Effect of surface albedo of urban fabrics on urban climate in tropical area by Long, Yongping

“…The resulting urban heat island (UHI) effect can be harmful to urban residents. In tropical regions like Singapore, the direct influence would be heat stress in the outdoor environment and higher energy consumption by air-conditioning. …”
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Pre-failure strain localization in siliclastic rocks: a comparative study of laboratory and numerical approaches by Bianchi, Patrick, Selvadurai, Paul Antony, Zilio, Dal Luca, Vásquez, Antonio Salazar, Madonna, Claudio, Gerya, Taras, Wiemer, Stefan

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Interaction-mediating sequences within class I viral fusion glycoproteins : their roles in viral infection and in applications by Zhang, Simin

“…These putative self-binding peptides contain five core octapeptide consensus sequences, among which the octapeptide GINITNFR was predicted to form β-zipper-mediated amyloid-like fibrils. The peptide C6 containing this sequence was subsequently shown to oligomerize and form amyloid-like fibrils. …”
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Discrete geodesic graphs by Fang, Zheng

“…As discrete surfaces are not able to generalize like parametric surfaces, computing the distance metric requires complex models and provides with huge possibilities to algorithm design. …”
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Particle self-assembly in sessile droplet on patterned substrate by Lim, Si Xian

“…This indicates that the particle is the pinning force that prevents contact line withdrawal. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…It is found that the wave transmission decreases as barriers shift from plate-like to membrane-like and its material has higher viscosity. …”
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Language dynamics in the agricultural sector: Determining language use and choices in a Malaysian organization by Sareen Kaur Bhar, A/P Lakhbir Singh, Zuraina, Ali, Norshima, Zainal Shah

“…These findings provide insights into language use in agricultural companies in multilingual countries like Malaysia, emphasizing the need for continuous language training to bridge proficiency gaps.…”
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Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility by Loaiza Saa, Isabella, Novak, Matej, Morales, Alfredo J., Pentland, Alex

“…A recent example is the Venezuelan migration crisis across South America, which particularly affects neighboring countries like Colombia. Creating an effective response to the crisis is a challenge for governments and international agencies, given the lack of information about migrants’ location, flows and behaviors within and across host countries. …”
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Development of Educational Marine Soft Robotics STEM Platform as New Iteration of SeaPerch K-12 National Outreach Program by Garcia-Langley, Ansel, Alvarez, Isabel, Chen, Audrey, Li, Alex, Wang, Haoyu, Brancazio, Diane, Gutierrez, Valeria, Bennett, Andrew, Triantafyllou, Michael

“…In the past thirty years, educational programs like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Office of Naval Research’s SeaPerch have been effective at introducing students to robotics, science and engineering concepts through low-cost, hands-on curricula [1], [2]. …”
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PANDALens: Towards AI-Assisted In-Context Writing on OHMD During Travels by Cai, Runze, Janaka, Nuwan, Chen, Yang, Wang, Lucia, Zhao, Shengdong, Liu, Can

“…While effective for recording and sharing experiences, traditional in-context writing tools are relatively passive and unintelligent, serving more like instruments rather than companions. This reduces primary task (e.g., travel) enjoyment and hinders high-quality writing. …”
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Generative models for simulation of KamLAND-Zen by Fu, Zhenghao, Grant, Christopher, Krawiec, Dominika M., Li, Aobo, Winslow, Lindley A.

“…This work describes the performance of generative models that we designed for monolithic liquid scintillator detectors like KamLAND to produce accurate simulation data without a predefined physics model. …”
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Advancing Content Synthesis in Macro-Task Crowdsourcing Facilitation Leveraging Natural Language Processing by Gimpel, Henner, Laubacher, Robert, Meindl, Oliver, Wöhl, Moritz, Dombetzki, Luca

“…Macro-task crowdsourcing presents a promising approach to address wicked problems like climate change by leveraging the collective efforts of a diverse crowd. …”
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On the Complexity of Neural Computation in Superposition by Adler, Micah, Shavit, Nir

“…Conversely, we show a nearly tight upper bound: logical operations like pair- wise AND can be computed using O(√(m′) log m′) neurons and O(m′ log^2 m′) parameters. …”
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SPECTER: efficient evaluation of the spectral EMD by Gambhir, Rikab, Larkoski, Andrew J., Thaler, Jesse

“…In this work, we obtain a closed-form expression for the Riemannian-like p = 2 SEMD metric between events, eliminating the need to numerically solve an optimal transport problem. …”
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Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 : serial murder and narrative necrosis by Scott, Bede

“…More specifically, I would like to suggest that such repetition serves to undermine the narrativity of the novel and, in so doing, emphasizes the collective, systemic, and interminable nature of these appalling crimes.…”
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Synthesis and extended activity of triazole-containing macrocyclic protease inhibitors by Pehere, Ashok D., Pietsch, Markus, Gütschow, Michael, Neilsen, Paul M., Pedersen, Daniel Sejer, Nguyen, Steven, Zvarec, Ondrej, Sykes, Matthew J., Callen, David F., Abell, Andrew D.

“…The macrocyclic peptidomimetics showed considerable activity towards calpain II, cathepsin L and S, and the 20S proteasome chymotrypsin-like activity. Some of the first examples of highly potent macrocyclic inhibitors of cathepsin S were identified. …”
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Band-gap tuning of lead halide perovskites using a sequential deposition process by Kulkarni, Sneha A., Baikie, Tom, Boix, Pablo P., Yantara, Natalia, Mathews, Nripan, Mhaisalkar, Subodh

“…A systematic shift of the absorption band edge to shorter wavelengths is observed with increasing Br content in the perovskite films, which results in the decrement of the photocurrent. Nanorod like morphological features are also observed for perovskite films with an iodide to bromide molar ratio of <0.7.…”
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Automated vulnerability detection system based on commit messages by Wan, Liuyang

“…In this thesis, we first conducted a large-scale crawling of Git commits for some popular open source repositories like Linux. Second, because there is no prior dataset for security-relevant Git commits, we developed a web-based triage system for security researchers to perform manual labelling of the commits. …”
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Personality predicts words in favorite songs by Qiu, Lin, Chen, Jiayu, Ramsay, Jonathan, Lu, Jiahui

“…These associations were stronger for participants who generally liked a song because of its lyrics rather than melody. …”
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Designing infrared travelling-wave antennas for environmental sensing by Priyadarshni Manivannan

“…Theyare of different sizesandvary fromvery large structures like satellite dishes tovery smallsuchas micro-or nano-antennas that can fit in devices such as our mobile phones. …”
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