Enhancing antibody responses by multivalent antigen display on thymus-independent DNA origami scaffolds by Wamhoff, Eike-Christian, Ronsard, Larance, Feldman, Jared, Knappe, Grant A., Hauser, Blake M., Romanov, Anna, Case, James Brett, Sanapala, Shilpa, Lam, Evan C., Denis, Kerri J. St., Boucau, Julie, Barczak, Amy K., Balazs, Alejandro B., Diamond, Michael S., Schmidt, Aaron G., Lingwood, Daniel, Bathe, Mark

“…Protein-based virus-like particles (P-VLPs) are commonly used to spatially organize antigens and enhance humoral immunity through multivalent antigen display. …”
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FabRobotics: Fusing 3D Printing with Mobile Robots to Advance Fabrication, Robotics, and Interaction by Bhattacharya, Ramarko, Lindstrom, Jonathan, Taka, Ahmad, Nisser, Martin, Mueller, Stefanie, Nakagaki, Ken

“…It is challenging for programmers to write down portable integer arithmetic in a C-like language that corresponds exactly to one of these instructions, and even more challenging for compilers to recognize when these instructions can be used. …”
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Scalable nitrogen-enriched porous sub-100 nm graphitic carbon nanocapsules for efficient oxygen reduction reaction in different media by Eid, Kamel, Abdelhafiz, Ali A., Abdel-Azeim, Safwat, Varma, Rajender S., Shibl, Mohamed F.

“…Herein, we present a scalable, facile, environmentally benign, and one-pot strategy for the fabrication of eco-friendly nitrogen-enriched graphitic-like hierarchical porous sub-100 nm carbon (denoted as N-HMPC) nanocapsules with controllable N-content for ORR. …”
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The Inspiration Design Toolkit: A Human-Centered Design Tool for a System Engineering Course by Lee, Sheng-Hung, Yang, Maria C, Carramolino, Beatriz, Rudnik, John

“…For future research, we want to understand how learners like and use IDT through demographic differences and preferred self-identified learning styles. …”
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Contraction theory for nonlinear stability analysis and learning-based control: A tutorial overview by Tsukamoto, Hiroyasu, Chung, Soon-Jo, Slotine, Jean-Jaques E.

“…By using a squared differential length as a Lyapunov-like function, its nonlinear stability analysis boils down to finding a suitable contraction metric that satisfies a stability condition expressed as a linear matrix inequality, indicating that many parallels can be drawn between well-known linear systems theory and contraction theory for nonlinear systems. …”
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Social media sensors as early signals of influenza outbreaks at scale by Martín-Corral, David, García-Herranz, Manuel, Cebrian, Manuel, Moro, Esteban

“…We aim to combine both approaches to detect early signals of a biological viral process (influenza-like illness, ILI), using its informational epidemic coverage in public social media. …”
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The order of operations and A/Ā interactions by Newman, Elise

“…The analysis features a smuggling approach to passives of ditransitives (Collins 2005) and an economy condition like van Urk and Richards’ (2015) Multitasking, which jointly predict the order of operations that gives rise to the wh-movement restriction observed in Norwegian.…”
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Faster Feedback with AI? A Test Prioritization Study by Mattis, Toni, B?hme, Lukas, Krebs, Eva, Rinard, Martin C., Hirschfeld, Robert

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Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with AXIS by Arcodia, Riccardo, Bauer, Franz E., Cenko, S. Bradley, Dage, Kristen C., Haggard, Daryl, Ho, Wynn C. G., Kara, Erin, Koss, Michael, Liu, Tingting, Mallick, Labani, Negro, Michela, Pradhan, Pragati, Quirola-Vásquez, J., Reynolds, Mark T., Ricci, Claudio, Rothschild, Richard E., Sridhar, Navin, Troja, Eleonora, Yao, Yuhan

“…The observatory’s ability to localize and monitor faint X-ray sources opens up new opportunities to hunt for counterparts to distant binary neutron star mergers, fast radio bursts, and exotic phenomena like fast X-ray transients. AXIS will offer a response time of <2 h to community alerts, enabling studies of gravitational wave sources, high-energy neutrino emitters, X-ray binaries, magnetars, and other targets of opportunity. …”
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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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Design and Evaluation of a Precision Irrigation Tool’s Human–Machine Interaction to Bring Water- and Energy-Efficient Irrigation to Resource-Constrained Farmers by Van de Zande, Georgia D., Grant, Fiona, Sheline, Carolyn, Amrose, Susan, Costello, Jeffery, Ghodgaonkar, Aditya, Winter V, Amos G.

