Examining discrimination in home improvement financing (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act 2012–2016) and neighborhood health in the United States by Davis, Brigette A., Arcaya, Mariana C., Williams, David R., Metzger, Molly, Krieger, Nancy

“…We find non-Hispanic Black applicants are significantly more likely to be denied loans (OR: 2.28 p < 0.01), and that loans for areas with a high proportion of non-Hispanic Black residents (OR: 1.09, p < 0.01) are most likely to be denied, while applications in tracts with the highest proportion of non-Hispanic white residents (OR: 0.90, p < 0.01) are least likely to be denied. We find that white (r = 0.203), but not Black (r = 0.02) home improvement applications are correlated with the proportion of Black residents currently residing in the census tract. …”
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A Nearly Quadratic Improvement for Memory Reallocation by Farach-Colton, Martin, Kuszmaul, William, Sheffield, Nathan S., Westover, Alek

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“The Past We Step Into and How We Repair It” by Williams, Rashad, Steil, Justin

“…Takeaway for practice Reparative planning must involve at a minimum at least three dimensions: public recognition, material redistribution, and social and spatial transformation. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…I find that control over the production of advanced AI chips by the United States and allies almost certainly means the United States would better exploit such weapons, if they emerged as decisive in modern warfare, within at least the next ten years. Potential Chinese policy responses, such as cannibalizing its civilian sector or substituting with older chips, would likely fail for technical reasons.…”
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Experimental analysis and modeling of transient dissolution of RDX through mass transfer processes by Romero, Joseph Vincent, 1977-

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Deep proteomic profiling of human carotid atherosclerotic plaques using multidimensional LC-MS/MS by Sze, Siu Kwan, Hao, Piliang, Ren, Yan, Pasterkamp, Gerard, Moll, Frans L., de Kleijn, Dominique P. V.

“…Results: A total of 4702 proteins were identified from atherosclerotic plaques at a false discovery rate (FDR) of 1%, of which 3846 were identified with at least 2 unique peptides. Many pathways related to the development and progression of atherosclerosis were identified, such as atherosclerosis signaling, toll receptor signaling pathway and inhibition of matrix metalloproteases. …”
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Two millennia of tropical cyclone-induced mud layers in a northern Yucatán stalagmite : multiple overlapping climatic hazards during the Maya Terminal Classic “megadroughts” by Frappier, Amy Benoit, Pyburn, James, Pinkey-Drobnis, Aurora D., Wang, Xianfeng, Corbett, D. Reide, Dahlin, Bruce H.

“…This new conservative proxy for paleotempestology recorded cave flooding events with a recurrence interval of 8.3 years during the twentieth century, with the greatest frequency during the twentieth century and the least frequent during the seventeenth century. Tropical cyclone (TC) events are unlikely to flood the cave during drought when the water table is depressed. …”
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A quasi‐solid‐state tristate reversible electrochemical mirror device with enhanced stability by Eh, Alice Lee-Sie, Chen, Jingwei, Yu, Shu Hearn, Thangavel, Gurunathan, Zhou, Xinran, Cai, Guofa, Li, Shaohui, Chua, Daniel H. C., Lee, Pooi See

“…The REM device with zero power consumption maintains its mirror state for at least 100 min, making it a promising candidate for energy‐efficient applications.…”
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Nonlinear adjustment of exchange rate and exchange rate policy : lessons from Singapore by Yan, Fangli, Yip, Paul Sau Leung

“…Future empirical studies should include the effect in the estimations and tests, or at least test for the absence of the effect before excluding it from the estimations.…”
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Reconciling Bayesian and perimeter regularization for binary inversion by Dunbar, Oliver R. A., Dunlop, Matthew M., Elliott, Charles M., Hoang, Viet Ha, Stuart, Andrew M.

