Case Volume Justification of 3D-Navigated Spinal Procedures: A Cost-Benefit Analysis by Suri, Ikaasa, Suri, Mehr, Hu, James, Dedhia, Siddarth K., Yaeger, Kurt

“…Values reported in literature and by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services databases were plugged into the model to calculate variables. …”
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NetBlocks: Staging Layouts for High-Performance Custom Host Network Stacks by Brahmakshatriya, Ajay, Rinard, Chris, Ghobadi, Manya, Amarasinghe, Saman

“…Modern network applications and environments, ranging from data centers and IoT devices to AR/VR headsets and underwater robotics, present diverse requirements that cannot be satisfied by the all or-nothing approach of TCP and UDP protocols. …”
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The impact of Ming and Qing dynasty maritime bans on trade ceramics recovered from coastal settlements in northern Sumatra, Indonesia by Tai, Yew Seng, Daly, Patrick, Mckinnon, E. Edwards, Parnell, Andrew, Feener, R. Michael, Majewski, Jedrzej, Nazli Ismail, Sieh, Kerry

“…Within several decades of the start of Ming Ban 1, people in Aceh began importing ceramics from production centers in Burma and Thailand as a substitute for Chinese ceramics. …”
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Energy-efficient crypto acceleration with HW/SW co-design for HTTPS by Xiao, Chunhua, Zhang, Lei, Liu, Weichen, Bergmann, Neil, Xie, Yuhua

“…Entering the Big Data era leads to the rapid development of web applications which provide high-performance sensitive access on large cloud data centers. HTTPS has been widely deployed as an extension of HTTP by adding an encryption layer of SSL/TLS protocol for secure communication over the Internet. …”
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Live Verification in an Interactive Proof Assistant by Gruetter, Samuel, Fukala, Viktor, Chlipala, Adam

“…Other tools providing real-time feedback already exist, but ours is the first one that only relies on a small trusted proof checker and that provides a concise summary of the symbolic state at the point in the program currently being edited, as opposed to only indicating whether user-stated assertions or postconditions hold. …”
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Javier by Tan, E-lis, Lim, Gladys Qiong Fang

“…Javier centers on the life of a 20-year old aspiring musician who has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). …”
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Multi-sensor calibration and multi-modal perception for intelligent systems by Zhang, Jun

“…A sphere is utilized as the target, by observing that the sphere center is a viewpoint-invariant feature. Then, a sphere detection and sphere center estimation method is introduced to extract the sphere center from a cluttered point cloud. …”
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Mechanisms and Implementation of Thermo-Optical Annealing in Silica Fiber Sensors for Radiation-Induced Attenuation Mitigation by Legoupil, Aurelien Y. M.

“…The decomposition of RIA into different defect contributions is supported by cold post-irradiation electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy of fiber preform fragments, which reveals the presence of two types of paramagnetic centers: self-trapped holes and E'_gamma centers. …”
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Efficient generation of an array of single silicon-vacancy defects in silicon carbide by Wang, Junfeng, Zhou, Yu, Zhang, Xiaoming, Liu, Fucai, Li, Yan, Li, Ke, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Guanzhong, Gao, Weibo

“…Color centers in silicon carbide have increasingly attracted attention in recent years owing to their excellent properties such as single-photon emission, good photostability, and long spin-coherence time even at room temperature. …”
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A perspective on the role of point-of-care "immuno-triaging" to optimize COVID-19 vaccination distribution in a time of scarcity by Zhang, Yi, Rogers, Angela, Nadeau, Kari, Gu, Jun, Yang, Samuel

“…Vaccine bears hope to bring COVID-19 pandemic under control. …”
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Functional genetics of cancer and congenital disorders by Zak, J

“…An integrative analysis of cancer genomic data revealed that <em>PPP1R13B</em>, encoding ASPP1, bears many hallmarks of a tumour suppressor gene, despite being mutated at a low absolute frequency. …”

Discovering NTU with augmented reality by Tey, Jun Yuan

“…As Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has many buildings, with many lecture theatres, tutorial rooms, laboratories, research centers, offices, shops and eating places spread across them, many people, especially visitors and freshmen, find themselves having difficulties navigating through the different venues in NTU. …”
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Chiral secondary amine catalyzed asymmetric cascade reactions by Dai, Lu

“…All the reactions showed high to excellent diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity in multi stereogenic centers and hence constructed complicated molecules.…”
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Dual Origin of Viscoelasticity in Polymer-Carbon Black Hydrogels: A Rheometry and Electrical Spectroscopy Study by Legrand, Gauthier, Manneville, Sébastien, McKinley, Gareth H., Divoux, Thibaut

“…Here we focus on aqueous dispersions of hydrophobic colloidal soot particles, namely carbon black (CB) dispersed with a sodium salt of carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), a food additive known as cellulose gum that bears hydrophobic groups, which are liable to bind physically to CB particles. …”
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A highly strained Al-Al σ-bond in dianionic aluminum analog of oxirane for molecule activation by Koshino, Kota, Kinjo, Rei

“…Since aluminum is the most electropositive element among the p-block elements, the construction of molecules bearing a dianionic Al-Al σ-bond is inherently highly challenging. …”
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Online learning with kernels by Fan, Haijin

“…The sparsification method performs a role to select a compact dictionary consisting of the kernel function centers. They are developed according to different measures, such as the mutual information measure, the significance measure, the coherence measure or the cumulative coherence measure, which are used to evaluate the novelty of new training samples. …”
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Deciphering Banyan tree networks by Chan, Zachary Zi Xuan

“…“Deciphering Banyan Tree Archives” centers around the Banyan tree, also known as the strangling fig. …”
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Synthesis of heavy cyanide analogs for the design of novel Prussian blue analogs by Yang, E

“…In order to provide illustrative points of comparison, analogous metal complexes bearing various strong-field ligands are also synthesized and analyzed using the same approach.…”

The structure of hadrons and other potential phases of QCD by Schindler, Stella T.

“…Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is a mathematical theory describing subatomic particles called quarks and gluons, and the strong force that binds them together into protons and neutrons. This thesis centers on two major thrusts of modern QCD research: (1) uncovering the inner quark and gluon structure of the proton, and (2) mapping out other phases of matter that quarks and gluons form as we vary pressure and temperature. …”
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Boron analogue of vinylidene dication supported by phosphines by Lu, Wei, Li, Yongxin, Ganguly, Rakesh, Kinjo, Rei

“…The reaction of 2 with ZnBr2 afforded the corresponding isolable complex 3, in which two boon centers coordinate to the Zn atom asymmetrically.…”
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