The compound risk of heat and COVID-19 in New York City: riskscapes, physical and social factors, and interventions by Knox-Hayes, Janelle, Osorio, Juan Camilo, Stamler, Natasha, Dombrov, Maria, Winer, Rose, Smith, Mary Hannah, Blake, Reginald A, Rosenzweig, Cynthia

“…Socio-demographic characteristics are significant indicators of COVID-19 and heat exposure and of where compound vulnerability exists. Using GIS mapping, we illustrate how COVID-19 risk geographies change across the three waves of the pandemic and the particular impact of vaccinations before the onset of the third wave. …”
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Self-Supervised Learning across the Spectrum by Shenoy, Jayanth, Zhang, Xingjian Davis, Tao, Bill, Mehrotra, Shlok, Yang, Rem, Zhao, Han, Vasisht, Deepak

“…Satellite image time series (SITS) segmentation is crucial for many applications, like environmental monitoring, land cover mapping, and agricultural crop type classification. …”
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Understanding campus mobility by Toh, Christopher Gerard Wei Hong

“…This project also finds that it is possible to build on the current pre-processing steps by conducting user-device profiling, mapping activities to locations, and point-of-interest location analysis. …”
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Microglia and CD206⁺ border-associated mouse macrophages maintain their embryonic origin during Alzheimer's disease by Wu, Xiaoting, Saito, Takashi, Saido, Takaomi C., Barron, Anna M., Ruedl, Christiane

“…In this study, we conducted a comprehensive fate-mapping analysis of murine microglia and BAMs and their turnover kinetics during Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression. …”
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Facial expression retargeting from human to avatar made easy by Zhang, Juyong, Chen, Keyu, Zheng, Jianmin

“…Traditional methods use markers or blendshapes to construct a mapping between the human and avatar faces. However, these approaches require a tedious 3D modeling process, and the performance relies on the modelers' experience. …”
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Compressible hollow microlasers in organoids for high-throughput and real-time mechanical screening by Fang, Guocheng, Ho, Beatrice Xuan, Xu, Hongmei, Gong, Chaoyang, Qiao, Zhen, Liao, Yikai, Zhu, Song, Lu, Hongxu, Nie, Ningyuan, Zhou, Tian, Kim, Munho, Huang, Changjin, Soh, Boon Seng, Chen, Yu-Cheng

“…Furthermore, we showcase the monitoring and mapping of dynamic contractile stress within human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiac organoids, revealing the internal mechanical inhomogeneity within a single organoid. …”
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Deep learning-based algorithm for synthetic aperture radar despeckling by Wang, Yuxuan

“…This model utilizes a residual optimization strategy to construct a learning model for the speckle noise residual image, achieving an optimal identity mapping for speckle noise suppression. Experimental results on simulated datasets, real datasets, and target detection methods demonstrate that the proposed model not only effectively suppresses speckle noise but also preserves the local edge details of SAR images. …”
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Multi-scale space smoothing and segmentation of range data for robot navigation by Tang, Fan

“…One of the most essential problems for mobile robot navigation is to enable an autonomous robot to navigate in an unknown environment and to incrementally build a map of this environment while simultaneously using this map to compute its current location. …”
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Task-orientated human-robot teleoperation using wearable sensors by Teoh, Yee Seng

“…Based on the well-defined tasks according to workplace dimensions and required moving directions, the algorithm of motion mapping law from human motion to the robot motion can be determined by certain introduced method. …”
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Novel algorithms for inferring granger causality using biological data by Furqan, Mohammad Shaheryar

“…One of the conventional methods used for inferring biological networks from time series data is Granger causality, which analyses the causal link between the variables and can be used to map the associations in the form of a network diagram using graph theory. …”
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Active IC metering of digital signal processing subsystem with two-tier activation for secure split test by Dhabu, Sumedh Somnath, Zheng, Yue, Liu, Wenye, Chang, Chip Hong

“…Extraneous states are inserted into the state-space mapping of digital signal processing submodule as opposed to controller to provide a stronger state dependency on datapath and input signal. …”
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Efficient construction and simplification of Delaunay meshes by Liu, Yong-Jin, Xu, Chun-Xu, Fan, Dian, He, Ying

