Violations of physical and psychological expectations in the human adult brain by Liu, Shari, Lydic, Kirsten, Mei, Lingjie, Saxe, Rebecca

“…As one approach to test this question, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of human adults (total N = 49, 22 female, mean age of 26 years) while they viewed stimuli that were originally designed to test for physical and psychological expectations in infants. …”
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Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory by Hao, Xiangpeng, Zhou, Xinjing, Yu, Xiangyao, Stonebraker, Michael

“…The scaling of per-GB DRAM cost has slowed down in recent years. Recent research has suggested that adding remote memory to a system can further reduce the overall memory cost while maintaining good performance. …”
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Spectral, spatial, and temporal characteristics of underwater ambient noise in the Beaufort Sea in 1994 and 2016 by Chen, R., Poulsen, A., Schmidt, H.

“…Ambient noise from the Beaufort Sea recorded in experiments more than 20 years apart (SIMI94 and ICEX16) are compared to determine differences that may be attributed to the region's rapidly changing environment. …”
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Harnessing Geothermal Energy Potential from High-Level Nuclear Waste Repositories by Sarsenbayev, Dauren, Zheng, Liange, Ermakova, Dinara, Sharipov, Rashid, Wainwright, Haruko M.

“…Our results demonstrate the feasibility of employing the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) to generate approximately 108 kWe per HLW canister 30 years after emplacement and a heat pump system to produce 81 kWth of high-potential heat per canister for HVAC purposes within the same timeframe. …”
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On Enhancing Data Integrity with Low-cost Retention-Refillable Programming Scheme by Chiang, Kun-Chi, Li, Yung-Chun, Wang, Wei-Chen, Shih, Wei-Kuan

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Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web by Roberts, Hal, Bhargava, Rahul, Valiukas, Linas, Jen, Dennis, Malik, Momin M, Bishop, Cindy Sherman, Ndulue, Emily B, Dave, Aashka, Clark, Justin, Etling, Bruce, Faris, Robert, Shah, Anushka, Rubinovitz, Jasmin, Hope, Alexis, D'Ignazio, Catherine, Bermejo, Fernando, Benkler, Yochai, Zuckerman, Ethan

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PCBleed: Fuzzing for CPU Bugs Through Use of Performance Counters by Muradyan, Natalie

“…In recent years, the increasing complexity of hardware designs has given rise to a growing array of vulnerabilities and security threats, as exemplified by instances such as Spectre, Microarchitectural Data Sampling, and Zenbleed. …”
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Design and Development of an Accelerated Material Synthesis Platform for Automated Materials Research by Aissi, Eunice I.

“…Most often, new materials are developed and characterized on the time scale of years which can limit the pace of scientific and industry innovation. …”
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Salt to Scale: The Seasoning of Buildings by Battikha, Christina

“…Yet, with a continuous desire to force materials into designs, humanity has never ceased to disregard the active strength of a material to perform with time. The next twenty years align with a future of salt in the form of a dynamic, preservative, and corrosive mineral that shall never expire from Earth’s crust. …”
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Explaining the spread in measurement of PDMS elastic properties: influence of test method and curing protocol by Varner, Hannah, Cohen, Tal

“…Taking advantage of the increased mechanical scrutiny afforded to SYLGARD 184 in recent years, we combine both published and new experimental data obtained using 9 mechanical test methods. …”
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Modeling Electrochemical and Rheological Characteristics of Suspension-Based Electrodes for Redox Flow Cells by Majji, Madhu V, Neyhouse, Bertrand J, Matteucci, Nicholas J, Lennon, Kyle R, Mallia, Christopher T, Fenton Jr., Alexis M, Swan, James W, Brushett, Fikile R

“…Flowable suspension-based electrodes (FSEs) have gained attention in recent years, as the integration of solid materials into electrochemical flow cells can offer improved performance and flexible operation. …”
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Multidimensional profiling of the Toxoplasma gondii proteome by Herneisen, Alice Lydia

“…Although components of secondary messenger signaling pathways are conserved among apicomplexans and higher eukaryotes, 800 million years of divergence from existing model organisms precludes identification of parasite-specific secondary messenger responses or a priori reconstruction of their signaling pathways. …”
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Figuring the Middle Ground: A Search for Authorship in Perceiving China's COVID-19 Lockdowns by Zhang, San

“…Witnessing and attempting to comprehend China’s controversial response to COVID-19 over the past three years from a geographically distant yet culturally and emotionally intimate standpoint, I have grappled with multiple perspectives, sometimes as an insider, sometimes as an outsider, and most of the time as an impostor to both. …”
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Vehicle Routing Problem Formulation for Efficient Tracking of Objects in Low Earth Orbit by Shtofenmakher, Allan, Balakrishnan, Hamsa

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"My Very Subjective Human Interpretation": Domain Expert Perspectives on Navigating the Text Analysis Loop for Topic Models by Schofield, Alexandra, Wu, Siqi, Bayard de Volo, Theo, Kuze, Tatsuki, Gomez, Alfredo, Sultana, Sharifa

“…Practitioners dealing with large text collections frequently use topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) in their projects to explore trends. Despite twenty years of accrued advancement in natural language processing tools, these models are found to be slow and challenging to apply to text exploration projects. …”
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16.412J / 6.834J Cognitive Robotics, Spring 2004 by Williams, Brian C., Roy, Nicholas

“…Algorithms and paradigms for developing embedded systems that are able to operate autonomously for years at a time within harsh and uncertain environments. …”
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Television food advertising towards children : a content analysis of the Singapore advertising landscape and experimental study on the placement of pro-nutritional advertisements by Lim, Glenn Yin De., Lin, Jieying., Tang, Shuxia., Chen, Wendy Jin Jing.

“…In Study Two, an experiment was conducted on 364 children aged 10-13 years old to investigate the effects of message order and time delay on a combination of PNA and F&B ads in influencing children’s food consumption intention. …”
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Effects of scaling and cleaning on the performance of forward osmosis hollow fiber membranes by Arkhangelsky, Elizabeth, Wicaksana, Filicia, Chou, Shuren, Al-Rabiah, Abdulrahman A., Al-Zahrani, Saeed M., Wang, Rong

“…Forward osmosis (FO) process as an alternative to conventional desalination techniques has attracted much attention in recent years. Since mineral salt scaling is one of the major limitations for seawater desalination, the current study focused on the behaviors of thin film composite (TFC) FO hollow fibers, which were fabricated in our laboratory, under the circumstance of calcium sulfate (CaSO4) scaling with sodium chloride as draw solution. …”
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Developing classification indices for Chinese pulse diagnosis by Shu, Jian Jun, Sun, Yuguang

“…The qualitative theory of the Chinese pulse diagnosis is based on the experience of Chinese physicians for thousands of years. However, there are no quantitative theories to relate these different wrist-pulse waveforms to the health conditions of patients. …”
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Attempting developmental regionalism through AFTA : the domestic politics - domestic capital nexus by Helen E. S. Nesadurai

“…Althought AFTA is acknowledged as a project of open regionalism aimed at attracting FDI to Southeast Asian region, its member surprisingly chose to accord foreign investors full market access and national treatment privileges at least ten years later than to ASEAN national investors in AFTA's investment liberalisation component programme. …”
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