Development of an educational method to rethink and learn oncological brain surgery in an “a la carte” connectome-based perspective by Valdes, Pablo A., Ng, Sam, Bernstock, Joshua D., Duffau, Hugues

“…Conclusions Taking no more than 3–5 min per patient and irrespective of their resource settings, we believe that this method will enable junior surgeons to develop an intuition, and a robust 3-dimensional imagery of WMT by regularly applying it to their cases both before and after surgery to develop an “a la carte” connectome-based perspective to glioma surgery.…”
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Who2chat: A Social Networking System for Academic Researchers in Virtual Social Hours Enabling Coordinating, Overcoming Barriers and Social Signaling by Park, Soya, Song, Jaeyoon, Karger, David R., Malone, Thomas W.

“…Our work demonstrates an interface design for social networking in academic settings and how to lower social barriers in virtual networking.…”
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Robust Reinforcement Learning Strategies with Evolving Curriculum for Efficient Bus Operations in Smart Cities by Tang, Yuhan, Qu, Ao, Jiang, Xuan, Mo, Baichuan, Cao, Shangqing, Rodriguez, Joseph, Koutsopoulos, Haris N, Wu, Cathy, Zhao, Jinhua

“…In this study, we introduce a novel setting where each bus, supervised by an RL agent, can appropriately form aggregated policies from three strategies (holding, skipping station, and turning around to serve the opposite direction). …”
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SemFunSim : a new method for measuring disease similarity by integrating semantic and gene functional association by Cheng, Liang, Li, Jie, Ju, Peng, Peng, Jiajie, Wang, Yadong

“…First of all, FunSim (Functional similarity) is proposed to calculate disease similarity using disease-related gene sets in a weighted network of human gene function. …”
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Study of inertial hydrodynamic focusing in sheath-driven flows for lab-on-a-chip flow cytometry by Panwar, Nishtha, Song, Peiyi, Yong, Ken-Tye, Tjin, Swee Chuan

“…Miniature flow cytometer models enable fast and cost-effective management of diseases in vulnerable and low-end settings. The single-line focusing of cell or particle samples is achieved using hydrodynamic forces in the microfluidic channels. …”
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Sensitivity study of weather research and forecasting physical schemes and evaluation of cool coating effects in Singapore by weather research and forecasting coupled with urban ca... by Zhou, Mandi, Long, Yongping, Zhang, Xiaoqin, Donthu, Eswara V. S. K. K., Ng, Bing Feng, Wan, Man Pun

“…Cool roofs provide more cooling effect than cool roads since roofs cover more urban horizontal surfaces than roads do in the current setting. Part of the radiation reflected by cool roads could be absorbed by other urban structures, reducing its cooling effect as compared to cool roofs.…”
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Feature analysis of marginalized stacked denoising autoenconder for unsupervised domain adaptation by Wei, Pengfei, Ke, Yiping, Goh, Chi Keong

“…The effectiveness of DTFC is verified by extensive experiments on three benchmark data sets for both Bernoulli dropout noise and multinomial dropout noise.…”
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Automated segmentation of visceral, deep subcutaneous, and superficial subcutaneous adipose tissue volumes in MRI of neonates and young children by Kway, Yeshe Manuel, Thirumurugan, Kashthuri, Tint, Mya Thway, Michael, Navin, Shek, Lynette Pei-Chi, Yap, Fabian Kok Peng, Tan, Kok Hian, Godfrey, Keith M., Chong, Yap Seng, Fortier, Marielle Valerie, Marx, Ute C., Eriksson, Johan G., Lee, Yung Seng, Velan, S. Sendhil, Feng, Mengling, Sadananthan, Suresh Anand

“…Results: When the model was tested on the test datasets across the 10 folds, the model had strong agreement with the ground truth for all testing sets, with mean Dice similarity scores for SSAT, DSAT, and VAT, respectively, of 0.960, 0.909, and 0.872 in neonates and 0.944, 0.851, and 0.960 in children. …”
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DropLab: an automated magnetic digital microfluidic platform for sample-to-answer point-of-care testing-development and application to quantitative immunodiagnostics by Hu, Xuyang, Gao, Xiangyu, Chen, Songlin, Guo, Jinhong, Zhang, Yi

“…Although other immunodiagnostic assays, such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), offer more sensitive and quantitative results, they require complex liquid manipulations that are difficult to implement in POCT settings by conventional means. Here, we show the development of DropLab, an automated sample-in-answer-out POCT immunodiagnostic platform based on magnetic digital microfluidic (MDM) technology. …”
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Host genotype and microbiome associations in co-occurring clonal and non-clonal kelp, Ecklonia radiata by Gonzalez, Sebastian Vadillo, Vranken, Sofie, Coleman, Melinda A., Wernberg, Thomas, Steinberg, Peter D., Marzinelli, Ezequiel Miguel

