From Waste to Structure: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Circular Design by Sørensen, Karl-Johan I.

“…To evaluate the effectiveness of the RL method, it is applied to the specific problem of inventory-constrained design of planar roof trusses and demonstrated in a realistic example of assembling a long-span roof from a disassembled transmission tower.…”
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Forces on oscillating uniform and tapered cylinders in a crossflow by Hover, F. S., Techet, A. H., Triantafyllou, M.S.

“…Forces are measured at both ends of rigid cylinders with span 60 cm, performing transverse oscillations within an oncoming stream of water, at Reynolds number Re ~3800. …”
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EN-79AB surface disinfection by UV & effect of repetitive organisms exposure on self disinfecting chemicals by Enkisra, Irfan

“…Therefore, this study has concluded that the shorter distance, longer time span and which UVC lamp can help the minimize the spread of the bacteria without damage the plastic packaging.…”
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Tunable quantum cascade lasers for midinfrared spectroscopic sensing by Li, Jinghao

“…Many gases of interest exhibit strong absorptions within the Mid-infrared (Mid-IR) region, spanning from 2.5 to 25 µm. To enable high-sensitivity spectroscopy, a robust coherent source in this range is required. …”
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Essays on oil price fluctuations, financial markets and international trade by Le, Thai Ha

“…The long-run causality running from oil price to overall, oil and non-oil trade balances and their short-run dynamics are investigated by applying the Toda-Yamamoto’s 1995 (TY) causality approach and generalized impulse response functions (IRFs), respectively to the monthly data spanning from January 1999 to November 2011. Three Asian economies that represent three distinct characteristics in terms of oil are chosen and examined: Malaysia as an oil exporter, Singapore as an oil refinery and Japan as an oil importer. …”
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Heat transfer of 3D-printed porous structure used in cold plate by Tew, Hong Boon

“…The experimental investigation was carried out using the setup that was built during the span of the project. The reliability of the setup was validated by comparing the experimental results of the bare tube cold plate against numerical simulation performed using “COMSOL Multiphysics” software. …”
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Triggered slip along the San Andreas fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake by Williams, Patrick L., McGill, Sally Fagerson, Sieh, Kerry, Allen, Clarence R., Louie, John N.

“…On Durmid Hill, surface cracks in 1986 were localized along a 200-m-long stretch of the fault spanning the Mecca Beach creepmeter and extending about 150 m to the southeast. …”
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Holocene rate of slip and tentative recurrence interval for large earthquakes on the San Andreas fault, Cajon Pass, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, Weldon, Ray J.

“…The similarity of the four values, which span different intervals of time from 5,900 to 14,400 yr ago, suggests that the slip rate has been constant during this period. …”
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Laplacian embedded regression for scalable manifold regularization by Chen, Lin, Tsang, Ivor Wai-Hung, Xu, Dong

“…Inspired by kernel principal component analysis, we further propose to project the introduced decision variable into a subspace spanned by a few eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian matrix in order to better reflect the data manifold, as well as accelerate the calculation of the graph kernel, allowing our methods to efficiently and effectively cope with large scale SSL problems. …”
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Social bonding among children in joint physically active play by Jefferies, M

“…The thesis contributes to filling in gaps within the literature on play, social bonding, and physical activity, spanning evolutionary anthropology, developmental psychology, and health, and highlights the need for more controlled experimental studies among diverse populations.…”

SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection by Kemp, SA, Collier, DA, Datir, RP, Ferreira, IATM, Gayed, S, Jahun, A, Hosmillo, M, Rees-Spear, C, Mlcochova, P, Lumb, IU, Roberts, DJ, Chandra, A, Temperton, N, Sharrocks, K, Blane, E, Modis, Y, Leigh, KE, Briggs, JAG, van Gils, MJ, Smith, KGC, Bradley, JR, Smith, C, Doffinger, R, Ceron-Gutierrez, L, Barcenas-Morales, G, Pollock, DD, Goldstein, RA, Smielewska, A, Skittrall, JP, Gouliouris, T, Goodfellow, IG, Gkrania-Klotsas, E, Illingworth, CJR, McCoy, LE, Gupta, RK

