Chronic Kidney Disease: Runx2-NLRP3 Axis Regulates Matrix Stiffness-Induced Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Inflammation Academic Background Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a common condition worldwide, leading to high morbidity and mortality rates among patients and significantly increasing the risk of cardiovascular events. Arterial stiffening, chara...

The Impact of Algorithmic Transparency on User Experience and Physiological Responses Academic Background With the rapid development of Affective Computing technology, Affect-aware Task Adaptation systems have gradually become a research hotspot. These systems recognize users’ psychological states through various measurements (e.g., physiological s...

Phonetic-Anchored Domain Adaptation in Cross-Lingual Speech Emotion Recognition Academic Background Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has broad application prospects in intelligent agents, social robots, voice assistants, and automated call center systems. With the development of globalization, the demand for cross-lingual SER is increasing. However...

3D Regional Structural Motion Representation Using Lightweight Point Cloud Networks for Micro-Expression Recognition Academic Background Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief and subtle facial expressions in human emotional expression, typically lasting between 1⁄25 and 1⁄5 of a second. Due to their spontaneity, rapidity, and difficulty to control, mic...

Experimental Constraints on the Symmetron Field: Breakthrough Research with Magnetically Levitated Force Sensors Academic Background Dark energy is the mysterious force behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, but its essence remains an enigma. To explain the nature of dark energy, scientists have proposed various theories, among which the...