First results on a new PIAA coronagraph testbed at NASA Ames by Belikov, R., Pluzhnik, E., Connelley, M. S., Witteborn, F. C., Lynch, D. H., Cahoy, K. L., Guyon, O., Greene, T. P., McKelvey, M. E.

“…Fortunately, an efficient coronagraph called the Phase Induced Amplitude Apodization (PIAA) coronagraph has been maturing and may enable Earth-like planet imaging for such small telescopes. …”
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Combining laser frequency combs and iodine cell calibration techniques for Doppler detection of exoplanets by Cahoy, K., Fischer, D., Spronck, J., Demille, D.

“…While hundreds of large exoplanets have already been discovered with the Doppler technique (also called radial velocity), our goal is to improve the measurement precision so that many Earth-like planets can be detected. …”
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Atmospheric characterization of cold exoplanets with a 1.5-m space coronagraph by Maire, A. -L., Galicher, R., Boccaletti, A., Baudoz, P., Schneider, J., Cahoy, K., Stam, D., Traub, W.

“…Several small space coronagraphs have been proposed to characterize cold exoplanets in reflected light. …”
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What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future by Graeff, Erhardt

“…And nearer the subject of this paper, the legality of search engine bots (web crawlers) has been openly questioned on grounds of intellectual property protection and trespassing (Plitch 2002). …”
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Design and control of a Two-Degree-of-Freedom powered ankle-foot prosthesis by Hsieh, Tsung-Han(Sensing technology scientist)

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Climate projections for Himalaya–Tibetan Highland by Bhuyan, Debi P., Salunke, Popat, Chadha, Meera

“…The fidelity of 47 CMIP6 climate models in simulating the monsoon (June to August) over Himalaya–Tibetan Highland (HTH) is examined for the historical period (1975-2014) and 8 best performing models have been identified. It is found that the multi-model mean of 47 CMIP6 models (MMM) still exhibits systematic cold and wet biases for Tas and precipitation, respectively during the historical period. …”
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Lexical-Semantic Content, Not Syntactic Structure, Is the Main Contributor to ANN-Brain Similarity of fMRI Responses in the Language Network by Kauf, Carina, Tuckute, Greta, Levy, Roger, Andreas, Jacob, Fedorenko, Evelina

“…Representations from artificial neural network (ANN) language models have been shown to predict human brain activity in the language network. …”
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An Effective Med-VQA Method Using a Transformer with Weights Fusion of Multiple Fine-Tuned Models by Al-Hadhrami, Suheer, Menai, Mohamed El Bachir, Al-Ahmadi, Saad, Alnafessah, Ahmad

“…This paper proposes two models that are utilized in the latest vision and NLP transformers that outperform the SOTA and have not yet been utilized in medical VQA. The ELECTRA-base transformer is used for textual feature extraction, whereas SWIN is used for visual feature extraction. …”
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Analog Quantum Variational Embedding Classifier by Yang, Rui, Bosch, Samuel, Kiani, Bobak, Lloyd, Seth, Lupascu, Adrian

“…For current noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers, various quantum-classical hybrid algorithms have been proposed. One such previously proposed hybrid algorithm is a gate-based variational embedding classifier, which is composed of a classical neural network and a parameterized gate-based quantum circuit. …”
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Electric Sail Test Cube–Lunar Nanospacecraft, ESTCube-LuNa: Solar Wind Propulsion Demonstration Mission Concept by Slavinskis, Andris, Palos, Mario F., Dalbins, Janis, Janhunen, Pekka, Tajmar, Martin, Ivchenko, Nickolay, Rohtsalu, Agnes, Micciani, Aldo, Orsini, Nicola, Moor, Karl Mattias, Kuzmin, Sergei, Bleiders, Marcis, Donerblics, Marcis, Ofodile, Ikechukwu, Kütt, Johan, Eenmäe, Tõnis, Allik, Viljo, Viru, Jaan, Halapuu, Pätris, Kristmann, Katriin, Sate, Janis, Briede, Endija, Anger, Marius, Aas, Katarina, Plonis, Gustavs, Teras, Hans, Allaje, Kristo, Vaivads, Andris, Niccolai, Lorenzo, Bassetto, Marco, Mengali, Giovanni, Toivanen, Petri, Iakubivskyi, Iaroslav, Pajusalu, Mihkel, Tamm, Antti

“…The electric sail can also be utilised in low Earth orbit, or LEO, when passing through the ionosphere, where it serves as a plasma brake for deorbiting—several missions have been dedicated to LEO demonstration. In this article, we propose the ESTCube-LuNa mission concept and the preliminary cubesat design to be launched into the Moon’s orbit, where the solar wind is uninterrupted, except for the lunar wake and when the Moon is in the Earth’s magnetosphere. …”
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Leveraging the Sensitivity of Plants with Deep Learning to Recognize Human Emotions by Kruse, Jakob Adrian, Ciechanowski, Leon, Dupuis, Ambre, Vazquez, Ignacio, Gloor, Peter A.

