Topography-incorporated adjoint-state surface wave Traveltime tomography: method and a case study in Hawaii by Hao, Shijie, Chen, Jing, Xu, Mijian, Tong, Ping

“…Our findings further demonstrate that including topography can lead to a correction of up to 0.8% in the shear wave velocity model of Hawaii, an island spanning approximately 100 km with volcanoes reaching elevations exceeding 4 km.…”
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Gas-phase and solid-state electronic structure analysis and DFT benchmarking of HfCO by Ariyarathna, Isuru R., Cho, Yeongsu, Duan, Chenru, Kulik, Heather J.

“…We utilized the CCSD(T) benchmark values of De, excitation energy, and ionization energy (IE) values to evaluate density functional theory (DFT) errors with 23 exchange–correlation functionals spanning GGA, meta-GGA, global GGA hybrid, meta-GGA hybrid, range-separated hybrid, and double-hybrid functional families. …”
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Kazhdan-Laumon Categories and Representations by Morton-Ferguson, Calder

“…After Bezrukavnikov and Polishchuk’s counterexample to Kazhdan and Laumon’s original conjecture, Polishchuk made an alternative conjecture: though the counterexample shows that the Grothendieck group K₀(A) is not spanned by objects of finite projective dimension, he noted that a graded version of K₀(A) can be thought of as a module over Laurent polynomials and conjectured that a certain localization of this module is generated by objects of finite projective dimension. …”
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Multifunctional Wireless Gut-Brain Neurotechnology by Sahasrabudhe, Atharva

“…Studying interoceptive circuits in a causal fashion in behaving animals, thus, requires advanced multifunctional implantable neurotechnologies that can be deployed at multiple sites spanning regions in the brain and the peripheral organ of interest. …”
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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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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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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.…”

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. …”

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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Moris Mai : to be born by Cai, Yun, Har, Jiawei, Loh, Jing Ting, Toh, Yan Wei

“…Production of the documentary took place from July 2011 to March 2012, spanning across different districts in Timor-Leste, from the capital, Dili to Oecussi, a coastal enclave separated from Timor-Leste by West Timor. …”
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Joint modelling of longitudinal data: a scoping review of methodology and applications for non-time to event data by Ouko, RK, Mukaka, M, Ohuma, EO

“…Ultimately, 74 studies met inclusion criteria and spanned from 2001 to 2024, with the majority (64 studies; 86%) published between 2014 and 2024. …”

Ethnicity and anthropometric deficits in children: A cross-sectional analysis of national survey data from 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa by Tusting, LS, Mishra, S, Gibson, HS, Lindsay, SW, Weiss, DJ, Flaxman, S, Bhatt, S

“…The study population comprised 138,312 children spanning 45 ethnic groups across 18 countries. In pairwise comparisons (accounting for multiple comparisons) between ethnic groups, height-for-age z-scores differed by at least 0.5 standard deviations in 29% of comparisons, weight-for-height z-scores in 36% of comparisons and weight-for-age z-scores in 20% of comparisons. …”

The COVID guidelines India project: a rapid living evidence synthesis during a pandemic in a LMIC setting by Singh, B, Alexander, H, Tharyan, P, Mathew, JL, Covid Management Guidelines India Group, Garner, P, Rupali, P, Core Committee, Rupali, P, Ryan, H, Steering Committee, Methodology Committee, External Advisory Panel, Expert Working Group – Antiviral, Expert Working Group – Anti-inflammatory, Expert Working Group - Antibody, Expert Working Group - Anticoagulation, Expert Working Group - Respiratory support, Expert Working Group - Other Supportive Therapy, Evidence Synthesis Team, Dissemination Team

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Since May 2021, a total of 20 guidelines have been developed spanning pharmacological, respiratory and other supportive interventions for management of COVID-19, with over 83,600 unique page views up to December 2023. …”

On shear adhesion of adhesive fibrils by Linghu, Changhong, Du, Zihao, Sun, Yi, Chen, Weiqiu, Hsia, K. Jimmy

“…These biological and bioinspired adhesive fibrils exhibit a wide range of aspect ratios spanning four orders of magnitude. Accurate prediction of their adhesion performance is crucial for their practical applications. …”
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Finite element analysis of a free-standing concrete sea-wall as alternative to traditional land reclamation by Harris, Raymond

“…Furthermore, a 3D caisson seawall model is used in the analysis so that the stiffness of the cellulated structure can be properly accounted for. The caisson seawall spans 40 m long to 28 m wide. It is connected on its longer side continuously so that it forms a wall barrier in which 20 m of seawater level will be drained from the usable side. …”
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