Trends and Variability in Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Ocean Heat Uptake Since 2005 by Hakuba, Maria Z., Fourest, Sébastien, Boyer, Tim, Meyssignac, Benoit, Carton, James A., Forget, Gaël, Cheng, Lijing, Giglio, Donata, Johnson, Gregory C., Kato, Seiji, Killick, Rachel E., Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas, Kuusela, Mikael, Landerer, Felix

“…Here, 21 OHC datasets and ocean heat uptake (OHU) rates are intercompared, providing OHU estimates ranging between 0.40 ± 0.12 and 0.96 ± 0.08 W m−2 (2005–2019), a spread that is slightly reduced when unequal ocean sampling is accounted for, and that is largely attributable to differing source data, mapping methods and quality control procedures. …”
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Inferring passenger responses to urban rail disruptions using smart card data: A probabilistic framework by Mo, Baichuan, Koutsopoulos, Haris N, Zhao, Jinhua

“…We first identify 19 possible response behaviors that passengers may have based on their decision-making times and locations (i.e, the stage of their trips when an incident happened), including transferring to a bus line, canceling trips, waiting, delaying departure time, etc. …”
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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.

“…Concentrations of those RCFs were similarly reduced when the enclosure was in place. 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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The cognitive and neural basis of complex decision-making in the primate brain by Ramadan, Mahdi F.

“…I then use a series of human psychophysical experiments to quantitatively show that humans rely on a heuristic hierarchical strategy to solve the task due to attentional constraints, and when uncertain, flexibly revise their decisions in a computationally rational manner. …”
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Designing Electricity Distribution Network Tariffs for Beneficial Electrification by Turk, Graham

“…Per-kW capacity tariffs (subscription and demand charges) are effective at mitigating EV-driven peaks, especially when paired with TOU energy tariffs. We recommend that regulators separate network charges from energy charges and introduce a per-kW subscription network tariff to collect a portion of the network revenue requirement. …”
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The Policy, People, and Place Impacts of Mining for the Clean Energy Transition in the US by Randall, Abigail Marie

“…The third is an Indigenous lands case study centered around the Thacker Pass lithium mine, which illustrates how a tensions framing is critical when the tradeoff framing has historically risked Indigenous sovereignty over their lands. …”
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Tangible Telepresence: Distributed and Synchronous Tangible Interfaces for Enhancing Interpersonal Connectedness over Time and Space by Choi, Kyung Yun

“…Third, it highlights that complex meanings or detailed information are not essential for strengthening connectedness when mutual awareness is established, as users perceive TeleTangibles as various forms of interaction that reduce the pressure of immediate response while confirming each other's status. …”
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Deformation and its surface expression in stressed planetary materials by Seltzer, Cassandra

“…This thesis investigates the response of planetary materials to changing stress fields, and resultant signatures of stress in geophysical properties observable from planetary surfaces. When forces change within rocky and icy layers of planetary bodies, constituent materials of these layers adjust on the microscale; energetically favorable alignment of microstructural materials builds across scales to result in deformation, preferred directions for material transport and wave propagation, and heat release. …”
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Compact Capabilities: Developing and Evaluating a Field-Portable Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis System by Rahon, Jill M.

“…These results suggest that NRCA, especially when used in concert with NRTA and other neutron-interrogation techniques, has the potential to rapidly and nondestructively quantify and characterize isotopes of interest in support of safeguards material accountancy.…”
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From Words to Worlds: Bridging Language and Thought by Wong, Lionel Catherine

“…What do we understand when we understand language? Human language offers a broad window into the landscape of our thoughts. …”
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Alive Scene: Participatory Multimodal AI Framework for Collective Narratives in Dynamic 3D Scene by Cheng, Chi-Li

“…Eventually, users adjust camera angles when the captions are agreeable. Visualizations of this analysis illustrate that these dynamic behavioral changes facilitate the development of collective perception. …”
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From Waste to Structure: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Circular Design by Sørensen, Karl-Johan I.

“…Computational optimization has been implemented to automate the process, but state-of-the-art algorithms still require manually pre-defining a parametric target design-space or take too long to compute when applied to larger problems. This thesis proposes a new method for circular design utilizing Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) to design structures, requiring only a design gesture and the inventory as input. …”
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Fracturing Processes in Specimens with Internal vs. Throughgoing Flaws: An Experimental Study Using 3D Printed Materials by Almubarak, Majed, Germaine, John T., Einstein, Herbert H.

“…The systematic analysis presented in this work sheds light on important considerations that need to be taken into account when conducting fracture research and adds knowledge to the fundamental understanding of how fractures occur in nature.…”
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From Transparency to Accountability and Back by Cen, Sarah, Alur, Rohan

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On the non-microbial sources and sinks of dissolved metabolites in seawater by Germolus, Noah Paul

“…Dissolved marine metabolites are small (<1000 Da) organic chemicals that remain in seawater when passed through a filter (typically <0.2 µm pore size). …”
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Retrieval of refractivity fields from GNSS tropospheric delays: theoretical and data-based evaluation of collocation methods and comparisons with GNSS tomography by Shehaj, Endrit, Geiger, Alain, Rothacher, Markus, Moeller, Gregor

“…Both methods can sense the weather front, but their atmospheric structures appear more similar when the GNSS network has a well-distributed height coverage.…”
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Beam heating explains critical current suppression measured during ion irradiation of REBCO tapes by Devitre, Alexis, Fischer, David, Riva, N., Rae, M., Kortman, Lauryn, Woller, Kevin, Fisher, Zoe, Short, Michael, Whyte, Dennis, Hartwig, Zachary

“…Most importantly, we find that the dose rates expected in a FPP will not change Ic due to ballistic radiation damage or ion-Cooper pair interactions, allowing us to safely ignore these effects when designing FPP magnets.…”
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Classical correspondence beyond the Ehrenfest time for open quantum systems with general Lindbladians by Hernández, Felipe, Ranard, Daniel, Riedel, C. J.

“…We prove a version of this correspondence, bounding the error between the quantum and classical evolutions for any sufficiently regular Hamiltonian H(x, p) and Lindblad functions L k ( x , p ) . The error is small when the strength of the diffusion D associated to the Lindblad functions satisfies D ≫ ħ 4 / 3 , in particular allowing vanishing noise in the classical limit. …”
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Protein Folding, Host Cell Proteostasis, and Viral Evolution by Yoon, Jimin

“…Importantly, in cells, protein folding is assisted by intricate networks of chaperones and quality control factors, termed proteostasis networks. When a substitution on a protein impedes its proper folding, proteostasis network components can triage the defective protein variant to chaperones for folding assistance, or to quality control factors for timely degradation. …”
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Design of a Precision Needle for Injection of Fluid into the Suprachoroidal Space of the Eye for the Treatment of Retinal Detachment by Rutherford, Emma

“…This work presents a device developed to minimally invasively reach posterior segments of the eye, deploy an injection needle in-situ with high resolution, sense when the needle tip has passed into the suprachoroidal space (SCS), and inject a viscous fluid. …”
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