Crowdsourcing as Reflective Political Practice: Building a Location-based Tool for Civic Learning and Engagement by Graeff, Erhardt

“…Using a needs assessment of Boston-area municipalities, I reinforce my argument and concretize a set of design goals for a new socio-technical system to foster local civic learning and engagement around issues like urban planning. In the end, I respond to the research challenge and design goals by introducing a prototype for a location-based survey platform for Android smartphones called Action Path, and discuss early-stage user feedback and future work.…”
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BitPacker: Enabling High Arithmetic Efficiency in Fully Homomorphic Encryption Accelerators by Samardzic, Nikola, Sanchez, Daniel

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Optimization-Based Budget Pacing in eBay Sponsored Search by Chen, Qinyi, Nguyen, Phuong Ha, Gligorijevic, Djordje

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Examples out of Thin Air: AI-Generated Dynamic Context to Assist Program Comprehension by Example by Mattis, Toni, Krebs, Eva, Rinard, Martin C., Hirschfeld, Robert

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Securing the Future: Critical Materials Policies for the US Energy Transition by Concordel, Adrien

“…As the U.S. pushes forward industrial policies to support its energy transition with policies like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to develop domestic green-tech supply chains, it overlooks the crucial need for a sustainable and secure supply of critical materials. …”
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Benchmarking Graph Transformers Toward Scalability for Large Graphs by Lim, Katherine S.

“…In particular, the self-attention mechanism of GTs mitigates the fundamental limitations of over-squashing, over-smoothing, and limited expressiveness that GNNs face. Furthermore, like transformers used for natural language processing and computer vision, GTs have the potential to become foundation models that can be used for various downstream tasks. …”
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Minimally invasive neuromodulation using mechanically-sensitive ion channels and magnetically-actuated nanotransducers by Malkin, Elian

“…Traditional methods of neuronal activity modulation, like pharmacological interventions and noninvasive techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have limitations in specificity and penetration depth. …”
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NeuralMOVES: Extracting and Learning Surrogates for Diverse Vehicle Emission Models by Ramirez Sanchez, Edgar

“…This makes it cumbersome for macroscopic analysis and unsuitable for microscopic analyses like eco-driving, which demands emissions estimation for individual steps. …”
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Thermal proteome profiling of breast cancer cells reveals proteasomal activation by CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib by Miettinen, Teemu P., Peltier, Julien, Härtlova, Anetta, Gierliński, Marek, Jansen, Valerie M., Trost, Matthias, Björklund, Mikael

“…Loss of ECM29 activates the proteasome, blocks cell proliferation, and induces a senescence‐like phenotype. Finally, we find that ECM29 mRNA levels are predictive of relapse‐free survival in breast cancer patients treated with endocrine therapy. …”
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How J-chain ensures the assembly of immunoglobulin IgM pentamers by Giannone, Chiara, Mess, Xenia, He, Ruiming, Chelazzi, Maria R., Mayer, Annika, Bakunts, Anush, Nguyen, Tuan, Bushman, Yevheniia, Orsi, Andrea, Gansen, Benedikt, Degano, Massimo, Buchner, Johannes, Sitia, Roberto

“…Completion of an amyloid-like core triggers JC folding and drives disulfide rearrangements that covalently stabilize JC-containing pentamers. …”
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Flame retardancy of highly filled polyamide 6/clay nanocomposites by Dasari, Aravind, Yu, Zhong-Zhen, Mai, Yiu-Wing, Liu, Songlin

“…Factors such as incoherency, poor stability and non-uniformity of the char or the presence of large cracks and formation of island-like structures were insignificant in slowing down the heat release and mass loss rates. …”
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Entrapping of inclusions within carbon nanotubes during catalytic decomposition of C2H4 on a “thick” nickel film by Li, Feng Ji, Zhang, Sam, Sun, Geng Zhi, Kong, Jun Hua, Rawat, R. S., Ilyas, Usman, Li, Bo

