Linear-size formulations for connected planar graph partitioning and political districting by Zhang, Jack, Validi, Hamidreza, Buchanan, Austin, Hicks, Illya V.

“…Nevertheless, we share our findings in hopes that others may find better ways to impose them.…”
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Water molecules mute the dependence of the double-layer potential profile on ionic strength by Limaye, Aditya, Suvlu, Dylan, Willard, Adam P.

“…We analyze these simulations by computing the electrostatic potential profile of the electric double-layer region and find it to be nearly independent of ionic concentration, in stark contrast to the predictions of standard continuum-based theories. …”
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A novel bearingless interior permanent magnet slice motor for pump* by Kant, Krishan, Weinreb, Benjamin S., Hegy, Michael, Gartner, Mark, Trumper, David L.

“…Since the cogging torque is a result of the motor geometry, finite element (FE) simulation is used to simulate various rotor geometries to find the desired rotor configuration. FE simulations are also used to obtain other parameters like force and torque constant, and magnetic stiffness for designing control. …”
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Triadic resonant instability in confined and unconfined axisymmetric geometries by Boury, S., Maurer, P., Joubaud, S., Peacock, T., Odier, P.

“…We are interested in two conceptual questions: can we find resonance conditions for a triad of Kelvin modes? …”
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Can Neighborhood Planning in Shrinking Cities Achieve Demolition Goals? A Conformance and Performance Evaluation of Neighborhood Action Plans in Youngstown, Ohio by Gao, Shuqi, Ryan, Brent D.

“…We conduct interviews with informants to understand causality. We find that NAPs are better implemented from performance than from conformance perspectives, but that nongovernmental organization (Land Bank) demolitions conformed more closely than local government. …”
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Decommunization by Design: Analyzing the Post-Independence Transformation of Soviet-Era Architectural Urbanism in Kyiv, Ukraine by Vlasenko, Yegor, Ryan, Brent D.

“…We focus on four ideological narratives and examine the outcomes of decommunization on four monuments. We find that decommunization’s effect is limited; Communist symbolism has been annotated with Ukrainian identity symbols or neglected, not demolished. …”
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Investigation of Electrochemical Gas Generation in Ion Electrospray Thrusters by Shaik, Saba Z., Lozano, Paulo C.

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Can Mobility of Care be Identified from Transit Fare Card Data? A Case Study in Washington D.C. by Shuman, Daniela, Abdelhalim, Awad, Stewart, Anson F, Campbell, Kayleigh B, Patel, Mira, Sanchez de Madariaga, Ines, Zhao, Jinhua

“…While the majority of studies have relied on survey and qualitative data to assess “mobility of care”, we propose a novel data-driven workflow utilizing transit fare card transactions, name-based gender inference, and geospatial analysis to identify mobility of care trip making. We find that the share of women travelers trip-chaining in the direct vicinity of mobility of care places of interest is 10% - 15% higher than men.…”
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Hispanic Engineer’s Involvement in Corporate Diversity Networks by Chambe, Enoch

“…These groups provide a platform for employees from underrepresented or marginalized communities to connect, share experiences, and find support. ERGs geared towards Hispanic employees are often advertised as not only a means to connect with others and provide a sense of belonging but are also often promoted as avenues towards successful professional development and growth for underrepresented employees. …”
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Uncertainty-Inclusive Contrastive Learning for Leveraging Synthetic Images by Cai, Fiona X.

“…Across three different finegrained classification datasets, we find that the learned representation space generated by the UniCon loss function leads to significantly improved downstream classification performance in comparison to supervised contrastive learning baselines.…”
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Learning from Decommunization: What Eastern Europe Can Teach Us about Slavery-Related Urban Fallism in the United Kingdom and United States by Vlasenko, Yegor, Ryan, Brent D.

“…We focus on four ideological narratives and examine the outcomes of decommunization on four monuments. We find that decommunization’s effect is limited; Communist symbolism has been annotated with Ukrainian identity symbols or neglected, not demolished. …”
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Optimization under ecological realism reproduces signatures of human speech perception by Magaro, Annika K.

“…In this paper, we address this question by comprehensively testing a neural network model trained in ecological conditions across a large set of speech manipulations, comparing its behavior to that of humans. We find that training in ecological conditions yields a fairly good overall match to human behavior, with some discrepancies that can be largely resolved by training specifically on these conditions. …”
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The price elasticity of natural gas demand of small consumers in Germany during the energy crisis 2022 by Jamissen, David, Vatne, Johanne, Holz, Franziska, Neumann, Anne

“…Using granular data between 2018 and 2023, we estimate an Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) time series cointegrating model. We find a price elasticity of demand for natural gas of -0.01 for wholesale prices and -0.04 for retail prices. …”
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Double trouble: Predicting new variant counts across two heterogeneous populations by Shen, Yunyi

“…So it would be useful for experimental design if experimenters with access to a pilot study could predict the number of new variants they might expect to find in a follow-up study: both the number of new variants shared between the populations and the total across the populations. …”
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A Mechanistic Model of the Actin Cycle by Bindschadler, M., Osborn, E. A., Dewey, C. F. Jr, McGrath, J. L.

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Antenna beamforming for infrastructureless wireless networks by Godoy, Elizabeth C

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Three-dimensional structure of human β-defensin 28 via homology modelling and molecular dynamics by Kwak, Sang Kyu, Chen, Wenwen, Tay, Derrick Kok Sing, Leong, Susanna Su Jan

“…With known high-resolution structures of HBD-2 and -3, single- and multiple-template sequence alignments are applied to find highly probable candidates for HBD-28, which are in turn refined through MD simulations in pure water and 50% trifluoroethanol/water mixture. …”
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Concurrent phosphorus doping and reduction of graphene oxide by Poh, Hwee Ling, Sofer, Zdeněk, Nováček, Michal, Pumera, Martin

“…Such a graphene material is expected to find useful applications in electronic, energy storage, and sensing devices.…”
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Development of clean up protocol for sensitive DNA colorimetric assays by Kwek, Tian Chen

“…An analytical Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA) colorimetric assay was done to find out how the detection limit are impinged in the presence of Bovine Serum albumin (BSA) in solution. …”
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Venous valve stent analysis by Chia, Mark Wen Hao

“…The issues of conducting the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and the findings concluded from the various designs when subjected to the static structural analysis. …”
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