Publications by authors named "M D Louwerse"

Making eye contact with our conversational partners is what is most common in multimodal communication. Yet, little is known about this behavior. Prior studies have reported different findings on what we look at in the narrator's face.

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  • GBA2 is an enzyme that plays a critical role in breaking down glucosylceramide and has been linked to diseases like Sandhoff and Niemann-Pick type C, as well as parkinsonism.
  • Researchers have developed a specific activity-based probe (ABP) to study GBA2, which shows promise as a tool for visualizing and understanding this enzyme's function and location within cells.
  • The probe, β-d-arabinofuranosyl cyclitol aziridine, selectively binds to GBA2, allowing researchers to distinguish its subcellular localization from that of another enzyme, GBA1, and suggests a pathway for developing new GBA2 inhibitors for future clinical use.
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Introduction: Pain experience, physical reaction, image quality and adverse events during Gel Instillation Sonohysterography (GIS) can differ using gels with different compositions. As a result, patient satisfaction can also be affected. The effect of two instillation gels, Endosgel versus ExEmgel, using both the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and a Continuous Pain Score Meter (CPSM) was therefore compared.

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A central concern across the natural sciences is a quantitative understanding of the mechanism governing rare transitions between two metastable states. Recent research has uncovered a fundamental equality between the time-reversal asymmetry of the ensemble of such transition paths and the informativeness of system dynamics about the reactivity of a given trajectory, immediately leading to quantitative criteria for judging the importance of distinct system coordinates for the transition. Here we generalize this framework to multiple mesostates.

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Transformative experiences in an individual's life have a lasting impact on identity, belief system, and values. At the core of these experiences is the complex emotion of awe that promotes learning, making it worthwhile to study from an educational point of view. Drawing studies may provide a useful measure of awe in children-one that is more intuitive and attractive than questionnaires alone.

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