“…The inner walls of a few tubes were sealed internally by multiple elongated “beads-like,” “bullet-shaped” or “needle-shaped” nickel inclusions. …”
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Bio-inspired categorization using event-driven feature extraction and spike-based learning by Zhao, Bo, Chen, Shoushun, Tang, Huajin

“…The proposed algorithm processes the address event data generated either from an image or from Address-Event-Representation (AER) temporal contrast vision sensor. Bio-inspired, cortex-like, spikebased features are obtained through event-driven convolution and neural competition. …”
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Structure and function of the smoothened extracellular domain in vertebrate hedgehog signaling by Rohatgi, Rajat, Nachtergaele, Sigrid, Whalen, Daniel M, Mydock, Laurel K, Zhao, Zhonghua, Malinauskas, Tomas, Krishnan, Kathiresan, Covey, Douglas F, Siebold, Christian, Ingham, Philip William

“…The oxysterol-binding groove in the Smo CRD is analogous to that used by Frizzled 8 to bind to the palmitoleyl group of Wnt ligands and to similar pockets used by other Frizzled-like CRDs to bind hydrophobic ligands. The CRD is required for signaling in response to native Hh ligands, showing that it is an important regulatory module for Smo activation. …”
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Estimation of electric stress and surface potential for traction insulators by Reddy, B Subba, Madhulita, Monali, Chaudhuri, Tanaya

“…Constant exposure to detrimental effects of vandalism, and mechanical vibrations begets certain faults like shorting of sheds or cracks in the sheds. Due to fault in one/two sheds, stress on the remaining healthy sheds increases, owing to atmospheric pollution the stress may lead to a flashover of the insulator. …”
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Nature grasping by a cable-driven under-actuated anthropomorphic robotic hand by Tian, Li, Magnenat-Thalman, Nadia, Thalmann, Daniel, Zheng, Jianmin

“…How to grasp objects in different shapes like human hand. To deal with these three problems and further to provide a partial solution for duplicate human grasping, this paper introduces our method to solve these problems from robotic hand design, fabrication, actuation and grasping plan. …”
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Changi International Airport modelling and visualization by Kumar, Vaibhav

“…The models were designed to be modular to facilitate LEGO-like freedom in altering the taxiway design. Additionally, wireless cameras were mounted on top of the Air Traffic Control Tower model to simulate the Smart Tower capability that is currently installed on the actual ATC Tower of CIA. …”
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Insights into morphological evolution and cycling behaviour of lithium metal anode under mechanical pressure by Yin, Xuesong, Tang, Wei, Jung, Im Doo, Phua, Kia Chai, Adams, Stefan, Lee, Seok Woo, Zheng, Wesley Guangyuan

“…Instead of a highly porous, wire-like Li growth in the absence of pressure, a much more compact Li deposition can be achieved when a pressure is applied to the batteries in the charge/discharge processes. …”
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Deep learning assisted optical wavefront shaping in disordered medium by Luo, Yunqi, Li, Huanhao, Zhang, Ruochong, Lai, Puxiang, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Wavefront shaping (WFS) has been put forward several years ago to break the limitation caused by optical scattering in inhomogeneous medium, and realize optical focusing in disordered medium like biological tissues. However, usually, with traditional methods, WFS is time consuming and not cost efficient since it requires long time to obtain the information of the scattering medium. …”
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Investigation on chemical protease, nuclease and catecholase activity of two copper complexes with flexidentate Schiff base ligands by Das, Mriganka, Kundu, Bidyut Kumar, Tiwari, Ritudhwaj, Mandal, Poulami, Nayak, Debasis, Ganguly, Rakesh, Mukhopadhyay, Suman

“…Furthermore enzyme kinetic studies were also performed for those two complexes towards effectiveness in mimicking catecholase like activities. Overall all the experimental results reveal the potential activity of these copper complexes towards protease, nuclease and catecholase activity. …”
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