As Artificial Intelligence assistants like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT or Google’s copyright become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, their ability to understand and respond to human emotions expressed in natural language becomes essential.Affective computing, including text emotion detection (TED), has become crucial for human-comp
Bees with attitude: the effects of directed gusts on flight trajectories
Flight is a complicated task at the centimetre scale particularly due to unsteady air fluctuations which are ubiquitous in outdoor flight environments.Flying organisms deal with these difficulties using active and passive control mechanisms to steer their body motion.Body attitudes of flapping organisms are linked with their resultant flight trajec
Systematic review of excess mortality in India during the Covid-19 pandemic with differentiation between model-based and data-based mortality estimates
Background: COVID-19 has proven to be the worst pandemic in the history of mankind.While the pandemic still continues to perplex scientists globally, attempts are being made to quantify the mortality caused by the pandemic.Official COVID-19 figures in India grossly understate the true scale of the pandemic in the country.Fatality rates help us unde
Dopamine Reduces SARS-CoV-2 Replication In Vitro through Downregulation of D2 Receptors and Upregulation of Type-I Interferons
Recent evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 hinders immune responses via dopamine (DA)-related mechanisms.Nonetheless, studies addressing the specific role of DA in the frame of SARS-CoV-2 infection are still missing.In the present study, we investigate the role of DA in SARS-CoV-2 replication along with potential links with innate immune pathways in