Neutrino event selection in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using Wire-Cell 3D imaging, clustering, and charge-light matching by Conrad, Janet, Hen, Or

“…In this paper, we describe the principles and algorithms of these techniques and their successful application in the MicroBooNE experiment. …”
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Interpretable Machine Learning for Prediction and Avoidance of Disruptions in Tokamak Plasmas by Montes, Kevin J.

“…Tokamak plasmas are sometimes terminated due to off-normal events called disruptions, which are characterized by successive thermal and current quench events that deplete the stored thermal and magnetic energy. …”
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Automatic Parameter Estimation of a Large Conceptual Rainfall-runoff Model: A Maximum Likelihood Approach by Restrepo Posada, Pedro J., Bras, Rafael L.

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Parameterization of Moisture and Heat Fluxes Across the Land Surface for Use in Atmospheric General Circulation Models by Milly, P. Christopher D., Eagleson, Peter S.

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Simulation- and Experiment-Based Setpoint Control for Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning Systems: A Single- and Multi-Objective Optimization Problem by Cai, Yuan

“…Although we have witnessed the successes in both simulations and experiments, the results presented in the thesis are preliminary and only serve as a proof of concept. …”
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Evolution of enhanced innate immune evasion by SARS-CoV-2 by Kellis, Manolis

“…We propose that more effective innate immune suppression, through enhanced expression of specific viral antagonist proteins, increases the likelihood of successful transmission of the Alpha variant, and may increase in vivo replication and duration of infection<jats:sup>4</jats:sup>. …”
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The Power of Social Information in Ant-Colony House-Hunting: A Computational Modeling Approach by Zhao, Jiajia, Lynch, Nancy, Pratt, Stephen C.

“…With the help of this social information, our model successfully reproduces experimental results showing the high cognitive capacity of colonies and their rational time investment during decision-making, and also predicts the pros and cons of social information with regard to the colonies’ ability to avoid and repair splits. …”
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Alarm for Autonomous UAV Radiation Mapping Algorithm by Knoll, Justin

“…The median false alarm rate in the background flights was 0.19%, and sources could be successfully detected at high rates from relatively long distances. …”
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The THESAN Project: ionizing escape fractions of reionization-era galaxies by Yeh, Jessica Yuan-Chen

“…A fundamental requirement for reionizing the Universe is that a sufficient fraction of the ionizing photons emitted by galaxies successfully escapes into the intergalactic medium. However, due to the scarcity of high-redshift observational data, the sources driving reionization remain uncertain. …”
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Systems Thinking for Social Changemakers by Varma, Preeti

“…Social change makers are intuitive systems thinkers, but to be successful they need to develop more intentional system-level perspectives to coordinate and implement more meaningful and effective solutions that result in positive social and environmental impact outcomes. …”
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Applications of Engineered Proteins in Redox Biology and Biomarker Detection Assay Development by Hao, Yining

“…In this project, sikes lab members developed a paper-based assay to detect the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein as a team and successfully validated the assay with patient samples. …”
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Novel In Vivo CometChip Reveals NDMA-Induced DNA Damage and Repair in Multiple Mouse Tissues by Owiti, Norah A., Corrigan, Joshua J., Pribyl, Lee J., Kay, Jennifer E., Engelward, Bevin P.

“…Furthermore, glycosylases were successfully incorporated into the assay to reveal the presence of damaged bases. …”
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AmbientBreath: Unobtrusive Just-in-time Breathing Intervention Using Multi-sensory Stimulation and its Evaluation in a Car Simulator by Lee, Jinmo, Elhaouij, Neska, Picard, Rosalind W.

“…Measures of changes in breathing rate show that the participants were able to successfully engage in the breathing intervention; however, several factors from the driving context appear to have an impact on when the intervention is or is not effective.…”
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The Playbook - A Novel Approach to Identifying Opportunity for On Machine Measurement and Adaptive Machining Projects by Higgins, Luke

“…The Playbook utilizes data, Subject Matter Expert (SME) knowledge, and lessons learned combined with a structured approach to breakdown the key elements for successful part and machine selection for OMM and adaptive machining technologies. …”
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Electrochemical Ultrasensitive Sensing of Uric Acid on Non-Enzymatic Porous Cobalt Oxide Nanosheets-Based Sensor by Masrat, Sakeena, Nagal, Vandana, Khan, Marya, Moid, Iqra, Alam, Shamshad, Bhat, Kiesar Sideeq, Khosla, Ajit, Ahmad, Rafiq

“…The morphological investigation confirmed the successful formation of the porous nanosheet-like nanostructure. …”
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Active Thermal Augmentation and Ultra Dense MEMS-Based Electrospray Thrusters by Corrado, Matthew Nicholas

“…The densified electrospray thruster is successfully fired, exhibiting emission in the pure ionic regime and performance characteristics comparable to the state of the art. …”
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Transformer-Maze by Heuser, Annika

“…In G-Maze, a participant must choose between each successive word in sentence and a distractor word that does not make sense based on the preceding context. …”
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Precision Delivery of Multi-Scale Payloads to Tissue-Specific Targets in Plants by Cao, Yunteng

“…Potential applications of silk-based microneedles in agriculture are also confirmed by the successful deployment of GA₃ in several crops. In addition, hollow microneedles are fabricated using silk fibroin assembly and inorganic nucleation at their phase fronts, providing new tools to bridge the biotic/abiotic interface by interrogating pathways for biomolecules transport in plants and enabling early-stage detection of bioaccumulation of environmental contaminants, such as cadmium and arsenic.…”
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Design Guidelines for Sulfonyl/Sulfamoyl Fluoride Additives to Modulate Lithium Anode Coulombic Efficiency by Jiang, Kyle S.

“…In conventional electrolytes, the SEI is unstable, leading to continuous capacity loss and low Coulombic efficiencies (CE). Successful principles for Li metal electrolyte design to achieve high CE have largely focused on promoting the sacrificial reduction of anions (such as lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI)) believed to be beneficial for the SEI. …”
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Integration of Additive Manufacturing with CNC Sheet Metal Fabrication for Hybrid Fixtures: Design and Implementation of Precision Assembly Interfaces by El Khatib, Ibrahim H.

“…The project was also successful at fulfilling an internal company goal of generating sufficient traction to launch a series of collaborative initiatives between the sheet metal fabrication and additive manufacturing teams at GM.…”
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