Optomechanical Backreaction of Quantum Field Processes in Dynamical Casimir Effect by Xie, Yu-Cun, Butera, Salvatore, Hu, Bei-Lok

“…Understanding the backreaction effects of quantum field processes in DCE is the goal of this work. We present analyses of quantum field processes in two model systems: in 1+1D, a ring with time-dependent radius, and in 3+1D, a symmetric rectangular conducting box with one moving side. …”
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Protocol for differentiating cardiomyocytes and generating engineered heart tissues from human feeder-free extended pluripotent stem cells by Zhongjun Wan, Shanshan Wen, Ran Zheng, Li Li, Wei Jiang, Donghui Zhang

“…Summary: Extended pluripotent stem cells (EPSCs) possess a high differentiation capacity, potentially as a superior seed resource for generating cardiomyocytes. Here, we present a protocol for generating feeder-free EPSCs (ffEPSCs), cardiomyocytes, and engineered heart tissues (EHTs). …”
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Cultural Science Meets Cultural Data Analytics by Ibrus Indrek, Schich Maximilian, Tamm Marek

“…We think that this new transdisciplinary field of study can help define the scope of the Cultural Science Journal. …”
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Two complementing in vivo selection systems based on CCA-trimming exonucleases as a tool to monitor, select and evaluate enzymatic features of tRNA nucleotidyltransferases by Karolin Wellner, Josefine Gnauck, Dorian Bernier, Stephan H. Bernhart, Heike Betat, Mario Mörl

“…Here, we extend this method for screening of full CCA-end repair by utilizing the CCA-trimming activity of exonuclease LCCR4. …”
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Finite element-based nonlinear dynamic optimization of nanomechanical resonators by Zichao Li, Farbod Alijani, Ali Sarafraz, Minxing Xu, Richard A. Norte, Alejandro M. Aragón, Peter G. Steeneken

“…To further demonstrate the capability of multi-objective optimization for practical design challenges, we simultaneously optimize the design of nanoresonators for three key figure-of-merits in resonant sensing: power consumption, sensitivity and response time. …”
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Study on the Correlation between Pain and Cytokine Expression in the Peripheral Blood of Patients with Bone Metastasis of Malignant Cancer Treated Using External Radiation Therapy by Yaling Lou, Yu Chen, Yumei Yuan, Ronghua Wang, Hanmin Shan

“…We hypothesized that radiotherapy alters the cytokine profile of the local bone environment. …”
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Nonlinear compressive reduced basis approximation for PDE’s by Cohen, Albert, Farhat, Charbel, Maday, Yvon, Somacal, Agustin

“…We analyze the approach and report on its performance for a simple and yet instructive univariate test case.…”
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Survey to Evaluate Escape of Eucalyptus spp. Seedlings from Plantations in Southeastern USA by Mac A. Callaham, John A. Stanturf, William J. Hammond, Donald L. Rockwood, Evelyn S. Wenk, Joseph J. O'Brien

“…To make a preliminary assessment of the risk of seedling establishment in the vicinity of Eucalyptus plantations, we conducted surveys at 3 sites in South Carolina and 16 sites in Florida. …”
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Classification-augmented survival estimation (CASE): A novel method for individualized long-term survival prediction with application to liver transplantation. by Hamed Shourabizadeh, Dionne M Aleman, Louis-Martin Rousseau, Katina Zheng, Mamatha Bhat

“…Unlike other approaches, CASE additionally provides an exact survival time prediction. We demonstrate CASE on a liver transplant case study to predict >20 years survival post-transplant, finding that CASE dataset augmentation improved AUCs from 0.69 to 0.88 and F1 scores from 0.32 to 0.73. …”
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Decolonising global health evaluation: Synthesis from a scoping review. by Ichhya Pant, Sonal Khosla, Jasmine Tenpa Lama, Vidhya Shanker, Mohammed AlKhaldi, Aisha El-Basuoni, Beth Michel, Khalil Bitar, Ifeanyi McWilliams Nsofor

“…In doing so, we reflected on our positionality as well as our internalisation and potential reinforcement of colonial relations in the process of reporting our results. …”
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Surface Treatment on Nickel Oxide to Enhance the Efficiency of Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells by Kaijie Wang, Ye Tian, Heng Jiang, Meng Chen, Shuangyan Xu

“…We synthesized the NiOx film by a common sol-gel method. …”
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Latent space improved masked reconstruction model for human skeleton-based action recognition by Enqing Chen, Xueting Wang, Xin Guo, Ying Zhu, Dong Li

“…In SkeletonMVQVAE, we discretize the latent variables. These help the encoder learn deeper data structures and more discriminative and generalized feature representations. …”
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Heparin Interaction with the Primed Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte CD11b Induces Apoptosis and Prevents Cell Activation by Meital Cohen-Mazor, Rafi Mazor, Batya Kristal, Erik B. Kistler, Inbal Ziv, Judith Chezar, Shifra Sela

“…We specifically tested the hypothesis that priming of PMNLs renders them more susceptible to heparin. …”
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Severe Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Stenosis and Heart Failure in a Young Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Siddharth Wartak, Isaac Akkad, Adnan Sadiq, Gregory Crooke, Manfred Moskovits, Robert Frankel, Gerald Hollander, Jacob Shani

“…We hypothesized that her low ejection fraction was secondary to mitral stenosis and potentially reversible. …”
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Digital Twin’s Anatomy: A Cross-Sector Framework With Healthcare Validation by Sina Namaki Araghi, Zhengyu Liu, Arkopaul Sarkar, Thierry Louge, Mohamed Hedi Karray

“…Therefore, we go through the connotation of digital twins, which has its roots in space exploration and product-life cycle management, and describe the four evolution stages of DT developments. …”
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Completion of a standardizable competency-based research training program improves understanding and preparedness for both new and experienced clinical research professionals by Lucy Palmer, Sandra E. Morones, Heidi T. Jacobe, Rhonda Oilepo

“…We examined feasibility, acceptability, and uptake of the UTSW CRF training on an institutional scale and were pleased to find this curriculum is not only feasible but has high levels of acceptability. …”
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Discovering non-associated pressure-sensitive plasticity models with EUCLID by Haotian Xu, Moritz Flaschel, Laura De Lorenzis

“…Abstract We extend (EUCLID Efficient Unsupervised Constitutive Law Identification and Discovery)—a data-driven framework for automated material model discovery—to pressure-sensitive plasticity models, encompassing arbitrarily shaped yield surfaces with convexity constraints and non-associated flow rules. …”
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A novel knowledge distillation framework for enhancing small object detection in blurry environments with unmanned aerial vehicle-assisted images by Sayed Jobaer, Xue-song Tang, Yihong Zhang, Gaojian Li, Foysal Ahmed

“…Following this, we employ a technique known as self-supervised knowledge distillation, where we introduce a deblurring subnet module with the help of two attention modules, where both networks are trained in a fully-supervised manner. …”
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Bernese Periacetabular Osteotomy in a Hip Extra-Articular Resection Followed by Reconstruction Using an Extracorporeal Irradiated Acetabulum Autograft with Megaprosthesis, for Prox... by Victor Barro, Roberto Velez, Daniel Pacha, Jordi Giralt, Isabel Roca, Marius Aguirre

“…After completing chemotherapy we performed an extra-articular resection of the hip. …”
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Piscivores, Trophic Cascades, and Lake Management by Ray W. Drenner, Ray K. David Hambright

“…We found 39 studies in the scientific literature examining piscivore effects on phytoplankton biomass. …”
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