Urban street clusters: unraveling the associations of street characteristics on urban vibrancy dynamics in age, time, and day by Jang, Kee M., Suh, Hanew, Haddad, Fadi G., Sun, Maoran, Duarte, Fábio, Kim, Youngchul

“…Recent advancements in urban big data have facilitated the potential to understand and measure vibrancy patterns throughout cities. …”
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Reinforcement learning for an efficient and effective malware investigation during cyber Incident response by Dunsin, Dipo, Ghanem, Mohamed Chahine, Ouazzane, Karim, Vassilev, Vassil

“…The epsilon-greedy exploration strategy, in conjunction with Q-learning updates, effectively facilitated transitions. The learning rate depended on the complexity of the MDP environment: higher in simpler ones for quicker convergence and lower in more complex ones for stability. …”
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Understanding electrostatic interaction on strong cation-exchanger via co-ion valency effects by Essert, GM, de Souza, JP, Schwaminger, SP, Bazant, MZ, Berensmeier, S

“…Further, optimizing the resin design or improving the adsorption and desorption conditions for biomolecules may be facilitated. Altogether, our work may improve material designing and process development and, thereby, help to overcome the concurrent technological and economic bottlenecks of the well-deployed purification step of IEC.…”
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Click chemistry as a versatile reaction for construction and modification of metal-organic frameworks by Li, Pei-Zhou, Wang, Xiao-Jun, Zhao,Yanli

“…The inherent feature of incorporating decorative organic components as building blocks has facilitated MOF constructions by ingenious pre-design and post-synthetic modifications of the organic moieties through appropriate reactions. …”
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Droplet impingement on coated incline heated surface by Nai, Ze Yuan

“…Advances in surface engineering, propelled by modern technology, have facilitated the development of surfaces with diverse properties. …”
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Predicting word vectors for microtext by Chaturvedi, Iti, Satapathy, Ranjan, Lynch, Curtis, Cambria, Erik

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Distributed multilevel storage infrastructure for visual surveillance in intelligent transportation networks by Chih, Wei Ling

“…To deal with the extreme volume and the massively geographically distributed sources of data, we advocate a tiered storage and processing architecture, using edge nodes to augment a centralized backbone, facilitated by network coding and emerging fog computing solutions. …”
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ECG analysis of ventricular fibrillation dynamics reflects ischaemic progression subject to variability in patient anatomy and electrode location by Martinez-Navarro, H, Bertrand, A, Doste, R, Smith, H, Tomek, J, Ristagno, G, Oliveira, RS, Weber dos Santos, R, Pandit, SV, Rodriguez, B

“…Results: Regional acute myocardial ischaemia facilitated re-entries, potentially breaking up into VF. …”

Seen and heard: combining in-depth interviewing with social messaging to study the lived experiences of gifted youth in high power distance cultures by Wan Mohd Nor, Sofiya, Krauss, Steven, Roslan, Samsilah, Syed-Abdullah, Sharifah Intan Sharina

“…Combining these techniques facilitated in-depth exploration into the lived experiences and challenges of being gifted, and how giftedness shaped participants’ self-concept. …”
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Exploring the therapeutic potential of 5-fluorouracil-loaded calcium carbonate nanoparticles combined with natural compound thymoquinone for colon cancer treatment by Deng, Xi, Yang, Zhongming, Chan, Kim Wei, Abu Bakar, Md Zuki

“…Its favorable biocompatibility, pH sensitivity, and sustained release properties facilitated reduced toxic side effects of 5-FU on NIH3T3 normal cells and enhanced inhibitory effects on CT26 colon cancer cells. …”
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Dc leakage behavior and conduction mechanism in (BiFeO3)m(SrTiO3)m superlattices by Ranjith, R., Prellier, Wilfrid, Cheah, Jun Wei, Wang, Junling, Wu, Tom

“…Such analysis of leakage current facilitates interface engineering of heterostructures for device applications.…”
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WGS.111 Gender and Media Studies: Women and the Media, Fall 2008 by Surkan, K.J.

“…We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film, television, print journalism, advertising) enables, facilitates, and challenges these social constructions in society. …”
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Thermodynamics of complexity and pattern manipulation by Vedral, Vlatko, Gu, Mile, Garner, Andrew J. P., Thompson, Jayne

“…Here, we propose a framework to describe pattern manipulators—devices that convert thermodynamic work to patterns or vice versa—and use them to build a “pattern engine” that facilitates a thermodynamic cycle of pattern creation and consumption. …”
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A two-stage automatic color thresholding technique by Pootheri, Shamna, Ellam, Daniel, Grübl, Thomas, Liu, Yang

“…Accurately performing background suppression in PCA boards facilitates the inspection of digital images with small objects of interest, such as text or microcontrollers on a PCA board. …”
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Breaking barriers with memes: how memes bridge political cynicism to online political participation by Ahmed, Saifuddin, Masood, Muhammad

“…However, when such social media use facilitates exposure to political memes, it primarily mobilizes those with high political cynicism into active online political participation. …”
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Half-body portrait relighting with overcomplete lighting representation by Song, Guoxian, Cham, Tat-Jen, Cai, Jianfei, Zheng, Jianmin

“…A key technical innovation is the use of a novel overcomplete lighting representation, which facilitates lighting interpolation in the latent space, as well as helping regularize the self-organization of the lighting latent space during training. …”
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Nanoconfined β-sheets mechanically reinforce the supra-biomolecular network of robust squid sucker ring teeth by Guerette, Paul A., Hoon, Shawn, Ding, Dawei, Amini, Shahrouz, Masic, Admir, Ravi, Vydianathan, Venkatesh, Byrappa, Weaver, James C., Miserez, Ali

“…X-ray diffraction, nanomechanical, and micro-Raman spectroscopy measurements confirm that the modular design of the suckerins facilitates the formation of β-sheets of precise nanoscale dimensions and enables their assembly into structurally robust supramolecular networks stabilized by cooperative hydrogen bonding. …”
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Fatigue behaviour of AA6061-T6 alloys in the corrosive environment by Li, Peifeng, Nguyen, Ngoc Vu

“…High stress concentration at both sides of a pit mouth in conjunction with attacked grain boundaries facilitates fatigue crack nucleation, while the presence of hydrogen formed by corrosion reactions causes crack tip embrittlement and thus increases crack growth rate. …”
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Microscale advection governs microbial growth and oxygen consumption in macroporous aggregates by Shen, Rachel, Borer, Benedict, Ciccarese, Davide, Salek, M. Mehdi, Babbin, Andrew R.

“…How this flow alters nutrient supply, facilitates waste removal, drives the emergence of different microbial niches, and impacts the overall function of the microenvironments remains unclear. …”
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Making More with Less: Improving Software Testing Outcomes Using a Cross-Project and Cross-Language ML Classifier Based on Cost-Sensitive Training by Nascimento, Alexandre M., Shimanuki, Gabriel Kenji G., Dias, Luiz Alberto V.

“…Previous studies have shown promising results using cost-sensitive training to refine ML models, improving predictive accuracy by reducing false negatives through addressing class imbalances in defect prediction datasets. This approach facilitates more targeted and effective testing efforts. …”
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