells, demonstrating real-time metabolic perturbation upon nitrogen upshift or depletion treatments. In particular, the PII-NAGK NanoBitT sensor pair reported these changes in a highly sensitive manner.