Partially Oxidized Alginate as a Biodegradable Carrier for Glucose‐Responsive Insulin Delivery and Islet Cell Replacement Therapy by Volpatti, Lisa R, Bochenek, Matthew A, Facklam, Amanda L, Burns, Delaney M, MacIsaac, Corina, Morgart, Alexander, Walters, Benjamin, Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G

“…Self‐regulated insulin delivery that mimics native pancreas function has been a long‐term goal for diabetes therapies. Two approaches towards this goal are glucose‐responsive insulin delivery and islet cell transplantation therapy. …”
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Semantic embedding for quantum algorithms by Rossi, Zane M, Chuang, Isaac L

“…Parallel to this need, many quantum algorithms have been unified and improved using quantum signal processing (QSP) and quantum singular value transformation (QSVT), which characterize the ability, by alternating circuit ansätze, to transform the singular values of sub-blocks of unitary matrices by polynomial functions. …”
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The effect of targeting both quantitative and qualitative objectives in generative design tools on the design outcomes by Saadi, Jana I., Chong, Leah, Yang, Maria C.

“…Current generative design tools backed by artificial intelligence (AI) primarily allow for quantitative inputs while qualitative aspects of a design, in particular aesthetics, have been shown to be considered indirectly by designers. …”
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Additive manufacturing of interlocking glass masonry units by Massimino, Daniel, Townsend, Ethan, Folinus, Charlotte, Stern, Michael, Becker, Kaitlyn

“…In comparison to traditional glass casting, glass additive manufacturing (AM) presents an opportunity to increase design flexibility and reduce tooling costs for the production of highly variable geometries. While the latter has been extensively explored for masonry units, there is minimal research on the former for its viability to produce structural building components. …”
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The Structure of the Registry Hall at Ellis Island by Wilson, Ruth Hodin

“…The unique aspect of the Registry Hall vault is its construction below a steel truss framed ceiling system, a configuration that has not been previously studied. The primary objective of this study is to provide structural engineers with techniques for analyzing an unreinforced masonry structure in conjunction with a steel frame. …”
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Assessing United States Energy Poverty Policy: Regulatory Design Alternatives and Resource Allocation by Heller, Peter J.

“…Specifically, current allocations under the US Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to states have been nearly static since 1984, while the distribution of energy poverty is dynamic in location and time. …”
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Tailoring Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting by Oppenheim, Julius Jacob

“…Chapter 6 explores the driving differences in interaction between a framework and π-backbonding sorbates, for a framework in which the water sorption properties have been previously reported. Within Chapter 7, the author explores an alternative method for post-synthetic modification, whereby chlorine radical abstraction is utilized to reduce a framework, which may be useful for the synthesis of new sorbents.…”
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Knowledge and the City: Redefining Islamic Urbanism, 762–1067 by Lesoon, Courtney

“…To historically corroborate al-Farabi’s theory, which has been cast as utopian, I identify these learned men in the historical record as the ʿulamaʾ. …”
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The Efficacy of Different Analysis Algorithms for Summarizing Online Deliberations by Venkat, Naveen

“…While Polis currently provides a clustering-analysis summary of the discussion, two newer aggregation algorithms, inspired by computational social choice theory and abstract argumentation theory, have recently been proposed. These algorithms seek to provide more representative (i.e. portraying all perspectives) and consistent (i.e. comments within a perspective do not oppose each other) summaries of the discussion, respectively. …”
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Development of Elastic Resistive Force Theory & Applications to Uprooting by Yilmaz, Lale

“…Granular Resistive Force Theory (RFT) is a reduced-order, rateindependent model that has been shown to successfully capture the motion of rigid intruders in granular media, with a reduced computational cost. …”
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Impact of Acoustic and Optical Phonons on the Anisotropic Heat Conduction in Novel C-Based Superlattices by Talwar, Devki N., Becla, Piotr

“…In commercial NEDs, heat dissipation and thermal management have been and still are crucial issues. The concept of phonon engineering is important for manipulating thermal transport in low-dimensional heterostructures to study their lattice dynamical features. …”
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Beyond the Bioclimatic Chart: An Automated Simulation-Based Method for Assessing Natural Ventilation and Passive Design Potential by Herb, Svenja

“…However, the use of BEM has traditionally been more complex and time-consuming to use as it requires significant knowledge of the underlying building physics and numeric methods to mimic them. …”
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Wave Mechanics in Constructed Oyster Reefs and the Design of Nature-Based Coastal Adaptation by Brice, James Vincent

“…There has been great interest in the potential of constructed oyster reefs (CORs) to function as nature-based coastal protection infrastructure, but most projects to-date are designed primarily for wave attenuation and fail to consider both the environmental conditions necessary for long-term oyster reef sustainability as well as the importance of education and outreach in fostering environmental stewardship. …”
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Fluids and Electrolytes under Confinement in Single-Digit Nanopores

“…Existing theories often fail to predict the exotic effects observed in the narrowest of such pores, called single-digit nanopores (SDNs), which have diameters or conduit widths of less than 10 nm, and have only recently become accessible for experimental measurements. What SDNs reveal has been surprising, including a rapidly increasing number of examples such as extraordinarily fast water transport, distorted fluid-phase boundaries, strong ion-correlation and quantum effects, and dielectric anomalies that are not observed in larger pores. …”
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Urban site characterization using DAS dark fibers on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Chang, Hilary, Nakata, Nori

“…In this paper, we introduce our five-day student-led DAS experiment using dark fibers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in the city of Cambridge. The campus has been identified as an area that is highly susceptible to seismic hazards due to subsurface structure and soil properties. …”
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Nonreciprocal phenomena in superconductivity by Davydova, Marharyta

“…We hope that the prediction of the spin polaron, which has since been experimentally confirmed, will give rise to novel mechanisms for superconductivity and correlated orders in doped Hubbard models.…”
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Protein spatiotemporal dynamics in gene regulation and disease pathology by Zheng, Ming

“…Over the decades, this field has been evolving by integrating advances in microscopy, biochemistry, and molecular biology to unravel the intricate mechanisms governing protein spatiotemporal dynamics as well as the functional consequences. …”
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Hardness of Approximate Diameter: Now for Undirected Graphs by Dalirrooyfard, Mina, Li, Ray, Vassilevska Williams, Virginia

“…A simple folklore algorithm can output a 2-approximation to the diameter in linear time by running BFS from an arbitrary vertex. It has been open whether a better approximation is possible in near-linear time. …”
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Understanding Non-Verbal Irony Markers: Machine Learning Insights Versus Human Judgment by Spitale, Micol, Catania, Fabio, Panzeri, Francesca

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SURF: Eavesdropping on Underwater Communications from the Air by Mollahosseini, Poorya, Afzal, Sayed Saad, Adib, Fadel, Ghasempour, Yasaman

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