De novo genome sequence assembly of the RNAi-tractable endosymbiosis model system Paramecium bursaria 186b reveals factors shaping intron repertoire by Leonard, G, Jenkins, BH, Savory, FR, Kilias, ES, Maguire, F, Varma, V, Milner, DS, Richards, TA

“…To explore intron evolutionary dynamics further we show that alternative splicing leading to intron retention occurs at a higher frequency among the smaller number of longer introns, identifying a source of selection against longer introns. …”

Birth and growth of cavitation bubbles within water under tension confined in a simple synthetic tree by Quinto-Su, Pedro A., Vincent, Olivier, Marmottant, Philippe, Ohl, Claus-Dieter

“…Then, a diffusion driven expansion leads to filling of the cavity. Analysis reveals that the nucleation of a bubble releases a tension of several tens of MPa, and a simple model captures the different time scales of the expansion process.…”
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A well-conditioned collocation method using a pseudospectral integration matrix by Wang, Li-Lian, Samson, Michael Daniel, Zhao, Xiaodan

“…Moreover, the new basis leads to an exact inverse of the pseudospectral differentiation matrix of the highest derivative (at interior collocation points), which is therefore called the pseudospectral integration matrix (PSIM). …”
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Phonon transport in nanowire with contacts : size and doping by Li, Jing, Au Yeung, Tin Cheung, Kam, Chan Hin

“…With the size decreasing, the significant reduction in the number of phonon modes leads to a smaller thermal conductance density. The dopant (Ge) atoms are used to substitute the atom in the wire to study the doping effect. …”
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Thickness-dependent evolutions of domain configuration and size in ferroelectric and ferroelectric-ferroelastic films by Huang, C. W., Chen, Z. H., Chen, Lang

“…As the film thickness decreases, the stable domain pattern also changes from a ferroelectric-ferroelastic domain to a ferroelectric one, which leads to the divergence of domain size scaling.…”
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A low-power IoT platform based smart plug for smart home system by Yang, Huan

“…Presently, there are three most popular wireless communication technologies including Bluetooth, ZigBee, and Wi-Fi which are adopted in the intelligent home system. …”
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Mechanism of traffic jams at speed bottlenecks by Quek, Wei Liang, Chew, Lock Yue

“…As suggested by Sugiyama[1], when car density exceeds a critical density, the fluctuations in the speed of each car will lead to greater fluctuations in speed of the cars behind it. …”
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Skeleton body pose tracking from efficient three-dimensional motion estimation and volumetric reconstruction by Zheng, Zhang, Seah, Hock Soon

“…Our method utilizes a voxel subject-specific body model, exploits multiple 3D image cues, and incorporates physical constraints into a stochastic particle-based search initialized from the deterministic prediction and stochastic sampling. It leads to a robust 3D pose tracker. Experiments on publicly available sequences show the robustness and accuracy of our approach.…”
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A variational master equation approach to quantum dynamics with off-diagonal coupling in a sub-Ohmic environment by Sun, Ke-Wei, Fujihashi, Yuta, Ishizaki, Akihito, Zhao, Yang

“…The off-diagonal coupling leads asymptotically to a thermal equilibrium with a nonzero population difference Pz(t → ∞) ≠ 0, which implies localization of the system, and it also plays a role in restraining coherent dynamics for the sub-Ohmic case. …”
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Nodal Brillouin-zone boundary from folding a Chern insulator by Lang, Li-Jun, Zhang, Shao-Liang, Zhou, Qi

“…Moreover, the interplay between nonsymmorphic symmetries and the broken time-reversal symmetry leads to intriguing properties absent in ordinary Chern insulators. …”
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Spin injection properties in trilayer graphene lateral spin valves by Liu, Y. P., Idzuchi, H., Fukuma, Y., Rousseau, O., Otani, Y., Lew, Wen Siang

“…Non-local spin valve signal is clearly observed in the LSV, indicating that spin coherence extends underneath all ferromagnetic contacts.We also show that low-resistivity graphene/MgO/Py junctions enable efficient spin injection and detection in LSV with high applied current density, which leads to large spin accumulation of 120 μV at room temperature. …”
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Predicting child alimony under Islamic shariah law using hybrid fuzzy inference system by Rosili, Nur Aqilah Khadijah, Hassan, Rohayanti, Zakaria, Noor Hidayah, Farid Zamani, Che Rose, Kasim, Shahreen, Sutikno, Tole

“…Machine learning algorithms have become valuable tools for legal decision-making, but judicial process delays can lead to adverse effects. Our model aims to expedite decision-making and minimize legal fees by accurately determining the proper amount of alimony for children after divorce. …”
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Self-employment for autonomous robots using smart contracts by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Berman, Ivan, Kapitonov, Aleksandr, Manaenko, Vadim, Chernyaev, Makar, Tarasov, Pavel, Wilson, Bryan, Greenwood, Dazza, Walters, Ed

“…Using the blockchain-based smart contract, the robot then uses its income from sales to autonomously order more materials from an online shop, pay for its consumables such as network fees, and remunerate human assistance for support tasks. …”
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Presence of host-seeking Ixodes ricinus and their infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the Northern Apennines, Italy by Ragagli, C, Mannelli, A, Ambrogi, C, Bisanzio, D, Ceballos, LA, Grego, E, Martello, E, Selmi, M, Tomassone, L

Building agents for power trading agent competition (TAC) by Nguyen Le Hoang

“…We price our tariffs at cost and encourages other brokers to price their tariffs lower, we then deliberately give away customers, earning early contract cancellation fees and only maintain a strict profitable market share. …”
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Interactive image segmentation by Tsoi, Lok Yin

“…The segmentation uses the constrained random walks algorithm, where foreground and background seeds are defined accordingly. The process is then tested using different types of images as well as different test cases to gauge the limitations of the applications.…”
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Unstoppable Wallets: Chain-assisted Threshold ECDSA and its Applications by Zyskind, Guy, Yanai, Avishay, Pentland, Alex

“…Using that deployment, we showcase the protocols' applicability for two interesting applications, policy checking and wallet exchange, as well as their efficiency by demonstrating low gas costs and fees.…”
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Convergence rate of overlapping domain decomposition methods for the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi model based on a dual formulation by Chang, Huibin, Tai, Xue-Cheng, Wang, Li-Lian, Yang, Danping

“…We introduce a stable “unity decomposition” using a set of “partition of unity functions,” which naturally leads to overlapping DDMs based on the dual formulation. …”
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A fuzzy residual strength based fatigue life prediction method by Zhang, Yi

“…To arrive at more robust results, fuzzy sets are introduced to model the parameter uncertainties. This leads to a convoluted fuzzy based fatigue life prediction model. …”
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A D-band SPST switch using parallel-stripline swap with defected ground structure by Luo, Jiang, He, Jin, Apriyana, Alit, Feng, Guangyin, Huang, Qijun

“…Compared to the conventional transmission line (TL) with high insertion loss at high frequency, the equivalent capacitance introduced by the coupler gap leads to series resonance condition which results in lower insertion loss at the higher frequency. …”
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