Development of highly efficient organic and perovskite solar cells by Li, Xianqiang

“…Among various renewable energy sources, solar energy is the most plentiful one. Great efforts have been made to develop highly efficient and low-cost photovoltaic (PV) technologies. …”
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Modélisation des interactions en Italie du Nord au premier âge du Fer: de la circulation de parures aux réseaux d’influences culturelles by Cicolani, V, Huet, T, Zamboni, L

“…This data set, which has recently been published and revised, has been structured on the basis of hierarchical descriptors, and its characterization (typology, context and quantification) has been completed by adding a qualitative variable, here called 'style'. …”

RES.10-001 Making Science and Engineering Pictures, Fall 2014 by Frankel, Felice C.

“…It is part of the interdisciplinary course taught at MIT called “Visual Strategies for Scientists and Engineers” that provides instruction in best practices for creating more effective graphics and photographs to support and communicate research in science and engineering.About the InstructorFelice Frankel is an award-winning science photographer and research scientist in the Center for Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Felice's images have been internationally published in books, journals, and magazines, including the New York Times, Nature, Science, National Geographic, and Discover. …”
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Sheep as a Large-Animal Model for Otology Research: Temporal Bone Extraction and Transmastoid Facial Recess Surgical Approach by Waring, Nicholas A., Chern, Alexander, Vilarello, Brandon J., Lang, Jeffrey H., Olson, Elizabeth S., Nakajima, Hideko H.

“…However, a method for temporal bone extraction in sheep, which enables various experiments, has not been described, and literature on middle ear access is limited. …”
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VAERS Vasculitis Adverse Events Retrospective Study: Etiology Model of Immune Complexes Activating Fc Receptors in Kawasaki Disease and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndromes by Ricke, Darrell O., Smith, Nora

“…Disease incidence rates are higher in children than in adults. These diseases have been extensively studied, but understanding of the disease etiology remains to be established. …”
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Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Li, A., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D.

“…A novel jet tagger, based on a deep neural network, has been developed to identify jets from an HNL decay using various features of the jet and its constituent particles. …”
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Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: Current Stroke Prevention Strategies and a Shift Toward Data-Driven, Patient-Specific Approaches by Mendez, Keegan, Kennedy, Darragh G., Wang, Dee Dee, O’Neill, Brian, Roche, Ellen T.

“…Although efforts have been made to reduce these risks, significant interpatient heterogeneity inevitably yields some degree of device-anatomy mismatch that is difficult to resolve using current devices and can ultimately lead to insufficient occlusion and poor patient outcomes. …”
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Controllable long-term lithium replenishment for enhancing energy density and cycle life of lithium-ion batteries by Liu, Ganxiong, Wan, Wang, Nie, Quan, Zhang, Can, Chen, Xinlong, Lin, Weihuang, Wei, Xuezhe, Huang, Yunhui, Li, Ju, Wang, Chao

“…While prelithiation has been proven effective in compensating for this loss by introducing additional active lithium into batteries, prior studies have predominantly concentrated on offsetting the initial lithium loss, often overlooking the continuous lithium consumption that occurs throughout cycling. …”
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Use of artificial intelligence in critical care: opportunities and obstacles by Pinsky, Michael R., Bedoya, Armando, Bihorac, Azra, Celi, Leo, Churpek, Matthew, Economou-Zavlanos, Nicoleta J., Elbers, Paul, Saria, Suchi, Liu, Vincent, Lyons, Patrick G., Shickel, Benjamin, Toral, Patrick, Tscholl, David, Clermont, Gilles

“…However, their penetration into acute care medicine has been slow, stuttering and uneven. Major obstacles to widespread effective application of AI approaches to the real-time care of the critically ill patient exist and need to be addressed. …”
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Snowmass White Paper: Precision Studies of Spacetime Symmetries and Gravitational Physics by Adelberger, Eric, Budker, Dmitry, Folman, Ron, Geraci, Andrew A, Harke, Jason T, Kaplan, Daniel M, Kimball, Derek F Jackson, Lehnert, Ralf, Moore, David, Morley, Gavin W, Palladino, Anthony, Phillips, Thomas J, Piacentino, Giovanni M, Snow, William Michael, Sudhir, Vivishek

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Understanding the User Perception Gap: Older Adults and Sit-to-Stand Assistance by Stansfield, Stephan, Schelhaas, Booker, Hogan, Neville, Yang, Maria