“…In this paper two links are studied: (i) the maximum a posteriori objective function of a suitably chosen Bayesian phase-field approach is shown to be closely related to a least squares plus perimeter regularization objective; (ii) sample paths of a suitably chosen Bayesian level set formulation are shown to possess a finite perimeter and to have the ability to learn about the true perimeter.…”
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Incremental route inference from low-sampling GPS data : an opportunistic approach to online map matching by Luo, Linbo, Hou, Xiangting, Cai, Wentong, Guo, Bin

“…Experimental results show that our algorithm is better than, or at least comparable to the state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of inference accuracy. …”
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HLO : half-kernel laplacian operator for surface smoothing by Pan, Wei, Lu, Xuequan, Gong, Yuanhao, Tang, Wenming, Liu, Jun, He, Ying, Qiu, Guoping

“…Given a vertex v, HLO first finds all pairs of its neighboring vertices and divides each pair into two subsets (called half windows); then computes the uniform Laplacians of all such subsets and subsequently projects the computed Laplacians to the full-window uniform Laplacian to alleviate flipping and degeneration. The half window with least regularization energy is then chosen for v. …”
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COVID-19 and global governance: waking up to a safe new world by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…Yet, as the collateral damage unfolds, the response has been astounding for at least two reasons. First, the difference in national responses to COVID-19, even among developed countries, could not be more stark. …”
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Thermochromic smart windows with highly regulated radiative cooling and solar transmission by Wang, Shancheng, Zhou, Yang, Jiang, Tengyao, Yang, Ronggui, Tan, Gang, Long, Yi

“…RC has been widely researched on walls and roofs but rarely on windows while windows are the least energy-efficient part of buildings. Moreover, in the current smart window design, consideration of tunable RC is missing. …”
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Trimetallic oxide-hydroxide porous nanosheets for efficient water oxidation by Devi, Hemam Rachna, Chikkegowda, Ramachandra, Rangappa, Dinesh, Yadav, Ashok Kumar, Chen, Zhong, Nanda, Karuna Kar

“…Trimetallic system also offers better oxygen evolution reaction kinetics as evident from the least activation energy compared to the bimetallic counterparts. …”
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Suppressing motion-induced phase error by using equal-step phase-shifting algorithms in fringe projection profilometry by Wu, Gaoxu, Yang, Tian, Liu, Fei, Qian, Kemao

“…These equal-step algorithms are studied through comprehensive simulations and experiments, showing that, (i) the equal-step algorithms are all effective in greatly suppressing the motion-induced errors in both ideal and noisy situations; and (ii) among the three algorithms, the Stoilov algorithm is more robust to handle the object motion and the harmonics simultaneously, while the GEPS requires a least number of frames. This study will urge the use of the equal-step algorithms for phase extraction in dynamic profilometry for immediate motion-error suppression by merely implementing a single phase-calculation equation.…”
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Hydrogen as marine fuel – feasibility, prospects, and challenges by Wong, Li Ming

“…The maritime industry currently accounts for at least 2.5% of the overall CO2 emissions. As the maritime industry strives to achieve decarbonisation to comply with IMO 2050, many alternative fuels are being researched and hydrogen is included. …”
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A frequency-domain output-constrained active noise control algorithm based on an intuitive circulant convolutional penalty factor by Shi, Dongyuan, Gan, Woon-Seng, Lam, Bhan, Shen, Xiaoyi

“…Due to their computational efficiency, least mean square (LMS)-based algorithms are still widely utilized to achieve optimal control in active noise control (ANC) applications. …”
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Long-term stability challenges and opportunities in acidic oxygen evolution electrocatalysis by Wang, Qilun, Cheng, Yaqi, Tao, Hua Bing, Liu, Yuhang, Ma, Xuehu, Li, Dong-Sheng, Yang, Hong Bin, Liu, Bin

“…In this review, critical factors that may lead to catalyst's instability in couple with potential solutions are comprehensively discussed, including mechanical peeling, substrate corrosion, active-site over-oxidation/dissolution, reconstruction, oxide crystal structure collapse through the lattice oxygen-participated reaction pathway, etc. Last but not least, personal prospects are provided in terms of rigorous stability evaluation criteria, in situ/operando characterizations, economic feasibility and practical electrolyzer consideration, highlighting the ternary relationship of structure evolution, industrial-relevant activity and stability to serve as a roadmap towards the ultimate application of PEMWE.…”
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Multiple-instance learning from unlabeled bags with pairwise similarity by Feng, Lei, Shu, Senlin, Cao, Yuzhou, Tao, Lue, Wei, Hongxin, Xiang, Tao, An, Bo, Niu, Gang

“…A training bag is either negative if it contains no positive instances or positive if it has at least one positive instance. Previous MIL methods generally assume that training bags are fully labeled. …”
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