Material Recovery Potential from Solar Photovoltaics: Predictive Modeling and Characterization to Advance the Circular Economy by Bakker, Nicole

“…In the next two decades, an exponentially growing quantity of waste will be generated as solar panels reach their end-of-life. Meanwhile, demand for new solar capacity will increase the value of key raw materials, underscoring the importance of recycling and movement toward a “circular economy”. …”
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Knowledge and the City: Redefining Islamic Urbanism, 762–1067 by Lesoon, Courtney

“…This study demonstrates that the rapid urbanization of the Islamic world in its first five centuries can be attributed in part to the development of an independent class of city administrators who ensured that urban life thrived even in the most tumultuous of political times. …”
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Centering Indigenous Voices and Resisting Colonialism In Space Exploration: An Overview Of The Ongoing Webinar Series By Space Enabled by Tavares, Frank, Harvey, Alvin Donel, Lombardo, Seamus, Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro, Newman, Dava, Wood, Danielle

“…Centering these issues highlights both near-term policy questions around lunar exploration as well as longer term questions about how to envision interactions with potential extraterrestrial life and sustained human communities on other worlds. …”
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The Matter of the Hold: Housing futures and the paradigm of the ship by Donovan, Inge, Pankhurst, David

“…In time, structures across the continent boasted chimneys or foundations that had begun their life in the distant granite quarries of Cornwall, and from bricks that had rounded Cape Horn - their material transience obscured by a perceived stability of form. …”
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Thermodynamics of multi-sublattice battery active materials: from an extended regular solution theory to a phase-field model of LiMnyFe1-yPO4 by Ombrini, Pierfrancesco, Bazant, Martin Z, Wagemaker, Marnix, Vasileiadis, Alexandros

“…Phase separation during the lithiation of redox-active materials is a critical factor affecting battery performance, including energy density, charging rates, and cycle life. Accurate physical descriptions of these materials are necessary for understanding underlying lithiation mechanisms, performance limitations, and optimizing energy storage devices. …”
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Tango 2: Aligning Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Generations through Direct Preference Optimization by Majumder, Navonil, Hung, Chia-Yu, Ghosal, Deepanway, Hsu, Wei-Ning, Mihalcea, Rada, Poria, Soujanya

“…Generative multimodal content is increasingly prevalent in much of the content creation arena, as it has the potential to allow artists and media personnel to create pre-production mockups by quickly bringing their ideas to life. The generation of audio from text prompts is an important aspect of such processes in the music and film industry. …”
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From My Vantage Point: Exploring The Effect of First-Person and Third-Person Perspectives on Social Acceptance in VR Roleplaying Games by Yildirim, Caglar, Sengun, Sercan, Kucuk, Eyup, Akhoroz, Mehmet, Harrell, D. Fox

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Sitetack: a deep learning model that improves PTM prediction by using known PTMs by Gutierrez, Clair S, Kassim, Alia A, Gutierrez, Benjamin D, Raines, Ronald T

“…Motivation Post-translational modifications (PTMs) increase the diversity of the proteome and are vital to organismal life and therapeutic strategies. Deep learning has been used to predict PTM locations. …”
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House, home, and community : good models for graduate student housing by Han, Jienan, 1978-

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Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines by Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella

“…My findings demonstrate that Darnton’s claim that the external forces influencing the life cycle of the book comprise a single entity is flawed. …”
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Novel hole transporting materials based on triptycene core for high efficiency mesoscopic perovskite solar cells by Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Sabba, Dharani, Li, Hairong, Yin, Jun, Boix, Pablo P., Krishna, Anurag, Soci, Cesare, Grimsdale, Andrew C.

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Model-based health monitoring for a vehicle steering system with multiple faults of unknown types by Yu, Ming, Wang, Danwei

“…Based on the identified degradation behavior of incipient faults, prognosis is carried out to predict the remaining useful life of faulty components. The proposed algorithm is verified experimentally on the steering system of a CyCab electric vehicle.…”
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Machine health monitoring using local feature-based gated recurrent unit networks by Zhao, Rui, Wang, Dongzhe, Yan, Ruqiang, Mao, Kezhi, Shen, Fei, Wang, Jinjiang

“…In the era of big machinery data, data-driven MHMS have achieved remarkable results in the detection of faults after the occurrence of certain failures (diagnosis) and prediction of the future working conditions and the remaining useful life (prognosis). The numerical representation for raw sensory data is the key stone for various successful MHMS. …”
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Analysis of YouTube thumbnails : a deep neural decision forest implementation by Shankkar Magandran

“…Driven by people’s interest in creating and sharing information, this phenomenon has propelled social media platforms such as YouTube as a dominant force impacting everyday life. The explosion of content on YouTube in recent decades has spurred growing competition amongst content creators, jostling for the attention from users. …”
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Mechanically robust hydrophobic bio-based epoxy coatings for anti-corrosion application by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…Corrosion of aluminum and its alloys causes serious problems to our daily life. As a common method for corrosion protection, epoxy resin has been widely used as the coating material due to its easy processability and excellent properties. …”
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Spatial and temporal localization of cell wall associated pili in Enterococcus Faecalis by Choo, Pei Yi

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Fatigue investigations on steel pipeline containing 3D coplanar and non-coplanar cracks by Xiao, Zhongmin, Zhang, Wengang, Zhang, Yanmei, Fan, Mu

“…In spite of the availability of efficient techniques and high-power computers for solving crack problems, investigations on the fatigue life of offshore pipelines with 3D interacting cracks are still rarely found in open literature. …”
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Transfer learning application on snake classification by Tananda, Hans

“…This level of accuracy is comparable to that of human observers, and as such it is reasonable to say that this model is now ready for real-life usage. A simple mobile application is then developed to access the model for classifying snake images, thus possibly saving many lives in the process. …”
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Thermal and mechanical assessments of the 3D-printed conformal cooling channels : computational analysis and multi-objective optimization by Shen, Suping, Kanbur, Baris Burak, Zhou, Yi, Duan, Fei

“…The cooling and fatigue life performances of the elongated channel are analyzed for different channel pathways and cross section areas. …”
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Telacebec (Q203)-containing intermittent oral regimens sterilized mice infected with Mycobacterium ulcerans after only 16 doses by Chauffour, Aurélie, Robert, Jérôme, Veziris, Nicolas, Aubry, Alexandra, Pethe, Kevin, Jarlier, Vincent

“…Telacebec given twice a week in combination with a long-half-life compound, either rifapentine or bedaquiline, sterilized mouse footpads in 8 weeks, i.e. after a total of only 16 doses, and prevented relapse during a period of 20 weeks after the end of treatment. …”
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