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End-to-end listening agent for audiovisual emotional and naturalistic interactions
El Haddad, Kevin; Rizk, Yara; Heron, Louise; Hajj, Nadine; Zhao, Yong; Kim, Jaebok; Trọng, Trung Ngô; Lee, Minha; Doumit, Marwan; Lin, PaytonIn this work, we established the foundations of a framework with the goal to build an end-to-end naturalistic expressive listening agent. The project was split into modules for recognition of the user’s paralinguistic and nonverbal expressions, prediction of the agent’s reactions, synthesis of the agent’s expressions and data recordings of nonverbal conversation expressions. First, a multimodal multitask deep l...
M2-polarized macrophages promote metastatic behavior of Lewis lung carcinoma ce...
Zhang, Bicheng; Zhang, Yafei; Yao, Guoqing; Gao, Juan; Yang, Bo; Zhao, Yong; Rao, Zhiguo; Gao, JianfeiOBJECTIVES: Tumor-associated macrophages that generally exhibit an alternatively activated (M2) phenotype have been linked to tumor progression and metastasis. However, the role of M2-polarized macrophages in the growth and metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma remains enigmatic. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of M2 macrophages on the proliferation and migration of mouse Lewis lung carcinoma cells ...
Synergistic growth inhibition by sorafenib and vitamin K2 in human hepatocellul...
Zhang, Yafei; Zhang, Bicheng; Zhang, Anran; Zhao, Yong; Zhao, Jie; Liu, Jian; Gao, Jianfei; Fang, Dianchun; Rao, ZhiguoOBJECTIVE: Sorafenib is an oral multikinase inhibitor that has been proven effective as a single-agent therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma, and there is a strong rationale for investigating its use in combination with other agents. Vitamin K2 is nearly non-toxic to humans and has been shown to inhibit the growth of hepatocellular carcinoma. In this study, we evaluated the effects of a combination of sorafenib a...