The general anesthetic isoflurane depresses synaptic vesicle exocytosis

HC Hemmings, W Yan, RI Westphalen, TA Ryan - Molecular pharmacology, 2005 - ASPET
General anesthetics have marked effects on synaptic transmission, but the mechanisms of
their presynaptic actions are unclear. We used quantitative laser-scanning fluorescence …

[HTML][HTML] Auditory pathology in a transgenic mtTFB1 mouse model of mitochondrial deafness

SE McKay, W Yan, J Nouws, MJ Thormann… - The American journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The A1555G mutation in the 12S rRNA gene of human mitochondrial DNA causes maternally
inherited, nonsyndromic deafness, an extreme case of tissue-specific mitochondrial …

Glomangiopericytoma of the sphenoethmoid complex

L Shemen, W Yan, A Hasanovic… - BMJ Case Reports …, 2020 - casereports.bmj.com
Sinonasal glomangiopericytoma is a rare sinonasal tumour accounting for less than. 5% of
all sinonasal tumours. This tumour often presents as another, more common type of vascular …

A user-controllable multi-layer secure algorithm for MANET

PLR Chze, WKW Yan, KS Leong - 2012 8th International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a User-Controllable MultiLayer Secure Algorithm (UMSA) to authenticate
the MANET nodes before joining an existing MANET or formation of a new MANET by …

Imitating interactive intelligence

…, G Wayne, D Williams, N Wong, C Yan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
A common vision from science fiction is that robots will one day inhabit our physical spaces,
sense the world as we do, assist our physical labours, and communicate with us through …

Intra-agent speech permits zero-shot task acquisition

…, J Abramson, T Lillicrap, G Wayne - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Human language learners are exposed to a trickle of informative, context-sensitive language,
but a flood of raw sensory data. Through both social language use and internal processes …

Creating multimodal interactive agents with imitation and self-supervised learning

…, T von Glehn, G Wayne, N Wong, C Yan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
A common vision from science fiction is that robots will one day inhabit our physical spaces,
sense the world as we do, assist our physical labours, and communicate with us through …

Laboratory Evaluation and Neural Network Modeling of Treated Macau Marine Clay

Y Wang, W Yan, J Ieong, TMH Lok - … : From Engineering to Smart & Green …, 2021 - Springer
The marine clay is generally regarded as poor materials for urban applications because of its
high settlement and instability. In this study, the soft marine clay is mixing with cementitious …

Improving multimodal interactive agents with reinforcement learning from human feedback

…, T von Glehn, G Wayne, N Wong, C Yan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
An important goal in artificial intelligence is to create agents that can both interact naturally
with humans and learn from their feedback. Here we demonstrate how to use reinforcement …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding

…, MP Perring, D Piotto, H Wayne Polley… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Plant diversity effects on community productivity often increase over time. Whether the
strengthening of diversity effects is caused by temporal shifts in species-level overyielding (ie, …