Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: evidence from the PATH study by Behrooz, Leili, Xie, Wubin, Goghari, Aboli, Robertson, Rosemarie, Bhatnagar, Aruni, Stokes, Andrew, Hamburg, Naomi M.

“…Methods: We analyzed data from the PATH (Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health) study wave 4 (2016–2018) and wave 5 (2018–2019). …”
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Development of an improved GWO algorithm for solving optimal paths in complex vertical farms with multi-robot multi-tasking by Shen, Jiazheng, Hong, Tang Sai, Fan, Luxin, Zhao, Ruixin, Mohd Ariffin, Mohd Khairol Anuar, As’arry, Azizan

“…Vertical farming technology offers a potential solution, making the path planning of agricultural robots in vertical farms a research priority. …”
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Optimized GPU algorithms for sparse data problems by Pham, Nguyen Quang Anh

“…Nevertheless, the GPU architecture is more suited to processing dense, regular datasets. Sparse data problems such as sparse matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication, breadth first search, shortest paths and other graph algorithms achieve much less speedup on GPUs than their dense data counterparts. …”
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Resilient power systems operation with offshore wind farms and cloud data centers by Liu, Shengwei, Li, Yuanzheng, Liu, Xuan, Zhao, Tianyang, Wang, Peng

“…Based on Lagrange duality, this problem is reformulated into its deterministic counterpart and solved by a novel decomposition method with hybrid cuts, admitting fewer iterations and a faster convergence rate. The effectiveness of the proposed resilient management strategy is verified through case studies conducted on the modified IEEE-RTS 24 system, which includes 4 data centers and 5 offshore wind farms.…”
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Efficient rate-distortion optimization techniques for H.264 by Yu, Hongtao

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From public health to AI safety: improving machine learning approaches by collecting, selecting, or reducing the need for high-quality data by Brauner, J

“…This is common in modern ML, as deep learning models require vast amounts of data, often scraped from the internet. We develop a method to automatically select the most useful data at any given point in training, enabling us to train neural networks in fewer steps, to higher accuracy, and with lower computational costs.…”

Enviro-toons : what do parents think about it? by Goh, Jeannette

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X-Ray Computed Tomography Study of the Microstructure of Superconducting MgB 2 Bulks by Wang, Y, Grovenor, C, Speller, S, Shollock, B, Mousavi, T

“…MgB2 is a promising candidate for commercial superconducting applications because, as grain boundaries in MgB2 are not weak links, there are fewer limitations on the choice of processing technique compared to high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cuprates. …”

Targeted pancreatic beta cell imaging for early diagnosis by Cong, Goh Zheng, Ghosh, Krishna Kanta, Mishra, Sachin, Gulyás, Miklós, Kovács, Tibor, Máthé, Domokos, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs

“…Direct imaging of insulin is also explored though probes synthesized for such function are relatively fewer. The path for successful pancreatic beta cell imaging is fraught with challenges like non-specific binding, lack of beta cell-restricted targets, the requirement of probes to cross multiple lipid layers to bind to intracellular insulin. …”
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Tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy versus non‐surgical treatment for chronic/recurrent acute tonsillitis by Burton, MJ, Glasziou, PP, Chong, LY, Venekamp, RP

“…<br> When we pooled the data from two studies in adults (156 participants), there were 3.6 fewer episodes (95% CI 7.9 fewer to 0.70 more; low quality evidence) in the group receiving surgery within six months post‐surgery. …”

Development of earth-abundant copper photosensitizers for artificial photosynthesis by Ng, Yik Yie

“…A series of bis(arylimino)acenaphthene (Ar-BIAN) CuI complexes have been synthesized in three or fewer steps. A comprehensive study of their electrochemical and spectroscopic properties has been performed. …”
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COVID-19 and bilingual children's home language environment: digital media, socioeconomic status, and language status by Sun, He, Tan, Justina, Chen, Wenli

“…Two online parental questionnaires were employed for data collection. One-way repeated-measures MANOVA and path models were used to address the questions. …”
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Sustaining antimicrobial stewardship in a high-antibiotic resistance setting by Ng, Tat Ming, Heng, Shi Thong, Chua, Boon Hou, Ang, Li Wei, Tan, Sock Hoon, Tay, Hui Lin, Yap, Min Yi, Quek, Jason, Teng, Christine B., Young, Barnaby Edward, Lin, Ray, Ang, Brenda, Lee, Tau Hong, Lye, David C.

“…Design, Setting, and Participants: This cohort study used an interrupted time series with segmented regression analysis of data from January 2007 to December 2018. Data were extracted from the electronic medical records of patients admitted at a large university teaching hospital with high rates of antibiotic resistance in Singapore. …”
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Study of multidirectional forging and annealing on copper by Lim, Zi Xin.

“…The use of macroforming technology to produce microproducts has problem such as poor mechanical properties and rough surface due to relatively large grains and fewer grain boundaries. Hence, there is a need to achieve grain refinement in materials in order to have better properties and yet is cost-effective for mass production. …”
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Inferring structural variant cancer cell fraction by Cmero, M, Yuan, K, Ong, CS, Schröder, J, PCAWG Evolution and Heterogeneity Working Group, Corcoran, NM, Papenfuss, T, Hovens, CM, Markowetz, F, Macintyre, G, PCAWG Consortium

“…We find that SVclone's performance is comparable to single-nucleotide variant-based methods, despite having an order of magnitude fewer data points. As part of the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) consortium, which aggregated whole-genome sequencing data from 2658 cancers across 38 tumour types, we use SVclone to reveal a subset of liver, ovarian and pancreatic cancers with subclonally enriched copy-number neutral rearrangements that show decreased overall survival. …”

Engineering bunched Pt-Ni alloy nanocages for efficient oxygen reduction in practical fuel cells by Tian, Xinlong, Zhao, Xiao, Su, Ya-Qiong, Wang, Lijuan, Wang, Hongming, Dang, Dai, Chi, Bin, Liu, Hongfang, Hensen, Emiel J. M., Lou, David Xiong Wen, Xia, Bao Yu

“…Both the experimental results and theoretical calculations reveal the existence of fewer strongly bonded platinum-oxygen (Pt-O) sites induced by the strain and ligand effects. …”
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Development of a web-based ground station system for an advanced nano-satellite (VELOX-I) by Goh, Wei Rong.

“…The replacement or migration of software-based applications to Web-based applications is a growing trend as it allows higher cross platform compatibility, ease of data consolidation and system management, efficient system updates and maintenance, and fewer requirements at end users. …”
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Reflection removal on single light field capture using focus manipulation by Ni, Yun, Chen, Jie, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…Extensive experiments have been carried out over both synthetic and real LF data, which show our method outperforms state-of-the-art ones by at least 2.9 dB in terms of background restoration PSNR, with significantly fewer visual artifacts.…”
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Active learning for optimal intervention design in causal models by Zhang, Jiaqi, Cammarata, Louis, Squires, Chandler, Sapsis, Themistoklis P., Uhler, Caroline

“…We apply our approach to both synthetic data and single-cell transcriptomic data from Perturb–CITE-sequencing experiments to identify optimal perturbations that induce a specific cell-state transition. …”
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Communication patterns in engineering enterprise social networks: an exploratory analysis using short text topic modelling by Ferguson, Sharon A., Cheng, Kathy, Adolphe, Lauren, Van de Zande, Georgia, Wallace, David, Olechowski, Alison

“…These digital communication platforms capture detailed messages between members of the design team and are an appealing data set for researchers who seek to better understand communication in design. …”
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