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Method of Studying Palatal Fusion using Static Organ Culture
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Cited by 6 •
2015
Studies of palate development are motivated by the incidence of cleft palate, a birth defect that imposes a tremendous health burden and can leave lasting disfigurement. We demonstrate here a technique to culture palatal shelves that can be used to study different signaling pathways involved in palatal development and fusion.
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Nuclear Fusion
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2020
The process of converting very light nuclei into heavier nuclei is also accompanied by the conversion of mass into large amounts of energy, a process called fusion. The principal source of energy in the sun is a net fusion reaction in which four hydrogen nuclei fuse and ultimately produce one helium nucleus and two positrons. A helium nucleus has a mass that is 0.7% less than that of four hydrogen nuclei; this lost mass is converted into energy during the fusion. This reaction produces about...
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Analysis of SNARE-mediated Membrane Fusion Using an Enzymatic Cell Fusion Assay
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2012
We have developed a cell fusion assay that quantifies SNARE-mediated membrane fusion events by activated expression of β-galactosidase.
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Live Imaging of Mouse Secondary Palate Fusion
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2017
Here, we present a protocol for live imaging of mouse secondary palate fusion using confocal microscopy. This protocol can be used in combination with a variety of fluorescent reporter mouse lines, and with pathway inhibitors for mechanistic insight. This protocol can be adapted for live imaging in other developmental systems.
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Visual Search for Features and Conjunctions
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University How do people find objects in cluttered visual scenes? Think, for example, of looking for keys on a messy desk, finding the ripest-looking fruit at the grocery store, locating your car when you can’t quite remember where you parked it, or finding an old friend at an airport exit gate. Clearly, an understanding of visual perception is going to play a role in any answers, and more specifically, an understanding of visual attention...
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The fusion stage links cultural signals with conventional measurements so a model can interpret technical or behavioral data in context. For example, language, values, practices, or regional information can be retained alongside ordinary features rather than discarded during representation. This combined representation helps the system reflect differences among users and environments, supporting more relevant outputs.
Transformation is important because cultural inputs and technical or behavioral measurements may not initially share a usable representation. The approach converts those signals into compatible feature forms before integration. This step allows information from different sources to participate in one computational model while preserving the cultural context that gives the measurements meaning. It therefore supports joint analysis.
Concatenation places feature representations together, weighting assigns different influence to selected signals, and learned fusion allows the computational model to determine how inputs should be combined during modeling. These choices provide different ways to control the relationship between cultural and conventional information. Selecting among them affects how explicitly context is retained and how the integrated representation is formed.
Relying only on conventional measurements can hide how a system performs for different populations or environments. Preserving cultural context gives engineers another basis for interpreting those differences, whether the context reflects language, values, practices, or regional conditions. This can expose variation in model relevance and inform adjustments aimed at more inclusive system development.
A practical workflow begins by identifying culturally relevant signals, such as language, values, practices, or regional context, alongside the system’s existing technical or behavioral features. Engineers then extract those signals, transform them into compatible representations, and integrate them through concatenation, weighting, or learned fusion. The resulting feature set can be incorporated into a computational model for the intended engineering task.
The approach is applicable when system behavior depends on how users or environments differ culturally. In product design, it can support culturally responsive features; in localization, it can incorporate regional context; in human-computer interaction, it can improve user relevance; and in data-driven decision systems, it can retain context alongside technical measurements.
Within engineering, the main outcome is not simply a larger feature set but a representation that keeps cultural information available during modeling. That representation can help compare system performance across populations, identify where relevance differs, and provide evidence for more inclusive design decisions. Its value therefore extends from model construction to evaluation and system development.