“…Studies on the interactions of host genotype and microbiomes are emerging but disentangling the role that host genotype has in shaping microbiomes remains challenging in natural settings. Host genotypes tend to be segregated in space and affected by different environments. …”
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Correlates of lifestyle patterns among children in Singapore aged 10 years: the growing up in Singapore towards healthy outcomes (GUSTO) study by Tan, Sarah Yi Xuan, Chia, Airu, Tai, Bee Choo, Toh, Jia Ying, Colega, Marjorelee, Padmapriya, Natarajan, Setoh, Peipei, Kee, Michelle Zhi Ling, Yuan, Wen Lun, Lee, Yung Seng, Loo, Benny Kai Guo, Yap, Fabian Kok Peng, Tan, Kok Hian, Godfrey, Keith M., Chong, Yap Seng, Eriksson, Johan, Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk, Chong, Mary Foong-Fong

“…Lifestyle patterns were derived using principal component analysis, and the correlations of these with multiple known determinants organised by distal, intermediate, and proximal levels of influence were studied. Setting: Children of the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) cohort. …”
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Response to Infant Cry in Clinically Depressed and Non-Depressed Mothers by Esposito, Gianluca, Manian, Nanmathi, Truzzi, Anna, Bornstein, Marc H.

“…The present study focuses on acoustical components of infant cry that give rise to responsive caregiving in clinically depressed (n = 30) compared with non-depressed mothers (n = 30) in the natural setting of the home. Methods: Analyses of infant and mother behaviors followed three paths: (1) tests of group differences in acoustic characteristics of infant cry, (2) tests of group differences of mothers’ behaviors during their infant’s crying, and (3) tree-based modeling to ascertain which variable(s) best predict maternal behaviors during infant cry. …”
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Sexual behaviors among methadone maintenance patients in a mountainous area in northern Vietnam by Boggiano, Victoria L., Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi, Nguyen, Long Hoang, Tran, Tho Dinh, Van Nguyen, Hung, Le, Huong Thi, Le, Hai Quan, Hoang, Canh Dinh, Nguyen, Cuong Tat, Tran, Bach Xuan, Latkin, Carl A., Zary, Nabil, Vu, Thuc Minh Thi

“…Conclusion: This study highlights a low proportion of having sexual risk behaviors among MMT patients in Vietnamese mountainous settings. Integrating education about safe sexual practices into MMT services, along with providing medical care and ensuring methadone treatment adherence, is an important component in HIV risk reduction for these patients who were at risk of unsafe sexual practices.…”
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Mars atmospheric CO2 condensation above the north and south poles as revealed by radio occultation, climate sounder, and laser ranging observations by Cahoy, Kerri, Zuber, Maria, Hu, R. Y.

“…With our approach, the total atmospheric condensation mass can be estimated from these observational data sets with average particle size as the only free parameter. …”
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Generalized neural closure models with interpretability by Gupta, Abhinav, Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.

“…We demonstrate the new <jats:italic>generalized neural closure models</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>g</jats:italic>nCMs) framework using four sets of experiments based on advecting nonlinear waves, shocks, and ocean acidification models. …”
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Bursting on a vortex tube with initial axial core-size perturbations by Ji, Lingbo, Van Rees, Wim M.

“…To further assess the relevance and prevalence of bursting in practical settings, subsequent investigations in the stability and sensitivity of our results to varying Reynolds number, nonrectilinear vortex center lines, and external strain fields are needed.…”
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Scheduling Jobs with Work-Inefficient Parallel Solutions by Kuszmaul, William, Westover, Alek

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Low-Cost Electronic Microfluidics for Multiplexed Point-of-Care Biomarker Detection by Kikkeri, Kruthika

“…By prioritizing accessibility, affordability, and automation, I focus on addressing unmet needs in PoC platform development which often prevent translation of these systems to PoC settings. Focusing primarily on cytokine biomarkers, notably IL-6, this thesis proposes modular solutions designed for seamless integration into existing clinical workflows. …”
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Particles in a box: Novel design and evaluation of an adaptable engineering control enclosure for a common split tube furnace to eliminate occupational exposure to refractory ceram... by Janković, Nina Z., Leong, Wei Lee, Ryan, Andrew I., Tantawi, Omar N., Smith, Brian S., Plat, Desiree L.

“…Technical drawings and specifications of the split tube furnace enclosure design are available for ready recreation and implementation, in light industry or laboratory settings, thereby providing low-cost modification to protect the health of workers and researchers.…”
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Cooperation and Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning by Aloor, Jasmine, Nayak, Siddharth Nagar, Dolan, Sydney, Balakrishnan, Hamsa

“…It is, therefore, important to consider the tradeoffs between efficiency and fairness in such settings. We consider the problem of fair multi-agent navigation for a group of decentralized agents using multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). …”
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