“…However, these data sources are expensive, intrusive, and regulated, unlike plants, which have been shown to be sensitive to human steps and sounds. …”
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Investigation of the Association between Air Pollution and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the European Population: A Mendelian Randomization Study by Yang, Jing, Zhang, Yaqi, Yuan, Yin, Xie, Zhongyang, Li, Lanjuan

“…At the same time, the relationship between air pollution and the likelihood of developing NAFLD has been a subject of debate due to conflicting findings in previous observational research. …”
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Comment to U.S Copyright Office on Data Provenance and Copyright by Mahari, Robert, Shayne, Longpre, Donewald, Lisette, Polozov, Alan, Pentland, Alex 'Sandy', Lipsitz, Ari

“…Less attention, however, has been paid to supervised datasets, which we define as datasets containing data created for the sole purpose of training machine learning models (mainly for finetuning and alignment). …”
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Real-time identification and visualization of Egyptian blue using modified night vision goggles by Nicola, Marco, Gobetto, Roberto, Bazzacco, Alessandro, Anselmi, Chiara, Ferraris, Enrico, Russo, Alfonsina, Masic, Admir, Sgamellotti, Antonio

“…Since 2008, this property has been exploited to reveal the presence of those pigments even in tiny amounts on ancient and decayed surfaces, using a technical-photography method. …”
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Quantum Control Machine: The Limits of Control Flow in Quantum Programming by Yuan, Charles, Villanyi, Agnes, Carbin, Michael

“…As a result, the complete set of control flow abstractions that can be correctly realized on a quantum computer has not yet been established. In this work, we provide a complete characterization of the properties of control flow abstractions that are correctly realizable on a quantum computer. …”
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Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…For nine pulsars, their spin-down limits have been surpassed for the first time. For the Crab and Vela pulsars, our limits are factors of ∼100 and ∼20 more constraining than their spin-down limits, respectively. …”
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Evaluating the Potential for a Novel Irrigation System Controller to Be Adopted by Medium-Scale Contract Farmers in East Africa by Van de Zande, Georgia D, Sheline, Carolyn, Winter, Amos G

“…These systems provide many benefits to farmers who have been able to install them on their fields, but their high costs is one barrier that currently limits its adoption among the majority of EA farmers. …”
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#let’s-discuss: Analyzing Students’ Use of Emoji when Interacting with Course Readings by Blobstein, Ariel, Facciotti, Marc T., Igo, Michele, Karger, David, Ravi, Prerna, Sripathi, Kamali, Gal, Kobi

“…While popular in social media, their use in educational contexts has been sparsely studied even though emoji can be a natural way for students to express what they are feeling about the learning material. …”
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Performance of thin-RPC detectors for high rate applications with eco-friendly gas mixtures by Abbrescia, M., Aielli, G., Aly, R., Arena, M. C., Barroso Ferreira Filho, M., Benussi, L., Bianco, S., Bordon, F., Boscherini, D., Bruni, A., Buontempo, S., Busato, M., Camarri, P., Cardarelli, R., Congedo, L., De Serio, M., Di Ciaccio, A., Di Stante, L., Dupieux, P., Eysermans, J., Ferretti, A., Galati, G., Gagliardi, M., Guida, R., Iaselli, G., Joly, B., Lee, K. S., Liberti, B., Mandelli, B., Manen, S. P., Pastore, A., Pastori, E., Piccolo, D., Pizzimento, L., Polini, A., Proto, G., Pugliese, G., Quaglia, L., Ramos, D., Rigoletti, G., Rocchi, A., Romano, M., Samalan, A., Salvini, P., Santonico, R., Saviano, G., Sessa, M., Simone, S., Terlizzi, L., Tytgat, M., Vercellin, E., Verzeroli, M., Zaganidis, N.

“…In the last few years, an intense R &D activity on particle detectors for future HEP applications has been carried on with the aim of developing new techniques as well as studying the performance of already existing detectors when operated in a high rate environment. …”
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Implementation Challenges of State-Led Redevelopment in Shrinking Cities: Case Study of Shantytown Redevelopment in Yichun, Northeast China by Gao, Shuqi, Ryan, Brent D.

“…Although the Regulation Methods policy has improved the living conditions of participating families', it has been only partially implemented and is facing three major challenges: the unstable partnership between different tiers of government, social resistance from grassroots, and overdraft of local credibility and capability. …”
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