Performance Guarantees for Spectral Initialization in Rotation Averaging and Pose-Graph SLAM by Doherty, Kevin J., Rosen, David M., Leonard, John J.

“…Our results reveal the critical role that spectral graph-theoretic properties of the measurement network play in controlling estimation accuracy; moreover, as a by-product of our analysis we obtain new bounds on the estimation error for the maximum likelihood estimators in SLAM and RA, which are likely to be of independent interest. Finally, we show experimentally that our spectral estimator is very effective in practice, producing initializations of comparable or superior quality at lower computational cost compared to existing state-of-the-art techniques.…”
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Preference-Conditioned Language-Guided Abstraction by Peng, Andi, Bobu, Andreea, Li, Belinda Z., Sumers, Theodore R., Sucholutsky, Ilia, Kumar, Nishanth, Griffiths, Thomas L., Shah, Julie A.

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Development of a perfusable, hierarchical microvasculature-on-a-chip model by Chen, Sophia W., Blazeski, Adriana, Zhang, Shun, Shelton, Sarah E., Offeddu, Giovanni S., Kamm, Roger D.

“…The addition of collagen channels reduces the apparent permeability of the central capillary region, likely by reducing leakage from the side channels, enabling more accurate measurements of vascular permeability—an important motivation for this study. …”
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Automating Design Requirement Extraction From Text With Deep Learning by Akay, Haluk, Yang, Maria, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…The prospect of deploying such a system on the sum of all digital engineering documents suggests a future where design failures are less likely to be repeated and past successes may be consistently used to forward innovation.…”
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Instrumental Effects in 21 cm Cosmology: One-point Statistics and Power Spectrum with the HERA Interferometer by Kim, Honggeun

“…In addition, I evaluate EoR models against observational data, suggesting the second moment measurements likely reject the cold reionization model characterized by inefficient X-ray heating. …”
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Know Thy Cell-Free DNA: Early Detection of Microsatellite Instability Using Ultra-Low-Pass Cell-Free DNA Sequences by Lu, Nicole

“…Thus, if cancerous cells exist within the body, its representation in a given cfDNA sample is likely low. Together, these challenges present a obvious trade-off between signal strength and cost/invasiveness for screening and detection of MSI. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Potential Chinese policy responses, such as cannibalizing its civilian sector or substituting with older chips, would likely fail for technical reasons.…”
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Equilibria, Efficiency, and Inequality in Network Formation for Hiring and Opportunity by Dwork, Cynthia, Hays, Chris, Kleinberg, Jon, Raghavan, Manish

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Understanding campus mobility by Toh, Christopher Gerard Wei Hong

“…This indicates that s_students are more likely to form cliques and groups amongst themselves and suggests the possibility that the sports activity provides a strong platform for friendship bonds to be formed. …”
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Predictive maintenance using machine learning by Amal Roy Lerroy Ashwin

“…PdM enables users to know in advance when a machine is likely to break down so that the required maintenance can be scheduled. …”
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Study on the impact of connected automated vehicle position on mixed traffic flow stability by Tan, Kenneth Chiao Wee

“…Likewise, when platooning CAVs are furthest away from the leading HDV and when all vehicles are platooning CAVs, traffic flow stability is likely to be in smooth condition.…”
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Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) can be suppressed under ammonia-stressed condition - reevaluate the role of conductive materials by Yan, Wangwang, Mukherjee, Manisha, Zhou, Yan

“…It is revealed that ZVI effectively promoted all AD reactions, especially the energy unfavorable propanoate and butanoate metabolism and overall methanogenesis. In addition, ZVI likely acted as intracellular electron shuttles, and the conjunction point of ZVI to electron transfer system was identified as EtfAB: quinone oxidoreductase. …”
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The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

“…The implications of rebalancing for the Asia-Pacific are likely to be multifaceted, spanning the diplomatic, economic, political, and security realms. …”
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Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Up to date, no studies have been done to examine the viability of probiotics in popular, well-liked, commercialized carbonated sodas/beers, but it is known that certain components in these matrices (e.g. phosphoric acid in soda, hops and ethanol in beers) can reduce the viability of probiotics. …”
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Lessons in ecology and conservation from a tropical forest fragment in Singapore by Lum, Shawn, Ngo, Kang Min

“…The extirpation of large fauna did not appear to reduce the dispersal of large seeded plant species, likely due to continued dispersal by small-mammals and birds. …”
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Intelligence failure in U.S. counterterrorism by King, Brian Allen

“…This is significant because it supports the conclusion that more can be done in the analytical and information sharing domains to prevent al-Qaeda and insider threat attacks, while supporting the idea that state-sponsored attacks will be less likely to have data available to connect prior to an attack due to the higher degree of professionalism and advanced operational security resources available to government intelligence services supporting the attack planning.…”
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Site leaching model and climate change impacts of an expanding coastal dumpsite by Wang, Yijie

“…The results show that the historical cumulative release of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC), Cu, and Cr exhibits an increasing trend, which is likely to continue in the future. Simulations indicate that from 2022 to 2050 and 2100, the cumulative release of contaminants could increase by up to 100% and 200%, respectively. …”
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Small scale 3D jet scour by Nuramirah Suyin Zaihan

“…It was also suggested that laboratory-based scour predictive models will most likely over-predict the prototype scour depth. Thus, indicating the likelihood of scale effect between idealized laboratory experiments to that for field conditions.…”
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A comparison study of the impact of ZnO nanoparticles and ZnSO4 in wastewater treatment processes by Huang, Xi Tong

“…Although the Zinc (ZnO and ZnSO4) concentration found in the sludge was relatively low for both, the removal efficiency of Zinc from wastewater was in the range of 80% to more than 90% which suggested that removal of nanoparticle through biosorption might still be valid to some extent while a large part of Zinc might likely to be deposited on the wall of bioreactor as observed in this research study. …”
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Two essays on the origins of academic collaborative networks by Huang, Ziying

“…A possible reason for this unexpected finding is that less productive scholars in prestigious institution are likely to have greater pressure to publish, due to the more competitive peer environment and higher performance standards at more prestigious institutions. …”
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