“…A great deal of work exists in medical devices and robotics to generate effective assistive solutions, yet at the same time, limits have been observed in the adoption of such systems. In this paper we explore possible factors in adoption from a user-centered design perspective. …”
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Delivery of therapeutic carbon monoxide by gas-entrapping materials by Byrne, James D., Gallo, David, Boyce, Hannah, Becker, Sarah L., Kezar, Kristi M., Cotoia, Alicia T., Feig, Vivian R., Lopes, Aaron, Csizmadia, Eva, Longhi, Maria Serena, Lee, Jung Seung, Kim, Hyunjoon, Wentworth, Adam J., Shankar, Sidharth, Lee, Ghee Rye, Bi, Jianling, Witt, Emily, Ishida, Keiko, Hayward, Alison, Kuosmanen, Johannes L. P., Jenkins, Josh, Wainer, Jacob, Aragon, Aya, Wong, Kaitlyn, Steiger, Christoph, Jeck, William R., Bosch, Dustin E., Coleman, Mitchell C., Spitz, Douglas R., Tift, Michael, Langer, Robert, Otterbein, Leo E., Traverso, Giovanni

“…Carbon monoxide (CO) has long been considered a toxic gas but is now a recognized bioactive gasotransmitter with potent immunomodulatory effects. …”
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Image quality comparison of AirDoc portable retina camera versus eyer in a diabetic retinopathy screening program by Brant, Rodrigo, Nakayama, Luis Filipe, de Oliveira, Talita Virgínia Fernandes, de Oliveira, Juliana Angelica Estevão, Ribeiro, Lucas Zago, Richter, Gabriela Dalmedico, Rodacki, Rafael, Penha, Fernando Marcondes

“…Our objective was to evaluate the quality of images obtained with the AirDoc, a novel device, compared to Eyer portable camera which has already been clinically validated. Methods Images were captured by two portable retinal devices: AirDoc and Eyer. …”
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The Temperature Dependence of Hydrogen Bonds Is More Uniform in Stable Proteins: An Analysis of NMR h3JNC′ Couplings in Four Different Protein Structures by Alexandrescu, Andrei T., Dregni, Aurelio J.

“…With increasing temperature, hydrogen bonds typically show an apparent increase in length that has been attributed to protein thermal expansion. Some hydrogen bonds are invariant with temperature, however, while others show apparent decreases in length, suggesting they become stabilized with increasing temperature. …”
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Quantum Speed-ups for String Synchronizing Sets, Longest Common Substring, and \(k\) -mismatch Matching by Jin, Ce, Nogler, Jakob

“…Longest Common Substring (LCS) is an important text processing problem, which has recently been investigated in the quantum query model. The decisional version of this problem, LCS with threshold $d$, asks whether two length-$n$ input strings have a common substring of length $d$. …”
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MegaTE: Extending WAN Traffic Engineering to Millions of Endpoints in Virtualized Cloud by Miao, Congcong, Zhong, Zhizhen, Xiao, Yunming, Yang, Feng, Zhang, Senkuo, Jiang, Yinan, Bai, Zizhuo, Lu, Chaodong, Geng, Jingyi, He, Zekun, Wang, Yachen, Zou, Xianneng, Yang, Chuanchuan

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Understanding Indexing Efficiency for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High-dimensional Vector Databases by Qin, Yuting

“…However, no analysis or modeling work has been done to quatitatively evaluate the heuristics and their impact on the performance. …”
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Ecological forces affecting microbial eukaryotes in the coastal ocean by Gomez, Annika L.

“…In the first study, I leverage the 93-day Nahant Time Series to examine the dynamics and ecology of viruses infecting marine protists, the majority of which have only been identified by culture-independent means. This study focuses on Nucleocytoviricota, a diverse group of eukaryote-infecting dsDNA viruses with known potential to influence host metabolism and nutrient cycling. …”
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Staphylococci of the Skin: Consequences for Host Health by Khadka, Veda D.

“…When the skin barrier is disrupted – either by daily stressors or genetic factors – the composition of the microbiome abruptly shifts to a less diverse state with an abundance of Staphylococci. Staphylococci have been shown to be important modulators of the host immune response and can improve host barrier repair from damage by wounding or parasitic infection during health. …”
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Modeling spatial mapping, memory and their underlying mechanisms in the hippocampal complex by Sharma, Sugandha

“…In particular, it has been difficult to understand what makes human spatial representations generalizable enabling few-shot learning of maps of novel spaces, how humans store the vast amount of spatial information (maps) experienced through their lifetimes, and what is the connection between spatial memory and episodic memory in the brain, and why is it significant? …”
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