“…Also, popular parameterization techniques, such as discrete harmonic mapping, produce more stable results on the DMs than on the input meshes.…”
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A social media-based participatory epidemiology approach for vector-borne disease prevention (VBDP) in South Asia by Lwin, May Oo, Foo, Schubert, Theng, Yin-Leng, Vijaykumar, Santosh, Cheong, Siew Ann, Lim, Gentatsu

“…This paper describes an ongoing effort in Singapore that plans to integrate hotspot mapping, civic engagement and health communication to extend the boundaries of participatory epidemiology in VBD prevention. …”
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Hybrid-modality ocular imaging using a clinical ultrasound system and nanosecond pulsed laser by Lim, Hoong-Ta, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham

“…It was demonstrated that PAI could successfully capture photoacoustic signals from the iris, anterior lens surface, and posterior pole, while USI could accomplish the mapping of the eye to reveal the structures like the cornea, anterior chamber, lens, iris, and posterior pole. …”
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Automated detection of cerebral microbleeds on MR images using knowledge distillation framework by Sundaresan, V, Arthofer, C, Zamboni, G, Murchison, AG, Dineen, RA, Rothwell, PM, Auer, DP, Wang, C, Miller, KL, Tendler, BC, Alfaro-Almagro, F, Sotiropoulos, SN, Sprigg, N, Griffanti, L, Jenkinson, M

“…CMBs occur as small, circular hypointense lesions on T2*-weighted gradient recalled echo (GRE) and susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) images, and hyperintense on quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) images due to their paramagnetic nature. …”

Better floors, better health: a theory of change for an improved household flooring intervention in rural communities in Kwale and Bungoma counties, Kenya by Kepha, S, Legge, H, Halliday, KE, Ochwal, V, Elson, L, Mwongeli, J, Oswald, WE, Kakoi, B, Wambua, J, Mwandawiro, C, Fillinger, U, Pullan, R, Njomo, D

“…Conclusion: This study presents a theory of change framework mapping the pathways through which an improved flooring intervention may impact health and wellbeing. …”

Mine yOur owN Anatomy: revisiting medical image segmentation with extremely limited labels by You, C, Dai, W, Liu, F, Min, Y, Dvornek, NC, Li, X, Clifton, DA, Staib, L, Duncan, JS

“…Existing methods mainly focus on instance discrimination and invariant mapping (i.e., pulling positive samples closer and negative samples apart in the feature space). …”

Myocardial ischaemia following COVID-19: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study by Arnold, JR, Yeo, JL, Budgeon, CA, Shergill, S, England, R, Shiwani, H, Artico, J, Moon, JC, Gorecka, M, Roditi, G, Morrow, A, Mangion, K, Shanmuganathan, M, Miller, CA, Chiribiri, A, Alzahir, M, Ramirez, S, Lin, A, Swoboda, PP, McDiarmid, AK, Sykes, R, Singh, T, Bucciarelli-Ducci, C, Dawson, D

“…Subjects underwent multi-parametric CMR (comprising assessment of ventricular volumes, stress perfusion, T1/T2 mapping and scar). The primary endpoint was the frequency of inducible myocardial ischaemia. …”

Quantum computing and quantum neural networks: their foundation, optimisation, and application by Pointing, J

“…We explore the application of quantum computers by constructing a quantum algorithm to solve a real-world problem in the mining industry. We provide a mapping for this problem onto a quantum circuit and run simulator and hardware experiments to find solutions to small-scale instances of the problem, which is the first attempt to apply such quantum algorithms to this mining problem. …”

New exposure room shielding incorporated with ferro boron concrete for neutron radiography imaging (NURI) facility at TRIGA PUSPATI Research Reactor. by Sarkawi, Muhammad Syahir, Zainal, Jasman, Sazali, Muhammad Arif, Ali, Nur Syazwani, Basri, Nor Afifah, Mohamed Zain, Muhammad Rawi, Idris, Faridah, Yazid, Khair’iah, Mohd Isa, Norriza, Jamro, Rafhayudi

“…This paper aims to simulate the radiation dose rate mapping for the new exposure room shielding for the NURI facility using the Monte Carlo simulation code of MCNPX. …”
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