Shortest paths without a map, but with an entropic regularizer by Bubeck, S, Coester, C, Rabani, Y

“…The deterministic competitive ratio for this problem was soon discovered to be exponential in 𝑘, and it is now nearly resolved: it lies between Ω(2 𝑘 ) and 𝑂(𝑘2 𝑘). …”

New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants by Allen, MR, Fuglestvedt, JS, Shine, KP, Reisinger, A, Pierrehumbert, R, Forster, PM

“…If the overall goal of climate policy is to limit peak warming, GWP100 therefore overstates the importance of current SLCP emissions unless stringent and immediate reductions of all climate pollutants result in temperatures nearing their peak soon after mid-century7, 8, 9, 10, which may be necessary to limit warming to “well below 2 °C” (ref. 1). …”

Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 96

“…Oil has defined the modern-day development of the Gulf region in a way seen in no other place in the world; together, the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are home to around a third of known global reserves of oil, and nearly a quarter of its natural gas. Saudi Arabia remains the world’s most important producer of conventional oil, and continues to hold the majority of the world’s spare capacity, while Qatar has become the world’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG). …”

Higher education and public good in England by Marginson, S, Yang, L

“…There were 24 semi-structured interviews, with middle and senior manager-leaders in two universities and policy professionals. Nearly all advocated a broad public good role, in contrast to policy in England, and provided examples of public outcomes in higher education. …”

Search for CP violation in D0 → K0 SK0 S decays in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV by CMS Collaboration

“…The analysis uses a dedicated data set that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 41.6 fb - 1 , which consists of about 10 billion events containing a pair of b hadrons, nearly all of which decay to charm hadrons. The flavor of the neutral D meson is determined by the pion charge in the reconstructed decays D ∗ + → D 0 π + and D ∗ - → D ¯ 0 π - . …”
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Comparative study of composite scarf and strap joints for equivalent repair signature under uniaxial tension by Srinivasan, Dharun Vadugappatty, Padma, S. Ravisankar, Idapalapati, Sridhar

“…Scarf joints are preferred in aerospace composite repairs that offer better strength, flushed surface and nearly uniform shear and peel stress distribution along the bond length. …”
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Femtosecond laser-induced nano-joining of volatile tellurium nanotube memristor by Yu, Yongchao, Joshi, Pooran, Bridges, Denzel, Fieser, David, Hu, Anming

“…Compared to previous metal oxide nanowire-based memristors, the reported Te nanotube memristor system displayed a nearly two-order stronger current response. The research displays that the multileveled resistance state is rewritable with a negative bias.…”
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Gaps In Primary Care And Health System Performance In Six Latin American And Caribbean Countries by Macinko, James, Guanais, Frederico C., Mullachery, Pricila, Jimenez, Geronimo

“…Respondents reported considerable gaps in the ways in which primary care is organized, financed, and delivered. Nearly half reported using the emergency department for a condition they considered treatable in a primary care setting. …”
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Phase evolution and room-temperature photoluminescence in amorphous SiC alloy by Zhou, H. P., Xu, M., Wei, D. Y., Ong, T., Xiao, S. Q., Xu, L. X., Huang, S. Y., Guo, Y. N., Khan, S., Xu, S.

“…Room temperature photoluminescence (PL) with nearly fixed emission energy has been observed in the thin films. …”
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Reduction of bubble cavitation by modifying the diffraction wave from a lithotripter aperture by Zhou, Yufeng

“…There is no difference, however, in both the amplitude and duration of the compressive shockwaves between these two configurations as well as the −6 dB beam width in the focal plane. The significant suppression effect of bubble cavitation was confirmed by the measured bubble collapse time using passive cavitation detection. …”
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Bayesian collective learning emerges from heuristic social learning by Krafft, P.M., Shmueli, Erez, Griffiths, Thomas L., Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Pentland, Alex

“…Here, we show how a Bayesian social sampling model can in principle simultaneously optimally aggregate information and nearly optimally solve the exploration-exploitation dilemma. …”
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Machine learning from quantum chemistry to predict experimental solvent effects on reaction rates by Chung, Yunsie, Green, William H.

“…The presented model can provide nearly instantaneous predictions of kinetic solvent effects or relative rate constants for a broad range of neutral closed-shell or free radical reactions and solvents only based on atom-mapped reaction SMILES and solvent SMILES strings.…”
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Precise Issuance of Meituan Merchants’ Coupons with Machine Learning by Zhang, Xue, Qiu, Jie, Li, Bo

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Modelling and control of HVAC systems by Men, Bunnaroth

“…Nearly 50 percent of Singapore's electricity consumption comes from buildings, both residential and non-residential. …”
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Development and characterization of deep reactive ion etching technology for through silicon interconnection by Nagarajan, Ranganathan

“…It was shown that the leakage current can be reduced by about nearly 3 orders of magnitude when the sidewall roughness is reduced or replaced by a smoother sidewall for the initial few microns of the depth of the via by using a non-Bosch etch process. …”
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Machine learning attack on hardware implementation of one-way function by Lauw, Andri Renardi

“…It reduces the prediction accuracy from 99% to nearly 50%, which is only slightly better than random chance. …”
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AXES at TRECVID 2012: KIS, INS, and MED by Aly, R, Mcguinness, K, Chen, S, O'Conner, NE, Chatfield, K, Parkhi, OM, Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A, Fernando, B, Tuytelaars, T, Oneata, D, Douze, M, Revaud, J, Schwenninger, J, Potapov, D, Wang, H, Harchaoui, Z, Verbeek, J, Schmid, C

“…As in our TRECVid 2011 system, we used nearly identical search systems and user interfaces for both INS and KIS. …”

Phase separation of a microtubule plus-end tracking protein into a fluid fractal network by Czub, MP, Uliana, F, Grubić, T, Padeste, C, Rosowski, KA, Lorenz, C, Dufresne, ER, Menzel, A, Vakonakis, I, Gasser, U, Steinmetz, MO

“…Microtubule plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPs) participate in nearly all microtubule-based cellular processes and have recently been proposed to function as liquid condensates. …”

Wind characteristics of Oman by Sulaiman, M.Yusof, Akaak, Ahmed Mohammed, Abd Wahab, Mahdi, Zakaria, Azmi

“…The sites are located at latitudes from 17°N to 23°N and longitudes from 54°E to 59°E with nearly equal elevation (18 m) from sea level. Data are fitted to the Weibull distribution function. …”
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南洋理工大学在籍华族学生婚姻观 = Chinese undergraduates' views on marriage : a case study of Nanyang Technological University by 吴起慧 Goh, Qi Hui

“…Since 1980s, Singapore has been persistently facing the problems of later marriages and delayed child-bearing. These trends could bring much detriment to the country; particularly to the economy and society. …”
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