“…Here we show that chronic infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to viral evolution and reduced sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies in an immunosuppressed individual treated with convalescent plasma, by generating whole-genome ultra-deep sequences for 23 time points that span 101 days and using in vitro techniques to characterize the mutations revealed by sequencing. …”

Developing feasible and acceptable strategies for integrating the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in gender-affirming care: an implementation study by Kamran, R, Jackman, L, Laws, A, Stepney, M, Harrison, C, Jain, A, Rodrigues, J

“…<p><strong> Results</strong></p> The systematic review and qualitative study identified barriers and enablers to PROM implementation spanning all five CFIR domains, and 30 CFIR constructs. …”

Bioinformatics analysis and spatiotemporal distribution of the f lic gene and its protein isolated from Escherichia coli-infected patients in Eastern Algeria by Harrar, Abdenassar, Awang Hamat, Rukman, Hamidechi, Mohamed Abdelhafid

“…This study examined the presence of fliC mutant strains of E. coli in infected patients from different age groups, sexes and sample types in eastern Algerian provinces over a span of 2 years. Methods: This retrospective, cross-sectional study involved three provinces in eastern Algeria: i) Bordj Bou Arreridj, ii) Setif and iii) Batna. …”
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Anti-ageing properties of edible bird's nest ascertained by in vitro and in vivo studies in animal model by Hou, Zhiping

“…Most women spend approximately one-third of their life span in the postmenopausal phase. Hormonal imbalance during menopausal stage has been linked to increased risks of the fatal diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and breast cancer. …”
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Limited degradability of dissolved organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus during contrasting seasons in a tropical coastal environment by Chu, Jiangyong, Lønborg, Christian, Martin, Patrick

“…We conducted experiments during the inter-monsoon, the mid-southwest monsoon, and the late southwest monsoon seasons, which span the greatest range of biogeochemical conditions found in the area. …”
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Assessing the performance of approximate density functional theory on 95 experimentally characterized Fe(II) spin crossover complexes by Vennelakanti, Vyshnavi, Taylor, Michael G, Nandy, Aditya, Duan, Chenru, Kulik, Heather J

“…We study these complexes using density functional theory (DFT) with 30 functionals spanning across multiple rungs of “Jacob’s ladder” to understand the effect of exchange–correlation functional on electronic and Gibbs free energies associated with spin crossover. …”
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Mapping the Cellular Landscape of the Brain: A Scalable Approach to Comprehensive Microscopy Data Analysis by Kim, Minyoung E.

“…The framework, termed MorPheT (Morphology Phenotyping Tool), serves as an all-in-one solution, offering a suite of analysis modules spanning from image pre-processing to precise cell detection, atlas alignment, morphological phenotyping, and interactive visualizations. …”
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Insights from an Experiment Crowdsourcing Data from Thousands of US Amazon Users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use by Berke, Alex, Mahari, Robert, Pentland, Sandy, Larson, Kent, Calacci, Dana

“…This paper shares an innovative approach to crowdsourcing user data to collect otherwise inaccessible Amazon purchase histories, spanning 5 years, from more than 5,000 U.S. users. …”
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Computational Approaches for Understanding and Redesigning Enzyme Catalysis by Karvelis, Elijah

“…In this thesis, I address these shortcomings by developing and demonstrating computational strategies comprised of techniques spanning statistical mechanics, machine learning, and protein design, and I apply them to the enzyme ketol-acid reductoisomerase (KARI), whose economic viability for the production of isobutanol would be strengthened by enhancing its activity on one of its two native substrates: 2-acetolactate (ACL). …”
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Punching shear strength analysis of corroded reinforcement concrete slab by Fu, Yibin

“…Design parameters such as size, column rectangularity, flexural reinforcement ratio, concrete compressive strength and span-depth ratio have been studied extensively over the recent years. …”
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