Marine education comprises rich and multifaceted issues. Raising general awareness of marine environments issues demands the development new learning materials. This study adapts concepts from digital game-based to design an innovative program integrating augmented reality (AR) technology for lower grade primary school students. The proposed activity integrates physical virtual materials, encouraging students engage in interactive environment that makes fun interesting. introduces Taiwan's...

Emerging technologies have been widely used in applications designed to increase potential for learning enhancement. This study develops a mobile application integrate augmented reality (AR) functionality into physical puzzle-type games. In the application, learners see visualizations of three-dimensional (3D) dinosaurs and interact with relevant multimedia content. To evaluate effectiveness proposed platform, experiments were conducted impact on learner achievement motivation. Experimental...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is among the major emerging research areas and industrial application fields. An important area of its in preventive healthcare domain, which appropriate dietary intake reporting critical assessing nutrient content. The traditional assessment cumbersome terms dish accuracy time-consuming. recent technology computer vision with automatic recognition dishes has potential to support better assessment. However, due wide variety available foods, especially local...

Background Advances in voice technology have raised new possibilities for apps related to daily health maintenance. However, the usability of such technologies older users remains unclear and requires further investigation. Objective We designed evaluated two innovative mobile voice-added food intake reporting, namely voice-only reporting (VOR) voice-button (VBR). Each app features a unique interactive procedure intake. With VOR, verbally report main contents each dish, while VBR provides...

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Aberrations in miRNA regulation are known to play important roles OSCC pathogenesis. miR-187 was shown be up-regulated head and neck malignancies our previous screening. This study further investigated oncogenic potential, clinical implications, targets OSCC. We observed that increased oncogenicity, particularly migration, cells. expression xenografic tumorigenicity metastasis mice. In addition, metastatic human...

High-purity hydrogen generated by the hydrolysis of sodium borohydride can be used as proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) for portable device applications. Because its advantages in high storage capacity, controllable reaction, and mild condition, generation catalytic a chemical hydride, such borohydride, has recently attracted much attention development. Hydrogen using Ru catalyst is reported present study. A multi-layer coating process was on Ru/Ni foam to enhance cycling...

Abstract Metabolic reprogramming sustains malignant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) to overcome stressful microenvironments, increased glutamine uptake is a common metabolic hallmark in cancers. Since has been recognized as new therapeutic target for tumor cells, understanding the regulatory axis of HNSCC its potential downstream effects pathogenesis would be incredibly beneficial. Bioinformatic analysis Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)-HNSCC dataset RNAseq performed on indicated...

The role of individual-tailored dietary recording in mobile phone health apps has become increasingly important management self-health care and population-based preventive service. development such for user-centered designing is still challengeable requires further scientific evidence.This study aims to conduct a randomized trial assess the accuracy time efficiency two prototypes recoding utilization related input method food intake.We first present an innovative combinatorial concept...

In light of a recent spike in natural and man-made disasters, there has been an increase interest disaster prevention education training. The effectiveness both publicly-funded voluntarily organized (DE) attracted wide attention. More studies are needed to understand the innovative pedagogical practice impact technological advances on learning content development, motivation. This study investigates application augmented reality (AR) DE An AR-enhanced tool named ‘disaster-proof warrior’ was...

This article compares how virtual and physical learning aids enhance learners’ product innovation capability, that is, design experiences domain knowledge. The aid utilises augmented reality (AR) allowing learners to experience a range of animated mechanisms using smart devices. legacy were made three-dimensional printers. We studied the effects both manipulatives on understanding mechanical movements, for example, rack pinion, Geneva mechanism. To investigate impact each aid, we compared...

Zoledronic acid (ZOL) was shown earlier to prolong survival in animal models of lung cancer. The aim this study examine whether alteration intracellular cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases, kinase inhibitors, retinoblastoma, and Ras protein expression E2F localization are among the possible antilung cancer mechanisms driven by ZOL. Furthermore, we used geranylgeraniol test mevalonate pathway is involved antitumor effects ZOL against Line-1 cells, a murine adenocarcinoma cell line, were...

Abstract The technique of embedding a distributed parallel resonant circuit (PRC) and lumped PRC, respectively, to enhance the bandwidths lower upper bands small‐size tablet computer antenna cover WWAN operation in 824–960 1710–2170 MHz is presented. With proposed technique, occupies small volume 40 × 10 3.8 mm 3 only can mainly be disposed on thin FR4 substrate 2 . comprises feeding portion, long shorted strip, an ground. strip short‐circuited ground, which then connected display ground...

The miR-31 host gene (MIR31HG) encodes a long non-coding RNA (LncRNA) that harbors in its intron 2; promotes malignant neoplastic progression. Overexpression of MIR31HG and occurs during oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). However, the downstream effectors modulated by OSCC pathogenesis remain unclear. present study identifies up-regulation expression potentially premalignant disorder stage carcinogenesis. potential to enhance oncogenicity activate Wnt FAK was identified when there...

A theoretical and experimental investigation is conducted to study the two-phase turbulent structure in a planar mixing layer with polydispersed drops. Mean fluctuating velocity components, drop number density, as well size distribution were measured nonintrusive diagnostics of two-component phase Doppler particle analyzer. Complete initial conditions required for calculation also provided measurements. Theoretical made Eulerian-Lagrangian formulation. Turbulent dispersion effects are...

Summary Background: Pictograms have been shown by many studies to be an effective way of conveying information. An easy-to-understand pictorial description is essential for communication dietary intake in the computer era. Objectives: We proposed a novel approach that represents textual descriptions into representation with concept pictograms. The computational implementation terms web-based tool was investigated on how well pictograms carry their intended message. Methods: 1) are...

Abstract The goal of the work reported in this paper is to use automated, combinatorial synthesis generate alternative solutions be used as stimuli by designers for ideation. FuncSION, a computational tool that can automatically synthesize solution concepts mechanical devices combining building blocks from library, purpose. objectives FuncSION are help variety functional requirements given problem and fulfill these functions. A distinctive feature its focus on automated generation spatial...