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Efficacy and safety of transcranial direct current stimulation to the ipsilesional motor cortex in subacute stroke (NETS): a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Background Each year, five million people are left disabled after stroke. Upper -extremity (UE) dysfunction is a leading problem. Neuroplasticity can be enhanced by non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) but evidence from large, randomized multicenter trial ...
Elsevier2024Using Negative Control Populations to Assess Unmeasured Confounding and Direct Effects
Sometimes treatment effects are absent in a subgroup of the population. For example, penicillin has no effect on severe symptoms in individuals infected by resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and codeine has no effect on pain in individuals with certain polym ...
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2024A FEM modelling workflow to simulate THM effects in the rock around nuclear waste packages
Matthias Timothee Stanislas Wojnarowicz
High-level waste, stemming from nuclear electricity generation poses significant environmental and safety concerns. Currently, high-level wastes are stored in interim facilities needing constant monitoring and waiting for a definitive solution. Deep geolog ...
EPFL2024First-principles thermodynamics of precipitation in aluminum-containing refractory alloys
Materials for high -temperature environments are actively being investigated for deployment in aerospace and nuclear applications. This study uses computational approaches to unravel the crystallography and thermodynamics of a promising class of refractory ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Despite the growing interest in emotions in engineering education, empirical research on incorporating them into engineering ethics education is limited. Therefore, we designed this experimental study to assess how different methods for integrating compass ...
2024Non-intrusive physiological parameters sensing for personalized human thermal comfort prediction
Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Dolaana Khovalyg, Mohamed Ossama Ahmed Abdelfattah, Mohamad Rida
Sensing and projecting an individual’s human thermal comfort in buildings is a complex but crucial task for transitioning toward human-centered indoor climate control. Non-intrusive collection of physiological and personal information from the human body, ...
2023Prompting Large Language Models to Power Educational Chatbots
Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Fanny Kim-Lan Lasne
The recent rise in both popularity and performance of large language models has garnered considerable interest regarding their applicability to education. Technologies like ChatGPT, which can engage in human-like dialog, have already disrupted educational ...
Springer2023Harnessing Rule-Based Chatbots to Support Teaching Python Programming Best Practices
Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Adrian Christian Holzer
In recent years, the use of chatbots in education has been driven by advances in natural language processing and the increasing availability of digital education platforms. Although the added value of educational chatbots appears promising, researchers hav ...
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