“…As freshwater supplies decrease, adopting sustainable practices like water- and energy-efficient irrigation is crucial, particularly in resource-constrained regions. …”
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Common Grounds in Shared Waters Integrated Design for Negotiating Equitable Development in Gosabara-Mokarsagar by Mehta, Dhwani

“…The term ‘common grounds’ defines partnerships of two or three stakeholders, instead of all, based on mutual understanding and shared objectives like sustainable livelihoods, economic development, ecotourism, and avian conservation. …”
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MEDFuse: Multimodal EHR Data Fusion with Masked Lab-Test Modeling and Large Language Models by Thao, Phan Nguyen Minh, Dao, Cong-Tinh, Wu, Chenwei, Wang, Jian-Zhe, Liu, Shun, Ding, Jun-En, Restrepo, David, Liu, Feng, Hung, Fang-Ming, Peng, Wen-Chih

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Decarbonizing the US Power Sector by Farnsworth, Amanda

“…At deep decarbonization levels, the need for long-duration energy storage (like pumped hydropower storage) increases. The role of embodied emissions is explored, showing that as fossil-fuel consumption decreases and VRE penetration increases, they become nonnegligible. …”
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Racial Steering by Large Language Models: A Prospective Audit of GPT-4 on Housing Recommendations by Liu, Eric, So, Wonyoung, Hosoi, Peko, D'Ignazio, Catherine

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Learning Model Predictive Control Parameters via Bayesian Optimization for Battery Fast Charging by Hirt, Sebastian, Höhl, Andreas, Schaeffer, Joachim, Pohlodek, Johannes, Braatz, Richard D, Findeisen, Rolf

“…This mismatch may stem from factors like substantial model-plant differences, limited prediction horizons that do not cover the entire time of interest, or unforeseen system disturbances. …”
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Interoceptive Interventions: Interfacing with Inner States by Jain, Abhinandan

“…These prototypes target specific pathways to enable on-demand emotion elicitation, emotion regulation and sleep regulation for users, while also providing potential non pharmacological interventions for conditions like insomnia, depression, and anxiety. This thesis aims to make a twofold contribution: First, it introduces a conceptual framework that highlights how interfacing with unconscious bodily processes opens up new possibilities for human computer interface design. …”
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Dittos: Personalized, Embodied Agents That Participate in Meetings When You Are Unavailable by Leong, Joanne, Tang, John, Cutrell, Edward, Junuzovic, Sasa, Baribault, Gregory, Inkpen, Kori

“…This paper explores the idea of a Ditto—an agent that visually resembles a person, sounds like them, possesses knowledge about them, and can represent them in meetings. …”
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Model-independent search for pair production of new bosons decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions a √s = 13 TeV by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Li, A., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Sonawane, M., The CMS collaboration

“…The findings are interpreted across various benchmark models, such as an axion-like particle model, a vector portal model, the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, and a dark supersymmetric scenario, including those predicting a non-negligible proper decay length of the new boson. …”
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Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithms by Francis, Anthony, P?rez-D'Arpino, Claudia, Li, Chengshu, Xia, Fei, Alahi, Alexandre, Alami, Rachid, Bera, Aniket, Biswas, Abhijat, Biswas, Joydeep, Chandra, Rohan, Chiang, Hao-Tien, Everett, Michael, Ha, Sehoon, Hart, Justin, How, Jonathan, Karnan, Haresh, Lee, Tsang-Wei, Manso, Luis, Mirsky, Reuth, Pirk, S?ren

“…In contrast, clear, repeatable, and accessible benchmarks have accelerated progress in fields like computer vision, natural language processing and traditional robot navigation by enabling researchers to fairly compare algorithms, revealing limitations of existing solutions and illuminating promising new directions. …”
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