The Person Beneath the Hair: Hair Discrimination, Health, and Well-Being

“…Hair discrimination is negative bias manifested toward black natural or textured hair styles typically worn by persons of African descent. This commentary discusses the potential effects of hair discrimination on the health and well-being of persons of African descent. …”
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Bohrification of local nets by Joost Nuiten

“…We can then naturally express the causal locality of the net as a descent condition on the corresponding presheaf of ringed toposes: we show that the net of observables is local, precisely when the presheaf of ringed toposes satisfies descent by a local geometric morphism.…”
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Quantum Natural Gradient by James Stokes, Josh Izaac, Nathan Killoran, Giuseppe Carleo

“…A quantum generalization of Natural Gradient Descent is presented as part of a general-purpose optimization framework for variational quantum circuits. …”
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Genetic determinants for the racial disparities in the risk of prostate and testicular cancers by Ivie Uzamere, Yinqiao Wang, Tongzhang Zheng, Yong Zhu

“…The authors identify differences in average risk allele frequency for known prostate/testicular cancer-associated variants between men of African descent and men of European descent.…”
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Evaluation of the power deficit of elderly people during stair negotiation: Which joints should be assisted at least by an exoskeleton and with what amount? by Max Böhme, Felix Weiske, Jens Jäkel, Johannes Zentner, Maren Witt

“…Therefore, an exoskeleton should address the power deficit for knee extension (ascent: 1.0 ± 0.9 W/kg; descent: 0.3 ± 0.2 W/kg) and could assist the ankle during ascent and descent by an additional plantar flexion moment of 0.2 Nm/kg each.…”
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Chern–Simons, Wess–Zumino and other cocycles from Kashiwara–Vergne and associators by Alekseev, Anton, Naef, Florian, Zhu, Chenchang, Xu, Xiaomeng

“…Descent equations play an important role in the theory of characteristic classes and find applications in theoretical physics, e.g., in the Chern–Simons field theory and in the theory of anomalies. …”
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The guided samara : design and development of a controllable single-bladed autorotating vehicle by Kellas, Andreas

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Neural spiking for causal inference and learning. by Benjamin James Lansdell, Konrad Paul Kording

“…We show how spiking enables neurons to solve causal estimation problems and that local plasticity can approximate gradient descent using spike discontinuity learning.…”
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Humor as aesthetics and identity gun in the works of Dany Laferrière and Yinka Shonibare by Eurídice Figueiredo

“…The aim of this paper is to articulate the Canadian writer of Haitian descent, Dany Laferrière (1953-) autobiography, Une autobiographie américaine, to the work of the British of Nigerian descent, Yinka Shonibare (1962-), depicting mainly their usage of humour, transgression and parody of values and stereotypes concerning Black people. …”
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La Música del Mariachi: Conservator of Mexican Culture and Heritage by Rachel Yvonne Cruz

“…With over 62 million Hispanics living in the United States, 62% of Mexican descent, it is dire to create decolonized music spaces that offer more than a single narrative. …”
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Momentum-Assisted Adjoint Method for Highly Efficient Inverse Design of Large-Scale Digital Nanophotonic Devices by Qiaomu Hu, Zishan Zeng, Zinan Xiang, Kaiyuan Wang, Minming Zhang

“…Gradient-descent-based digitized adjoint method offers a way to realize the high-efficiency inverse design of digital nanophotonic devices with diverse functions. …”
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A Method for Gradient Differentiable Network Architecture Search by Selecting and Clustering Candidate Operations by Ha Yoon Song

“…The architecture parameter of each operation comprising a mixed operation is trained using gradient descent, and the operation with the largest architecture parameter is selected. …”
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Spatiotemporal variation of the ozone QBO in MLS data by wavelet analysis by S. Fadnavis, G. Beig

“…The maximum amplitude (~1.4 ppmv) of the ozone QBO was observed near the equator at 10 hPa. Descent rate of the easterly phase is greater than westerly. …”
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Theory of Deep Learning III: explaining the non-overfitting puzzle by Poggio, Tomaso, Kawaguchi, Kenji, Liao, Qianli, Miranda, Brando, Rosasco, Lorenzo, Boix, Xavier, Hidary, Jack, Mhaskar, Hrushikesh

“…Gradient descent enforces a form of implicit regular- ization controlled by the number of iterations, and asymptotically converging to the minimum norm solution. …”
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Silicate Liquid Immiscibility within the Crystal Mush: Evidence from Ti in Plagioclase from the Skaergaard Intrusion by Humphreys, M

“…A key target in the study of layered intrusions is to constrain the liquid line of descent of the magma. However, the evolution of the interstitial liquid is rarely considered, and its liquid line of descent is often assumed to be equivalent to that of the bulk magma. …”

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR THE PROBLEM OF OPTIMAL CONTROL by A I Diveev, S V Konstantinov

“…For comparison the same problem is solved with the algorithm of fast gradient descent and random search. The computational experiments showed that evolutionary algorithms provide more accurate results for the optimal control problems than fast gradient descent algorithm.…”
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Fast gradient algorithm for complex ICA and its application to the MIMO systems by Dariusz Mika

“…Abstract This paper proposes a new gradient-descent algorithm for complex independent component analysis and presents its application to the Multiple-Input Multiple-Output communication systems. …”
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Récupérer une nationalité européenne. Quand des descendants d’Argentins et d’Israéliens mobilisent leurs origines familiales migratoires by Fanny Jedlicki, Karine Lamarche, Camille Noûs

“…It aims to understand the reasons that brought Argentines from Spanish or Italian descent and Israelis from Central or Eastern European descent to engage in the long and often costly procedures to become EU citizens.…”
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Optimal Control of Temperature in Fluid Flow Using Four Types of MinimizationTechniques by Daisuke Yamazaki, Mutsuto Kawahara

“…The four types of minimization techniques are the weighted gradient method, the Newton based method, the modified steepest descent method and the steepest descent method using weighting adaptation. …”
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Assessment of the movement of the car along the sorting slide with a tailwind in the context of environmental health by Saidivaliev Shukhrat, Sattorov Samandar, Juraeva Diyora

“…For the first time, graphical dependences of acceleration, travel time and rolling speed of the car on the length of the descent part of the hump are constructed.…”
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